PMI certifications
Fourteen PMI certifications, prepared exam by exam: practice exams weighted like each exam content outline, situational questions across predictive, agile and hybrid work, and an AI tutor that explains every answer in your style.
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Certification paths
PMI certifications start with Project Management Ready and the CAPM, build to the PMP and lead on to programs, portfolios and the new Advanced Project Leader. Specialist certifications cover agile, AI, risk, scheduling, business analysis, PMOs, construction and sustainability. Select any certification to see its exam.
Project management
From first project to leading them
Programs & portfolios
Lead at the scale of strategy
Agile & AI
New ways of delivering work
Specialist roles
Risk, schedules, analysis and PMOs
Construction & sustainability
Projects in the built world
All PMI certifications
Filter by track or level. Every card shows the exam you’ll sit, from PMI’s own exam content outline or handbook: how many questions, how long it runs, how many are scored and what you need to apply.
14 certifications
EntryProject management
Student or Career Starter
Project management basics for high school and college students: predictive, agile and business analysis fundamentals.
Eligibility: None · PMI’s courseware first, exam via Certiport
EntryProject management
Project Coordinator
Project management fundamentals, predictive and agile approaches, and business analysis, for people starting out on project teams.
Eligibility: No experience · 23 hours of project management education
ProfessionalProject management
Project Manager
Lead projects with predictive, agile and hybrid approaches: people, process and the business environment, now with AI and sustainability.
Eligibility: 3 years leading projects (5 without a degree) · 35 hours of training
Updated exam since Jul 2026
AdvancedProject management
Senior Project Leader
Lead your organization’s most complex, highest-stakes work, assessed across eight leadership competency domains.
Eligibility: Active PMP, PgMP or PfMP · an accredited APL evaluation program
New since Oct 2026
AdvancedPrograms & portfolios
Program Manager
Direct several related projects as one program: strategy alignment, the program life cycle, benefits, stakeholders and governance.
Eligibility: 4 years managing programs (7 without a degree) · project experience or a PMP
AdvancedPrograms & portfolios
Portfolio Manager
Choose and balance the right programs and projects to meet strategy: governance, capacity, value and risk across a portfolio.
Eligibility: 8 years in business · 4 years managing portfolios (7 without a degree)
ProfessionalAgile & AI
Agile Practitioner or Scrum Master
Agile mindset, leadership, product and delivery across Scrum, Kanban, Lean and other frameworks.
Eligibility: 21 hours of agile training · 2 years of agile work, or a PMP
SpecialistAgile & AI
AI Project or Product Manager
Run AI projects with the CPMAI methodology: business needs, data, model development and evaluation, and responsible, trustworthy AI.
Eligibility: No experience · PMI-CPMAI exam prep course first
SpecialistSpecialist roles
Project Risk Manager
Identify, analyze and respond to project risk: risk strategy and planning, monitoring and reporting.
Eligibility: 2 years in project risk (3 without a degree) · 30–40 hours of risk training
SpecialistSpecialist roles
Project Scheduler
Build and maintain project schedules: strategy, planning, development, monitoring and control, and stakeholder communication.
Eligibility: 2 years in scheduling (3 without a degree) · 30–40 hours of scheduling training
SpecialistSpecialist roles
Business Analyst
Define business needs and requirements with stakeholders, trace them through the project and evaluate the solution.
Eligibility: 3 years in business analysis (5 without a degree) · 35 hours of training
SpecialistSpecialist roles
PMO Leader
Design, run and improve a project management office: PMO strategy, structure, operations, performance and people.
Eligibility: 3 years in a project role, or a PMP · 10 hours of PMO education
SpecialistConstruction & sustainability
Construction Project Manager
Manage built-environment projects: contracts, stakeholder engagement, strategy and scope, and project governance.
Eligibility: 3 years in construction · PMI’s 4 PMI-CP course modules
SpecialistConstruction & sustainability
Sustainability-minded Project Manager
Bring sustainability into every project with the P5 Standard and PRiSM: impact analysis, reporting and sustainable delivery.
Eligibility: 12–20 hours of sustainability training · a PM credential or degree for the shorter exam
New since Jun 2026
Exam details from PMI’s exam content outlines and handbooks, checked weekly for changes; last updated November 12, 2026. Unscored questions are pretest items placed at random. PMI doesn’t publish passing scores. PMI and the names of its certifications are marks of Project Management Institute, Inc.
Built for PMI exams
PMI exams are situational: long scenarios, several good answers and one best one, across predictive, agile and hybrid work. Every tool works toward the exam you’ll actually sit.
Full-length practice exams weighted like each exam content outline and timed like the real thing, breaks included, so exam day holds no surprises.
Learn more: Timed practice examsScenarios where every answer sounds reasonable, so you learn to pick what PMI expects a project leader to do first.
Learn more: Situational questionsAbout 60% of the PMP is agile or hybrid. Questions are balanced across all three approaches, the way each exam outline weights them.
Learn more: Predictive, agile and hybridGot one wrong? The tutor explains why, in the way you learn best, and points to the domain and task behind it.
Learn more: An AI tutor on every answerA readiness score for every domain, the way PMI reports your result, so you book the exam when the numbers say you’ll pass.
Learn more: Know when you’re readyFAQs
Find quick answers or contact our support team.
The CAPM if you’re new to project management: it needs no experience, only 23 hours of education. With three years leading projects (five without a degree), go straight for the PMP. Students can start with PMI Project Management Ready.
From July 9, 2026, the PMP follows a new exam content outline. Business Environment rose to 26% of the exam (from 8%), with People at 33% and Process at 41%, and AI and sustainability now appear in the scenarios. The exam is 180 questions in 240 minutes, 170 of them scored.
PMI doesn’t publish one. Your result is a pass or fail, with a performance rating for each domain (Above Target, Target, Below Target or Needs Improvement), and unscored pretest questions don’t count.
For most PMI exams, yes: 23 hours for the CAPM, 35 for the PMP (none if you hold an active CAPM), 21 hours of agile training for the PMI-ACP, and 30 to 40 hours for the PMI-RMP and PMI-SP. The PMI-CP, PMI-CPMAI, CSPP and Project Management Ready need PMI’s own course first.
PMI’s newest certification, introduced in October 2026 for experienced leaders who already hold a PMP, PgMP or PfMP. For now it’s earned through an APL evaluation program at a PMI-accredited organization, with a 60-question, 120-minute exam across eight competency domains.
Earn professional development units (PDUs) over each three-year cycle and renew: 60 PDUs for the PMP, PgMP and PfMP; every other certification sets its own number.
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