PMP® Certification Application Tips

PMP® Certification Application Tips

Important Tips for Filling PMI-USA online Application

This is the sample of application of Single Project for your guidelines only. However, participants has to fill in the appropriate information as per their actual project experience.
Please keep all the supporting documents relevant to your project experience ready while filling the application. This will avoid the last moment efforts to gather it, incase your application got selected for the Audit by PMI USA.
Please keep you educational qualification baccalaureate or global equivalent university degree certificate ready while applying PMI USA.
Keep ready summary of your Project's high level deliverables.
Be honest & accurate while filling the information.

General Guidelines

Pl fill the below mentioned information for all the projects you are mentioning while applying to PMI.
Pl enter the number of hours spent on each of the below mentioned tasks in 5 Processes for every project.
Keep this information ready and handy while filling the online application to PMI USA.
Also keep ready information about the Organization, Name of the contact Person, Contact details etc for each and every project.
Keep the summary of every project ready to be written in 500 characters only.

Steps of Online Application

Login to www.pmi.org
Create your Login id & password
Application
- Contact Address
- Contact E-mail, Phone
- Attained Education
- Requirements
- Optional Information
- Certificate
- Agreement
Review & Submit
Please keep your Graduation Certificate details ready.
Please keep your 35 Contact hrs –certificate (Provided by VINSYS) ready for reference.

Process Group-wise Summary

Please note that, you have to provide the Number of Hrs you worked on each and every project.
All the projects you are reporting should be broken in to the 5 Process Groups;
- INITIATING
- PLANNING
- EXECUTING
- MONITORING & CONTROLLING
- CLOSING

Initiating Process
Hrs.	Initiating Process
	Conduct project selection methods to evaluate the feasibility of new products or services
	Identify key stakeholders and perform analysis to gain buy-in and requirements for the success of the project.
	Define the scope of the project based on the organization need to meet the customer project expectations.
	Develop the project charter and review it with key stakeholders to confirm project scope, risks, issues, assumptions and constraints as well as obtain project charter approval from the project sponsor.
	Identify and document high level risks, assumptions and constraints using historical data and expert judgment.

Planning Process
Hrs.	Planning Process
	Identify key project team members and define roles and responsibilities to create a project organization structure to develop a communication plan.
	Create the work breakdown structure with the team to develop the cost, schedule, resource, quality and procurement plans.
	Identify project risks to define risk strategies and develop the risk management plan.
	Obtain project plan approval from the customer and conduct a kick off meeting with all key stakeholders.
	Define and record detail project requirements, constraints and assumptions with the stakeholders to establish the project deliverables.
	Develop the change management plan to define how changes will be handled to manage the triple constraints.

Executing Process
Hrs.	Executing Process
	Manage proactively the resource allocation by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned to the tasks according to the project plan.
	Execute the tasks defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.
	Ensure a common understanding and set expectations through communication to align the stakeholders and team members.
	Improve team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency and boost morale.
	Implement a quality management plan to ensure that work is being performed according to required quality standards.
	Implement approved changes according to the Change Management Plan.
	Obtain project resources in accordance with a procurement plan.
	Implement the approved actions and workarounds required to minimize the impact of project risks.

Monitoring & Controlling Process
Hrs.	Monitoring and Controlling Process
	Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
	Verify and manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs as defined in the change management plan.
	Monitor the status of all identified risks, identify any new risks, take corrective actions and update the risk response plan.
	Ensure the project deliverables conform to quality standards established in the project quality plan.

Closing Process
Hrs.	Closing Process
	Formalize and obtain final acceptance for the project.
	Identify, document and communicate lessons learned.
	Archive and retain project records, historical information and documents (e.g., project schedule, project plan, lessons learned, surveys, risk and issues logs, etc.) in order to retain organizational knowledge, comply with statutory requirements, and ensure availability of data for potential use in future projects and internal/external audits.
	Obtain financial, legal and administrative project closure (e.g., final payments, warranties, contract signoff).
	Release all project resources and provide performance feedback.
	Create and distribute final project report.
	Measure customer satisfaction at the end of the project.

Review

On attaining 4500/7500 hrs and 36 Months of Project Environment Experience you majority of application is completed.
Now you are ready to submit the application online to PMI USA.
Please cross check all the information before submission.

Payment of Fees & Scheduling Exam

We would suggest and recommend you to become member at the time of applying.
On submission of online application to PMI, you will receive email notification from PMI USA
You can pay the fees online through Credit card to PMI USA.
PMI will acknowledge the receipt of payment and application process through another email.
On receipt of acceptance you can schedule your exam with Prometric centre.

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