Project management certification
The PMP path, built to PMI's July 2026 outline
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam
This path prepares you for the PMP exam as PMI delivers it from July 2026: three domains, 26 tasks, 180 questions in 240 minutes, a case-study section first and graphic-based questions throughout. It covers every task, in every question type, in predictive, agile and hybrid work, and its mock follows the exam's length, timing, breaks and sections.
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ExamDragon is independent exam preparation, not affiliated with, endorsed by or reviewed by the Project Management Institute (PMI). PMP and PMI are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. The names are used only to describe the exam. Every question and guide here is our own, written from PMI's published PMP Examination Content Outline (July 2026); the path is not a source of the 35 training hours or of PDUs.
Everything in the PMP path
- TodayA short session for the day: some practice, one task to study, the mock when you are ready.
- Practice348 original questions in every question type, 12 practice case studies, each answer explained.
- Mock exam3 full mocks: 180 questions in 240 minutes, the case studies first, two breaks, a report by domain.
- LibraryThe 26 tasks in our words, a study guide for each domain, the question types and how the exam is scored.
- ProgressEach domain from learning to secure, your territory map, your past mocks and your readiness.
- PlayQuick Round, Ethics Sort, Standards Match and Case Quests, with your dragon beside you.
Three domains, 26 tasks
The domains and percentages are PMI's; every task is shown in our own words.
The exam, as PMI delivers it
- Questions
- 180: 170 scored and 10 pretest questions that do not affect the score, placed at random through the exam.
- Time
- 240 minutes. The optional tutorial before and survey after are not counted.
- Breaks
- Two 10-minute breaks: the first after the case-study section, the second about midway through the independent questions. Once you review your answers and start a break, you cannot return to the section before it.
- Content
- People 33%, Process 41%, Business Environment 26%, with 26 tasks. Every exam includes questions on all the tasks of each domain.
- Approaches
- About 40% of the questions are predictive and 60% agile or hybrid, found throughout all three domains.
- Question types
- Case or scenario and graphic-based (both new in 2026), multiple choice, multiple response, matching and enhanced matching, point and click, and pull-down lists. Questions are scenarios: what a project manager should do on the job.
- Delivery
- At a Pearson VUE test centre or online with a live proctor. A calculator is built into the computer-based exam.
- Result
- Pass or fail, with a rating overall and for each domain: Above Target, Target, Below Target or Needs Improvement. Preliminary at the end, official within 10 business days.
- Passing standard
- Criterion based, set by subject matter experts; each scored question is worth one point. PMI does not publish the passing score.
- Retakes
- Up to three attempts within the one-year eligibility period.
- Eligibility
- Experience leading projects (36 months in the past 10 years with a bachelor's degree, 60 with secondary school; other routes in PMI's outline) and 35 hours of project management training. This path does not provide those training hours.
Sources, all from PMI: the PMP Examination Content Outline (July 2026), the PMI Certification Handbook (revised June 2026) and PMI's sample exam result report, read 13 November 2026. Every source.
What PMI does not publish, and what we do
- PMI does not publish how many questions the case-study section holds. Our mock opens with 40 case-study questions on 8 scenarios, then 140 independent questions in two parts of 70, so the second break falls midway through them.
- PMI does not say whether the 2026 exam's clock stops during a break. Ours stops for each break, at most 10 minutes, and you may end a break early.
- PMI does not publish its passing score or how the four ratings map to scores. We call no pass or fail: our report uses PMI's four words on our own bands of percent correct, labelled as ours, and cannot predict your result.
- PMI does not say whether a multiple response, matching or pull-down question gives partial credit. Ours scores each question one point, right or wrong as a whole.
- Which 10 questions are pretest is never shown on the day. In our mock, the review after the exam marks the 10 unscored ones.
- PMI shows example images of each question type, not the screen itself. Our screen is our own: Previous, Next, flag and review inside a section, a calculator and strike through.
- Explanations, guides, practice by task and the review after a mock are study features, never part of the real exam. Every question is original, never adapted from PMI's sample questions, the PMBOK Guide or anyone else's material.