Here are the top 10 reasons you should consider getting PMP certified:

 

Reason 1: Globally Acknowledged

Who should become PMP certified? Anyone who wants the freedom to work anywhere in the world. The PMP is one of those credentials whose reputation precedes them, recognized and sought-after the world over (there are more than 760,000 PMP certified professionals worldwide as of May 2017). Achieving the PMP certification helps professionals demonstrate and showcase their skills and expertise to potential employers across the globe.

 

Reason 2: Salary Bump

If you’ve wondered why to get a PMP certification, you should know that PMP holders typically enjoy a dramatic and steep hike in salary once they have attained the PMP certification. On average, PMP certified professionals earn 17% more than their non-certified counterparts, according to the Project Management Salary Survey, Eighth Edition. According to the PMI’s Project Management Salary Survey released in July 2017, PMP certified professionals earn a median salary of $111,969 per year in the United States.

 

Reason 3: Expand Your Market Reach and Scope

PMP certification holders are a global yet close-knit community. There are many Project Management forums and online communities that attract PMP professionals from across the world who are willing to share tips, insights, and pool their experience—helping everyone stay abreast of the latest industry developments and trends.

 

Reason 4: Better Job Opportunities

PMP Certification opens up better career avenues and provides professionals with greater job opportunities in the project management world. According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 80% of high-performing projects use PMP credentialed project managers; according to the PMI Pulse of the Profession study, organizations with more than 35% PMP certified project managers demonstrated much better project performance than those without a certification.

 

Reason 5: Project Management Professionals Get The Most Challenging Projects

The PMP Certification earns a professional a challenging and important role since the certification demonstrates an individual’s dedication to project management and attests to that person’s knowledge and experience in handling challenging projects. Additionally, since even the eligibility to take the PMP exam includes both education and experience, the PMP Certification validates one’s skills and experience leading and directing projects.

 

Reason 6: Project Management Professionals Demonstrate Better Project Performance

Not all project managers are PMP certified. Consequently, project managers who lack the credential perform less efficiently than their certified peers. The standards for the rigorous PMP exam are higher than other project management certifications, testing professionals on five project management processes: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing, providing the Project manager with a detailed, standardized, actionable set of project management best practices.

 

Further, in order to qualify for the PMP exam, aspirants must have an in-depth understanding of nine knowledge areas of project management, including project scope management, integration management, human resource management, time management, cost management, quality management, and procurement management.

 

Reason 7: Greater Visibility to Recruiters

Research across industries suggests that organizations prefer hiring PMP certified project managers rather their non-credentialed peers. The PMP certification is a standard that demonstrates a professional’s expertise in project management and it immediately catches a recruiter’s eye during profile evaluation.

 

Reason 8: Applicable to Most Industries

The PMP certification is an ideal bet for all project managers in various professional fields, including IT, telecom, business processing, commerce, finance, research, and more.

Reason 9: A Great Investment for Your Future

The exam itself falls into about the middle range in terms of cost. While not as expensive as many of the high-tech, very specific exams, it isn’t something you are likely to take lightly. At $555 a test (unless you are a PMI® member, in which case it is $405), it doesn’t seem too expensive.

Reason 10: Project Management Professionals are Secure Even During Economic Downturns

With the economy yet to get back to where it was 15 years ago, there is still plenty of uncertainty. While no one is immune to layoffs and downsizing, 80% of executives around the world believe that having a PMP certification demonstrated core competencies that made the certification holders valuable even during a recession.

 

If you are considering working toward your PMP exam, PM-Challenge offers a variety of project management courses that will help you pass, including the PMP Certification Training Course. Our PMP training courses are conducted by certified, highly experienced professionals with at least ten years of experience.

 

PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Here’s how you can become a certified project management professional:

• Register and become a member of the PMI
• Take PMP certification Training Course
• Complete the course
• Fill and submit your application for the PMP certification exam
• Schedule the PMP certification exam
• Pass the exam and get certified

The domains for the new PMP exam have been updated to include more diverse skills and approaches.

The new exam will focus on three domains:

 

People - focusing on skills and activities associated with effectively leading a project team

Process - reinforcing the technical aspects of managing a project

Business Environment - focusing on the connection between projects and organizational strategy

The new content will also include predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches in the exam.

For more detail, please refer to PMP exam updates by PMI.

PMI will not be updating the PMP exam after the release of the PMBOK® Guide 7th Edition. Since both the PMP exam and the PMBOK Guide use updated and accurate terms already used by project managers in the field, there is no need to update the exam after the PMBOK® Guide is updated.

Yes. customers can contact us either by phone or chat if they need help with completing the application form.

Once you are eligible, PMI will e-mail you examination scheduling instructions with your eligibility code, which you will need when scheduling your exam appointment at a testing center.

The PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP and PMI-PBA exams are translated into multiple languages. Please consult the respective certification handbooks for details on specific languages available. 

Other certification exams are not currently translated, but PMI will notify you when translations are available.

If you fail the exam on your first attempt, you can re-take it two more times within your one-year eligibility period. Fees are associated with re-examination. Details for re-examination can be found in the certification handbook.

Your application is valid for one (1) year from the date of approval. If you allow your eligibility to lapse, you must re-apply.

When submitting an application, you do not need to send documentation. However, you will be required to send supporting documentation if your application is selected for a random audit. To find out more about PMI's audit process, refer to the certification handbooks and the audit FAQs.

The certification audit team processes audit materials within 5 to 7 business days of their arrival at PMI. Once PMI reviews and approves audit materials, PMI will send an e-mail containing your payment instructions.

You can send your completed audit forms, depending on where you live, by regular postal mail or express courier service, to either address below. PMI will not accept faxed or emailed audits documents. Please send all materials at one time, or in one envelope, to expedite the processing time.

PMI Attn.:

Certification Audit

14 Campus Blvd.

Newtown Square, PA 19073-3299 USA

The eligibility requirements for PMP® certification are:
  

Education	Project Management Experience	Project Management Education
Nongraduates	5 years/7500 hours	35 hours
Graduates	3 years/4500 hours	35 hours

 

The PMP® certification exam fees for PMI® members and nonmembers are:

PMP® Certification Exam fee with PMI® Membership	$405
PMP® Certification Exam fee without PMI® Membership	$555
PMI® Membership fee	$139
PMI® Membership renewal fee	$129 per year
Reexamination fee for PMI® members	$275
Reexamination fee for non-members	$375

Enroll as a member at PMI® and you’ll save US$150 on the examination fees. With the PMI® membership, you can also access commercially available books on project management and download a free copy of the PMBOK® Guide - Sixth Edition, which is essential preparatory material for the PMP® Certification Exam. Registered PMI® members also get free access to Practice Exams.

Any verifying manager or supervisor can sign the Experience Verification Form and Experience PDF attachment.

In the event of a failed audit, the certification fee (minus a processing fee) will be refunded. The Certification Department will take further action on a case-by-case basis. If you fail the PMP® application audit, the PMI® will deduct $100 from your application fee, and you will receive a refund of the remaining fees paid.

To claim a refund for the PMP® certification, you must place a request with PMI® at least 30 days before the exam eligibility expiry date. PMI® will retain a processing fee of US$100 if you have not scheduled or taken the examination.

The validity of a PMP Certification is three years.

Once your application has been accepted, the one-year exam eligibility period will start. After the certification fee payment has been made, PMI will send an email notification with your PMI eligibility ID, which you will use to schedule a test appointment. You can take the examination three times within this exam eligibility period should you not pass on the first attempt.

You can schedule an exam appointment after PMI receives payment of your certification fee. 
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You need to gain 60 professional development units (PDUs) every three years.

Yes, we provide 7 practice tests as part of our PMP course to help you prepare for the actual certification exam. You can try this free PMP® Exam Prep Practice Test to understand the type of tests that are part of the PMP course curriculum.

• 180 questions (the previous exam was 200) but the same number of questions will be scored
• 230 minutes to complete the exam
• One additional break for a total of two 10-minute breaks for computer-based tests. No scheduled breaks for paper-based exams.
• Questions will be a combination of multiple-choice, multiple responses, matching, hotspot and limited fill-in-the-blank.

To apply for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner certification PMI, you should have:

• A secondary degree or higher
• 2000 hours of general project management experience in the last five years
• At least 1,500 hours of experience working on agile project teams during last three years.

Yes, we provide 5 practice tests as part of our course to help you prepare for the actual certification exam. You can try this free PMI-ACP® Exams Practice Tests to understand the type of tests that are part of the course curriculum.

The PMI-ACP examination consists of 100 scored items and 20 unscored (pre-test) items. The unscored items will not be identified and will be randomly distributed throughout the exam. The duration of the exam is three hours.

Exam Fee

Member: US$435.00
Non-member: US$495.00

There are several reasons that a project manager may with to obtain the PMI-RMP certification. They include but are not limited to:

• Increase career opportunities.
• Improve professional status.
• Increase salary.
• Boost your knowledge and expertise.
• Improve project success rates.
• Help organizations with risk management.

Great news! You can now take the PMI-RMP Exam online.

The online exam is the same as the version administered at a test center. Plus, there is a live proctor.

PMI has simplified the application process for all eight of its certifications, which went live June 18, 2020. It now requires much less time – went from 30 screens to 4. Experience is entered in months, not hours. And you no longer have to enter hours by domain.

To apply for the PMI Risk Management certification, you should have:

Prerequisites

• Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree, or the global equivalent).
• 36 months of project risk management experience within the last 5 years.
• 40 hours of project risk management education.

OR

• Four-year degree (bachelor’s degree or the global equivalent).
• 24 months of project risk management experience within the last 5 years.
• 30 hours of project risk management education.

The certification exam has 170 multiple-choice questions and you have 3.5 hours to complete it. Like all PMI exams, the exam is challenging. It was not as difficult as the PMP exam for me.

At a minimum, I recommend that you obtain a copy of the PMBOK® Guide—6th Edition & 7th Edition and the Practice Standard for Project Risk Management (2009).

Exam Fee Member: $520.00. Non-member: $670.00.

US$129/year. Plus one-time US$10 application fee.