Top Three Ts of a PMP Exam Preparation Candidate By Jessica Parklanes At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Regardless of your motivation for taking the Project Management Institute (PMI)-administered Project Management Professional (PMP) credential, you will need to take the four-hour examination very seriously. Your success in the PMP exam can open doors to lucrative and satisfying jobs.

To increase your chances of successfully securing the PMP certification, you have to undergo PMP exam preparation lessons. You should think of these lessons as pre-board reviews, which you undertook before the CPA board examinations and the bar examinations.

Time Management

You have to wisely manage your time. Since PMP exam preparation lessons can cost you $3,000 to $5,000 for the total package, your finances can be strained. You might want to continue working to finance your everyday expenses, which means that you have to juggle between your professional life, your personal life, and your reviewee life. This juggling act demands excellent time management skills to balance everything.

You will be required to put in study hours to absorb the lessons, like it or not. Though online PMP exam preparation programs provide for flexibility, you will still need to study and answer the practice questions on your own. Besides, it is almost sacrilegious wasting $5,000 on failure when the country is suffering from near-recession conditions.

Wise time management means that you should have a study plan. You have to set timetables for your daily activities, even if it means being obsessive-compulsive about time for the duration of your review. Again, time should not be wasted much as you do not want money to be wasted.

Tenacity

Not only do you need a can-do attitude towards any PMP exam preparation course, you also need a stick-to-it attitude, maybe even more. You have to remember that most courses will take you through the paces of the actual four-hour examination, which covers many topics of broad applications. If you do not have a stick-to-it approach to your study plan, you might as well kiss the review program good riddance.

For example, you will learn and/or refresh about the five areas of expertise - project management body of knowledge, standards and regulations, project environment, general management skills and knowledge, and interpersonal skills - and the nine knowledge areas of project management - integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk and procurement.

You can memorize these by rote; just use ISTCQHRCRP as the basis. However, memorization is substantially different from application. You will still need to be able to explain these concepts to pass the PMP examination, or a job interview for a PM post for that matter.

Regardless if you are aiming for memorization or application, tenacity is very important to understand project management in its entirety. Or at least, where passing both the PMP exam preparation course and PMP exam itself are concerned.

Temerity

As stated earlier, you need to have a can-do attitude. Even if this is not your PMP examination debut, you have to possess the temerity to still go after your goal. As clich‚ as it is, nothing ventured, nothing gained. You just need to have the boldness of spirit to try and try again until you have virtually memorized your PMP exam preparation lessons and passed the actual PMI test.

Of course, nothing beats actual experience when it comes to being a good project manager. However, the PMP credential is a very good addition to your resume and no harm done if you have it.

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