Frequently Asked Questions

Online training courses can be taken anytime, anywhere. The only requirement is a reliable internet connection. Making time during your coffee breaks at work, sitting on your couch and taking online courses instead of watching television, and listening to audio/video files while travelling to and from work are some of the ways online training courses can be taken up. This ensures flexibility in terms of time and effort.

Thinking of taking a course while travelling? eLearning is now literally in your pockets.

Through online training, courseware, reference materials and notes can be saved on your hard drive or “in the cloud” (eg: EZY Skills online learning platform) for easy access anytime anywhere and can be viewed multiple times without limit.

The cost of purchasing hardcopy and/or printing is greatly reduced.

Online courses are extremely cost-effective and can be utilized efficiently.

Online courses on the other hand, help trainees retain and remember information with attractive images, videos, legible fonts, movie clips, animated descriptions, and more. Real-life examples are also given to explain concepts better. Displaying information in well-crafted ways lead to better understanding of learning content more than taking notes with pen and paper.

Another advantage is that learner / trainers can always come back and revisit course content at any time to improve information retention and knowledge.

They are supported by instructional designers, content designers and technology staff to ensure that the products made available are of the highest global standard and meet educational and certification benchmarks.

The skills acquired through our training courseware and international certification are globally recognised and can be translated across all industries and countries.

– AgilePM,

-Managing Benefits

– Better Business Cases

– Change Management

– Praxis Framework

We offer the following Axelos courses: PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP, M_o_R, P3O and MoV

Note: the courses offered by EXY Skills are all eLearning / slef-learn courses. Other courses will be converted to eLearning in the future. Please contact us if you want to learn more at e: courses@ezyskills.com.au

An ATO must have:
– an accredited training management system
– accredited courseware; and
– approved trainers

An Approved Trainer must have:
– passed the relevant Practitioner exam with a very high mark;
– understand how to deliver a course according to scheme requirements and the ATO’s training management procedures;
– have relevant practical experience in the subject of the course (i.e. they are not just someone who read a book and passed an exam).

All our trainers are approved

We will have an eLearning course available soon.

Our business model is based on eLearning / Self learning to provide with you the flexibility of being able to study anywhere, anytime on any device – without the need of a classroom-based instructor

The benefit of eLearning (refer to our eLearning benefits section above) is that you can learn at a time that is convenient to you, on any device, anywhere. Self-learning courses tend to provide more content and information that you can refer to or revise at any time. It provides you with the flexibility that is difficult to find with classroom-based or virtual training courses.

If you need a project management method that you can use throughout your career on any type of project in any domain, then you should take our PRINCE2 courses.

If you need a light-weight method for use in an agile domain, then take our AgilePM courses. We will soon be offering online training in the agile extension to PRINCE2, called PRINCE2 Agile. PRINCE2 Agile assumes a reasonably detailed understanding of PRINCE2.

If you don’t have this background in PRINCE2, AgilePM would therefore be more useful to you. And it’s easy to use AgilePM in an organisation that uses PRINCE2 (our course will show you how).

A Foundation course gives participants an understanding of the key concepts, whereas a Practitioner course ensures that participants can apply these concepts.

From an employer’s point of view, a Practitioner certificate is far more valuable.

PRINCE2 is the most robust of these methods. It is suitable for use with customer-led projects because of its guidance on governance and the use of the Business Case as the primary project control. PRINCE2 says that a successful project is one that delivers business value in the live environment; delivery of full scope on time and within budget is important but not the primary business concern. PRINCE2 expects that a project would comply with the sponsoring organisation’s HR and procurement approaches.

The PRINCE2 process model has two early steps (not present in the PMBoK’s process model) that ensure the project’s scope and approach are thoroughly investigated before expensive delivery planning commences, so organisations are much less likely to end up with runaway projects. PRINCE2 also features a rolling wave approach to planning, that significantly improves project success rates. PRINCE2 can also be used for supplier-led projects, with suitable tailoring.

The PMBoK is not useful for customer-led projects but is OK for supplier-led projects. The PMBoK says that a successful project is one that delivers full scope on time and budget. The PMBoK covers several areas not covered by PRINCE2, such as HR management and procurement. However, the PMBoK’s guidance on procurement is seriously out of date and does not reflect modern public sector procurement practices. This may be OK in a supplier-led project but is not acceptable in a customer-led project.
A wide variety of techniques are mentioned in both PRINCE2 and the PMBoK, but these techniques are not formally part of the method. Those taking PMP training must learn how to apply several of these techniques.

AgilePM is a light-weight project management method suitable for use in an agile environment, where teams are using agile product development techniques such as Scrum.

Our courses are aligned with the Change Management Body of Knowledge.

Getting a globally recognised certification in Risk Management will ensure you have the credentials required for managing risk within your organisation. It will enable you to design, implement and manage your organisations risk in an efficient and effective manner. An essential requirement for building a career in Risk Management.

Too many projects populate their project or porganisational Risk Register with poorly understood entries, but then don’t take any action to mitigate these risks; these projects are not managing their risks.

The role of a Risk Manager is to ensure that risks are actually managed, and mitigation strategies are in place to implement corrective actions for organisational and project risks. Reducing the  ‘surprises’ to the Business Sponsor or organisation.

Our courses are aligned with the ISO standard on risk management.

In many organisations, the Business Case is seen as simply being a funding acquisition tool, that is forgotten as soon as the budget is approved. These Business Cases do not fully explore potential options, nor do they consider the overall achievability of the initiative.

Better Business Cases (BBC) regards the Business Case an an initial and ongoing tool providing comprehensive high-quality information to support decision-making by the sponsoring organisation at every step.

BBC guidance represents the leading edge on thinking about business justification of proposed investments; it is based on the approach developed by the UK Treasury.

We highly recommend that you take your certification examination as it will provide you with globally recognised professional credentials that will help you in your career.

Both examination institutes (People Cert and APMG) charge significantly more for exams booked directly by the candidate. For example: PeopleCert charge us AUD244 for a PRINCE2 Foundation exam, whereas PeopleCert would charge you AUD501 for the same exam if you booked it directly with them.

We highly recommend that you do not make examination bookings directly with an examination institute.

The examination institute will then contact you directly to tell you:
– How to schedule your exams;
– What are their technical requirements for taking the online examination

PeopleCert require that you download their ExamShield software onto the device you will be using to take the exam. This may mean disabling some software (antivirus, virtualisation, etc).

APMG’s requirements are less onerous, and they don’t require download of software.

The most usual cause of delay is an issue with an incorrect email address or redirection of the examination institute’s emails to your email software spam folder

For example, PeopleCert, the fee is AUD36 to purchase a 6 months extension.

For APMG, the fee is AUD100.

These are indicative prices only.

If you don’t take action before the end of the validity period, you may have to pay the examination institute the full exam fee again.

Please email us at courses@ezyskills.com.au to check for prices as they vary by region and the fact that the Examination Institute may change their fees at any time.

APMG will not charge a fee if you reschedule the exam more than 9 days before the exam, otherwise they will charge you AUD100. If you cancel or reschedule an exam within 9 days of the scheduled date, APMG will charge you the full exam fee again.

Before you contact an examination institute to schedule your online exam, please make sure that you can take the exam on that date.

We recommend that you take your exam as soon as possible after you finish the course.

Note the prices indicated above are for indicative purposes only. Please email us at courses@ezyskills.com.au  or the examination institute directly to confirm current pricing. These prices may vary by Region or changes by the examination institute.

Our courseware is used by leading organisations globally. However, we are confident that if you devote the time required to “Learn Upskill Get Certified” you will have all the information required to pass the exam

Any ATO that guarantees Practitioner pass rates should be regarded with deep suspicion.

Employers will eventually become aware of such ATOs, probably after hiring people who were trained by these ATOs and finding that these people simply do not demonstrate the knowledge or competence that would be expected from the holder of a Practitioner certificate.

These employers will subsequently discount certificates acquired through these ATOs during the hiring process, and the holders of such certificates will have wasted the money they spent to acquire their certificates.

If an examination institute finds that the Practitioner exam pass rates of an ATO are suspiciously high, they will audit the ATO and potentially cancel their accreditations, which will possibly make certificates acquired through that ATO worthless.

This will give you some general guidance on which aspects of the course you might need to review.

Remember, you have access to your online course for 180 days.

Conversely, if your mark in a Foundation exam is less than around 65%, we would suggest that you do not immediately attempt the Practitioner exam, without a lot more preparation.

Yes

If you make two separate bookings, one for the Foundation exam and a different booking for the Practitioner exam, then you will receive a certificate for each.

Where both exams were booked on the same booking, and you pass both exams, then you will only receive the Practitioner certificate.

AXELOS has determined that ATOs can no longer issue Attendance Certificates for Axelos courses. ATOs are only able to provide a letter stating that a person attended a specific course.

It is still possible for ATOs to issue Attendance Certificates (if requested) for APMG courses.

The examination institute associated with a course issues globally recognised certificates to successful candidates on behalf of the owner of the scheme for that course.

Each scheme owner maintains a Successful Candidates Register website. By default, all successful candidates will be listed in the Register, with the date on which they passed the certification exam.

However, some candidates decide to opt out of this arrangement, for example for security or privacy reasons.

If someone presents a certificate to an employer, but their name is not listed in the associated Register, an enquiry can be made to the scheme owner to confirm that the certificate is valid.

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