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PMHub now offers you the benefit of daily guidance to help you stay on the road to success with the project management exam or to sharpen and exercise the project management skills you already possess. Each edition of the PMHub Tip of the Day will give you a question of the day, daily terminology booster, and links to other helpful tools that will prepare you for exam success.
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The CAPM Exam Success Series: Placemat Volume 1 is designed to provide easy memorization of the 44 PMBOK processes, their details and their sequence that the CAPM Exam is based on. It also includes a number of graphical aids for memorization, formulas, earned value and PMI standards. It's an 11" x 17" study aid that can go where you go!



  • 11" x 17" Double sided Protective Laminate
  • Process Mapping and Knowledge Areas organized for memorization
  • Tables and Formulas for fast and easy memorization
  • Color-coded organization for all 9 knowledge areas
  • Perfect for last minute Study Sessions

Question of the Day
Crosswind Custom Websites is building an ecommerce system. However, conflicting priorities from other projects has delayed the finish by two weeks. The schedule shows that the next task is to define the requirements needed by the customer, then that is followed by the coding. This is an example of what?

(a) Mandatory Dependencies
(b) Lag
(c) Discretionary Dependencies
(d) Crashing

Terminology of the Day
Activity-on-Node (AON)

A network diagramming method in which activities are shown on the boxes or circles of the network diagram and connected via arrows
Answer and Explanation to Yesterday's Question
The trade show project team has just begun breaking down the pieces of the project into smaller easier to maintain and manage pieces. This is known as what?

(a) Scope Verification
(b) Scope Definition
(c) Scope Planning
(d) Creating the WBS (Correct)

Explanation: Creating the WBS process involves taking the Scope of the project and breaking it down into smaller pieces that are easier to define, estimate, and manage. Scope Verification is comparing the Scope of the project to work results. Scope Planning involves determining the Scope Statement and Scope management approach for the project. Scope Definition involves establishing the Scope Statement of the project.

For more questions, terminology and other exercises please see the PMP® Exam Success Series: Certification Exam Manual at www.c rosswind pm.com