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Filling the PMP Application Form

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Created On: 20 Mar 2007 12:44 PM Question: Can you tell me how to fill in the PMP or CAPM application form to sit at the exam? Answer Please find below some guidelines to fill in the PMP or CAPM application. First you will need to read carefully the PMP or CAPM handbook and understand in which category you belong (depending if you have a bachelor degree or not) and how much experience you have to document. Most students have a bachelor degree and will document 4500 hours of PM experience within the last 5 years. For the application, we advise you to fill in the electronic form as this process takes only one week (approx.) to receive its eligibility letter. However, you may want to prepare your information using the paper form provided with the PMP handbook. The Application format may evolve over time but overall we have found that the 4 followings are the main items you will have to provide: (Note: If you find our explanation is lacking an important item, please let us know so we can update this to help prospective students.) 1) General information (name, address, educational background, etc.) 2) Document your 35 contact hours training or 23 contact hours training in project management. As you have taken PMCAMPUS.com training, a PMI R.E.P provider, your contact hours are already pre-approved by PMI and documenting them is very straightforward. With the electronic form, you simply provide the training provider name (PMCAMPUS.com), the PMI R.E.P number (#2193) and the date you obtained your certificate. (Be sure to always keep a paper copy of the 23 or 35 contact hours certificate with you). 3) Document each of the projects you want to use for your experience requirement. Prepare carefully this section, be accurate and honest. Summarize the project names, the company for whom you did these projects, describe briefly tasks and the main deliverables. You may want to review and use the tasks listed (per process group) in the PMP/CAPM handbook. How to evaluate the project duration? If a project took 6 months, then you simply make a calculation to get the number of hours. One way to do it is to assume 5 working days per week, 50 weeks per year and 8 hours per week. With this assumption, a 6-month project would provide for 1000 hours of
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work experience (50/2*5*8). You may want to create and use an excel sheet to make accurate calculations as you enter the information. Review also the PMP handbook for overlapping projects. Finally, indicate the duration and percentages for the 5 group processes. Review the tasks and process groups listed in the PMP handbook. The percentages should reflect your experience and the project life cycle. If your 16-week involvement in this project was only 1 week of initiation, 3 weeks of planning, and 10 weeks of execution as well as monitoring and controlling and was closed in 2 weeks, then you could translate this into the following percentage: 6% (1/16) initiating - 19% (3/16) planning - 31% (5/16) executing - 31% (5/16) monitoring - 13% (2/16) closing. Again a spreadsheet might be very useful to compile and verify your calculations (6%+19%+31%+31%+13%=100%). Some project experience may not include all the processes involved. There is no right or wrong percentages: it all depends on the projects you were involved in and what you really experienced. 4) Payment for the certification exam fee (credit card for online application). Also, be aware that PMI audits applications at random (in such process, they will inform you and also they may contact your employers and school as they verify your form). At PMCAMPUS.com, we have been informed by several students that they have been audited successfully. However, please note that we do not take part in the auditing process and we do not review student applications. Application is the full responsibility of a PMP applicant and filling the form is part of the expectations. PMI does no recommend training centers to assist students in this process. However, we know some training company do it but we strongly believe that it is not our role. Our students always fill in their application on their own and we encourage you to do so.

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