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PMI Certifications Overview

What are the Benefits of ACP?

By earning the PMI-ACP, practitioners can:

• Demonstrate to employers their level of professionalism in agile practices of project management.
• Increase their professional versatility in project management tools and techniques.
• Show they have the capacity to lead basic teams using agile principles and practices by holding a certification that is more credible than existing offerings based only on exams or training. 

What is ACP (Agile certified Practitioner) Certification?

The ACP Certification is the one which validates a practitioner’s ability to understand and apply agile principles and practices on basic projects.

The ACP Certification proves that a practitioner can select agile principles and practices as a project management approach based on the needs and demands of a specific project

What is AGILE?

AGILE is a philosophy that uses organizational models based on people, collaboration and shared values which is managed and given by the Project Management Institute. 

Duration for PMP EXAM and CAPM EXAM:

For PMP Exam:

• The Exam is 4 hours in duration, and has 200 questions.

• 25 of these are pre-test questions, which are not testable.

  

For CAPM Exam:

• The Exam is 3 hours in duration, and tests you on 150 questions,

• 15 of which are pre-test questions, not testable.

Validity of PMP and CAPM Certification:

PMP:

• The PMP Certificate is valid for the next 3 years from the date of passing the Exam.

• Candidate needs to collect another 60 PDUs to renew your PMP Certification for another 3 Years.

CAPM:

• Once the candidate passes the CAPM exam, it is valid for 5 years.

• Then the candidate can upgrade to the PMP Certification.

Exam Fees for PMP & CAPM:

For PMP Certification:

Exam fees for PMP is

• US$555 for Non Members,

• US$405 for Members. 

 

For CAPM Certification: 

Exam fees for CAPM is

•  US$300 for Non Members,

•  US$225 for Members.

Minimum Qualifications for PMP & CAPM:

For PMP certification:

• The candidate needs to have atleast a Bachelor’s Degree, and 4500 hours of experience in leading and managing projects.

• Candidate must have attended formal project management training for at least 35 hours.

• The candidate needs to have have a High School Diploma, can still sit for PMP certification, but experiencne requirements are incresed to 7,500 hours.

• The candidate need to have 35 contact hours of formal project management Training.

For CAPM Certification:

• The candidate needs to have Secondary Diploma/ High School Diploma and 1,500 hours of experience on a Project Team.

• Candidate with Diploma, who has also attended a formal training in Project Management for at least 23 hours, qualify to sit for the CAPM exam.

Difference between PMP and CAPM

PMP (Project Management Professional) is for project managers with at least 3 years of experience leading & managing projects which means that they are active project managers who are familiar with the lifecycle of a project, have dealt with customers, stakeholders, and has complete a few project life cycles from beginning to the end.

CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) is for people who are starting out in their career as Project Managers and have no experience in managing projects, or for people who are team members in a project, and want to demonstrate their project management knowledge.

PMP Exam Pattern update with New RDS

The PMP exam is based on the PMP Examination Specification, which describes tasks out of six performance domains:

• Initiating the project (13%)

• Planning the project (24%)

• Executing the project (30%)

• Monitoring and controlling the project (25%)

• Closing the project (8%)

The exam consists of 200 multiple choice questions written against this specification.

Note: The numbers in parentheses describe the percentage of questions for each domain.

CAPM Certification

What is CAPM Certification?

• CAPM stands for Certified Associate Project Management Professional, a global credential offered by Project Management Institute (PMI) based out the US. This is the world’s most prestigious certification for any one working on projects and has started off his career.

• Eligibility: High School Diploma, At-least 1500 hours of work experience, 23 hours of Project Management Education by an REP like StarPMO.

• CAPM Exam is for 3 hours with 150 multiple choice questions

Why CAPM Certification?

• Globally recognized and most respected project management certification for young project managers.

• Establish your competency and legitimacy in Project Management and gear up for quick career growth along management track.

• Increase you visibility and become recognized within your organization and peer circle and pitch yourself for future project manager roles.

• Make use of the best practices in project management and increase the success rate of your projects.

• Relocate to US, Canada and Middle East more easily