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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?
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What Level Is Right for You?

Consider... If You Are... What's entailed...
IPMA® Level A An experienced senior manager, program manager, or manager of project managers Report, experience-summary, management complexity ratings , interview, self-assessment
IPMA® Level B An experienced senior project, program, or portfolio manager Report, experience-summary, management complexity ratings, oral exam, interview, self-assessment
IPMA® Level C An experienced project manager Experience-summary, management complexity ratings, written exam with 14 short-answer questions, interview, self-assessment
IPMA® Level D Interested in the discipline of project management Written exam with 14 short-answer questions and 60 multiple-choice questions, self-assessment
Pre-Screen Not sure what level you qualify for None
All levels Recertification 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.