I completed PMP....:)

Hello All,

I passed the PMP exam on July 17th 2006. The exam was a bit tough. Never mind. All of you can make it to the exam and come out in flying colors. Instead of giving my experience of how the exam went, let me give some details on what you all can look for while preparing for the exam. Materials Used: 1. PMBOK - Pls read this book three times definitely. Each time you read you will get more details and understand it better. I did the same thing.

First time when you read nothing goes into the grey matter. Only from second time on, we really delve into the details and start accepting things. 2. Rita's PMP Exam Prep - Really useful book that explicates PMBOK in an easily understandable way. Take the questions at the end of every chapter very seriously. For the questions that you get wrong, please do root cause analysis to find out what made you choose the wrong answer.

Next time you wont make that mistake. I did the same thing. Also, after reading PMBOK two times and Exam Prep two times, my sincere advise would be to read one chapter in PMBOK and the same chapter in Exam Prep (dont forget to write the practice questions again). You will understand it really well.

3. Rita's Risk Management - Now comes risk management. I would say that to really know how risk management is to be conducted in projects, this book is very useful. So you can read this book once to practically remember what comes after what process. Its worth the read. But dont get engrossed in this. Just get the overall view of what has been said.

4. Mock Questions I practiced close to 1000 questions. It is just to gain confidence to face the exam. Nothing more nothing less. No question will anyway appear in the real exam. Try to score more than 70% in those exams that you practice. Daily study for atleast 2 hours and weekends spend from 6 to 8 hours of time. Be in touch with the subject and you will be ready in 2 months. One main thing. Go infront of the mirror daily atleast once and tell yourself that you will comeout in flying colors.. It works very well.. I did it for quite some days.. think positively.. be prepared for the worst.. Not sure how many of you believe in god.. but put in efforts and you will enjoy the fruits at the end.. You got to be optimistic..

Tell yourself every now and then that you will pass the exam.. On the exam day... Take deep breaths whenever possible. Eat to the correct level. Don't over eat cos you may doze off.. Remember its a 4 hour exam.. Go to the exam room expecting worst thing but tell yourself that you will manage the show and this is precisely what had happened to me yesterday. Try to take breaks after every 50 questions. Finish the first pass of questions at a stretch and mark the questions that you are unsure..

For the next round of review, finish the marked questions first. Take a break... come back and am sure you will have time.. Just browse thru all the 200 questions and feel for yourself on your confidence level. For example, what I did was used cheetah learning institute's techinque of calculating the correctness of answer - mapping them to 85% 50% and 25%.. sum them and you will know what will be your score range .. alteast you will get to know that you cleared the exam even before submitting.

Good luck and best wishes to all of you. I welcome any question or clarification regarding the PMP exam. I would love to answer them.