Studying for the PMP exam and feeling very overwhelmed. Any tips? Test in about a month

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Focus on the process / knowledge areas chart.. if you can recreate that bad boy you are golden

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Not saying don’t study, but it’s not as hard as I expected. If you did the boot camp classes you should be good.

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Read the agile handbook

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Spend your time on practice tests, not studying.

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PMP is hard? I know so many dumb people with that credential, can''t believe it could be that hard, lmao.

It depends on your capacity for memorising bull****...

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