I took the pmp examination on 15 march 2025, grade 3a. Because of the busy schedule of work, which had been prepared for more than two months, the close examination had taken place on a business trip, and the training course had not been completed for a set of simulations, and the preparation of the examination had been precarious. But at the end of the exam there's some learning to share。
1. Information on the pmp examination
The pmp certification of full-name project management professionals (project management professional) was established by the united states pmi, the largest project management professional organization worldwide, and critically assessed the high-quality qualification examination for the knowledge and skills of project managers。
The pmp examination consisted of 180 selection topics and took 230 minutes (9-12:50), focusing on the sixth edition of the project management knowledge system guide pmbok and the agility guide. The pmp examination is focused on three main areas:
1: people - emphasis on skills and activities related to effective leadership of project teams
2: process - enhancement of skills in technical areas for managing projects
3: business environment - highlighting linkages between projects and organizational strategies
Four pmp examinations were organized in the country for march, june, september and december. The registration fee is $3,900, after which the examination may be postponed for a specified period of time, without delay or refund。
2. On counselling mechanisms
Depending on the difficulty of self-learning in official teaching materials and the limitations of entry examinations, training institutions are generally selected, and online courses, brushing exercises and registration are easier to handle. The training institution of my choice is 51 cto. The lecturer is wang an and the registration fee is 1980 yuan。
The following core requirements are to be met by the pmp entry criteria:
i. Project management training experience
the candidates must complete formal project management training for more than 35 hours. The training certificate can be obtained through the pmp course system of the pmi authorized institutions. Ii. Empirical requirements for project management
the needs for project management experience vary among candidates with different educational backgrounds:
bachelor's degree or higher
3 years (36 months) of unique, non-duplicative project management experience needs to be accumulated within 8 years of the application. The full project cycle (start, plan, implement, monitor, control and close) needs to be covered. Under bachelor's degree
5 years (60 months) of unique, non-overlapping project management experience will need to be accumulated within 8 years of application. Baccalaureate or research in the gac certification scheme fan. 35 hours of training could be covered by gac course learning time, which could then take up to 2 years (24 months)
unique project management experience without overlap. Other matters of concern
capm certificate: candidates holding valid capm certificates are exempt from the 35-hour training requirement. Gac certification scheme: graduates of the gac certification degree scheme may be suspended for 12 months to meet the experience requirement. Registration process: english registration (valid for one year) must be completed before chinese registration at the designated platform。3. How to prepare
(1) basic learning stage
1. This stage is based on a basic video of online course lecturers, which can be studied 1. 5 times or 2 times the speed of the video, and completes after-school exercises for each chapter in a timely manner, with notes that focus on marking difficult points and routine points, since each examination has many sets and different subject categories, but more than 85 per cent is a scenario analysis, which is less likely to result in dead-end hard-back answers and requires an understanding of the situation, first to determine whether the management involved is traditional project management or agile management。
2. Based on the content of each chapter, the content of the video courses is remembered and understood. For example, traditional project management can be understood separately from each of the 10 knowledge areas, and once basic knowledge is learned, the 10 knowledge areas can be grouped together from a holistic perspective。
3. Basic video can be read over and over again, with a three-month cycle that is best reviewed, so that understanding and foundation are not overlooked in order to catch up. It is difficult to understand some of the ways and means used by the project manager in conjunction with actual participation in the project, which is better understood。
4. The increasing proportion of agile management topics in the examinations requires understanding the basic concept of agility and mastering the key words of agility management that often appear in the scene。
(2) enhanced phase
Based on the progress of the video course, learning from enhanced video can begin to understand project management and agile management from a holistic perspective, at a time when some of the focus of the regular examination can begin to be recited and daily subject exercises can be conducted with free time。
2. The topic at this stage needs to be viewed several times more frequently, bearing in mind a number of frequently tested but easily confused concepts and methods。
3. With regard to the subject of calculations, it is only necessary to have a standing test costing, a schedule of progress, and there may be only one or two selection questions for the real examination that relate to the calculation of the relevant subject。
(3) sprint phase
1. At this point, it is possible to read the intensive phase or the live session back-to-back, based on their own understanding of knowledge, and it is less recommended to participate in the live session because it is more time-consuming because it is not fast。
2. Simulation and sprinting of test papers may be initiated, looking specifically at individual time. Since a set of questions would take more than four hours, distributed questions could also be selected. I didn't brush a whole set of questions because of time problems. It was the first complete set of questions that came out of the examination. It was felt that the combination of knowledge and actual scenarios was the main focus. There is no need to repeat a set of questions。
(4) examination skills
The actual examination can be done in accordance with certain customs, rather than always, and it is best to fill out the answer card, which is easy to fill out errors and may not be complete. For example, 120 questions can be filled in once after 30 questions. 120-180 can be filled in with a flash card at 10 times. It'll reduce the subject matter to too much, dizziness。
2. The examination was longer, less water before the examination, less toilets and less time for subjects。
3. When the subject is subject to hesitation, one minute without a solution believes in its first sense. There's little time left to go back and look at the missing questions。
Selecting the appropriate, active, reasonable and methodologically familiar options, using multiple exclusions and excluding errors first from the options, increases the accuracy rate。
5. The subject papers around the examination may be different, so it is only necessary to focus on its own papers and not on the progress of others。
The test results, usually four weeks after the end of the examination, are usually at night, because of a 12-hour time difference in the eastern part of the united states, which is notified by mail。
May all small partners who need to take the pmp test receive the following e-mail and achieve 3a results。
