After years of project management and now finally one of my customer insists that I must be PMP certified before I can continue with the project.
After reading and checking with friends, I decided to venture into PMP. To be PMP certified, you must have:
a. Minimum 3 years of unique non-overlapping project management or about 4,500 hours for bachelor’s degree or 7,500 hours for diploma holder.
b. You also need 35 contact hours of formal education (more on this later)
c. Apply online to obtain the PMP Credential at www.pmi.org
d. Once you have the credential, then you can attend the exam, which is multiple choice of 200 questions in 4 hours.
Back to the 35 contact hours, this is where I you have to attend classes on understanding the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). After gone thru various schools, I finally decided to attend the 35 hours at ERC institute (www.erci.edu.sg) in Singapore.
Is it weekend (Saturday) classes and takes about 5 Saturdays to complete all the lessons. I will try to summarize the PMBOK and my class materials, and publish it here for the benefits of those who wanted to take PMP.
I plan to take and “hopefully” can pass the exam before middle of April, 2009 and that is my target. Currently I have 3 study partners that also plan to take the exam almost the same time as me. Anyone else wishes to join our group can email me at gainxs@hotmail.com.
2 comments:
Being PMP Certified is very important. Aside from being verified, you would also have additional learning and training you'll need if you take the exam.
Therefore, all your friends were right. Thanks for posting these valuable information. Keep it up!
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