Once you complete the application review process you will notified to schedule for your PgMP exam, which will have all the details required for registering for the exam. The Exam registration process is very similar to PMP, where you will find your nearest Prometric Centre and book a date and time depending on the availability.
As soon as you start with the PgMP exam, you will have 15 min tutorial to get you familiarize with the screen layout and the exam format. You may want to skip this step or you can complete this soon and jump into exam. After 15 min this will automatically move on to exam.
The exam will consist of 170 multiple choice questions and you will have 4 Hrs to complete it. Of the 170 questions, 20 are the pre-test questions, randomly placed throughout the exam. Although these questions do not count for you final score, since you will not know which ones, every question is important.
Almost 90% of the questions are scenario based, and each scenario will have 2-3 questions. Every scenario will be explaining a program with so many problems and the question will be based on that situation.
You need to be careful with the scenario during every question. When you click next, the entire screen goes blank and the next question will come on to the screen. I have faced a situation where first few lines of the scenario as were same but the later part was different. And because the entire screen refreshes, I was not able to notice that.
Below is the screen layout almost 90% of the exam.
Since most of the questions are scenario based it will be very difficult to map all of them to Standard for Program Management. I am not sure if we can really map them to the process explained in the standard, but what I have felt is, if I try doing that then my time was running out and I was always running behind the schedule.
Another key factor during the exam is Time. Although it might appear to be sufficient time, in reality it is not. Due to scenarios, which are lengthy it takes some time to understand the scenarios. So I suggest planning the time accordingly.
Once you complete the exam, your result will be notified in a minute and you will be rated in 6 Domains of the Program Management. The rating will range in "Less Proficient", "Moderately Proficient" and "Proficient". Although the passing factor is not known, the best way is to get Proficient in all the 6 domains.
Once you get the result that you have passed the exam, the best thing you can do is, celebrate (probably buy a drink) with all your friends and colleagues. And most importantly with your MRA raters. ;-)
To be continued …
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