Brittany GonzalezProject Manager| Federal Government Littleton, Co, United States
Hi fellow PMs - just wanted to share my experience. I passed my PMP on my first try today. Wanted to share my experience.
Exam prep
- based my prep on the PMP ECO and focused on all approaches predictive and agile
- watched all pm prepcast videos https://www.project-management-prepcast.com/login - read agile practice guide
- read scrum guide
- read/skimmed PMBOK 6th and 7th edition
- completed the self paced online courses for PMI Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) ---- this was soooo helpful to learn agile processes and terms + I was able to get my certification at the same time!
- completed and passed the DASM certification exam (online, non-proctored)
- made lots and lots of note cards and took handwritten notes as I went through all above videos/materials
- made sure I knew the basic formulas such as EV, PV, CV, SP, CPI, CPI; didn't try to memorize all of them but had a good understanding of each so I could apply in the situational questions
- made sure I could identify all graphs/visual indicators and how they would apply in situations; took more time on this then formulas
- took one full practice exam in pm prepcast so I could get a handle on time mgmt and focusing for 230 minutes but other than that I just did lots of learning quizzes 10-20 questions at a time in pm prepcast (if you select learning mode, you can answer a question and then see immediate feedback for the question and all answers wrong and right ones)
Exam day
- relax
- you can't bring anything with you in the exam room including water bottles
- you get a notepad, pen and calculator
- brain dump whatever you need to on the notepad right when you start
- make sure you have GOOD time mgmt for each section; the exam is broken up into three 60 question sections so I spent an average 75 min per section
-dont leave any questions blank, just guess the best answer
- it was stressful and I had doubts of how well I was doing during the exam but ended up doing even better than I thought so recommend just trusting yourself and trusting the prep that you have done for the exam
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Brittany
Congratulations on your achievement and thanks for sharing your lessons learned. This is a very interesting approach you took especially with the DASM. Great Job!
Congratulations and thanks for sharing tips! What course(s) did you do for the required 35 hours of project management education training? Saving Changes...
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