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PMP In Depth: Project Management Professional Study Guide for PMP and CAPM Exams (In Depth) (平装)
by Paul Sanghera, Ph.D.
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Andrew PMP (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Have just passed the PMP exam and I'm very excited about it, as you can imagine. I would like to share my experience about this book so that other people (the potential PMPs) can benefit from it. The first stage of my PMP preparation before reading this book, was a stage of confusion and frustration when I was going through PMBOK Guide and a couple of other PMP books (the best sellers). PMBOK Guide has to be read because it's the standard, although it's not a pleasant read. But you can easily avoid being tortured by other books. I realized this after I read Dr. Sanghera's PMP In Depth. This is a very self-contained book: all you need to pass the PMP exam.
First, the material is organized in the order of the process groups (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing) which is also the order in which the PMP exam objectives (domains) are organized. This is also more consistent with the way projects are actually executed. This is a big deal because it helps avoid the confusion about exam domains and also help to connect the material in the book to your real life experience. Other PMP exam books organize the material in order of the knowledge areas and therefore mess up the exam objectives. When I was going through those other books, I was always confused about which exam objective was being covered. In this book (PMP In Depth), the exam objectives covered in each chapter are listed and explained in the beginning of the chapter. So, I was sure which exam objectives (domain) I was preparing for in a given chapter.
Second, although this book is 100% compatible with the PMBOK Guide, Third Edition, it never refers back to the PMBOK Guide. All the terms are defined, all the concepts are clearly explained, and all the topics are adequately covered in a perfect logical sequence. No hopping from topic to topic. This makes this book a very self-contained book. You can take this book on your trip, for example, and can read it cover to cover, without feeling the need of checking something in another book. Furthermore, the author goes out of his way to make sure you don't miss any key term or concept. First, the key terms (and concepts) are explained where they appear in the chapter, and then their definitions are listed at the end of the chapter. The definitions of all the key terms in the whole book are also listed in the Glossary. The Tips and Notes throughout the chapters were also extremely useful.
Third, this book is a very easy and interesting read. There is no jargon without explanation. The presentation in a logical sequence makes the connection between topics and concepts crystal clear. The presentation style is almost like a story telling style, it kept me curious and never bored me when I was going through the book. Now that I have passed the exam (thanks to this book), I look at it as a reference book: it has explained to me clearly many concepts and connections between concepts that I was previously confused about.
Just before the exam, I once again went through the Exam's Eye View section at the end of each chapter which summarizes the important points in the chapter from the exam's perspective. Also I went through the answers to all the review questions in each chapter and answers to all the Final Exam questions at the end of the book. These answers are explained in detail, so it helped re-enforce important concepts.
I'm very pleased with my score on the exam and I highly recommend this book to anyone who is preparing or planning to prepare for the PMP exam |
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John PMP (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I have all the three best selling PMP exam books, and I've found that this is the BEST. I agree with almost all the positive comments about this book by other reviewers and I will not repeat them. However, I must say this is the only PMP exam book (that I know of) that explains those exam objectives in the beginning of each chapter which are covered in the chapter. In the following, I share my experience with this book in the areas which have not been talked about much in other reviews:
A. It covers topics to more depth than other books. For example, it even tells you why an input to a process is there rather than simply listing it.
B. The presentation is more cohesive than other books. It's like telling a story.
C. It's easier to understand and is self-contained.
D. It's not only the best PMP book, it's also a very good project management book in general.
E. The book covers the topics very adequately within the scope of the PMP exam and have enough questions with detailed answers. The quality of the questions in the practice exam is very compatible with the actual exam.
F. This book is more professionally produced and published than other best sellers that I have.
G. It has a more useful index than other books.
H. It has a more professional binding and has not collapsed, unlike the other two books that I had.
If you want to buy only one book to pass the PMP exam and also to learn the basics of project management, this is your book.
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Steve Gill (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
First, there was PMBOK Guide. It introduced me to Project Management, but dropped a lots of heavy concepts on me and left me confused. It's a necessary but brutal read (no offense to anyone). Then I read a couple of PMP exam books. Well, they covered the material in the same order as the PMBOK (by knowledge areas). Has anybody ever run a project in the order of knowledge areas? No. Even more, has any body seen the PMP exam objectives organized according to the knowledge areas? The answer is again no. That's another thing that bothered me: most of the PMP exam books rarely talk about the PMP exam objectives. May be because bad things happen to the exam objectives when the book is organized by knowledge areas: the coverage for each exam objective is broken into million little pieces.
So, I was saying in my mind: please tell me about project management in terms of process groups (initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing) because this is the order in which the projects are run and this is the order in which the PMP exam objectives are organized. And, yes, please tell me in each chapter which exam objectives are we covering. And then, I ran into this book by Dr. Sanghera that actually offers both of these things that I was looking for: presents the material in order of process groups, and not only lists but explains the PMP exam objectives in the beginning of each chapter that are covered in the chapter. This helped me to stay on the track and not get lost while going through the book.
The concepts and terms are clearly defined right where they appear for the first time, and the definitions of the key terms used in the chapter are listed at the end of each chapter. The book has removed all the confusions and doubts that I previously had about many concepts. This is pretty much a self contained book. I especially like the Exam's Eye View section at the end of each chapter that highlights the important points in the chapter from the exam's perspective.
The presentation style and organization of topics make this book very cohesive: a perfect logical flow. The book is concise, stays on the track, and yet all topics are covered to an adequate depth. Very easy to read and follow. It's almost like the author is telling you the story of project management. The visuals/figures, bullet points, notes, and tips help the material stick.
I recommend this book to all the project managers regardless of whether or not you are going to take the PMP exam.
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Dan Domino (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I have struggled with several books. Could not have passed the PMP exam without this book. Simple, easy, comprehensive, and yet to the point. I must say I learned a lot from this book while preparing for the exam. I found the quality of the exam questions in the book very close to the real exam. I can always ask for more; but we project managers care about the thing called scope...I like it that this book is very true to its scope: the PMP exam, and in my opinion the overall coverage is very good. After reading seevral books, and their reviews (including reviews on this page, here is how I look at the three top PMP books from the following points:
1. Exam coverage. The PMBOK Guide is organized around knowledge areas and the PMP exam domains are organized according to the process groups. This book presents the material along the exam domains (process groups). This is why it's able to list and explain the exam objectives in the beginning of each chapter. The other two books (Rita's and Andy's) can't do that because they are organized along the know- ledge areas and therefore the exam objectives are broken into million pieces over all the chapters. Tell me about experimentation. This is the only book that covers the exam in a systematic way, if there is any experimentation, that lies with the other two.
2. Completeness. In my opinion no book is COMPLETE! Rita's book does not even claim to be complete. It refers to PMBOK Guide quite often for explanations etc. Andy's book is not complete because it does not cover much depth. Simple, yes, but not much depth, not much explanation of concepts either. This book (PMP in Depth) is very sincere in sticking to the exam objectives, and overall exam coverage in this book is very good, and very comprehensive. I passed the exam largely preparing from this book, so can't complain.
That said, regardless which book you use to prepare for the exam, there will always be some questions in the exam for which the book did not prepare you; that's the nature of the exam.
3. Explanation. This book explains concepts and terms very well. For example, when it comes to input/output of processes, other books mostly re-hash the list from PMBOK Guide. This book (Sanghera's) goes a step further to explain why an input to a process is there, that way it helps stick, otherwise too many processes and too many inputs and outputs and everything gets mixed up. But this book helps the input/output for a process stick in your head by explaining why it's there. Other topic coverage I loved is earned value technique and decision tree analysis well explained and illustrated with simple examples.
Overall, I recommend this book highly. Regardless, which book you use, you have to go through PMBOK Guide and the PMBOK Guide makes much more sense to me after going through this book... Now, this baby has a permanent place in my book shelf: Only second to the PMBOK Guide. |
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Kate Nguyen (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I have about 7 years of project management experience and finally planning to prepare for the PMP certification. I have found this book an excellent PMP guide. Most of the PMP guides organize the material by the knowledge areas such as Risk Management and Quality Management. This confuses me because the exam objectives are organized in order of the project lifecycle: initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Organizing the material around the knowledge areas (as done by most other exam guides)breaks the coverage of each exam objective into several pieces scattered all over the book. But this book presents the material in order of the project life cycle, that is, the process groups: initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. This fits well with the way exam objectives are organized, and also with the way the projects are actually run in real life. I also like the fact that the exam objectives covered in each chapter are explained in the beginning of the chapter. And that the definitions of the new terms introduced in each chapter are listed at the end of the chapter.
The answers to the review questions in each chapter and the answers to a complete practice exam are explained in detail: why an answer is correct or incorrect. That brings home the important points that you might have missed during the read or forgot after the read.
I like the overall style of the book. It's a self-contained book. All the concepts are defined where they appear for the first time. Also the topics and concepts are woven together to build the big picture. There is a perfect flow in the presentation.This makes this book suitable to learn the basics of project management even if you are not planning to take the exam.
I recommend this book to all the current or would-be project managers. |
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Meera Jyoti (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
Although I have read quite a few PMP books, I was able to pass the PMP exam (the latest version) by just preparing from this book. Of course, like everyone else, I had studied PMBOK Guide too. But this book cleared many concepts that I was previously confused about. I was able to read this book without the help of any other reference because it is a self contained book and is very simple to understand. I have read a criticism that this book does not cover some topics in enough depth, for example, quality management. I found that every topic in the PMP exam is adequately covered in this book. However, unlike other PMP books, the coverage is organized along the process groups which are consistent with the way exam objectives are organized. I consider this a PLUS for this book. However, if you are not careful you may wrongfully conclude that a knowledge area is not adequately covered. For example, take quality management. All the three processes of quality management are fully covered in this book but not in one chapter. The quality planning process is covered in the chapter on planning, the quality assurance process is covered in the chapter on executing the project, and the quality control process is covered in the chapter on monitoring and controlling. So, make no mistake, all topics covered by the exam are adequately covered in this book, and even in more depth than in any other PMP book. Furthermore, this is the only PMP book that explains the exam objectives at the beginning of each chapter, so you know what exam objective you are working on. Some other books seem to blindly cover the knowledge areas without caring about the exam objectives.
I cannot recommend this book enough.
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Ethelyn Holmes (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I just received my PMP certification and this little book is highly res- ponsible for it. It gives a very succinct and precise road map for studying all the topics in a very systematic way. Of all the study aids, including the "Rita" book, PMP In Depth was the most helpful. Of all the books, this book made most sense of following the flow of inputs, tools and outputs by giving real life demonstrations and examples. Some of the questions in the book's final exam appeared in very similar form on the real exam. I very strongly recommend making PMP In Depth an essential part of the PMP study regimen. |
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Kaan Sherman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-09 00:00>
I have about 10 years of project management experience in different fields including IT and Biotech. I've been preparing for the PMP exam lately. First, I went through PMBOK Guide. It was rather dry and sometimes unclear, but overall it was fine, until I got hold of the PMP exam objectives, which are organized according to the process groups while the PMBOK is organized around knowledge areas...So I started getting confused. I looked at some PMP Exam guides and most of them are also organized according to knowledge areas...For example, one of them refers to 8 chapters for one exam objective (task). So, I saw each exam objective scattered into pieces over almost all the chapters: utterly confusing.
Finally, I bumped into this book, and I'm glad I did. The material presented in this book is organized in order of the exam objectives, that is, the process groups, which is also the order in which the projects are run. To me, this order makes a lot more sense. Not only that, in the beginning of each chapter, this book explains each exam objective/task covered in the chapter with a two column table: "Exam Objetive" and "What It Really Means". To me it's very re-assuring. The detailed answers to the full size practice exam questions explain why a correct answer is correct and an incorrect answer is incorrect. It reinforces the important points.
I think this is also a good project management book in general for anyone who wants to learn the basics of project management. All concepts are lucidly explained and woven together nicely into a big picture. There is a perfect logical flow from chapter to chapter and from section to section within a chapter. The visuals (figures), tables, and examples make the difficult topics easier to understand. I think the author is a good story teller, but yet he stays on the track, and to the point. He grabs the reader's attention with the opening line of the book: What do the Taj Mahal, the Internet, and this book have in common? With this beginning, he tells you the story of project management in an interesting and cohesive way, without boring you. I like the style. It does not hurt to note that the price is right as well, as compared to some other PMP Exam guides which are outrageously or un-reasonably high priced.
So, if you are planning to take the PMP exam, or if you just want to learn the basics of project management, this is your book. |
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