Project Planning & Control Foundation & Practitioner Online

Description

This qualification scheme supports the publication of the Association for Project Management guide. Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – the Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk. Its intention is to provide greater certainty over project delivery.

Audience Profile

The Project Planning & Control guidance is aimed at:

• Planning Managers
• Planning Engineers
• Project Control Managers
• Project Control Engineers.
• Cost Engineers
• Project Managers
• Project Support Team Members

Written to be accessible to all levels – from student to senior project managers – it gives practical guidance on all planning aspects of preparing to undertake a project, executing a project, controlling its delivery to budget, time and quality, and delivering it safely.

Course Benefits

• Understanding of minimum standards and best practice
• Guidance on how to comply with Works Information requirements laid out in contracts
• Learn lessons from a wide base of delivery organizations
• Benefit from a broad perspective of experienced controls practitioners
• Technical competence of team members
• Improved quality of schedules leading to more certainty in project delivery
• Greater predictability of project forecasting and success
• Higher levels of integration between controls functions i.e. cost and time.

What’s Included

• 12 Month licence period
• Exam – Foundation & Practitioner

Exam Format

Foundation Exam:

• Multiple Choice
• 50 questions per paper
• 25 marks required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
• 40 minutes duration
• Closed-book

Practitioner Exam:

• Complex Multiple Choice
• 8 question paper with 10 marks available per question
• 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
• 3 hour duration
• Open-book (Project Planning & Control guide only)