PMP Final Exam Review

Rating:
Summary: Not the best
Review: I bought this along with about everything else available for the PMP. The biggest problem I had with the book was the test. They were invalid, too difficult. I finaly took the advice of my PMP frineds, focused on Rita's Books and Practice test and passes very easily. One reason I decided to go back and comment here was that before I took the PMP I let this lady's practice test blow my confidence. Again, too hard. If searching for PMP material, stay w/RMC. . .

Rating:
Summary: Save your money
Review: I wish I had read the reviews here before I bought this book and exam CD. I had studied with the Crosswind series of materials by Tony Johnson, including his simulation exam CD, and the Rita book. I wanted to validate with another exam simulation source that I really knew the material versus memorizing the answers. I thought this was a good value - 4 exams for $30.00. I found the questions long and extremely wordy and confusing. It blew my confidence. Thankfully another person in my study group assured me that the test questions were formatted similar to the questions on the Crosswinds exam CD. I discarded this CD and concentrated on the materials I had from Crosswind. The exam answers refer you back to the Sybex book for clarification. The Crosswind exam provides clear information on the answers and refers you to the page in the PMBOK if necessary. The Crosswind exam CD recaps by knowledge area what you need to concentrate on and you can retest by a specific area.

Rating:
Summary: Could be better
Review: I've found three questions in the first exam alone where the answers must be inaccurate - in one case the comment explaining the answer is clearly refering to another question, or an earlier version of the question.

In general the comments explaining the answers are very short and not very rich in content, so not so useful as a study tool.

The user interface to the on line tests sometimes requires scolling to read the full text of a question, very distracting. And it does not let you take tests by knowledge areas.