TOPIC: Passed PMP Exam

Passed the PMP Exam today. and the following are my lessons learned.

I found most of the videos on Youtube useless but this one for my process matrix dump:
https://youtu.be/ALFPW9qPXag

I found Achieve PMP Exam Success: A Concise Study Guide for the Busy Project Manager, Updated January 2016 5th RevUp Edition an ok book. I did find Rita's book to be very helpful. I never read the PMBOK from cover to cover, just read the sections I had gaps in my knowledge. After it is all said and done, I probably ended up reading the whole book.

I watched the CBTNuggets training material and found it to be a good overview but the PrepCast was more in depth. The CBTNuggets Project Management in the Real World series (I think that was the name) was a good way to see how the Processes are used in the real world.

Using Rita and the PrepCast together gave me a great understanding of the material. I did find the interviews to be helpful to able to apply the PMBOK to real world experience.

On the exam simulation, I was close to 80% but not always above 80%. The questions on the real test were a majority of situational where the simulation I felt were not. I felt it was a lot of these things happen, what do you do next.

During the exam it used the built in Windows calculator and accepted 10-key input. One nice feature that I have not heard about that I had on my test is I could right click on an answer to strike it out. This allowed me to easily cross off answers that I knew were wrong and they stayed striked out when I reviewed my answers.

Congratulations on passing your exam, James! I also learned a few things from your lesson's learned that I'm going to pass on to my protege who is currently studying for the exam

Congratulations James !! I get so nervous thinking about the exam ... but reading all the good news on this forum gives me confidence !!

I get so nervous thinking about the exam ... but reading all the good news on this forum gives me confidence !! Many congrats !!

James,
Congrats on passing the PMP exam and thanks for posting the lessons learned and providing feedback to improve the simulator. I found the "strike out" feature in the real exam extremely helpful and also provided that feedback to Cornelius' team. I believe that will be an added feature in a later release of the exam simulator. Best of luck.
Cheers,
Mark