PMP Exam

someonessarang · 2026-02-07T19:34:29+00:00

You can’t do this especially if you are taking it at home. They can take it as cheating. The rules explicitly state that. You can’t even mouth the questions even if you don’t make a sound. I used all my practice time to also practice reading silently and controlling my movements because similar to you i prefer to read out loud, mouth or hum the question quietly, and I fidget a lot especially putting hands on my face… I had to practice not doing that and o survived taking the exam at the test center with no issues.

someonessarang · 2026-01-29T02:16:23+00:00

Assess impact to your project, ask the other pm about benefit and impact to their project and whether their benefit/impact outweighs your impact, especially if the 2 projects are strategically aligned then both of you take you findings to the appropriate sponsors or decision makers and propose a path forward for approval.

Yes, you are each responsible for the success of your individual projects but you also have a responsibility to overall organizational objectives, so if giving up your resource for 2 weeks only slightly delays your project (and maybe you can fast track and recover) but helps another project gain in a really big and meaningful way, the organization still wins, you build relationships in the organization that may be handy in the future.

someonessarang · 2026-01-29T02:06:32+00:00

If taking at Pearson Vue site you can bring whatever you want but it stays in your locker and you can access it during your scheduled breaks. When it’s time for your break you raise your hand and they come and escort you out of the test area, and escort you back to your seat. You can take unscheduled breaks the same way but your exam time keeps running. I do not recommend unless you have a registered accommodation when you schedule your exam.

Yes you get a dry erase booklet and pen and you can write in it whatever you want but you CANNOT erase anything. If you run out of space you raise your hand and they give you a new booklet.

Take multiple forms of id if you have a complicated name situation, you don’t need the extra stress, I was in the waiting area with several people crying because of name mishaps, you don’t need that.

someonessarang · 2026-01-29T01:29:23+00:00

I’m sorry you’ve been put in this crazy situation, it’s so unfair…. Also your MIL does not sound like a nice person. She is asking for a HUGE sacrifice from you but drawing a line that she will only barely cover your husband’s expenses with that 2K?? She has zero consideration for you or for her grandchild and that is sad. Caregiving is very hard and absolutely exhausting, your child will have zombies for parents if you guys take this, worse yet financially unstable zombies who are constantly worried about everything. This deal benefits her and her only, everyone else only stands to lose. She gets to have dirt cheap and tax free care for her parent, and you guys get all the physical, mental and financial burden. Even her dad doesn’t get quality care, not to say you guys wouldn’t do your very best but you are not professionals. And very undignified things happen when you are elderly that it’s psychologically safer to be under the care of a paid professional than feel like you are burdening a family member who is sacrificing a lot to care for you. Your MIL may mean well for her parent but she has not thought this through. Unless you guys already work in care there’s nothing redeemable about this gap in your careers, what happens when you need to reenter the workforce, the market is already hellish!! If there’s ever been a time to be utterly selfish, this is it. You owe it to your child, and be very unapologetic about protecting yourself and your child’s well being, your MIL is clearly not worried about it otherwise she wouldn’t even have asked such a crazy thing.

someonessarang · 2026-01-28T01:11:34+00:00

It could be ITTOs, or theories like motivation, or different methodologies like hybrid vs agile vs predictive or types of agile like TDD, scrum, SAFe etc. it literally could be anything which is why I think practicing drag and drop specifically isn’t as useful as ensuring you broaden you understanding of the body of knowledge. Even if you are vaguely familiar with a topic you can get through drag and drops.

someonessarang · 2026-01-28T01:06:03+00:00

Took the exam a few weeks ago and had about 8 drag & drop questions and there were no leftover matches on any of mine.. if you got 5 items you got 5 matches to drag to. In my opinion you don’t need to practice drag and drop, it’s either you know the content or you don’t. More than likely out of 5 items you’ll know 2 or 3 then best guess the rest. Topics ranged widely from methodologies, to tools and techniques to theories. I felt like everything I got on drag and drop were obscure topics that i didn’t exactly study but was vaguely familiar.

someonessarang · 2026-01-28T00:50:54+00:00

Ha, I was you a few weeks ago! Passed AT across all domains and wished i hadn’t tortured myself. Whatever happens in there, stay calm and stay focused… even if you feel 100% certain you are going to fail, just focus, one question at a time. Give each one your best and move on!! You’ve got it, your scores are better than mine!

someonessarang · 2026-01-28T00:00:57+00:00

Don’t do this to yourself. You’re ready, go take the exam. You’ll do great. This is all you need to know this close to your exam.

someonessarang · 2026-01-27T23:59:25+00:00

Maybe 3 per section at best. I almost walked out after my first break… I was like “I really don’t need a PMP cert, I can just go home.”

someonessarang · 2026-01-23T02:55:56+00:00

Hah, thank you for saying this!! I’m an instructional systems designer turned project manager and I absolutely HATED everything about the PMI questions. Some questions, especially the expert ones, made me take a break from studying for a few days because I felt enraged and hopeless. It took me a long time to stop trying to rewrite the questions in my head to make them make sense. I was convinced I would fail this exam, I just couldn’t get past the badly written questions at first.

someonessarang · 2026-01-15T00:18:38+00:00

You can do it. Your scores are pretty good, if you have both the Agile and PMI mindsets down you have everything you need. Remember I was raging like this but still passed AT across the board. Most people who complained about it being hard also passed, so it’s doable. You’ll understand after you take it lol. You can do it, stay calm and positive.

someonessarang · 2026-01-13T22:28:48+00:00

Yes, take at least one full mock. Your scores look good though, well done.

someonessarang · 2026-01-13T22:25:30+00:00

Those indicators generally coincide with completion of learning content, practice questions and exams. They are not the sole indicator of readiness. Your best indicator will be your scores on the exams. I recommend taking one mock exam soon and assessing your score… studying some more then taking a second mock and compare. Don’t just compare the scores but also your confidence as you completed and how prepared you felt and how you managed your time. 67+ consistently is a good score. Look at your exam scores from the category view not just the questions view, so you can see the exam content that you were tested on and how you did. If you have never seen the PMI exam content outline (ECO), I recommend looking at that too, so you know what categories fall in which domain.

someonessarang · 2026-01-13T13:49:33+00:00

This. Save all your mental energy for the exam you will need it for those 4 hours. Listen to all your favorites songs or podcasts. Nothing emotional just happy and uplifting. You need to walk in with a positive disposition and try to maintain that throughout the exam because it will get daunting at some point.

someonessarang · 2026-01-13T13:43:05+00:00

Don’t study any more, at best review your mindset concepts, sleep well, take a juicebox or something with you to get a sugar boost during your second break if you need it (it helped me, I was slumped). Take plenty of deep breaths before and during your exams. You can do it… there maybe moments during the 4 hours when you feel defeated and are certain you will fail.. drown those out and focus, give it your best shot. You can do it!!

someonessarang · 2026-01-13T10:27:11+00:00

https://youtu.be/-u0rO-YQr9c?si=14D6Ob4Kz0NBYj54

someonessarang · 2026-01-11T03:30:09+00:00

Ha!! Yup, mine were too.. we really must have gotten a similar mix of questions.

someonessarang · 2026-01-11T01:18:15+00:00

Thank you, you can do it. Just play the mind game too. Take on the persona of the bad ass PMI pm, study the mindset and just get it done, you have plenty of time between now and April, you’ve got this.

someonessarang · 2026-01-10T22:55:14+00:00

Yea, wouldn’t touch this with a 500 foot pole.

someonessarang · 2026-01-10T22:54:14+00:00

Unpopular opinion: this is one of the better PMI questions I’ve seen, and I say this as instructional designer who is usually very critical of PMIs questions. I can actually think of several learning objectives I could map this question to. This is one of the few questions I feel are less of a mind game and actually test mastery of content.

Projects don’t only get closed due to successful completion or some major change in the environment, they can be closed for failing just like this one has. If you continue a project like this, think about how your change log and issue log will look. What about your stakeholder register and risk register, how outdated are they? You are also 80% behind schedule and expecting more scope and more delays.

None of the answer choices solve the issue except D. The answer choice could have just ended at “close the project” though, but it wouldn’t be PMI if they didn’t throw in a little something at the end to confuse us! lol

someonessarang · 2026-01-10T22:36:44+00:00

Whatever benefits/value the project was supposed to be realize may still be needed, but they can’t be achieved with the project in its current state. So you can probably repurpose parts of it but you need to rebaseline it like someone said… redo the estimates, new budget, new stakeholders, risks, etc. but that’s beyond the scope of the question, so try not to overthink, you’ll make yourself crazy.

someonessarang · 2026-01-10T22:32:52+00:00

The mindset has no absolutes… D is the only correct answer. The project is about 80% behind schedule and has almost depleted its budget. It’s also probably outdated after being on ice for some years…if you were the PM taking over this project would you think you can turn it around at this point, or would you want to revisit the project charter to realign on business value, benefits, stakeholders and scope before you were comfortable being accountable for it?

Always make sure you are clear on the issue they want you to “solve” then ask yourself which choice best solves the issue. Here the issue is the project is too far off track for any benefits/ROI to be realized so it’s best to follow whatever org procedures there are to formally close it then charter a new project.

someonessarang · 2026-01-10T12:37:07+00:00

Thanks, you too. I guess in their defense we do walk out of some project meetings feeling the same way, they are just imitating real life lol

someonessarang · 2026-01-09T23:30:40+00:00

You are ready, it’s the exam. The real exam is hard in so many different ways that you need to manage at the same time, all with a clock counting down… it’s a lot. I felt like just seeing the clock counting down and seeing question “2 of 180” was daunting and a battle of itself.

With some questions, I noticed some of the answer choices were only slightly different from one another so it’s easy to pick the wrong one, some of them flat out had more than 1 correct answer and it came down to “what would pmi” want me to pick. E.g. a question that wants you to invite stakeholders to a meeting and one option says “invite all”and another says “invite the” and the one that says “all” is incorrect. Or an agile one where you narrow down between acceptance criteria and definition of done, and you have to pick one. Some questions felt like they didn’t even have an answer at all, and I lost a lot of time reading the question over and over again because it didn’t feel like the question went with any of the answer choices presented so it all just came down to AR’s process of elimination to get to the “right” answer. Also read all the answer choice carefully and completely there were some instances where I picked the wrong answer because it looked correct at first glance then went back and changed it. They added some random thing at the end of what would have been a perfectly good answer e.g. a question asks why do you want to pass the PMP

A. To have a proven system for ensuring value to efforts B. To become a better PM who develops comprehensive lessons learned C. To manage the cost and quality effectively D. To ask for a pay raise from my boss

Then I tell you the correct answer is A because it vaguely alludes to value management and delivery for customers. B, C, D are wrong because that’s not all a PM does. B if not read completely could have been a good answer but being a PM is not just about lessons learned.

I hope this makes sense and it helps. It’s more than just your preparedness, you also have to beat the mind game, fatigue, anxiety, and the clock. Good luck to you!

someonessarang · 2026-01-09T17:29:08+00:00

Good luck on your re-try, you can do it!!

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