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PMP Credential Application Page 3 Experience Verification Form - Part I Project Title Organization Address Your Job Title Organization Name Organization Address (continued) Organization Address (continued) Use the Experience Verification Forms (Parts I, II, and III) to document at least 7,500 hours of experience leading and directing project. PMP Credential Application Page 3 Experience Verification Form - Part I Project Title Organization Address Your Job Title Organization Name Organization Address (continued) Organization Address (continued) Use the Experience Verification Forms (Parts I, II, and III) to document at least 7,500 hours of experience leading and directing project. Steps For Filling The Online Application Form For PMP ® Certification Exam 'PMI', 'PMBOK', 'CAPM' AND 'PMP' ARE REGISTERED MARKS OF THE P ROJECT M ANAGEMENT I NSTITUTE, I NC.
If you’ve taken a PMP exam preparation course and/or you’re working toward your PMP certification, you probably know that the most time-consuming element of the PMP application is recording the experience you have gained in leading and directing projects. The PMI requires details about your experience to validate that the application requirements have been met in every instance of experience that you cite.
We’re going to walk you through an example that shows what filling in the experience section of the PMP application looks like. We hope this example will help you gauge the time and effort it will take for you to complete your application.
Before You Begin …
… think about tracking your experience in a spreadsheet or table, something like the one below. Ideally, you can be building this sort of tracking tool at the same time you’re working on the projects.
When you’re ready to start filling out the PMP application, you have 90 days to complete the application once you’ve started. This seems like a long time, but it could be quite a chore pouring over your resume, the project archives, etc., to convert your project work history into the application format.
Use the hardcopy application you can take all the time you want. Why would you do that? If you are ready to apply for the exam, stick with it and move forward! The turnaround time for an online application is about half of the turnaround time for a hardcopy application. Once your application has been approved you have one year to take the exam.
Keep in mind that your application may be selected for audit by the PMI. If it is, your contact information is expected to be current, and you will be asked for supporting documentation as well. You may want to collect the relevant documentation as you are working on projects – not only for potential audit, but it could also help you fill in some of the information required by the application.
We’ll use the first experience example listed above as our “test-drive” for filling in the experience section of the PMP application. This example represents a project that was directed and led by the PMP candidate for the entire duration of the project, through all domains (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing.)
Ck2 how to change religion cheat. The second example represents experience gained by the candidate as the Team Leader for the Executing domain only. We won’t show the application entry in detail for this example, but we’ll show you how it appears once it has been entered.
We’re assuming you’ll use the on-line application process. Download the application form if you wish to submit a paper application.
To access the PMI’s on-line PMP application, you will first need to register for a PMI account Username and Password. This link will take you to the PMI Log In screen where you can register for a new account or log in to your existing account if you already have one.
NOTE: You do not need to be a PMI member to register for an account.
The first screens of the on-line application capture your contact info and history.
The next screen is the Eligibility Worksheet, which displays your progress in reaching the requirements for PM experience (months and hours) and PM education (hours). The Worksheet also navigates to PM Experience and PM Education.
Example 1: End-to-End Project Experience
Let’s get started with the first example. Here’s our tracking table entry for this experience:
You will first enter project and organization information.
Project Specific Information:
Note that the Project Title must clearly name the project. The Project Role is the role you performed on the project. The Primary Industry is the primary industry in which your organization as a business was engaged.
Organization Details and Phone Number:
In this screen, you enter your Job Title within the organization, and the organization’s contact information.
Note that the Job Title is the title of the position you held at the time you gained this project experience. Our PMP candidate was the Operations Supervisor by position title in the organization, and held the Project Manager role on the project.
Organization Contact and Phone Number:
Enter the organization’s contact for the project–this is the individual who would be able to verify your experience on the project. This should be a manager or stakeholder within the organization, or perhaps an external client.
The Contact Relationship is the relationship of the contact to your role as you directed/led on the project.
Then you will enter your experience in hours by domain.
Our PMP candidate worked nearly full-time on this project for its seven-month duration, and gained experience in all five project management domains.
Note that you will record the hours for each domain, and they must be logical when considering the overall duration of the project.
Finally, a brief narrative description of your experience:
The narrative description can only be 550 characters long, so keep it concise but meaningful.
Note the guideline that is included in this section. Also, remember that the Responsibilities and Deliverables must be pertinent to your role on the project – in other words, what you were responsible for and what you produced. Look back at the previous screen and review the descriptions of the domains to understand what types of activities and deliverables would be considered relevant under each domain.
Review Your Experience Submitted
Once you click Save and Continue on the last Add/Edit Experience screen, the application will automatically display the Experience Worksheet. You can see a summary of the information you just entered and how your experience is totaling up toward your minimum hours (4,500 or 7,500) requirement.
The first example experience is done! Now on to the next …
From here, we move on to the next experience, which is the Office Space Expansion project.
Pmp Application Experience Sample
The steps for entering this experience are the same, so we won’t repeat them.
Note that the project management experience for this example is only relevant to the Executing Domain. All other domains will have zero hours recorded.
You may include experience for one or more domains for any given project experience, but the sum of all of your experience hours must cover all five domains.
When this example has been entered, the Experience Worksheet looks like this:
Now your summary includes the second experience example. Your “Still Need:” numbers have decreased.
When you have submitted all of the experience you need to satisfy the months and hours of your requirement, all you have left to do is record your PM education (such as a PMP exam prep course) and your application will be ready to submit!
The first step towards PMP certification process is filling up application form (It’s said that it’s a project in itself 🙂 why? See here )
PMI accepts online (e-forms) applications as well as paper applications. Most convenient and hence preferred way is to fill up the online application form available on PMI’s website. Application form is one of the area which troubles candidates a lot and make them nervous right from beginning. However it’s not that hard in reality. PMI has tried to simplify the process by clearly segregating application process in various subsections and making it wizard based.
To fill up the online form, one has to register on PMI’s website. This registration is simple 3 step process which asks you to fill up basic information as name, contact information (email, address, phone number etc), professional information (Organization, title etc) and authentication information (user id, password and secrete question).
Then after go to online application form and login. Click on ‘Apply for PMP credential’ and start the application filling process. You will now be taken to actual application form (huh, finally!!). This page shows 3 steps in the left navigation. This gets bit confusing here. These 2 steps are not to fill up the application but are the steps till you view your exam results. Only ‘Step 1: Application | Review Application Progress’ is the sep related to filling up online application. So let’s get started!!!
Step 1 in turn has 8 subsections to be filled before one can submit the application. Let’s go through each one of them
Pmp Application Pdf
- Contact address – Applicant’s mailing address. By default gets fetched from the address specified while doing registration. There is option to edit the default address.
- Contact e-mail, phone – Applicant’s email and phone. By default gets fetched from e-mail and phone specified while doing registration. User can keep on adding email ids and phone numbers and choose one of them as preferred one.
- Attained education – The details of highest educational qualification that applicant holds. Provide the details of qualification which is completed at the time of filling up the application. DO NOT enter the details of education which you are still pursuing.
- Requirements – This subsection has 4 further sections.
- Overview – Read each and every word carefully. It explains eligibility criterion – Minimum 4500 hours (3 years) of project management experience spanning all 5 process groups and minimum 35 contact hours of formal education.
- Worksheet – Shows summary of PM experience in months and hours and of PM education in hours. After adding PM experience and PM education applicant can keep on looking a summary of how many hours/ months are required, how many have been qualified and how many are still needed at this section.
- PM experience – This is the most important as well as complex section of application process. Applicant has 24 odd fields to fill in for each project and 30 odd tasks to enter the process group wise experience in hours!! To worsen the experience, the user interface is not the best. Grid based hierarchical layout would have been a great help. However, there is a workaround (hurray 🙂 ). You can create the spreadsheet to fill in all projects, make decent use of formulae to sum up months and hours of experience. Once you are all set and satisfied with data in spreadsheet, just do the copy paste game! Refer to another blog of mine ‘PMP application form – PM experience section‘ for details.
- PM education – Click on ‘Add experience’ button. Add all the fields. Qualifying hours means hours relevant to PMI’s requirement of formal education. You can add multiple education item
- Optional information – As the heading suggests, it is not mandatory to fill in.
- Certificate – This is another very important section. You can specify what name you want to be printed on your certificate. This can very well be different from the name you have provided while doing registration and also from the name on your government provided identity card.
- Agreement – Read it carefully. DO NOT just click on ‘I agree’ checkbox and press next button. Once you have the PMP title, PMI expects you to be responsible professional adhering to PMI’s code of ethics and professional conduct. Do go through it (Opens well in Safari and Chrome).
- Review and submit – This section is the final section in the application process. Here PMI has provided a place for at a glance subsection wise review of entire application and is a great help for applicants. It also shows if there are zero hours in any of the process groups.
All the best for your project of ‘Filling up online form of PMP examination’!!!
Why filling up application form is called as a project???
PMI’s definition of project: A project as a temporaryendeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result
PMI’s definition of project: A project as a temporaryendeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result
- A project – ‘Filling up online form of PMP examination’
- temporary – One can take few hours to maximum 90 days (limit imposed by PMI – a governing body) to complete
- unique result – Become eligible to appear for PMP exam