PMP Exam Experience - 31 July 2012

Submitted by anandkp on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 02:20

Today I wrote the exam and passed with proficient in all areas and moderately proficient in Closing process group.

Here are few tips for prospective applicants -

In short:

  • Focus more on PMBOK (read between lines....minimum 4 pass reqd)
  • Give following oliver lehmann mock tests
  1. oliver lehmann - http://www.oliverlehmann.com/pmp-self-test/75-free-questions.htm
  2. oliver lehmann - http://www.oliverlehmann.com/contents/free-downloads/175_PMP_Sample_Questions.pdf

 Only above tips combined with your real life PM experience would help you and nothing else

Other tips:

  • Do not waste your energy and time memorizing ITTO. Its useless to memorize. Just understand that and you should be able to answer any question. There would be Qs on ITTO though
  • Do not waste your time with books like Rita Mulcahy (unless you have plenty of time to waste)
  • Read PMBOK again and again
  • Write full length mock tests but beware of bad ones ike simplilearn, pmstudy etc..
  • Very important - Understand bigger picture instead of each process group. I mean focus on how everything works together in integrated way and do not just focus on each process group or knowledge area in isolated way
  • When you are reading PMBOK for third time, make some notes and try to read between the lines. There are lot of hidden treasure over there. Everytime you read, you feel like you missed few things in last reading
  •  I laugh when I see mnemonic for ITTO. .jesus. 

**** I'm thankful to PMZilla for its  numerous posts which are very useful and helped a lot*****

few examples are:

- http://pmzilla.com/procurement-management-contract-types#comment-2880

- http://pmzilla.com/attribute-sampling-vs-variable-sampling

Note - These are my personal opinion and you are not required to follow it.

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Wed, 08/01/2012 - 03:40

Congratulations on your PMP. I agree that if you can understand the concept, there is no need to memorize ITTO.


Regards


 

krantikumar50

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 04:06

Hi Anandkp,


 


Congrats.


 


Sir, I have a question? You said if one is well-versed with PMBOK then there is no reason to refer to Rita/PMStudy. PMBOK bridges all gaps.  Agree. Seems you failed to comprehend something in PMBOK due to which you could not get 5Ps.


Now, lets move to a different example. Dibankar Mukherjee aka Diba_perfect. He studies for 2.5 months and did refer to Rita a lot and scored 5Ps. There are many cases I have seen where people have followed Rita blindly and have come out trumps.


 


If you say PMStudy is bad or worthless. Why dont u suggest a site where all apirants can get quality test questions unless you think question solving is not essential? Yes, PMBOK is the key but one reference book will do NO harm.


 


Just because you cracked the PMP does NOT mean that what you say becomes heuristics aka rule of thumb.


 


Anyway, congrats again. Njoi...


 


Warm regards, Kranti Kumar aka KK....

anandkp

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 04:24

Krantikumar,

Do not get offended by what I wrote. These are my personal opinion and take it only if it looks useful to you else just ignore.

I know people who just read for 4 days (http://pmzilla.com/passed-pmp-july-26-4-mps-and-1-hp) and did not refer to either PMBOK or RITA and got through.

Also, I did not say I did not read RITA. I read it but it was waste of time. For past 10 days I focussed mainly on PMBOK and today I passed because of that. This is from my real experience for the set of Qs I got. I do not know Dibanker and what Qs he got.

Also, I already suggested a good mock test -

1. oliver lehmann - http://www.oliverlehmann.com/pmp-self-test/75-free-questions.htm

2. oliver lehmann - http://www.oliverlehmann.com/contents/free-downloads/175_PMP_Sample_Ques...

I hope you understand my viewpoint unless you are from pmstudy or rita mulcahy team :)

Thanks,

Anand

krantikumar50

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 04:45

Anandkp,


 


Personal opinions are excellent but it should NOT be written on a public forum especially where LOTs of people are accessing it. I feel like showing my middle finger to such people who start acting like superstars once they crack the exam, primarily to those who say I cracked in 5 days, I cracked in ten days, I cracked in 20 days.


 


Coming back to you. Not only this but keep a plethora of personal opinions but think a lot before posting it on a public forum. Ask yourself would you have cared if someone suggesting do not read Rita or do not solve PMStudy while preparing to take the test? You would not have.


 


People change overnight or in case of PMP in just 4 hours :)


 


Sir, I wish was a part of Rita's team. Though she is no longer between us and God bless her soul and what she has done for many people (except you) to pass the muster will always be spoken very highly of her.


 


I have a very close friend who cracked PMP with all 5Ps in just a month and he literally did not even touch PMBOK. All that he studied was not even Rita but Head 1st. So who is better? You or him? You decide. And I can vouch for this guy because we were roomies.


 


And as I said please enjoy the moment and you will find many eager ears to listen to your sermons. Tell them from your heart, bilkul dil se :)


 


Congrats again...


 


Kranti Kumar aka KK....

anandkp

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 05:56

Kranti,

Please behave professional and do not use abusive language. 

Try to cool down and focus on your studies. I know you must be studying very hard but try not to engage in this kind of discussion.

If you are so eager to read something other than PMBOK then I would suggest you Kim Heldman rather than Rita. 

-A

krantikumar50

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 06:31

Sorry Anandkp since you found my language unprofessional and abusive. I shall see to it that it is not iterative ala various PM plans.


 


So, finally you do suggest a book other than PMBOK and that is Kim Heldman. So all my writings has not been reckless and bore some fruit afterall :) :) :)


 


This is what is called, straight from the heart, dil se :)


 


Once again, congratulations on your success. You have done not only self but all of us proud.


 


Njoi... Kranti....

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Wed, 08/01/2012 - 08:15

"Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception--do not confuse them with "facts" or "truth". Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that EVERYBODY has a different viewpoint." - JOHN MOORE


Cheers!!