Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)^® Exam

Your organization does the work right. But does it do the right work? As a portfolio manager, your role is essential to ensuring that the answer is yes. Formal portfolio management is the most effective way to implement strategic initiatives because it bridges the gap between strategy and implementation.

Portfolio managers align projects, programs and operations with strategic objectives, investing resources in the right work to deliver the expected value. The Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) signifies your advanced competency in the coordinated management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.

Who Should Apply?

If you’re an executive or senior-level practitioner managing a portfolio of projects and programs aligned with organizational strategy and focused on doing the right work, then the PfMP is the right choice for you.

Gain and Maintain Your PfMP

Before you apply, make sure you meet of the following sets of PfMP Certification requirements:

• All applicants must possess a minimum of 96 months of professional business experience within the last 15 years

AND

• Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)

• 84 months of portfolio management experience

OR

• All applicants must possess a minimum of 96 months of professional business experience within the last 15 years

AND

• Four-year degree (bachelor’s degree or the global equivalent)

• 48 months of portfolio management experience

• First phase of evaluation is a panel review.

• The certification exam has 170 multiple-choice questions and you have four hours to complete it.

• To maintain your PfMP, you must earn 60 professional development units (PDUs) in portfolio management topics every three years.