Current Edition of The PMBOK Guide
PMI released the PMBOK Guide 7th Edition in Aug 2021 but the primary reference for the PMP exam is still 6th Edition. You can click here to find the PMP Exam reference list.
I also sent an email to Project Management Institute (PMI) asking about the primary reference guide for the PMP Exam in 2021. I asked them, "Which is the Primary Reference Guide for PMP Exam Preparation in 2021?"
Following is an excerpt from PMI's reply mail:
"Thank you for contacting the Project Management Institute.
We have received your query regarding the PMBOK guide.
We kindly need to inform you that the primary reference that you should refer back to for PMBOK guide is the 6th edition."
The PMP ITTO Concepts E-Book is based on the PMBOK Guide 6th Edition.
Why Are ITTO Annoying And Frustrating?
PMBOK Guide 6th edition is a huge book. It has close to 1000 pages.
There are more than 1000 ITTO across 49 processes.
It is next to impossible to memorize the ITTO.
Learning ITTO is an annoying and serious problem. But, like many other things in life, you have to overcome it.
Can you pass the CAPM / PMP exam without learning ITTO?
No! Learning ITTO is a necessary evil.
Hey! I am Praveen Malik.
I passed my PMP exam in the year 2005. In those days the PMBOK Guide was much thinner. It was about the one-fourth the size of today's version. The number of processes and ITTO were much less.
In 2005, I had many anxious moments while preparing for the PMP Exam. I just could not memorize the ITTO but I still passed the exam with flying colors.
How did I pass? I found some unique ways to learn and understand the ITTO.
I found a way to logically understand the connetions between PMBOK Guide processes and ITTO. I found out the following things:
- that PMBOK Guide processes are related to each other.
- output a process has a deep connection with input of another process.
- each process has a practical utility. It is applied a number of times for managing a project.
I became a full time trainer and coach in the year 2008. As an independent trainer, I wanted to provide the best study material to my students. So, I refined and formalized my learnings from my student days. And, in the process PMP ITTO Concepts eBook came out.
Over the years, I have received positive feedback from my students about the eBook. Hundreds of students have used to it to overcome the fear of ITTO and successfully pass the exam.
You don't have to go through the trial and tribulations of memorizing ITTO.
Get Rid of "How To Learn ITTO?" Problem
1. Learn Relationships
Conceptually understand the inter-relationships between different processes.
2. Make Cross-connections
Grasp the ITTO relationships across Knowledge Areas and Process Groups.
3. Get It Right
Answer PMP ITTO questions by understnding processes and ITTO logically.
Connections Make The World Go Round
PMP ITTO Concepts e-Book
Understand PMBOK Guide's process flow to confidently solve ITTO questions.
Find Your Connection With The PMBOK Guide
You can easily overcome your fear of "How to answer PMP ITTO Questions?". You do not need to memorize many things. You jsut need to undestand the PMP ITTO logically.
A little bit of memorization is helpful, but pure mugging-up will not take you anywhere. You just need to understand the processes and inputs/outputs conceptually to answer the exam questions correctly.
PMP ITTO Concepts eBook Flow Chart Samples
Click here for more information about the PMP ITTO Concepts eBook
PMBOK Guide Concepts eBook is a comprehensive guide to understand the connections between the PMBOK Guide processes across Knowledge Areas (KA) and Prcocess Groups (PG).
The eBook containg 16 steps for learning processes and ITTO. Furthermore, it has 45+ helpful techniques and 20 explanatory flow charts for answering the exam questions correctly. It also provides solutions & explanations of 10 sample questions by applying the suggested techniques. The eBook will help you in your exam preparation and boost your confidence.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein -
What Others Are Saying About PMP ITTO Concepts e-Book
Memorizing ITTO with understanding each process worked for me
Instructions to handle exam questions helped me a lot. I studied for this exam for 4 months. I memorized ITTO while reading book. I read PMBOK 2 times and did many exam simulator (one suggested by you - PMP simulator) concept to understand the concept of variety of questions.
However memorizing ITTO with understanding each process worked for me.
Nalini Srivastava // Systems Control Engineer at GE
Thanks for putting all the useful information together
I took the exam and passed it with Above the Target Rating. There were a lot of questions that were testing the understanding/ definitions of the processes, tools and techniques.
Thanks for putting all the useful information together. Change Requests and Work Performance Data/Info/Report section helped me to better understand the flow of the outputs.
Marisa W // Project Analyst with Canadian Government
A must have for PMP students
It was good information and helped me think about how to approach some of the questions. I sat for my exam just a couple days after receiving the tools and I passed.
The tools shorten the learning duration - a must have for PMP students.
Matthew Parker // Project Manager at Starbucks
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I have been teaching PMP students since 2005. I have conducted several in-classroom & online PMP workshops and trained thousands of aspirants for the certification exam.
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