![]() ![]() While I agree that the book has a general negative tone to it, so much so that it has a chapter named “Reasons you might fail the exam”, I still believe it’s an indispensable tool for the PMP Exam. After reading this book, you realize why she's a "household name" among PMP aspirants. Rita's knowledge and experience truly reflects in this book. Insider Info: Last but not the least, the book gives lots of insider info like the psychology of the exam authors, how the exam questions are written, the important topics for the exam, Knowledge Area and Process Groups wise level of difficulty of exam questions, the common pitfalls, etc.Content Presentation: Use of visual cues, diagrams, charts, tables and bullet points rather than plain text, make the content easy to digest and remember.These are really useful for people who don't deal with these documents on their projects. Templates: The book provides some useful templates and samples of Project Management documents such as the Project Charter and WBS Dictionary.Just don't expect the same thrills as from your Playstation. The games really help get your mind around the course material. Games: The book includes many other exercises (read Games) such as Rita's Process Game, What-comes-before/after Game and Project Management Scrabble Game.It really gives you an opportunity to think, write down your answers in blank spaces provided, look at the answers and compare notes to fill in your gaps. Exercises: The book has tons of exercises.The wording is precise, and content to the point. Succinctness: The book is written with a razor-sharp focus on the exam.Tricks of the Trade: Each chapter has several "Tricks of the Trade" sections, which offer very useful information and tricks for tackling exam questions and also dealing with project managements issues in real world.The book contains about 400 sample questions. ![]() The Sample Questions: The quality of the questions in Rita's book (and her PMP Fastrack Exam Simulator) is the best in my opinion.She also emphasizes on the order of the planning processes that in itself is a key to answering many exam questions. While some critique that it distorts the standard vocabulary that PMI has established, but I would say it does help you get a different perspective on the PMBOK processes. Rita's Process Chart: The Process Chart elaborates the PMBOK processes and make them easy to understand.You'll find many more PMI-isms throughout the book and specifically in the Professional and Social Responsibility Chapter. I think I'm sounding like Rita Mulcahy now :) Chapter 1 of this book hits the nail on its head by listing 62 PMI-isms, which are absolutely essential for passing the exam. ![]() No matter how good a project manager you are in the real world, you must answer the PMP Exam questions the PMI-way. Knowing these PMI-isms is absolutely critical to passing the exam. PMI-isms: The key to passing the PMP Exam is to answer the questions the PMI-way (or PMI-isms).Management is a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P. Use project management tools and techniques to complete projectsįaster, cheaper, better, and with fewer resources. Management training, consulting and speaking firm helping companies Rita is the President of RMC - Project Management, a project Rita's work is sought after around the world. Project Management Symposium to standing room only crowds in 1998 andġ999. Officer and has spoken at Project World and PMI's International Rita has helped write the PMPĮxam and is one of only about 15 trainers PMI uses for worldwide She has taught overĤ,500 project managers from around the world and has helped over 1,500 Years and $2.5 billion of hands-on experience. Management "Tricks of the Trade," and best practices with over 15 Rita Mulcahy, PMP, is an international expert in project To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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