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Our focus for this movie will be the qualifications needed to apply for the PMI Professional Scheduling Certification. Like the PMP Exam, the PMP SP credential is noteworthy for the fact that holding the credential itself already demonstrates a minimum level of experience and background. The categories of the qualifications are similar to the PMP. There's educational background, your project scheduling work experience and this indicates how much hands-on experience that you must have accrued to date and project scheduling-related education. Notice that under the experience and education categories it says specifically scheduling. The reason for this is that the experience and the hours of education must be specific to the area of expertise, not just project management related. Also, the level of experience and education required is different as I mentioned earlier based on your highest level of education attained. If your highest level of education is either a high school diploma, Associates Degree or the global equivalent of either, then you would need a total of 5,000 hours of project scheduling experience within the past five consecutive years. This is different from the PMP certification requirement which dictates the total number of hours and total number of months separately. The total hours of experience can overlap, which means that if you're managing two projects at the same time, you'll include the total number of hours spent conducting project scheduling related activities separately for each project. Once again, I'd like to point out that this experience must have been accrued within the past five consecutive years. Some people have a concentrated amount of experience over the past ten years but not enough within the past five. Enough of this past experience must fall within this time frame to qualify. Next you must have a total of 40 project scheduling education hours, which your PMI refers to as contact hours. Unlike the work experience category, there's no limitation as to when these hours were accrued. However, if your application is audited, you must be able to show proof such as a certificate of completion or transcripts. This course qualifies as contact hours and because the entire course is dedicated to the subject of scheduling, the entire length of the course qualifies. If you're taking a general project management course, only the amount of the time devoted to scheduling counts towards your contact hours. In a moment we'll review contact hours again in more detail. If you've obtained your Bachelors Degree or the global equivalent, then the total number of project scheduling experience hours that are required goes down. The requirement is now 3500 hours within the past five consecutive years. The number of contact hours required also goes down at 30 hours. As far as contact hours go, I already mentioned that these have no specification as to how far back they can go but just a reminder that you must be able to show proof of having taken the class or course if your application is audited. As you can imagine, the content of the course is again how to relate directly to scheduling. Each hour is calculated by total number of class hours. For example, an eight-hour course on project scheduling equals to eight contact hours. If you took a project management course and two hours of that was spent on scheduling, then you would count two contact hours. PMI does specify where these contact hours may come from. Let's go through a list of acceptable sources. The first is PMI-registered education providers; REPs. These are training companies and or programs that have been reviewed and preapproved to fill the contact hour requirement by PMI. PMO component organization, which are PMI chapters, SIGS, which stand for specific interest group or anything else offered directly from PMI and normally these groups will indicate whether or not contact hours are earned. You may see PDU listed instead, which stand stands for Professional Development Units. PDUs are something that you earn after you already have your credential. They refer to contact hours before you're certified. You could also get these contact hours through employer or contact-sponsored programs, training companies or consultants such as the Virtual Training Company, distance-learning companies including an end-of-course assessment or project management related courses that are offered by universities or colleges and although I mentioned project management related courses, remember that the subject must apply to project scheduling. And that wraps up the qualifications requirements of the PMI Scheduling Professional Certification. In the next movie we'll go through a general overview of the exam to help clarify what you can expect to be tested on.