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Summary: Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Cert
Review: Did not find this book to be useful. The "PMP®: Project Management Professional Study Guide" by Kim Heldman
provided much more benefit.
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Summary: Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Cert
Review: I studied the contents of this book from cover to cover during my successful first attempt at the 2003 PMP exam. My primary study tools for the 2003 PMP exam included ISBN 1-880410-81-8, 1-880410-23-0 and this book. For subjects that required detail study, I used ISBN 0-471-39342-8. Without getting into extreme detail, this book does a great job of covering the breadth of material addressed on the exam. It also works as an assessment and testing tool by helping the reader to determine his level of knowledge on the various subjects. In comparison to this book, I found ISBN 0-471-39554-4 completely unuseful during self-study, because answers to exercises are provided only through an instructor's guide, which, after several phone calls, I detemined was not available to self-study candidates. Thank goodness the author provided testing tools as part of the text. I took advantage of the practice exams over and over again during study and prior to taking the exam.
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Summary: Don't use this book to study for the exam.
Review: I was very dissapointed with this book. The entire PMBOK was updated in 2000, this book was published in the late 90s, and did not reflect new methodology. Check the publish dates here and see for yourself. Many chapters, like the chapter on Risk, were entirely incorrect. Nothing was more frustrating that spending a lot of time studying material that you later find is incorrect. This book should be pulled from the shelves as it provides users with incorrect information. I'm also disappointed by the bogus reviews here. This book's information is substantially outdated and cannot be effective. The sample questions in the back were especially bad. They were plagarized word-for-word from old PMI publications, and the answers were often incredibly incorrect. Even worse, the memorization based nature of the questions in this book were entirely different than the situational based questions in the exam, and provided no preparation value. If you're studying for the test, don't waste your time with this, spend the money and get the Rita's exam prep book, it's incredibly expensive, but worth the money. If you want some basic project information for the fun of it, this book has some value.
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Summary: Please avoid this book
Review: This book is a mediocre source for preparing for the PMP. It contains too many errors, inaccurate information and it is loaded with irrelevant information for the pmp test. if you do not want to pass the pmp test then read this book.
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