Did you know a new PMP® exam is coming in July 2026?
Stay informed on exam updates and prepare for the 2026 PMP certification.
Did you know a new PMP® exam is coming in July 2026?
Stay informed on exam updates and prepare for the 2026 PMP certification.
Coming Soon: PMP Exam Updates
Keeping up with changing times, the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam is changing too. The 2026 update reflects the future of the profession, with a sharper focus on the skills and mindsets driving meaningful results in today’s world.
What’s coming in 2026
- A reimagined PMP exam built around real-world impact and value, launching 9 July 2026
- Updated learning resources available now to help you prepare for the new exam
- A continued promise to uphold the PMP as the global gold standard for the project profession
What’s changing in the new PMP Exam?
- Content and Focus Areas
- Adds topics like AI, sustainability and stakeholder engagement
- Shifts focus more to outcomes and value
- Domains
- Rebalanced exam weighting:
- People (42% → 33%)
- Process (50% → 41%)
- Business Environment (8% → 26%)
- Balances leadership, technical and strategic skills
- Approach
- Covers predictive and agile methods, and hybrid applications
- Greater emphasis on adaptive, real-world project dynamics
- Eligibility
- Aligns globally across degrees, apprenticeships and training programs
- Experience: 3–5 years
- Eligibility period: extended to 10 years
- Coming late Q4 2026: Updates to requirements for live training (read more below)
- Exam Experience
- 180 questions, 240 minutes
- More interactive and scenario-based
- Reflects real project environments
Want a deeper look at the updates coming to the PMP exam?
Read our latest blog, What the 2026 PMP Exam Update Says About Modern Project Leadership, for more details on new focus areas, domain changes and what to expect as you prepare.
Explore the revised Exam Content Outline
The PMP Certification Exam Content Outline (2026) defines what’s tested on the exam.
This new PMP exam feels much closer to real-life business environments, where the focus is on delivering value, ensuring strategic alignment, and making a real impact on business outcomes. It also reflects how we work today—embracing agile and hybrid ways of working, navigating complexity, and making decisions in uncertain and fast-changing scenarios.
This new PMP exam feels much closer to real-life business environments, where the focus is on delivering value, ensuring strategic alignment, and making a real impact on business outcomes. It also reflects how we work today—embracing agile and hybrid ways of working, navigating complexity, and making decisions in uncertain and fast-changing scenarios.
This new PMP exam feels much closer to real-life business environments, where the focus is on delivering value, ensuring strategic alignment, and making a real impact on business outcomes. It also reflects how we work today—embracing agile and hybrid ways of working, navigating complexity, and making decisions in uncertain and fast-changing scenarios.
This new PMP exam feels much closer to real-life business environments, where the focus is on delivering value, ensuring strategic alignment, and making a real impact on business outcomes. It also reflects how we work today—embracing agile and hybrid ways of working, navigating complexity, and making decisions in uncertain and fast-changing scenarios.
Studying for the PMP now?
If you’ve already started studying, keep going—the core principles and approaches of the PMP exam remain the same.
- Those planning to take the current version of the PMP will need to sit for the exam before 8 July 2026.
If you want to take the new exam, use the updated resources listed above to prepare for the next exam version.
Upcoming Changes to PMP Training Requirements
Notice: Planned update to PMP training hour requirements (effective late Q4 2026)
To apply for the PMP, you need 35 hours of project management training. These hours can come from any eligible course or provider; you’re not required to use a specific one. Training can be live (in-person or virtual, taught by an instructor) or on-demand.
Starting in late Q4 2026, PMI is updating PMP live training eligibility requirements. This helps us ensure consistent, quality preparation worldwide.
What this means for you
If you earn PMP training hours through a live class, they will be eligible only if the course is delivered by a:
- PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP) or
- China Registered Education Provider (REP) or
- Eligible, accredited academic program (including PMI Global Accreditation Center accredited programs)
What you should do when choosing a course
- Live Classes
Make sure it's offered by an Authorized Training Partner (ATP), China Registered Education Provider (REP), or an eligible academic program (including PMI GAC programs).
- Self-Paced Courses
You can take it from any organization. Try our PMP on-demand course.
Timing Matters
PMI will share a specific start date for this change in advance and provide guidance for learners and trainers.
Any training completed before that date will still be eligible under our current requirements.
Providing PMP training?
Visit our Training Partner page for details or to contact our team.