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Sure thing :)
Think it’s important to appreciate it as a specialization — I like the topic.
Good: it’s an area I found good mentorship and real world interest in — so there’s a tighter alignment with what gets practically reinforced.
Bad: hardest thing was recognizing and releasing my own biases and adapting to study material. I had a lot of experience — but started the process like it was new.
Read all the PMI books - tis my way. Paid particular attention to the language and tone. Also read the older Rita book.
From there I balanced the prep questions (choose ones with citations to the PMI books), with read reading the relevant 5th / 6th Pmbok book sections, watched a few of the webinars here and two Udemy courses (long - but worth it).
Few hours a night, balanced with a few days off to see what didn’t stick.
Don’t just memorize the Schedule D stuff, there’s plenty of real examples out on Google that border on fandoms — if you don’t have work exposure…but seeing them in action really makes the strengths and weaknesses jump out.
(Looking at you, Latin Hypercube)
Personal opinion is a lot of risk is common sense refined by experience… so don’t overthink the questions — but do know every morsel of the verbiage.
The practice tests make great flash cards — but aren’t a great indicator of prowess… the value is exposure to the language and reference to the books.
Really do have to understand the book, not the cliff notes.
By the time I went for the test — it wasn’t too bad; just tedious.
Glad I had a nice fluffy chair.
Passed with — above average overall
2/5 average, 3/5 a. average.
Note: I avoided YouTube — for every good video , there’s 3 bad ones.
Volunteering for (or doc reviews on) turnaround projects - really helped. Particularly around audits, workarounds and m & c.
