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TOPIC: Passed on first attempt

Passed on first attempt 3 years 3 months ago #24975

  • Dragos-Mihai Stan
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It took me a bit over 2.5 months to study and take the exam after being made redundant.

I only read the PMBOK and did the PMPrepcast course and test simulator

Now after the experience I can tell you for sure that doing the test worked very well for me.
I have read PMBOK several times along the years, I have 5 years project management experience in the automotive industry and I found it useful for work, but not as useful for passing the test.

Looking back I would do the tests from PMPrepcast simulator and take the exam, I would have most likely passed the exam with the same result. (AT/AT/AT/T/AT)
I was getting the same results from the simulator 6 weeks before taking the real exam, I was just too afraid to take the exam so I spent too much studying and ultimately I lost 6 weeks of job search.

After passing the exam I definitely saw an improvement in being invited to interviews. Before I wasn't getting too many interviews, 4 companies, where after I got interviews with 15 companies over the same period of 2 months.

I hope this helps. I
f you have experience and know the PMBOK spend more time with the simulator and schedule the real exam ASAP.

Passed on first attempt 3 years 3 months ago #24991

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