PMP Exam Prep: Rapid Learning to Pass PMI's PMP Exam--on Your First Try!

This book is amazing. Rita is Amazing!!!I got this the audio book and the fast track exams. IT WONT MAKE THE EXAM EASY THE EXAM IS TOUGH!!! You NEED a lot of PM experience to pass it but this book really plugs the holes and gets you thinking in a PMI mindset that makes the difference.I passed first time and i owe it all to Rita. The prep course i paid for through the knowledge academy was useless and not a touch on what you gain in this book.

Good for exam preparation, i am thoroughly enjoying reading through it. I will recommended this book for any serious person who wants to take the PMP exam

I really like this book. PMP is all about getting in PMI mindset and forgetting about how things may work in your patch of real life PM. in PMI world, you dot your is, cross your ts and go back and check them. And Rita definitely gets you to see things in a PMI way. However, this book also has a ton of fat (eg. unorganised, opinionated text that does not really relate to PMBOK) and actually misses a bit from PMBOK. All this leads to is you reading endless text for days and trying to make the best summary out of the whole thing and still feeling the need to fully read PMBOK. Call me lazy but if I am reading an exam prep book that is twice the size of original text, I expect it to cover everything neatly.Having said that, without this book, I would have simply not passed. Question bank and the tests in the book are amazing. I hated a good chunk of them but it all made sense later. Also explanations for prep questions are great. I recommend it.

This book is adequate to pass your PMP exam.

5 stars

Just passed. Read this book twice, and completed the exam questions twice over. I used no other source but this book.

DELIGHTED AND SATISFIED WITH REGARDS TO THE STRUCTURE HENCE THE WAY YOU CAN ATTEMPT THE QUESTIONS AT THE END OF EACH SECTION.

I bought this book purposely for revision, though the enclosed CD didn't work on my system, and I didn't finish it as recommended, I had to give it a four star because going through the questions and answers were helpful. I guess the main point is that I passed the PMP exam.

Rita's book had come highly recommended by a number of PM/PMP peers (and almost every other review I had seen). I had no hesitation ordering this book once I was approved to write the exam. Having successfully completed the exam around 7 hours ago :), I can honestly credit the material in this book for being the reason I passed. Of course, you need the PMBoK as your basis for learning PMI's best practices, but Rita's book is your basis for understanding PMI's best practices. The PMP Exam Prep book is aligned to PMI's material, and takes it another step further by helping you to understand how to approach the exam, what assumptions to make for the exam, exercises, practice questions and numerous tips and tricks along the way. I trust that a new edition will be released to match PMI's 5th Edition release of the PMBoK, so make sure you have the corresponding edition for the exam version you are writing to. I spent four months with this book and the PMBoK together. I have zero regrets about this purchase - money and time well spent!

Having just passed the PMP exam on December 28, 2012, I can give you a fresh perspective based on my use of this book for passing the exam. I am the project manager for awareness campaigns, but my knowledge of PMI's thoughts on how to go through project management were not overly developed prior to studying for this exam. So I would say I was starting from the beginning for the more detailed processes like risk management. I used Rita's book and the PMBOK Guide exclusively for four months. My study habits included reading through Rita's book fully once and taking the chapter practice tests, reading highlighted portions of the book the second time around and repeating some of the exercises in each chapter, and the third time around skimming each chapter for my problem areas and retaking the practice exams. During my second go through the book I also read through the 4th edition PMBOK Guide. The PMBOK really helped me with inputs and outputs and Rita's book is great for those of us who are trying to get better in project manager and pass the exam on the first try.Overall, I really don't have any cons for this book because I didn't look at any other books and I passed and passed WELL. The woman printing my results at the testing site told me she was impressed. I was surprised (re: overjoyed), she administers these tests every day and didn't really seem like the cheerleading type. However, please note the following are NOT INCLUDED IN BOOK: Rita does not include quality/grade and accuracy/precision, so make sure you get that knowledge. I did a quick google search online when I realized that was missing (from my online course) and I was fine after that. I loved the content, her conversational style, and thus, I actually ENJOYED studying on the train, during lunch and home. I spent approximately 4.5 hours a day on this book from September - December (with a few skipped days to enjoy life) and left no exercise incomplete. I also took three practice exams the week of the exam (I don't recommend this, but I was rushing) not affiliated with this author and that definitely tied everything together for me. I scored 72 on the first exam, 68 on the second, and 77 on the third practice exam. It helps!Key Points:1) Do the practice exams. The hardest one turned out to be Communications for me and that's my actual job field! I scored in the 50s the first time on that particular chapter and the 80s the second time. I scored in the 70s and 80s with a couple of high 60s on the other chapters the first time around. I was scoring in the mid- to high- 80s by my last read through the chapters and PMBOK Guide.2) Memorize what she tells you to memorize3) Take practice exams not affiliated with Rita's product. I didn't buy fast track - there are plenty of good free exams online. This was the tipping point I believe for helping me see how draining a four-hour test can be if you're not used to sitting that long.4) Don't read everything out there. I think it's unnecessary and can be confusing. I trusted the author when she advised against that and I think it helped me focus on her book and the PMBOK without worry (I get sidetracked very easily).5) Do ALL of the exercises in Rita's book and really try to understand why you got the questions wrong in her practice exams and commit those reasons to memory. It really helps you understand the PMI way of thinking for the exam.

Ho passato l'esame al primo tentativo studiando solo su questo! Chiaro, completo, semplice e anche piacevole da leggere, non mi stupisce che sia il libro numero 1 per la preparazione del PMP

Libro indispensable para quienes se están preparando para hacer la prueba del PMI.Rita ya no está más entre nosotros pero sigue siendo el gran "gurú" del PMP, sin duda alguna.Y lo mejor, la prueba está en inglés y estudiando ya en inglés nos acostumbramos con los nombres que vendrán en la prueba, ya que la diferencia de la traducción al castellano es "brutal".

I passed the PMP exam end of May after two months of preparation. Besides the online version of the PMBOK Guide (available for PMI members) I attended a prep class and used Rita's book for preparation. It quickly helped me to get some structure in the topics to learn. I did all the test exams at the end of each chapter before I actually started to work through the book. After each chapter I repeated the test with significant better results which was quite motivating. The memory games for the processes and the EVM helped a lot. The way the book is written is very good and the reommendations are really helpful. If you really follow the instructions consequently, you should be well prepared for the exam.