At Passionate Project Management, we want to do everything we can to ensure that you are successful on your PMP, CAPM, PMI-RMP (Risk Management), or PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) exam and ensure you understand the examination process.

1) Passionate Project Management does not recommend that you schedule your exam for the day after your boot camp completes. All of our courses include a final mock exam (taken after the end of class) that indicate your readiness and gaps. This information is critical to your success on the exam.

We find that many people underestimate the complexity of the information that will be provided during the boot camp. We strongly suggest that you allow yourself at least a few days to recover from the class and digest the feedback that has been provided to you.

Having said that, we, of course, suggest that you wait no longer than one month after your class to take your exam, so as not to lose the knowledge base.

Things have been hectic around here at Passionate Project Management - word is spreading about our fabulous classes and it's definitely keeping us busy - but we LOVE that!! So I'm a little late in getting this post up.

Our mission at Passionate Project Management is very simple: Provide the BEST exam prep experience for our students. In line with that mission, we had some concerns regarding offering a LIVE ONLINE version of our PMP/CAPM exam prep boot camp as a big part of our courses is the personal interaction with our students. We often say that we have taken a transactional business and made it relational. We love our students! And sometimes that's more challenging to develop online versus in-person.

As published in the PMI R.E.P Update Newsletters, here are the most recent statistics for each of the PMI credentials.

*The November edition of the PMI R.E.P. Update Newsletter had the same exact numbers for 10/31/12 as they did for 9/30/12 in the October Newsletter. Ooops! So i did not make a statistics post for November and that is why there are not 10/31 statistics in this table*

Pictured from left to right: Laura, Maria, Brooke (with Gizmo), Diann, Belinda (instructor), Nancy, Jenny

We had a fabulous PMP/CAPM class in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona this week.

This particular class was very special for me. We love the fact that we are a small company and develop personal relationships with our students. This class was certainly no exception to that - but it was definitely unique!

Jenny's Story

We had a PPM alumni participating in the class. Jenny had taken our Risk Management (RMP) class last fall and had returned to PPM to prepare for her PMP. What makes Jenny's story unique is that she had been referred to us by Bethany (another PPM alumni, who incidentally, will be PPM's Passionate Project Manager of the Month for March 2012). Jenny had intended to take a PMP class when she registered for the RMP class. She accidentally arrived to a risk management class. The RMP tests not only in-depth knowledge of risk management, it also tests the candidates fundamental knowledge of the PMBOK Guide and the PMP concepts, which for someone without a PMP, can be challenging to learn in the short time-span of class.