Featured PMP Exam Lessons Learned from Dan King, PMP

This week's lessons learned comes to us courtesy of Dan King. Dan King passed the PMP exam on his first attempt last June 23, 2014. Learn from his story as he share with us his experience and tips in the exam preparation and the tools he used to succeed the PMP exam.

"I studied for 4 months, 3-4 hours daily M-F. Then I switched to full time study the last 2 weeks before the exam. For me, I can say every bit of that was needed. The exam really tests your in depth understanding of the PMBOK framework. Very few of the questions seemed to be straight forward. Many were tricky in how they asked the question. Many required a round-about way to get the correct answer, and lots of questions on how to correctly apply the PMBOK® Guide lines in various scenarios.

The tools I used were:
PMBOK® Guide , 5th edition
PM Prepcast
PMP Exam Simulator

I watched all the videos in the Precast. I took notes while watching each video, then read the corresponding section in the PMBOK. This was a nice approach to tackle the PMBOK® Guide , versus trying to read all 600 pages in a few sittings..."

To read more of his experience, please follow this link: https://www.project-management-prepcast.com/index.php/kunena/lessons-learned/3609-strategy-for-passing-pmp-on-first-attempt