Course blueprint

Study plan

The curriculum follows the three exam domains: People, Process, and Business Environment. The question bank contains 368 original, source-traceable questions.

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Orientation, Eligibility, and Exam Format

Application paths, the 35 training-hour requirement, exam format, question types, and building a study plan.

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Vision, Stakeholder Discovery, and Alignment

Shared direction, stakeholder analysis models, expectations, mentoring, and ethical influence.

24questions
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Conflict, Leadership, and Team Performance

Conflict diagnosis, leadership, empowerment, roles, accountability, team development, and distributed working.

24questions
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Engagement, Customer Expectations, and Trust

Engagement strategy, transparency, customer outcomes, satisfaction evidence, difficult conversations, and influence without authority.

24questions
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Communication, Reporting, and Knowledge Transfer

Communication systems, push, pull and interactive methods, feedback, governance reporting, and usable knowledge transfer.

24questions
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Integrated Planning and Delivery Approach

Approach selection, integrated plans, estimation, dependencies, and data-informed decisions.

20questions
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Scope, Requirements, and Value Delivery

Scope boundaries, elicitation and traceability, decomposition, prioritisation schemes, increments, and benefits.

28questions
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Resources, Procurement, and Financial Management

Capacity, procurement strategy and lifecycle, contract families and the point of total assumption, cost baselines, and reserves.

28questions
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Quality, Schedule, and Delivery Control

Quality planning, process stability, the diagnostic toolkit, schedule logic, recovery, flow, and WIP.

24questions
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Performance Measurement, Forecasting, and Closure

Metrics, earned value, forecasts, acceptance, transition, benefits, and lessons.

20questions
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Governance, Ethics, Compliance, AI, and Sustainability

Decision authority, organisational structures and PMOs, professional conduct, compliance evidence, responsible AI, and life-cycle impacts.

28questions
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Change Control, Issues, Impediments, and Risk

Integrated change control, barriers, issues, risk analysis, response ownership, thresholds, and the three logs.

24questions
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Continuous Improvement, Organizational Change, and External Environment

Improvement systems, reusable assets, adoption, external scanning, and strategic adaptation.

20questions
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The Framework: Standards, Principles, Performance Domains, and Focus Areas

Which document the exam is built from, the six principles, the seven performance domains, the five focus areas, and translating framework vocabulary into the task being tested.

20questions
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Adaptive Frameworks, Roles, and Flow Metrics

Iteration roles, events and artefacts, pull systems and WIP limits, burndown against burnup, flow metrics and Little's Law, engineering practices, and honest hybrids.

20questions
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Quantitative Analysis: Estimates, Network Maths, Risk Numbers, and the Investment Case

Three-point estimates and spread, forward and backward passes, total against free float, compression cost, expected monetary value and decision trees, simulation and sensitivity, reserves, and investment appraisal.

20questions
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Motivation, Team Development, Influence, and Organisational Change

Hygiene factors against motivators, the expectancy chain, team development stages, matching leadership to the task, the five conflict modes, negotiating on interests, and change adoption models.

20questions

Study resources

Cram Sheet

Every lesson's key terms and formulas, condensed into one page for a final review pass.

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Compiled Exam Traps

Every exam trap already written into the lessons, gathered in one place for a fast final-review pass.

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What's Changed Recently

The July 2026 Exam Content Outline update -- the reweighted domains and what moved where -- condensed to one page.

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After You Pass: Next Steps

The 60-PDU renewal cycle, the Talent Triangle minimums, and what to set up on day one.

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