Glad its all over now I really thought I would not passed the exam when I press the end exam with 1 minute to spare. but to my surprise I did it. Not a great score but hey a pass is a pass. I don't normally post comment on sites but this forum has been such an inspiration that I feel the need to give back. My journey all started in mid October when I applied to PMI, It took me the weekend to complete the application and a week later I was approved. My studying began with an online boot camp for the first week in November I must say, the experience wasn't pleasant as I did not comprehend the subject matter all it did was it gave me a high level overview of the PMP methodologies & exam technique I studied the PMBoK but was discouraged did not get understand the material and it all seem very overwhelming I did not comprehend the ITTO process flows flow chart. I read Rita 7 book once it was a breath of fresh air I also practice the test at the end of each chapter. I also got Rita 8 read stakeholder Management I was studying 3-4hours daily with about 8 hours on the weekend plus having a full load of project work at my Job. I took my first 200questions and scored 64% on my first try. This was from testmypm.com i got the subscription from my boot camp from ITCS. I felt discourage as I did not get the ITTO or the process flow this was during the Thanksgiving break thanks to this forum LL I knew I had to go though the PMBOK.I started my in depth studying last week covering the approx. 2 KA daily then for the last couple of days I doubled up on the KA I took more exam from Testmypm a.com and was averaging 93% on the full test but I did not memorize the ITTO or the process group chart. honestly I did not feel confident because of what read here some folks had read the PMBOK 3 times I barely read the darn thing once but I thought I knew the processes and KA I did take the free PMStudy exam and felt it was the closest to the actual exam.
Lessons Learned Read the Rita and PMBOK once if you don't have the means you do not need to multiple sudsy guide it would only confuse you especially if you don't have all the time to study PLEASE practice lots of exam questions and understand the answers. My experience of the Actual exam is that some part was difficult and some was easy I also made a grave mistake and did not Brian dump the formulary during the 15 minutes tutorial I just dived right into the exam please don't try this it cost me valuable time during the exam. All in all if I can pass then anyone can and must pass the exam on their first try its not rocket science just need to be familiar with the exam format. Lot of question on communication, quality leadership, Earn value Lot of situational questions. Contact me if you need more info thanks PMzilla and good luck You all can do This !!!!