Must-Read Tricks for Selecting Best Answer to Tricky PMP Exam Question

By chance, I dropped by an article by Cornelius Fichtner – a PMP and find it really helpful. You know, PMP exam questions have earned wide reputation for its long-winded and tricky content. It is common that you will find a question with at least 2 correct answers, and you are required to choose the best one. Sometimes, none of the answers might be completely correct though, one of them would be better than the remainders if you analyze them right.

Of course, there’s none of correct approach available for you to grab when analyzing the questions. If any, the PMP exam of honor and prestige won’t be that difficult and weary. Don’t sigh soon as there’re some concepts and techniques that you should apprehend if you desire to conquer those tough question. Here you are:

Concepts

a. The PMBOK® Guide is wrong never: The PMI did their utmost to enhance PM environment in ways intended for the possibly smoothest execution of future project in the perfect circumstances. That way is reflected in the PMBOK® Guide that acts as the essential to answer the questions. That’s why you’re recommended to find the best answer by considering the PMBOK® Guide frame of reference instead of based on your own experiences.

b. Proactive. That’s how a project manager is characterized as: Being a project manager, you will strive to define the root cause for the problem among a pool of causes, and then choose the best that deals with the root cause. This applies to your actual exam, too.

Techniques

Apart from concepts, techniques also come in very handy. Let’s dive in:

a. Read the full question first: It sounds clear as a bell though, some people fail to do it, inducing to their missing some key parts of the questions. Welcome each question by reading it completely, ensure that you comprehend it and you’re able to differentiate between important information and misleading one. Learn to shut eyes to those information unrelated to the question and added just to trick you. Now that you finish reading full question, let read all four choices, two of which, quite often, will be incorrect with no doubt and can be missed out. That’s followed by your considering 2 remaining questions and end up the question with your answer.

b. Use your sexy brain: After reading the question first and taking no glance at the answers, you should close your eyes, thinking. “What should the answer be?” . Once being ready, open your eyes and read the answers. What’s considered as not ‘your brain’ answer will be there. By so doing, you will avoid being caught in the question trap. Without being confused by answers, you may eliminate more answers to select the best one.

c. Take upside down technique: The other way around, you can read the answers first before moving to the question.That way may help in case of lengthy questions.

d. Read last sentence of the question first: Another helpful technique for long questions is to approach the last sentence of the question first. The last sentence often gives you the actual question. After that, read the remaining sentences. Also bear in mind that don’t leave any question unanswered without knowing by marking your uncertain question to come back later. It’s more likely that you find out the answer for them after addressing other questions.