First time posting here..

Passed exam today in my first attempt with 4 P and 1 MP.  The exam was pretty easy and I was very confident getting Proficient for all 5 but for the Closing area got an MP , which I believe was because I was getting overconfident as the exam went on and did not mark some of the Closing questions for later review :-(

Some notes from the exam:

- 8-10 questions on EVM. If you have a good handle on this, it'll be a breeze.

- 5-6 questions gave scenarios and asked what type of Risk strategy it was indicating

- Not many questions on ITTOs but there were some indirect ones

- 4-5 questions on CPM and related areas

- 30-40 straight forward one to two line questions. If you have gone through and understood PMBoK once, you should get these easily.

Preparation:

-  6 weeks of solid preparation. Planned this as a project itself ;-)

- Read thru Head First PMP to get a feel of the exam and topics

- Then registered for a online course to get the 35-hours educ. While going through course, read through PMBoK in parallel. Bought the Rita book but did not use it much

- Created mnemonics to memorize certain things (about 2 pages worth of cheat sheet)

- Took about 10 practice exams , 2 exams every week after the first week of preparation

Addl tips that I can think of now:

- Become resilient in finishing the exams at home without breaks or 1-2 breaks (I took three breaks in the actual exam)

- Build up speed and try to finish practice exams without relaxing. I finished the last 5 exams in 3 hrs or less. I took about 2 hrs and 45 mins to finish the actual PMP exam today. Spent another 30 mins to review about 30 qns that I had marked

- Relax, relax, relax. I would have done better if I had relaxed a bit instead of being hyper today. ;-)

Reply or email me in case anyone has any questions. Feel free to tap me as a resource; will try to help any way I can.