2 Months of Studying Really Hard

Navdeep Singh passed the PMP® exam for 2 months’ really hard study. Below is his lessons learned:

PMP® Exam Prep Resources

• Rita Mulcahy’s PMP® Exam Prep book (major resources)
• PMBOK® Guide Guide
• Joseph Phillip’s CAPM®/PMP® book
• PMP® notes found on PMZilla

PMP® Practice Exams

• Head First
• Oliver Lehmann (75 questions)
• PMstudy free practice exam
• Simplilearn practice exams
• Momkibo PMP® exam ITTO trainer
• Techfaq practice exam
• Ajithn practice exam

Lessons Learned

• The average score of all practice exams was less than 60%
• I didn’t memorized ITTOs but sought to understand them
• I always did the knowledge gap analysis for wrong answers for the practice exams and this was really helpful to improve my understanding of the subject
• I tried to formulate the correct answers for questions before looking at the choices.
• Studies 2-3 hours daily for a maximum of 2 months would be enough for the PMP® exam.
• I divided the PMBOK® Guide Guide into 3 parts for studies and cycled through them:
  • Part 1: PM framework, integration, scope, time, cost management areas. (the most important part)
  • Part 2: quality, hr, communication management areas.
  • Part 3: risk, procurement and ethics/social areas.
• I also practiced brain dump for the following:
  • process groups and processes matrix
  • organization matrix types and roles and responsibilities
  • all PMP® formulas
  • percentage for 1,2,3,6 sigma
• I read all the books once during the last week
• I tried to memorize all the headings in the books while driving the car or walking or before sleep etc.

~ PMP® Lessons Learned by Navdeep Singh

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