PMP Exam Preparation:

Everyone will have their own style of preparation and studying, so just follow your own style. Some will study for 12 hours per day and some will study for about 2-3 hours, but utilized the time meaningful. For me best place is library, because my small two kids disturb me a lot. Thanks to my wife who takes care them full time past 2 weeks.

You are planning to just pass the exam then 2 weeks should be more than enough for preparation, no need for 2-3 months. If you want to score proficient then probably do more homework to be done and extra time might require. At any cost, just take the exam after finishing the course, which will help you a lot. Trainer might have told you a lot of tips which will help you during the exam time. Don’t Postpone.

When you study each and every Tools and Techniques, better relate with 4-5 scenarios which will help you a lot during the exam, don’t study as a definition or concept. (e.g. Exploit, Transfer, storming, norming, control charts, etc).

After you study a chapter, don’t take the exam of the same chapter, continue to read another chapter and take up the previous chapter questions, this will help you to recall your memory. Continue to read another chapter and take the previous chapter questions and review the answers. Take one chapter and read same topic in different books (which you like). Rita or PMP_Training_Kit - Sean Whitaker or some other books for mathematical questions. PMBOK doesn’t cover much pratical examples.

While reading the book second times, randomly read the chapters don’t read in sequence. Daily minimum 3 -4 times take 30-50 mocks questions. If you have bandwidth can take more also.

I planned to take at least 3 mock exams, but due to time constraint I took only 1 mock exam seriously. Do more mathematical questions one day before the exam, so that easily you can remember the formula and can figure out the problem quickly. I memorized 47 processes and wrote the table in the sheet before the exam but didn’t help much.

Just enter and take the exam with confidence. Success knocks your door.

What I observe in PMP exam:
1. More mathematical questions (Time + Cost + Communication). Thoroughly memorize all the formulae and try more while studying; this will speed up your time during exam.
2. Monitor and Control questions (Integration + Scope)
3. Not much risk questions
4. The questions and answers are simple and straight forward, this will confuse us which one to choose.
5. If the network diagram is complex (web spider), then read the question carefully because the answer will be straight forward.
6. First 50 questions may take about 1 hour 15mins, later you can speedup and can easily catch up the time.
7. Don’t mark too many questions for review.
8. If a question takes more than 5mins, don’t hang round, just mark it and move on.

All the best. Your feedbacks are welcome.