AT A GLANCE
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No. of Attempt |
1 | Study Duration |
4 months |
PMP® Course |
PM PrepCast™ | Prep Book |
Rita’s |
Mock Exams Attempted |
Exam simulator PM Exam Simulator |
PMBOK® Guide Read |
2 times |
Sharing |
“What I did is I Print Screen the page I wanted to have as a reference and saved it in a file, and then in my excel sheet I would write the reference word e.x ‘’Influence diagrams’’ and I would linked it to the image in my file (it is really easy). As I result I created a whole list with the core concepts and every time I wanted to revise I just clicked on the word and the exact page of PMBOK® Guide guide with the specific concept was appearing in my screen!!” | ||
Kostas Limas wrote below his PMP® success lessons learned:
- I could have passed the PMP® exam with less effort but it is always safer to study more (but not to over-study).
- Study materials: Rita’s book, PM PrepCast™ and PM Exam Simulator
- Focused on Rita’s PMP® book first. Read it twice.
- Watched PM PrepCast™ to fill the knowledge gap by just reading Rita’s PMP® book and understand the concepts better.
- Read the PMBOK® Guide Guide from cover to cover as it is very important and useful to familiarize myself with the PMI® vocabulary.
- Read Rita’s PMP® book for the third time with PMBOK® Guide reading for the second time. You will learn new things with each reading and you can close your knowledge gap.
- Tried practice exams and got results from average 68%-74% in my first try, I reached about 75% to 85% in the second.
- Rita’s book a “strict” view of how PMI® sees things (known as PMI®-isms) which helps you answer PMP® questions in PMI®’s way.
- Created my own ITTO dictionary using excel. List ITTO’s by knowledge areas and processes. Print screen the related illustrations or explanation and put it there so that I could search for explanations of ITTO’s easily. It was a good reference for revision.
- In general the actual PMP® exam was similar to the ones of PrepCast and Rita’s practice exams. I used the same exam strategy for the real exam.
- Read the exam questions very carefully.
- It was difficult for me to adapt to the real exam in the beginning as I felt that the first 5 questions were more difficult out of nervousness.
- If you score about 73% to 80% in PrepCast and Rita practice exams, then you are ready for the real PMP® exam.
~ PMP® Lessons Learned by Kostas Limas
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