Pega CSA Certification - PRPC 6.1

Ok! Pega CSA is my second certification. One before this was SCJP Certification in 2009, where i excelled with 89%. I know, 89% is bad considering many 90+ & 95+ or even 99+ percentiles you generally hear about. The reason was that i didn't depend on dumps. Infact, i just spared 10-12 hrs going through the dumps. But i'm happy with 89% i scored in SCJP.

Fast forward to 2011 and now its Pega Certification for a Certified System Architect(CSA). I know theres lot many CSAs out there in the Pega community. But its special for me. I was the only one being trained at my companies Hyderabad location. So, the formal class room training went for some 16 odd hours and a bit of bootcamp and a small poc compromising 5 screens and some database interaction was all that i had. Ofcourse some 10-15 days went into preparation for the CSA certification. So, you see, its not a formal training phase by any trainer who is trained to train people. 

I accomplished 91%. I'm really really happy about it.

One point to mention is, there was some parallel formal training happening at my companies bangalore location. It lasted for more many days of class room training followed by a rigorous training & practice schedule on bootcamp etc. and that too by a regular trainer who is trained to train people on PRPC. But as the odds look out as even sometimes, i surpassed all those who had that formal training. Its not hyperbole nor i intend to exaggerate. But, i feel proud to achieve this.

Kudos to my friend cum trainer BhanuPratap for his effort & experienced insights.

Again for CSA too, i didn't depend on any dumps and all that helped me is the training notes, fast track material and more importantly some thing called as bullet points(any one who is preparing or cleared CSA will know about it). So, my bit of advice to future aspirants of CSA in contrast to what many others advice is, don't mislead yourself by concentrating on dumps. Get the concepts right & straight and you can hit it.