Project Management Professional (PMP) is a professional designation offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
The PMP exam is based on the PMP Examination Specification, which describes tasks out of five performance domains:
The PMP exam consists of 200 multiple choice questions written against the PMBOK specification and the PMP Code of Ethics. The exam is closed book; no reference materials are allowed. Twenty-five of the 200 questions on the exam are "sample" questions used to fine-tune the degree of difficulty and precision of the exam and as such are not counted for or against a test taker. These questions are placed randomly throughout the exam. The test taker is only graded on their proficiency on 175 questions. The numbers in parentheses describe the percentage of questions for each domain.
The Project Management Framework embodies a project life cycle and five major project management Process Groups:
encompassing a total of 47 processes.
Mapped to these five process groups are ten project management Knowledge Areas:
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