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Two weeks ago I took the PMP (Project Management Professional) boot camp training class out in Los Colinas in Irving, Texas from Global Knowledge. This class lasted 4 days from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The amount of information that was dished out to the students was amazing. PMI (Project Management Institute) requires at least 36 hours of classroom project management training and Global Knowledge pushes this into 4 days. All the boot camps are the same length, at least from the research that I did prior to taking the test.

In order to qualify to take the exam, one must:

• Have a College Degree
• Have 4500 hours of project management experience (7500 hours of experience if the user does not have a college degree)
• Have 36 hours of classroom PM training

The test itself is 200 multiple choice questions and you are given 4 hours to take the test. In order to pass the exam, you have to score at least 60% or greater. Now I know that this seems easy, but believe me, with the amount of information that is passed on to each student during the boot camp is just amazing. Not only do you have to take in a ton of information, but you also have to memorize about 10 or so formula’s that are needed to calculate different items during the exam.

Honestly I have not studied at that much, but I need to in order to pass this exam. I am going to try and study all this week and take the test sometime early next week. You need to do this so you do not lose all the information that is given out during the boot camp. It would be a complete waste of money (the cost of the boot camp) to just let the information be forgotten.

I hope that I will be able to pass the exam the first go around. I have talked to others that are already PMP certified and they have all stated that the exam is extremely difficult.

I will keep this blog post updated on my results!

~Mike