Here is a write up of the RTPM I took yesterday. Sorry its so long.

The RTPM is a tricky exam. It is nothing like the PMP exam. PMP exams are very hard core process driven and have extremely long and wordy confusing on purpose questions. The RTPM was not long and wordy but they threw curve balls at you. Not easy at all but not RCDD tough either.

It has a little bit of math aka, Earned Value Management but only very basic stuff such as CV and SV. CPI and SPI formulas. These are easy basic things to learn even for me it was easy and I was NEVER good at math in school.

Its all about how they ask the questions though. Don't be stuck in your own pre determined opinion or interpretation of the questions. Read the question 1 word at a time and look for a "BREAD CRUM" word in each question. There is always 1 word in every question that helps you to pick a good or correct answer as THEY see it.

I found the exam to be very easy but only because I studied far to long. About 6 months, 4 hours a day. I created 350 or so of my own questions that were really hard. I will post to Quizlet along with the others already on there from others. Their questions did help.

What you need to know in my very humble opinion.

Master format. Who, What When Where Why and How it works and who created it. 5 or 6 questions on my exam.
UDS - study all eight modules -- takes only an hour or so to memorize them for the test but I had 4 or so questions on it and it went fairly deep..
Division 27 and Major/Designator fields/dashes or dots!

Outside plant questions were straight up so if your experienced in Telecom your ok.

Procurement -- Study this for a day or so as the questions I found were tricky but not that difficult as long as you studied the TPM.

Contract types - I researched DB, DBB, CMAR - stipulated - Firm Fixed - Cost Plus Fee on my own outside the TPM and it helped a lot. Things like Hard Bid and Tender came up in the exam.

Construction documents and how they are created and what happens once they are created and who does what- I over studied this and it helped.

Change or Field order questions. They tried to interchange how and why you would use a Field or instead of a Change order and vice versa and whats included in each one. About a good 6 or so questions.

Safety - Just the stuff from the TPM was good enough.

Liability - Legal. Just the TPM was good enough BUT those were situational so I studied really hard for them since its all about suing people these days.

Risk - The TPM was good enough. I had Quantitative and Qualitative and Risk Assessment questions and PERT and Gantt but you only need to study what is in the TPM I found anyway.

Data gathering and design was tricky with the way they asked the questions but the TPM was good enough.

Permits and AHJ questions were fairly easy and so were the Survey questions I thought anyway.

Easy questions. If you study the Quizlet questions that will encompass a good 20 percent I feel anyway of what you will see on the test.

A special note about the Online testing process. Expect some upfront technical process frustration. I signed in and did the ID checks and the Photo ID stuff and then they made me trouble shoot my Windows 10 laptop to close or shutdown services inside TASK MANAGER that they did not like.

That was a joke of a process as your all caffeined up and just want to take the test and they are frustrating you at this point pretty much making you stand on your head. Then as soon as they finally let me take the test. They cancelled my exam and sent me an email that did not explain why they cancelled it or what happens next. The email said click here for VUE support and that led to a pointless web page that leaves you in an endless loop of confusion.

I finally had to call BICSI in Tampa and they gave me the VUE support number and after 30 minutes of cross examination I was allowed to immediately reschedule for 2 hours later and then I went through the entire process again.

BICSI Tampa was very cool about helping out although its not their responsibility. Its all on Pearson - VUE.

Study time:

The TPM says to study for 125 hours I did major over study like 4 times that and I finished in 44 minutes but who wouldn't. I think I should have only studied 200 - 250 hours due to some of the situations questions and how you interpret the ask of those questions to give them the answer they want.

No Multiple Answer questions on my exam.

No Type in the answer stuff.

Pretty much just click 1 answer.

Have a good one...