Introduction

The PMP exam contains 200 questions, of which 25 questions will not be
included in the pass/fail determination. These pretest items, as PMI calls them,
will be randomly placed throughout the exam to gather statistical information
on their performance to determine their use for future exams. The questions on
the exam are distributed as follows by process group following the PMI PMP
Examination Content Outline (ECO)June 2015.

13% or 26 questions relate to Initiating the Project

24% or 48 questions relate to Planning the Project
31% or 62 questions relate to Executing the Project
25% or 50 questions relate to Monitoring and Controlling the Project
7% or 14 questions relate to Closing the Project

For the practice test in this book, we provide all 200 questions as if they were
real questions, and the percentages above are applied to the 200 questions.
There are no pretest questions in our practice exam. We also have linked each
question to a specific task in one of the domains in the ECO especially since
some of the questions on the PMP exam are based on the tasks in the ECO,
and some tasks are not covered in A Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) Fifth Edition.
There also are not a certain number of the scored 175 questions that you
must answer correctly. PMI explains in its PMP Credential Handbookrevised
26 June 2015, it generates a pass/fail score based on proficiency levels in the
answers in each of the five process groups or domains. This approach means
that you will learn whether you were Proficient, Moderately Proficient or Below
Proficient in each process group.
PMI defines on page 34 of the Handbook these terms asfollows:

Proficientindicates performance is above the average level of knowledge

in this chapter. (Note: We interpret chapter to mean domain)
Moderately Proficientperformance is at the average level of knowledge in
this chapter
Below Proficientperformance is below average of knowledge in this
chapter

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