NBK is PMP

 


3 months of sacrifice,pain and 4 hours of intense focus paid off. Thanks to my guru sai.


Primary source -> Rita exam prep, Fastrack and  PMBOK, These are more than enough to pass.


Tip use the keyword search feature infatstrack ( searched for these tags (risk, quality, charter, change).


I probably got the worst batch of questions, long, situational and wordy just like in fastrack.  It took 4 hours for my first pass, I could not go back and review marked questions. I did not take any break, I guess tall coffee and muffin helped me focus. 


Never paid for any mock test, I think what ever is available free online is good to give you clear idea. My scores in mock test were not that great always around 65-70%.  I see lot of people scoring great in mock tests but It never bothered me. In actual exam math questions were not too hard about 10, IITO 25-40 and rest were all long situational. No questions about delegation.
 


Pink paper and pencil really suck. I wrote down a whole lot. rita process chart, pmbok pg43, formulas and some number maps for EEF,OPA and Proj mgmt Plan ITTO. Trust me I looked at the sheet just once to confirm what I already know. I will post IITO maps/LL later.



A week prior to the exam date I started loosing interest in reading anything related to PMP and only got worst to a point that I did not look at my notes in the last 24 hrs and no mock test in the 1 week and started thinking why would the exam fee cost $500. Who is making money? Any way I do not want to get into the negative frame now that I've earned it.
 


I need to relish the success.


Thanks for all the info you guys are sharing , It is very helpful


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Hey NBK, Congratulations Dude! Great to hear all the hard work has eventually paid off! Don't forget to post ITTO soon, very soon!

Thanks RP,  I am 100% confident you will make it first try , Good luck. Hope to see your "PASSED" post soon.


LL and some imp topics to cover listed in randomly.

 

 

MOCO process group generally interacts with all other process groups.

Read section 4.3 PMBOK

Understand what info in risk register is updated after qualitative and quantitative risk analysis is performed.

How projects are selected -> BMM and COM

WBS is a tool used to decompose (a technique) work packages into activities.

Risks are identified at work packages level, lowest level in WBS.

A control account may have multiple work packages.

Residual and secondary risks. Reserves associated with them (CR and MR)

Decision tree.

Types of dependencies

Contract changes should be handled through contract change control system.

Common cause and special cause variation.

Proj mgmt team should have working knowledge of statistical quality control especially sampling and probability.

Cost of quality Fig 8-4 PMBOK pg 195.

Cost of conformance and non conformance.

How claims are handled and sequence of options.

Risk audit and quality audit.

Salience model,

Fast track ( risk and reqork)

Crashing (risk and cost)

Floats- total,free and project level

 

Project plan in NOT a input to any Initiate or planning group,

It is input to almost all exe, moco and closing process. (check your self to  find out what to which process it is not an input)

 

 

Here is a silly of remembering things but make sure you know what each alphabet represents,

Caution - don’t end up just memorizing these words and forget what they actually are. Make sure you write them down and expand all.

 

Cost

 

SHOPER                    TAPER-PVC-B                               BAP

BAS CORP                 FRECH (not French)                      CPP (c plus plus)

W-POP                        EFT PVP                                        WPOPBC

 

Quality

 

SCORESS                  CCC BAD SPF                   QQQ PP

QQP W                       QPP                                    POP C

QQPPADO                 FISH CRAP C                    POP C QVV

                                

 

Time

 

SEO                             DRTE                                 AAM

AAMOP                      PADS                                PP

AAREO                       BEAPP                              RAP

AAAREPO                  TAPER                              AP

AAAAREP O              SSSCCRW                        PPSS

W-POP                        RAPPSSVW                     WPOPPC

 

 

Communication

 

PPEO                        SE                 SS

AAEO                      CCCC            CP

PPO                          CI                  O

SPICOS                    CIM              POPC

WWBOP                  VCR F           POC

 While taking exam assume youself as a PM manging a $30 million project in matrix org where pefect project management is done with risks identified and responses prepared and the proj is a low risk one.


Again use the search key word feature in PM fastrack and search for critical words like risk,quality charter ,contract,procurement etc.


and lastly do not spend money of mock tests, while there are several free websites I think www.simplilearn.com is good one to practice, for ITTO use http://www.brainbok.com/ ,

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Yep, I'm hoping so! Thanks for this great write up, definite consideration points in there! Time for you to reap the benefits.....Not GRIM Reaper, PM Reaper