PMP Exam Prep Questions, Answers, & Explanations: 800+ PMP Practice Questions with Detailed Solutions (Volume 1)

PMP Exam prep questions, answers, and explanations: 800+ PMP Practice Questions with Detailed Solutions offers the most efficient study guide to the PMP exam out there. The book maintains a serious integrity in that it takes the reader through an in-depth course of practice questions. The author feels that the only way to pass this exam is through practice, practice, practice. If you buy this book you will be certain to practice the questions over and over in several different ways. The answers, to the problems, are clearly explained within the book and purchasers, who follow the format, typically succeed on their first go around with the test. Finding a useful guide for this test for a reasonable price is difficult. However in this book you have a major amount of content with very few pages wasted on fluff.

Reading the PMBOK guide is simply too dry and did not prepare me at all for the PMP exam (which is understandable, because the PMBOK is not supposed to be an exam prep book). On the contrary, this book only focuses on passing the exam through practice, and reinforcing PMBOK processes and knowledge areas through lots of explanations. The practice tests in this book REALLY helped me fine tune my studies and get me ready before the exam. I ended up passing the exam in my first attempt and this really helped me.

I just passed the PMP exam and this book helped me out immensely. I practiced many of the included practice tests and quizzes before the exam and it is a great review tool. I would recommend this if you need that extra "push" of confidence. Review all the material using this PMP Exam Prep book. The explanations are very good and really helped with studying. The layout is awesome for this type of exam prep- with very good explanations and references. Highly recommended and cheaper than most.

Many people enroll in correspondence courses or evening classes to obtain certificates as Project Management Professionals. Often these courses are very expensive, but are seen as a necessity to get the necessary preparation to pass the certificate. Well this book will allow for self study and pass the exam at a much lower price.
The book is a combination of mock exam that are shorter than the actual exam, but still allow the student to identify areas of weakness that require additional study. More importantly, the book also contains a number of quizzes arranged by topic. These quizzes are very helpful once an area that requires additional study has been identified and allow the student to focus on these areas.
There are a total of 14 "lite" exams, which take about an hour to complete. In addition to the quizzes and exams, there are test taking tips, which will be helpful to people taking the PMP exam for the first time. Some of the tips are pretty basic, others are more specific to the PMP exam, such as the fact that the PMP exam is very focused and may not be as easy as other multiple choice exams. All the more reason to thoroughly go through this book and look over the incorrect answers to make sure the student understands why a specific answer was deemed correct.
People should be aware that this is only an exam guide, it does not contain the textbook material that forms the basis of the study. I find it especially nice that this book will reference study sections, so students can look up the relevant chapters that are covered in the questions.
Overall, this is a very valuable tool for self studiers, but also for others that want to complement their textbook and gain additional exam experience. I found the quizzes a good way to focus on weaker areas that I identified through the actual "lite" exams included.

The PMP Exam Prep Questions, Answers, & Explanations: 800+ PMP Practice Questions with Detailed Solutions (Volume 1) by Christopher Scordo is a study guide for all those who are working to obtain the Project Management Professional certification. The book gives hundreds of questions in each of the various PMP knowledge areas. There are many practice exams and along with the answers the book provides explanations as to why the answers are correct. The many tests offer ample opportunity for students to practice.

This book is useful for anyone who wants to study in an exam preparation group or alone. With the numerous tests students can feel a lot of confidence about their ability to pass the PMP Exam.

The only recommendation for improvement would be if this book had full length exams equal to the actual test. The tests in the book are only one hour long whereas the actual exam is four hours long. One way to circumvent this problem is to take four of the tests back to back. That would provide a much closer approximation of a real test.