Exam tips

Ensure you meet the exam requirements. The PMP® and CAPM® have experience and education requirements while the Project+ does not.
When submitting project experience, you can submit work even if you were not the overall Project Manager. If you worked on projects and have played a lead role, it may count so submit it.
The easiest way to meet the education prerequisite is take a course from a PMI® Registered Education Provider (REP). Their courses have already been pre-approved so you can simply enter the course name and dates.

Create a schedule and stick to it.
Promise yourself to study every single day. This is for two reasons: (1) it will keep the material fresh and (2) you will get tired of doing it, which will motivate you to study longer and schedule the exam quickly. You should study a minimum of fifteen minutes a day with some days being much longer. So if you haven’t found time during lunch or taken a break from work, you must squeeze it in before bedtime.
You do not need a lot of resources. At a minimum, you will need: PMBOK®, fourth edition and one test prep book. Really, you only need one prep book if it’s a good book. Anything else is overkill. I have reviewed many books and you can find which books I prefer with a little blurb on why on the right pane of this site.
Other supplemental resources include project management text books, project management trade publications, online resources, practice questions, study groups, flash cards and exam simulators.
I suggest you create your own flash cards.
Take at least one exam simulator. The PMP®, for example, is a four-hour exam. If you haven’t taken a four-hour exam before, you should really try one simulator. It takes a lot of mental endurance!

Give yourself enough time to arrive on schedule. In some cases, if you do not arrive within the grace period, there may be people waiting to claim your spot that day.
Bring a snack and a bottle of water. Most test centers allow you to place a snack and bottle of water in a locker. Although your time will not stop, a quick five minute break is a great way to recharge during the mental marathon.
Personal items will not be permitted in the exam area so feel free to leave purses, cell phones, writing utensils or anything else in the car or at home.
You will be provided with something to write with, something to write on (either mini-white board or paper), ear plugs or headphones, and if necessary, a basic calculator (either on physical or on the PC desktop).
Sleep well the night before! There’s nothing like nodding off during the exam. If you have to cram the night before, then you probably aren’t ready to take the exam.

Do not skip questions. You are not penalized for wrong answers.
Pace yourself to give yourself a fighting chance on every question.
Expect to do several passes. You can mark questions as you go so you may have a second, third, or even fourth pass.
Expect future questions to trigger your memory to help you answer previous questions.
In most cases, you can mark up to half the questions and still not panic! Let’s assume you are taking the PMP®, which is a four-hour, 200 question exam. If you mark 100 questions, then you’re assuming that you have 50% correct already. That also means if you are able to narrow down the marked questions to two answers, the law of large numbers says you should get half of those right. That’s a score of 75%, enough to pass any of these exams.
Strive for completing your first pass in half the time. For the PMP®, that means you will complete your first pass in approximately two hours. That should leave you with plenty of time to go back to the marked questions several times. In order to do that, you will have to quickly recognize whether or not you can answer the question in less about 30 seconds. If you can’t, mark it and move on.

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