Project Management AcademyReviews of projectmanagementacademy.net

On the positive side, the live, instructor‑led portion of the class was well done. The instructor kept the sessions informative and moved at a good pace. My complaint is with the online study material provided after the classroom portion. As I worked through the timed practice exams and quizzes, the vast majority of the explanations referenced PMBOK 6, with only a very small percentage referencing PMBOK 7. The course is advertised as preparation for a PMBOK 7 based exam. When I emailed PMA about this discrepancy, the response I received was not helpful. Even during the live class, the instructor advised us not to focus on PMBOK 6 because it could be confusing. Over the past couple of months, I completed five timed practice exams and countless quizzes. This past weekend, I sat for my PMP exam and felt as though I was taking a completely different test than the one I had been prepared for. My takeaway is that the actual exam aligned with PMBOK 7, as expected, but the study materials prepared me for PMBOK 6. Now that more than 120 days have passed, PMA appears to be distancing itself from responsibility, and the “pass on the first try” guarantee no longer applies. I am extremely dissatisfied with the quality of their exam preparation and their response to my concerns. In my opinion, PMA chose not to invest in updating their online content to PMBOK 7, and as a result, I felt completely unprepared for the exam despite months of studying.

I recommend ensuring people joining this training has a previous preparation and familiarity with the PMP documentation. As there is a lot of mention and there is different levels of understanding. It may not be as fruitful for all people. Overall, training was okay, but some real-life use cases and avoiding putting people in the spot would be very valuable! I understand the presenter may not have real life experience but getting some would be very valuable.

Good: Material was covered in full Could improve: Always refer to acronyms as long as they have been introduced. Do not assume all PMP participants will become Agile or work with software. Better clarity on nomenclature for each framework: waterfall, agile. Be more interactive. It was full lecture with the exception of a few videos in the end. The facilitator was pleasant but not engaging. Extraversion could help establish higher level energy for such heavy content.

The instructor was great! The only reason my review is not higher is because of issues with the PMA website. I never got my "key" - someone at PMA had to let me in and they never actually provided me with it. The website is really not easy to navigate or find your way around, it needs a better UX Design. The "new" part of the LMS did not let me get back to my mock test results, I had to have another student tell me to go to the "classic" website and find it there. My first practice test contained numerous typos and grammatical errors, but worse than that, several of the questions were repeated during the test. If PMA can improve the navigation and functionality of the website, as well as hire some proofreaders or editors to check the materials more carefully, this woudl be a 5 star review.

4+ stars for course content. 1 star for course follow up. For $2K I expect more help with next steps. We spent an hour at the end of the 4th session with the instructor running quickly through the next steps - I took the 4 hour mock exam to establish a baseline but have not figured out how to access the PMI website to fill out the 2nd evaluation and to start studying effectively.

The course material was very robust and covered all the material required for the exam, however the instructor was not professional, ignored questions, and jumped all over the place so the course was not easy to follow. I learned more from a book purchased online than from the 8 days in this course.

Boot camp instructor was great but the vast majority of the material covered was NOT on the actual PMP exam. The practice exams helped to some degree but were a joke in comparison to the real thing. My entire exam was situational, and not one question regarding methods, terms, diagrams, analysis, math/equations, ITTOs, nomenclature, graphs, theories and the list goes on. Not really sure PMA helped at all if it wasn't for the efforts to study on my own accord. I passed but I really wish I had been prepared for the format!

I found it helpful from the standpoint of strategy, and I did not find it helpful for getting through the application process, which has twice denied my audit for having too much experience.