AT A GLANCE
No. of Attempt |
1 | Study Duration |
6 weeks |
PMP® Course |
PM PrepCast™ | Prep Book |
Andy Crowe |
Mock Exams Attempted |
PM Exam Simulator | PMBOK® Guide Read |
– |
Sharing |
“Develop a plan, and continually monitor and control it. Stay disciplined in keeping it, but flexible making changes as necessary.” |
I took the PMP® earlier last month and passed with 4 Proficient and 1 Moderately Proficient.
PMP® Exam Process
Over the course of 6 weeks (am in between jobs so focused on PMP® full time):
- Create study plan (used suggestions and lesson learned from others) to create rough schedule
- Used Andy Crowe’s “How to Pass PMP® on Your first try” – taking notes
- Watched (majority of) PM PrepCast™ Lessons – to reinforce what I read
- Used PM Exam Simulator until I felt comfortable (consistently scoring 78% – 85%). Also used other (free & credible) simulations you can find online.
- Scheduled exam for that week.
Lessons Learned
- Develop a plan, and continually monitor and control it. Stay disciplined in keeping it, but flexible making changes as necessary (i.e. add/remove study days, take more/less test, focus on specific topics)
- Take plenty of practice test prior to gauge progress
- identify weak spots
- familiarize self with test, questions, appropriate answers, and important subject matter
- select test date based on results
- Interact with material – think how various processes and ITTO’s relate to each other and can be used in actual projects (DO NOT memorize ITTO’s)
- Have a good test taking strategy:
- First 50 minutes – aim to get to 75 questions. Skip long, calculations, or difficult questions. Mark ones unsure about. Take a 5 minute break – near the restroom I did some jumping jacks to get the blood flowing.
- Second 50 minutes – do same as above. Take 5 – 10 minute break. use restroom, eat a snack, stretch/calisthenics
- Third 50 minutes – do same as above. If you’re on track you get to last question in this interval. Start going through skipped questions. Take a 10 minute break – stretching/calisthenics a MUST since your brain is fried at this point.
- Final 50 minutes go through skipped questions – aim to stay under 2 min for each. If you can’t skip it second time. Also go look at marked questions
- Last 5 minutes – guess on questions that are still unmarked. Ensure you answered everything.
~ PMP® Lessons Learned by Timothy Cheng
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