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Title: PMP Certification for Dummies by Peter Nathan, Gerald Everett Jones ISBN: 0-7645-2451-8 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.62 (16 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: There are better books available for your time and money
Comment: The author tried to write this book with a "lighter side" style and with more "test taking" strategies than some of the more well established study guides. A good attempt, especially concidering how dry the material can be. But if you are stuggling with how to spend your time and money preparing, I suggest strongly the following:
1) PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide
by Kim Heldman
2) PMP Exam Prep (4th Edition)
by Rita Mulcahy
After you've completed these two "must reads", you may want to add PMP Certificatoin for Dummies by Gerald Everett Jones as a third pass at the information. But I'm afraid that this publicaiton only fills that limited role.
Get to work on the "must reads" and good luck with the exam.
R.T.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book in PMP Cert category
Comment: Just got this book for my study group. We have purchased every training book available. PMP Cert For Dummies is the best of the group! More complete, easier to follow. They really delivered on the "For Dummies" promise of being easy to follow. Yet, it's the most accurate and complete of all the cert books.
Besides being the best dollar value, it's got the best tips, tricks and hints on how to beat the exam. It also gives you better ideas of what the exam topics are all about, so you can concentrate your study time. I'm using the MS Project template on the included CD for my study schedule. The tear-out yellow cheat sheet card in the front of the book has all the formulas you'll need to pass the exam. A separate chapter explains the formulas simply for people like me who haven't done anything with math in years.
PMP Cert For Dummies has the strongest info on Quality and process charts. This is a real weakness on the part of the other books.
They provide the best explanations in answering exam questions and help identify various patterns to questions. The other books provide crummy explainations to exam questions. In many cases with the other books, you're stuck researching the answer in PMBOK Guide. In the For Dummies, they provide detailed explainations of all answers. It's a great timesaver!
Forget the other books. Buy this one!
Rating: 1
Summary: Great waste of Money
Comment: I have bought this book while I was getting courses for the PMP certification, I rapidly realized that this book was a total waste of money. When you buy a book on such a tough and sharp subject as PMP certification, you expect something professional with facts and certainly no mistakes. The PMP exam is full of subtle nuances and to get the right word is absolutely necessary.
This book is unformtunately full of factual mistakes, even in the definitions that are supposed to be precise and pure exam matter.
Moreover, some knowledge areas are totally forgotten, probably because not completely understood by the writer.
I have desperately tried to answer the test questions present in the book and basically, I spent time finding errors and trying to correct the book. Actually, it is a great exercise, you get a bad book and you correct it. After this you know the subject.
I have mailed questions to the author, regarding the mistakes in the first chapters. He recognised some mistakes but the anser afterwards was very doubtfull. He also answered 3 weeks after my first e-mail. Considering that a study period is about 3 months, you have time to find the answers yourself.
Some areas are cvering an old version of the PMBOK and no information is given about this fact.
Finally, the hints the author gives you to help to memorize the inputs and outputs are highly useless. I still try now after the exam to understand the relationship between the hint and the subject.
Anyways, this is definitely the last book you should buy not because it contains everything you need but well because you need a very good understanding of the subject to swallow and correct it.
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Title: PMP Exam Prep (4th Edition) by Rita Mulcahy ISBN: 0971164738 Publisher: RMC Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) -- 2000 Edition by Project Management Institute ISBN: 1880410230 Publisher: Project Management Institute Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide by Kim Heldman ISBN: 0782141064 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 22 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: The PMP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try by Andy Crowe ISBN: 0972967303 Publisher: Velociteach Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam, Second Edition by Michael W. Newell ISBN: 0814471722 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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