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Hello PMP Aspirants,

I am very happy to share with you that I have passed my PMP exam on 20/8 05:00 PM! And boy it was a moment!!. I scored Proficient in Initiating, Planning, and Monitoring & Controlling. Moderately Proficient in Executing & closing.

I will walk you through my experience, first what resources and then how I used them.

My PMP Study resources

I have selected and stuck to multiple resources from the abundant resources available around. This is very important. Otherwise, you’ll waste your time switching between resources every now and then. Furthermore, what you need to do is to look at each resource and assess if this resource’s contents fits your needs & learning style.

1. PMP PMBOK guide, obviously! I joined PMI as a member & acquired my licensed PMBOK copy. [continue reading…]

PMI Registration: It’s being a year since I made my registration at PMI and since then I had PMP class to gain the PDUs.
Primary study resource: I have studied with Rita’s book.
Study approach: I have read Rita’s book 3 times and made all the exercises.
Other resource(s): I have the fastrack program and I made several exams simulations. Shiv’s blog has helped me a lot with the questions as well.
Study plan: I used to study 3-4 hours per day for 3 to 4 times a week for 1 year.

Its been 2 and half months I have been studying for an exam and today I succeeded in achieving the PMP certification!

While my 2 and half months study program I had maintained study process (time table) as listed below.

My PMP Study Resources

1.  SimpliLearn Classroom Training and Online mock test
2. Rita mulcahy 8th edition (read only one time, yes you read it correctly. I tried to understand the concept rather than memorizing the book)
3. PMBOK 5th Edition (read only one time, I must say after reading Rita mulchay’s book you will find PMBOK very much easier to understand)
4. Shiv Shenoy’s PMP study materials including Brain dump (this is very important to remember, as it will help you most in the exam)
5. Other Internet online practice exams and ITTO based exam
6. And last but not least, I followed Shiv’s suggestion while attending the exam (First answer all easy questions and then answer formula based question and then trick questions – explained here [Look for strategy in PMP Simulator section])

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My experience was quite eventful. I appeared for the PMP test three times!

My first failure was because I appeared for the exam without having prepared enough, relying only on my experience. I had less than a month to read the Rita Mulcahy Book, superficially. I presented the exam and got poor rating in three of the five domains.

The second time around though I tried to spend more time and I studied Rita Mulcahy‘s book and the PMP simulator.

I took time off from my work, which involves constantly moving in three countries. I took care only to study the book and simulator from Rita Mulcahy,
I did not pay much attention to the PMBOK, and gave the exam. On the day of the exam I studied until hours before the test, I was late to the center, feeling very stressed. I found the exam very easy, and completed it in two and a half hours. Unfortunately I failed the test and that depressed me a lot.

Bouncing back

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I am super happy that I passed my PMP exam!

I was skeptical and not confident that I was prepared for the exam after initial studies with PMPBK and Rita’s PMP guide. So, I did some searching online and found Shivs PMP prep guide.

I used the exam simulator, did my corrections on missed questions, tried to understand why I missed and why the right answer was right from the explanation.

I referenced the PMBOK guide and Rita’s PMP guide when required.

I got to the exam center on time, wrote down my brain dumps, started the exam, skipped all calculation and long questions for the last as earlier recommended by Shiv.
(Note from Shiv: look for this strategy under the PMP Simulator section here).
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