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A project manager notices that two team members have a recurring disagreement about the technical approach for a critical deliverable. The conflict is affecting team morale and causing delays. What should the project manager do FIRST?
During a sprint review, stakeholders express concern that the product increment does not align with their expectations. The product owner confirms the features were built according to the user stories in the sprint backlog. What is the MOST appropriate next step?
A project has been completed on time and within budget. However, during the benefits realization review six months later, the expected business value has not materialized. What should the project manager recommend?
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Continue practicing for freeProject Management Professional is a CBT exam of 180 (170 scored + 10 pretest) questions over 240 minutes.
15 practice areas in the PMP question bank, each with its own questions and analytics.
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The Project Management Professional (PMP) is the project-management credential issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the one most often named in job postings for project and program managers. The exam is delivered by Pearson VUE at test centers and as an online proctored test (OPT), and it is available year-round once PMI approves your application. Unlike most professional exams, the PMP has an experience gate. You must document months of leading projects before you can sit it.
PMI rebuilt the exam around a new Examination Content Outline dated July 2026. The three domains keep their names, but the weights moved. People is now 33% of the exam, Process 41%, and Business Environment 26%, up from a small slice in the previous outline. About 40% of the questions are set in predictive (waterfall) environments and about 60% in agile or hybrid ones, spread across all three domains. Most questions are situational, with a short scenario followed by a question about what the project manager should do next. The practice bank on this page is organized by the same three domains, with the situational and agile-heavy mix the exam actually uses.
Source: PMI PMP Examination Content Outline, July 2026
| Domain | Share of exam | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| People | 33% | How you lead and support the team: a shared vision that stays current, conflict management, team performance support, empowerment and mentoring of team members, stakeholder and virtual-team engagement, negotiated agreements, emotional intelligence. |
| Process | 41% | How the work gets delivered: scope definition and management, value-based delivery, schedule, budget, resource, quality, and risk planning, the procurement strategy, artifact and communication management, the delivery solution, project closure. |
| Business Environment | 26% | How the project connects to the organization: compliance, benefit and value realization, response to change in the external business environment, and support for organizational change. This domain grew the most in the July 2026 outline and can no longer be treated as a footnote. |
The shares are the domain weights PMI publishes in the July 2026 Examination Content Outline. PMI also states the approach mix, with roughly 40% of questions use predictive approaches and roughly 60% use adaptive (agile) or hybrid approaches, across every domain, so agile is not a separate section to study last. The practice bank on this page splits the three domains into 15 sub-areas so you can drill, for example, risk management or stakeholder engagement on its own.
The PMP is scored pass/fail. PMI does not publish a passing score or percentage. The cut score is set through psychometric analysis, and your report shows a performance rating in each domain (Above Target, Target, Below Target, or Needs Improvement) instead of a number. The screen shows a preliminary result at the end of the exam, and the official report is posted to your PMI account afterward.
Per the July 2026 outline the exam has 180 questions, of which 170 are scored and 10 are unscored pretest items placed randomly and not identified, in 240 minutes of exam time. There are two 10-minute breaks, the first after the case-study section and the second about midway through the independent-question portion. Once you review your answers and start a break you cannot return to the previous section. Beyond multiple-choice items with single or multiple responses, the exam uses drag-and-drop items and practicum-style hands-on items (work with tools and data, or a case study). There is no penalty for wrong answers, so answer everything.
Plan for the 35 required training hours plus dedicated question practice on top. The plan below assumes eight weeks at eight to twelve hours a week. It treats agile and predictive approaches as two lenses on the same material and gives Business Environment its own block, because that domain is now about a quarter of the exam.
PMP questions are built to a pattern. The stem describes a project in trouble, then asks what the project manager should do next, or which of several responses is best. The writer then supplies three or four options that are all reasonable actions a real manager might take. One of them is the action PMI's outline points to at that moment. The others are valid steps taken too early or too late, or by the wrong person (escalation to the sponsor before a conversation with the team, a plan update before the change has been analyzed, a risk closed when it should be re-assessed, a lessons-learned session held before the issue is resolved). Reading the stem for the word next or first, and for the delivery approach it implies, is what separates candidates who know the material from candidates who pass.
That is why every PassExams question comes with a rationale for the option you picked as well as the correct one. When you choose the escalation option, the explanation tells you why PMI's outline expects a collaborative step first and what in the stem signalled it. On the Pro plan each miss is also tagged with its trap type (reading trick for a missed first or except, scope confusion for the right action in the wrong situation, partial solution for the step that stops one move short, misconception for a PMI principle remembered backwards) and your analytics show which traps you fall for most often in each domain. Fix the trap and the same family of scenarios stops costing you points. That is learning to pass the exam instead of memorizing it.
Check that every study resource you use is mapped to PMI's July 2026 Examination Content Outline, because older material understates Business Environment, now 26 percent of the exam. Practise situational questions until PMI's mindset is automatic. Collaborate before escalating, and treat root causes instead of symptoms. Roughly 60 percent of questions sit in agile or hybrid settings across all three domains, so drill agile alongside predictive content instead of after it. Build pacing for 180 questions in 240 minutes, about 80 seconds each, and remember that crossing a break closes the section behind it.
180 questions, 170 scored and 10 unscored pretest questions that are placed randomly and not identified. Beyond multiple-choice items with single or multiple responses, the exam uses drag-and-drop items and practicum-style hands-on items that may involve tools and data or a case study.
240 minutes of exam time, with two 10-minute breaks inside it, one after the case-study section and one about midway through the independent questions. The optional tutorial and survey are not counted against the 240 minutes. That works out to about 80 seconds per question.
PMI issued a new Examination Content Outline dated July 2026. The domain weights are now People 33%, Process 41%, and Business Environment 26%. About 40% of questions use predictive approaches and 60% adaptive or hybrid. The exam is 180 questions in 240 minutes with 10 pretest items, and eligible experience must fall within the last 10 years.
PMI does not publish a passing score or percentage. Results are reported as pass/fail with a rating of Above Target, Target, Below Target, or Needs Improvement in each of the three domains.
Experience leading projects, accrued within the last 10 years, on a sliding scale by education: 60 months with upper-secondary education, 48 months with a short-cycle tertiary qualification, 36 months with a bachelor-equivalent degree, or 24 months with a degree from a GAC-accredited program. Every path also needs 35 hours of project-management training, which an active CAPM waives.
PMI's July 2026 outline puts roughly 60% of the questions in adaptive (agile) or hybrid environments and roughly 40% in predictive ones. The mix runs across all three domains, so there is no separate agile section.
It is demanding mainly because of its length and its situational format. Most questions describe a scenario and ask what the project manager should do next, and the options are usually all plausible actions, so the exam rewards judgment and PMI's way of thinking more than memorization.
Beyond the 35 required training hours, plan on two to three months of question practice at eight to twelve hours a week. Experienced project managers who already work in a PMI-aligned environment need less. Candidates whose organizations run projects informally need the full plan.
Yes. PMI allows a limited number of attempts within your eligibility period and imposes a waiting period once that limit is reached. The current attempt limit and waiting period are in the PMP Certification Handbook on pmi.org.
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