PMP iPhone Apps Review Part 3

This is part 3 for my review of iPhone apps I have used personally that helped me pass the PMP exam on my first try.

  Title: PMP Resource

  Developer: Ilmasoft

  Website: http://www.pmpresource.net

  iTunes Description:

This Application is developed and approved for publishing under the derivative license from Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®).

The application has a unique style for teaching and testing Project management fundamentals to students seeking PMP® certification.

This is the best thing to have in your mobile portable device for utilizing dead times like traveling and during breaks.

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Everything related to PMP certification is covered.

This app is a valuable learning tool for all, based on the PMI® project management guidelines and concepts, a valuable resource for project managers.

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PMP resource is designed and maintained by Certified Project Managers and is priced to be owned by the greater society. We welcome feedback/suggestions from users and assure continuous improvement through free updates.

 

Some notable features of this app are:

✓ Project Management Dictionary containing more than 2400 terms.

✓ Project Management Practice Exams with more than 300 questions. A total of eleven practice exams are embedded in the app

✓ Project Management Formulae

A separate header given for formulae that are used in project management

✓ Project Management Calculator. Each formula when selected has the option to display details about it.

✓ Project Management Flash Card game (Process Group)

*****App Store Customer Ratings

All Versions:   8 Ratings @ 5 Stars

My Personal Review

By far this is the app that has the most comprehensive coverage of the PMBOK guide from a study and training perspective with excellent amount of depth without becoming as overwhelming as the PMBOK guide can feel. If you are looking for a tool that is a one stop shop then this is the app for you. This app is very appealing visually because it uses a variety of colors, an intuitive interface and the touch screen buttons are very responsive. The first screen shot you receive will give you two options. The first of which is subtle. There are two on screen buttons, the more obvious one being the go button and the subtle “i” button as seen below (left photo). Clicking on the Go button reveals the main directory menu (right photo).

 

The dictionary is awesome. After you select the dictionary button you will be brought to a menu that gives you two options of navigation. The first is to search for a word or use the buttons to go to the words that begin with the corresponding buttons letter. If you need a definition of a project management term/word you will more than likely find it here (photo above on the right).

The next option is the Formulae button. Here you can find information and an explanation of PMP exam formulas you may come across. I liked that this was a separate option and not directly tied to the calculator function because sometimes I just want the information and not have to see the equation.

 

The next section is the calculator. Now at first I assumed the calculator function would actually be an exam type review of the equations. Call it disbelief, but I was pleasantly corrected when I clicked on the calculator button to find it is actually a fully functional PMP formula based calculator. You are taken to another sub menu that scrolls across at the bottom to select the formula you need (below, left photo). You got an equation simply fill in the blanks and voila! You get to see the answers immediately without losing the information you input. I thought this was very well thought out and wasn’t an interface like the default Windows XP calculator. There is also to show the formula information if you click on “show detail”, which takes you to the formula’s detail section (below, right photo).

   

This app has so much depth it’s almost hard to believe when compared to most of the other applications focusing on PMP exam preparation, but there is more. Check out the screenshots of the other sections, such as the review of knowledge areas (screen shots below).

 

Clicking on the process group button reveals the 5 process groups. I clicked on the planning process group which brought me to the next screen shot below on the right. I really think this app is beneficial and can’t say enough great things about it. Also, you look on the upper right of the bottom left screenshot below you will notice you can select the Practice Exam button that takes you a practice exam covering the process groups.

 

If you choose the process game button you will be brought to the screenshot you see below. There are 103 cards that you have to match to an option below it. You don’t have to answer the question it gives you and can opt to go the next card. It shows your progress in the upper right as well.

The last option to choose is Exam Info. This section does just that. If you click on the Exam Info button you will be brought to a screen with information regarding the exam. So you will be able to view the exam requirements, additional info about the exam, and the application process.

 

Lastly, but not least there is one last section that I briefly covered in the beginning, but didn’t review in depth, I will do so here. That section is the “i” at the main menu. It is a screen that explains all of the features of the app as shown above under the application description area at the beginning of this apps review.

Again, the PMP Resource Rise Up app has so much to offer, it’s hard to not to see its value as being a part of your iPhone apps. This is an app that should be in every project managers’ iPhone (for those that have one) if they are pursuing the Project Management Professional credential. I hope this in depth review of iPhone apps that support your mastery of the PMBOK guide in preparation for the PMP Exam.