What qualifies for the 21 hours of required training in the past four years?
All endorsed courses qualify for the professional development requirement. Other courses may qualify but endorsed courses are guaranteed. Note that courses must be related to BABOK® knowledge areas or the underlying competencies. Is it safe to assume that when the CBAP® Handbook refers to professional development hours (and credit hours in the application form), that it is referring to Professional Development Units? The reason I ask is that the order of magnitude between PDU’s and CEU’s is about ten fold. Meaning that 21 PDU’s = 2.1 CEU’s. The difference would be a single course or 10 courses. For initial certification, the term IIBA® uses is Professional Development hours or PD hours when referring to the requirement. PDU is a Project Management Institute (PMI) term. On the application form for the professional development section, the applicant is asked to fill in the number of Credit Hours for the course. 1 hr of PD = 1 Credit Hour which usually equals 1 hour of classroom time. The
