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Q.1. What is the PMP Exam? A.1. PMP stands for Project Management Professional certification. This is an exam offered by PMI (Project Management Institute) for individuals in the project management domain. There are over 250,000 certified PMPs in 200 countries. A.2. r Educational requirements r Experiential requirements r Agree to and adhere to PMI Code of Professional Conduct r Passing the PMP Certification Examination Q.3. What is educational requirements to be eligible for PMP Exam? A.3.The candidate should have attended at least 35 hours of class room training on Project Management. Q.4. What is experiential requirements to be eligible for PMP Exam? A.4. Minimum of 4500 hours of project management experience covering the 5 process groups, if the candidate holds a baccalaureate or equivalent university degree at the time of the application. Minimum of 7500 hours of project management experience covering the 5 process groups, if the candidate holds a high school diploma or equivalent secondary school credential at the time of the application. Q.5. What score is required to pass the PMP Exam? A.5. PMI made a decision in 2006 to no more publish passing scores for its exams. In 2007, PMI also removed all quantitative elements from the post-exam review for test candidates. The passing score is estimated inside a range between 61% and 75%. Q.6. How many questions are there in the exam? How much time do I get? A.6. The exam has 200 multiple choice questions. Each question has exactly one correct answer. You will get 4 hours to answer these questions. 25 pretest questions will be randomly placed throughout the new examination to gather statistical information on the performance of these questions in order to determine whether they may be used on future examinations. These 25 pretest items are included in the 200-question examination, but will not be included in the pass/fail determination; candidates will be scored on 175 questions. Q.7. How much does it cost to take the exam? A.7. It is highly recommended that you become PMI member prior to signing up to take the test. The membership fee is $129 and application can be submitted online at www.pmi.org. If you are a PMI member, the exam fee is $405, for non-members, the exam fee is $555. Becoming a PMI member will not cost you anything, and you will gain PMI membership privileges. Q.8. How do I apply for the PMP Exam? A.8. PMI has an online application for certification. More information regarding applying for the exam online is available at PMI’s website at www.pmi.org. The PMP Credential Handbook is also available in PDF format on the PMI website.
Q.9. What is application audit?
A.9. PMI states that all eligible applications are subject for audit. Upon successful completion of the audit, candidates will be able to sit for the PMP examination. Submission of an application indicates agreement to comply with audit terms. Please be advised, that while the selection process for the audit is primarily random, PMI does reserve the right to manually select any candidate to be audited at any time, including after the credential has been bestowed. Candidates who are selected for audit will receive an e-mail notification from PMI with detailed information on how to comply with the terms of the audit. Q.10. Do you have any tips for the exam? A.10. The first 15 minutes, you will be asked to go over a tutorial. 15 minutes to review tutorial is not included 4 hours exam duration. Reviewing tutorial approximately takes 5 minutes. You can use 10 minutes of this time to jot down formulas, all processes, and knowledge areas on your scratch paper as you did in ‘Exam Cheating Sheet Workbook’. Don’t skip this step. During the exam, you need to focus on the question instead of trying to remember formulas. You can just refer to the written formulas when those questions arise rather than having to reach into your memory during the stress of a timed exam. Q.11. How much time does it take to prepare for the PMP certification exam? A.11. It depends on how much experience you have as a project manager, how familiar are you with PMI's terminology. However, you should expect to spend at least two months spending two to three hours per day before you take the exam. A.12. r Increases your value to your organization r Increases your marketability r Professional/personal recognition r Provides advancement in your field r Demonstrated ability to meet standardized and recognized project management body of knowledge r Raises customer confidence in you and your company’s services Q.13. What is allowed inside the exam? A.13. You are not allowed to take anything except your ID in the exam. Inside the examination center you will be provided with scratch papers, pencils, a calculator and an ear plug. Q.14. Am I allowed to take breaks during the exam? A.14. Yes, you are allowed to take breaks. You can drink or eat during your breaks. However, don’t forget that whatever time you take, the clock still ticks on your exam. Q.15. What services STAR-PM provide? A.15. STAR-PM membership program offers you to access to STAR-PM Study material. For information and details, please click here. STAR-PM provides most comprehensive and up-to-date study material for PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam aligned with the latest Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). STAR-PM also offers PMP Certification Training in North America and Europe provided by PMP top scorers. For course fee and schedule, please contact us. Q.16. What does STAR-PM membership include? Can you explain? A.16. 6 months STAR-PM membership access to online PMP Course including all STAR-PM Study material. You will also receive support for your questions with regards to STAR-PM Course material and PMP Exam through e-mail from the author of the PMP Study Book. Q.17. How does your online course fulfills 35 hour PMP training requirement? A.17. After you are done with your study based on the STAR-PM study material provided in the member area, you need to let us know so that we send you 100 test questions and answers. Once you are done with the test, we will issue a certificate and transcript saying that you completed our course material. Q.18. Can your online study material be printed and used as a hard copy? A.18. The new material which is aligned with PMBOK 4th edition is printable as our members prefers printable files. Q.19. You have mentioned that after I complete my study based on STAR-PM study material, I need to let you know. Is there a login time and logout time calculated? Based on which you calculate the hours? Or I need to send an email to you informing that I have completed the study? A.19. No, there is no a login time and logout time calculated. This is a 5 day regular course schedule with 7 hours a day. So, in the transcript, we will indicate the study plan for 5 days. You need to send us an e-mail informing that you have completed the study. Q.20. You have mentioned that once I communicate that I have done with my STAR-PM study, you would send me the questions and answers. Once done with the test, will you issue a transcript? A.20. Yes, correct. Q.21. Is this an online test or do you send a file that contains questions and answers? A.21. We will send you a PDF file that contains 100 question and answers. These are multiple choice questions just like in the real PMP Exam. Q.22. Would my test result affect the certificate you will be giving me? A.22. Your test result does not affect the certificate and it will not be included in the certificate. You will get the certificate indicating you completed the study no matter what. There are two options that you can choice on how we deliver the answers of the questions. 1- We can send you the questions and answers together. You test yourself. We don't need to know your result. 2- We can send you the questions only. Then you send us your answers. We review your answers and give you the correct answers for the questions that you could not answer correctly. This way helps you to learn more from your mistakes. Q.23. Do I need to study STAR-PM study material only for the 35 hours training requirement or books like PMBOK/Rita are also considered for the eligibility? A.23. Books are not considered for the eligibility. It should be a monitored study. STAR-PM material with PMBOK would be sufficient for your preparation as long as you follow the study plan indicated in the material. Q.24. If I register today when would I be receiving your training certificate? A.24. If you register today, you receive a transcript and certificate after you complete and study our course material. The timing would be completely depending on your study. If you complete our study material and test within 2 weeks, we send you completion certificate within 2 business days after we receive the notification from you. Q.25. Would I need in-class training as well as studying your material? A.25. In-class trainings are extremely expensive. If you will pay from your pocket, it is unnecessary. Self study with PMBOK and one book or online course would be sufficient. Q.26. Is PMBOK sufficient for my preparation? A.26. You should read PMBOK for the Exam for sure. However, only PMBOK itself is not sufficient. If you take a look at PMBOK, it is more like a dictionary, and provides only theory. There are also some concepts PMBOK does not cover although PMI includes those concepts in the PMP Exam. Therefore, in addition to PMBOK, you must study from another resource. It can be a course, or a book, or an online training. Q.27. What is your recommended approach in terms of practicing sample PMP questions? Q.28. There are tons of simulation test software and sample PMP questions in the market, carrying thousands of questions. My take is - 200 would take 4 hours and I do have not that much time to practice on thousands questions, also they carry questions since old trend, and majority of those questions are not followed in current trend of PMP exam. I feel if I practice and see all questions, I might confuse with right answer during exam. Please correct my above statement. A.28. You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, there are a lot of misleading questions/software out there that might confuse you. You can follow the approach we provided here. Q.29. Would you suggest a simulation test [software] which has lesser number of questions but close to current trend, for me to practice? A.29. The test does not have to be simulation or software. Please note that, the tests in software mode are very expensive because of the way it is presented. We prepared our test in a paper format not as software to keep our prices low. Q.30. Based upon my sample test score when is the right time for me to actually write test? A.31 See our News page. |
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