Now in order to take the PMP exam, there are a few prerequisites. Of course, you need to be a university graduate or a high school graduate, or less than investing graduate. But for a university graduate, you have to have a minimum of three years experience. For a high school graduate, you need to have the equivalent of five years experience. The three years experience would amount to around 4500 hours of project management experience project, working on projects leading projects. Having a significant role on projects for the for 4500 hours is a prerequisite.
The philosophy of the PMP certification is that the PMP certification is there to confirm your knowledge of project management Rather than equip you with knowledge, but it confirms your knowledge. So you have to have the experience, then sit for the exam so that employers, employers have an objective means of verifying that you are a qualified project manager, a professional project manager, project management professional. So as a philosophy of the PMP. That's why you are required to have experience before before applying for the exam. So, university fresh graduates, for example, cannot attempt to take the exam until they have the required experience. And finally, you have to have 35 hours of project management education.
This course this series of lectures here that I'm giving would satisfy that condition. PMI will will recommend to you that you take the course with a Rap rap is a registered education provider registered in PMI. They recommend that but it's not. It's not a must. They The reason they recommended is that it guarantees a certain level of quality because in order to become for an organization to become a rep, a registered education provider, they have to go through certain audits by PMI. The PMI audits the material.
They audit the trainer's background and CVS and so on. And you're in luck because I work with several reps. And my material has been audited in those reps by the reps and those reps have provided PMI with my material in order to get the rep status in the first Appstats in the first place. And of course, Also my CV and background and so on and so forth. So, this gives you a certain peace of mind quality guarantee that this course satisfies the reps. criteria as put forth by PMR. Myself, I operate through a very, very small company called a gabba.com. The material is branded with that company's logo and website.
Gobble.com is a very, very small company, it's just me my laptop on Hawaii. I operate through it. But I work through many reps in the region and worldwide. Right so these are the conditions for taking the exam. The exam itself is composed of 200 multiple choice questions. So you can expect that you will not see any other questions then MC cues, multiple choice questions.
Every question is composed of a statement a certain statement. And, and of course, at the end of the statement, there's a question and then you have four answers, out of which you need to pick the best answer. More often than not, you will find more than one good answer. But you need to pick the best answer one single best answer. That's the format of the exam. And of course, we will have practice questions and answers and I will point to what is a best answer?
And why is it best Why is it better than say, another answer and so on. And I will get you familiar with that and get you into that kind of practice and practice makes perfect as you as they say. So thanks. exam is composed of 200 questions out of which only 175 will be marked towards your certification. The other 25 questions are embedded in the exam you don't know which are which they will not tell you. The other 25 questions will be embedded inside the exam for the purpose of measuring the level of the level of difficulty of those 25 questions.
Now PMI needs to keep refreshing its questions database. So this is how they do it. They introduce new questions all the time they embed those questions in PMP exams, so as to see how difficult are these questions and place them in the view difficulty level what PMI tries to do, because the PMP is a prometric exam. They try to give Every one who takes the PMP exam has similar experience when it comes to the level of difficulty of the exam. So two people can be sitting in the same examination center, taking the PMP exam, but they don't have identical exams. They have a bit different exams, but they have equivalently difficulty exams.
So from the level of difficulty, everybody has the same level of difficulty. So every question that PMR uses for its examination, it it has been measured in terms of the level of difficulty, of course, the PMI experts who put those questions have verified the relevance and of the questions and so on and so forth. So that's the exam format.