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# Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam

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Review: I have just passed the PMP Exam... - My experience on PM duties is about 4 years now so I was in need of formalizing it, the best way is earn a PMP certification. Actively working and with family duties (two kids) present a real challenge to find spare time in order to attend any bootcamp or even paying for it. So self pace learning was my choice. Of course, everyone recommends Rita's book PMP Exam Prep, Seventh Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam so I bought it, also, looking at reviews I decided to buy the Flash Cards from Andy Crowe's book The PMP Exam: Flash Cards (Test Prep series) . Then as I have the Kindle I went for these: PMP Certification, A Beginner's Guide (Certification Press) , Q&A's for the PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition and this one (Second Edition!)... With that material at hand, I went to PMI web page, formalized my application to earn PMP certificate and settled the CBT exam date for 2 1/2 months later, just to put me a "reasonable" deadline (3 months would have been better). Then I started studying in preparation for the exam. The amount of information covered by the PMBOK® is huge and the right order of processes, concepts, input, tools and techniques, outputs of each are important to pass and they need to be learned. The fun part of my plan was is that I started with Flash Cards, I reviewed all of them just once, then I started to read the Beginner's Guide (A really good book), I confess I put the Kindle to read for me several times in order to finish the Beginner's Guide, then I started with Q&A's book just to find out what my performance was (lower than required). Then I started with Rita's book, I advanced about 15% of the book and then almost by accident, thanks God!, started to read in parallel Head First PMP - Second Edition, boy I loved the book - it hooked me up, it has an strange style but really effective, not boring, full of examples, images and tests for progressive self-assessment. I finished it two days before the exam date and then I reviewed the PMI's PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition focusing on the Ethics part (No time for any other thing). I passed, thanks to God!. My advise is that 4 hours on exam are very very exhausting so don't forget to sleep well the night before and be relaxed when actually get seated to take it! (And put all the EVM formulas on the sheet you are given first before reading the first question on the exam). If I could change something to my plan would be read the Head First PMP - Second Edition book in FIRST PLACE.
Review: This should be the first book that you read in preparing for the PMP exam! - Overview: --------- I just passed the PMP exam -- 4th edition of the PMBOK based. The test does require quite a bit of preparation. I have many years of project management experience, so I have a strong practical background. The PMBOK covers a very large body of material which is summarized at a high level in the PMBOK. You must have a combination of practical experience and extensive book knowledge of the PMBOK to pass the exam. I would start with this book before reading the PMBOK material. The approach in the book is very effective and gives you a very solid overview of the key PMBOK items. After studying this book and doing the practice test in the back, I would then suggest that you go over the PMBOK 4th edition several times followed by doing a lot of practice tests. Practice tests are critical so you can figure out how to properly interpret what the question is asking. Appoach: -------- The book uses a series of techniques -- stories, use cases, crossword puzzles, flash card type quizzes (a range of memonic tricks). It may seem a bit odd but it does really work. The reason why I say start with this book is that you need to have solid overview of all the subject areas and processes before you try to connect lots of detailed information that makes up the PMBOK knowledge space. There are many other books out there to study for the PMP exam. But, if the book does not take a top-down approach, you can very quickly get confused with the PMBOK terminology and processes. There is a large amount of information available on the internet. When you are taking the practice tests, you should make a list of any terms you are not familiar with and then look them up later. This is a very helpful way to get a feel for the scope and level of detail that you need to know about items defined in the PMBOK and project management world.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,854,043 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #166 in PMP Exam #568 in Software Design & Engineering #1,801 in Education Assessment (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (187) |
| Dimensions  | 8 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches |
| Edition  | 2nd |
| ISBN-10  | 0596801912 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0596801915 |
| Item Weight  | 3.4 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 795 pages |
| Publication date  | January 1, 2009 |
| Publisher  | O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have just passed the PMP Exam...
*by H***S on September 30, 2012*

My experience on PM duties is about 4 years now so I was in need of formalizing it, the best way is earn a PMP certification. Actively working and with family duties (two kids) present a real challenge to find spare time in order to attend any bootcamp or even paying for it. So self pace learning was my choice. Of course, everyone recommends Rita's book PMP Exam Prep, Seventh Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam so I bought it, also, looking at reviews I decided to buy the Flash Cards from Andy Crowe's book The PMP Exam: Flash Cards (Test Prep series) . Then as I have the Kindle I went for these: PMP Certification, A Beginner's Guide (Certification Press) , Q&A's for the PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition and this one (Second Edition!)... With that material at hand, I went to PMI web page, formalized my application to earn PMP certificate and settled the CBT exam date for 2 1/2 months later, just to put me a "reasonable" deadline (3 months would have been better). Then I started studying in preparation for the exam. The amount of information covered by the PMBOK® is huge and the right order of processes, concepts, input, tools and techniques, outputs of each are important to pass and they need to be learned. The fun part of my plan was is that I started with Flash Cards, I reviewed all of them just once, then I started to read the Beginner's Guide (A really good book), I confess I put the Kindle to read for me several times in order to finish the Beginner's Guide, then I started with Q&A's book just to find out what my performance was (lower than required). Then I started with Rita's book, I advanced about 15% of the book and then almost by accident, thanks God!, started to read in parallel Head First PMP - Second Edition, boy I loved the book - it hooked me up, it has an strange style but really effective, not boring, full of examples, images and tests for progressive self-assessment. I finished it two days before the exam date and then I reviewed the PMI's PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition focusing on the Ethics part (No time for any other thing). I passed, thanks to God!. My advise is that 4 hours on exam are very very exhausting so don't forget to sleep well the night before and be relaxed when actually get seated to take it! (And put all the EVM formulas on the sheet you are given first before reading the first question on the exam). If I could change something to my plan would be read the Head First PMP - Second Edition book in FIRST PLACE.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This should be the first book that you read in preparing for the PMP exam!
*by L***R on May 1, 2010*

Overview: --------- I just passed the PMP exam -- 4th edition of the PMBOK based. The test does require quite a bit of preparation. I have many years of project management experience, so I have a strong practical background. The PMBOK covers a very large body of material which is summarized at a high level in the PMBOK. You must have a combination of practical experience and extensive book knowledge of the PMBOK to pass the exam. I would start with this book before reading the PMBOK material. The approach in the book is very effective and gives you a very solid overview of the key PMBOK items. After studying this book and doing the practice test in the back, I would then suggest that you go over the PMBOK 4th edition several times followed by doing a lot of practice tests. Practice tests are critical so you can figure out how to properly interpret what the question is asking. Appoach: -------- The book uses a series of techniques -- stories, use cases, crossword puzzles, flash card type quizzes (a range of memonic tricks). It may seem a bit odd but it does really work. The reason why I say start with this book is that you need to have solid overview of all the subject areas and processes before you try to connect lots of detailed information that makes up the PMBOK knowledge space. There are many other books out there to study for the PMP exam. But, if the book does not take a top-down approach, you can very quickly get confused with the PMBOK terminology and processes. There is a large amount of information available on the internet. When you are taking the practice tests, you should make a list of any terms you are not familiar with and then look them up later. This is a very helpful way to get a feel for the scope and level of detail that you need to know about items defined in the PMBOK and project management world.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Really good starter book on the subject...
*by M***S on June 7, 2013*

I've done project management for several projects large and small over the course of my career and for years had always put off taking the PMP certification exam because so many people said it was impossible to pass. After reading this book, I can honestly say I understand PM, have stopped listening to 'those' people and have my exam scheduled for the end of this month. Don't get me wrong, I signed up for a boot camp and used the PMBOK extensively in my studying, but would not have had the courage to move forward if I didn't have this book. It explained, in everyday language, the processes and knowledge areas needed to pass the exam. And they give pratical examples of using those processes, so you don't just memorize, you really understand the concepts behind them. From now on I will direct anyone thinking of taking the PMP to this book as a starter. Even if they don't take the exam, it's good to know and easy to digest. The only issue is a lot of the graphics were illegible on my Kindle, so many of the handwritten notes (while helpful) were killing my eyes when I tried to read them. One other thing, who ever was in charge of quality when converting the book into Kindle format dropped the ball on a few other editing items. Misspelled words, some of the practice tests at the end of the chapters listed numbers not letters, one test missed an entire question (#23 in Scope), in the chapter on Integration it states 44 processes (there are 42), you know, little stuff like that. But fixing the graphics issue would be a BIG help to future readers. Hope this is helpful.

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