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Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Project Management Professional (PMP)® by PMI validates project leadership across predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches, covering people, process, and business environment domains for experience...

Awarding Body: PMI|Course Level: Advanced
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Course features

This PMP preparation course is aligned with the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification Exam Content Outline and focuses on the official domains, tasks, eligibility pathway, and exam expectations.

  • Globally recognized project management certification issued by Project Management Institute (PMI)

  • Covers predictive, adaptive/agile, and hybrid project management approaches

  • Aligned with the official PMP Exam Content Outline domains: People, Process, and Business Environment

  • Supports preparation for PMI’s PMP certification application and examination process

  • Focuses on practical project leadership, value delivery, governance, risk, compliance, and stakeholder management

  • Supports the 35 hours of project management education/training requirement for eligible candidates

About course

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification is offered by Project Management Institute (PMI) for experienced project practitioners who lead and direct projects. It validates project leadership ability across industries, locations, and ways of working, including predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches.

  • Develop project leadership competence across people, process, and business priorities

  • Understand the PMP exam domains, task statements, and related enablers

  • Apply predictive, agile, and hybrid project management approaches appropriately

  • Prepare for PMI’s PMP certification application and examination process

  • Strengthen project governance, compliance, value delivery, and risk management capability

  • Build knowledge required to support professional project management practice

What you will learn

Learners will develop knowledge aligned with PMI’s official PMP Exam Content Outline, including the domains, tasks, and enablers expected of project managers.

  • Develop a common vision and manage conflict, stakeholders, teams, communication, and knowledge transfer

  • Develop integrated project management plans and select appropriate predictive, agile, or hybrid approaches

  • Manage project scope, resources, procurement, finance, quality, schedule, status, and closure

  • Help ensure value-based delivery and benefit realization throughout the project life cycle

  • Establish governance, manage compliance, control changes, remove impediments, and manage risk

  • Support continuous improvement, organizational change, and evaluation of external business environment changes

Course content

Who should attend

This course is intended for experienced project practitioners who lead and direct projects and want to prepare for PMI’s PMP certification.

  • Project managers responsible for leading and directing projects

  • Project leaders managing teams, stakeholders, resources, and delivery outcomes

  • Professionals working in predictive, agile, or hybrid project environments

  • Team leads, coordinators, engineers, consultants, and supervisors with project leadership responsibilities

  • PMO professionals seeking formal recognition of project management competence

  • Candidates who meet or are working toward PMI’s PMP eligibility requirements

Course requirements

Candidates must meet PMI’s educational, professional experience, and project management training requirements before applying for the PMP certification exam.

  • Meet one PMI eligibility pathway based on education level and non-overlapping professional project management experience leading projects within the required period

  • Complete 35 hours of project management education/training, or meet PMI’s accepted alternatives such as active CAPM® certification or eligible GAC-accredited coursework

Assessments

The official PMP certification assessment is a PMI-administered examination based on the PMP Exam Content Outline and delivered through approved testing modalities.

  • PMP certification exam with 180 total questions

  • 170 scored questions and 10 unscored pretest questions

  • 240 minutes allotted exam time

  • Question types may include case or scenario, enhanced matching, graphic-based, multiple-choice single response, multiple-response, point and click, matching, pull-down list, drag-and-drop, and practicum hands-on testing

Progression

Successful candidates earn the PMP certification and may progress into advanced project leadership, program management, portfolio management, PMO, and related professional development pathways.

  • Maintain PMP certification through PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements program

  • Complete and submit 60 professional development units every 3 years to maintain certification

  • Progress into senior project manager, program manager, portfolio manager, or PMO leadership roles

  • Pursue further PMI certifications such as PgMP®, PfMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMI-RMP®, or other relevant PMI credentials

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