If you would like to
get your PMP® Certification
this year (2017), we suggest you to take action NOW as a kind of risk management:
Across the globe, thousands of PMP® Certification Aspirants
begin their exam prep journey in the hope of getting PMP® Certified (in their
first attempt, hopefully!!!). This year is certainly no exception. However,
2017 is also very different.
The current edition of the PMBOK® guide and the PMP® exam are
very familiar and PMP® certification aspirants can find study
resources/materials readily available. (Read - no changes to the PMP® exam
this year, 2017). As the PMBOK® guide
is not changing until the 3rd quarter of the year and the PMP® Exam will be
based on the current PMBOK® guide 5th edition until 1st quarter of
2018. This means, there is still time to study and prepare for your PMP® Exam
based on the existing PMP® exam.
1)
Format of the PMP® Exam could change
and the PMP® Exam fee MAY see a hike in 2018.
2)
The
PMP® Exam may get tougher as
there are quite a few complaints that the quality of PMP® holders is decreasing
over the previous years, as getting PMP® Certified is becoming easier
3)
Publishers
of the PMP® online courses and PMP® Exam Prep books may not be ready to
release the updated versions of their PMP® resources with the introduction of
the new PMP® Exam (this happened in 2016 when PMI updated the PMP® Exam Content
Outline and the new PMP® Exam was forced to defer)
4)
Some
PMP® study resources/materials highly recommended earlier, may not live up to
expectations of the new PMP® Exam as the depth of their understanding of the
new PMP® Exam may not be the same as before (owing to change of the
authors/editors, etc.)
5)
Major
PMP® Exam prep books will take time to get published — if you would like to get
PMP® certified in the first quarter of 2018, you may not be able to find a book
for your exam study and you would be forced to delay getting PMP® certified for
3 months or more
6)
The
PMP® Exam results for the first few weeks after the introduction of the new
PMP® Exam may not be released immediately after the submission of the exam
paper answers, as PMI needs to adjust the passing marks.
For the new PMP® Exam version, all the PMP® Exam prep books,
mock exams and online training course will see a price increase for sure (maybe
over 15% or more), it is not known if the PMP® Exam fee will also see a hike —
if you begin now, you can lock in the current price level without worrying
about requiring to spend more for the same PMP® title
Talking about the
push factors:
Lots
of tried and tested exam preparation materials (based on PMBOK® Guide 5) are
around now, with many available for FREE. It really takes time to build up such
a wealth of resource for the new PMP® Exam version
According to many
PMP® aspirants, it usually takes around 2 to 3 months to complete the PMP® Exam
preparation. If you begin now, you will almost certainly get PMP® certified in
2017
Don’t
worry and take action NOW, if you are qualified for the experience
requirements, why not get the required 35 contact hours of project management
education right away?
(As a bonus, the 35 contact hours are VALID FOREVER — meaning that you will not
be required to take another project management course even if the PMP® Exam has
changed). Your very first step of PMP® Journey is to take a PMP®
online/onsite course
The conclusion is: if you don’t get
PMP® certified in 2017, it is highly likely that you cannot get PMP® Certified
in the first or even second quarter of 2018 — your career plan may be adversely
affected.
According
to the experiences of many PMP® Certification Aspirants, the average duration
of PMP® study is around 2 months (between 1 – 3 months for most of us). Our suggestion
to PMP® Certification Aspirants in 2017 is:
If you can devote at least 2 hours of daily study continuously for
2 months, you are highly advised to begin your PMP® Certification journey
before September 2017 as there is still plenty of time for you to
succeed!
Is September 2017 a bit too late? I would consider the time to be quite enough.
If given the chance for my own PMP®, I would rather begin to prepare for my
exam at the beginning of the year rather than have to wait several months. You
know the psychological burden.
However,
if you are quite uncertain about your time (I have personally known someone who
took over 2 years to complete their PMP® Certification owing to sudden surge in
workload from their daily jobs and personal emergencies), you may better have
to wait for the new PMP® Exam which is based on the PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition.
If
it is already October 2017, then it is more prudent to wait; otherwise the
money spent on PMP® Exam prep courses or exam prep books would be wasted when
the new Exam becomes effective.
If
you are taking your exam before January 1, 2018, you should continue to study
from and prepare for your examination using the Fifth Edition of the PMBOK®
Guide along with the examination content outline PMI makes available. If you
are taking your exam after January 1, 2018, the PMP® Exam will be changed and
you should plan to study from and prepare for your examination using the Sixth
Edition of the PMBOK® Guide.
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