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Project Management Professional (PMP)

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The Project Management Professional, or PMP, is an internationally recognised project management certification awarded by the Project Management Institute. Candidates qualify through one of two tracks, either a bachelor's degree plus thirty six months of project leadership experience or a high school diploma plus sixty months of such experience, in both cases alongside thirty five hours of formal project management training, before sitting a one hundred and eighty question multiple choice examination administered at Pearson VUE test centres worldwide. By mid 2020 more than a million professionals across two hundred and fourteen countries and territories held an active PMP credential, which must be renewed every three years through sixty professional development units. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Qualification Level
Professional certification (post-secondary, non-degree) 1
Awarding Body Type
Project Management Institute (non-profit professional association) 1
Typical Duration
Prerequisites of education plus 36 to 60 months of project leadership experience, then a 180 question examination 1
Country of Origin
United States 1
Field of Study
Project management and organisational leadership 1
Awarding Body Type
Awarding Body Type (category)
Professional Body 1
Qualification Level
Qualification Level (ISCED category)
Post-Secondary Non-Tertiary (ISCED 4) 1
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1. Project Management Professional (PMP) (Wikipedia)
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    As of 31 July 2020, there are 1,036,368 active PMP-certified individuals and 314 chartered chapters across 214 countries and territories worldwide.
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