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PMP (Project Management Professionals) are highly recognized by most of the leading organizations today. Anyone with a PMP certification is honored to hold the position of the Project Manager as this certificate is a recognition of professionalism in the field of Project Management. PMP certification is designed to determine education, experience and professional knowledge. For the project manager is responsible for initiating, planning, controlling, executing and closing the project.
The PMP certification is offered by the PMI (Project Management Institute) for those professionals interested in becoming a certified project manager. Now there is a high demand for the certified managers. Most of the good companies require a project manager to be PMP-certified in order to be hired for a project. Even the government contracts dealing with project managers won't accept a proposal from somebody who is not PMP certified. The project managers who are PMP certified draw 40% more salary than one who doesn't have the certification.
The PMP certification program depends on work experience in project management. The more experience one has the more it will be easy to have the certification. Many institutes are there which help to expertise on these courses. If you want to do certification or want to take the online line test the best place is a REP (Resister Education Provider) institute. You can take benefit of this training to become a strong competitor in market and to improve your skills.
PMP Exam Process:
The aspirants must have a minimum experience of 3 years in project management in his total 6 years of experience. PMI measures Project Management Experience in units of PDU. PDU means Professional Development Unit. So, if you attend a Project Management Class of 1 hour by an expert, its equivalent to say 1 PDU. If you write a White Paper on Project Management related topic, it may be equivalent to 5 PDU. PMI has detailed guideline on what kind of project management activity amounts to how many PDUs. Every three years, one must haveacquired 60 PDUs to retain their PMP certificate. So first time, when you write the exam, you become PMP for 3 years.
PMP Exam is a four hour exam consisting of 200 questions. Out of this 200, 25 questions are not scored. But you should answer all 200 questions, with same seriousness because you won't know which these 25 questions are. PMI includes these questions to see how many test takers are getting them right. Based on this, they might decide to include these questions in future Exam. It's like a survey conducted by PMI.
Now, you must be guessing that PMP exam is not that easy. You are right! Taking PMP exam does require certain seriousness in preparation. But once you get the certification it's a great advantage in career of a project manager.
