I am one of the idiots who chose to procrastinate studying until 4 weeks from the exam (which I scheduled the day before my last day of eligibility). The biggest factor to my success was PrepCast and the PrepCast Exam Simulator. I would purposely fail the long exam simulations (just quit early and leave them all unanswered), and then just read through all the answers. I learned so much from doing that. I focused my studying on Integration Management and Schedule/Agile. Half the questions were heavy on the Agile. There are also lots of questions on how to effectively manage people and personalities. If you understand the flow of Scope or Schedule, you will understand a lot of the other flows, since the predictive model is so repetitive. You don't need to memorize all the ITTOs, just understand some of the basic ones and use common sense. I also only had a few math questions, so memorizing all the formulas is a waste, in my opinion. Just understand what it means if a number is negative or positive on the Earned Value formulas.
Looking back, I started studying with too many different guides/modules. I wish I would have just focused on PrepCast and the PMBOK. I would have had a lot less stress! I think getting used to how the Prepcast questions work will be super helpful to passing the real exam (the formatting is super similar, including the matching questions). Good luck everyone! And thanks again, PrepCast.
I just want to thank PrepCast and Cornelius Fitchner--that dude is hilarious, and I loved some of the nerdy references throughout the modules. The Doctor Who references were especially choice. I hope I meet that guy at a PMP conference or something some day, and I can shake his hand (there would also hopefully be some awesome saxophone intro music playing, because I
