Hi all, I passed the exam on my first attempt on wednesday, I'm very proud for this result as I prepared by myself with no help from my company, I studied for 4 months from 10 P.M and during the weekend, (a finish to start relationship, as soon as children were sleeping I started studying...). I studied on PMBOK and using additional material provided by the on-line course I subscribed to get the 40 hours of mandatory training (very useful) than on Rita's book (fantastic) I answered more than 3000 test questions from various sources (O'really, Lehmann - very hard, Rita's fast track - very useful) with a rating from 72% to 78%. I tested a full 200 question exam twice in an uninterrupted session and I finished in 2 hours and half. During the last week I made the big mistake to visit various forum where I found terrible comments about how much hard the exam was become during the time. I read people talking about the 70-75% of correct answers needed to pass the exam (instead of 61%), and that in order to pass you needed to burn the test questions with a rating of 85-90%. I was very impressed about this an my morale was going down. Don't trust about these sources. The exam if you study enough and make test enough it's just as you expect: a hard exam but wih no surprises, the 90% of questions are situational, a few need for calculations but is something that you can do even without the use of calculator, there are no long questions (max 4 or 5 rows) and there are at least two answers that you can exclude. My advice is to bring something to drink and eat, (you must leave it outside of the test room) and take a break after 50 or 60 answers, I'm not a genious but I saved 30 minutes to review marked questions and I was pretty quiet. So study and test and don't be afraid. Have a good chance

Stefano - Italy