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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.

If you already know what level you want to apply for, click here to download your application form.

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