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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: Are you looking for a practice test that will provide an excellent representation of the types of questions you are sure to find on the PMP certification exam? THIS AIN'T IT. The questions here are just cute. The authors spent more time coming up with bizarre scenarios than they spent developing questions comparable to those on the PMP Exam. I was studying for the exam and was getting intimidated by these questions because I was answering over 50% wrong. I recently took (and passed) the exam and found those questions to be relatively simple and straighforward. Questions that you would expect in a real work environment. I wasted my money, a lot of time and confidence on this book. Focus on the PMBOK, PMP Challenge! (also an ESI text), diagramming methods and earned value and comm channel formulas.
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Summary: Few redeeming features to the book. Better books out there.
Review: As the title says, this is what the book is all about - Practice questions on all 9 Knowledge Areas plus Professional Responsibility Domain (40 per section) and a full length practice test. The Study Guide in the title must refer to the reasonably detailed answers to all the questions in the book. This is helpful but you will find the same in most of the books by competing authors. The only thing different about this book is the short introduction to each Knowledge Area which I found extremely helpful. This introduction (1-2 pages) rates the the level of difficulty of the particular knowledge area and some very good tips on how to handle the section on the actual PMP. If you have access to this book from your company PM library, by all means read the relevant pages (less than 15 in the whole book) to benefit from the book. Otherwise, I am not sure if I would recommend the book for the price it is listed at. Books that are similar but provide the reader much higher value are 'PMP Exam Prep' by Rita Mulcahy and 'PMP Study Guide' by Kim Heldman. You may benefit by reading my reviews on these books and other Project Management books for more information on learning Project Management and passing the PMP. Best of luck in passing the exam!
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: Entirely agree with the reviewers that indicate that this guide is a waste of time and money. I found that Rita Mulcahy's book is far superior to this book. Ward's guide only includes questions and does not provide any insight into how to prepare for the exam. In fact, the questions tend to indicate that much more preparation is required to pass the exam. Many of questions reference very specific and arcane management concepts that are not useful. I regret purchasing this book and fortunately came across Rita's book and focused on her preparation advice. I credit the Mulchahy book with passing the PMP exam with a 86% score.
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: Entirely agree with the reviewers that indicate that this guide is a waste of time and money. I found that Rita Mulcahy's book is far superior to this book. Ward's guide only includes questions and does not provide any insight into how to prepare for the exam. In fact, the questions tend to indicate that much more preparation is required to pass the exam. Many of questions reference very specific and arcane management concepts that are not useful. I regret purchasing this book and fortunately came across Rita's book and focused on her preparation advice. I credit the Mulchahy book with passing the PMP exam with a 86% score.
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Summary: This is a OK book
Review: Hi PMP friends: I studied the PMBOK first and then use this book to TEST my knowledge and prepare for my PMP examknation which I am going to take in the middle of October/01. I think this book is OK. I wish they cover more on the NON-PMBOK material. Not 2 sure I can pass the exam just by using this book. Update: I just pass the PMP exam. I downgrade my rating on this book because it doesn't help 2 much in the actual exam.
I want to order "PMP EXAM PREP" but it is not available until the end of October/01, i.e., AFTER my PMP examination. I can only wish myself good luck as there are so few PMP examination preparation material in the market, it makes the preparation really hard. Update: I just pass the PMP exam. This guide doesn't help a lot.
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Summary: Overly Complicated
Review: I bought this book to prep for the PMP exam. So far, I have found it highly complicated. The tests are extremely hard and discouraging. So far, I have also used the PMBOK and Rita M's book and Rita's book is so easy to understand. I would not recommend this book as a study guide. I take this test on 4/13/02, so we'll see if it truly helps or not.
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Summary: Disappointing Study Resource
Review: I did not find this study guide helpful at all. It merely presented terms to be familiar with for each knowledge area (without definitions or explanations as to why they're important) and sample exams. I grew increasingly frustrated with the exams because I was scoring significantly lower (10-20 points) that I was experiencing with all the other sample exams I was taking (e.g., Mulcahy and PMP Tools). The cute scenarios didn't bug me as much as the lack of valuable insight into how to improve my score on the exam. After a couple of chapters, I simply stopped using it. Having now taken and passed the exam with 30 points to spare, I can confidently say this book was a waste of money.
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Summary: Definitely helps...
Review: I just passed the PMP exam and this book helped me in preparing. This book helps by providing sample test questions and it definitely helped me in studying for the PMP exam. I found a few aspects of this book particularly helpful... 1) At the beginning of each section it provides a summary of topics that the PMP candidate should know about, this helped me determine which subjects I knew and which ones I needed to gather more information on. 2) The sample questions cover materials not in the PMBOK - this is very helpful since the PMP exam expects candidates to be well versed in PM concepts not just the PMBOK. I would recommend this book as a good tool for preparing for the PMP. I used it as a 'final' test during my last week of preparation, taking all the exams back-to-back to determine which areas I needed to focus my last studying days on.
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Summary: Not worth your money
Review: I tried to use this book to study for the PMP exam. I wished I had put my money somewhere else. The other references I used were far more usefull including: the PMBOK, The Rita Mulcahy Exam Prep book, Kerzner's book and the Verma books. This one just frustrated me. The questions do not reflect the exam (at least not the exam I took)and are sometime too silly. I could ace the samples in Rita's book but scored 65-75% on the same area in this book. This one is not worth your money.
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Summary: Needlessly Confusing & Discouraging
Review: I've never written a review for Amazon, but feel strongly about this particular book. I feel that it fails to adequately prepare candidates for the PMP examination. In my opinion, if you want to minimize your study time and maximize your PMBOK comprehension then DO NOT USE THIS BOOK. In my opinion it is needlessly confusing and out of synch with the rhythm of the PMP exam-- which tends to have more direct questions. I used the Mulcahy book, which was more to the point and had questions that more closely resembled the actual PMP format. My Mulcahy practice exams were coming in at about 70% after the first read through of her book and over 90% after the third read through. By contrast, the Ward practice exams were coming in at about 55%. I passed the PMP on my first attempt with a 1/2-hour to kill after reviewing my responses. Happy studying and good luck!!!
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