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PMP Practice Questions Exam Cram 2

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Unless you would like to spend time studying for a version of the PMP exam that PMI no longer administers, stay away from this book (Practice Questions). I will verify what a few others have stated concerning the poor quality of the questions and the ironically spotty quality control in the product, but most relevant to my mind is that it deals with (some) topics that are no longer dealt with in the 3rd edition of the PMBOK. There are much better practice question options out there, but you may have to pay a little more for them.

I don't do this often, but the one poor review about this book is a complete surprise to me. I found the book to be a very good resource and it provided the information necessary for me to pass the exam. I particularly liked The PMP Cram Sheet. The CD worked fine for me. I liked the writing style and the concise structure of the text.

I looked at several other books and found the Exam Cram 2 to be a very efficient and effective way for me to study for the exam. In my estimation the best method to study for this exam is to review test questions. This book provides representative test questions and enough supporting information concerning the correct answer that an experienced project manager can easily reconcile why his original choice was incorrect. In my circle, many PMPs agree that this book is an excellent exam resource.

Here are the list of problems with this book
1. Very confusing and ambiguous questions
2. Some of the answers are plain wrong
3. The CD based testing software is defective. I specifically found
- The time keeping piece doesn't work on Windows XP for customized tests
- The answers on some questions were mixed up

Overall, I would definitely not recommend this book to anyone who is serious about the PMP exam. There are several other soures that I found, that have better questions and which are less confusing/more in line with the PMP exam questions

This book is based on the, no longer available, PMBOK 2000 exam. While 85 - 90% of the material overlaps, you'll be using the wrong material and will end up getting questions wrong on the current exam.

Their accompanyning book, PMP Exam Cram 2, IS aligned to the new exam and says so on the cover. Do not confuse these two books.

Excellent material for use in studying for PMP exam. Well organized and presented. Included CD is an expecially good tool to use for studying for exam. I coupled this along with the Exam Cram book and the PMBOK and feel I'm well on my way to passing the exam.

The Bad: As several others have reported, many of the questions are not good. Bad logic, old terminology, I found one where the short answer is incorrect and the 'detailed answer' has nothing to do with the question. Several of the questions were structured with a general PM statement followed by a single sentence question that was disconnected from the statement. For example: There are 50 states in the USA. What is the capital of New York?
The Good: The passing score for the PMP is 61%. If you can score better than 61% on these questions, you're ready for the exam.

Don't buy this book! Haven taken a PMP exam prep class and reviewed the actual PMBOK, I purchased this book to help reinforce my knowledge prior to exam day. After only 3 chapters I found over 10 mistakes. Examples include inconsistently referencing knowledge areas as process groups and using terminology from the old PMBOK edition. In addition, the questions were poorly written with answers that don't correspond to the question.

Overall this book is poorly edited and will confuse those without significant PM experience or formal PM / PMP education.

Try something else.

This book is a waste of money for the new PMP exam. Some of the questions/answers are poorly worded, while some contain flaws in logic. More important, some questions and answers are simply not correct for the new PMP exam. The questions are too general and not directly referenced to the PMBOK - that alone is a warning signal - absolutely no references to the PMBOK to support the author's answers. Warning: This book is not written for the new PMP exam given after October 2005. Pay a little more and get a more complete PMP prep book. I spent money on this book and feel very, very cheated.

I bought this book after spending a couple weeks using Exam Cram 2 to prep for the PMP Certification exam. For me, I think the questions forced me to really think in depth about how PMI views the many aspects of project management.

The CD was the most useful for me (the book is just the CD questions organized by topic) but it did have some limitations. There was no apparent way to go through the questions in chunks with out repeatedly seeing some/many questions you'd seen before, so I ended up just plowing through all 500 questions over a few days. I didn't find the timed version of the exam particularly useful. Several of the questions (maybe 9 or 10) had "correct" answers that were clearly wrong, sometimes with explanations that were targeted to different questions. Also, many of the questions had misdirection built in that wasn't evident on the actual PMP exam. The practice results didn't really reflect my readiness for the exam very well; my average percent correct was about 12 points higher on the PMP exam than it was with the questions on the CD.

But even with those limitations, the thought processes that were forced by the questions on the CD were invaluable in preparing for the exam. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. I'm not sure I would have passed without it, and certainly not by the very comfortable margin I enjoyed.

Many questions written poorly, in a very confusing language, useless info abundant. As other reviewers pointed out, some of the answers belong with different questions (both in the book and on the CD), some answers are clearly incorrect.

Most irritating part to me was that some "correct" answers were arrived at by using this pseudo-PMI logic that was used sparingly ONLY (i.e., that very same logic was not applied in other similar questions.)

I've used Exam Cram 2 with great confidence to pass 8 other tests. This is the worst one in the series by far, which points to either the writer or inadequate/incompetent editing.