Study Materials
- Listened to first 9 chapters of PMP Prepcast halfheartedly.
- Completed 7 exam simulator exams.
- A few hours doing book questions, including crunch on procurement pre-exam
My pre-exam results were a mixture of MPs and BP, with only my 7th exam being all MP. I was a little tense. I ended up getting 3 Ps and 2 MPs.
ITTOs and Formulae were largely worthless - spending time on rote memorization isn't needed here. I did not do a brain dump or take any notes at all. Only a few of these types of questions came up and a logical mind should be more than enough to get through them. If you can think in the right units, any formula should be easily derived from the answers listed.
The Prepcast Exam sim is about on average with the exam itself. Hit them all hard, and review your results. Understand why the answer is what it is. The prepcast itself has useful information, but teaches it relatively slowly. Good for drives between work and home but advise against it as a real source at home -- more focused learning will probably get better results.
Good luck to those going for it. Learn how to apply your years of PM experience to PMP philosophy and this will be a breeze.