APMG International Earned Value™ Foundation & Practitioner Virtual

Our virtual courses enable you to benefit from the personal experience of a classroom, but with the ease and flexibility of a virtual environment.

Course overview

About the course

This five-day virtual classroom course helps you prepare for the Earned Value Management Foundation and Practitioner exams. The Earned Value Management Foundation is a good practice approach used for the planning, management and control of projects and programmes. The Earned Value Management Foundation qualification is designed to determine if an individual’s knowledge of Earned Value is sufficient to allow the individual to contribute to the formal process of Earned Value Management. The Earned Value Management Practitioner qualification has been designed to confirm whether an individual has achieved sufficient understanding of the theory and application of Earned Value Management to allow them to work successfully in an Earned Value Management environment.

What is virtual classroom training?

ILX’s virtual instructor-led training combines the personal teaching experience of a classroom, with the ease and flexibility of a virtual environment. Our virtual courses are interactive and engaging, allowing participants to communicate with both the instructor and each other in a collaborative manner.Please review our FAQs for more information relating to virtual learning, including the technical specifications.

Duration

This is an intensive five-day course that helps prepare you for the Earned Value Foundation and Practitioner examinations. The training is conducted via a virtual training environment. You need to ensure that you can satisfy the technical requirements that can be found on our website here.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

Define the concepts of earned value
Select and deploy earned value formulae
Describe the earned value process
Explain different levels of system review
Establish a performance measurement baseline for a project
Design and evaluate earned value data collection processes for a specific project
Interpret earned value data for a given scenario and make recommendations on appropriate action
Manage changes to a performance measurement baseline appropriately
Allow for risk in the planning, execution, and evaluation of an earned value project
Apply methods to review the integrity, validity, and performance of an earned value management system

What's covered?

This course covers the following:

Introduction to Earned Value Management
Definition of scope
Planning
Data collection
Analysis, review, and action
Change management
Risk management
System review
Learn from experience

What's included?

This is a five-day virtual course that includes:

All accompanying course material
The official EVM hardcopy manual
The cost of the EVM Foundation and Practitioner examinations (valid for 12 months from purchase date. Exams must be taken online via remote proctor)

Optional extra

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Exam information

Exams are taken online via remote proctor. Two weeks prior to course commencement ILX will arrange for an exam voucher to be issued. You will then be able to book a suitable time after your virtual classroom event has finished to undertake your exams.

Note: You are responsible for booking your own exam(s).

Exam format

The format of the Foundation exam is as follows:

Multiple choice
40 questions per paper
26 marks or more required to pass (out of 40 available) - 65%
60 minutes duration
Closed book
Calculator allowed

The format of the Practitioner exam is as follows:

Objective testing
4 questions per paper, 20 marks available per question
40 marks or more required to pass (out of 80 available) - 50%
Three hours duration
Open book (Earned Value Management Handbook)
Calculators allowed

Target audience

This is course is for anyone who needs a better understanding of the elements of EVM and people who have worked and are working in an Earned Value Management environment for a period of two years. This audience will include a wide range of people working on earned value-based projects including but not limited to:

Project Managers
Control Account Managers
Project planners
Project analysts
Department heads
Managers

Pre-requisites

There are no formal prerequisites for the Foundation exam, however this course is ideally for individuals who understand the Earned Value Management APM guidelines, and who are currently actively involved, or are likely to be actively involved, in an Earned Value project environment.

To sit the Practitioner exam, you must have passed the EVM Foundation examination.

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