Should you memorize ITTO
Should PMP? certification aspirants remember and/or memorize all the Inputs, Tools and Techniques, and Outputs for the exam? This question comes in every aspirant’s mind while preparing for the exam.
Around 40% of the PMP Exam questions (roughly 80 out of 200) can be accurately answered by having thorough knowledge of the ITTOs. But, memorizing all the ITTOs can be one daunting task. Not memorizing can be addressed accurately in the event that you have a strong understanding of the ITTOs. However, there are no shortcuts to solve these type of questions. Almost everyone planning to sit the exam has similar thoughts, so you are definitely not alone. There are arguments both for and against memorizing ITTOs so you can decide what is best for you and suits your learning style the most.?
Why you should memorize
If you have an excellent ability to memorize, it is still wise to remember them and score a couple of more questions correctly. This can beneficial for some and can be done if you initiate your study long before the exam.
Successful aspirants often advise in favor of memorizing in order to increase your chances of success and take away the nervousness. Some have even admitted to have memorized all the ITTOs.
If you feel that memorizing is what’s best for you, you can download our free app ‘PMP? Exam Mentor’ and use it to memorize the ITTOs while understanding where they are used in each process thoroughly.?
Why you should not memorize
Memorizing ITTOs for 49 processes is not easy, and sometimes not really necessary. However, if you understand the content multi-dimensionally, the output of any process becomes the input to the next process in the logical order.
If someone finds it hard to logically follow through with the ITTOs, it might indicate a less than sufficient knowledge of the content and sole dependence on memorization.?Understanding the relationship between different processes and the context of each process is thus of vital importance as our memories can fail us under pressure.
The best way to practice the sequential and logical arrangement of the ITTOs every day is to do as many mock questions as you possibly can. These questions can be retrieved from many sources including our app ‘PMP? Exam Mentor’ to improve your chances of successfully passing the exam without having to memorize the ITTOs. The app provides many ways to reinforce your knowledge of the ITTOs and help you understand how different processes interact with each other.???
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Deciding what’s best for you
In the end you have to decide what method suits you the best. Both memorizing and not memorizing has its advantages and disadvantages so you have to weigh them all and come up with your own conclusion.?
Our free ‘PMP? Exam Mentor’ app is an excellent source to learn, revise, and enhance your knowledge to help you prepare for the exam. The app allows you to take the material with you and study anywhere and anytime. It is a powerful, cost-effective, and goal-oriented solution.?Quickly skim through the app for PMP? exam preparation while using public transport or while waiting for the doctor and then assess your knowledge with hundreds of flashcards and practice questions.
PMP? Exam Mentor
The ‘PMP? Exam Mentor’ app allows choosing how you learn, what you learn, and when you learn. This app would help you immensely in various aspects of Project Management whether you are preparing for the PMP? certification exam or you are a practicing project manager. The ‘PMP? Exam Mentor’ app provides you an opportunity to make the best use of mobility moments (a quick short time available while commuting, waiting, in-between meetings, small breaks, etc.) to quickly refresh your knowledge on various aspects. This app is made up of various sections providing you with a multidimensional learning path.
PMP? Exam Mentor 2022 Edition free app is a quick reference guide that helps PMP? Exam certification aspirants prepare and revise for the important exam based on "Examination Content Outline – January 2021” and PMBOK? Guide 7th Edition
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Associate Manager PMO at Macter International Limited
5 年memorizing the ITTOs can be serious set back during exam pressure. practicing through otters ways sounds like a better idea. Plus, being a practicing manager, sometimes instant memory refresher seems mandatory... this app sounds like a solution. Thank you!
diverse thinker - #strokeWarrior since Oct'20 Earned a living in p3m & corp change space. Now drawing from health sector Amazed how little learning known in 1 & universally useful travels to other
5 年Clearly an Advert for the App - so is it balanced since the author has an agenda.? IMHO if you can memorize the ITTO then DO NOT bother with PM as a career - there are so many other ways you could have a great life with that sort of memory as an asset. So if you don't have thaht sort of memory - which 99% of PMP holders don't either then memorising is not required. There is no substitute for UNDERSTANDING the flow through the processes -? If you know T&T end -ing and or contain "analysis/ method" etc type words your a long way there If you know "Business need to charter to pmp to deliverable to verified to accepted to transitioned" your a long way there - This isn't memorising IO its understanding process flow
Head of Project Management / Deputy head of Software Engineering
6 年In my humble opinion it is way better to understand ITTO than memorizing them ...unless you want to mix up everything during the exam ??