Material studied:
- Watched PM PrepCast, took about two months to go through all lectures
- Read PMBOK once
- Attended 4-day online PMP bootcamp through Project Management Academy (PMA)
- Took bootcamp full-length practice exam
- Took three additional full length practice exams through PMA - scored between 84% and 87%
- Watched PM PrepCast lectures and read PMBOK for areas that needed improvement.
- Took three full-length exams in the Pm PrepCast Exam Simulator - scored between 90% and 92%
- Took the PM PrepCast ITTO exam - scored 88%
- Studied the PM PrepCast Formula course
- Studied PMA handouts (bootcamp slides, ITTO reference sheet, formulas reference sheet, PMP Study Guide)
Exam observations:
- Fewer formula questions than expected. A couple of EVM question and a couple of CPM questions.
- More situational questions than in the practice exams.
- Fewer definition questions than in the practice exams.
- Took about 3:10 to go through the exam, flagged about 30 questions that I was not sure about.
- Finished in 3:45.