Tatiana,

Congratulations on passing the exam!! Very happy for you. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience and lessons learned on the forum. Best of luck to you as a newly certified project manager.

Cheers,

Mark

Hoorray, it's over!

Passed today with 3 Proficient and 2 Moderately Proficient. The exam was not easy, and it took about an hour for me to get used to the different question style (comparing to the simulator). Calculation was not hard at all; as for topics, there was a lot about change mgt and schedule mgt .
Advice that helped me the most: Do not look for the one and only correct answer, look for the best answer possible. This is indeed a key!

Time and materials. I was lucky to have chance for full-time study, usually about 7-8 hrs daily (and a free weekends)
5 weeks for PM Prepcast to receive 35 hrs: best time ever, thanks again Cornelius and the team for the amazing product!
3 weeks with PMBOK + Rita's book
3 weeks with PMP Exam Simulator - starting from 78%, and other 5 were 82-84%
One thing I did not expect - application took way more than I thought - about three weeks to prepare, approve with my managers, and submit.

That was fantastic adventure:). Thank you to everyone who helped me with exam preparation and good luck to the future PMP's!