IT Certifications

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IT Certifications

• Team 2 IS460
• Mike Kobs
• Chris Siekert
• Elise Quamme

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Overview

• Objectives of the presentation
• Types of Certifications
• PMP Project Management Professional
• Project
• ICCP
• Benefits Costs
• Eligibility
• Exams

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Objectives

• Understanding of IT certifications and how they
  can benefit your career
• Understanding of what it takes to become
  certified
• To help you decide what certifications are best
  for you

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PMI Certifications Overview

• About the Project Management Institute
• Four Types of Credentials
• Project Management Professional - PMP
• Program Management Professional PgMP
• PMI Scheduling Professional PMI-SP
• Certified Associate in Project Management - CAPM
• Certification Benefits/Costs
• Eligibility
• Exams

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About Project Management Institute

• Leading membership association for the project
  management profession
• Only global certification
• 260,000 members in over 171 countries
• Offers certification, networking, and community
  involvement opportunities

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Project Management Professional Certification

• Considered by many as gold-standard of global
  project management certification
• Certified have demonstrated tools required to
  competently practice project management
• Knowledge
• Experience
• Leadership Skills

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PMP Certification Benefits

• Recognizes your expertise in Project Management
• Better Salary
• Average starting salary 90,000
• Salaries of certified Project Managers are 20
  more than those with similar experience level
• Better Job Opportunities
• Requirement to be qualified has been growing
  exponentially
• There are 20 more jobs available
• Networking with other PMPs

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PMP Costs

• Directed toward career enhancement
• Locked into Project Management track
• Continue to show documented leading of projects
• Renewal fee every 3 years
• High cost

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Project Management Professional Eligibility

• Online application allows you to track your
  experience
• Month count cant have overlapping projects
• Hours count includes any hours

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Project Management Professional Exam

• 4 hours for 200 questions
• 25 questions considered pre-test
• Do not affect score
• Used as way to test validity of future exam
  questions
• All questions randomly placed
• To maintain certification
• Demonstrate ongoing professional commitment to
  field
• Satisfying the Continuing Certification
  Requirements Program

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Maintaining PMP

• Earn and report at least 60 Professional
  Development Units during each 3-year CCR cycle.
• Typically one PDU is earned per hour spent in a
  planned and structured learning activity.
• Complete the Application for Certification
  Renewal and return it to PMI, along with the
  renewal fee
• The CCR program has identified five categories in
  which PMP credential holders can earn PDUs
• Formal academic education
• Professional activities and self directed
  learning
• Education programs offered by PMI Registered
  Education Providers or PMI components
• Educational programs offered by other providers
• Volunteer service to professional or community
  organization

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One example

• A document called ____________ is created by
  decomposing the project scope into smaller, more
  manageable elements.
• Scope Statement
• Network Logic Diagram
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Requested Change

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CompTIA Certification Overview

• Project Certification
• Certification Benefits
• Certification Cons
• CompTIA Survey
• Project Exam

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About Project

• Computing Technology Industry Association
  (CompTIA)
• It covers the entire project life cycle from
  initiation and planning through execution,
  acceptance, support and closure
• First IT industry project management
  certification
• Changed from IT project so that more
  professionals would take the exam other than just
  IT professionals.
• Lifetime certification

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Project benefits

• Makes you more marketable
• Demonstrates mastery of fundamental project
  management skills
• Gives skills necessary to complete projects on
  time and within budget
• Creates common language among project team
  members

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Project Cons

• Price
• Never update with new skills
• Lifetime certificate
• May become outdated

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Survey by CompTIA

• 76 increased communication among team members
• 33 received promotion or pay raise
• Increased responsibility
• 92 led one or more projects since being
  certified
• 79 responsible for multiple projects at once
• 85 responsible for two to five projects at the
  same time

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Project Exam Traits

• You can register online
• Cost 232 and can be taken at the CVTC
• Can take as many times a needed but pay every
  time
• No prerequisites
• 90 minutes to complete 80 questions
• Scenario-based questions
• Unscored Questions occur occasionally
• Dont affect score
• Used to collect preliminary psychometric data
• Notified before exam of unscored questions
• Never expires

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Seven things to know about Project

• More IT than before
• Project components and IT elements to set it
  apart from the others
• Think of it as a stepping stone
• You must know IT and Project Management to pass
• Execution has become more important
• Large portion of test is on execution, Control,
  and Coordination
• Speed up
• 67.5 seconds to answer each question
• Look for the right study guide
• Correct version, lots of questions, author should
  have certificate
• Be ready to include this in other endeavors
• Some companies thinking about adding it into
  requirements
• Weigh the demand in your area
• Ask around to see if certificate will benefit you

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Comparing the Certifications
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PMP vs Project

• PMP

• Project

• Relies on the candidate's knowledge of project
  management to pass and become certified
• One exam covering specific project management
  topics.
• Quality certification for project managers who do
  not yet have the experience or meet the
  requirements of the PMP certification.
• Demonstrates a baseline of project management
  knowledge.

• Currently have over 75,000 PMPs certified around
  the world.
• Several educational and work experience
  prerequisites for the certification.
• Requires documented project management experience
  and documented project management classroom
  hours.
• PMP is the more highly sought certification for
  project management professionals.

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ICCP Overview

• ISA Certification
• CCP Certification
• Benefits/Costs
• Eligibility
• Exam

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ISA certification

• Test taken at the end of the semester
• Must pass with a 50 and if passed with a 70 it
  counts towards the CCP certification
• If you pass you get the option to pay
• Pay 35 a year
• Must have 60 hours of acceptable professional
  development over a 3 year period in order to
  renew
• This is done so that you stay proficient and
  learn new skills in the field.

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CCP certification

• Pinnacle of achievement for Information
  Technology Management, Business and Systems
  Analysts and Computer Professionals world-wide
• Must pass the core test and two specialty tests
  with at least 70
• The ISA certification counts as the core test
• Pay 75 a year
• Need 120 hours of professional development every
  three years to prove you are still proficient

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Benefits of ISA certification

• Practical way to test skills and knowledge
• Establishes your credentials a computing
  professional
• Help career advancement and compensation
• Recognition of specialized knowledge
• Proves you are up to date in your career because
  you must renew every three years

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CCP Eligibility

• Candidate must pass at the professional level of
  70 or higher during a given 36-month period

• Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• Office Information Systems
• Procedural Programming (Structured Programming)
• Systems Development
• Systems Programming (Operating Systems)
• Software Engineering
• Systems Security
• Web Development

• Core I.T. Skills and Knowledge
• Business Information Systems
• Database Administration
• Data Management
• Data Warehousing
• Integrated IT Project Management
• Internetworking Communications
• IS/IT Management
• Microcomputing and Networks

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ICCP Exams

• To take an ICCP test
• Send in application
• 250 per test
• Exams are interactive and computer-based
• Practice exam
• http//www.iccp.org/iccpnew/sampletests2.html

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In Review

• Types of Certifications
• PMP Project Management Professional
• Project
• ICCP
• Benefits Costs
• Eligibility
• Exams

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Questions?
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Sources

• Techrepublic.com
• Cramsession.com
• Pmi.org
• CompTIA.org
• ICCP.org
• Exampractice.com