PMI-ACP Passed with 1 P and 1 MP - Ideal time under 15 hours

Submitted by rksam on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 06:56

 G'day all. 

I cleared my PMI-ACP exam today. Ideal time with prep work was under 15 hours. 

Exam was easy and I doubt they can make it any more easier or difficult because subject is such. As they say, softer skills are often harder to come by. If you ar enaturally good at this, I believe you will ace in preparation

No need to really spend weeks / months in preparing as you really have to adapt AGILE approach in your study, goal setting, and applying some of the principles where you have an opportunity. Rather than big bang

My goal was to clear it and not worry too much on scoring proficiency at both tools and techniques / knowledge and skills. Although I got 1 P and K&S. LOL 

I cleared PMP in July and thought anyway I have to colleect 60 PDU's and if I did PMI-ACP, I can distribute the 60 PDU's between these two as they fall under same calendar year and this was the main objective

We've been doing agile at work for sometime and this helped me a great deal in quickly going through the material. I had bought Mike Griffiths and Andy as some gents suggested here 

I find Mike Griffiths books very lame and unrealistic examples and scenarios and Andy Crowe's book is barely sufficient if you are thorough in concepts but not enough to pass the exam by just referring to Andy's book. This is useful book as it has 200 questions which I made use of it just 2 hours before the exam :p

Don't panic on any calculations and I only had about 5 calculations on velocity related questions. 

Your main focus should be on XP and SCRUM agile methodologies and Lean. Crystal. FDD, DSDM, can be referred once. 

Kanban, Kaizen questions appeared more frequently along with XP and Scrum. 

Understand the roles, responsibilities, and fundamentals of Agile principles. Please re-read Agile Manifesto, principles and ensure you are very thorough with the underlying concepts and overall agile principles. 

Any questions? Shoot me your queries and am happy to assist. Before anybody ask, sorry I don't have a soft copy of the books as I purchased it through Amazon. I would have loved posting it but I live in Sydney and the amount I spend on posting? Lol, you may as well buy brand new. 

Love you, leave you

Go agile 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sun, 10/13/2013 - 12:08

 Congratulations on your PMI ACP and thanks for posting your experience here. Very few people post for ACP so very valuable to readers

 

 

rksam

Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:15

 Thank you admin, happy to share what I have. Aterall, I found some very valuable information on this platform and it's my duty to share whatever I can. More than happy to assist anyone who has questions and or need my little help. Great job and great team here on PMZilla. 

AD

Mon, 10/14/2013 - 19:07

Congratulations !

What did you do to get 21 contact hours ? Did you buy any course material or training ?

Thanks in advance.

 

rksam

Tue, 10/15/2013 - 05:13

Hi there,


I had attended 3 full days workshop on Agile Principles, methodologies provided by Software Education based in Brisbance. After clearing my PMP, as a matter of curiosity, I bumped into PMI-ACP examination and pre-requisities which I though I had ticked all boxes. Since I have already delivered two complex projects using Agile SCRUM, I thought of giving it a go. My family decided to take overseas trip and what more excuse I have than aiming to clear when I am have spare time? Submitted my application and went through the process - was all done within 10 business days and before I knew, I had scheduled the exam. Did buy two books suggested here 1. Mike Griffiths and Andy crowe. I quickly glanced them and continued to enjoy my free time with recreational activities. I procrastinated till the last day (literally). Pulled my socks up and sat for a serious study on 11th Friday afternoon from 2:00 PM and no sleep till next day evening. roughly about 14 hours and I was done with the prep. Although I would have preferred to remember all of the contents, jargons, terminologies, I was confident I had covered enough to clear the exam and so I did. Confidence is king and I request everyone to have this in plenty and move ahead with focused (quality prepartion). Good plan, approach and knowing your own strengths and weaknesses is very critical as you have very less room to move things around. All the best and you can do it. Subject is not hard, book is light, and if you are aware of agile fundamentals, you are there. Well, my only tip is, try finding something better than Mike Griffiths if possible and it one exist. I personally did not like Mike Griffiths approach of writting and some of the examples, assumptions are very light, unrealistic and ridiculous to some point which turned me off completly.


 

vikula01

Sat, 10/19/2013 - 03:52

 I wanted to add ACP and RMP to my PMP becasue of additional qualification and PDUs . Right now I am prepping for ACP , with Mikes book . I have read 4 chapters and not able to move on - I have put the book aside for three weeks and started studying now . My exam is in nov month end . As far as agile approach is concerned its very good , but I still dont understand why the founders have to make the jargon so difficult and eccentric . Any ways - Congratulation on your success.  I agree with you on one should know ones strengths and weaknesses.