The PM PrepCast Product Details

Get Ready for High Efficiency Studying!

The PM PrepCast™ is a PMP® Exam Prep Video Workshop that you download and watch on your computer or laptop. Rather watch it on your portable media player? No problem. Simply synchronize it to your player, (iPod, Blackberry, Zune, etc.) and you’re ready to go. Have the freedom of studying for the exam wherever and whenever you want! So forget about the high priced alternatives. This is a complete PMP® exam study approach that increases your chance of passing the PMP® Exam. It will shorten your study time because it keeps you focused. Plus, you don't have to read dozens of other books to prepare. Watch the 38 hours of video from The PM PrepCast and you'll be ready to tackle the exam. Its that easy!

How The PM PrepCast™ works

The PM PrepCast™ is a podcast / videocast with 120 lessons. After you make your purchase, you receive a personal link for downloading the videos. Simply watch them on your computer, laptop or your portable media player. Well presented and easy to follow, you’ll love how simple it is to study!

Download and watch the videos easily using iTunes (free software from Apple). Please note that its best to use iTunes, even if you don't use an iPod because iTunes is a robust application, extremely simple to use and it makes accessing The PM PrepCast™ a matter of just 2-3 clicks. So install iTunes, purchase The PM PrepCast, click "Download All" and 45 minutes later (depending on your internet access speed) you’ll have the complete workshop downloaded. All ready to boost your studies, improve your performance and be ready to take the exam! (Without spending hundreds of dollars).

35 Contact Hours Certificate

After completing The PM PrepCast™ and passing the Final Exam you will be able to print a 35 Contact Hours Certificate and use it to apply for your PMP® exam. This certificate has been used by thousands of our students and PMI® accepted it without exception because we are a PMI® Registered Education Provider.

How to receive the certificate: Two weeks after you begin studying with your PrepCast you can take our "Final Exam". Take this exam whenever you want and as many times as you need until you pass. Once completed, you can then print your certificate.

Interested in seeing how much you’re saving? Simply search the internet and you will quickly see that in order to receive 35 contact hours elsewhere you would have to buy a product that costs several hundred dollars! Not the same here.

Price

The PM PrepCast costs just $129.99

Surprised? You’re not alone. Many people are skeptical about our product at first because we offer it at an almost unbelievably low price. But once you start reading the customer testimonials you'll see that it's a high-quality product, one that everyone loves! We happen to think it’s the best one out there! 

Benefits

Here is what you will gain from using The PM PrepCast in your PMP Exam preparation:

• Increase your chance of passing the PMP® Exam. You will receive real-world examples to help you truly understand the PMP® exam concepts. Simple memorization wont get you there. Plus, our course makes you a better project manager, too.
• Reduce your study time because you can maximize your day by listening anywhere your player goes. For instance you can listen when you drive to work, over lunch, when you are outside riding your bike, as you are sitting on the bus or when you are waiting in line at the post office. It’s the anytime study miracle!
• You hear everyday English and not the very difficult to understand language from the PMBOK® Guide.
• You hear 10 episodes on Applied PMP® Concepts, based on student and expert feedback. These interviews with experts translate the concepts into everyday project management situations that you can relate to.
• You hear from a number of recent PMP® exam takers: Learn their best practices on how to apply, study and pass the exam the first time.
• It's simple to get through – You’ll find that the 42 processes and 9 knowledge areas from the PMBOK® Guide are not as difficult as they may seem.
• You will understand Earned Value Techniques and be able to answer questions about them confidently.
• You learn the concept, tools & techniques that are not covered in the PMBOK® Guide but required for the exam without having to read dozens of other books. 
• You maximize your efforts with our valuable PMP® Exam Study Tips.
• Its mobile! Carry me with you as your "Personal PMP® Trainer" whenever you want to study, wherever you go.
• Your studies will be more enjoyable and go smoother & faster, but most of all... they will be easier! Its guaranteed!

Number of Students

On February 06, 2012 we had 17,704 students. (We update this number once per week.)

Registered Education Provider

OSP International LLC, the creator of The PM PrepCast, has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI). As a PMI Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.), we have agreed to abide by PMI established quality assurance criteria.

Bonus Items

When you purchase The PM PrepCast you will receive the following bonus Items as a free gift with your purchase:

Bonus Item #1: Certificate for 35 Contact Hours

No other PMP® Video seminar can give you the PMI required 35 contact hours. We can.

Bonus Item #2: 60 tough PMP® sample questions

These are not your straightforward PMP® sample questions that you can find on any other website. These are tough. And because they are tough, you will find an explanation for each of the answers given. You’ll understand why the answer chosen is the correct one.

Bonus Item #3: 10 Steps to Becoming a PMP - Email Course

In this 10-part email course we take you step-by-step through the 10 most important activities on your road to becoming a PMP. With each daily email you not only receive an in-depth discussion of today's step, you also get a "Take Action" section. Here you will receive clear assignments and to-dos. You also receive the necessary links to online resources. This email course is invaluable for you as a PMP Aspirant. Follow it and nothing will be forgotten as you work your way to becoming a PMP.

Bonus Item #4: The PMP® / CAPM® Exam Study Checklist

This checklist is a great resource to find additional exam study materials. But more than that, you will also find Exam Study Preparation Tips, a series of Exam Study Activities, and lessons on how to Boost Your Studies. You'll also find some great Exam Taking Activities but most of all you will learn what Your Most Important Study Activity is and how to determine if you are ready. Follow our guidelines and expedite your studies.

Bonus Item #5: Access to our Exam Discussion Forums

Wouldn't it be great if you had a question about the exam that you could go and ask a trusted source? That is what our exam forums are for. Only customers / students have access to these forums. Ask a question and your fellow students or our staff will help you.

Bonus Item #6: Instant Subscription to the PMP Exam Tips Newsletter

Subscription to this newsletter is a great way to complete all the aspects of the PMP exam preparation. You will receive weekly tips about specific PMP exam techniques, guidelines and resources, exam do's and dont's, proper scheduling and time management, and various efficient approaches you can apply. A valuable tool indeed that will enable you to breathe and take one step at a time towards a relaxed you with a focused mind come exam day.

Lessons

The Premium Project Management PrepCast™ covers concepts, tools and techniques you need to be familiar with to take the PMP® Certification exam. We cover the material from the 2008 PMBOK® Guide (4th Edition), and we include the necessary models, theories and formulas not covered in the Guide. Our episodes are interesting and engaging. We won’t bore you! We help you understand these concepts instead of memorizing them.

The PrepCast gives you 112 video and audio lessons. Each lesson averages 26 minutes length and focuses on one concept or process. In total our lessons are over 52 hours long. You'll get 42 hours of video lessons and 9.5 hours of audio lessons. You can watch them as often as you like to enhance your understanding. Each Episode has a number that allows for easy sorting in your portable player. The episodes in which we discuss the Knowledge Areas are numbered following the Guide's chapter numbers. For instance all episodes on Project Scope Management begin with the number 05. Here they are:

The total file size of all episodes is approximately 2.5 Gigabytes.  A high-speed internet connection is strongly recommended. Many companies have corporate firewalls in place and you many not be able to download the lesson videos on your work computer.

Note: Neither a transcript nor the presentation slides are part of the PrepCast package. They are also not available for purchase.

Technical Requirements

To access The PM PrepCast you will need:

• To download
  • iTunes or another podcatcher software
  • Internet access (high-speed recommended)
• To study
  • Either a computer or laptop with loudspeakers or headphones or
  • A portable media player (iPod, Blackberry, Zune, etc.)

Supported Devices

The PM PrepCast is primarily a video podcast. It consists of 17 audio and almost 100 video episodes. You can play the videos on your computer/laptop screen or on your video-capable portable media player.

Customers have successfully played the video lessons on the following devices:

• Creative Zen X-Fi
• iPod Classic
• iPhone
• iPhone 2G
• iPhone 3GS (Low-Resolution PrepCast only)
• iPhone
  
• iPod Touch 8GB
• iPad
• iPad 2
  
• Nokia E51
• Palm Treo 700W (Windows Mobile 5) 
• Zune HD
• HTC HD2 Phone (Download Yomomedia podcast reader - free)
• Samsung Galaxy Tab
• Samsung Galaxy S2
  

Customers were unable to play the video lessons on the following devices:

• BlackBerry Curve 8900
• iPhone 3GS (Crashes when using High-Resolution PrepCast. Low-Res is OK.)
• iPod 5th Gen. 60GB
• iPod Nano 2nd Generation (No video display. No workaround available)
• iPod Shuffle 1st Generation (No video display. No workaround available)
• Nokia N95
• Samsung Blackjack II using windows mobile (video played but had audio problems)

We are working on providing workarounds for the devices on which it did not play (if at all possible). To test your device please subscribe to The Free PM PrepCast (This link requires iTunes) - you will be able to download a small number of our episodes and test them on your player.

Account Security, Account Monitoring & Google Reader

To ensure that your purchase of The PM PrepCast is secure, we monitor account activity. Our system de-activates accounts where excessive downloads are occurring because this might be a sign that your purchase has been compromised and others are downloading your purchase without your knowledge.

There is in particular one action that you as a customer must take to protect your purchase: Please do not use Google Reader to access your purchase. Google Reader has recently made a system change: Any item that you add to Google Reader is also indexed by the Google search engine, which basically means: If you watch your copy of The PM PrepCast in Google Reader then anyone on the internet can find your personal subscription in Google and watch it for free. If this happens then our system will detect it, your account will be temporarily suspended and we will send you an email with more information about the situation. Instead of using Google Reader please access The PM PrepCast via our Customer Gateway where you can watch the lessons in your browser.

Product Comparison

Take a look for yourself and see how much money you would waste, if you select another product:

(These numbers were collected on April 09, 2009. We tried our best to find comparable online training cou.rses that offer 35 contact hours for online or down-loadable PMP® Exam preparation courses. The last 2 in the list are different but listed for comparison. We are showing the regular prices without discount offers. But even if we showed you the discount offers, we would still be the least expensive and complete 35 hour workshop.)

The Free PM PrepCast

Try our free version first, if you don't know which one to order:

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90 Day Money Back Guarantee

We offer a 90 day money back guarantee:

• If The PM PrepCast doesn't come up to your expectations...
• If The PM PrepCast isn't working for you...
• If you are not 100% satisfied...

Just write to our support within 90 days of your purchase and ask for a refund.

Discount Coupon Policy

We regularly offer discount coupons for our products. These coupons are published in our newsletters and via various social media channels. Here is our policy in regards to accepting discount coupons:

• Discount coupons are only valid for new purchases and the coupon code must be entered into the Gift Certificate box at the time of purchase in order to obtain the discount.
• Each discount coupon has a clearly published start date and expiration date:
  - The discount cannot be applied to purchases that happened before the coupon start date.
  - The discount cannot be applied to purchases that happened on/after the coupon expiration date.
  
• Customers who purchase a product for which a discount coupon is active on the day of the purchased have 3 days to write to support and ask to receive the discount. The discount cannot be granted if the customer writes to us later than 3 days after the purchase.
  

High-Resolution and Low-Resolution

The PrepCast comes both in a high-resolution or a low-resolution version, Select the one best suited for your type of portable media player:

Updated for the 2011 PMP Exam

In August 2011 PMI introduced changes to the PMP Exam. The PM PrepCast has been updated to give you all the training you need for this updated exam. 

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