In October 2021, the "National Standardization Development Outline" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council clearly proposed to build a multi-level practitioner training system, carry out professional talent training and comprehensive education on national quality infrastructure. Establish and improve the professional ability evaluation and incentive mechanism of talents. The Project Management Professional Competency Evaluation Certificate (CSPM) organized by the China Association for Standardization (CAS) came into being .
Ability Evaluation Method
1. Is the Competency Assessment for Project Management Professionals (CSPM) easy to take?
1. What is the composition of the test questions for the ability level evaluation of project management professionals at all levels?
Ability evaluation includes material review, written test and interview. The score is based on a 100-point system, and a score of 60 (and above) is considered a pass.
1. Project management professional assistants (Level 1) adopt the evaluation method of material review and written test. The full score of the written test is 100 points, and the written test is all multiple-choice questions.
2. The ability evaluation of primary project management professionals (Level 2) adopts the evaluation methods of material review and written test. The full score of the written test is 100 points, and the written test is all multiple-choice questions.
3. The ability evaluation of intermediate project management professionals (level three) adopts a combination of material review and written test, and the full score of the written test is 100 points. The written test consists of 60% multiple choice questions and 40% essay questions.
4. The ability evaluation of senior project management professionals (Level 4) adopts a combination of material review and written test, and the full score of the written test is 100 points. The written test consists of 40% multiple choice questions and 60% essay questions.
5. The ability evaluation of expert-level project management professionals (level 5) adopts a combination of material review and interview, and the full score of the interview is 100 points.
Ability evaluation of expert-level project management professionals According to the needs of interviews and evaluations, a number of evaluation groups shall be formed. Evaluation experts shall be selected from the evaluation expert database. Each group shall have no less than 3 evaluation experts, one of whom shall be the evaluation team leader. The interview score is the average score of the review experts.
2. Is the Competency Assessment for Project Management Professionals (CSPM) easy to take?
According to the ability level evaluation of project management professionals at all levels and the composition of the examination questions, it can be seen that the CSPM certificate of project management professional ability evaluation is divided into five levels. CSPM-3 and CSPM-4 are multiple-choice questions + essay questions, and CSPM-5 is the highest level that uses interviews, and the test scores are all 100 points.
Students who have passed the PMP exam should know the difficulty of the PMP exam. The PMP certificate is the second level of the standard CSPM project management professional ability evaluation, so if you want to study for the third, fourth, and fifth levels, the difficulty must increase.
2. Competency Assessment for Project Management Professionals (CSPM) Exam Time
Evaluation experts who participate in the competency evaluation, after passing the training, need to participate in the evaluation work in accordance with the national standard of "Project Management Professional Competency Evaluation Requirements" (GB/T 41831-2022) to clarify the evaluation method.
In 2023, two exams are expected to be held, one in September and one in December. After passing the exam, you can usually get the certificate within 1-2 months.
Project Management Professional Competency Evaluation CSPM Exam Requirements:
Implement a nationwide unified syllabus and unified examination system, and in principle organize an offline examination every quarter. Due to special reasons such as the epidemic, online examinations can be applied for.
The project management professional competence evaluation work office supervises, inspects and guides the examination, review, and examination affairs, and organizes experts to mark the papers and judge the examination results.
Applicants should submit application materials to the Project Management Professionals Competence Evaluation Office within the specified time. After the application materials pass the initial review, the Project Management Professional Competence Evaluation Office will arrange a follow-up evaluation.
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