PMP Exam journey

First, I want to thanks Satyam Computer services ltd for providing me 35 contact hour’s education and thanks to Mr. Ravi from PMSoft for providing valuable inputs in 35 contact hours.

One more thing I strongly recommend for PMP aspirants to go thru http://www.pmhub.net PMP forum.It is such a valuable site/forum , here you can get lot of inputs, suggestions, views from PMP exam appeared people. While going thru this forum you feel like you are already in exam mode. I personally say that it gave me lot of inspiration, motivation for my PMP exam preparation.

For my PMP exam pass, I followed:

Study Material:
1. PMBOK guide (studied 3 times, 2 times each chapter practice questions)
2. Rita Mulcahy PMP exam prep.(studied 3 times)
3. Rajesh Rani Study material (day before the exam)

Mock Exam:
1. Head First PMP Free mock exam (http://www.headfirstlabs.com/PMP/pmp_exam)
2. Pmstudy free mock exam (http://www.pmstudy.com/).

I started preparation in mid DEC 2008 and appeared for exam on 15/01/2009. For last 2 weeks I put lot effort to complete PMBOK guide 3 times and Rita Mulcahy guide 3 times(at least daily I spent 9 hours). I gone thru each process group, each knowledge area thoroughly. I remembered PMBOK guide page 70, formulas thoroughly and written down on the exam sheet.

My suggestion is read PMBOK guide chapter first and read corresponding chapter in Rita Mulcahy repeat same for at least 3 times. After that do mock exams as much as you can. Remember inputs, Tools & Techniques, outputs (ITTO) as much as you can.

I went to the exam centre around 1 hr. before. In this 1 hour time I had gone thru ITTO and time & cost formulas. While taking exam I took 2 minutes break after completing around 100 questions. I marked around 40 questions for revision and I gone thru them in last 30 mins. Finally Congratulations! Screen appeared and I am so happy with result.

Thanks for reading my PMP exam journey.