Set the motivation straight! I targeted myself to achieve it within 4 weeks. Only because there’s no slot for exam and there was major upgrade on one of my systems, I had to postpone it for additional 2 weeks. 

1. Lesson Learned

Select a lesson learned as guidance, which can be from friend and available in many sites.

I choose: pmzilla.com. There are plenty of them in pmzilla.com => Forum => Lesson Learn, select which one that suite with your situation/need. An example: http://pmzilla.com/pmp-passed-lessons-and-study-plan

2. Reference:

I have many references, but I believe these ones below are the major ones: 

• I read Rita one time. I tried second time, but it’s never finish as it’s bit hard for my brain..  
• I skimmed PMBOK one time. 
• PMP Processes on single page by trunin. I skimmed through it many-many time, to get the overview on how the processes are connected to each other. I bring this one everywhere! 
• PMP Notes – Rajesh Nair (detail), can be downloaded from here. I read this at least twenty (30) times. 

3. Preparation

Made sure we focus and dedicate to the target time. I told everyone that you’re preparing an exam, and would limit some social life temporarily… No TV, No Facebook, No Twitter, etc  

• Subscribed PM Prepcast for USD 99. It is said USD 129, but you can get a discount. I need to get the 35 contact hours. I attended for some areas which I couldn’t understand from reading the book. 
• Did as many as possible of mock up tests. Did these ONLY after reading the references/book. There are many of them which are FREE: 
• Lehman online 75 questions 
• Lehman pdf file 175 questions
• PMStudy 15 & 200 questions
• PMperfect 10 question
• PMZilla 25 tough
• Cornelius: 3×30
• simplilearn: 200 questions
• headfirst
• reread the references in between doing mock up tests,  again and again to understand the material

4. Exam

The exam was in INFOCENTER. I arrived an hour before the exam, and bought a cup of coffee in its cafeteria. This was important, as it straights my brain functionality J

I did 200 questions in 3 hours, or roughly 1 question in 1 minute. The last 1 hour was used for reviewing the 40-ish marked questions.

Conclusion, the one that help me a lot is to stay “FOCUS” and lesson learns, both from website (e.g. pmzilla) and from colleagues.

Hope it is useful, Good luck!  

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I download it, and nail it in my office desk wall. So, it’ll remind and guide me how my work should like.

I wonder if there’s such form (knowledge on a page) for other department. Could you please let me know if you find it?

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