PMI promotes the field of project management. The Project Management Institute is not the big bad wolf, Rumplestiltskin, or the Sphinx of Thebes – sent to devour the innocent for failing to answer the question correctly.
What if I don’t report my hours correctly during the application process? One terrifying question freezes people in their tracks. (25 of the 200 questions are asked for exam validation purposes and aspirants are given credit for participating). Perhaps candidates hold the fear that failure to answer this one question correctly will ban them from the ranks of certified project management professionals for life? After all, one must only correctly answer 61% of the counted 175 questions on the PMP exam. The question is answered in detail at the beginning of our week of instruction, and often during breaks and during exam review at the end of the week. Our marketing personnel send me variants of the question asked by potential students. Yet one question is asked more frequently than any other. Preparing students to take the Project Management Professional certification, I would expect questions about the five process groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing), or the thirteen knowledge areas.
