Certification Insider

If you are a certified project manager, and - in particular - if you hold a certification from The Project Management Institute (PMI)® then you know that your certification has to be renewed every three years. The process is quite simple:

1. After you are certified you have to earn a specified number of professional development units (PDUs)
2. If you are a Project Management Professional (PMP)® the number is 60, and for a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® it's 30
3. You'll have to report your PDUs with PMI® and at the end of the three years you pay the renewal fee, which starts the next 3-year cycle for you to earn the next set of PDUs

But... where do you find those PDUs? And how do you find free PDUs?

Well... you have come to the right place because over the last decade, I have published 458 episodes here on The PM Podcast, and most of them qualify for free PMI PDUs.

So here is the recording of a recent live stream where I presented how to earn PDUs from this very podcast. As always, with lots of questions from the audience.

(This interview was originally published on The Project Management Podcast.)

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam is not an easy exam. It is an advanced, experience-based exam that you can only take if you can successfully show that you meet all the requirements.

And the requirement that most candidates have a hard time with is the need to show at least 4,500 (in some cases even 7,500) hours of leading and directing projects. Even though candidates know all of their projects and how many hours they have worked on, they find it difficult to quickly identify if their experience hours actually count.

In this episode Cornelius Fichtner helps you answer the question Do I Qualify for the PMP Exam? by walking you through this simple, five-step process:

1. Know the definition of "Project Manager"
2. Download the PMP Handbook
3. Make a list of your projects
4. Download the PMP Exam Content Outline (ECO)
5. Bring it all together

(This interview was originally published on The Project Management Podcast.)

Please join me this coming Monday for a live stream. There is a bit of a promotional element to this event, because we just launched our Simulator 2021, but my main focus will be on how to effectively use ANY simulator for exam prep:

Join Cornelius Fichtner live to learn about how to effectively use an exam simulator when preparing for your exam. He will be sharing a demo of our new exam simulator, plus talking about best practices to get the most out of this helpful prep tool. Visit https://www.pm-exam-simulator.com/pmp-exam-simulator-2021 to see all of the features of our exam simulator and then bring your questions as there will be time for Q&A. We are here to help you reach your PMP goals! We are very excited to have you join us!

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/367682154461098/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2XZCobXw4
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/6730242808650846208/

If you are preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam then you have come to the right place. In this episode, Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM answers about 40 questions during a live stream. (Our apologies that the audio and video are slightly out of sync during the first and last minute of the recording.)

The PMP® Exam is changing. A new Exam Content Outline (ECO) was published in 2019 and it will go into effect on January 02, 2021.

And if you are thinking about taking and passing your exam in 2021 then you may have lots of questions about this changeover. Watch this video to get your answer. And if your question wasn't answered, then please ask in the comments below. We'll answer you here.

(This interview was originally published on The Project Management Podcast.)

Play Now:

On 2020-10-19 Cornelius will hold a live streaming Q&A on Facebook and YouTube. He will be presenting "The 2021 PMP Exam". Many changes are coming in January. He will be talking about what the changes are to help you decide if you should take the exam now or wait, plus our new upcoming exam prep courses. Bring your questions as there will be time for Q&A. We are here to help you reach your PMP goals!

Please visit the Facebook event to register.

Please visit the YouTube event to register.