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Project Management Professional
The project credential IT job adverts name most: servant leadership and team development, stakeholders and communication, predictive and adaptive delivery with scope, schedule, earned value, risk, quality and change control, and the business environment the project answers to.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| People | 42% |
| Process | 50% |
| Business environment | 8% |
Two sample questions
1. What does a business case establish before a project is approved?
- How the work will be scheduled
- Why the investment is worth making — correct
- Who will staff the team
- Which supplier will be used
Why: It sets out the expected benefit against the cost and risk, which is what an approval decision rests on.
2. The sponsor wants weekly status and the steering group wants a monthly summary. Where should that be recorded?
- In the communications management plan — correct
- In the project's stakeholder register
- In the project charter signed at initiation
- In the issue log maintained by the team
Why: The communications management plan records who needs which information, in what form, how often, and from whom. The register records the stakeholders themselves, and the charter authorises the project and its manager.
The real PMP exam
| Length | 230 minutes, with two optional ten-minute breaks |
|---|---|
| Questions | 180, mixing multiple choice, multiple response, matching and hotspot |
| Pass mark | Not published. Results are reported as performance ratings rather than a mark. |
| Price | $405 USD for members and $575 USD for non-members |
| Recommended before you sit it | An application, subject to audit: a four-year degree with 36 months leading projects, or a secondary diploma with 60 months, and 35 hours of project management education either way. |
| Valid for | 3 years, with 60 professional development units per cycle |
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