Passed my PMP with ease

I gone through the book twice over 2 weeks in preparation for my test. Even though I went for a course and study the PMBOK from cover to cover, I'm not sure whether I'm fully prepared or not. Generally speaking, the PMBOK only roughly covers 70% of exam. The others need to be complimented either through one experiences or other materials. Although this book cannot cover all of the remaining 30%, it surely come close with broad PM and General Management coverage.
The book is really complementing the PMBOK by using different approach to the PM process. It also highlights the key points in the PMBOK.
What is best about the book is the sample questions. They really resemble the real one, with lots of scenario types questions. If one is not that familiar of what to expect in the exam, will almost certain have barely enough time to go through all 200. For me, I still have 45 minutes to go through again the marked questions.
I passed the exam with 160/200.

Project management made simple.

I have been assigned to several project over the past 14 years, mostly in the support role so I never know what it took to get a project up and running. Recently I was assigned to head a project to re-design the voice and data infrastructure of our office, with book and several hours of reading I now know how work goes into project planning and management.

While this book is use for PMP exam, it would server very nicely for the IT Project+ exam from CompTia as well. In this 500 plus page book you have an assessment test right off the bat, after taking this test I found that there were several areas in which I was unfamiliar with.

From the beginning with initiating a project by setting goals and requirements to setting up the project, creating a scope, planning and control over the project all the way to building the team and working through changes in the project, the book is more than a study guide, it is a Project managers reference manual.

About the only flaw in the book were the review questions for chapters 1 and 2. While the question are numbered correctly from 1 to 20 the answers start at 80 and go to 100 and this may cause confusion on the readers part.

Included in the book is a cdrom with 200 practice questions, flash cards and 2 exams plus the e-book version the study guide. Once the grammar errors and question errors are fixed this book becomes the number 1 guide for PMP.

I passed the PMP Exam using this book

I scored an 170/200 on the PMP exam using this book (and the PMI's Guide to PMBOK) as my information foundation. I read PMI's Guide to PMBOK twice and this book twice. I took all the sample exams from this book twice and followed up my studying by ordering and taking all three PMP sample exams from Boson Software, which I took twice. All in all, I spent two months studying for the exam. The exam itself was extremely challenging. Don't be fooled into thinking you can study for a week or two and pass the exam. This book is a really good starting point but don't rely on it too heavily. You will need to leverage your experience and other sources of information. I found this book useful and so will you.