Product Description

Author of the best selling Study Guide for the PMP and CAPM exams, PMP In Depth, Dr. Paul Sanghera, presents three complete practice exams --- 540 questions --- to help you prepare for the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. Special features: * Answers. Fully explained answers to all the questions: why the correct answers are correct and the incorrect answers are incorrect. * Scope. Full scope of the exam is covered. * Exam tips. Describe what kind of questions to expect in the exam and how to identify the correct answers. * Exam quick prep. Provides the quick preparation notes: a recap of the important concepts that are covered in the PMBOK Guide. You should go through this section one more time the night (or the hour) before you take the exam to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #218342 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-15
• Released on: 2007-03-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 262 pages

About the Author
Dr. Paul Sanghera, a manager, educator, technologist, and an entrepreneur, has a multi disciplinary diverse background. A leading expert in project management, he is the best selling author of several project management and technology books including a book on the PMP certification exam: PMP in Depth. He has been a lecturer at various institutes including San Jose Sate University, SJSU professional development center, and Brooks College. With several industry certifications under his built including PMP, CAPM, Project+, Network+, Linux+, SCJP, and SCBCD, Dr. Sanghera has contributed to building the world class technologies such as Netscape Communicator, and Novell’s NDS. As an engineering manager, he has been at the ground floor of several startups. With a Master degree in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Carleton University, he has authored and co-authored more than 100 technical papers published in well reputed European and American research journals. Dr. Sanghera has also presented talks by invitation at several international scientific conferences.

Customer Reviews

Great Help In Passing the PMP Exam
I received this book only a couple of days before my PMP exam, and I'm happy I did. It helped me a great deal in passing the exam. I won't say the questions are easy or difficult, wordy or non-wordy. But I will say this: they are realistic, very realistic. Let me put it this way. When I was taking the exam, most of the questions were ringing bells. Some of those bells connected to my study guide, most of them connected to the questions in this book, and a very few connected to a very expensive software simulation CD that I bought. For me it's too late, but you can save hundreds of dollars by using this book along with your study guide. This is not to say that the exam is easy; it is tough...but this book helped...The exam tips in the Introduction of the book changed my attitude toward the exam and the exam preparation; that helped. The questions also exposed the weak spots in my preparation..so I went back to the study guide and improved my understanding...I skimmed through the Quick Exam Prep section just before the exam...that helped to knock down a few questions in the exam right away...
I recommend this book to each PMP exam taker, highly.

Excellent Book: Very Practical and Helpful
I have over 15 years project management experience; and I can say that this is a very practical and helpful book and will take you through the PMP exam. I'm saying practical, because it actually helps even more than Rita's expensive software. Don't get discouraged by a cheap shot review on these pages to advertize that expensive software.
This book has just enough number of questions that will take just enough of your time that you need to spend to pass the PMP exam.
Pros:
1) The questions are very realistic.
2) The book presents the techniques to recognize and handle the questions properly in the exam.
3) Answers are explained in detail: why the correct answer is correct and incorrect answrs are incorrect. It refreshes the important points.
4) A quick review of the PMP exam material is presented, that you can quickly go through just before the exam.

That said, just like any other book, this book also has some typos, but much less than an averge book...and MUCH MUCH less than the problems and errors that Rita's software simulation package has. These few typos boil down to just one solution: Trust the explanation. For example, if Answer: says A and the explanation says B is the correct answer, then the correct answer is B. As I said, there are very few such cases...Material in this book has overall much better quality than Rita's expensive software.
Actually, I find this book the best in its category...
Good luck for your exam.

An Excellent Low Budget Solution
I'm a project manager, PMP, and a Project Management trainer. I recommend this book to my students in addition to the Study Guide they use because it's an excellent low budget alternative to expensive software simulation programs. It's lot more than just a collection of three exams. First, the questions are very realistic. And three practice exams with realistic questions are enough for the PMP exam preparation, and lot better than thousands of un-realistic (simple or complex) questions. Why put more time and effort into the exam preparation than you need to? Second, answers to each question are well explained: why a correct answer is correct and an incorrect answer is incorrect. This helps my students spot the weak points in their preparation. Third, I like the exam tips in the Introduction. It orients the students in the right direction to prepare for the exam. Fourth, the Exam Quick Prep at the end offers a very quick and meaningful review of the PMBOK Guide. I ask my students to quickly go through it an hour or two before the exam.
However, it's a self contained book, and you do not need any instructor to use it.
I recommend it highly to anyone who is preparing for the PMP exam.