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Time Management Tips for CMAA Exam

The CMAA Practice Exam provides essential time management calculation tips for candidates, emphasizing that no external materials are allowed during the exam. Key instructions include understanding activity relationships, calculating early and late start/finish dates, and handling lag times appropriately. The document outlines specific formulas for early/late start and finish, as well as free and total float calculations.

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Time Management Tips for CMAA Exam

The CMAA Practice Exam provides essential time management calculation tips for candidates, emphasizing that no external materials are allowed during the exam. Key instructions include understanding activity relationships, calculating early and late start/finish dates, and handling lag times appropriately. The document outlines specific formulas for early/late start and finish, as well as free and total float calculations.

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CMAA Practice Exam

Time Management Calculation Tips


PLEASE NOTE: Candidates are NOT allowed to bring any notes, documents, equations, references, etc., into the
testing room. Detailed information about the examination requirements is provided in the CCM Application
Handbook.

These notes, formulas, and calculation tips pertain to the CPM problems and calculations for the
baseline schedule questions in the Time Management section of the Practice Exam. Exam
candidates are NOT provided this, or an comparable information during the actual exam.

1. Note relationships. Which are not finish-start? Which ones are finish-start but with a lag?
2. Begin calculating the first activity on the left side.
3. Activity 1 begins on Day 1 (like Primavera, not day 0 like MS Project)
4. Work towards the right, up and down, except long path of simple relationship activities.
5. With lag greater than 0, first calculate the link as if it had no lag. Then add the lag time.
6. Each predecessor must be evaluated in turn to determine the correct early start date for the successor.
During the forward pass, the greater No. (latest date) overrides.
7. Same for backward pass: each successor must be evaluated to determine the correct late finish date for
the preceding activity. During the backward pass, the lesser No. (earlier date) overrides.
8. The last activity has no successor, so the late date formulas don’t apply. Assume for the last activity, EF =
LF = END.
9. When applying a lag in backward pass, you essentially reverse the sign of the lag.

Early Start = EFP + 1 Activity ID Early Finish = ES + D -1

Late Start = LF – D + 1 Duration Late Finish = LSS – 1

Free Float = ESS – EF-1 Total Float = LF – EF

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