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Summary: Simple and affordable
Review: A very good book for anyone who wants to appear for the PMP Certification Exam. The concepts are explained using simple language and illustrations. It is very affordable and the paper quality is not that bad (can keep it for reference even after the exam). There are lot of practice tests in the book (almost half the book)with answers. The project management process is expained well. A simple and affordable book, very recently published, and provides all the confidence and knowledge required to take the exam well.
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Summary: Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Cert
Review: Did not find this book to be useful. The "PMP®: Project Management Professional Study Guide" by Kim Heldman
provided much more benefit.
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Summary: Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Cert
Review: Did not find this book to be useful. The "PMP®: Project Management Professional Study Guide" by Kim Heldman
provided much more benefit.
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Summary: More like a novel (or boring textbook)
Review: First off, there's a lot of information in this book - probably too much unless you enjoy reading pages of lengthy paragraphs. If you're a visual person like me who prefers graphics, charts, tables or bullet points to help you understand or study, you'll be disappointed. There's also very few direct references to the exam itself. (Mulcahy's Study Guide is excellent in this regard. It's more succinct and focussed on what you need to remember and how to study for the exam).The second half of the book has many sample questions and useful explanations with the answers, but WHY does it give 5 choices where the exam is four!?? Overall, you can't beat the price. But I'd recommend you pay the money for the Mulcahy book - its excellent, and has numerous handy tips on the exam and how to prepare for it.
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Summary: Errors
Review: For one of the questions, the key is "d", but the explanation makes "e" the right answer. I don't know what to trust or not to trust about this book
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Summary: Not even worth the low price!
Review: Here's a good example of what to expect from this book: The learning curve theory says that the number of times a job is done doubles, the cost is reduced by 70%. If the first time cost is $1,000... the second time the job is done the cost will be $700. DOH! The book is full of stupid inaccuracies like that! It's not even up-to-date with the 1996 PMBoK (even though he's added a couple lines in the book to refer to the new 2000 version). The sample tests are very outdated. Save your money and just use the PMBoK!
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Summary: Full of wrong information, and no credit to source materials
Review: I bought this book specifically as a tertiary resource of practice questions for my PMP exam preparation. What a waste. First of all, the questions are taken, in some cases verbatim, in other cases rewritten inaccurately, from another source: "PMBOK Q&A. A Pocket Guide of Questions and Answers to Learn More About the Project Management Body of Knowledge" published by PMI. Nowhere in this book does it credit the PMI source material. Secondly, in at least 7 questions(pg 215 - #7, pg 217 - #19, pg 219 - #2, pg 233 - #12, pg 233 - #13, pg 235 - #20, pg 300 - #13) that I was able to document, the answers given are just plain wrong as verified by cross-checking both the PMBOK itself, and the "Pocket Guide" listed above. Thirdly, unlike the "Pocket Guide", this book doesn't give references to the sources of correct answers (which prabably explains why the answers are wrong) so that you can look up and study missed questions. Although I didn't read any of the preparatory materials in the front of this book, I would be very leery of them, based on the inaccuracies I found in the test questions. I would suggest to anyone who wants accurate and useful preparation materials, to use PMI published sources, take practice tests with the ESI materials, and take a good review course from your local PMI chapter.
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Summary: I do NOT recommend it at all..
Review: I checked out this book from a local library, and didn't use it at all during my prep. It even doesn't cover some very important(for the exam) chapters in PMBOK. There are much better resources available..
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Summary: PMP study companion
Review: I did a good amount of searching before picking a companion book to the PMBOK guide when I started studying to take the PMP exam. I decided upon Newell's book and found it to be fairly complete in its coverage of all aspects of project management. Where PMBOK laid out the fundamentals, Newell used examples to clarify. The practice exams were extremely helpful in highlighting areas in which to focus my studying. The approach I took was to read/study a chapter out of PMBOK and then read/study the corresponding chapter out of Newell's book. I would take the first practice exam for that chapter, review the missed questions and focus my studying. After completing all of the chapters I took the entire second practice exam in Newell's book and used the results to again focus my studying on specific areas. When I took the PMP exam, there were no major surprises and had no difficulties in passing. I'm sure there are several great books out there to assist in studying for the PMP exam; Newell's book would certainly be one of them and has my full recommendation.
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Summary: Excellent Book that Supplements Rita's Book
Review: I have Rita's book which is also very good. But this book supplements her work with more of an emphasis on the quantitative materials which I thought was very helpful in preparing for the upcoming exam. (...) And I purchased MANY books which I did not find useful.
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