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Join over 16,000 payroll professionals who have earned the prestigious Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) and Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designations and prove your knowledge, competency, and value to colleagues and employers.
Enhance your skills while you prepare for exam-day success with Prince George's Community College‘s PayTrain Fundamentals and PayTrain Mastery.
FPC and CPP Certification Information
American Payroll Association (APA)
As an official APA PayTrain® College & University partner, we can offer you the most comprehensive, effective, and up-to-date exam preparation tools available. The PayTrain programs are designed to help you with the following:
ASSESS your current knowledge.
- The online assessment determines current knowledge and identifies topics for improvement.
STUDY your way to success.
- Read learning modules that cover payroll concepts, recent changes, trends, and best practices.
- Quizzes, calculations, exercises, and flashcards reinforce learning.
- Course games review content and make learning fun.
ACHIEVE success as a payroll professional.
- Post-test mimics the FPC and CPP exam formats and weighting to build exam-day confidence.
- Score 80% or higher on the post-test to qualify for a certificate of achievement and earn Recertification Credit Hours (RCH).
The following features are included with our PayTrain courses:
ASSESSMENT
- Online assessment helps determine your current knowledge and identify areas for improvement.
CALCULATIONS
- Complete calculations for each topic based on the scenarios provided.
- Hints and feedback guide you in developing your calculation and payroll skills.
MODULE QUIZZES
- Check your understanding of the lessons covered in reading modules, calculations, and exercises.
- Decide whether you need further study or practice on the topic.
FLASHCARDS
- Interact with flashcards covering all learning modules.
- Practice learning key terms and concepts to reinforce your knowledge.
GLOSSARY
- Look up key terms from anywhere in the system with the glossary.
- Use the search box or browse by letter.
GAMES
- Engage with the module games for a fun and interactive way of reinforcing material at the end of each module.
- Review topics of the entire course with the entertaining and challenging course games.
RESOURCE CENTER
- Additional resources, including tax tables, forms, and publications, are mentioned in the modules.
- Certification information is available on the American Payroll Association's website.
- Feedback forum for evaluation and suggestions.
- Payroll updates with legislative changes and new developments.
POST-TESTS
- Tests are weighted and balanced based on the same percentages as the FPC and CPP exams.
- Includes a flag for review, a review of each item, and time limits, similar to the FPC and CPP exams.
REPORTS
- Track your progress, and compare the results of quizzes and pre- and post-tests.
- View a per-module breakdown of your test scores to determine your learning gain.
- Choose question
Course Details: Spring and Summer 2025
Spring 2025
PayTrain Fundamentals (formerly PayTrain Level 1)
Date: January 11 – February 8, 2025
- Course Code: MGT 763
- Course Number: 14589
- Day: Saturday
- Time: 9 a.m.– 4 p.m.
- Location: Remote
- Contact Hours: 30
Spring 2025
PayTrain Mastery (formerly PayTrain Level 2)
Date: February 22 – April 5, 2025
- Course Code: MGT 763
- Course Number: 14590
- Day: Saturday
- Time: 9 a.m.– 4 p.m.
- Location: Remote
- Contact Hours: 36
Summer 2025
PayTrain Fundamentals (formerly PayTrain Level 1)
Date: TBA
- Course Code: MGT 763
- Course Number: TBA
- Day: Saturday
- Time: 9 a.m.– 4 p.m.
- Location: Remote
- Contact Hours: 30
Summer 2025
PayTrain (Formerly PayTrain Level 2)
Date: TBA
- Course Code: MGT 764
- Course Number: TBA
- Day: Saturday
- Time: 9 a.m.– 4 p.m.
- Location: Remote
- Contact Hours: 36
PayTrain Fundamentals Tuition
$845 (Course materials included).
PayTrain Mastery (Level 2) Tuition
$910 (Course materials included).
Classroom Sessions Include:
- A high-level review of course material.
- Interactive discussions and learning activities.
- Sample assessment questions.
- Study and test-taking tips.
Contact Information
Gnansi Konan
Business and Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator
Prince George’s Community College
301-546-0032 | konange@pgcc.edu