How can I get a project management certificate?

Isel Global, MD at ISEL GLOBAL (2000-present)

Originally Answered: What is a project management certification?

Globally recognized and demanded, the Project Management Professional (PMP)®Certification demonstrates to employers, clients, and colleagues that Certified Project Staff possess relevant project management knowledge, experience and the skills to bring projects to successful completion.

PMP® Certification is valid in over 180 countries and is now being considered as Qualification/Disqualification Criteria for Top Paying Project Management Jobs worldwide.

Year after year, the PMP® Certification has garnered global recognition and commanded a higher salary for certified individuals over non-certified individuals.

The training program PMP ® Exam Preparation Course provides a high quality Learning program that Prepares candidates to both pass the PMP ®exam, as well as learn to apply the PMBOK® in real life.PMP ®candidates are encouraged to enhance their learning experience by completing a demo project.

This demo project, puts participants in the role of a project manager and are challenged with the task to complete project. Faced with sharp deadlines and performance expectations, you have to manage the project by planning, negotiating and communicating with all of the stakeholders involved.

The duration of PMP® exam is four hours. It covers 200 questions, out of which 25 are considered as pre-test questions and are included by PMI to see how many test takers get them right. Based on this, they might decide to include these questions in a future exam. It is similar to a survey conducted by PMI.

Of the 200 questions, therefore, 175 will be scored. All questions are multiple-choice questions, with only one correct answer.

At the end of program participant is made to interact with 5 PMI-PMP certified professional to finally ask questions and get tips and ideas to pass PMP certification exam.

You can apply for PMP Certification from ISEL GLOBAL as we have GlobalAccreditation's aligned with globally renowned names like Project Management Institute of USA, American Society of Quality USA, Scrum Alliance, APMG, EC Council, GARP, CompTIA, IIBA, AXELOS, (ISC)²® and others.

Iselglobal- Institute for Skill Enhancement & Learning

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Amal Nandan Prasad, works at Adobe Systems

Answered Mar 14, 2017

Well! if you are a graduate and you just need a certificate, the simplest way to get it by doing a course from IGNOU - Post Graduate Certificate in Project Management or PGCPM. This is an online course with minimum time frame of 6 months and maximum of 24 months. Cost-wise, anywhere between 6–10K INR. This certificate has a limited appeal even though being conferred by an university recognised by AIU (association of Indian University), this certification is accepted in all the Indian companies barring the MNC. Loosely, the curriculum of this course is based on PM Body of Knowledge or PMBOK (collected by PMI USA).

PMI: Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org)

If you want a globally acceptable certificate, your options are PRINCE2 certification (Project in Controlled Environment) or PMP (Project management professional) from PMI USA. PRINCE2 is more oriented towards EU organisational framework and is somewhat limited in nature on account of the methodology and framework, while PMP is oriented towards USA and is more generic in nature and even accommodated the PRINCE2 methodology. Both PMP and PRINCE2 have universal acceptance.

PMP would cost US$600–650 for the exam, around INR 7–15K for the preparatory course and some 5–7K on books. It requires an understanding of the concepts and the usual cramming and learning by rote is not applicable. PMP focusses on your ability to apply the knowledge rather than your ability to store the knowledge.

I can’t talk of PRINCE2 as I have never gone through the certification process even though I have managed projects using the Prince2 methodology.

From the perspective of software development, certification from Scrum Alliance are good option. They are based on the agile methodologies applied in the case of IT Systems.

If you have more time and money (also the opportunities), a proper 2 year course in project management is offered by some US universities.

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Sabrina Galvan

Answered Mar 14, 2017

Join PMI | Project Management Institute for more details.

You pretty much 1. Submit an application verifying you have enough hours of project management experience/work. Once approved, 2. Study for the exam 3. Schedule exam. 4. Take exam.

If you pass, you are certified. You do need to attend events and meetings for a certain number of hours, each year, to keep your certification valid.

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Sabrina Galvan

Ahh, got it. If you go to PMI | Project Management Institute - pmi dot org - (autocorrect keeps c...

PMP Lounge, Experienced Project Manager. Training professionals for PMP

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There are many types of Project Management Certifications available out there. PMP is widely regarded as the Gold Standard for Project Management. You can refer to the playlist below for more info on PMP

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Gopi K Aitham, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, Founder @ 24x7Coach.com, PMI Registered Education Provider

Answered Mar 16, 2017

If you are a graduate and got min 3 yrs of leading or directing project experience then I suggest you go for PMP certification. If not, you can try CAPM certification or Prince2 certification.

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