Welcome to PMP Exam Preparation

(Based on Guide to PMBoK 4th Edition)

Introduction
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General Information

Parking

Refreshment

No-Smoking
Ground rules for this training program

On Time all the Time

Tolerance Limit - 10 Minutes / 80% of the class strength

Interactive Class

Everyone has to participate

 No Criticism

 Bring Highlighter

Keep an open mind & do not always link the concepts with your job

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Project Management Institute

Building Professional in Project Management

Project Management Institute

Established in 1969 and headquartered outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA ,the

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world’s leading non-for-project
management professional association with over 260,000 members in more than 171
countries and 180,000 PMP’s worldwide.

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Types of Questions

Situational Questions

Questions with two or more right answers

Questions with extraneous information

Out of the blue questions

Questions where understanding is important

Questions with new approach to known topic.

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FORMAT OF THE PMP EXAM

Computer based exam conducted in Prometric centers.

200 multiple choice questions to be answered within 4 hours.

Exam is preceded by a 15-minute computer tutorial on the format of the exam.

Each question has exactly one correct answer. Most people find four hours to be more than
sufficient for the exam.

Out of these 200 questions, 25 questions are research questions. These are randomly placed
throughout the exam. These questions are not evaluated while computing exam results. You will
only be evaluated on the basis of 175 questions.

On clicking the final submission button, the system will compute the results immediately and
provide you with the Pass or Fail message. Do not forget to collect the result-sheet from the
Examination center invigilator/coordinator

To pass the PMP examination, you must answer a minimum of 106 of the 175 scored questions
correctly. Immediately on completion of the exam, the Prometric center will give you the
provisional mark-sheet. The mark-sheet will give the breakup of the score by Process Area.

There is no negative marking in the exam. Unanswered questions are treated as wrong
questions.

After clearing the exam, you will receive the PMP certificate by mail within 2 months. Examination
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Distribution of Questions by Process Group in the PMP
Exam

Topics Percentage of Questions

Initiation 11%
Planning 23%
Executing 27%
Monitoring & Controlling 21%
Closing 9%
Professional & Social 9%
Responsibility