Develop a PMP Exam Preparation Plan

 Student Success Story

Treat PMP preparation activities like a project with a plan. Find your motivation. Set compelling goals and plan your activities.

Alexey Kharchevnikov, PMP

Baselining your project management knowledge against the PMBOK® Guide is considered a best way to develop a preparation/study plan.

It is very important to identify your areas of strengths and weakness (gap analysis) relative to the PMBOK® Guide, as this provides feedback on where you need only to review and polish your understanding versus those areas that require more effort and/or serious study to overcome the gap between what you know and what you need to know to pass the exam.

It is also important to continuously evaluate your study progress to make sure you baseline knowledge gap is being closed.

It is also a good best practice to adapt the guide's chapters as 'phases' of your PMP exam preparation plan.

Watch this video with more ideas on developing your study plan:


Taking a PMP practice exam to benchmark your current understanding is the best way to define what and how you need to develop your personalized study plan. While there are numerous “free” PMP practice exams available that may appear tempting, they are generally not vetted, validated, or verified for accuracy and consistency with the examination content outline; your best choice is to use a proven source of PMP exam questions, such as the PMP Exam Simulator.

Once knowledge gaps are identified, developing and sticking to a study plan is the surest way to answer: “how do I get my PMP certification?”

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