Today l have cleared pmp exam. The questions little bit tough. Many questions from change control, risk procurement and stakeholder. Mr. Prasanth and Manick help me a lot to clear my PMP exam, Thanks. 

Date: 24/07/2020

Cleared my certification today. thankyou for coaching and guidance.

Experience and Lesson Learnt:
It requires a lot of focus and speed to complete All 200 questions within time. Need to regularly  have a look on completed/remaining questions and time left. Better to have at least 2-3 mocks from itechgurus and especially PMI 200 practice mock before exam.

I took the exam through online proctoring. For this online proctoring , need to ensure that laptop system not opening any background app automatically during the session particularly if using office laptop. Need to close such app immediately to restore the session immediately. Also, need to ensure there is no power outage and have good broadband speed. I purchased ups also to avoid to mitigate the power outage risk which impacts broadband internet even if we have DG in apartment.

Thank you. Please find my certificate.

Passed my PMP Exam.

Lessons Learned

I would like to share some learnings on OPT and exam content.
 OPT exam setup & activities involved:
1.    Online Proctored Test (OPT) is very convenient if we have reliable internet connection. I am having ACT internet connection. No connectivity issues at all.

2.    I had booked immediate slot available on the day of scheduling. Slots are available as close as 1 hour from scheduling time.

         a.    If possible, book your slot with 12 hours gap after concluding preparation.
         b.    Ensure to begin the exam at least 30 minutes before slot time.
         c.    We have to download ~54 MB size software & install. Better do this activity well in advance to check compatibility of your system                     with software well in advance.

3.    Once we begin exam, photo of examinee and all four sides of the exam table needs to be captured and submitted (while testing the software compatibility with our computer / laptop we can check this process).

4.    Once photos were submitted, Pearson Vue agent got connected through chat and instructed me to show 360O view of the room and instructed me to wait while system would get connected to a proctor.

5.    Actual exam started within 10 minutes of logging in.

6.    Tools available in exam software were explained for 15 minutes. Highlighter, Strike through, calculator options were available. We have to use online available board to draw things like schedule network diagrams. Not much useful for me. As I was not having separate mouse, I felt little difficulty while writing on online available board. Out of all options, I felt strike through option was very useful when I felt a question was tough. I did not use calculator.

7.    Exactly after 90 questions, 10 minutes break option arrived. I took the break and had a chocolate & water. We cannot leave the place for 4 hours except during 10 minutes break. No water bottle / No eatables near exam table.
 
8.    Once exam was submitted, congratulatory message was displayed but actual score report details were sent to my email after 12 hours only.

9.    We are not supposed to read questions out. Proctor instructed me, through chat, not to read out questions loudly.

 Contents of Exam:

1.    No questions on organization structure based & General Leadership / Management theories.
2.    Integrated Change Control questions were like questions available in standard mock tests.
a.    Understanding sequence of activities to be performed after receiving change request was useful for me to answer questions from this part.
3.    Got 4-5 questions based on difference between Manage & Control quality processes.
4.    Around 3-4 questions on Kick-off meeting (when & who will handle what in kick off meeting) & phase review / phase gate meeting purpose.
5.    Around 3 questions on risk response strategy (Avoid/Mitigate/Accept/Transfer) based on the situation in question.
6.    4-5 questions were on Resource Histogram, RACI, Stake Holder Engagement Assessment Matrix, Resource Levelling etc.
7.    4-5 questions on Earned Value Management. Interpretation from SPI, CPI value combinations, EAC calculations from AC, PV, EV with a situation.
8.    2 questions on calculation of critical path length & float of an activity in a network diagram.

That’s all I remember! All the Best!!!

Nageswararao P.
 
 

Hi Prasanth and Manick, I Cleared PMP Today (17/July/2020). Thanks for all your support. 

- The exam was not so tough
- I reffered one time Rita
- Two times dedicately watched itechgurus class recordings.
- Took 4 Mock test
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- Exam,
1. All Questions are scenario based.
2. Five Questions about EVM, Schedule network and VA etc.
3. Got 3 questions from Agile
4. No much lengthy questions.
5. Checking only understandings.
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I Suggest guys you to throughly understand the ubject from itechgurus class and recordings two or three times. sure you will clear the exam.

Please find my certificate below. Thanks.

Hi Prasanth, I am Ajesh Kumar V, Finished my PMP exam today and got certified. Thankyou for your extended support and sharing mocktest.

About my exam experience:

• Its not tough but tricky. All are situational questions like What PM will do in such situation.
• Itechgurus group really help me to understand the concepts and relook into the way of thinking to understand the questions and concepts.
• 6 Mathematical questions from Schedule Management, Network diagrams and Cost Management.
• 4+ Hours Proctored exam. I finished my formalities at 8.30 AM and sit for the exam immediately. then continue the remaining 111 questions.
• Once complete 89 Questions, Proctor gave 10 minutes break and also they monitor me through webcam during breaktime also.
• I got 75% and above score in 4 different mocktest of itechgurus. Its very useful for me.
• No Agile Questions, 3 to 4 questions from earned value management.

Thank you Manick for your support and keeping me in track through this journey. 

06/07/2020

Hi Prasanth, I've cleared my PMP Yesterday. Thank you Itechgurus and Mr. Manick for training and guidance.

Will Share the Lesson learned before EOD.

Linkedin Profile for reference:

https://in.linkedin.com/in/balamurugan-sivalingam-06148478

With pleasure, am updating you that I've successfully completed PMP certification today. Attached herewith my certificate for your reference.

My sincere thanks to you, the trainers Mr. Vasu and Dr. Mouli for their dedication and providing greater insights about the topic during the sessions. All of this supported me to clear the exam at first attempt with the WOW factor of above target in all process.

Both the trainers are having rich and extensive experience in the industry, process and knowledge areas which is a great asset for us to learn through ITechGurus. Mr. Vasu's explanation with example for every topics and Dr. Mouli's method of connecting the process, tools and techniques are the best way of knowledge sharing that will make every candidate to understand well.

I want to highlight the overwhelming support of ITechGurus for providing training sessions in a nice environment, study materials, mock tests, video recordings, clarifications and refresh session. It's like "Being with us till our success".

W.r.t my preparation for the exam (from 23-May to 8-Jun), I started with your presentation handouts, followed with PMBOK and Rita's guide dedicating 2 hours minimum every day. Practiced questions in the Rita, Headfirst books and also used an app "PMP Test". After completing all knowledge areas, I did each 1 mock test in your portal (75%) and from PMI (72.5%), then learnt the gaps and the low performed topics.

The refresh training session has provided me with a great understanding of the knowledge area process inputs, outputs and the application of tools and techniques.

Thankyou very much. My best wishes to ITechGurus team to continue the great work and reach more milestones.

P.S: As the exam questions are completely situational, I wish the implementation of the same in your mock test portal will help us a lot for better preparation.

Excited to announce that I have passed my PMP exam in this Pandemic lockdown period and earned this professional certification.
A Sprint completed successfully from the PMI stack within my time-bound of 2 weeks. I felt this was the best opportunity to spend time to study for my career increment.

Special thanks to Manik PMP from ITechgurus and Prashanth for their training and support during this journey. Their communication channel was commendable the entire training period as well after support.

 After attending the 4 days of training ... I  tried understanding and integrating the concepts which are very important.  I went chapter wise studying and when I read integration, to understand it was like "hen and egg" story. I paused, made notes and went to read and understand other knowledge areas which made me understand integration well and the rest of the processes. I made my study scope very clear and scheduled my time table accordingly.

I suggest relying on PMBOK 6th edition and 'Head First PMP"- for any references as their approach is explicit and the best quality-wise. It's better to take a few mock tests to understand where we stand and how well we time answering them.

Do not try to memorize ITTOs. If you run memorize, there is a risk of wasting your time. Try to understand the process flow and you will understand in a more accurate way. 

Cleared My PMP Exam today. Thankyou Mr. Prasanth to give a wonderfull training sessions.

02/June/2020

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Hi Prashant, Hope your doing great, I am happy to share with you , I have successfully cleared my PMP exam at yesterday (24 MAY 2020) in Wellington. Itechgurus way of coaching is very much helpful and easy to understand the process of PMBOK. I used to study PMBOK and the Video, PDF guide shared by Prasanth and took 3 Mockups before Scheduling the exam.

Thanks alot 

Please check my name in PMI Registry for Reference: 

https://certification.pmi.org/registry.aspx

Hi Prashanth I cleared PMP today.Thanks a lot for the help and providing me the support right from filling the application,sharing mock tests and clarifying the queries .  .

I am not into core projectmanagement, So exam is very tough for me. I took lot of time for 1st half (90 Questions). 2nd half i took 110 Questions. Thanks Itechgurus.

It was very nice and interactive. The way of teaching is very simple and easy to understand. He explained each and every terminology very attractive and no felt any boring.
He covered almost every portions and questions from the participants.
I hope we all can succeed the exam.

Thanks Mr Prasanth and ITechGurus

Best training with expert trainer. Mr.Manick sir explained each and every concept with great patience and made the subject easy to understand. Course content is very well organized and all the concepts were explained very well with real scenarios across all the knowledge areas. Overall great learning experience.

Cleared PMP. Thank you ITechgurus Mr. Mouli and Prasanth. I reading pattern stats...….. itechgurus online training along with ppt.pdf file once for refreshment, Red the PMBOK once, again Manic sir online training once. then attended 2 mock tests. and booked exam a day before.

Guys..i spent my time only for PMBOK. during self quarantine period and not even worried about anything..so it wont be applicable until you dedicate your time only for this.  rest of the hours just eat and sleep.

Use Mockups Shared by Prasanth and Manick.

PMI® - PMP ID NUMBER: 2763775 (You can check in PMI® Certification Registry)

Hi Prasanth.. The trainer Manick sir is excellent! Humble and patience in clarifying our doubts! I feel happy to join in the right place and I will strongly recommend your institute to my fellow colleagues and friends! Thanks itechgurus for this arrangements.
 

Finally I did it. I would like to share my accomplishment with you all that today I achieved most awaited project management certificate. Now I can proudly say I'm "Certified Project Management Professional. Thank you Rahul Gupta, Sriram and Dinesh.

PMP exam is online and you can take it from home or office. System pre check is required before exam date and on date date. 

Regarding preparations, I read Rita and PMP 6th edition both and attempt all practice questions given in Rita. Also I took exam simulator practices. Mock exams help me a lot and it's really close to main exam...

Done it yesterday ! Thank you iTechGurus for great learning support and allow me to attend the refreshment classes!..

Hello all, First thing first! Let me thank you Mr. Sanjay for the great training, sharing the knowledge with relevant examples to understand the concepts and for mentoring all the time... 

Here is my PMP story...-🙂 For me being an average student and working for 14 years with no studies and limited learning beyond work,  it become very difficult for me to read and understand such heavy books, however with some determination, I started.. initially it was difficulty to stick to the plan and focus but then over a period of time.. I was able to concentrate on what I am reading!😉 And the training helping me in complete reading both pmbok and rita
My suggestions is to read the pmbok book as it is easy and lot of practice exams questions will be referring Pmbok and I used the mock ups shared by Mr. Prasanth. Rita mulcahy is good book but you will find some difference.  As I know very limited Rita book help to practice more exercise. I also established a practice to write down the important topics and to confirm my understanding. I strongly support you how to prepare your own chart especially on the tools and technique which is being used in different knowledge area and process groups

please be clear that whatever you learn from this books training and from the practice exam has very useful to clearing your exams and also have to solve problems / situation using the concepts and standard that you understood & learned. There was no direct questions on any of theory that learnt, very very less or no questions from cost management, mathematical questions (but this might not be the same for you).
All the practice exam and the actual exams had situation questions with multiple correct answers to choose the best one. So please be prepared, composed and clear mind to answering those questions. On the exam I received questions mostly from planning process group related to scope procurement change management and quality.

I tried PMI Mock up exam finally as suggested by Mr. Sanjay. It's really useful and situation based question. Lot of question repeated in final exam.

The online exam experience is quite different. All the four hours there was an online proctor who will be watching you. Before exam, he will ask you to show all four sides of the your closed room from where you are taking the exam.  No pen, papers, calculators allowed for the online exam you are allowed to use only online white board and calculators. You also need to upload the four sides of the desk before you take the exams which might undergo for some verifications, before you begin your exam. You are laptop additional devices will be disable and all application will be closed automatically. There are some stick stressful policies which you need to accept before moving ahead with the online exam. Even I was asked to remove my wrist watch and avoid keeping my hands on my faces. Please plan well and b prepared to have back up internet, power, laptop charge, etc

I am sure that you all can crack this exam just following some basic tips and guidelines shared by Mr.Vasu and others friends here. And ensuring that you don't excuse yourself until accomplish it.

Just fix the exam date in mind and submit your application and pay for the exam, you will get it done! Wish you all good luck.
 Stay safe, Stay healthy..

Excited to announce that I have passed my PMP exam in this lockdown period and earned this professional certification.Special thanks to Mr, Sanjay Kumar PMP®, CSM®, PMI® ACP, ITIL®, LSSBB®, AI-ML® and Shankar PMP from I-Tech guru for their training and support during this journey. My score is above target in all Process group.

• Online Proctored Exam for 4 hours taken from my home.
• I took 10 Minutes break after completing my first 100 questions. We can review the skipped question before taking the break. After break we can continue the next 100 Questions.
• I completed the PMP exam in 3.35 Minutes.
• PMP Questions are Indirect and Scenario based.
• Head First PMP, PMBOK 6 and training workbook.
• Took 2 Mock-up of itechguru, oliver lehmann free questions and PMI Simulation exam.
• More that 15 questions repeated from PMI Simulation exam.

Prasanth thank you for your co-ordination during our course. Same we expect your support in future too. Really thank our trainer Mr Manic having excellent subject knowledge and professional ethics followed throughout the entire course. Thank you for all the team member of ITechGurus.

Successfully Cleared the PMP Certification Exam. Excellent trainer and good class strength, Special Thanks to Mouli Sir who has massive corporate experience and He has delivered all concepts with best examples as it helped me to understand all critical concepts easily and effectively. Still, there is scope to improve the infrastructure of classroom, Parking etc. I am giving 5 stars considering itechgurus training presentation, Trainer experience and efforts. Thanks