I’m Nils Liliedahl an expert in weak matrix project management and now a PMP with new tools to harness the project of functional organizations. With the aid of project charter instead of feasibility study I can now work with a more balanced matrix.
1. Learn questions and how to answer them. Know your Rita and PMBOOK. Fill in your gaps and use Fast track. Find your teaching that will improve your skills and personal development. But avoid too many different teachers, as everyone that has become PMP has her own methods.
2. As the test has 200 questions you need a way to handle the stress. I used to take 400 questions as the std. ratio in the learning. With a rating over 90% in Rita I knew I would pass the test no matter what.
3. Leveling down the stress level in taking the exam is of main importance. Come early, review the book and recall the book. Shut the phone and don’t read your mail. Do whatever it takes you to make the same environment as your own home study or work.
4. Depending on how much time it takes to take breaks, use them. When I had ten minutes left at the exam I took a short two minutes break to be able to solve the last question.
5. Mental training is important, picture yourself as a PMP taking the certificate and celebrating the success of PMP. Whenever this goal starts to fade in the exam, take a break and refocus adding caffeine to your system,
A quote keeps coming back, “When you leave this room think of this, it is more than ever attitude above anything else that will make you or break you.”
In your training you will harness over a thousand pages, two thousand new words and a mindset of a professional Senior Project Manager. One single lost thought gives you the wrong track in choosing in-between four choices. And fifty of these in the test are not even a part of the test.
I wish you all the best in the preparation of your PMP
Best regards Nils Liliedahl