Updates to the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam

PMI Announce on its website theUpdates to the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam.

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential examination will be updated in 2011, based on updates to the professional role of a PMP® recently found in PMI’s Role Delineation Study (RDS).

These updates to the role do have an effect on the examination questions for the PMP, and will be reflected in the PMP examination starting 31 August 2011. Regular communications about this change will continue until the PMP examination change on 31 August.

How the PMP is affected?

The latest results of the RDS produced an updated description of the professional role of a PMP. The responses met the requirements for statistical relevancy and adequately reflected the profession in geography, industry and other standard demographics. We collected feedback from more than 3,000 PMP credential holders from 97 countries, representing all organizational levels.

The RDS results provide us with a blueprint for updating the credential:

■The education and experience eligibility requirements for the existing PMP examination remain appropriate and will not be changed.

■Approximately 30% of the PMP exam content will change.

■Certain examination areas will be tested in a different way. Specifically, the Professional and Social Responsibility content area (Domain 6) will now be tested in every domain, rather than as a separate domain. The RDS revealed that professional and social responsibility is integrated into all of the work of project management. Therefore, PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct should be viewed as integrated into the day-to-day role of a project manager and important in each phase of the project lifecycle.

If you would like to know more about the process PMI used for conducting the RDS, please refer to Appendix A in the PMP Examination Content Outline.


Referance PMI Website

Mohamed Khalifa
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