pmp certification

Project Management Professional  is a credential offered by the Project Management Institute -  As of 31 July 2010 (2010 -07-31)^[update], there were 393,413 active PMP certified individuals worldwide.Over 4,300 individuals a month, since September 2006, have obtained a PMP certification.

Project Management Professional is one of  teh credentials offered by PMI eg:

• CAPM Certified Associate in Project Management
• PMP Project Management Professional
• PMI-RMP PMI Risk Management Professional
• PMI-SP PMI Scheduling Professional
• PgMP Program Management Professional

 PMI offers official language  for the exam in 15 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish, Turkish and Punjabi.

Each exam item (a question with its possible answers) has at least two references to standard books or other sources of project management. Most of the questions reference the PMI A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge 
The Project Management Framework embodies a project life cycle and five major project management Process Groups:

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and Controlling
5. Closing

encompassing a total of 42 processes.
Mapped to these five process groups are nine project management Knowledge Areas:

1. Project Integration Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Time Management
4. Project Cost Management
5. Project Quality Management
6. Project Human Resource Management
7. Project Communications Management
8. Project Risk Management
9. Project Procurement Management