Here is your complete guide to 35 contact hours of project management education

Published: Tue, 04/25/17

For your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam
The Complete Guide to 35 Contact Hours of
Project Management Education
Those contact hours that Project Management Institute (PMI)® demands before you can even apply for your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam cause a lot of confusion. First, there's a lot of them! You need to rack up 35. Second, what does 'contact hour' even mean? Many students opt for online project management education these days and don't have any face-to-face 'contact' with their tutors.

Then you have to work out whether your course counts as 'formal' education, which training company to choose and that's before you've even started to work out how to record it all in a way that meets the PMI® standards…
 
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"I passed the PMP Exam on my first attempt Nov 21st, 2016. This was a journey nearly 18 months in the making (and two months of cramming).

I was convinced of the value of the PMP back in May 2015. I had a colleague that discussed it with me and I set it as a career goal. It took me nearly six months to get my application submitted - I used the PM PrepCast for my 35 contact hours, but going through years’ worth of project management records and describing the projects for my application took quite a while. 
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In which type of contract is the seller reimbursed for performing the contract work and receives a fixed fee payment calculated as a percentage of the estimated project cost?

A. Cost plus award fee contract
B. Lump-sum contract
C. Cost plus fixed fee contract
D. Cost plus incentive fee contract
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HINT: Costs are being reimbursed.
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