About PMP and PMP Exam

PMP Examination Process

There are basically five steps to get PMP certification.

1. To complete 35 hour project management course, a 35 hour course.

2. You have formal education, high school diploma, bachelor's degree, associate's
degree, and so on.
3. To show the number of years of experience.

 Towards the end of the course, I’ll show you how to fill out the application, how to
document your project.
 I'll give you a couple samples of how to write those descriptions.
 You can download some templates on that.
 How to write those descriptions in order to submit it to PMI.
 When the course is done and you're finished the application, you could submit it.
 Now when you submit it, you need to wait three to five days for PMI to approve that
application.
 With an audit part, we can talk about that when we go through the application section.
 Once PMI approves the application, they will send you a congratulations.
 You're approved to take the exam.

 There are two ways to take this exam.

1. In-person testing at a person view testing center,
2. Online proctored session.

 So you get it approved, you show up, you schedule it, you show up, you take the test.
 Once you pass the test, you are officially certified.
 The day you pass that exam, you'll be PMP certified.

PMP Examination Requirements

 In order to take your PMP certification, you have to show three things of
documents.
1. Formal education.
2. Show a certain number of years of experience depending on that formal
education
3. Show 35 hours of project management education or if you have a CAPM, that
also counts.
4. To show 60 months experiences on the application, which is three years or five
years.
PMP Exam Questions
 How many questions?
 How your score report will look when it's all done.
 PMP exam is an exam that will consist of 180 questions.
 These types of questions include drag and drop, multiple choice [ select one
or select multiple].
 Click on certain graphics in order to answer it.
 230 minutes to complete the exam.
 Two 10 minute breaks.
 Enough time to finish the exam?
 Yes.
 Exam will give you pass or fail.

180 questions
 Not every single one is gonna count towards your score.
 There is a few of pretest questions.
 A pretest question is a question that PMI is testing the strength of.
 If the question is too easy or it's too hard, it's eliminated out of the testing
pool.
 If everybody's getting it right and error, everybody's getting it wrong, it's
gone.
 PMI needs to maintain a consistent pace of certain numberor percentage of
people getting it correct for them to keep it in the testing pool.
 So they're testing that.
 Try to get as much right as possible.
Timer
 230 minutes to complete this exam.
 It is more than sufficient to complete this exam.
 200 questions for 240 minutes (4 hours).
 180 questions for 230min.
 10 minutes rest time
 For the students to finish this exam, most students takes about 3 (1/2) hours
to finish the exam.
 Quite a few of them even under 3 hours finishing the exam.
 Try to read the questions quicker whether you're taking this exam online or in
the testing center,
 Make sure you take the breaks.
 Make sure to be rejuvenated, walking around puts some blood in your head,
get some fresh air, come back in, then take the test.
 When you finish the exam, you click end.
 You will get the exam score report.
 It will tell you whether you pass or fail.

PMP exam can break down into three domains.

 People
 Process
  Business environment.

 PMP exam will tell you how well you did.

 So you did proficient, not proficient.
 They say target in this exam.
 In CISSP exam, they will tell like you needs improvement is your lowest
score[below target]
 The best one is above target.
 You need to get above target in the people and the process domain.
 If not, passing can be very difficult.
 So you can answer basically based on that three domains where you went
right and where you went wrong by domains.

PMP Questions
5 different types of questions.
1. Standard Multiple Choice
 These are basically standard questions where
 You have to choose one of those four choices.
2. Multiple Responses
 These are questions where you have to select two or three or four or six of
those choices.
 It depends on the question.
 If the question say select two that is correct, You have to select two
3. Matching
 Matching things up.
 Basically some of them are putting things in order or matching them up to a
particular scenario.
 PMI has a document or old question for Matching on the website.
4. Hotspot
  You have to click on a particular part of the diagram or call out a particular
part of a diagram that is on the test itself.
 Which part of this diagram represents what they want?
 It includes charts and graphs.
 Take note when I show you a chart or graph that will be able to really
understand and be able to read it.
5. Limited fill in the blank.
 They will give you a blank and it will be a straight blank there.
 They will ask you to fill in this blank.
 It includes 5 different types of questions.
i. drag and drop question.

They will give you drag things.

They will give five choices, but you have to put four of them.
So one of these will not be needed.
Questions:
Identify stakeholders?
Initiate, Monitor engagement. Manage engagement.
Where is cost increasing the most?

ii. scenario
  About the risk specific issues based on the current risk register and the
scenario described, what entry should the project manager edit?
 And you have to click on something and you have to identify this is where
they should edit.

 Drag this over or identify this diagram and tell me where to click on.
 PMP exam is interactive exam where you actually to start doing things,
 you have to actually go out there and click on stuff or drag stuff or identify
graphs.

PMP Exam Simulator

 PMP simulator: https://tiaexams.com/
 Simulators are broken into groups of 60 questions called mini mark exams.
 On the real exams, the real exam is broken into groups of 60 questions.
 So when you do the simulator, you will get a mock exam.
 Mock one has 60 questions.
 You're gonna do it, you end it, you get your result.
 It tells you how well you did and then when you start reviewing it, you're gonna
notice that questions where you got it right or wrong, you're gonna get a link to a
video.
 When you click on that link, there is a video explanation about the question.
 Every single question has a video explanation of me showing you how to apply the
mindset to get it correct.
 For this 2021 exam, PMI has brought the knowledge based out.
 The exam is based on principles.

Taking the PMP Exam

 It is the methods to take in your PMP exam.
 There are two methods that you can take your exam.
1. In-person testing center exam,
2. online proctor exam

 Online and In-person is administered by Pearson Vue.

In-person testing center exam

 We can answer at Pearson Vue Testing Center.
 It is basically an exam that we need to go physically to a testing center.
 Stressful process going to a testing center.
 They put you in a testing room that is generally ridiculously cold.
 The chairs are uncomfortable, the monitor is too small.
Online Proctor Exam
 In 2019, 2020, because of the pandemic that was happening in 2020, what
happened was PMI decided to move the test online.
 And this is an amazing option.
1. You need to have a good web.
 2. You need to have a webcam, and internet connection
3. You need to have a quiet room.

 Pearson Vue doesn't administer PMP exam.

 They administer many other from medical, law exams, IT certifications and
whatnot.
 So many exams they administer.
 So getting a date is very, very difficult.

1. It's your environment.

 It means you can take exam with your chair, your lighting, your desk.
 You're more comfortable, less stress on you.

2. Scheduling
 It means 24 hour testing.
 That means there's dates pretty much widely available.
 The proctor will be watching you.
 Camera pointed in front of me and you guys are watching me.
 Imagine this camera's pointing at me and I'm taking a test.
 They will watch you.

 If you go in-person testing center, they will give you a sheet of paper and
pencil or a board with a magic marker.
 For formulas, EVM formulas and to draw a network diagram and figure out
its critical path.
 In online testing, you don't have this physical whiteboard.
 You have only virtual whiteboard where you use your mouse to draw
things or you have to type on your keyboard.

 When you do online testing, Pearson Vue will send you a test file.
 Open up this testing thing, download and install it.
 Log into it.
 You can do this before 30 minute before the exam
 You log in, and check in.
 Show your ID up.
 It is an app on your phone.
 They will send you an app to your phone.
 You take a picture of the, requirements.
 Put it back to the phone.
 Proctor gets it.
 He/She checks it.
 Once you're checked in, you can start the exam.

Time Management for PMP Exam

 Manage your time in the PMP exam.
 Some people can finish this exam very quickly and some people are gonna
run the clock out.
 Take the entire time to finish the exam.

 These are some tips and two time hacks of how to gain more time.
 Exam is 230 minutes for180 questions.
 So, 1.2 minute per question.
 The exam is broken down into three sets of 60.
 60+60+60 = 180questions.
 Extra 2breaktime.
 It is not included in 230minutes.
 So, the total seat in time including break is 250minutes for the exam.
 So, what that means is you get 230 minutes to answer questions.
 You take two 10 minute breaks, it's 250 minutes.
 Exam starts with the timer at 230 and it clicks down.
 It means it starts at number 230, minute number 230 and then it starts to go
down.
 Within that first thing, that first section You can answer questions 1 to 60.
 Each one of these setsshould take about 75 minutes. (60questions)
 If you start a 230, by the time you finish this set, it should be at number 155
 When you start the next set, literally 230 minus 75.
 Now, when you finish this first 60 question set,
 so let's say you're doing the exam, you start the exam, you start question one
to question two, question three, you get to question number 60 and you finish
it, the exam says, would you like to submit this set?
 Click submit for you submit it.
 Would you like to take a break?
 Click yes if you want to take a break(10minutes)

 Now, during this break, you can actually leave the exam room.
 You can take a walk, use the bathroom.
 You can get something (hands tapping) to eat.
 I tell people, stay on your feet because you've been sitting on your butt all the
time.
 Go walk around a little bit, do some push ups get the blood flowing.
 You need blood in your brains.
 You need oxygen in your brain to keep on thinking. (sniffs)
 Now you come back, you start the exam,
 you start now at round number 155.
 Then you do question 61 to 120.
 After you've finished question 61 to 120, you get another break that's 10
minutes.
  Now, you're gonna want to take this break
 and particularly this break because this break is super important.
 You see in this break, you're gonna be super tired because you finished 120
questions.
 You've been sitting in front of this exam for about two hours plus now at this
point.
 So, please take this break, 10 minutes,
 Once again get up, walk around, get some blood flowing.
 You come back.
 Now, the timer is around, right around,
 it should be, I should say, right around 80 minutes.
 And then you start number 121 to 180 and you got yourself about 75, 80
minutes to do this.
 When this ends, when you finish the last 180 set.
 You submit it, the exam ends.
 it'll give you your grade right away.
 It'll tell you whether you pass or you fail,

 How you did on the three areas of people's (hands tapping) process and
business.
 When you finish the question 1 to 60, you check it first and submit it.
 Because you cannot come back to this set.
 After that, you take the break.
 When you start question 61, 62, 63, you can't go back to questions 1 to 60.
 So, When you get to question 60, you can then review back 58, 59, 10, 15, all
the way back up to one.
 This is the timer breakdown.
 Keep these timer in mind.

 How do you hack it? (hands tapping)

 How do you gain more time?

Some quick tips on how to do that.

1. First thing is time hacking
  Less time on easy questions.
 More time on harder questions.
 1.2minutes for one question.
 It doesn't mean you spend 1.2 minutes on every single question.
 Every time a question comes around you're watching the clock
 You think yourself that I need to do one minute.
2. Don't spend too long on hard questions
 Mark for review and move on.
3. Select a choice.
 Don't move on without selecting.
 Select a choice on the question.
4. Use the mindset.
 Think what the mindset is designed to do, to eliminate the choices and help
you select the best choice.
 Use the mindset, answer it, mark for review and move on to the next one.
 If you don’t have enough time, read it, give it your best guess, answer it, move
on.

Examination Content Outline

 PMI PMP examination content outline for the 2021 PMP exam.
 Every 3 to 5 years, PMI will update the PMP exam.
 They generally do a survey by project managers and determine what is
happening
 in current industry around them.
 And they, based on this survey, they make a brand new PMP exam.
 In2021, it released a brand new exam based on a new examination content
outline.
 And this basically switched it from PMBOK Five to PMBOK Sixth Edition.
 In 2021, PMBOK Sixth Edition+ corporated half Agile into the exam.
 For examination content outline, there are 35 task that it lists.
 These tasks basically represents the responsibilities that a project manager
have to follow.
 They basically give us the topics that the exam will test on.
 Half of the examination will represent predictive project management
approaches,
 Another half will represents Agile or hybrid approaches.

 Why is PMP incorporating Agile?

 They have a PMI-ACP certification for that.
 There's Scrum certification.
 PMP = Project management professional.
 PMP = to manage the project.
 It is a traditional
 It is hybrid or Agile project.

 So if company hire you, you can say PMP-certified person.

 If it is a hybrid project, you should know how to do it.
 There are many projects where the project of itself includes parts of it being
Agile, parts of it being traditional.
 For example, in software development, parts of the project that is uncertain
has a high level of uncertainty.
 Like developing the software, it can follow Agile practices.
  But the part of the project that doesn't have much uncertainty because the
organization may have done it multiple times, such as deploying that software
to the users, that can follow a more traditional method.
 Programmers follow an Agile versus the installers, the system administrators,
 Network administrators follow traditional method.
 Project manager need to know both.
 That's why this is a great addition to the current PMP exam, and that's why I
split the course into two.
 First half of the course covers traditional project management.
 49 processes in PMBOK.
 Inputs, tools and outputs.
 PMP + Agile = Hybrid approach
 50% question is traditional PMP.
 50% question is Agile.
PMP Traditional Method
 What's the real definition of a project?
 It's a bunch of people working together to produce something, to create
something, to change something, to improve something.
 It's about people management.
 Building your project team, engaging your stakeholders, resolving conflicts.
 Team members, sponsor, product owner, customer and project manager.
 Can conflicts throughout the project.
 PMP is how to manage that.
Agile Method
 49 processes in PMBOK Six for Agile process.
 What happens after you do that sprint or iteration review meeting?
 How do you do retrospectives?
 What happens after the product backlog has been prioritized?
 How do you create a project management plan?
 How do you direct and manage your project work?
 How are you gonna monitor control your project work?
 We got a lot of processes to cover, both in the Agile section and in the
traditional section.
Business Environment
 8% of your exam question.
 you have to be aware of the external environment that could affect your
project.
 The first one they talked about there was compliance, for example, as a
project manager, I work in the education industry.
 As a project manager in the education industry, in the New York State
Education,
 we have so much regulations we have to follow.
 We are a New York State licensed school.
  We are an accredited school.
 We go through so much regulations, it affects every part of our project.
 You as a project manager have to know the regulations that can affect your
project.
 Don't forget, building a financial application in a school is a whole lot different
than building a financial application in a bank or an insurance firm.
 So there's so many different things that can affect your projects.
 And PMI says, you gotta know about those things.
 So when you walk into an organization, and you're managing a project, you
have a good understanding.

 Don't forget the 35 task here that I mentioned that is in this examination
content outline.
 Know all your 49 processes
 know the Agile concepts,
 know the Agile process
 know terms, tooling

Secrets to Passing your PMP

Is there a real secret to passing this exam,
There is a secret to pass.
And I'll give you an interesting story
on the last secret there that is coming up.
So let's get right into it here.
What exactly is the secret?
1. Try to understand the concept. Don’t memorize them.
 No need to memorize 49 processes and 700, whatever it is, inputs, tools, and outputs.
 Don't memorize all these agile concepts and terms and all these things.
 Don't memorize them.
 It's not gonna help you pass this exam.
 You must understand them.
 So as I'm going through all these processes, both traditional and agile,
 Eg. The question is about the process of collect requirements
 It is one of those 49 process in PMBOK.hey give you a question how to collect
requirements and then they give you a scenario and they say what tool will help
collect requirements for the scenario?
 They give you a list of tools.
2. Do not apply your work experience.
 What you do at work is not important for your exam.
3. Apply the PMI, Project Manager Mindset.

Maintaining PMP
 Must Maintaining your certification means that after you have passed your
exam, you have to get a certain amount of credits known as PDUs,
professional development units.
  In order to maintain it, you have to get 60 PDUs over a three year period in
order to maintain it.
 Now these 60 PDUs comes from either taking classes teaching classes, writing
books, or articles or attending the PMI meetings.
 Now PMI also have courses online at their website that you can also take that
are pretty low cost.
 That will give you PDUs.
 So, every three years need to renew it.
 So at the end of this three year cycle you're gonna have to get the PDUs.
 Now, the PDUs are gonna have to be
 you're gonna have to get them based on the PMI talent triangle.
 You're gonna have to get PDUs within the talent triangle.

Professional Development Units

1. Take classes
2. Teach classes
3. Write books or articles
4. Attend the PMI meetings

1. most people get them from taking classes.

 Eg. if you're already a PMP
 and you take this class again, just learn the new agile and just to learn the new
topics on it, you could get 35 PDUs for it.
 There is a confusion between PDUs and continuing educational credits.
 This course is worth 35 continuing educational credit but it's also worth 35
PDUs why is that?
 1hour of training = one PDU.
 PDUs are things you're gonna get after you certified.
 Continued project management education is what you're gonna need before
you're certified

 So if you take classes, what type of classes counts?

 The classes that counts are related to the world of project management,
business and your business environment.
 Eg.in construction, you take classes in construction management, new
methods of constructing buildings or using machinery.
 Those are count because that helps you in your profession.
 You take classes in risk management or communications management or in
Agile.
 This helps you in project management these counts.

 You need to take classes and you should try to get at least 20 of these PDUs
every single year.
 Try to get 20 PDUs a year.
 It is about one training class, two to three days training class.
 Education is an investment.
 It's the best investment you can ever do in life.
 It has the highest ROI out of everything.
 You can invest anything that you can invest in.
 If you spend a thousand dollars
 and you get a certification, you can increase your salary by $10,000 more a
year.
 A hundred, a thousand percent increase on your ROI there, maybe I
miscalculated that.

 I have 62 certificationsnand every year I take one or two classes.

 In 2020 pandemic year, I took a bunch of classes.
 Why? Because I had a lot of downtime.
 So I took a bunch of classes and I attend classes.
 I watch all the instructors teach.
 I learn you the skills and techniques within them.
 Most of them are tech classes, I'm a tech at heart.
 So you wanna make sure that you sign up every year, set a goal every year.
 Every year set a goal say I'm gonna learn this topic this year and approach
 and proceed to get that goal.
 Sign up for the course, take the certification exam.

2. Another thing you could do is teach classes.

 By teaching classes, you can get one credit.
 Now this doesn't have to be a public class.
 Teaching classes could be something where you just teach your internal team,
but you gotta get a letter from your boss stating you did it.
 You get one PDU for every hour of preparation not actual teaching, preparing
the coursework and they only give it to you once you can't claim it more than
once.
 You can't, you teach the course four times.
 You prepare four times they're not gonna give you that.
 They only give you once, If you spend four hours preparing the coursework
they give you that.
 Writing books and articles.
 You can imagine how much credits I claim.
 When I wrote my PMP study guide, but it was for this 2021 exam.
 Sometimes I write different articles for different websites and so on.
 I also claim them every hour you spend writing you get one PDU.
3. The other one is you can join the chapters.
  So when you become a PMI member, we'll talk about joining PMI when we go
through the application section.
 when you become a PMI member, you make sure that you actually join a
chapter,
 I've had great experience at the chapter.
 You would join a PMI chapter and they have meetings every month
sometimes now they're virtual meetings and you get to attend them and
there's always a speaker and they're always discussing some topic and you get
one to three PDUs for every meeting and there's one meeting generally a
month.
 I joined the New York City NYC chapter.
 They are other chapters that you can join, maybe close to you check your PMI
listing there and they also have a lot of links so PMI NYC worked with
Technical Institute of America and we provided a lot of low cost training for
them at one point and I know they do this with other schools.
 So you get discounts on classes and of course these meetings gives you
credits by just attending meetings every month for a couple hours.
 You can hit those PDUs, 60 PDUs relatively quick.
 So what happens if you fail to meet the PDUs?
 No one wants to retake the exam because if you fail to get those PDUs
 and lose your certification you gotta resubmit a whole new application to.
 It's like you were never certified and you gotta retake it.
 I don't know who in their right mind wants to retake a PMP certification exam.
 Why go through the hassle, get your PDU maintain it.
 You got 60 PDUs, it's not a lot.
 You got three years to do it in, keep an eye on it.
 Set a goal every year.
 I'm gonna get certified.
 I'm gonna learn this new topic and then you can go and claim the PDU.
 Because education always has the best return on investment.

Materials used to create this course

 Over 35 hours worth of content, tons of practice questions.
 So when you take your PMP exam, PMI publishes a document or I should say
a webpage that shows you the list of reference books that is used when
creating your exam.

Google=> PMP exam reference list

And we're gonna press enter on it.
And I am going to go to right here it says PMP.
This the first link should show up.
I'm gonna go right here and I wanna show you guys this.
So this is the PMP exam reference list.
Now what exactly is this?
Well, this is gonna show me the content outline.
So this is a book that basically gives us
all the individual things we need to know for the exam.
When it comes to books, what is it we're gonna use?
So the first thing up they have
is the "Agile Practice Guide".
Then they have the "PMBOK Guide".
Now, I wanna point out, notice this little asterisk here.
Now, today's date on the clock,
I'm doing this video on January 15th.
And right now it still utilizes
a variety of different books.
So you see an "Agile Practice Guide".
Notice it doesn't say PMBOK 6th Edition or 7th Edition.
I'll come to this in a minute.
And they have some other books here like
"Project Management: A Systems to Build It"
"Effective", and they have a lot of books here
that they're gonna mention, about 10, 12 books, I think.
And I wanna point out
that you notice this little asterisk here.
And then it goes into say,
"This exam is based on the exam content outline,
"not just the PMBOK guide."
But it says the "7th Edition will now be a reference
"to the exam item."
So I just want to put that out there.
The exam will now be referenced.
Now I wanna point why that's important.
I wanna talk about, you know, what PMBOK we're using.
So the exam predominantly gets its content from three books.
Let's put that out there.
The "Agile Practice Guide".
I don't have that here, I have that in an ebook.
The "Agile Practice Guide",
the "PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition"
and the "PMBOK Guide, 7th Edition".
Here's the thing, the "PMBOK Guide, 7th Edition", this book,
does not negate, does not make this book obsolete.
This book is still valid.
And it tells you that.
You know, if you guys buy this book
or you get this book as part of your membership as an ebook,
it tells you that in the book
that this does not negate this.
Now, some people say, "Really? Why?"
Well, I wanna explain something to you.
So when I get, you know...
There's three ways to manage a project.
And you're gonna hear this throughout this class.
There's three ways to manage a project.
There is traditional methods.
That's gonna be like waterfall, predictive, traditional,
the same thing.
There is agile methods, and then there is hybrid
which combines those two or multiple agile methods.
So this book, the "PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition"
is a giant book, really large book.
And you're gonna see that in this course.
You're gonna see that I'm gonna cover
this entire book in depth.
I'm gonna go through all of its 49 processes.
Its ITTOs, inputs, tools, techniques, and output.
And here's the thing.
When you're studying for your PMP exam,
you don't need necessarily need to go into
all those ITTOs or be in depth.
But you do need to understand those processes.
You know, understand the documents and the plans and stuff.
This book is predominantly
for traditional project management,
which is 50% of your current exam, okay?
Let's keep that in mind.
All the traditional, all the processes we're gonna use
on a traditional project, right here.
So that's why we're gonna cover this thing
in depth in this course.
Now the other one is agile.
You know, if you guys attend my YouTube sessions,
and you hear people talking about the exam,
you see a lot of people get questions on agile.
Agile is predominantly gonna be covered,
not so much so in "PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition"
but it's gonna be covered a lot
in the "Agile Practice Guide"
which is gonna give us most of the agile knowledge we need.
And we do have a ton of videos on that, too.
I go beyond the "Agile Practice Guide",
as I did use some of these other books
that's mentioned here in this exam references.
Now, that's the "Agile Practice Guide".
Now hybrid is the combination of those.
That's also covered in the "Agile Practice Guide".
So if "PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition" was traditional
and the practice guide covered agile and hybrid,
then what was the point of this book?
This book is a reference book.
"PMBOK Guide, 7th Edition"
contains what's called domains and principles.
This book gives you domains or principles
that we could use on projects of traditional methods
and projects of agile methods and hybrid.
So this book is like the all-encompassing book.
So when they made this book, PMI is like,
"Yeah, this book is now gonna be the umbrella book
"for all the other books
"that we have in project management."
See, a little confusing, right?
I know, but this book is a good read.
I do recommend you read it.
It's really interesting to read or you can read my book.
Now you guys know I am the author of this book.
Maybe you don't know.
Now you know, the author of this book
"PMP Exam Prep Simplified".
So this is a study guide that I wrote
that will include contents from "PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition",
"Agile Practice Guide", and "PMBOK 7th edition".
Because there are some principles and domains
that I want to mention that I think is good to know.
Now I wanna point out to you guys, you know,
do you need this?
Do you have to read this book and this book
and the "Agile Practice Guide" and this book?
No, you do not.
This course is gonna cover it all for you.
If you like reading and you like texts,
I don't even recommend reading "PMBOK Guide".
6th edition is really big and cumbersome.
"Agile Practice Guide" is a really quick read.
Maybe you want to.
I still don't recommend it.
I really like "PMBOK Guide, 7th Edition".
It's really high level
and it's things you should know already
especially if you manage projects.
Maybe you wanna read this one.
But if you don't, it's okay.
But if you like reading just to pass your PMP,
and you just want the information to pass your PMP
without going through all these videos,
there's over 35 hours of content.
Then my study guide is basically all you need, alright?
So you could read all these books
or you could read this if you like.
Or you could just watch all these videos
because these videos will, all these videos in this course
will cover everything you need.
Don't forget all the practice questions.
And then make sure you get the exams.
Get my exam simulator tiaexams.com, tiaexams.com.
So do your practice test.
Hopefully you guys understand
what I'm trying to tell you here.
And one of the comments I'm gonna get from you guys
and I just wanna address it right now, is,
"Hey Andrew, this thing is really detailed.
"Do we need to know all this?"
Lemme tell you guys something.
When I made this course,
I didn't make it just to pass the test.
Yeah, you need it to be over 35 hours
so you could count the 35 hours of education for PMI
and so on and so on, but...
You know, when I made this course, I didn't make it,
"This is all you need to know to pass the test
"and you move on."
I want you guys to gain the knowledge
from the PMBOKs, from the "Agile Practice Guide",
from the other books I use
to become better project managers, not just PMP certified.
Please don't be certified not knowing anything.
Don't just study to get three initials after your name.
Study like you wanna learn it.
Study to implement it.
Study to become better project managers.
I can't stand project managers that don't know nothing.
I can't stand somebody who is PMP,
but they forgot everything they learned
because they just learn it to pass the test.
Learn it to implement it.
Learn it to heart.
Learn it like you want to become better, right?
When you're certified, be proud of that certification,
be proud of the knowledge you gained.
Don't skip videos or fast forward them and move on
because "I need to finish this to get my certification."
Don't do that.
Learn it well, and just don't learn it to pass the test.
Learn it to get better.
Because the better you get, the higher your pay gets.
The better you get, the more wanted you are
by your organizations.
The better you get, the better off your family is
and the better off you are.
Knowledge is power.
So let's go through this course and gain that knowledge.