MY Dear Fellows, Over the past few weeks I visited this forum off and on and at times surprised to see some people preparing PMP like CCIE Lab exam. Well the purpose of sharing my experience with you is to encourage most of you who have not appeared in exam yet.

I passed my PMP Exam yesterday with 5 MPs ( for me P or MPs doesn't matter as long as you pass the exam). Preparation Method: I read Rita Once thoroughly with all exercises and end chapter Questions. The exams questions were very close to Rita questions. PMBOK I read once but not throughly. I only used it while doing the mock exams and questions I got wrong during mock exams.

What Worked for me: Once I finish reading Rita and PMBOK i started doing short tests of 30-50 questions available on internet for free. Based on the outcomes, I revised my weak Chapters ( Human Resource & procurement) and went back to PMBOK for reference. Didnt memorize and ITTOs at all. YES !! its true not even formulas. Just used simple logic that if EV is greatar than AC and PV then you are good, else in trouble :)

Last week before Exam: thats the time I started my real preparation as things were really busy at work. I did 1 exam at PM study and 2 exams at Exam Central..thats it and revised the areas where my questions went wrong. One day before exam: Spend time with my family, played candy crush and watched Quantum of Solace :) Its a professional exam my friends and not a Univ/College exam where you just keep holding your notes until you stepped in exam room. Trust your skills and use this today to refuel yourself with positive energy.

Exam Day: Left home early and I am really pleased with this decision and London Undergorund is not trustworthy and it happened the moment I entered in train ,the signal failure occured and service got terminated. Had nice 15-20 min walk to test center and finally started exam half an hour early. (They allow this). Early questions in the test seems under control and that lifted my confidence for rest of the test. Finished in 3:40 hours and use rest of my time revising 10-15 marked questions and got few of them corrected as I market wrong answers initially. So revision is highly recommended for marked questions.

Nature of Questions: Can you believe that I had around 10-12 questions in the exam on just one simple concept; how to handle change...wording were different but they all ended with same answer i.e Access the IMPACT of the change first before you do any thing else. around 10 or even less question on ITTO which were not that difficult if you use logic rather your memory. I am really pleased that I didnt memorize any thing for this exam, infact never did it even in my student life and it worked :) Many many questions on difference of Quality Control and Quality Assurance Many Questions on Risk Response i.e whther to Accept, Mitigate, or transfer Risks 5-6 Qs only on communication channels where all you need to do is to apply N(N-1)/2. Dont forget to include Project manager in N. all SPI and CPI questions were pretty st forward and east to calculate. Around 10 Q I must say.

Overall, if you go through Rita and PMBOK once and get back to few tests to identify your weak areas, you will pass it easily. Good Luck and let me know if I can be of any help. Irfan Ahmad