Recently I attended a 5 day program (40, hours) , covering the PMBOK, focused on software project management. The program is offered by a private limited company, the instructor is a PMP but the company is not a REP. Is this sufficient for the 35 PDUs required for PMP application. Is it necessary that I should do the preparatory program, only with an REP?
I can inform you that if the course content of the class you attended is based on one of the knowledge areas, process areas or sub-process areas of "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge," it will satisfy the 35 hour education requirement." For every hour that you are in a classroom environment and it deals with project management then you can claim one "Contact" hour.
To calculate "contact" hours all you must do is take the hours that you are in a classroom environment dealing with project management and subtract any time not devoted to project management from the time. This includes lunches, breaks, and time not devoted to an aspect of project management. For example, if you are in a twelve (12) week course that meet for three hours a week, and the course deals entirely with project management then you would receive 36 "Contact" hours. It does not matter where you have taken the course, just as long as the course is in a classroom environment and dealing with a project management topic.