No Facts Here!

Don’t try to learn facts from practice questions!

The PMP® exam is difficult. Practice questions are a key aspect of learning how to navigate the ambiguity you will see in PMI® exam questions. As you work through the practice questions from our eLearning course, the Crosswinds Guide, or additional resources of your choosing, keep in mind the intention behind practice questions.

Practice Question Goal: To learn how to navigate the ambiguity you will see in the situational questions on the exam – not to learn facts.

Approach each question as an exercise in picking the absolute best answer from the 4 options available to you. Be mindful that memorizing answers to the practice questions will not necessarily benefit you on the exam, because you run the risk of learning facts which are not correct.

Project Road Training’s Top 3 Tips to Practice Questions

Each question is an exercise in picking out the very best answer choice. If you think you detect a new fact from an answer explanation, go back to The PMBOK® Guide and validate it there. If it is not there, research it online.  But don’t take a practice test question as an authoritative source for anything.  It is just an exercise to help you prepare to navigate the test.

You want to get your facts from authoritative sources.  Practice questions will help you to train yourself to synthesize those facts into understanding so that you can pass the PMP exam.  

Take every practice question with a grain of salt.  Study and understand the answer explanations.  If the explanation does not make sense to you, study it some more and maybe discuss it with your study group partners, but don’t assume that it is right, and you are wrong.