here is your Complete Guide to Project Management Professional (PMP)® Formulas and Calculations

Published: Tue, 02/14/17

For your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam
Project Management Professional (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 they need for their Project Management Institute (PMI)® exam?

There's no getting away from it. There are a lot of these formulas and calculations that you have to learn for the exam.
 
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Student Profile: Ravikant Totade, PMP
"... If you feel any area is weak, do not hesitate to start from scratch. Loss of confidence in yourself or any small part will lead to failure.

Listen / watch video lessons of Cornelius Fichtner (PM PrepCast) of that knowledge area. His videos are very much detailed and it is the best way to prepare and appear confidently for the examination."
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Meet Your Coach: James M. Coughenour, PMP, CISSP, MBA
Jim Coughenour is a professional training and project management consultant based out of Pittsburgh. James has been providing live classroom training, live virtual training, for several well-known training organizations and continues to work in the field by providing project management consulting to a number of large organizations. He is widely recognized as a capable and effective consultant, coach and mentor.

James has been teaching PMP exam prep boot-camps, project management, business analysis, software testing, Microsoft Project, Agile / Scrum, leadership, and other management topics. James has worked with more than 1000 students and consistently receives positive feedback and success stories of his students passing the PMP exam.


In addition to his work as a trainer and consultant, James has over twenty years’ experience working in the healthcare, IT, and financial sectors. He has successfully led several multiple multi-million-dollar projects, some with more than 200 team members, and has led a training initiative to train more than 36,000 students.
Besides his MBA, which he earned at California University of Pennsylvania, and his PMP and CISSP certifications, James has completed training in Six Sigma, CMMI, Scrum, and ITIL. James also graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
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Student Testimonial: Dhiraj Hathwar, PMP
Dhiraj Hathwar is student of The PM PrepCast. Here is what he has to say about his journey to PMP certification:

"I passed my PMP exam on June 15th this year. I couldn't have done it without the help of PM PrepCast is actually an understatement considering what a big help it was during my preparation. Thanks Cornelius and PM PrepCast team. First up I started preparing seriously for my exam exactly 7 weeks before the exam..."​​​​​​​
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The PM StudyCoach: Your GPS to The PMP® Exam

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Congratulations to our students!
Kudos to the following PMP exam passers:

  • Valerian Mahankal, PMP
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  • Patrick Malone, PMP
  • Terry Gurwara, PMP
  • Sumi Sundaran, PMP
  • Patricia Rice, PMP
  • Joseph Amarosa, PMP
  • Salil Saleem, PMP
  • Rabea Hartmann, PMP
  • Deepak Dhamija, PMP
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Benefits of PMP Certification Explained
Is PMP certification worth it? According to Niraj Kumar the answer is an emphatic yes!

He not only says that the PMP salary you can expect is greater on average, but he also found many other PMP certification benefits. Having a shared vocabulary and enjoying a completely different and often steep career path are just two of them.

So if you are either already PMP certified or thinking about your own PMP Exam Prep and and wondering about the value of PMP certification, then this interview is definitely for you. Niraj and I explore the benefits of being or becoming a PMP from various aspects.
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Sample Question and Answer
Hello everyone! Here is this week's free PMP® exam sample question from the PM Exam Simulator.

Which of the following establishes quality metrics?
A. Quality planning
B. Quality baseline
C. Quality checklist
D. Quality assurance & quality control

HINT: Quality metrics are outputs of which process?
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