Today I took the PMP exam for the second time and passed it! It had been about almost a year since my last try. Sure it was discouraging to get that fail notice at the end of the first exam, but with the video courses from CF the concepts began to mean more than the memorization parts. Even if you could memorize the entire PMBOK guide, it would do you little good answering the exam questions if you didn't understand the concept behind the processes. I feel it is that which made the difference this time for me to pass, by understanding better the concepts of how the knowledge area processes function in the different domains. This allowed me to choose the best answer more easily in most cases.
Thank You,
Mark