Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification is a globally renowned certification offered by Project Management Institute (PMI). PMP credentials are recognized across industries, domains, and geographies.

Eligibility criteria for PMP:

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PMI membership comes with lots of benefits.

• Exam costs reduce by $150
• PMBOK 6^th Edition (downloadable copy as pdf)
• Many other recognized Project Management eBooks (downloadable copy as pdf)
• Access to Mock Exams and other tools & videos
• Tracking your membership, renewing and updating online, which is much quicker and easier.

Following are the offerings:

• Original PMP Exam Prep Book - 9^th Edition– By Rita Mulcahy
• Original PMBOK – 6^th Edition
• Book of Mind Maps (very effective for revision of PMP syllabus)
• Box of Flash Cards (very effective for revision of PMP syllabus)
• Application Support
• Mock Exams Online
• Other Online & Classroom Courses

PMP certification is valid for 3 years. To renew every 3 years, you need to earn and claim 60 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from PMI. Also, a renewal fee of $60, if you are a member of PMI or 150$ if you are not a member needs to be paid. Once done, a new PMP certificate with new expiry date will be sent via postal mail to the registered address. PMP License Number remains the same.

ProThoughts is one of the institutes, authorized globally to give you renewal PDUs. Please contact us for further details. It can be claimed online on the PMI website. There are several simple ways to earn the renewal PDUs without spending money too.

Following are the points to be known before the application process:

• Check your eligibility before starting the application.
• PMI Application process is recommended to be done after taking PMI membership
• The application can be initiated, completed and submitted online
• Application once initiated needs to be submitted within 90 days. After that, the draft application will be removed and a fresh application has to be started all over again.
• PMI normally reviews and approves the application within 1-2 weeks after submission
• The application might get accepted, rejected or go in Query Mode. PMI will be communicating via email.
• If the application goes in a query, the applicant needs to revise as per suggestions from PMI and resubmitted.
• Based on the query, the applicant might have to send via postal mail completed audit form with several documents to the address provided.
• If Application audited do not meet the required criteria, the application might get rejected and fees paid will be refunded back after deducting the processing fee ($100)

PMI allows 3 attempts in 1 calendar year. If the candidate does not clear in a year, the 4^th attempt can be done only after a wait of 1 year.

The sequence to be followed is:

1. Gain work experience (4500 hours/ 7500 hours of project management experience)
2. Get 35 PDUs (35 hours of project management education)
3. Take PMI Membership ($139) – This is optional but recommended
4. Submit PMP application to PMI
5. Once approved, prepare for the exam (self-study)
6. Take mock exams to evaluate, if you are ready for the final PMP.
7. If not readily identify your gaps and work towards it.
8. Once ready, pay the exam fees ($405 or $555) and take the date for the exam.
9. Go and take the exam and clear it.

Total effort needed to get PMP certified varies anywhere between 100 to 300 hours. It really depends upon an individual. Based on his experience, exposure, grasping ability, commitment etc. We go with a 3x3 formulae. 3 hours every day will need 3 months to crack PMP. But with that said, we had examples where candidate has done it in 18 days and other extremes where candidates have taken about a year.

PMP exam will have 200 questions to be answered in 4 hours (240 minutes).PMI a few years back announced 61% as a passing criterion. But later on, they changed and made it tougher to pass PMP. And while doing so, they stopped announcing the passing criteria. Now with our experience, our assumption is that it is somewhere between 70 – 75%. Also, they have started to evaluate based on many other factors too. Eg. Evaluating individual Process Group wise.

So if you are scoring anywhere above 75% in our mock exams consistently, you hold a good chance to clear the PMP exam.

Based on the needs of various aspirants, we created multiple combo packages for PMP.

You should opt for PMP Basic if:

• You are confident of preparing by yourself based on the very effective 36 hours of training
• You already have the study materials
• You just need the basic support to get qualified

You should opt for PMP Basic + if:

• You are confident of preparing by yourself based on the very effective 36 hours of training
• You already have the study materials
• You need the advanced support to get qualified and mock exams to check your preparedness

You should opt for PMP Basic++ if:

• You are confident of preparing by yourself based on the very effective 36 hours of training
• You need to get the study materials
• You need the advanced support to get qualified and mock exams to check your preparedness

You should opt for PMP Advanced if:

• You are not confident of preparing by yourself based on the very effective 36 hours of training
• You need to get the study materials
• You need the advanced support to get qualified and mock exams to check your preparedness

36 hours of training is the same irrespective of the package that you select. Hence, you might find various PMP aspirants enrolled in different packages as per their needs and attending the same sessions.

Two of the main reasons that PMP aspirants opt for ProThoughts are: Trainer and Study Materials. 36 hours of training sessions are driven by Rita Mulcahy Methodology and by one of the best trainers from the industry, that too not freelancers. That makes our training sessions very effective. Value wise if you check, we are probably one of the cheapest in terms of our offerings.

We are the distributors of Rita Mulcahy brand, which is supposed to be one of the best brands in terms of study materials and the methodology for PMP.

PMP Basic++ package includes

• Original sealed pack PMP Exam Prep Book - By Rita Mulcahy - Latest 9^th Edition
• Book of very effective MindMaps that helps in your revision and gives you the confidence to crack the exam. For quick go through of the entire PMP syllabus, MindMaps are very effective.

PMP Advanced package includes

• Original sealed pack PMP Exam Prep Book - By Rita Mulcahy - Latest 9^th Edition
• Book of very effective MindMaps that helps in your revision and gives you the confidence to crack the exam. For quick go through of the entire PMP syllabus, MindMaps are very effective.
• Box of 100+ Flash Cards, another effective tool to prepare for PMP and helps in revision and recalling of important concepts. It is very effective for group study as well.

All the study materials based on the package selected will be couriered to you. Any courier within India will not be charged. Any courier to be done outside of India will need to be paid extra, as per the actual courier charges. Once enrolled, we will connect with you about the same. It normally takes anywhere between 2- 7 days for the courier to arrive, based on the address/ location.

Once the 36 hours of the training session is done, the same trainer will be associated to work with you. He will be accessible for any doubts/ counselling/ clarification via Email/ Phone/ WhatsApp. He will connect with you once and your direct relationship will start with him thereafter.

eBooks & Templates can be downloaded. Access to Videos of the sessions will be available online for 90 days after the last session.

200 Practice questions can be downloaded. Mock Exams online will have a validity of 90 days and an option to get extended by another 90 days without any extra charge.

There will be 3 Case Studies and more than 15 activities associated with PMP. They can be downloaded.

ProThoughts excels and exclusively focuses on Professional Project Management certifications only. We have prepared our material to provide unique solutions to each individual/organization. You can e-mail us at info@prothoughts.co.in for any further questions.

Any experienced individual who wants to make a career in Project Management or looking to enhance the knowledge in Project Management can opt for PMP certification.

Project Management Professional (PMP)® takes 5 days to review online PMP® forms, 10 days to review paper PMP® forms submitted by the individuals and 20 days to review paper PMP® forms submitted by the corporations.

To become PMP® certified, candidates need to submit PMP® application online or get a printable application form from pmi.org. PMI® reviews the application and candidates need to submit PMI® audit materials including supporting documents once their application is accepted within 90 days. They can then attend the exam and the name of pass candidates is displayed on the PMI® website within a few days. The PMP® certificate is delivered to you within 4 weeks.