Real exam vs mock exam

Submitted by sbumich on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 21:04

My questions is to those who recenly took PMP exam.  Many exam takers commented on content of the exam saying it is not necessary to remember ITTO as long as you understand the logic.  However, some of the free exams, Lehmann, pmpforsure, etc, ask very specific  ITTO questions.  Based on your experience, do you feel example below is similar what was asked at the exam?  Thank you


































Question No : 91

 

In your project, you are determining project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships. Which of the following is not an input to this process?


 


 

Choice 1


Enterprise environmental factors


 


 

Choice 2


Organizational process assets


 


 

Choice 3


Activity resource requirements


 


 

Choice 4


Project organization charts


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trawal

Wed, 04/25/2012 - 21:27

4?

javs

Wed, 04/25/2012 - 22:47

sbumich  you don't need to learn the ITTOS by heart, I did the exam last thursday, and I didn't learn the ITTOS you need to understand them, make a lot of questions, you will be ready when you practice. ITTOS if i remember are arround 517 i don't have that kind of memory for learn them and i cleared the exam. Only thing I can tell, is do questions,, a lot of them.

projmanpro

Thu, 04/26/2012 - 07:05

If you memorized ITTOs and the questions are straight forward for example like this, "All of the following are inputs of Create WBS process" except:" I am pretty sure, you will get all the correct answers. However, questions in the actual PMP exam may not be like this all the time.

The sample question you posted is an example of a question on ITTO that has a direct or straight forward answer; yet this has no direct or straight forward question relating to the exact term of the process, but instead the "definition" of the process was given. In this case, by the definition given, you will know which process is this speaking about, and thereafter you can determine the correct answer. In this scenario, memorization will not work, but "understanding the process" will do.

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saket_pmp

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:57

Sbumich – Honestly, there is NO trusted authority that ranks PMP mock test simulators. You should be aware that REP (Registered Education Providers) is only applicable for PMP Training/Workshop it provides and PDU that it awards, REP is not a seal of trust for any Mock Test.


Understand few things, about 20-30% questions you will find would be similar across i.e. reworded or of similar type, please be convinced that people read PMBOK and some standard books like Rita, Kim and Andy and frame questions. Hence there would be about 20-30% of contents similarity across any good PMP Mock Test providers. This is a real example of 80-20 rule! End of day goal is PMP exam and when the goal is same, there would be many things similar.


Coming to PMP questions – PMP exam has mix type questions and many simple one too. Every month around 4,500 people across globe are passing PMP, so in reality PMP is not a tough exam to crack. As per my 4 years of PMP teaching, what I think is that 25% of PMP questions are tricky only, again its your luck too, as questions are pulled on random basis on each process group. If you see people success story, some would say easy, some would say easy/tough while some would say tough and this is because of randomized algorithm. (Hence it’s your Luck too)


I would say, make yourself ready to face all type of questions provided they have framed questions using PMBOK 4th edition. As long as the question is correct, it’s a potential PMP question. Around 80% of PMP questions would be around IITO, and hence as you rightly noticed some Mock Test providers focus on IITO too much. You as a human find out your own ways to remember IITO, whether you learn, or remember by any other mean, its your call. Find out your own ways.