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| | Description | This book uses the PMBOK Guide, Third Edition, so that all information is up to date for the new PMP examination. Don't just take the PMP(R) exam: Pass it, the first time! Less than 50% of PMP exam candidates actually pass the exam on their first attempt. But one group passes at an amazing 80+% rate: the students of Dr. Rudd McGary, PMP. McGary has spent years teaching the PMP certification exam and helping professional project managers prepare for it. Now, he's integrated all of these techniques and knowledge to assist you in one book: Passing the PMP Exam. Dr. McGary shows you exactly what the Project Management Institute expects from you and exactly how to be prepared for the certification examination. Whatever your experience, he'll help you rapidly achieve deep mastery of PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R)). Other books cover PMBOK, but this book is relentlessly focused on helping you ace your exam the first time.* Learn proven strategies, methods, and tips for passing your PMP exam * Master all five project phases: initiation, planning, execution, control, and closing * Use the book to become a project management professional in project integration, scoping, scheduling, costs, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement * Understand critical project management details, from Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) to change control systems * Review the professional conduct and ethics standards you will be tested on * Continue to use the book as a valuable resource of practical information after you are certified The accompanying CD-ROM presents Rudd McGary's unique approach to passing the PMP exam. You'll find more valuable content than on any other PMP study guide CD-ROM--including more than 400 sample exam questions and answers! A(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Rudd McGary | | Paperback: | 504 pages | | Publisher: | Prentice Hall | | Publication Date: | August 08, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0131860070 | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 7.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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 Poor choice for study material. Poor QA or editing, many Typos and Mathematical errors Nov 17, 2008
This book is full of typos and mathematical errors. It really serves to deligitimize Project Management as there was clearly very little quality control or assurance put into this project. I'm currently trying to get my money back. I've found many questions to be inconsistent with the current version of the PMBoK, that this book is supposed to reference. The CD with mock questions on it is an absolute joke. The question explanations are just a rephrasing of the question, with no expanding information. Choose another book or study aide. This one will not help you.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Warning - This book is fatally flawed Mar 21, 2006
Whilst the back cover states this book 'uses the PMBOK, Third Edition, so that all information is up to date for the new PMP examination' within the first 30 pages I found numerous references to the previous version of the PMBOK e.g. it refers to the Control phase - this is now Monitoring and Controlling; it refers to the WBS being created out of Scope Planning - it is created out of Create WBS in the latest PMBOK.
I enjoy the style of the book and its approach but the obvious errors make it fatally flawed.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Helpful book - but some annoying errors Feb 20, 2006
I used the McGary book to study for the PMP exam - which I passed. I found the book helpful, in that it guided me to focus on and think about the PMBOK in ways that I might not have, had I not read the book. It's also an easy read, presenting the rather dense material of the PMBOK in a relatively straighforward--and understandable--way, which is a nice accomplishment. The only other study material I used (other than the PMBOK itself, of course) were the CertGear practice questions, which I highly recommend. As many have noted on on-line bulletin boards, doing lots of practice questions is really important!
The McGary book does use questions to reinforce the material, which is a good and helpful feature, but my impression was that although the McGary questions were indeed helpful in reinforcing and getting me to think about the material, they didn't really mesh up with the style and form of questions on the exam. (This isn't a criticism of the questions, which were indeed helpful, I'm just suggesting that I wouldn't recommend relying solely on McGary's questions in preparing for the exam.)
Although there's no doubt that the McGary book was helpful for me, I found some things about it frustrating: As another reviewer has noted, McGary insists on referring to the five Project Management Process Groups as "Phases," despite that fact that the PMBOK says (in bold type, no less, on p. 41): "The Process Groups are not project phases." Given that much of studying for the PMP exam is learning the PMBOK lingo and conceptual frameworks, I find this--perhaps willful--error to be quite unfortunate. The last thing you need as you're preparing for the exam is trying to reconcile two divergent conceptual frameworks. Particularly when--in this context--there's only one that matters if your goal is to pass the test! Another error I noticed is that McGary says the "triple constraints are "cost, time, and quality" (p. 259), whereas in the PMBOK they are "scope, time, and cost" (p. 8). And there are errors in two formulas (the standard deviation formula on p. 238 and the present value formula on p. 286).
I have not looked at any other study books, so I can't make comparisons.
In summary: The book was indeed helpful, and gave me some good insights. But it would have been much better had McGary been more careful to align his terminology with the PMBOK's.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Very useful learning tool Dec 09, 2005
I found this book to be very useful. It was very readable, and the style of discussing a topic, then asking a question, then reviewing the topic, then including the question in the chapter wrap-up was very helpful to me. The repetition really made me remember what was being discussed! P.S. I passed the PMP exam yesterday.
 good exam prep Oct 06, 2005
For project managers, McGary gives a quick preparation for the PMP exam. None of the material pertains to a particular technology. Which is a merit of the book. It covers general issues that recur in actual project supervision. Like the allocation of resources. Or the drafting of the Statement of Work. The book does mention some specialised methods (eg. Decision Tree Analysis), but does not go into them in any detail. Since the PMP does not ask for that level of testing.
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