I cleared the PMP exam today in my first attempt. It was 3 months of tense efforts for me. I passed with proficient in execution and moderately proficient in others. I was daily watching this forum so wanted to share my journey for other PMP aspirants.

About the Exam:

Most of the questions are situational and out of the four choices you can easily remove two odd ones. Questions are not that wordy like Rita’s fast track. Questions are very much similar to pmstudy and pmpforsure. I used full 4 hours of the exam. Marked several questions and visited them back after completion the 200 questions. I was very nervous and that slowed my thinking and answering speed a lot. There were less than 10 math related questions. Lot’s of question around Risk and Quality.

At the age of 34, I first time experienced continuous heart beat something like you see in movie. Believe me, my heart beating was that audible when I was waiting for the result. I am sure, no one would ever experience heart beating that close in any other situation of life.

Tips:

If you understand PMBOK and all the terminology you can answer most of the questions. If you expose yourself to several practice questions you will get more comfortable with situational questions.

Preparation materials

1.  PMBOK 3 times

2.  Rita Book 6th edition 2 times

3.  Andy Cower 1 time

4.  Headfirst 1 time (I started with head first)

Practice Tests

      1) Oliver Lehmann 175 Test 74%

      2) HeadFirst 85%

      3) Rita FT 6 Exam1 (75%)

      4) Rita FT 6 Exam2 (80%)

      5) Rita FT 6  Test for all knowledge Areas (76%)

      6) Pmpforsure all test average (70%)

      7) Pmstudy free (78%)

      8) Simililearn free (84%)

 I wish all the pmp aspirants good luck.

Regards,

Rohit, PMP