Passed PMP on my first Try

Submitted by harishgulati on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:53

I must say I have surprised myself . A big thank you to my family and specially my wife for accomodating time with kids so I can prepare for my exam. I WAS DYING TO SEE MY RESULTS and MOREOVER WANT TO SHARE MY LESSONS LEARNED ON PMZILLA like others do. I gave my exam on 5th October and  got my results yesterday. I scored MP in all areas.


A BIG THANK YOU TO PMIZILLA AS WELL. -


LL - Lessons Learned :


Study Material reference :


Andy's Crowe's Book:  Excellent and to the point - no extras


Rita's Book - Good


Rita's Fast Track question bank/tests : Excellent


PMP Prepcast - very good for the first time review and to gain conceptual knowledge. I heard all audio/vidoe on my blackberry.


PMPperfect.com - Question Bank/test prepration.


Last but not least - PMZILLA.com and RAJESH NAIR'S NOTES FOR REPEAT and QUICK REFERNCE.


FREE TEST from OLIVER and PMSTUDY .


I felt confident when I started scoring between 70-80% on PMPERFECT.COM tests. The language of final test was more like pmperfect and pmstudy, but Rita's fast track questions will make you think and answer smarter ( specially explanation of answers).


I didn't memorize any ITTO's but did a lot of repetition on looking at them and understanding them as inputs and outputs. Pmzillas memorizeation technique is also ok.


Fina day, reviewed Rajes's notes and prayed to god. I am little slow in reading as I was almost taking 60 minutes for each 50 questions. Only took one small break for 2 minutes with my heads down and that's it. I took full 4 hours to complete the exam. Rest is history now 


Now I need start worrying about PDUs


Wish you guys all the best for your exam or earning your PDUs !


Regards,


Harish Gulati,PMP®  


 


 

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deepakadlakha

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 01:34

Congrats and Enjoy the moment !!!!!!!

IMHO, Dont worry about PDU's. 60 in 3 years is not that diffcult i think.

 

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Sat, 10/15/2011 - 03:48

Congratulations Harish and glad to know that PMZilla was of help to you.  Also good thing you have posted about pmperfect, heard from others too that its a good resource.

About 60 PDUs you dont have to worry much

  • 15 PDU you can claim for pratictioning PM profession
  • 30 PDU for self learning , of course you will have to list down all the things you have done. Try to keep a proper record of things done here
  • Remaining is 15 PDU, which is 5 per year, or you can just take a online course which would give you 15 to 30 PDUs.

Its usually good to collect 80 PDUs so that you dont have to worry for 6 years, since 20 PDUs can be carried forward.

REgards

 

jofinneg

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 14:50

We took our tests on the same day, and I got the great news as well.

The delayed results sure had me nervous.

My test experience was also similar. I took the full 4 hours and I didn't even have a chance to review all my answers (it's probably better that I didn't have a chance to change them from right to wrong).

John

harishgulati

Sun, 10/16/2011 - 04:10

Thanks, John. I remember that we had the exam the same day. Congratulations to you as well !

suzannejamess

Wed, 10/26/2011 - 05:29

Congrats. I also passed my PMI-002 using certifiedeasy.com study guides and test engines and thae made me able to get good score in exams