New Goal: BS IT-Security at WGU.

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Actually now that I'm looking at it, I think I got free Linux Academy by following this info I found on Reddit, not through WGU, sorry about that...

You can get 3 months free membership to Plural Sight as well as Linux academy if you join the free dev essentials program at Microsoft. You also get a ton of credit to use on Azure so you can spin up Linux Vms for practice purposes.

https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/

No worries! I'll check it out when I've caught a few z's.

Any tips for Project+? I'm on it now. I'm hoping just watching the PluralSight series will be enough. But it's dry. (PluralSight was something I definitely got free though WGU, and it doesn't look like it's limited to 3 months like it is through the above link and like Linux Academy is).

Sure thing!

I made a heavily compressed 21-page packet covering the whole of the uCertify material for the PK0-004. Having gone through the course, it covers about 85% of what's on the test. Link to PDF. Link to DOCX.
If you really hate uCertify, just make sure to use the quizzes and read the Exam Essentials and Summary section.

If you have access to CBT Nuggets, check out the 2016 PMP course by Caseley. This was golden for the exam, even if it was a bit deep (Project+ is CAPM Lite and CAPM is PMP Lite, after all). I listened to these at 1.5x speed and burned through them all in 2 days.


Check these notes out. They were made by some dude on TechExams for the PK0-003 (old exam) and may cover a few gaps that my notes missed. Note that these are more focused on the formulas and math, and are missing the Agile methodology entirely (a topic that had 4-6 questions on my exam). I did not use these, but a lot of people on TechExams said this really helped them on the test.

Get your hands on the PK0-004 Practice Exam book by Feddersen (ISBN: 9781119363354). It's got 1100 practice questions, which were my benchmark to ensure I was ready for the test. My goal was 85% in each domain, which seemed prudent.

The test was not at all focused on formulas, but was really focused on risks and constraints. That in mind, the webinars for risks and constraints are good to make sure you know the information, but not good as a primary learning tool. The Fearless Formulas webinar is also good, but don't stress about Earned Value Management too much (I think I had one question involving math and one more regarding a performance index or variance).

The uCertify practice tests were about the same difficulty as the actual exam, covering a lot (probably around 80%) of the same information. At minimum, I would recommend you read a chapter of my notes + the exam summary, then take the chapter test. If you hit 80% plus, you understood everything I did in no time flat (each chapter of mine is 1-3 pages, plus 1-2 for the summary, so 2-5 pages total, as opposed to 25-35 per chapter).

DO NOT waste your money and buy the OCG. The OCG is the Sybex book that the course is based upon, so if you want to read the book, use the course.

I think that's it. I sincerely apologize for this being an infodump.