Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification is the benchmark for professional certification offered by the Project Management Institute. The professionals who successfully pass the PMP exam enter the elite club of PMP certification holders. There are just 1 million PMP certified professionals globally. PMP certification features in the ‘Top 10 Highest Paying Certifications.”

The PMP® certification demonstrates professionals’ knowledge and experience in project management including the five processes and ten knowledge areas of project management, and PMP® certification is renowned and recognized worldwide and applicable to all the verticals in the industry.

The average salary of a PMP certified professional in the United States is $80,000 – $110,000 according to PMI’s Project Management Salary Survey 10th edition. You can also visit our blog to know more about the average salary of a PMP (Project Management Professional) certified project manager worldwide.

The benefits of a PMP certification in terms of career advancement, global recognition, prominence, job opportunities, compensation are just great – but are you PMP certified? 

If the answer is NO, then find out if you are eligible.

Eligibility criteria for PMP® certification:

To become eligible for PMP certification, you need to satisfy the education, project experience, and project management education criteria.

• Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)
• 7,500 hours leading and directing projects
• 35 hours of project management education 

OR

• Four-year degree
• 4,500 hours leading and directing projects
• 35 hours of project management education 

Note:   “Can I take the PMP® exam without experience?” – is that your question? Why don’t you visit our article to find out more about it?

Almost everyone understands the education qualification aspect. But what is meant by project management experience and project management education?

Project Management Experience

Project management as a profession is all about delivery based on the agreed scope of work, execution, and communication with respective stakeholders to ensure a successful outcome. Communication is the cornerstone for a project manager to delegate, coordinate, manage and mitigate (risks)  in each and every phase all the way to closure and handover of the project. This is the fundamental why Project Management experience matters so much and carries weightage.

In case you have a secondary degree, all the 7500 hours need not be in actual project management. The experience in a project environment is also counted. You don’t have to be a project manager at all times. A leading or directing role like that of a Project Lead, or Assitant Supervisor or team member will do. The title doesn’t count as much as the experience. Bottom line: You must have 3.5 years of experience in leading and managing projects.

Likewise, you hold an under-graduation credential, then 2 years of experience in leading and managing projects is absolutely mandatory.

The roles can be:

• Supervisor
• Team leader
• Assistant project manager
• Project Manager
• Project coordinators
• Any role participating in project management processes

Project Management Education

The PMP certification exam is aligned with the PMI’s reference guide PMBOK- 6th edition This reference book is the core material about the principles and practices of project management covering 10 knowledge areas and 49 processes that a project manager must be proficient. The questions of the PMP exam is based on the 5 domains with differing percentage as detailed in the table.

Experience for “Leading and directing” projects will fall under five processes of project management: Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing.

PMP exam will test your knowledge areas are in five different project domains with differing percentages as detailed in the table. In order to pass, you must be strong in the subject matter to score well and clear the exam in your first attempt.

You need  35 contact hours of  PMP Training to satisfy the project management education requirement as prescribed by PMI.

You can earn these 35 hours through our PMP certification program which is conducted  in 3 different modes of training :

• Instructor- LED Classroom Training
• Instructor- LED Live Online Training (Live or Virtual Training)
• Self-paced Online Training or E-Learning

If you want to know “How do you Get 35 Contact Hours Of Project Management Education In PMP?”, please visit our blog to learn more about “What counts as contact hours for PMP”.

Target Audience

PMP exam is best suited for professionals with at least three (3) years of project management experience. They include:

• Program managers,
• Project managers, and
• Project leaders
• PMO leaders,
• Project Executives
• Project Engineers
• Associate Project Managers
• Team Managers
• Team Leads/
• Aspirants in the field of project management.

The target audiences must possess at least 2 years experience at least two (2) years of experience managing projects, including experience performing ALL of the following activities:

• Project scope definition
• Stakeholder management
• Development of project plan and schedule
• Project communications coordination
• Managing Project Team
• Cost Estimation
• Monitoring of resources and project progress based on milestones
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Evaluation of project performance
• Quality management
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Note: The PMP Exam will change on July 1, 2020

The Project Management Institute (PMI®) has decided to the Course Outline based on its survey and expert opinion from its Subject Matter Experts panel.  The PMP exam will change on July 1, 2020.

The present PMP course outline is based on 5 main domains, and the new course outline of PMP exam effect from July 2020 will focus on 3 new domains:

• People – Skills and knowledge (42%)
• Process- Technical aspects of handling projects (50%)
• Business Environment- Strategical aspects between the project and the organization (8%)

The new detailed framework of the content outline is based on predictive (approximately 50%), agile/hybrid (approximately 50%) approaches.

It will be a wise move to get your PMP certified as soon as possible before the PMP® Exam Changes on 1st July 2020.

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