Cleared PMP on first attempt

Basically depends in which country u r working in.



If in USA, yaa its true that only 10% rise will be there.



If in GCC countries, then defintely a good jump.



to maintain 60 PDU’s, not for all seminars, PMI sanctions PDU’s.



U can also give presentatin in conferences arranged by PMI for the aspirants. I think u can get 5 PDU’s for each presentation and you can make two such presentations.



Lectures of experts (conducted by PMI), with fetch u 2 PDU’s.



Can get a full list of PDU’s on website



but, definitely will get much better salary if u r a PMP



AND MOST IMPORTANT, ur company shud recognise PMP



Cheers,



Raviraj

This is what I heard too!! 70% of people pass in the exam.



Passing grade is 60.5%

So, u r from 20th Batch, I suppose.



You need to have at least 3 years of experience to be eligible for PMP exams.



Also, the exam is mainly focused on scenario based questions, and are more practical. Just log in to www.pmi.org and get further eligibility details for PMP certification.



I wud advise u to appear for CAPM examination. As a student, it will be easy for you to appear and clear CAPM exam from the viewpoint of course content of ur institute. But, practically, u shud appear for CAPM, once you gain some more experience and then apply CAPM kind of stuff into your working areas.



AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS -



A person does not become a project manager after going on a project management course. You only can become a project manager if you have mastered the discipline you have chosen.



You’ve got to come up through the ranks. There is presently a greater demand for project management, because it suites the dynamic world we live in. Project management is a well established industry, so it is not like the IT boom we have had in the last 20 years. You can not go do an expensive course, walk into a job and earn tons of cash.



I would suggest that they keep on looking for oportunities to gain experience and better pay.



THAT THE TRUTH OF LIFE!!



Cheers,



Raviraj

Thanks Everybody!!



Some more pointers:



Keep your approach very simple and straight.



1. Created a MS-Project Plan to track progress

2. Informed friends, relatives etc. that I am appearing from PMP. This helped to keep my focus. Some may like to keep this is secret and disagree.

3. Read PMBOK 2 times - cover to cover.

4. Rita PMP exam prep 2 times

5. Q &As for the PMBOK Guide 3rd edition. 1 times

6. Take as may mock exams as possible

7. Became member of yahoo groups for PMP

8. Daily visit PMHUB for lessons learned.

9. Find at least 2 hours for study. I did 2 hours in the evening. It was tough initially but in 7-10 days my routine was ready.



These are the other sites I referred too:



1. free flashcard website for PMP with 1538 questions/flashcards.

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/287102 go to "Study".



2. In addition there are lot of materials , questions in the other flashcards

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/tag/pmp



3. 75 free questions:

http://www.oliverlehmann.com/pmp-self-test/75-free-questions.htm



4.PMP Exam Tutorials, 200 questions:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/pmp-exams/pmp_mock_exams.htm



5. Free 15 questions:

http://www.testprepreview.com/modules/pmp.htm



6. 20 practice questions:

http://certification.about.com/od/projectmanagement/a/pmp_test_whiz.htm



7. Free PMP Certification Practice Questions:

http://www.certgear.com/products/preview/pmp_certification/index.html



8. www.pmhub.net: Read Jim Owens Columns



9. www.pmhub.net: Put on the headphone for Eric Nielsen’s lunch ‘n’ learn



The Paper

1) I wish I had put more focus on ITTO. There were at least 8-9 questions focusing directly on Tool and Techniques and Inputs

2) Did the memory dump. This helped me in answering at least 15-20 questions quickly

3) The calculations were very easy.

4) Mostly the questions were very lengthy and some of them were so tricky that they required 2-3 readings.

5) Some of the questions (text) were repeated 2-3 times but off course the answers were different



Cheers,



Raviraj