Management of Portfolios® Foundation and Practitioner Certification

Project portfolio management ensures that your organization selects and manages the projects and programs which make the best contribution to your corporate objectives. Portfolio managers do this by establishing a clear line of sight between strategy and delivery of the portfolio.

MoP® helps organizations to:

  • Choose the right projects and programmes, delivering a measurable contribution to strategic objectives
  • Remove redundant and duplicate projects and programmes
  • Realize benefits that align with corporate strategy
  • Report effectively to improve transparency, accountability and corporate governance.

The course dates on this page include both the Foundation and Practitioner Certification and take 5 days to complete. If you wish to split up the two portions, you can purchase them separately using the following links:

MoP® Management of Portfolios Foundation Certification – 3 days

MoP® Management of Portfolios Practitioner Certification – 2 days

What you'll learn

  • How to prioritize projects and programs according to strategic needs
  • How to balance the competing needs of change management and business as usual
  • How to create a Portfolio Strategy and Delivery Plan to align with corporate objectives
  • How to apply portfolio management techniques such as decision conferencing and multi-criteria analysis
  • How to improve management control of the portfolio using stage gates and management by exception
  • How to reduce overall risk by establishing dependencies between projects and programs
  • How to provide an energized change culture to ensure people are engaged and focused on delivering change

Who should attend

  • C-level executives including: CFO, CAO, COO, CIO and Executive / Senior VP
  • Senior managers responsible for long term planning and strategy
  • Portfolio / Program Office staff who manage portfolio delivery or enable portfolio level decision making
  • Portfolio, Program and Senior Project Managers responsible for delivering change initiatives in the portfolio

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course. You should be working in or have a good knowledge of project portfolio management or be a senior project manager. You need to complete some study before the course. We’ll provide all the reading materials you need so you will be well prepared before you come to class.

Course Materials and Fees

The fee for this course includes both exam vouchers and textbook.

MoP® Foundation exam

This exam is designed to test your knowledge and understanding of MoP®

  • 40 minutes
  • 50 multiple choice questions with 1 mark for each question
  • Closed book exam
  • 50% needed to pass so a score of 25 / 50 is required

MoP® Practitioner Exam

The Practitioner exam tests your ability to apply the MoP® guidance to a realistic scenario. You are required to show that you can analyze situations and make decisions using the standard appropriately. You must pass the Foundation exam to sit the Practitioner.

  • 3 hours
  • 4 Objective Testing style questions with 20 points per question. A total of 80 marks are available.
  • Questions are in different formats including classic multiple choice, matching, sequencing and assertion / reason.
  • Open book exam, but only the official MoP manual can be used
  • 50% needed to pass so a score of 40 / 80 is required

Take2 Re-sit Exam Service may be purchased prior to sitting your initial exam. It allows you to re-sit your exam within 6 months of your initial exam date. You will be notified by e-mail that a re-sit exam is available and you will be invited to schedule it and take it exclusively through PeopleCert Online Proctoring from the comfort of your home or office (webcam required).

As of January 2023, MoP® Foundation and Practitioner certificates expire after 3 years and exams must be retaken to keep certificates active. It is also possible to accumulate 20 continuous development points in the AXELOS membership in order to maintain an active MoP® certification status.

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These MoP courses are offered by Okazy Consulting through license to Algonquin College Corporate Training. Algonquin College Corporate Training has been accredited by PEOPLECERT as Accredited Training Organization (ATO). Algonquin College Corporate Training has been approved to deliver MoP® courses and exams.

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Algonquin College Corporate Training is an Authorized Training Partner of the Project Management Institute. PMP’s can claim 39 PDUs for the MoP® Foundation and Practitioner courses (9 Ways of working, 15 Power skills, 15 Business acumen).

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MoP® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

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