Additional resources that I found helpful. (Elceem mentioned that he will post these sooon in the file download section.

ezdistribution.xls : This is a guess about the distribution of the CAPM questions. The breakdown is not set in stone. I was unable to find any official breakdown of numbers. This is just to help one to get a rough idea about his/her score. The distribution is a guess. Use it at your own risk.

ShameerITTOeditedbyez.xls: Originally created by Shameer SAM. I sorted the ITTO's out by KA. Also, I tried to the best of my ability to manage the print area.
I will delete the file if Shameer (or an administrator) asks me to do so. I was able to print the 9 KA’s in five pages. And, I would carry these around almost everywhere. But you do have to add some of the ITTO’s your selves. It will help you out because you will make the document your own.

ezanbari.xls: This sheet has the Anbari questions numbered by the chapters. Helpful for those who want to use the test questions multiple times.
Q & A's for the PMBOK Guide (Paperback) by Frank T. Anbari , ISBN: 1930699395

It was wonderful to share my experiences with you all. I learnt a great deal from the PMHub community. Sorry that I was not able to post in March.

Barring any unusual circumstances I have passed the CAPM exam. I did much better than any of the practice exams I took. All the additional reading plus the process group method helped me out. And of course the PMHub posts were helpful.
Now only if I could get a breakdown of the questions by KA.

EZrider

Starting from April I had more time (fortunately). By now I had finished the PMBOK once. Solved the Anbari questions twice, read Nielsen Pdf’s and the shameer sam ITTO’s atleast two or three times. Went over Rita’s flash cards twice.

First week of April: I read the PMBOK (3rd ed.) backwards. I do not know about the rest of you but, when I read a book, I concentrate well in the beginning and then less and less towards the end. So reading it both forward and backward helped me retain as much as possible. You may have to figure out your strengths and weaknesses yourself.

By the 5th of April I finished reading (or re-reading ) the PMBOK. On the 6th I took th esi-intl (http://www.esi-intl.com/public/e-training/desc.asp?code=PMC0211) CAPM exam. I did not do well on this one. I got less then 65% and was not very happy. I had been studying on and off since September/October of 2005.

On Friday (4/7) and Saturday(4/ I did not study much. Just went over the ITTO’s again. Also I did not do well on the process areas so I read the PMBOK (chapter 2 and 3). Also on Friday I printed the questions from vl-p.net [http://vl-p.net/free-pmp-self-test/pmp-free-exam-test-questions.htm (thanks to Ganesan)] and took the sample test from test preview [http://www.testprepreview.com/modules/pmp.htm (thanks to Ganesan)]. I did ok on these 13 out of 15 on the test preview questions. I scored around 70% on the vl-p test (note: I took it on paper and this is also a PMP based test).

On Sunday the 9th of April I started thinking about the esti-intl exam. I realized that the process groups is my area of weakness, but I needed a way to overcome this. Earlier I tried remembering the processes in process groups by recalling the KA itself. For example I would recall that Scope control is in the monitor and control process group. But I needed a better method. Then I had a my moment of Eureka.

I already knew the KA processes. So if I could map them according to the process area too. Then it would be great. You will have to download the document to understand the process properly. But here is how the processes are distributed.

I-2
P- 1,3,5,2,1,1,1,1,5,2
E- 1,0,0,0,1,2,1,0,2
C- 2,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1
C- 1,1

So starting from Monday I would practice my method every day. This method also helped me in remembering the ITTO’s too. The esi-intl exam prompted me to take a closer look at the process groups. I should have listened to Julio (aka Razof) earlier.

On Thursday (4/13) : I went over all the exams that I had taken. Reviewed the ITTO’s again. And at night I took the Pm study free exam [http://www.pmstudy.com/practicetestsindex.asp (I knew about this one)]. I did ok on this one. I got 65% and was ok with it because this is a PMP exam, and hopefully I would do better on the CAPM exam.

On Friday (4/14) and Saturday (4/15): I went over the vl-p.net exam, the Anbari questions (just covered about half of it), briefly went over the Nielsen pdf’s, and the incorrect responses from the pm study test. In all I spent 2 hours studying on Friday and 2.5 hours on Saturday.

For what its worth I will write the rest of my story

Nothing much happened in March. You may have noticed this as I have had close to no posts in March. I finished reading the PMBOK. And then, I finished all the chapter tests from the Anbari book. Beginning of March I also registered for the test for Mid-April. I took two exams from PMStudy. And I did not do well on either of them. Well they were PMP exams, so I was satisfied with approximately 65%. End of March I had more time. So I started reading the PMBOK (3rd ed.) backwards.

Also I should thank Shameer and Eric for sharing their resources. The Nielsen Pdf’s and the shameer sam ITTO’s were very helpful. I basically created a view for myself and then printed out all the ITTO’s. Then I added notes of my own and highlighted primary outputs for most process. I carried them with me and read them whenever I had time, during breaks at the office, on the train, at home and whenever I had time.


EZ