7 Steps to Prepare for A Project Management Professional Certification You Need-to-Know

Just like other examination, just a good preparation that is the best way to help you pass the PMP examination, if you are considering taking a PMP exam that you should especially know this information. Get more here. To improve your insight in directly how to become a certified project management professional with 7 steps below as like:

7 Steps to Prepare for A Project Management Professional Certification You Need-to-Know

step 1: If you want to take the PMP certification examination that you need three requirements such as: First of all, you need to own a Bachelor’s degree or its international equivalent ( especially, it is 4 years degree, not a 3 years degree), secondly, you need at least 4500 hours of project management training in above 3 years, finally, you need to undergo a 35 hours project management training by trying to register Education Provider on the PMI website that it is the best convenient for you. In addition, if you don’t hold a Bachelor’s degree that you have to get a hight school diploma, you need to have experience about 7500 hours of project management. and of course 35 hours of project management training you need to carry out.

Step 2: If you get enough all eligibility criteria above that you can take a PMP certification examination by filling in the form application when you become a member of PMI or you do not need to become PMI member, but it is the better when you become a PMI member because of some benefits in term of exams fee that you will be excepted when you are a PMI member. After completing the form, you will receive an eligibility letter about a week if you meet the eligibility requirement.

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Step 3: Moving on the third step that you need to pay for the PMP examination, clearly the cost you have to pay by $405 for members and $555 for non-members. By 2010, the price for the membership is $129 for one-time registration. Moreover, there is predefined number of applicants are selected for physical audit at random, and you will be confirmed on the paying date. Especially, you will need submit hard copies of your personal information such as education, project management training, work experience, and so on. It might take up 6 weeks to get approval for an audit. You will receive the ” Authorization to Test” email from 3 to 5 working days when you are not required to go through the audit.

Step 4: If you receive the letter about you audit, you should check your exam seat availability on the Thomson Pro-metric website to choose the nearest center and test date to be suitable for you.

Step 5: If you have seen the available examination dates to take it that you should decide between study independently with a target of 2 to 3 months study and attend a PMP Boot Camp Class to be the most convenient for yourself. Maybe you knew already, the difference of independent and professional study that is a simple time to value equation as like: Firstly, the average class price ranges from $1700 to $4200, which depends on the provider vs from $200 to $300 for independent study guides and sample exams that you need to pay. Secondly, the average study time is 2-3 months independent vs 3-5 days enrolled in a class. Finally, the average success rate for independent study is roughly 60% for first time test takers vs. 95+% for guided programs.

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Step 6: After completing all 5 steps above that you have class date and study period to carry out that you should go to the Thomson Pro-Metric website to have schedule for sitting the examination after your study period completely.

Step 7: This is the last step to take the exam. Actually, your test consist of 200 questions, and there are 25 questions are pretest. If you want to pass the exam that you have to score 106 out of 175 questions during 4 hours. Because the pretest question will not be known, so you have complete 131 correctly in 200 questions for all practical purpose. During the test, there are not time to rest that you should try to complete or you can rest at your stay but you should remember that the clock is not stop.