Featured PMP Exam Lessons Learned from Craig Arcuri, PMP

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Lessons learned and prep materials to share from the PMP exam by PM PrepCast student - Craig Arcuri, PMP

*PM Prepcast: I have a 50 minute one way commute, so the prepcast was essential. If I had to do it over again, I'd study the PMBOK Chapters concurrently while listening to the same chapters on the prepcast (not while driving though!). The prepcast does a great job of covering the PMBOK AND topics which are not in the PMBOK.

*PM Exam Simulator: I took 7 of the 8 full exams provided. My scores ranged from 79 to 83%. This was done over a 3 week period. In hindsight, I would have started taking the tests a little earlier because it's difficult to make a dramatic improvement if you only have 3 or 4 days between practice tests. At the end of my preparation (3 of the last 9 weeks) my main focus was the simulator practice tests. I'd spread the tests out a bit more if possible. The tests are brutally effective in exposing your weaknesses. I then reviewed each test and made flashcards of week areas.

*PMBOK 5 Maybe I'm old school, but the electronic version of the PMBOK was not sufficient for me. I was extremely frustrated with not being able to copy and paste from the electronic version (it's locked). I just wanted to paste PMBOK text in my areas of weaknesses into one document. Finally, three weeks before the test, I purchased a hardcopy of the PMBOK. I went through it and highlighted it, and also sat down with the book and wrote an outline with a focus on ITTOs and the hows and whys more than just naming ITTOs.

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