Everything about the project management certification exam


To achieve the promotion of the use or higher forms of work, it is natural and essential to conduct a review. Lawyers and doctors must take bar exams to her legal name. Counters that should also take a test to be certified public accountant (CPA). And as for the project managers need to take (PMP) project management professional certification exams to be a certified project manager. Exams test persons if they are qualified for the job.

Project management certification exam

This certification exam focuses on levels higher project management is recognized around the world. Project Management Institute (PMI) is made this test and if you are going to get a PMP training, the institution or company who may attend must have approval of PMI. This test has 200 multiple choice questions and need to be answered within 4 hours. To be more precise, only you can focus on a question for at least 72 seconds.

The majority of applicants, as expected, this test is really a difficult exam. Apart from that, there are a lot of requirements you need to acquire before he is qualified to conduct the review. And it is then necessary training PMP. Here, all the basics are taught to the complicated issues on project management.

To equip yourself, there are certain materials that must be:

The PMP Handbook

PMI has given the great manual for all applicants, the body of knowledge PMBOK (Project Management). This manual covers everything you need to know for the exam. It is updated regularly, which means that the PMP exam is changing gradually, to avoid deception. You provide a final and memorize formulas and acronyms with their meaning. If you like taking notes, forward. Study your own way to make it easy to understand the issues.

Apart from PMBOK, could find other materials online PMP can be used. It could also seek advice from other candidates already taken the test and see if it applies to you. Also, look for PMP Exam Simulator. It offers an example of the real exam environment so it could easily take the situation during the actual test. Practice with these example questions and see where you are strong, as well as the sections which needs to improve more. It could also learn how to manage his nervousness and tension through this simulated test.

PMP training

PMI requires at least 35 hours of training of PMP. It could be achieved through traditional training, institutional or online - training depends on his choice. People have different ways of learning; Therefore, it could choose what suits to you better. You should also take into account your budget and time. There are expensive training and some require his full-time. Check the availability and the money.

Most of you is already working and have no enough time studying at universities. I could take online, which is very convenient because they could study in the comfort of your own home. If it is not busy, it may take institutional training. Here, you can learn from other applicants personally and ask questions of their instructors PMP directly. It is also profitable, so it does not have a problem with the money. And then, if you want some training in the short term, traditional training is the best choice. It will only take you months. You can benefit from this training is knowledge and experience. However, traditional training also offers training in the long term.

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John Reiling, PMP, PE, MBA is a project manager experienced and certified project management professional. John offers professional project management review. John also writes regularly on his blog, PMcrunch.com.