This is great advice!

@Adeel Haider 1. taking test at home wasn't too bad. There's nothing about you can't sit back or take your eyes off the screen to rest, at least in my experience. In my case, however, there was a window open and landscapers started cutting the bushes outside. I had to ask the proctor for permission to go close the window, and I had to keep the camera on me while doing so. I also had an alarm set on my phone, which was not next to me, so I couldn't turn it off. Please take care to avoid these types of distractions.

Agreed that the time was tight, and mostly because of LOTS of reading. I recommend 1. scan the question quickly - probably not really understanding 2. read the last sentence of the question to know the question being asked 3. read the answers. The answers will help you know which part of the question to focus on - there is often lots of unimportant info. Some answers may already be easily disqualified if they directly oppose the mindset. 4. go back to the question and read more clearly 5. examine the remaining reasonable answers and use the mindset to choose between them - stay in your PM role, but address the issue - don't avoid it or delay action. Andrew explains the mindset very well in the course.

Congratulations!!

Great job, congrats!!

Thanks you guys for the support. I did pass with good scores!!! Sorry it took me a while to post here, have had a very busy time with my son getting ready to start college and other things. Following is what I had written immediately after the test: Wanted to share a bit about my experience while it's fresh in my mind. Ran into a problem with OnVUE because both accounts on my MacBook were logged in. There was a process that I couldn't stop that was causing the system test to fail. I guess it's my ignorance for not realizing it sooner, but their help system was also no help at all, neither was Googling, etc and I wasted a lot of time. Restarting my computer took care of it in the end. I should have tried that sooner, but I was reluctant to start the whole check-in process again, which I ended up having to do anyway. The whole software download, everything. It took me over 50 minutes in total, meaning after about another 5 minutes I would have to forfeit the exam fee, so needless to say I was shaking and in a panic when the test started. The first few questions were the long case studies, and my comprehension was very poor due to my panicked state. This caused my time to run low as I had to reread things several times to comprehend properly. Anyway, the test: In my opinion, the questions were very difficult, with a lot of reading and quite detailed. In many of the questions, there were 3 or 4 PM concepts you had to juggle in your head and play against each other to try to evaluate the answers. I saw today another poster had mentioned that there is quite a bit of unnecessary information. This seems to be true, although I admit that on test day I was unable to parse what was necessary and unnecessary :D It seemed not to be geared much towards terms and detailed memorization, which Andrew emphasized during the course, but the terms do come up and you certainly need to know them to answer many of the questions. ** Compared to the mock exam, there weren't as many "Which report should be used?" or "Which management style/principle?" "What tool does this question describe?" "Which process is the project manager performing here?" questions, etc, which kind of test you on the meaning of terms **