PMP Formulas and Calculations - The Complete Guide

Published: Tue, 08/16/16

PMP Formulas and Calculations - The Complete Guide

When I speak to PMP students, there's often one thing on their mind: How are they going to learn all the PMP formulas?

There's no getting away from it. There are a lot of these formulas and calculations that you have to learn for the exam.

In this (almost) complete guide we'll go through the PMP formulas with examples. Stick with me and by the end you'll see that learning the PMI formulas isn't going to be that bad. Read on and you'll learn a lot about how to crack formula-based PMP questions to help pass your PMP exam.

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Lessons Learned Management Techniques for the PMP Exam

Learning the lessons of past projects is important if you want to improve as a project manager. Understanding what worked and what didn’t is essential for your professional development when managing projects and for getting better outcomes each time.

This article contains everything you need to know about lessons learned management techniques to help achieve exactly that. Lessons learned management techniques for PMPs are the knowledge and skills that a project manager needs to be able to use lessons learned to improve their projects.

PMP Exam Sample Q and A

Which of the following resource optimization techniques is used to adjust the activities of a project in order to keep resources within predefined limits?

A. Resource Leveling
B. Crashing
C. Fast Tracking
D. Resource Smoothing

HINT: This technique will not change the critical path.

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Golden rules for during the PMP Exam… and for life.

We'd like to share with you this PMP Exam article written by Antonio de los Campos. This was originally posted on Linkedin.

1. Pay Attention.
Read the instructions carefully. Read each question carefully as well as all the options and answers with your undivided attention. Don’t make assumptions and don’t decide what the answer is without fully understanding the question (try to separate the decision making process and the understanding process into two separate processes). First observe, then decide.

2. Think Big.
Most students who currently manage small projects have trouble making sense of the techniques and tools they have acquired. Don’t think about what you’ve already done, think about how the things you’ve learnt could be used on a much larger scale.

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The Memory Jogger explains what ITTOs are and why they are SO important for the PMP Exam. It explains techniques for memorizing ITTOs and also looks at techniques to study ITTOs from a conceptual perspective. And it even includes an exercise that allows you to determine if you are more suited for ITTO memorization, ITTO conceptual study or a combination thereof.

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Student Success Story - Ravikant Totade, PMP

"...My recommendation in the last week before the exam:
1) At least 3 exams of 4 hours as if final exam. Do not overdose with lot of exams since it will take away 4 hours of your precious study / revision time.

2) Revise all chapters (rapid revision) using PMP Exam Prep Essentials Study Guide (from PM PrepCast). It is brief but covers entire content. Write down ITTO tables again and again..."

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