Hello everyone.

 I am very happy to share that I cleared PMP yesterday in my first attempt with 2P’s and 3MP’s

 Initiating                                   Moderately Proficient
Planning                                   Proficient
Executing                                 Moderately Proficient
Monitoring & controlling        Moderately Proficient
Closing                                    Proficient

 I started by obtaining 35 PDU' from PMI Pune chapter in July 2012 with a target to appear for exam in November, which never happened. I again started studying in October and booked 22 Jan for the exam, which again was rescheduled to 19 Feb, due to promtetric center issues.

 I had cool time off in my current company for a month, so used that time in full time study for PMP.

 Exam

 I reached center 45 minutes earlier and was allowed to take exam immediately, wrote Page 43 and all the formulas on the sheet in 10 minutes.

 In PMZILLA forum many guys had said that first few questions are very tough, so

I was very nervous to start with, but as soon as reached 50 questions, I got more confident as I was sure of at least 45 answers of the first 50 questions.

 I completed the exam in 3.10 minutes and have marked 20 questions or so for review, which I did in next 25 minutes (changing answer of some of them) ,and then rest of time reviewed other questions

 Got some 30 numerical questions on cost and critical path, some tricky, couple of them on Initiation and a number of questions (around 60) on Quality, Risk and Procurement.

 Material used

 PBMOK (4 times)

RITA (2 times)

Rajesh Nair Notes (skimmed through 2 days before the exam)

PMP_Formulae_CheatSheet_Anil_Tanguturi for formulas.

 Exam is not tough if one has read PMBOK well.

 Attempted following Mock Test

Special thanks to PMZILLA forum which helped me a lot during preparation (the LL and questions and answers) and a BIG THANKS to ADMIN for running such a wonderful forum.

 Regards

 Prakhar