Passed PMP on Oct 7

Submitted by lak1415 on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 09:13

Hi all,

I'm a quite member of this forum and this is the time that I should post something.

 

First of all, thanks for this excellent forum, esp with Lesson Learnt forum, from which I learnt a lot.

 

I passed the PMP exam yesterday with 2 proficiency in Planning and Executing, MP on the rest. below is some of my experience and LL:

 

35 PDUs: using Simplilearn as it is the cheapest one. Found it quite simple and cover not all the knowledge.

Study: I chose to go with Rita and PMBOK chapter by chapter, back-to-back: 1 Rita followed with 1 PMBOK and Rita FASTRACK. After that, pratise all KA in Rita FASTRACK. Finally, PMBOK and Rita, back-to-back one more time. Total time for reading is around 2 months.

Practice: all free available mocks labs on internet, Rita FASTRACK.

   + Headfirst: 89% on first try, easy but good, made me confident :)

   + PMStudy: 77% for the free exam, quite close to the exam difficult level, very good one.

   + Simplearn: 72% with the test included on the course. 75% for the free one.

   + Edwel: 71%, hard but recommend.

   + Oliver H 75: 65% :(... difficult

   + PMzilla 25 free Q: 56% :(... harder than the real exam.

   +Fastrack : PMP: 77%, super PMP: 71% (I found that the real test is not wordy as super PMP, but should try)

    + all other free questions... IMO, if you scored over 70% for all the new questions, you should be OK with the real test.

Exam:  as I'm quite familiar with a looonggg exam (8 hours long for CCIE) so for me, 4 hours is not a big problem. Tried to cram as much as I can from the note created with all 42 process ITTO on the night before the test. Slept 8 full hours :D. The real test is not so difficult, if you well study and prepare, you should be OK with the test. Most of the questions are scenario and 4 to 5 lines, some are very straight forward with direct quote from PMBOK for the ITTO. I did use first 15 mins of survey for cram the 42 processes and it helped me with at least 5 questions. Formulary questions are very simple. Compeled all 200 questions on 3 hours with reviewed to marked questions (40 questions). I tried to review all the questions but  after 40 mins, found that I did change only 1 question for the 1st 100 so decided to submit. Bump.... CONGRAT :).

 

Believe me, the exam is not difficult.

 

Thanks,

Khoa

 

 

 

Forums: 
PMP Exam Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learnt.
  • Log in to post comments
  • 1857 reads

faisal khan

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:43

congrats lak on clearing the PMP exam,

 

 

javerose

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 15:47

Hi, how many questions aprox for ITTO? Some have written in the LL that are few, others than many, I have a friend who presented  in May and told me he received more than 50 questions in ITTO, I don't know if is true or not.

amol_mak

Wed, 10/13/2010 - 17:42

 I don't think I had that many questions but one think which I would stress on is understanding the concepts. I did not memorize ITTO but still I could attempt all ITTO questions. You need to have clear understanding as the questions are not direct but indirect and sometimes distracting.