About the project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam 5P personal experience

Write some personal experience, for reference.

7 month , anxiously waiting for one months after the results of the release, after the anxiety is because after the exam almost no confidence can pass, not to mention 5P, so this achievement is completely unexpected to me. Therefore, I and the same group of students to exchange the words of experience is: The exam is abnormal, the test is not confident, so still want to lay the foundation, the knowledge point as far as possible to grasp the firm, and then the examination room to play well. The following is to follow the reverse order to discuss the experience of this sentence.

first, to understand the PMP Exams

personally think PMP The exam is still more abnormal, to have a better understanding, to play a prepared victory battle

1 : The exam time is very sick, PMP a The exam is 4 hours long , plus half an hour early to get familiar with the rules, plus half an hour early to the examination room, that is to say you have to fight for 5 hours of physical strength, before the exam must adjust the physical and mental state;

2 : The test paper is so thick and twisted, $ Problem , nearly hundred pages of paper with a magazine as thick, so be sure to pay attention to the timing, the page and fill in the answer card time, a problem is basically less than a minute of the time to do the problem. Usually do chapter exercises to consciously carry out continuous work to exercise the test state, the simulation test to strictly grasp the time, suggesting that each simulation test at least in the guarantee within 3.5 hours to finish. (I usually finished within three hours, when the exam was filled out after the answer card only 5 minutes left);

3 : The problem is abnormal, the topic and the problem is the first English and then Chinese, although the general saying is that the quality of the Chinese translation of these two years has been almost improved, in general, due to the quality of translation problems, English will still be more accurate than Chinese, the time is more roomy and English-based students can properly reference English. Nevertheless, this exam, I and the class of a few good students agree that: There are many topics even English reading is also very puzzling, including the usual simulation test encountered the same situation. This phenomenon can be understood as follows: Some of the terms of PMP and the usual understanding of different, and the other PMP is also constantly developing the process of improvement;

about the exam, the last pass line, PMP The examination of the five major process group of topics mixed in the question , and test results will randomly draw out 25 questions, the remaining 175 questions to score. Therefore, to pass the exam, that is, according to the 175-question 60-point pass to calculate, the total need to answer the question 105+25 , that is, The Insurance pass score is more than This is according to the usual passing score angle to calculate, another angle is 5 big process Group according to P-Excellent, M-General, B-poor and so on 3 grades to calculate, generally as long as has 3 M above the achievement can pass, also has the argument is now is according to standard points to consider the level grid line.

Second, have to say the examination room to play

Apart from the luck ingredient, the examination room plays still is very crucial, my usual simulation examination result, may also in 3P fluctuation Around ( 140~160 points).

1 : First of all, we should adjust the physical and mental state. Exams are usually in the morning, early to bed and early to eat good breakfast.

2 : Then pay attention to the exam skills, a lot of skills are actually commonplace, because the problem is large, dry long, sometimes a A 4 on the paper on a topic, to be able to sink the heart to quickly read the question, grasp the key words, attention to the problem of dry traps (such as the word), and so on, PMP examination questions have a phenomenon: perhaps four options are not absolutely right and wrong, but to choose the most accurate answer, for ambiguous questions, It is better to associate knowledge points with the topic, and to know the examination points of the exam.

3 : The last is to pay attention to the test time, the same group has a personal simulation test results are also good, the test time is too late, and finally a lot of questions to fill out, decisive failure.

Three: Laying the groundwork and consolidating knowledge points

Whether it is the test room or the application of skills, if there is no solid foundation, are castles in the castle. A solid foundation comes from the usual efforts, hard work and smarter.

hard work, the direct embodiment is to ensure the input of learning time. Some experience mentioned: "The full investment time of more than ten hours, book reading five to six times above, the basic guarantee can be considered." "These requirements seem simple, but the truth is true." There is a marginal effect on each person's schedule, which requires a trade-off between life, study and work. PMBOOK in a - many pages, such thick books have a lot of knowledge to understand and memorize, but also a lot of concepts involved in other management theory need to understand. Therefore, to have the determination to learn PMP and pass the exam, we must plan ahead, to ensure the investment of time. On the first page of my PM book There is probably a positive, and each stroke represents a one-hour commitment. Including self-study, classes, exercises, mock exams and other all the time. I took part in every class, every practice discussion, every mock exam. April or May The company is in the busy two projects, even if overtime to four or five o'clock in the morning, I still guarantee attendance, and at least one night a week to review or do a problem, the weekend as far as possible to ensure half-day investment.

smarter, is to pay attention to the law of learning and memory, the process of learning is to understand, remember and use. Attention to the curve of memory, through the effective rate of repeated exercise to strengthen memory. Time permitting, preview + class + review + Test verification + simulation + Preparation before the test, can complete the process to go down, the test is only a small probability event.

In addition to hard work and smarter, in the actual learning process, there are more details, for example, some people like their quiet study, but personal advice group discussion is best to participate in, brainstorming, and then some people used to use the debris time, some people need continuous learning and so on. There is no need to speak too concretely. Examination should have the status of the test, usually learn to find their own state of study. For example, there is a classmate in the same group usually although all have to participate in study and discussion, but the results are not good ( the following), so a week before the exam, leave does not work, in the home assault study, finally also passed the exam successfully.

Finally, write a little bit of experience, nothing to do with exams. Of course, everyone who participates in PMP Certification training wants to be able to learn project management knowledge and get documents. In fact, the completion of the PMP certification training is only a short-term completion of the entire career, and how to effectively use the learned project management knowledge is needed for a long period of practice and continuous thinking. For example, recently our company has just a technical part of the original (development, operation and maintenance, management) Three departments, I would like to recommend to our department Manager: The New software Development department is the forefront of technology production, from the refinement of management considerations, recommendations can refer to some general production management model, For example, through the PDCA process to improve the quality of production, of course, the need to consider the quality of cost.

Finally, I wish you all pass the exam successfully:)

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About the project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam 5P personal experience