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Certification Program Overview

Become Recognized as a Professional Through IPMA Certification

Do you want international recognition as a project, program or portfolio professional? Do you want to be assessed on your current competence level and be internationally certified?
Do you want to employ or hire a project, programme or portfolio manager who has proved to be competent?
Do you want to know how you can improve your competences as a professional project, program or portfolio manager?

What Level Is Right for You?

If You Are...	Consider...	What's entailed...
An experienced senior manager, program manager, or manager of project managers	IPMA® Level A	Report, experience-summary, management complexity ratings, interview, self-assessment
An experienced senior project, program, or portfolio manager	IPMA® Level B	Report, experience-summary, management complexity ratings, oral exam, interview, self-assessment
An experienced project manager	IPMA® Level C	Experience-summary, management complexity ratings, written exam with 12 short-answer questions, interview, self-assessment
Interested in the discipline of project management	IPMA® Level D	Written exam with 10 short-answer questions and 60 multiple-choice questions, self-assessment
Not sure what level you qualify for	Pre-Screen	None
Recertification	All levels	Self-assessment, experience-summary, report of continuing professional development

For those who are curious about how IPMA's offerings compare to other project management certifications, see Comparing PM Certifications.

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