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Flashcards are a wonderful study aid, but sometimes determining what you need to study and include on a flashcard can be a bit confusing, if not overwhelming. So, let’s take a look at what should be included on your PMP Exam Flashcards:
 

• The Five Project Management Process Groups
• The Nine Project Management Knowledge Areas
• The Forty-Two Project Management Processes
• Definition of a Project
• Role of a Project Manager
• Stakeholders
• Project, Program, Portfolio Management Relationships
• Purpose of the PMBOK® Guide
• Enterprise Environmental Factors
• Organizational Process Assets
• Organizational Structures
• Project Life Cycle
• Motivational Behavior Theories
• Triple Constraint
• Communication Channel Formula
• Stages of Team Development
• Work Breakdown Structure
• PERT Definition and Formula
• Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
• PDM Dependencies
• Earned Value Formulas
• Variance Formulas
• Performance Formulas
• Forecasting Formulas
• Standard Deviation
• Much More….

Identifying what you should study for the PMP Exam and creating flashcards yourself can be time consuming and stressful task. What if you forget an important fact, formula, or definition? What if while making the flashcards you mix up the information and your cards are incorrect, resulting in you studying the incorrect information?

One way to take off some of the stress of creating your own flashcards is to go to www.pmflashcards.com and purchase readymade PMP Flashcards which contain all of the information above and more. Even better... if you have a smartphone (iPhone/Android) then you can download the cards to your phone and easily carry them with you wherever you go.

The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from the Free PMP Exam Simulator:

Estimating costs demands expert skills. Which of the following is most important to document when estimating costs?

A.) Documentation of all assumptions made.
B.) Documentation of any known constraints.
C.) Indication of the range of possible estimates.
D.) Documentation of the basis of the estimate.

 

Hint:

All of the choices are examples of the supporting details you must attach to each cost estimate. But which one is the most important?


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There are forty nine formulas that you will need know and understand prior to taking the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam. There are PMP Exam formulas to plan activity durations and costs. There are formulas to calculate the value or cost of the project. There are formulas to make sure a project stays within scope, on schedule, and within budget. There are formulas to forecast project schedule and cost if the project did not progress as planned. There are formulas to calculate the value of the project.

And on top of all of these formulas, you will also need to know and understand all of the associated acronyms. The number and variety of formulas and acronyms you will need to fully understand to pass the PMP® Exam may seem a bit overwhelming, but you can easily learn and review the formulas by using a study guide and practicing answering formula related questions.

Creating a formula study guide yourself can be a time consuming task. Plus if you write down and studying a formula incorrectly it can hurt your chances of passing the PMP® Exam. Developing formula related questions to study has its own issues. For one you already know the answers, and two if you put together a study problem wrong then you are going to study incorrect information.

This is where www.pmformulas.com can help. Here you can download a PMP Formula Study Guide that you can be certain has the correct formulas and acronym descriptions, a cheat sheet pocket guide, and best of all 105 formula related PMP® Exam sample questions to help you practice your formula knowledge.

The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from the Free PMP Exam Simulator:

You are the project manager on a new nationwide telecom network. Your client told you that conformance to the highest quality standards is mandatory but this client is new to the telecom industry and is unable to provide specific technical parameters. Your client said that the network's conformance should be graded against the leading telecom operator in the country.
What is this practice called?

A.) Cost-Benefit Analysis
B.) Pairwise Comparison
C.) Benchmarking
D.) Quality Metrics

 

Hint:

Your client has an existing telecom network in mind against which they are setting their quality requirements.


All our questions are updated to the latest PMBOK® Guide standard. Stop by at http://free.pm-exam-simulator.com and try the PMP Exam Simulator free for 3 days. We also offer 110 free questions at http://www.free-pm-exam-questions.com. We are a PMI Registered Education Provider.

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There are forty two project management processes within the PMBOK® Guide which means there are forty two sets of Inputs, Tols & Techniques, and Outputs (ITTOs) to learn for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam. That may seem a bit overwhelming but with the use of flashcards studying the ITTOs it can be done quickly and easily.

The first step is to be able to determine which ITTO goes with which of the project management processes defined in the PMBOK® Guide. Knowing which ITTO goes with which process may help you pass the PMP Exam, but understanding the concepts and relationships of each will increase your probability of answering even more of the ITTO related questions correctly. The more you answer correctly the greater chance you have of passing. Flashcards can be used to learn the ITTOs because they are condensed and a little easier to use on the go than the PMBOK® Guide. Flashcards can be used by yourself or with a friend to help you study. If you study by yourself you can read each card to learn each ITTO, if a friend helps you study then they can ask you the questions related to what is contained in each ITTO.

So if you have a few moments by yourself, waiting at the doctor, or standing in line to drop off the mail at the post office are excellent times pull out your flash cards and review at least a few. There is a lot of information to learn for the PMP® Exam and breaking it up into small bits can make it a little easier. If you want to add to the convenience of using flashcards by not carrying around a stack of heavy paper cards then why not carry your PMP® Exam flashcards on your phone or other media player? If that sounds lot better than paper flashcards where you may lose one or more, or worse yet drop the stack and have a mess to clean up then check out the PMP Exam Flashcards offered at www.pmflashcards.com that can be downloaded to your iPod, Blackberry, Treo, Windows mobile device or smart phone.