Save Time And Earn Chances Of Acing PMP Exam with Top-Rated PMP Study Materials

Do you know there is a very wealth of tips, books, practice tests, experiences and much more pertaining to PMP exam generously shared by previous test takers out there? The things that may upgrade your knowledge and skills, best prepare you for the exam and boost your chances of conquering this challenging exam. Still, what curbs you from accessing such invaluable wealth? Your finite amount of time doesn’t allow you to visit all, even most, of those resources. Instead, you just can read some of them and cherish the hope that your good hand would pick up best tips and references. Some of you may be that lucky, but for the most part, oh no. Good news is that testprepsupport site is so thoughtful filtering best quality resources out of hundreds of very good ones and greatheartedly let us all know. Here I, as a goodwill follower, select bests of the bests from its post that are laid out in a fashion intended for user-friendliness, reflect powerful findings and share with you dear. Let’s enjoy…

PMP study guide books

PMP exam study materials can be categorized by notable PMP study guide books, PMP boot camp training, online resources, PMP exam practice tests, highly praised PMP websites. Let’s start with well loved PMP certification study guide books.

Many people say PMBOK is a thick, sleepy book though, it’s considered as a must-see if you’re studying for PMP exam. Quite few people rely only on this book, but it has most of people who sure use it. Commonly, people are introduced to the topics using more reader-friendly books, then come back to the PMBOK. As with other books, Rita’s book seems most popular by far, which is followed by Head First, Any’s, etc. Below is the ranking of most used books, from the sample size of 100.

o 87%: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: PMBOK(R) Guide
o 70%: PMP Exam Prep, Eighth Edition: Rita’s Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam
o 36%: Head First PMP by Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman
o 17%: The PMP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try by Andy Crowe
o 12%: PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide by Kim Heldman
o 3%: CAPM/PMP All-In-One Exam Guide by Joseph Philips
o 2%: PMP in Depth: Project Management Professional Study Guide for the PMP Exam by Paul Sanghera
o 1%: PMP Project Mgt Professional Study Guide by Joseph Philips
o 1%: Achieve PMP Exam Success: A Concise Study Guide for the Busy Project Manager
o 1%: Edwel PMP Free Exam Textbook
o 1%: The Project Mgt Answer Book by Jeff Furman
o 1%: PMP Certification All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies
o 1%: PMP Mathematics with CD-ROM by Vidya Subramnian
o 1%: PMP Exam Flashcard Study System

PMP boot camp training

The study by testprepsupport shows 20% of people using offline boot camps, and almost half of the respondents didn’t refer to their boot camp’s name. In comparison with such resources as books and exam practice tests that people enthusiastically dig into details of what they used and whether they loved it or not and tell the reason why, not as much information gained from offline courses, to say nothing about its overpricing. The PMP boot camp has lots of things to do with exercises backing up the course’s learning objectives and asking questions to the instructor face to face. After 4 training days, you do gain the needed PDU’s, meet those who are also preparing for the exam, joining the study group that acts as peer support. That could be the strengths of boot camp.

Below are courses that people under the testprepsupport’s study use. Because of this section’s very humble sample size, it cannot be supposed to be the representative. To further the support for this point, that site suggests you visit the list of PMP Boot Camps just in the Washington DC area. You also can access PMI’s database of the Registered Education Training Providers.

o (local PMI course)
o Global Knowledge
o Knowledge Woods (India)
o PM Study
o Rita / RMC
o Simplilearn
o Velociteach

Online training

Compared to books and exam practice questions, there’re not as many people mentioning their online training or podcasts, and fewer 33% combining online courses and podcasts. It’s may be because of different schools of opinions for online resources. Some people brought up not liking to choose online materials and not perceiving them as important part for their learning. They’re bound to meeting the PMU requirement. Yet, a relative amount of the informants saw online resources as a fairly cheap and easy way to address the PDU requirement.

A nice resource for online training is PM PrepCast. It offers 140 PMP exam preparation videos playing for PC, Apple, and tablet platforms. The podcast is a help study aid to play during the transit time. The Project Management PrepCast is $179.99, which is affordable if you yourself have to pay for your training. Following is the percentage of people who used online training, out of the sample size of 100

o 19%: PM PrepCast (podcast)
o 2%: PMP Champ (online training)
o 1%: BrainBOK (online materials)
o 1%: CBT Nuggets (video courses)
o 1%: PMStudy (40 PMI contact hours, guides and chapter tests)
o 1%: PMP Exam Primer (online materials)
o 1%: PM Podcast (podcast)
o 1%: PM Lessons Learned (podcast from conference call)
o 1%: PM Champion: Calculations & Formulas (iPhone application)

PMP question bank

The value of PMP practice questions is something undeniable. PMP exam questions are generally featured as long-wined and misleading, then it’s essential to learn how to hit the point and not be tricked by those types of questions. Another tip that almost everyone agree on is the four-hour mock exams that uses the equal number of questions to the actual exam and a timer. That way, you will get comfortable with question format, build on mental and physical endurance for the real exam and get better idea of how your reaction will be. It’s more effective and friendly to use exam practice tests free online with automatic answers and score, allowing you to define your knowledge gaps, developing answering strategies as well as finding no extra stress thanks large part to their accessible and handy features. If you want to dive in other useful tips, kindly access here.

It’s the common tendency that the questions of quality, nice design, close to the exam and to PMI standard gain lots of use. Below are percentage of people using each practice test, from the sample size of 100. I also share my personal thoughts of some of my favorites.

o 42%: Oliver Lehmann 75

If you’re a challenge lover, I totally recommend your fantastic discovery around toughest questions in this well loved websites. And I’ll just utter, “You’re just so amazing, down-to-earth!” if you’re able to get over 50% of correct answers. From this site, Lehmann offers various formats of sample questions, free online access plus a nice timer. That so, you may practice as effectively and enjoyably in one go plus turning into a more good timing person! Truly accessible, right? I just give a bright smile that brings sunshine because I’m a studyacoholic and addicter to anything orderly, friendly and free. This site’s just my taste. Lehmann also dedicates you to a link of more 3000 free sample questions (up to 4,000 for PMI members) and for those wanting to work on additional 175 test samples, it’s so thoughtful of him to offer them a PDF download option (in German, to include). This site is utmost friendly as including 30 free questions for on-the-go access of iPhone/iPad and/or Android in the iTunes Store and Android Market, respectively.

o 28%: Oliver Lehmann 175 (PDF)
o 39%: PMStudy (Free 200)
o 35%: HeadFirst
o 31%: Rita’s Fast Track
o 18%: Simplilearn
o 18%: Exam Central
o 10%: Techfaq360 (PMBOK 5)
o 10%: Christopher Scordo book
o 8%: EdWel (Free 200)
o 6%: PMPForSure
o 4%: Bestsamplequestions.com
o 3%: pm-exam-simulator.com (PMBOK 5)

o 3%: Skillsoft
o 3%: Velociteach (PMBOK 5)
o 2%: Ajithn sample test
o 2%: BrainBok.com
o 2%: Momkimbo PMP Exam ITTO Trainer (PMBOK 5)
o 2%: Passionatepm

One word for this site is professional. It has professional template, is written by professional experts and professional arrangement of free and timed questions for exam practice (i.e 15 questions/ 18 minutes, 50 questions/ 60 minutes, 100 questions/ 120 minutes). You will see your grade by %, which is associated with the pass score for that exam. The Review the Quiz allows you to look back at your correct and incorrect question answers.

o 2%: PassPM 200 Simulation
o 2%: Free PM Exam Simulator (PMBOK 5)

PM Exam Simulator acts as the mirror of the actual exam. It satisfies you with questions of same style and difficult level as your exam. This site feeds you many types of questions, ranging from formula questions to interpretational questions. Also, you may like its three mode: real exam mode (for your PMP exam experience as real), timed mode (this mode gives you hints and answers, but you still practice at a time limit), learning mode (this time no time limit, and hints and answers still being ofterred. You will have a three-day try of exam simulator. The last thing to say (maybe this is off topic), I truly love the color of this site (bright color brings delight, joy and also belief in bright future)

o 2%: PMFinal
o 2%: PMzilla tough 25 questions
o 2%: PMZilla’s tough 200 questions
o 2%: PreparePM Mock Exam

This site also flutters my heart. It offers two different ‘mock exam’ free – 70 questions and 28 questions, and the answers to questions are put at the end of each exam. Baring my heart, I must say that I don’t have good feeling for questions with such layouts. Still, I am falling over it because it’s so nice helping me fine-tune the sample questions by various areas of knowledge presented in the exam (ex. quizzes on Risk Management, Quality Management, or Ethics, to name a few), Another plus point of this site is its inclusion of a link to free cum timed 200 questions for your real experience of sitting PMP exam (oops, you’re required to register on the site)

o 1%: BetterPM.com
o 1%: CertGear (PMBOK 5)
o 1%: effectivepmc.com (PMBOK 5)
o 1%: Farndale’s PMP and CAPM
o 1%: PMP Bank
o 1%: PMChamp’s free questions on Quality Management (PDF)
o 1%: PMPNotes.com
o 1%: pmperfect.com (now pmtraining.com)
o 1%: thepmp.com
o 1%: Transcender

Highly praised PMP websites

Those are forums, blogs as well as groups that come for free and are frequently referred.

• PMzilla
o PMzilla: Forums
o PMzilla: Memorizing Inputs Tools and Outputs
o PMzilla: Comprehensive notes by PMZilla Members
o PMzilla: Lessons Learnt
o PMzilla: Study Materials
• Deep Fried Brain Project
• PMHangout.com
• PMhub.net

It may be just me but I’m really impressed by the concept showcasing test questions on this site. Why not let PMP exam learning make your day? Like your sweetheart preparing your breakfast every fresh morning, PMPHub prepares you Question of the Day each day and answer cum explanation to yesterday’s Question of the Day. And this site direct you well to areas of PMBOK with Source of Answer.

• Yahoo Groups
o PMP Exam Forum
o PMP Best
o PM Hub
o PMI-PMP Prep
• Headfirstlabs.com forums
• LinkedIn Groups
• PMStudent.com
• PMStudyCircle.com
• Rita’s Process Game [UNOFFICIAL] at aamirafridi.com