TIME TO REJOICE WITH MAGICAL PMP: Passed in first attempt on 12.08.2011

Dear All

I would like to share my joyous moment, of attaching magical PMP with my name. The journey was zigzag and required lots of personal sacrifice with family and society life.

During this journey, PM ZILLA forum remained a spontaneous source of inspiration and information. I thought it is my utmost duty to convey thanks to this “www.Pmzilla.com” and  its lovely forum.

HOW I MADE IT!!!

1.      I started by attending a PMP instructor lead training (35 hrs.) on FEB 2011 and being an MBA, was over confident to complete by March 2011. Latter I realized both are different ball games.

2.      However, my PMI examination application was audited and it took more than, a month to complete auditing process. This broke my rhythm of early completion. Now, I realized it takes at least 3-4 months of regular study, as mind has limitations and slowly grab the concepts.

3.      Memory is very volatile and during this 5 month, I remained thrice out of country for 10 days each. After return, it was difficult even to write page 43 (please do daily practice and write in scratch paper prior exam).

4.      During this journey, I rescheduled examination at least 5 times. Thanks this provision without any fee. Please study hard by keeping a short target and latter reschedule, if not confident. This will create seriousness in study.

5.      Each time I visited my home country, I bring some PMP books, I have now huge collection and  just read once each book seriously, answering all the questions in the PMP book.

a.       PMBOK

b.      Rita

c.       Head First PMP

d.      Kim Heldman

e.       Joseph Phillips

f.       Andry Crowe

g.      Subramanian Chandramouli ( a handy nice book to read in odd places)

Thanks to all authors and publishers for helping all PMP aspirants.

6.      Due to reason in item 5, I could not do much practice through net. However, on last date, I tested myself on Andy Crowe’s final 200 questions (from book) and scored 90%. This added confidence and I almost studied 16 hours in the last day of examination revisiting almost all Process (Mr. Rajesh Nair’s famous notes, which I overlooked before) and ITTO’s. I found 75% PMP questions are not very tough and similar to Joseph Phillips or Andy Crowe book. The major ITTO’s asked in PMP exams are simple ones. Mr. Rajesh Nair Notes one should not miss.

7.      I think, I must end here, wishing GOOD LUCK to all PMP aspirants.

8.      And finally success story of clearing PMP……A great feeling…