Bogdan Gorka is an experienced Project Manager and certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Bogdan share his experience about the PMP exam in his blog pmexamguide.net
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Education requirements
1.Category A: High school diploma, associate's degree or equvalents.
In real terms all project managers without tertiary education fall under this category. In this case you have to collect the history of your last 5 years of experience. PMI requires documenting 7,500 hours of experience that were spent on project management activities.
2.Category B: Bachelor's or Masters degree or equivalents.
In this case only 3 years is enought to apply which translates into 4,500 hours of necessary experience.
Other conditions that have to be observed:
1.Formal Project Management Education - in theory it can be any formal project management training (what excludes self-study).
I think however, (but I may be wrong) that it is better to attend the training that is organised by the PMI Registered Education Provider. These providers have their courses listed and agreed with the PMI. Each course listed with them receives a unique number that can used to prove meeting the education requirement.
In both categories the course (or courses) has to be 35 training hours long. The good news is that it doesn't matter when you attended the course and that you can sum up the number of hours.
2.Number of hours of formal experience
PMI requires that any applicant should be careful with calculating the months of experience. They cannot overlap which is often the case when you run a couple of project at the same time. You can only count the months and hours of experience from one project. In this case it is better to choose the project on which we spent more hours.
In my blog I am showing how to calculate the hours for the PMP exam application process.
There is more details on the eligibility criteria on the www.PMI.org website. Simply right-click this PMP Exam Handbook link and save the pdf file.
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