Things to understand about project management professional (PMP) certification Examination

Author: John Ps

In order to hone and excel their project management qualities, professionals need to adopt some extra measures like going for some certification programs or courses. These certification programs would not only polish your management skills but also help in boosting your confidence. Thereby, you attend your professional workshops, professional conferences or official meeting more confidently. After attending or qualifying some certification programs related to the project management, professionals would be able to manage their team more excellently and professionally.

Project Management Institute: The PMI is the institute which basically deals with providing various certification programs related to the project The Project Management Professionals exams are generally conducted by the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

According to the latest report there exist around 658,523 PMP active registered candidates. It has around 274 chartered chapters across worldwide.

Eligibility Criteria:

  1. In order to appear for the PMP exam candidates need to have at least a bachelor degree.
  2. A professional willing to appear for this exam, should necessarily have at least 45,000 hours of work experience of managing and leading a project.
  3. A professional candidate appearing for the Project Management Professional examination should have at least 35 hours of project management courses.
  4. In order to obtain the certification degree the candidates need to qualify this exam and should have all the above mentioned criteria of eligibility.

Exam and it syllabus:

The PMP exam is based specifically on five performance domains.

  1. Initiating
  2. Planning
  3. Execution
  4. Monitoring and controlling
  5. And the last domain is Closing

In order to excel yourself in the PMP exam, you need to firstly work on few of the specific knowledge areas as described as follows project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk, procurement and stakeholder management.

The professionals need to have a detailed knowledge of these areas in detail. The candidates need to work in deep and make proper studies on these areas to excel their PM skills and qualify the PMP certification exam as well.

Certification examination process:

The PMP certification examinations are generally based on two criteria including computer based and paper based. The PMP examinations are conducted by the global network of prometric testing centers. The paper based options are available only at those locations which has no prometric centers for conducting PMP examinations. The question paper includes total 200 questions.

The proficiency level of the candidates is also analyzed in three different tests. The results or the reports of the candidates are declared within four weeks of examinations. Hence go with the most reliable name and get the dedicated support for the same.

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