Changes to the PMI examination

Every five to seven years, the Project Management Institute (PMI)® performs a Role Delineation Study (RDS) to determine the scope of the project manager role as it is currently being performed. This ensures that the PMI examinations assess current practice and are as up to date as possible. The most recent RDS was completed in December 2010 and as a result from this month the PMP qualification is being amended to take account of these latest findings.

Approximately 30% of the content on the PMP examination is new or has substantial changes to reflect the role as defined by the RDS. This will result in existing items being updated as appropriate, new examination items being developed to meet these requirements, and old items which do not meet the criteria being retired.

Certain areas of the examination need to be tested in a different way because it was seen to be common across all content areas of the examination. Specifically, the Professional and Social Responsibility content area (Domain 6) will now be tested in every domain rather than as a separate domain on the examination. As such, PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is now integrated into the day-to-day role of a project manager, emphasizing its importance in each phase of the project lifecycle.

Maven ensures that its course materials are always up to date so we have been busy redesigning our course to take account of these changes, and our lead trainer has written 100 new test questions so you can be sure that if you train with Maven your training will reflect the format and content of your PMP examination.

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