Requirements

• High school diploma, an associate’s degree, or the global equivalent
• 23 hours of project management education (without work experience) OR 1500 hours of professional experience on a project team (without project management education)

Note: One hour of classroom instruction equals one contact hour. If you have completed a university or college course on project management that met for three hours per week for 15 weeks, you would document 45 contact hours on the application. If only a portion of a course dealt with project management, only the hours spent on project management can be applied toward the total.

The following education does not satisfy the education requirements:

• PMI chapter meetings*
• Self-directed learning (e.g., reading books, watching instructional videos or sessions with coaches or mentors)

*If at least one hour of a chapter meeting is spent conducting a learning activity, the hour(s) spent in that activity can be counted towards the educational eligibility requirement.

Application Process

• Verify that you meet the PMI CAPM^® eligibility requirements above
• Create an account at www.pmi.org
• Complete the on-line CAPM^® application at pmi.org and submit
• In approximately 10 business days you will receive an application approval e-mail from PMI (if your application has not been selected for audit);
• Log into www.pmi.org and pay your credential fee ($225 for PMI members and $300 for non-PMI members). Within minutes you will receive a confirmation e-mail stating 1 of 2 things:

• Thank you…here is your test code and exam scheduling instructions.
• Thank you…your application has been selected for audit…here is your audit welcome packet

If you are audited (25% of applications are randomly selected for audit upon payment of exam fees), complete all audit forms and mail them to PMI. You have approximately 90 days to submit the requested documentation.

Upon submission of the required documentation, and in approximately 5 days you will receive an e-mail stating 1 of 3 things:

• Thank you…here is your test code and exam scheduling instructions.
• Thank you…we require further information…here is what we need.
• Sorry…you have failed to meet the audit requirements…please refer to the PMP Handbook for our refund policy procedure

When you have your test code, go to www.prometric.com/PMI to schedule your exam.

CAPM Certificate Exam Information

• You will have up to one year from the date your application is approved to take your exam.
• If you fail your exam, you are allowed to re-test twice within your one year eligibility period.
• Exams are available at multiple Prometric locations around the world.
• You will need to provide 2 forms of identification upon arriving at the test center.
• All of your belongings, including your cell phone, etc., are placed in a locker and are not accessible during the exam.
• You will have 3 hours to complete 150 multiple-choice questions.
• Of the 150 questions, 15 questions are considered pre-test and are not scored.
• The questions will represent each of the PMBOK Knowledge Areas and Processes:

Chapter 3 – Project Management Processes (15%)
Chapter 4 – Integration Management (12%)
Chapter 5 – Scope Management (11%)
Chapter 6 – Time Management (12%)
Chapter 7 – Cost Management (7%)
Chapter 8 – Quality Management (6%)
Chapter 9 – Human Resource Management (8%)
Chapter 10 – Communications Management (6%)
Chapter 11 – Risk Management (9%)
Chapter 12 – Procurement Management (7%)
Chapter 13 – Stakeholder Management (7%)

• There are no scheduled breaks during your exam and as such, the clock will continue even if you step away from the exam.
• Questions are provided one at a time and can either be answered, answered and marked, or left blank and marked for review.
• Upon submission of the exam, you will be asked to answer a survey prior to receiving your results.
• Upon completion of the survey, you will be notified as to whether you passed or failed the exam.
• The exam center will provide you with a paper copy of your results, including your proficiency level in each of the domains. Proficiency levels are:

Proficient
Moderately Proficient
Below Proficient