A big thanks to the team here at PrepCast!
Passed today with 4 MPs and Proficient in Closing.
5 or 6 Network Path/Critical Path questions. Time consuming, I marked them all and got to them at the end.
One Monetary Value question, I found it difficult but worked my way to what I assume was the right answer, of course I will never know.
Very easy EVM questions, around 5 I guess. CPI was the hardest, they added some trickiness to it, but I got it.
Couple of ITTOs but they seemed easy
No theorist or Communication Channels (there was one communication Models question)
Bottom line, not many easy questions.
Read Rita, Andy Crowe, and PMBOK, all many times. I found Andy was a good final read in the last 24 hours, just run through it front to back quckly and you stop to read the few things that catch your eye.
I bought an electronic copy of HeadFirst PMP. I do not see the big deal about that, everyone talks about how great it is. You can rent it off Amazon for about $18 / month. I saw little value in it.
I bought PMPrimer - I highly recommend it. Great video series, decent price.
Bought the PMTraining Questions first. About a thousand of them. Good Simulator, the questions are a little different than PrepCast, but all in all the same level of difficulty I think. Both of them need to be more trickier, then again, the guys at PrepCast would certainly get annoyed at me for questioning more the questions if they were like PMI questions. Too Subjective.
That last jab was a friendly one on the PrepCast team. They probably did get tired of my Feedback Emails, but I have to end this by saying they were all great and responded to my criticism well.
I purchased and answered 1,801 Questions, yes they give you a bonus question, not just 1800, but 1801.
Ended by averaging 77% on First Answered Questions.
The Last 30 days I ran 6 Full Exams, all in the 80s some in the high 80s. You would have to say that I was answering many questions for a 2nd time at that point, but I think with 1800 questions you really dont get to remember them.
Answering many questions is key, the time constraints of the real exam are killer. Taking an exam at home, there is no life or death struggle like there is at the real exam. You look at each question for too long, trying to decide between the two correct answers they give you.
I read something someone wrote not long ago I think here in the Forum. You have to take each question on the PMI as a personal challenge. Fight for the right answer.
Good luck to all.
