How many sample questions should a PMP aspirant attempt before the real exam?

Hello George,

there is a thumb rule that you should score 75%+ in every NEW mock exam you take, than there would be a good chance that you are ready to go for it. There is and will be no guarantee at all.

The number of sample questions depends on the already gained skill and knowledge. Sample questions and mock exams should be utilized to figure out where the weak areas are and than focus on them.
So, you have to take sample questions as long as you have a good feeling for all knowledge areas.
Some will need less than 1000 otheres may be need more than 3000 ...
But more important than the number of the sample questions/mock exams is the quality imho.
If you only use free available stuff and maybe even from not so serious resources this could be even counterpproductive ...

My recommondation would be to rely on few really serious resources for free stuff and much better, invest some bucks in one or two professional online simulators where you also be able to really SIMULATE the exam situation.

For free stuff please refer to this guide which contains the best and most popular resources for free available questions:

? PMP Exam Questions - The Complete Guide ?
? http://goo.gl/hGC7bD

Also every PMP aspirant should take at least two (better more) full loaded and full timed mock exams.

A really good (and the omly multilingual) simulator with more than 3.000 high quality sample questions could be find at pmaspire.

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If someone is interested in one of those packages just let me know, i could offer you some discount on them.

Regards,

Markus

How many did you take Stephane, under 1000? I think I over practiced, I took under 2000, I was really worried to pass. :)

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Hi George! I'd also recommend not to overdo it with the questions. In general, the mock exams (available online for free, for example) are a great way to learn and prepare but if you do too many then this may actually confuse you as well. I think I did 2 2-hour mock exams and another 3 hours of online exam questions, spread over the last three days before the exam. It gave me a good overview and understanding of types of questions and helped getting to know the system.

I hope this helps - good luck with the preparation!

When you reach 80% on a trial PMP exam you are good to go.

with all due respect, but this could be a dangerous statement (espacially for very new pmp aspirants) and is also wrong from my perspective ...

a singular result could never be represantive ...