Featured PMP Exam Lessons Learned from Michael Alstrom, PMP

This week's featured lessons learned comes to us courtesy of Michael Alstrom, PMP. Congratulations Michael for passing the PMP exam today! Let's get to learn from Michael Alstrom, PMP on how he strategize his study preparation for the PMP exam. Who knows what worked for him might also work for you. Here's a peek on his lessons learned...

...I spent 139.5 hours watching PM PrepCast videos, reading the PMBOK® Guide , reading Achieve PMP Exam Success, and studying. Here are some things that worked for me:

1. If there was advice in any of the PrepCast videos, I tried to follow it. I won't go into detail here, but I didn't get any bad advice and I believe this greatly helped in my overall success. Even when my application was selected for audit, the advice I had received helped me to receive a fast approval response from PMI.

2. Early on, I memorized table 3-1 in the PMBOK® Guide . There were two things that helped me do this. First, I memorized the chapter/section numbers along with the process names. This helped to keep things sequential and helped me not miss any processes. Second, I created a blank table and wrote the processes into the blanks in the appropriate columns. Writing processes by hand helped me memorize them. When I would recite the processes, I could actually visualize the table, which really helped me identify to which process group and knowledge area each process belongs...

To read more of his complete experience, please follow this link: https://www.project-management-prepcast.com/index.php/kunena/lessons-learned/3569-passed-pmp-today