PMP(R) Exam Preparation, Experience Submission – What are Examples of Projects?

You don’t need a title of a project manager to qualify for project management certification; however, you do need to have the experience of project management. For the PMP(R) Exam, you must support the fact that you led and directed the projects that you submitted on your PMP(R) Exam application. Your role should be appropriate to reflect that you led and directed your projects. You can submit your application prior to class if the class is within two weeks of your training. You can also do this during your week of training, after the day’s class is over. We will provide guidelines and a checklist to pay attention to while you are working on your application.

Understand what a project is, and what it is not, in order to determine your project management experience. Workflow No. 6 of our class materials is an excellent reference. A project is not daily operations, where you do the same things routinely with the same outcomes every day, every week, every year. Daily routine work belongs to business operations. Even though projects are conducted within operations, and project managers may participate in some daily operations, as well as managing 1 to 3 or more projects at a time, but Project Managers cannot count the operations’ activities as their management activities. A project is a temporary endeavor with a start and finish date, and a unique outcome and the project’s deliverables are handed over to operations to increase business value once the project is signed off.

About the current PMP(R) Exam: It ends July 8, 2026. The new PMP(R) starts July 9, 2026. If you are a slower learner, take your training for the new exam so you can take up to 12 months to take your exam.

Long projects are often divided into project phases. Each phase is a complete project life cycle, unless the project is cancelled at a toll gate. The project manager is assigned a project and collaborates with relevant and key stakeholders throughout the project life cycle. When you are in class, you will learn about the role of the project manager, who has lots of responsibility, but the PM has very little authority in most organizational environments. Some people struggle with understanding the difference between a project and operations because in business, or military or in government organizations there are many projects; however, they are not always labeled “projects.” Your work doesn’t have to be labeled as a project; neither do you need the title of a project manager in order to claim projects. A project manager performs a leadership role. Some project managers are engineers, medical professionals, etc.; however, you will choose between the role of a project manager or the role of a leader. Experience Qualification for the PMP Exam:(1) If you have a minimum of a 4-year degree or equivalent: 3 years of project management experience is all you need and you can go backwards 8 years to gather 3 years of projects, but that is it. (2) If you have a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent: 5 years of project management experience is all you need. You can go also backwards 8 years to collect your expect but no further also but no further.

Examples of Projects: Business analysis or Data analysis activities are projects. Revamping or redesigning business processes, identifying process improvement, process gaps analysis or process re-engineering, etc. Events Planning counts for the first event. If it is replicated it is not a project. Prototype design for manufacturing: Includes the first prototypes, and test products, and first product after that you can’t count any more. Sales projects, advertising projects, marketing projects or IT project management. Budget projects, Procurement Department is part of project management. PMO – when the PMO takes over and leads and directs the project team. Some voluntary work that does not conflict during the time span of your projects. This voluntary work is most offered during periods of unemployment.

Reminder: There are many projects within Operations but routine, daily work is not a project because, as it is ongoing. The accountant who records cash in and cash out every day and reconciles reports every month is doing his / her daily job (operations). However, when they analyze year end data for reconciling and forecasting the next year’s budget, then they are doing a project.

How to Determine a Project? Does your project have a start date and end date? Does it have a unique outcome, such as a product, a service offering, a result or a process improvement? These are the key elements of a project description. The Project Management Institute provides a handbook for each and every exam. You can go to pmi.org.

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