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PMP Exam is changing December 2019

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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
For anyone aspiring to get their PMP this year, please read the info in this announcement from PMI.

https://www.pmi.org/update-center/certification-changes/pmp

It sounds like they are conducting an updated Role Delineation Study which will produce a new Exam Content Outline. That will mean there are likely to be new or modified tasks within the five domains resulting in the new types of questions.

Until the ECO is released in June it is hard to judge how big this change will be but if you meet the prerequisites you may wish to write your exam before December to avoid the risk of the unknown.

Kiron
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
It's also interesting to note that the announcement states the PMP application will change. There is nothing to say what specifically about the application process is changing. I expect whatever the changes will percolate eventually to other certification applications.
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Kathryn Schwalbe Professor Emeritus, Publisher and author| Augsburg College South Haven, MN, United States
It's not in the grouping of people, process, or business, which is also confusing. There's a section on p. 2 of the new exam content outline as follows:

Important note: The research conducted through the Job Task Analysis validated that today’s project management practitioners work in a variety of project environments and utilize different project approaches. Accordingly, the PMP certification will be reflective of this and will incorporate approaches across the value delivery spectrum. About half of the examination will represent predictive project management approaches and the other half will represent agile or hybrid approaches. Predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches will be found throughout the three domain areas listed above and are not isolated to any particular domain or task.
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James Shields IS Director - Portfolio Solutions| City and County of San Francisco, SFPD San Francisco, Ca, United States
I got my certification in June this year. The exam I took was almost entirely TPM, not APM.

But, of course, each exam is taking from a pool of questions which means what my experience was is not necessarily representative of others seating the exam.

Regardless, PMI has its own separate certification for Agile (PMI-ACP), so I tend to think that the PMP exam would not include much on Agile across all exam questions for PMP.
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Ramakant Beernally General Manager, GIS & ITES, E-Governance| SBL KNOWLEDGE SERVICES Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, Delhi, India
May 01, 2019 8:24 AM
Replying to Savrabh Mishra
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I have just started to study for PMP certification. Do you think its possible to take the exam by December?
Its all depends upon you if you spend 2 to 3 hours effectively on a daily base for the next 2 months and you are able to score 85 to 90% in the mock test of 200 questions in stipulated 4 hours of time then you are ready to take the exam, all the best.
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Alex Poon Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Including Agile seems a huge impact on the content
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