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An Army offcer
working on a USACE
megaproject briefs
senior leaders during a site visit.
■ Monitoring and controlling.
■ Closing.
The application requires names of contacts who can
verify the applicant's work, though signatures are not
required unless the application is one of the few selected
to be audited. The next requirement is a brief (550character) summary of the project tasks led and directed by
the applicant. The PMBOK includes 47 project tasks, or processes, that are part of the fve project management process
groups. Studying these will allow the summaries to match
PMI terminology.
For each month that an applicant worked on multiple,
overlapping projects, only the time spent on one of those
projects can be counted toward the 3- or 5-year project management experience requirement. The hours spent leading
and directing both projects can be counted as part of the
4,500- or 7,500-hour requirement, but remember to keep the
total reasonable. Applicants who worked on two overlapping projects should not claim that they worked on each for
40 hours per week. The resulting 80-hour week total would
send a red fag and increase the likelihood of the application
being audited.
Meeting the 35 hours of project management education
is an easy requirement for Army engineers. The Engineer
Basic Offcer Leader Course and Engineer Captains Career
Course have time devoted to project management. The start
and end dates of the course and the number of contact hours
earned are required in order to receive credit. The entire
time spent in the courses will not count, since all hours were
not devoted to project management. Applicants should claim
the appropriate number of hours for both courses.
PMI takes 3 to 5 days to review applications for completeness. If there are no errors, it is time to pay for the
examination. Once the examination fees have been submitted, PMI notifes applicants whose applications have
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been selected for audit. In that case, proof of education,
verifcation of project management experience from supervisors, and proof of project management education must be
submitted to PMI within 90 days of notifcation.
Phase III: Examination Preparation
T
hough it is not necessary to memorize the PMBOK
Guide, applicants should scan it to become familiar with the terminology and processes that PMI
uses. The goal is to understand the processes involved in
managing projects. The guide lists the fve process groups,
10 knowledge areas, and 47 processes of project management. Knowing which process group that a question is
referring to and being familiar with the processes within
that group will help answer many questions during the
examination.
A free online review course is available through Army
eLearning. Access the course by logging on at