If you enjoy the prestige that comes from being the best in your field, then you'll appreciate the professional advantages derived from attaining the PMP, the profession's most globally recognized and respected credential. The PMP designation following your name tells current and potential employers that you have demonstrated a solid foundation of knowledge from which you can competently practice project management.

To be eligible for a PMP Credential, you must first meet specific educational and project management experience requirements and agree to adhere to a code of professional conduct. The final step to becoming a PMP is passing a rigorous multiple-choice examination designed to objectively assess and measure your ability to apply project management knowledge in the following six domains: initiating the project, planning the project, executing the project, monitoring and controlling the project, closing the project, and professional and social responsibility. This computer-based examination is administered globally with translation aids in 10 languages.

PMI's new PMP examination is scheduled to be released on 31 August 2011. PMI's new PMP examination is scheduled to be released on 31 August 2011. This means that the last day to take the current PMP examination is 30 August 2011. In a nutshell, the big change is that starting August 31, 2011, instead of having six sections to the PMP exam (one for each of the five PMI Process Groups, plus one for Ethics & Social Responsibility), there will now only be five sections of the test (one for each of the Process Groups). Ethics & Social Responsibility questions will be interspersed throughout the other five sections, instead of in their own section.