{"id":2094,"date":"2013-08-10T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2013-08-10T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T12:59:58","slug":"pmp-project-management-professional-certification-exam-preparation-course-in-a-book-for-passing-the-pmp-project-management-professional-exam-by-william-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"pmp project management professional certification exam preparation course in a book for passing the pmp project management professional exam by william manning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New record for longest blog title I&#8217;ve ever had. I think.<\/p>\n<p>First, the pros: it&#8217;s concise, finishing at a mere 91 numbered pages, including sample questions and the index.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the cons: it&#8217;s 63 pages of bullet points with little-to-no explanation of terms, examples, etc.<\/p>\n<p>{{William Manning}} appears to have done an admirable job of summing the salient terms and processes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmi.org\/PMBOK-Guide-and-Standards.aspx\">PMBOK<\/a>\u00a0in this absurdly-long-titled bookette.<\/p>\n<p>I picked this book up recently to give an overview of the PMP exam, as I&#8217;ve been considering something of a career shift\/growth move into project\/product management from technical architecture and delivery. I now know that I know the vast majority of what is required for the exam, but not necessarily with the official terminology. That means I need to learn definitions and applications of terms.<\/p>\n<p>I also need a &#8220;real&#8221; prep guide &#8211; one of those tomes that weighs-in closer to 500 or 800 pages, and not the mini guidette Manning has provided.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a good book to get as a last-minute review of the PMP exam? I think so. Is it worth getting if you&#8217;ve never seen\/done any form of PM-related work before? Absolutely not.<\/p>\n<p>{{PMP Project Management Professional Exam Preparation Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Project Management Professional Exam}}. Now there&#8217;s a title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New record for longest blog title I&#8217;ve ever had. I think. First, the pros: it&#8217;s concise, finishing at a mere 91 numbered pages, including sample questions and the index. Second, the cons: it&#8217;s 63 pages of bullet points with little-to-no explanation of terms, examples, etc. {{William Manning}} appears to have done an admirable job of &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2094\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pmp project management professional certification exam preparation course in a book for passing the pmp project management professional exam by william manning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,24,38,41,48],"tags":[162,461,575,576],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","category-books","category-interview","category-review","category-technical","category-work","tag-career","tag-management","tag-pmbok","tag-pmp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}