I am happy and proud to inform that I am a PMP

I would like to thank the Admin and all the participants of this wonderful community. I will highly recommend this community to all future aspirants.

Study plan and material:

Preparation: 4 months

Studying with a friend helped a lot (killed the boredom) and he pass the exam as well.

Boot camp: Edwel

Books: PMBOK, Rita, Edwel notes

Exams: Lehmann (62%),  Simplilearn (70%), Edwel (75 - 80%), PMZilla 25 tough (68%), Exam central (82%), Rita (80% avg), PM Study (4 exams - 80 %) . Taking the practice exams at the public library was my strategy to getting used to the Prometric environment.

Cheat sheet: ITTOs, formulas,HR theories.

Additional material: Rajesh Nair notes (), ITTO's acronyms. 

Web resources : PMZilla, Deep Fried Brain, PM Prepcast, Youtube (sir ganttalot, Praizion, CorneliusFichtner)

Exam experience:

Memorizing the ITTO's helped me to recreate the process flow during the exam and writing down the ITTO acronyms in 15 mins before the actual exam gave me a sense of confidence.

The exam questions seemed to be easy but were tricky.  I had to concentrate very hard at carefully reading and understanding the questions. PM Study exams were the closest to the real exam (I wish they were a little more tougher).

I finished answering all questions in 3:15 hrs, used the remaining 45 mins to review 50 questions.

Best wishes,