Category: PMP Exam Tips

Project Procurement Management is usually considered more difficult to most Aspirants as many project managers do not have sufficient knowledge and experience in dealing with contracting issues — contract administration, contract types, contract closure, etc. This post will expound on the various types of contracts that are mentioned in the PMBOK® Guide®...

UPDATED for new PMP® Exam 2019. In project risk management, according to different types of risk (positive or negative), the PMBOK® Guide recommends the following risk management strategies: For negative risks: Mitigate Avoid Transfer Accept Escalate For positive risks (i.e. opportunities): Enhance Exploit Share Accept Out of the four risk management strategies for...

A very detailed lessons learned for the PMP® Exam from Srinivas Reddy Nalla who passed the exam with 4 proficient and 1 moderately proficient. Srinivas Reddy Nalla Passed the New Exam Below is the sharing by Srinivas who have recently passed the new exam: Exam Preparation I have taken my exam on...

Quality is an crucial aspect for project success. Quality is both important for the deliverables (products) and the management of the project for the creation of the deliverables. Project Quality vs Product Quality Product Quality: product quality is the adherence/conformance of the product/deliverable of the project to the pre-defined requirements/standards. Product...

In project time management, when using the Critical Path Method  (CPM) to determine the project schedule, there are two types of float that are easily confused by many Aspirants: Free Float and Total Float. Free Float vs Total Float A Float/Slack is a schedule flexibility an activity has in a project network diagram...

In project management, once the original plan does not proceed as expected or there are any changes in the external environments, the Project Management will need to investigate whether changes to the original plan is needed. This is where Fallback and Workaround would need to be implemented. However, Aspirants should...

In Project Cost Management, project managers will have to deal with Cost Baseline and Cost Budget. However, these two terms are easily confused in everyday language. In the PMBOK® Guide, Cost Budget and Cost Baseline are different concepts that need to be distinguished clearly. This post will expound on the similarities...

Control charts are one of the Seven Basic Quality Tools used in Control Quality as described in PMBOK® Guide to give a visual depiction of the changes in the outcome of a process. Though in the ideal situation, a process will give the same results for each and every time it...

In Project Schedule Management, when the Project Management needs to deal with time delay (or the sudden request from management to deliver the deliverables sooner), there are two important methods to compress the schedule (schedule compression techniques) so as to catch up with the target dates while preserving the project scope: crashing...

There are always variances for the results from a process over time. The results are to be plotted on a control chart. The closer the results from each other, the smaller the variance (a variance of 0 indicates that all the results are identical — however this cannot be achieved in reality)....

A great opportunity to earn PDU for FREE for re-certification! The PMI Information Systems & Technology Symposium 2016 would be held on 30 June 2016 for PMP® and PMI-ACP® Certification holders to earn up to 6 PMP® PDU. This event is free of charge for PMI members only — NEW! registered PMI members will...

In Risk Management Knowledge Area of the PMBOK® Guide, apart from the primary risks — which are uncertain events that may have impacts (either positive or negative) on the project objectives if occur, there are also residual risks and secondary risks. All these types of risks must be identified, analyzed, monitored...

The PMP® Exam requests Aspirants to have gained 35 Contact Hours of project management education and holders to accumulate at least 60 PDUs per 3-year re-certification cycle in order to renew the PMP® credential. The same is required of PMI-ACP® aspirants and holders — 21 Contact Hours of Agile Education and 30...

Important Update: Brain Dump is not allowed during the tutorial before the PMP® Exam now. Aspirants would however need to make use of the 4-hour exam time to do the brain dump if needed. If you are not familiar with concept of “Brain Dump”, you may refer to this article...

For every project, one of the key activity is to define the “scope”. There are actually two types of scopes — project scope and product scope. Many Aspirants may mistakenly consider project scope and product scope are identical, in fact, project scope and product scope are two different concepts. This post will...