At last I made it to get through the PMP exam on my first attempt. And it such a gift to the hardwork.

 

Thanks for such a live wonderful community who threw lots of ideas and suggestions and I was greatly inspired and motivated from their lessons learnt.

 

My journey started around January 2009 where I bought Headfirst, but could not able to understand the PMBOK concepts in a broader way. Then found Rita's guide which was really good and make me understand all the concepts in a nicer way. Read once and scored above 80% on all chapter exams of Rita's book. Read PMBOK also simultaneously and completed once. Then, there was a huge break where I have to concentrate on my official project work and did not find sufficient time for PMP preparation. Two months back came to know the news of  PMP exam pattern change which put me in driver seat to go for it.

 

My rigirous preparation started from mid June. Completed Rita and PMBOK once again. Then started attending chapter wise exams from examcentral.net. Just one month back, I found PMzilla which gives me the direction on lots of improvements in my study areas. Again Read PMBOK, understood each and every word compared to my projects which I am doing/not doing. 

 

Attended following mock exams before two weeks of my exam,

PMStudy 1 - 79%

Examcentral - 80%

Oliver Lehman 75 questions - 68%

Oliver Lehman 175 questions - 60%

PMStudy 2 - 69%

 

The real exam was good in quality compared to all the mock exams and it was easy too compared to these exams.

 

This notes was really excellent and the way it helped other PMP aspirants, it helped me too. I recommend people to read this notes atleast twice to understand the concepts. I read this notes before 2 days of my exam to crack my mind to understand the whole PMBOK in a nicer elegant way.

 

I would like to thank my wife for giving me such a tremendous support and encouragement. I hope I should be able to spend more time with my wife and daughter hence forth.

 

Best of luck for all who are going to write PMP exam in future.

 

Warm Regards,

Javeed