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The Day of Your PMP Exam

Everybody knows that that the more stressed out you are before any exam, the harder it will be to get a good grade. Stress often breeds failure, and it definitely applies to the Project Management Professional Exam. Just don’t let your nerves get the best of you on your exam day; remember all that you’ve done to get to this point and be confident that you know the material. Call upon your knowledge and experience and you’ll do fine.

Unless you ask for a paper test, you will have to take your pmp certification Exam on a computer. If you need to reschedule or cancel your test, you must call the Prometric testing center 2 days before your test date or 35 days if you are taking a paper exam.

On the day of your PMP exam, you have to bring proper ID to the examination center. Your identification must have your signature and photo in order to be valid. A driver’s license will suffice for most folks. If your ID does not have a signature, you can also bring an ATM card, bank card, or employee I.D. card with a signature. Social Security Cards and Library cards are not accepted as forms of identification at the Prometric centers.

The morning of your exam, eat a good, light breakfast. You should arrive at the Prometric center for your Project Management Professional Exam at least a half hour early so you are not rushed or stressed.

You will also have to leave your notes at home, as you are not permitted to bring any notes or materials into the Project Management Professional Exam. Any notes and materials brought into the exam will be confiscated by the Prometric center and not returned. Cell phones and large bags are also not permitted. Paper, pencil and a calculator are provided to you during the exam.

A great way to help yourself right before an exam is to quickly write down everything you immediately remember from your studies on the paper you are provided before you begin. This allows you to “brain dump” and you can easily refer to the notes you’ve jotted down as long as they are on the paper that’s provided right before the test.

After you’ve completed the test you will be able to check your scores online in 10 days. If you don’t pass the first time, you can always take the test again for a smaller reexamination fee. The second time around, make sure you focus on the sections that proved the most difficult for you and you should have no trouble passing the exam.

pmp simulation

When studying for the PMP exam you should consider using a PMP simulation program to help you. You can use such program to study in the same environment as test day and maximize your study efforts. There is a special at the website www.pmsimulation.com which I used to pass the PMP exam.

Project integration and professional responsibility are some overarching processes and concepts in project management. Creating the project plan is actually done after you have completed all the other planning activities that were discussed in this workbook, such as scope planning, schedule development, or planning for quality. The project plan is the written document that describes these plans, and may refer to the actual planning documents you created in the other planning activities. Executing the project puts your project plan into action. You monitor your results, and take any course corrections to get the project back on track. Sometimes you may even decide you can change course, based on what you learn from performing the planned work. Change control lays out the systems, processes, and documentation you will use to manage the changes that are inevitable on a project. During all phases of your project, the organizational structure influences how much authority and action you can take on your project. Understanding how that structure affects your ability to get things done helps you understand your project management role. Last, professional responsibility describes your ethical obligations and educational growth responsibilities to the project management profession. You may practice every portion of project management impeccably, but if you do not practice it with the best ethical intentions, then you probably will have only short-term success as a project manager. It is important to understand what the Project Management Institute expects from you as a project manager. These processes bring all the other processes together as an umbrella function of project management.

Project Integration Management is covered in the Planning, Executing and Controlling process groups objectives of the PMP exam.

There is a point in time on a project when you have completed the planning and are ready to start executing the plan. This point is when one of the project integration management processes—project plan development—is performed. Project plan development takes all the information created in the previous planning processes and integrates it into one comprehensive document that will serve as a guide during project execution and control. This document usually has the formal approval of the project stakeholders. The previous planning processes we described (in earlier chapters) are the processes performed in the other eight knowledge areas. These are processes such as scope planning, schedule development, cost budgeting, quality planning, staff acquisition, communications planning, risk management planning, and procurement planning. There are 21 total planning processes that are incorporated into the project plan.