Remember that studying for the PMP exam is time consuming and demanding. The suggestions on how to make the process easier and more enjoyable are the following:

• Keep your study materials handy wherever you go. Read your material any time you're waiting or have a few minutes to kill.
• Take practice exams and look at what you got right, what you got wrong, and what you've learned since your previous attempt.
• Use the simulation exam from the Computer Based Training (CBT) course on the accompanying CD. The simulation exam will help prepare you for the real exam, because the exam format is also computer-based.

You can keep the scores as a motivator to do better. Try making your study session a quiz to challenge yourself.

Do your homework
Concentrate your efforts at the highest levels, because you need to know many ordered lists and definitions for the exam. The high-level ordered lists are the following:
• The five process groups
• The nine knowledge areas
• The 39 component processes

When you begin to memorize the ordered lists for the nine knowledge areas and the 39 component processes, the first step is to become familiar with the definitions. Don't concentrate your energy on memorizing the definitions just yet. Concentrate your effort on memorizing the lists, in order. A little but later, you can dive into the definitions.

You need to know the following key terms:
• Constraints
• Assumptions
• Every management (subsidiary project) plan and its supporting detail
• The feedback loop for (subsidiary or knowledge area) project plan updates. (They may be called something else depending on their knowledge areas – for instance, schedule updates rather than time updates.)