Hi,

I am very happy to share the good news that I have just passed the PMP exam today, which is my first attempt.  I would like to express my sincere thanks to PMZilla website and forum friends for their valuable experience inputs.

My Test results are All Proficient in 5 groups. 

I used below resources to get the knowledge>

1) PMBOK 4 Edition

2) Rita's latest edition book

3)  Andy Crowe's book

I have taken several mock exams ( free and paid) for the practise.

1) Insite Velociteach  exams - 7 days access  (came with book)

2) HeadFirst Free 200 mock exam

3) Obviously Oliver Lehman's sample exams

4) ExamCentral

5) TechFaq

6) Other iPhone apps etc.

7) PMStudy Sample Exam (200 Qs)

Paid Exams:-

1) PMZilla 200 questions with bonus ( V Good and tough)

2)  PMStudy Study Exams ( VV Good)

I started to prepare for this exam last 4 months. I was not so serious when I started due to family and my office work. Hardly got any time to spend the hours for preparation.

 But actual and real serious preparation took during last 8 weeks only.  Initiall I went through Andy Crowe book and got basic understanding on knowledge areas.  Then started with PMBOK which was very hard for me to grasp in my first pass. So I started again taking second pass of the same This time, it was so good and felt comfortable and easy. I thought to take the exam after that, but after looking many posts/experiences thought to read Rita's book and so went through this book all chapters almost.

And in between of these readings, I started taking mock exams to get to know my understanding level. Not at the end of all preparation and it helped to gauge my gaps and improvements. I felt comfortable with my scorings, where I was getting approx 80% or more in most of the exams recently taken.

So I decided to give attempt for the real exam and have given today afternoon.  I almost ran out of time to complete this exam as some questions are really length. Finally I answered all questions in 3 hrs 55 mins sparing just 5 minutes for review for marked questions. I reviewed 5 to 6 questions and time ran out. I took survey at the end and end it to see my result. 

Felt so much relieved and happy after seeing Congratulations message on the screen.

I would like to give this credit to my wife and kid as they gave me immense support in all my preparation. I rarely spent time with them during weekend etc.  My Special Thanks to them .

And finally great thanks to PMZilla forums, which helped me in understanding the wholepmp exam scenario and to better face this exam.

All the best to everyone, who is going to take the exam. Thanks