Project management · professional
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Issued by Project Management Institute (PMI)
PMP certifies experienced project leaders across predictive, agile and hybrid ways of working. It needs several years of project-leadership experience before you can sit the exam.
- Exam price
- $655
- Exam time
- 240 min
- Valid for
- 3 years
- Prerequisite
- Yes, see below
Exam details
- Price
- $655Non-member price; PMI member price is $405. Retake not included (up to three attempts per year).
- Questions
- 180
- Length
- 240 minutes
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE test centre or online proctored
- Required
- Education plus project-management experience (high school + 5 years, associate degree + 4 years, bachelor's + 3 years, or PMI GAC degree + 2 years) and 35 hours of project management training (or active CAPM)
- Renewal
- Earn 60 professional development units (PDUs) in each 3-year cycle.
Checked October 29, 2026 against Project Management Institute (PMI)'s official page. Fields the vendor does not publish are left out rather than estimated.