PMI Project Management Professional Certification

Not many credits in the market are as valuable and worthwhile as Project Management Professional Certificate, more commonly called PMP. When you are PMPO certified, the globe regards your professionalism in a new light, taking your leading capabilities as well as the skills of management much more seriously than ever before. This is the sole reason of existence of PMP.

Started in 1984, PMP is meant to identify and accentuate as well as bring out the leading and managing abilities of an individual. In this regard, PMP judges a professional by the skills he exhibits, to direct project teams and deliver results while remaining in the decided/allotted budget and resources.

Candidates who undergo the PMP examinations are expected to produce the decided the results while seeing to it that the project plan is executed as per the directions, and the variances are addressed appropriately and communicated effectively. This they have to accomplish while remaining well within the allocated budget, schedule and the resources. The candidates are fully accountable for every stage of the project, at any stage of the project. In this context, they have to not only lead the project team and direct it, but also manage the individual team members and see to it that their performance remains optimum through out the project life.

When a certification is acquired after all this hard work, maintaining an industry standard, no wonder the employers honor it so much. This qualification authenticates an individual's flare for management. This also assures the employer of your individual traits. The employer gets a direct measure of the following qualities of yours:

1. Ability to LEAD and DIRECT
2. Ability to work within a budget
3. Ability to meet a schedule
4. Ability to work within giving resources
5. The ability to fully commit to a project

All these characteristics will make any employer run after you like crazy, and that is exactly what happens to PMP professionals. An employer knows that if you have earned this credit, naturally you deserve it, and they read this as an ROI to their organization. All these qualities make sure that you enjoy a pay package way above what your counter parts who are non-credited, take home.

However, since this qualification is of such importance to all, it does not apply to everyone. There is a strict eligibility criterion that you have to fit yourself into. This prerequisite takes your expertise, qualification and your professional background, everything into account.

In addition to all of this, in order to write the exam, you will also have to agree to adhere to the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. This will be followed by a hard, onerous multiple choice exam, which will elaborately address each characteristic mentioned above, and grade you accordingly.

The prerequisite:
In order to qualify for the examination, you need to comply to the following:

1. Have 35 hours of specific project management education.
2. For those who have a Bachelor's Degree (or the global equivalent):
   A minimum three years' professional project management experience, yielding a breakdown of 4,500 hours in leading and directing projects (for eight years from the time of application)
3. For those without a Bachelor's Degree (or the global equivalent):
   A minimum of five years' professional project management experience, yielding a breakdown of 7,500 hours in leading and directing projects (for eight years from the time of application)

The Examination
The duration of the examination is four hours. During these four hours, you will have to complete a set of 200 questions, all in multiple choice format. These questions will evaluate your ability to apply all that you have learned: your knowledge, your skills and techniques in project management. The examination has been designed by a team of industry experts who have the PMP credit on their repertoire and have transcended internationally.

The examination is reviewed and edited on a regular basis in order to maintain and sustain the industry standards, to make sure than a consistently objective evaluation continues.

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