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PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP ®) is one of the fastest growing Agile certifications. With the credibility of PMI and adherence to the industry demand for agile roles, the certification attests your project management skills and Agile knowledge on a whole different level. The PMI ACP Exam tests on everything about Agile, from the Agile Mindset to the different Agile methodologies and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, etc.). This PMI-ACP certification workshop simplifies the syllabus for you to clear the exam in one go and also equips you to manage any and every Agile project.
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As global leading providers of Disciplined Agile certifications, ProThoughts is extending the Agile branch of certifications to PMI-ACP as well. ProThoughts PMI ACP Training course follows the guidelines in the 2024 update shared by PMI. Our focus is on helping you adopt the Agile Mindset and learn to apply Agile concepts with flexibility and adaptability – instead of following a prescriptive path.
We create a collaborative atmosphere for you in our Online Instructor-led classrooms with our Game-based methodology and hands-on exercises. Plus, our PMI ACP certification course is led by certified instructors, with extensive experience in the Agility space. Adding to that you get access to all the solid Authorized PMI Agile Certified Practitioner training materials. You can rest assured that you’ll be well-geared up to clear your ACP exam in one go!
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Besides, you’ll also have 360-degree support from our administration team along with our instructors for Application Form Filling, Review and Counseling till you get PMI ACP certified. At ProThoughts, we have a solid track record with hundreds of success stories from our candidates in our last 10 years of project management training!
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PMI ACP has been the most popular Agile certification over the last 5 years. With the latest update to the PMI ACP syllabus and exam format, the certification has become even more game-changing. The 2024 PMI ACP certification encourages practitioners to integrate and adapt agile models based on project needs. The flexibility of the new PMI ACP allows practitioners to tailor their approach by choosing from Scrum, Kanban, Lean, or hybrid models becoming truly Agile.
The new PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI ACP) promotes a more adaptable and context-driven use of agile. Thus, it reflects the reality that one size does not fit all in agile project management. The previous PMI ACP tools and techniques have been refined as well now. The emphasis of the PMI ACP certification is still on testing your Agile Mindset and knowledge of Agile principles and practices. But, there’s a better focus on the practical application of agile techniques within specific roles.
The PMI ACP exam now also includes some elements of the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification. ProThoughts is the reigning lead in Disciplined Agile and Disciplined Agile certifications, and this change sets you free from a prescriptive approach to Agility. The new ACP is a fresh take on the agile project management certification, that integrates the best of Disciplined Agile with that of PMI ACP.
PMI ACP EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE:
The PMI ACP exam content outline had a major revision in November 2024. The earlier version tested candidates on 7 domains. However, the current PMI ACP ECO has reduced it to 4 completely new domains – Mindset, Leadership, Product, and Delivery.
Each of these domains further contain 4-7 tasks that give an overview of your responsibilities as an agile practitioner for that domain. Tasks in this outline are much broader and give more room for adaptability and agility.
The new PMI ACP ECO also introduced enablers along with the Domains and Tasks. Here, PMI is following a standard format for its ECO like its other major project management certifications – PMP and PgMP. The enablers are introduced as illustrative examples under each task, such as “Build an increment of the product to validate the solution” or “Establish a feedback loop for team transparency.” These enablers in PMI ACP provide better guidance on the tasks for agile practitioners at different career stages.
PMI ACP EXAM FORMAT:
The PMI ACP exam consists of 120 questions. Out of the 120, 100 are scored questions and the remaining 20 are pretest questions which won’t contribute to your exam score. As part of the new November 2024 exam format, the 100 PMI ACP questions are of different formats like: multiple-choice items, multiple response, drag-and-drop-style items, and exhibits.
You’ll have 3 hours to complete the PMI ACP certification exam. There is a 10-minute break in the exam which appears once you attempt questions 1-60 and finish reviewing them. Kindly note that once you resume the test after the break, you won’t be able to return to the reviewed questions.
The PMI ACP exam also contains a tutorial and a survey, similar to the other PMI certification exams. These two things are optional and the time taken to complete them is not included in the examination time of 180 minutes.
Please note that the PMI ACP exam duration remains the same as before for the pilot phase of the new examinations. However, the final production exam might change after the pilot exams are complete.
PMI ACP candidates will be given the choice to either take the exam at the Pearson VUE testing center or through proctored mode remotely.
PMI ACP VALIDITY:
Once you first earn your PMI ACP, it is valid for a 3-year period. After that, the PMI-ACP credential must be maintained in 3-year cycles by earning 30 PDUs.
PMI ACP EXAM FEE:
The PMI ACP Certification cost for PMI members is USD 435 and for non-members is USD 495. You can avail the PMI Membership at a cost of USD 129. You can access multiple resources for your PMI ACP prep, like the Agile Practice Guide for free with an active membership status.
The PMI membership rate for your PMI ACP exam will apply only if your membership is in good standing at the time you submit payment for it. If you apply for the membership right before you apply for the certification, make sure you receive a confirmation of your membership before you proceed. If your membership has not been completely processed, you will be charged the nonmember rate for PMI ACP certification. If PMI membership is obtained after you submit payment for the certification, PMI will not refund the difference.
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI ACP) certification is a professional requirement for those working in Agile environments, particularly in IT or technology-based industries. This certification is ideal for scrum masters, agile project managers, product owners, product developers, etc. In fact, PMI ACP is also suitable for project executives, team leads, associate managers, and agile team members aspiring to take on leadership roles. Also for:
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PMI ACP Eligibility Requirements mandates having a combination of Education, Professional Learning, as well as Professional Agile Experience to proceed with the exam. PMI ACP aspirants must hold a Secondary Diploma, which can consist of a High School Degree, GED, associate’s degree, or any other globally equivalent. You must log 28 hours of formal training in Agile Practices, methodologies, and frameworks to qualify for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner exam. Note: 21 hours for formal training will be accepted until 31st March 2025 The November 2024 PMI ACP Exam Outline updated its experience requirements considering the results of the Global Practice Analysis. Aspirants can have: Still unsure about your eligibility for the PMI ACP certification? Check with our team for free! Schedule a callPMI ACP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
PMI-ACP encompasses the entire Agile framework which includes all the Agile methodologies including the Scrum. Further, the PMI-ACP is designed for Project & Program Managers, Product Owners, Scrum masters, Scrum Product Owners, Agile Coaches, Agile Trainers, Sr. Developers, Business and IT Managers with experience in Agile projects. General project experience is required in addition to Agile-specific experience and education. The exam is designed to test both the practitioner’s level of professionalism in Agile practices of project management and professional versatility in project management tools and techniques. You can learn about the pre-requisites here.
For Certified Scrum Master course, no eligibility is required as such. The CSM introduces to the world of Agile and helps you to learn the basic fundamentals, terminology, principles of Agile. However, CSM focuses only on the Scrum methodology.
education. The exam is designed to test both the practitioner’s level of professionalism in Agile practices of project management and professional versatility in project management tools and techniques. Prerequisite requirements for the pass/fail exam are broken down into three categories:
Actually, no one knows this. If anyone is suggesting any score for PMI based exam, we will doubt it.
The Project Management Institute does give any passing score nor they provide any information on the questions answered correctly. What they provide are just the grades. They are the following:
This is because the PMI-ACP® Exam is based on ‘sound psychometric analysis’ (which is a modern way of keeping the standards of those who pass the PMI-ACP® Exam). Also, since most of the PMI-ACP® Exams are administrated on computers, the question sets of individual candidates are different, hence the passing scores for individual exams will need to be adjusted to the overall difficulty of the set, i.e. NOT the same.
However, according to the trainers of PMI-ACP® Agile Certification aspirants, most of them would estimate that the passing score is around 70%. This may be because the PMI-ACP® Exam is generally considered a bit easier than the PMP® Exam (but this is just an educated guess only as no information has been disclosed by PMI).
Therefore when you are attempting ProThoughts PMI-ACP® sample Mock Exams, it is highly recommended to set a higher standard than 70% (e.g. 75% – 80%) for your mock exam performance so that you can walk into the PMI-ACP® Exam center with better confidence of passing the exam in the first attempt.
As per our alumni who have passed both PMP® and PMI-ACP® Exams in their first attempt, we can claim that the PMI-ACP® exam is easier than the PMP®.
PMI-ACP® stands for Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner while CSM stands for Certified Scrum Master.
Certified Scrum Master is a popular Agile certification
Understand the fundamentals, terminology, practices and principles, and roles of the Scrum methodology
For Scrum Master or Scrum Team Member in the IT/software industry
1. NO experience prerequisite;
2. need to attend a course on CSM;
3. take and pass the CSM exam, which has only 25 questions AND almost everyone can pass it
Very easy to get CSM
Popularity is growing over the several years since its introduction in 2011/2
The certification syllabus is more extensive
The PMI-ACP® Exam tests on everything about Agile, from Agile Manifesto, different Agile methodologies and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, etc.) to Agile tools, techniques, skills, etc.
For everyone involved in Agile projects
e.g. project managers, product owners, Agile coaches and trainers, developers, testers, business analysts, etc.
Requirements to get PMI-ACP® certified:
1. A minimum number of hours of general project experience and Agile project experience;
2. 21 Contact Hours in Agile project education;
3. pass the PMI-ACP® audit of your application (if being selected);
4. take and pass the PMI-ACP® exam, which has 120 questions (lasts for 3 hours), it is not easy to pass the PMI-ACP® exam without over a hundred hours of hard work
5. Much more difficult to get PMI-ACP®
CSM is quite different from the PMI-ACP® certification. You may judge whether to get CSM or PMI-ACP® based on the comparison above.
If you work sole with Scrum and if your organization requires a certificate for your Scrum knowledge, then CSM is certification to go. However, if your team practice other Agile methodologies and if you would like to have an Agile certificate that’s rigorous and valuable, PMI-ACP® is your definite choice.
One word of caution is that since PMI-ACP® has just been around several years, quite a few HR practitioners may not be aware of its existence. You may need to explain the values of PMI-ACP® to them.
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Yes. We hand hold the participant until he achieves the coveted PMI-ACP certification course. We provide Exam Form Filling assistance through our guided software. Our Expert reviewers and counselors are available to help with any queries the participants may have. We assist all participants with their Audit Process. In short, we hand-hold them in their journey to become PMI-ACP certified.
PMI provides PMBoK as their standard reference guide for PMP®. However, there is no guide or standard prepared by PMI for PMI-ACP®. What it provides is the PMI-ACP® Exam Reference Books (a total of 11 Agile books with over 3800 pages!) which is much thicker than the PMBoK® guide. What we recommend is one book which takes the relevant content from these 11 books
This is the most popular book on PMI-ACP. Fortunately, we are the exclusive distributors with RMC in this part of a region and we use this book to coach the participants. All of our students have used this book and have received excellent results. The author Mike Griffiths is a renowned Agile trainer and practitioner who has help formulating the PMI-ACP® Exam structure and syllabus – who else could be more familiar with the PMI-ACP® Exam than this insider?
We would say so. It is often said that the PMI-ACP® Exam Prep Book by Mike Griffiths is almost the “official” study guide for the PMI-ACP® Exam. However, this book by Mike Griffiths is not a must read but highly recommended for any exam taker or even for knowledge seeker who has just started on Agile or a practitioner in Agile.
We also recommend using our study material specially designed for PMI-ACP along with Mike Griffiths book. The study material is designed for specific stages of your PMI-ACP® preparation. We provide the Slide Book on PMI-ACP®, Flash cards, Supporting Guide to fill your application, Pre-Assessment Software guide and most importantly, specially designed Mock exams to crack the PMI-ACP exam.
No. No one certification serves as a prerequisite for another. You also do not have to be a PMI member to apply to become a certification holder. If you are already PMP® certified, the general project experience required for PMI-ACP® is waived off.
When submitting an application, you do not need to send documentation. However, you will be required to send supporting documentation if your application is selected for a random audit. To find out more about PMI's audit process, refer to the certification handbooks and the audit FAQs.
All PMI exams, with the exception of the CAPM, are offered at approved Prometric Testing Centers worldwide.
If you fail the exam on your first attempt, you can re-take it two more times within your one-year eligibility period. Fees are associated with re-examination. Details for re-examination can be found in the certification handbook.
Your application is valid for one (1) year from the date of approval. If you allow your eligibility to lapse, you must re-apply.
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Strategic and Business Management: the knowledge of and expertise in the industry and organization that enhances performance and better delivers business outcomes.
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The submission of an application indicates your agreement to comply with the terms of the audit process. All applications are subject to an audit, although only a percentage of applications are selected for audit. The selection of an application for audit is random.
If your application is selected for an audit, you will be notified by email prior to payment of the certification fee. The electronic audit notification provides detailed information on how to comply with the terms of the audit.
During an audit, you will be asked to submit supporting documentation such as:
· Signatures from your supervisor(s) or manager(s) from the project(s) recorded in the experience verification section of the application
· Copies of certificates and/or letters of registration, from the training institute(s) for each course recorded on the application to meet the required contact hours of training in agile practices
PMI provides you with 90 days to submit the requested documentation. If you are able to provide the necessary documentation to meet the terms and requirements of the audit process, the audit should take about five to seven business days to complete.
You can send your completed audit forms by regular postal mail or express courier service, to the address below. Please send all materials at one time, in one envelope. Sending audit documents separately can cause a delay in the audit review timeframe.