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Hi everyone - thanks for your tips and suggestions and advice. I passed my exam earlier today so that's great. Someone ask me to note my impressions of the exam so here goes.

Firstly - my on-line course said that I could use the remaining free time in my tutorial before the exam - about 14 minutes - to do a brain dump. However, I was expressly forbidden from doing so by the exam proctors at my testing site. So is this true? Fist 20 minutes of my exams was doing a brain dump.

Secondly, I though the exam asked really fair questions - hardly any of the trick type questions I had encountered in my on-lline practice exams, and hardly any negatively based question - much to my relief!

Thirdly - all the questions were situational - no questions such as "what's at the bottom of Maslow's Hierachy". and most (about 80-90%) were "what should the PM do next?"

Fourth - it seemed to me that most of my answers were "communication management plan" based "make change request", or Pareto charts - which did freak me out a little bit and test the courage of my convictions. But after reviewing my answers, I still kept those answers.

Once again, thanks to everyone for their input - it was much appreciated. Now it's time for this stay-at-home parent to find a job!

Hi everyone - thanks for your tips and suggestions and advice. I passed my exam earlier today so that's great. Someone ask me to note my impressions of the exam so here goes.

Firstly - my on-line course said that I could use the remaining free time in my tutorial before the exam - about 14 minutes - to do a brain dump. However, I was expressly forbidden from doing so by the exam proctors at my testing site. So is this true? Fist 20 minutes of my exams was doing a brain dump.

Secondly, I though the exam asked really fair questions - hardly any of the trick type questions I had encountered in my on-lline practice exams, and hardly any negatively based question - much to my relief!

Thirdly - all the questions were situational - no questions such as "what's at the bottom of Maslow's Hierachy". and most (about 80-90%) were "what should the PM do next?"

Fourth - it seemed to me that most of my answers were "communication management plan" based "make change request", or Pareto charts - which did freak me out a little bit and test the courage of my convictions. But after reviewing my answers, I still kept those answers.

Once again, thanks to everyone for their input - it was much appreciated. Now it's time for this stay-at-home parent to find a job!

One of my recent PMP prep course students wrote the exam yesterday and after passing called to thank me and provide some feedback which echoes most of what Graeme has shared:

1. There were about a dozen calculation/formula type questions. He did not get any contract calculation questions (e.g. incentive calculation on a FPIF/CPIF contract OR point of total assumption).

2. There were very few if any pure memorization questions.

3. There were lots of questions related to proper handling of changes and he did recall Pareto charts showing up...

Kiron

I just took the test in December. The questions are random. Let me know if you have any more questions before your test. I would be happy to help.