Congratulations to all the aspiring Managers who want to combine experience with education to enable higher performance at job. Remembering Inputs/outputs and Tools &Techniques is often the challenging but extremely important part during PMP preparation, especially since there are more than 10 questions in the exam directly based on ITTOs.
The trick that i followed for remembering the Inputs/outputs and Tools &Techniques was carrying the hard copies of the PMBOK pages where these are diagramatically given at the beginning of each chapter.
Print those 13 pages and read it every morning and evening for 30mins for 1 week without attempting to understand.
In Week2, try to memorise ITTOs of 4 knowledge areas by allocating 30mins to each knowledge area every alternate day.
Repeat the process in week 3 for the remaining KAs.
After week4, you would have memorised all the ITTOs individually.
The weeks are given on the basis of assumption that you have 4hours to read per week. If you can increase the time for study, it will be quicker.
After spending about 13hours on an average (1hr per KA), now start by creating a mind map of linking which input of which process is an output of other process. Please draw it yourself and not rely on the diagrams given in the PMBOK.
Also please read Rita Mulcahy book twice before the exam and practice the exams.
It would not harm to give pratice tests in test mode of 4 hours. Please let me know if you need some practice tests, i have some (Only after you have learnt the ITTOs and read the book well)
Hope this helps, please feel free to write to my gmail account for quicker response: [email protected] Saving Changes...
Markus KopkoAI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM
AI Coach| PMotion.aiHamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hello all,
after reading all the posts here (some in a rush to be honest) i could say as somebody taking the exam less than a year ago, Mounir is right.
Of course it could help to participate from others experience and how they have managed the huge amount of knowledge, but even trying to memorize all the ITTOs is just wasting time and if you do compare the work and the time you need to with the benefit you would gain it is just not profitable, i guess.
And from my personal expereince, i had not only one question in my exam which was directly related or asking for an ITTO.
And at least since the exam changes in hte beginning of this year the focus in exam questuions lies more and more on situational descriptions.
But we all know, ITTOs are an important aspect of PMP exam, so how to master them if not remembering them?
Please refer to this guide with great tipps on how to master all these ITTO stuff:
? The Complete Guide to PMP ITTO (Inputs, Tools, Techniques and Outputs) ?
? http://goo.gl/crShnB
Regards,
Markus
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1 reply by RMA GOYAL
May 12, 2016 7:47 AM
RMA GOYAL
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Hi Markus,
The opinions shared in this thread have been widely varied,however, all of us have to understand that knowing ITTOs are extremely important. Thanks for your note and i am glad that i could provoke a healthy discussion in our PM community.
after reading all the posts here (some in a rush to be honest) i could say as somebody taking the exam less than a year ago, Mounir is right.
Of course it could help to participate from others experience and how they have managed the huge amount of knowledge, but even trying to memorize all the ITTOs is just wasting time and if you do compare the work and the time you need to with the benefit you would gain it is just not profitable, i guess.
And from my personal expereince, i had not only one question in my exam which was directly related or asking for an ITTO.
And at least since the exam changes in hte beginning of this year the focus in exam questuions lies more and more on situational descriptions.
But we all know, ITTOs are an important aspect of PMP exam, so how to master them if not remembering them?
Please refer to this guide with great tipps on how to master all these ITTO stuff:
? The Complete Guide to PMP ITTO (Inputs, Tools, Techniques and Outputs) ?
? http://goo.gl/crShnB
Regards,
Markus
Hi Markus,
The opinions shared in this thread have been widely varied,however, all of us have to understand that knowing ITTOs are extremely important. Thanks for your note and i am glad that i could provoke a healthy discussion in our PM community. Saving Changes...
STEVE BOEDECKERUnemployed Project Manager| FutureVision ProductionsVernon, Nj, United States
From sample PMP Test:
Which of the following is NOT an input into DEFINE Activities?
A- scope baseline
B- Organ Process Assets
c- Sched Management Plan
D- The Activity List
This is a sample of MANY of these types of ITTO questions. SO when someone says, Don't worry about memorizing the Inputs and Outputs, I understand to an extent but to say "My experience teaching is 1000s of people" as a basis to say don't worry about them, is wrong.
MY recommendation as I am studying and what COULD work for you, but not necessarily, is make sure you memorize KEY ITTO and where they are in the Domain or Process. THEN you could see a pattern that will help you eliminate the definite wrong choices and narrow it down to 50-50. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
Hi Steve
First - as I said before - if people feel it is important to remember ITTO - please do not hesitate - study and remember them.
Second - instead of making this as opinions let me say this: I can honestly tell you that despite my years of experience and leading PMP classes for more than 13 years; I cannot recite to you the ITTOs.
Here is the way to answer the question you raised. Of course, I am assuming people know project management and who have the basic idea of how to manage projects.
We are looking for something that is NOT an input that means 1 is not and 3 are inputs.
A. Scope Baseline --- do we need to have the scope defined before we can do the schedule? Or at least finalize the schedule? Yes we do. Therefore A is an input.
Another note on A. What does the scope baseline consist of? scope statement, WBS, and dictionary --- and we all know we need WBS for schedule.
B. OPA - this is easy - I think 40 or more of the 47 processes require this as an input. To be sure, what is OPA? OPA is about the org policies, procedures, guidelines, templates, lessons learned, and historical data. Is this required to develop the schedule? YES because we can even use list of activities from similar projects
C. SMP --- every knowledge area starts with a management plan - it is the first step for any knowledge area. Therefore, it is logical that before I can start the time management processes to start with SMP.
D. Activity list: this can be tricky if you do not understand what is the objective of the Define Activities Process. It is the process to create a list of activities and milestones. Therefore, it is an output and not an input.
This is the point that I have been raising from my first post. Understanding the processes and what they do and understanding the relationship between them.
I hope I will not insult anyone by saying - the memorization idea is usually from people who might have worked on projects but not led projects or truly understand the main aspects of project management. This is why there is a need for memorization because they cannot visualize. Of course - I am talking about the main processes and not every details since I know people with 20 years on the job and they do not understand the details.
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1 reply by STEVE BOEDECKER
May 12, 2016 9:26 AM
STEVE BOEDECKER
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Excellent reply. Thanks for that brief comment also on each potential answer!
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STEVE BOEDECKERUnemployed Project Manager| FutureVision ProductionsVernon, Nj, United States
Excellent reply. Thanks for that brief comment also on each potential answer! Saving Changes...
I see Mounir's point but as you had mentioned, there may be around 10 (or so) direct ITTO questions - as well as additional questions that test-takers can "breeze through" without burning too much energy should they have the ITTO's memorized - with a clear understanding of them, of course. Saving Changes...
Tamer Zeyad SadiqAssistant Cost Manager| Turner & TownsendRiyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
