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BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

Licensing authority: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

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BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management
Accommodations
V9 allows a 25% time extension for a non-native/non-official examination language and a paper translation dictionary, not an electronic dictionary. Disability adjustments are by request under the BCS Reasonable Adjustments Policy; no automatic adjustment entitlement beyond the cited syllabus is inferred. OnVUE generally prohibits physical writing materials and directs candidates to programme allowances/accommodation requests; confirm any dictionary accommodation before selecting that delivery mode.
Assessment
Pass the one supervised closed-book multiple-choice examination at 26/40 (65%); calculators cannot be used. Trainer-criteria qualifications do not apply to candidates.
Award
BCS emails candidates after the exam and successful candidates access their e-certificate in the BCS candidate portal; Pearson does not distribute certificates.
Booking
Create a Pearson VUE account or use an existing one to schedule; enter an accurate individual email for the BCS certificate portal. The owner offers worldwide Pearson test centres; the BCS delivery programme also offers OnVUE. Appointment availability is not guaranteed by these public pages, and no seat/account/payment was requested or created.
Cost
The owner quotes a UK exam price of £192, while international prices vary by region; no US price is inferred. Training-provider prices vary.
Language And Applicability
This task selects only the current English V9 syllabus/examination. November 2025 is its publication label, not an evidenced day of commencement. The owner still links it as the latest syllabus at evaluation. V8 retired 2026-10-23 and is not selected. No V9 cessation date was found in the current applicable owner material; no claim is made that appointments are perpetual or available for a specific candidate on a requested date.
Online Delivery
OnVUE requires its system test on the same device/network, supported Windows 10/macOS 14 or higher, webcam/microphone/speaker, one display, stable 6 Mbps down/2 Mbps up internet, a private clear testing space, name-matching valid government photo ID and check-in 30 minutes before the appointment. Minors require a parent/guardian at check-in. Follow the current linked BCS OnVUE programme's full technology, ID, space and conduct rules; exam-specific allowances control exceptions.
Preparation
Either recommended accredited training plus the examination or examination-only self-study; these lead to the same award and examination, not different allOf requirements. No prerequisites; basic working IT knowledge is expected. A course normally lasts three days; the syllabus specifies 18 hours of lecture/practical work, which is preparation, not a separately scored assessment.

BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

Provider
Pearson VUE; BCS accredited training-provider route also available
Format
Supervised online multiple-choice examination; closed book; calculators prohibited.
Exam questions
Total questions: 40.
Time limit
60 minutes; 15 additional minutes (25%) when the examination language is not the candidate's native/official language; reasonable adjustments by application.
Passing score
65% (26/40)
Examination outline
  • Projects and Project Work (15%)
    • Definition of a project
    • Purpose of project planning and control
    • System development life cycle
    • Project Management and the Development Life cycle
    • Development life cycles
    • Agile project practices
    • Types of project plans
    • Purpose and content of a business case
    • Transition strategies
    • Post implementation review
  • Project Planning (15%)
    • Project deliverables and intermediate products
    • Work and product breakdown structures
    • Product definitions
    • Activity planning
    • Resource allocation, smoothing and levelling, resource histograms
    • Gantt charts
  • Monitoring and Control (10%)
    • Project control life cycle
    • Monitoring progress
    • Purpose and types of progress reporting
    • Corrective action
    • Presenting progress information
  • Change Control and Configuration Management (5%)
    • Reasons for change control and configuration management
    • Change control procedures
    • Configuration management
  • Quality (12.5%)
    • Definitions of the term ‘quality’
    • Quality characteristics
    • Quality control versus quality assurance
    • Detecting defects during the project life cycle
    • Quality process requirements
    • Defect removal processes
    • Types of testing
    • Principles of IS0 9001:2015
  • Estimating (12.5%)
    • Effects of over and under-estimating
    • Effort versus duration
    • Estimates and targets
    • Use of expert judgement
    • Delphi approach
    • Bottom-up estimating
    • Top-down estimating
    • Estimating by analogy
  • Risk (15%)
    • Definition of the term ‘risk’
    • Business and project risks
    • Risk management cycle
    • Identifying and prioritising risks
    • Assessing risks
    • Risk responses and actions
    • Planning, monitoring and controlling risks
  • Project Communications and Project Organisation (15%)
    • Relationship between programmes and projects
    • Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
    • Role of the project sponsor
    • The project board/steering committee
    • Roles and responsibilities of the project manager and project team leader/manager
    • Desirable characteristics of a project manager
    • Project support and management offices
    • The project team and matrix management
    • Team building – Tuckman-Jensen model
    • Team dynamics
    • Management styles
    • Communication methods
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