5 Surprising Things About PMP Exam Questions

By elroyking, March 17, 2011 10:32 pm

One: Well, about PMP exam questions–Imagine asking five project managers what they thought the PMP exam was about, each of them might say something about the PMBOK guide. The PMI created a great work that they called “The Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge.” We usually call it the PMBOK guide, and you would think that with a name like that, it would contain everything that might be on the PMP exam. Well, guess what, it doesn’t. It is a hand book of the best practices in project management, but it more closely resembles a good reference book. Go ahead and purchase a good PMP Exam Prep book, you are going to need it along with the PMBOK guide in order to pass the exam.

Two: Surprise number two, only some of the project management formulas are going to be on the exam. There are about 49 formulas that you have to learn for the PMP exam, but about 9 to 11 questions appear on the exam that deal with them.. Unfortunately, there is no way to know which of the formulas will be on the test–you just have to learn them all

Three: You thought that the test would be a knowledge based test. Well it is, but not all of the questions on the PMP exam are knowledge based. If you spend a lot of time memorising facts, figures, and processes, you might think you are ready for the test. But a lot of the exam is situational. Questions like what should you do in this situation or that situation? What should you do next? Application of the knowledge is more important than the sheer knowledge. Make sure the exam prep book that you have found has plenty of examples and don’t be afraid to role play different scenarios that might come up in your business. The PMI is very interested in how the knowledge you might gain can be applied.

Four: There are questions that will appear to have two or more right answers. That is because there are answers for most of the common mistakes made in project management. The reason for this is that the questions are designed to catch inexperienced project managers with common mistakes that are regularly practiced in the industry.

Five: Think Big. The PMBOK guide is designed for very large projects–over $200 Million in budget and more than 200 people working on the project. In practice the team needs to select which processes are right for their project, but for the PMP exam, you need all of the processes When in doubt look at the answers with the perspective of the largest projects in mind.

These few tricks may surprise you, but you don’t have to be surprised by the PMP exam questions.. There is a way you can take a realistic sample exam, and really be prepared for that test. You will find the scope and variety of questions to be much like the exam itself. With 8 base exams and 1 section just on the Inputs/Outputs/Tools and Techniques, you will have just what you need to be prepared for all of the surprises found in the real .

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