Hi PMZILLA friends,

I got my PMP certification with 5 MPs.

I was eagerly and pateintly waiting for this day and to announce my proud moment and share my happiness with you all. Phew!!! Finally, I got  my moment. today. Yes, it was my first attempt as well.

First of all I would like thank PMZILLA forum and their admisnitartion team to providing me a wonderfull web blog to share our experiences, interactions & professionally making it viable to build such a strong and eminent platform for us to share, discuss and interact.

Last but not the least, I would like to thank all my friends on pmzilla forum  to name few PMPCrush, Sanskrit, Geethika, San, for their relentless contribution and inputs

On preparation:

I just referred and was dependent exclusively on Rita Mulchay book, and referred Andy Crowe and Headfirst Labs book just once. Preparation time of 2 months.

Mock tests, Andy Crowe, HeadFirst labs, PM Zilla 30 questions, PMStudy once and Oliver Lehmann once for 75 quetsions. On an average scrored around 70 to 80 % in these mock tests. Not so extensive on mock tests.

Experience from exam:

I was pulled in till last minute to complete all 200 quetsions. Last minute (200th minute) I was on my last question. I didn't have even a second to reveiw my marked questions. This is because I cannot pick situational questions as quickly as others do, slow reader. That is my drawback and I knew this would happen in exam.

Unlike others, what I was learning from their exepricences that, first 100 questions would be lenghty and situational questions but for it was mix for me, that created lot of difficulty for me to adjust my time frame since I was expecting same and planned in that way. Actually, I had targeted for 60 to 70 minutes for first 50 questions and same for next 50 questions envisaging the situation of first 100 quetsions of lengthy ones. Surprising for me there were hardly any questions on NOT,  EXECPT & BEST, but I had quite e few with FIRST & NEXT.

I had at least 40 tricky questions incluidng 2 tricky questions on CP calcualations and EV calculations each. Kept my cool for whole session of 4 hours and finally achieved it.

Lessons Learned:

Rita Mulcahy book will defintely help with her elaboration on the key concepts, Tricks of the Trade and finally chapter closure or topic closure summariation in tabulation will help from exam perspective and also chapter end Practice questions.

One of the other lessons I learnt personally is that I would definitely recommend PMP aspirants and my friends to logon to pmzilla.com and reap the fruits from this elite forum.

Thanks agaain to each one of you and GOOD LUCK for people taking their exams in near future and for preparation.

Without support of family I would have achieved this fate.

..Regards

CN Patil