What are the requirements for PMP Certifications?

Anyone wanting to have a PMP certification could have dilemmas on where to start the whole process or would be wondering what the requirements for PMP certifications are. Many people do have this difficulty regarding the requirements and people are most likely to be wondering what the requirements are. The requirements are pretty simple and hope this article will prove to be sufficient to illustrate those rather straight forward requirements.

PMP certification requirements can be summed up in these steps.

Step 1: Identification

PMI certifications don’t necessarily require Ids but these can be helpful. The best place to register and get an Id would be atwww.pmi.org. This registration is free of cost and will help you become updated regarding PMIs latest stuffs. Before you register make sure you fulfill the eligibility though because you cannot cancel the online application process once you start it. The registration application requires you to give your legitimate email ids or whatever information they ask for.

Step 2: Qualification

You need to have a secondary degree like a high school diploma, associate’s degree or worldwide equi3valent of respective degrees or a 4 years Bachelors Degree or its global equivalent

Step 3: Experience

If you have a high school diploma or its global equivalent then you need to have at least 5 years of project management experience. It has to be a unique professional project management experience. Along with that you will need to have spent about 8000 hours on leading or directing multiple projects. If you have 4 years Bachelors Degree or its global equivalent then you will need to have had at least 3 years of project management experience. Again the experience has to be a unique professional project experience. Along with that you will need to have spent around 4500 hours on leading or directing projects.

Step 4: Project Management Education

In the both the cases you need to have had at least 35 hours of direct Project Management education.

Step 5: Membership

PMI have membership service which will allow you to be facilitated by different things such as library uses or waiver in PMI re certification and fees.

Step 6: Hard work and knowledge

After you have become a member and have decided to give the examinations, one thing you shouldn’t forget and one thing that is of great value and is a mandatory requirement for PMP certification is Study and hard work. You will need to do the hard yards. You will need to take a lot of information from the Internet and get familiarized with as many keywords and terms regarding PMP as possible. You can gather the knowledge at the PMPs official webpagewww.pmp.org. Apart from this you might have to buy a couple of books that will definitely fall under the category of ‘Requirements’. The books that you need to read are PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) which is an essential guide that literally explains all the necessary terminologies and makes you familiar with the keywords and all and Rita Mulcahy’s PMP preparation books that contains sample question that many consider as the best book one can come across for PMP preparations.

Step 7: Examination

The final step for the PMI certification and credential process is the examination. The examination is the test on knowledge of a PMI applicant on areas such as project management, leadership skills such as control and execution in the field of project management. It generally covers all area of project management.

The PMP examinations questions are:

•Developed according to the ISO/IEC 17024 standard

•Developed and validated by different worldwide work groups with PMP credential holders.

•Referenced to current project management titles, which include PMI’s Global standards;

•Looked at by using psychometric method of analysis.

•Developed to assure the test qualifications of the PMP Examination Content Outline.

The generalized process of examination is:

  1. Apply for examination: This includes all the prerequisites mentioned above and payment for PMI membership.

    Exam Code: This includes all the other procedure for gaining examination eligibility code.

    Pass the exam.

The examination has some set of rule which needs to be strictly followed so you need to follow the regulations set by the exam departments. Any illegal action may ban you from PMP examinations for a certain amount of time.

PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirement Program has a decree such that a PMP credential holder has to earn around 60 PDUs per a 3 year cycle. For further information there are various websites with videos and you can also check out the PMI handbook included on their official websitewww.pmi.org.

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