PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam Prep Course

The Project Management Institute (PMI) offers a professional certification for agile practitioners, such as product owners, scrum masters, and agile project managers, titled PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® . The PMI-ACP® is developed by agile practitioners for agile practitioners seeking to enhance their agile skillset, knowledge and application across multiple agile frameworks and methodologies, increase team efficiency, deliver greater value to their organization and customers, and advance their career with a globally recognized certification.

PMI’s rigorous professional certification examination development processes align with certification industry best practices, such as those found in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing1 . PMI conducted a global practice analysis (GPA), which included both extensive market research and a job task analysis (JTA). The GPA identified market trends, needs and opportunities in agile, such as expanding the primary audience to include product development roles, realigning the professional experience requirements, and introducing credit for prior learning into the PMI-ACP Certification Program eligibility requirements.

The JTA identifies knowledge and task-driven guidelines to assess the practitioners’ proficiency and determines the level of criticality and frequency of the knowledge, tasks, and skills required to perform across industries. Industry wide standards in the role of an agile practitioner—that are, professionals who use agile principles, methods, and approaches when working on or facilitating agile teams, such as product owners, scrum masters, and agile project managers. Thus, the JTA validates the tasks and domains tested in the exam. Validation assures that the outcome of the exam is, in fact, appropriately measuring and evaluating the specific knowledge skills, and experience required to function as an agile practitioner.

PMI-ACP® certification holders can be confident that their professional certification has been developed according to the best practices of test development and based upon input from the practitioners and experts who establish those standards.

The PMI-ACP examination is a vital part of the activities leading to earning a professional certification, thus it is imperative that the PMI-ACP examination reflect accurately the practices of an agile practitioner. All exam items have been written and extensively reviewed by subject matter experts qualified in agile practices. These items are mapped against the PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline (ECO) to ensure that an appropriate number of items are in place for a valid examination.

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