THE ALGORITHM OF PREPARATION FOR

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PMP® Handbook

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1. Download the copy of PMP Handbook from the PMI website. Read it from cover to cover. While reading you will find PMP Eligibility Requirements, and if you found that you don’t fit this requirements, stop the further preparation and spend some more time of your life to meet certain educational and professional experience requirements or try to prepare for CAPM Exam.

PMI® Membership

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2. Register at PMI website and became a PMI member to have possibility to download the PMBOK free and take discount for exam payment.

PMBOK® Guide

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3. Download the PMBOK Guide. Read only chapters 1, 2, 3 and appendix X3. PMBOK has very difficult turn of phrase. So, do not try to read it at a whack.

KnowledgeMap

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4. Register on the KnowledgeMap. Pass the preliminary test and create your KnowledgeMapscorecard.

Knowledge Areas

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5. Analyze your scorecard by knowledge areas. It is good if you have more than 70% for some knowledge areas, so you can gain time do not reading relevant PMBOK chapters.

6. Read the PMBOK chapter for knowledge area you have lowest score. Buy and pass relevant exam on KnowledgeMap.

7. After passing the exam, create your new KnowledgeMap. Do the actions 6 and 7 for all knowledge areas you have score below 70%.

PMP Application

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8. Fill and submit the PMP Application on the PMI website. Complete other formal PMI procedures – payment (exam fee) and audit (if you are not lucky).If you do not have enough hours of formal education required by PMI, you can download a certificate from the KnowledgeMap website and add the hours to your application as contact hours provided by distance-learning companies, including the end-of-course assessment (type E in PMP Handbook). You can collect up to 13 contact hours by passing mock exams at KnowledgeMap.

Process Groups

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9. Read the annex A1 of PMBOK. Create and analyze your KnowledgeMap scorecardby process groups. It is good if you have more than 80% for some PMBOK process groups.

10. Buy and pass exams for all process groups you have score below 80%.

Do the action 11 during the passing exams.

PMP Exam Prep by Rita Mulcahy

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11. Buy the Rita Mulcahy“PMP Exam Prep” book, which is easy to read. While you are reading, do the action 10 during the reading.

PMP Mock Exam

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12. On the KnowledgeMap website, create a pool of your hardest questions and analyze every of them. You must understand every questions of mock exams. If not, find the relevant information in PMBOK, PMP Exam Prep or other sources.

13.Buy and pass a PMP Mock Exam. Formally, you must reach only 61%, but you should reach 80% on mock exams to guarantee the real PMP exam passing.

Test Drive

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14. If you still afraid to go to the real exam, you can take a “test drive” offered by Prometric.

You are PMP!

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15. Schedule a date of PMP Exam and Good Luck!