How to Pass the PMP Exam in 2022 (Fastest Lazy Method) - 14 days of studying; NO PMBOK Guide

[@chanlok]

Thank you for all the comments! I really appreciate it! I also have another video about Pearson Vue online exam tips so please check it out!

[@archjonathan]

Just passed my PMP exam yesterday!!! After going through your guidelines, it made the most sense to focus on the practice quizzes. Ended up being the thing that helped the most. Thanks again for this video! I’ve been sharing it with everyone who asks how I did it in a such a short amount of time.

[@chanlok]

I’m so happy for you! You did great by only looking at quizzes - that’s the way to go! Thank you so much for appreciating and sharing!

[@vanshchauhan8419]

Is prep cast exam simulator free ?

[@archjonathan]

@@vanshchauhan8419 nope, it was about $150ish might want to look for your company to pay for it if possible.

[@chanlok]

@@vanshchauhan8419 no it’s not unfortunately. It’s in my video, I think less than $200. It’s well worth it for the time you save though!

[@balakrishnansubramanian9805]

Boss, I have just applied for my PMP exam. Could you please share me in detail how you did it in such a short time?

[@amyjohnson2018]

Dude ty sooo much for this advice..I followed it and passed! Joseph Phillips udemy was tough but it worked wonders. I did also watch his normal course, including Agile, then his cram course. Then some of the prep cast training. Lots of Agile & people based questions

[@chanlok]

Hi Amy, it’s these kinds of comments that make my day. Thank you so much for sharing and I’m so happy for you!!!

[@lpaone01]

Thank you, Lok, for demystifying the new exam. Good luck with your career.

[@chanlok]

Thank you Leonardo! Good luck to you too!

[@andrewchiang6832]

Hi Lok, I passed my PMP exam at my first attempt last week, your experience and suggestions are very helpful for my preparation. Thank you very much, I appreciate.

[@chanlok]

Your comment made my day and makes me want to take a stab at being a KZbinr. I love helping people! Thank you so much Andrew!

[@dineshnaidu4097]

Hi

[@dineshnaidu4097]

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[@franvanzyl7828]

Thanks Lok! Great summary to get me started!

[@chanlok]

No problem! Thanks for your feedback!

[@stephenketcher1]

Your just encouraged me to go back and bury this behind me as success. Thanks

[@chanlok]

I’m so happy to hear! I put off the PMP for 10 years and it also took external encouragement for me to bury it and I did. You can do it! Let me know how it goes!

[@RomeoNui]

Hi Lok, I passed my PMP exam at my first time. The result is "On target" that it's enough for me. My challenge is the language that I tested in English. Not Thai 😀. Thank you for your guideline. especially, in your excel note. It's very useful for me.

[@chanlok]

Congratulations!!! I’m so happy for you!

[@svitlana.boiko.]

Hi Lok! Thanks for tips & tricks! Going to pass exam soon and it helps a lot. Could you please give some advise or even record a video on how to fill in application in the best way?

[@chanlok]

Hi Svitlana, do you already have your experience broken down by hours and tracked in an Excel spreadsheet? You can google one easily and just fill in the hours. On the application, just write paragraphs on each experience and make sure to detail out which phase of the project lifecycle your experience was involved in (eg Planning, Implementation, etc)

[@erichter66]

Thanks, this was helpful. Will help me focus my study.

[@chanlok]

Good luck!

[@berryfanta6604]

Hi Lok! Thank you so much for sharing your experience and approach for passing the PMP! First of all, congrats on passing!! I wanted to ask if you actually dealt the 7th edition PMBOK book and the Agile books at all or did you follow your guide in this video to pass? Just wondering if it is worth it to read the 7th edition book. Many many thanks for sharing once again. This is super valuable and useful!! 😊😊

[@chanlok]

Hi! Thanks for commenting! When I did it and when I posted this video, I did not look into true 7th edition. Sorry!

[@uc9218]

Did you need to memorize any of the formulas? To calculate slack or the EVA formulas?

[@chanlok]

Yes memorizing all the earned value formulas is a must and such a low hanging fruit. You might only get very few questions on it but how long does it take to memorize them? For me it was quick and so I suggest you memorize them.

[@oveghookome2330]

THANK YOU FOR THIS SECRET SHARED

[@chanlok]

No problem Ovegho! Thanks for watching!

[@blueberryscone]

thanks bro. you saved my life

[@chanlok]

Haha thanks

[@samuelbarrezueta9713]

Hello Lok. Thanks for the video. Really inspiring.. Did you ever consider the PMI study hall? Could it be compared to prep cast? Thank you!

[@chanlok]

I did! First, it costs money. Second, the first point doesn’t actually really matter. The most important is this - I read so many online reviews and YT videos of people saying that it’s not representative and that it’s still Beta. I don’t know about you but for only $160 for prepcast, I’m not going to waste my time with other stuff. Prepcast is proven to be the closest thing there is to the real exam. It’s been around a long time. I don’t need to waste my time with other products even if they’re cheaper. I’m pretty goal oriented that way. Hope that makes sense. The risk here is you try study hall and then it doesn’t help you pass and now you’ve wasted a ton of time and some money, but most importantly time and effort and then you have to go back to buying prepcast or something else. Why not just start with something proven and the best of the best product to begin with? I mean unless $160 is too much $ and so if that’s the case please try other ways. My video and the way I did it is focused on time and effort savings for highest result, but it doesn’t really consider budget tbh.

[@samuelbarrezueta9713]

@@chanlok thanks. I will mostly buy the prep cast. Thanks for the answer!

[@chanlok]

@@samuelbarrezueta9713 good luck!

[@samuelbarrezueta9713]

@@chanlok Hi Lok, my exame is in 2 weeks. Ive started using the pmp exam prep cast yesterday. I vê done like 150 questions and I’m getting around 50/60% score. I vê planned starting the full exams on this weekend. Any tip to boost my passing score? Thanks in advance!

[@chanlok]

@@samuelbarrezueta9713 that’s pretty good! You just need to put in the time and do as many questions as possible and review the answers! Good luck!

[@xUSAFWolfman]

Lok, when you say 80% agile like what is scrum, roles or other stuff like this or were there like Prople questions that bleed into agile? Kudos on the PMP and info helping others.

[@chanlok]

Thanks for leaving a comment Edgar! It doesn’t go down that deep. There’s a basic framework of how a product owner/manager prioritizes user stories, and a scrum master helps the team remove roadblocks, and what each scrum artifact does (the meetings like daily standup, retrospective, etc). As long as you know that basic framework then you’ll be able to answer most of the questions. For example they’ll ask if a VP can ask the dev team to do som work and the answer is no because it needs to go through the product owner first because he/she is the one who prioritizes.

[@xUSAFWolfman]

@@chanlok thanks for the quick reply! Yeah.. sorry just tried to cone up with an example on the fly in my car but are there really that many agile questions now vs the old content in say 5th edition with processes and people type questions?

[@chanlok]

@@xUSAFWolfman no problem! It’s not quite one or the other. I guess that’s the confusing part. It’s not traditional OR agile. They’ll combine elements of agile into traditional. So for example they’ll say in the design phase of a project they had a project plan and all these other traditional stuff. But then for the development they used agile so who should be the product owner? The answer is to assign the business analyst as the product owner. It’s not super clear cut. Almost like a Venn diagram. All I can say is a question which is 100% traditional is super rare and less than 50% of the exam is like that. I’d say out of most questions it’s either 100% agile or a traditional with elements of agile type question. You’ll have to know both well, to be honest.

[@samuelboakye9036]

Congrats! I'm going to try this and let you know how it goes.

[@chanlok]

Thank you!!! Please let me know how it goes! Good luck!

[@samuelboakye9036]

@@chanlok Bro, this is a straight up cheat-code. I took the exam yesterday and passed AT/AT/AT. Thanks for sharing this

[@chanlok]

@@samuelboakye9036 congratulations! I’m so happy for you!

[@Riya-up5do]

@@samuelboakye9036 did you sign up for Basic, Elite or Elite Plus (exam simulator)?

[@samuelboakye9036]

@@Riya-up5do I had the premium through my company, but the Basic would have sufficed

[@SJ-lt6yf]

Very helpful, thank you

[@MayraYPerez]

Thank you!!

[@chanlok]

No problem! Good luck!

[@Dppon]

Hi Lok, thank you for sharing this steps.I watched many videos and comments mentioning that the exam needs a mindset and focus on agile. But, is the PMP exam still considering the e memorization of all ITTOs?

[@chanlok]

Hi Daniela, great question! Despite what others say, I believe you need to memorize the ITTOs to a sufficient degree such that when a question comes up, you immediately (within 10 seconds) can spot which progress GROUP the question is targeting. You’ll never be able to memorize every single ITTO in detail. Also, there’s a exam waiting by process group or phase somewhere - try to find it. JP’s udemy course I mentioned has it in the beginning. For example, even though initiation phase may only cover two knowledge areas, it represents something like over 15% or so of the entire exam. So you wana memorize those 2 areas within the initiation process group. Something like planning has so much material but only accounts for 30% of the exam, u might just wana try to cover the general idea of spotting the question and process of elimination like I mentioned previously. It’s all about exam strategy and focusing on the high value areas and memorizing those, then roughly covering the rest. Hope that helps. Don’t quote me on the exact % but you should be able to find it easily.

[@brianaa9811]

Would your tips help with the CAPM? -especially since it probably wont be as in depth as the PMP. I feel like it would but it doesn't hurt to ask.

[@chanlok]

When I structured this video, I kept in mind not just the PMP but also the CAPM as well. I think it applies. The long story short of it is: 1) watch an intro video on youtube on CAPM, 2) do practice tests and study the answers until your practice test results get into a passing range. If after the first practice test you realize you clearly need more material to study with first, then take a udemy course, preferrably any cram course not full course. That's pretty much it!

[@VikasSharma-cs2lh]

Thank you for creating this, if u have more resources pls share

[@chanlok]

I just posted a new video about the Pearson Vue experience and tips - please check it out!

[@ormantalbert6254]

Very helpful information

[@chanlok]

No problem! Good luck!

[@l0gic23]

Thanks and congratulations

[@chanlok]

Thank you for leaving a comment! Good luck!!!

[@blueb2343]

Were you familiar with all the terms before studying? I feel like i am overwhelmed with the regular course by JP 😂. It’s just a lot of terms that I need to learn withing 4 weeks

[@chanlok]

That’s a really broad question - I’m not sure what “all” the terms mean but you need to know most important ones and you will know what those are by doing practice tests

[@blueb2343]

@@chanlok thank you! I’ve just been flooded with all these new words from JP course and formulas that I study but recently a lot of people have said there were little to no calculations in their tests

[@chanlok]

@@blueb2343 there’s 0 calculation required. They want to test if you can interpret the result, not calculate the result. Like an SPI = 1.3 means what? U don’t need to know how to calculate it, they’ll spoon feed it to you. (Granted this is my opinion and based on my own experience)

[@blueb2343]

@@chanlok thank you! 🙏🏽

[@blueb2343]

I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I REALLY TOOK YOUR STUDY TIPS SERIOUSLY AND I PASSED IT TODAY FEB 3 WITH AT ON ALL 3 DOMAINS. I took about over 2,000 questions on Prepcast and Study Hall BUT Prepcast helped tremendously!!!! Your video strategized my whole study journey and i want you to take credit for it! 😊 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

[@rw_5139]

Congratulations on the certification! I am curious which PMP PrepCast package you purchased.

[@chanlok]

Only the prepcast simulator!

[@rw_5139]

@@chanlok Wow! I've noted all your steps and I'm going to try to tackle this cert for myself. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@chanlok]

@@rw_5139 Please let me know how it goes!

[@Riya-up5do]

Could you please be more specific? I see three option and it seems the basic one doesn't have practice exam, did you sign up for Basic, Elite or Elite Plus?

[@Fly_Nimbus]

@@Riya-up5do There is an option to purchase the simulator by itself for $150

[@Sumee21051987]

When you mentioned PrepCast, did you mean to say PMP Exam Simulator? Right? Cuz there are so many different packages there.

[@chanlok]

Yes only the simulator

[@Sumee21051987]

@@chanlok Thank you, I appreciate it.

[@chanlok]

@@Sumee21051987 good luck Sumeet!

[@Sumee21051987]

@@chanlok Thank you Lok!!!

[@conzuelosorg7007]

How much time per day during the 14 day period did you dedicate to study/exam prep?

[@chanlok]

Tbh, I studied for a month on and off, and took a few days off here and there. When I made this video I just wanted it to be easy to understand so I added up all the hours I think u spent studying, and then used a 6 hour day to condense it to an understandable number of 14 days x 6 hours a day. So the title of the video should really be 84 hours. I think if you put in 2 weeks of solid 6 hours a day of studying you’ll ace it.

[@chanlok]

To add, that’s just how long I took. If you can do all 4 prep cast exams and study the ones you got wrong, in less than that many days you’ll be fine.

[@uc9218]

Hello Lok, in those 14 days how many hours a day did you study?

[@chanlok]

U can say 6 hours a day

[@meganpetkova]

Hi! Did you read any books?

[@chanlok]

Absolutely not! Haha

[@larkiteklopena1378]

Where did you get your 35 PDUs to apply for the exam?

[@chanlok]

I got it from a university continuing education pmp course a long time ago. Long story. But if I were brand new now, I’d just take the udemy courses I recommended in my video! I believe they provide the PDUs and the course are $20

[@junhaozhou4462]

Has anyone taken the google certification course for PM? Is that helpful?

[@mariasampaio6517]

Good question

[@Persistance]

Its not helpful for PMP exam.

[@chanlok]

I haven’t! I’m pretty sure prepcast is the most helpful thing for passing the PMP - worth every penny

[@junhaozhou4462]

@@chanlok I have been looking at a lot of PM job postings. I haven't seem many jobs actually require the PMP cert. Has anyone notice the similar things? I wonder how do people measure candidates when hiring an entry level PM.

[@chanlok]

@@junhaozhou4462 I don’t think you need to have a pmp to be a pm. I also don’t think you need to get a pmp just because you want to be a pm or are a pm. Let me clarify with myself: I’m not a pm nor have I been a pm before. I got the pmp as an extra designation that’s nice to have. All designations help with your resume.

[@sabkuchdhela191]

Read not a single book???

[@AFGeneralBillyMitchell]

By lazy, you mean you studied for many, many hours.

[@chanlok]

it's all relative; of course you still have to study for many hours. This is a highly regarded professional exam.

[@mohammadchowdhury6729]

☺☺☺☺☺☺👍☺☺☺☺☺☺

[@chanlok]

Thanks!

[@kangnam80]

Thanks LOK

[@chanlok]

No problem! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!