Critical path, float, compression and the schedule questions candidates most often misread. 8 articles.
Burndown vs Burn-Up: 9 Keyed, 8 Distractors, and the Horizon Decides Which One
The bank splits these two charts almost evenly between keyed answers and distractors, which means guessing gets you nowhere. The separator is not which chart is better. It is who is asking and over what horizon, and whether the scope itself is moving.
September 8, 2026 · 8 min read
Dependency Types on the PMP Exam: Two Questions, Not One
Dependency options appear 21 times across this bank, keyed 6 and wrong 15. Almost every miss comes from answering only half the question. Every dependency has two independent attributes, and the exam routinely asks about both in the same item.
September 8, 2026 · 7 min read
Resource Levelling vs Smoothing: One Moves the Finish Date, One Never Does
Resource levelling appears in 13 answer options across the bank and is keyed 3 times. It is the schedule technique candidates reach for by reflex when a resource is short, and the exam keeps offering it against the technique that actually fits. One question separates the two.
September 8, 2026 · 7 min read
Crashing and Fast-Tracking: 4 Keyed, 22 Distractors, and One Question Settles It
Schedule compression appears 26 times as an answer option in this bank and is keyed 4 times. The four that work all answer a schedule problem. Most of the 22 that fail answer a cost problem, a scope problem, or a dependency that cannot be compressed at all.
September 7, 2026 · 8 min read
Milestones Have Zero Duration: 9 Keyed, 36 Distractors, and One Definition Settles Most of It
A milestone marks a moment, not a span of work. The bank offers milestones in 45 answer options, keys 9, and one item turns entirely on candidates who give a milestone a duration.
September 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Agile Metrics on the PMP Exam: Velocity, Throughput, and Which One the Scenario Wants
Velocity is the most-offered agile measure in this bank and one of the least reliably correct. It is a Scrum measure of one team's own capacity, and the exam builds distractors out of every way people misuse it: comparing teams, forecasting flow-based work, and reading it as a target.
September 6, 2026 · 8 min read
Building the Schedule: Which Estimating Technique the Exam Wants
Four estimating techniques, and the exam picks between them using one detail in the stem: what the team actually has to estimate from. Experience, a measured rate, a range, or the people doing the work.
September 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Critical Path Method (CPM) & Float
What the critical path is, how float works, and why candidates miss CPM questions — with the wrong-answer traps from the practice bank explained.
June 29, 2026 · 5 min read