PMP Exam Prep Course 35 PDUs/Hours Updated for the 2026 Exam

A project is a temporary initiative in a unique context that creates value, has a start and end date, and delivers a unique output.

Discover how to break large initiatives into coordinated programs of related projects and bundle them into portfolios to maximize overall value delivery, meet strategic objectives, and deliver measurable benefits.

Differentiate project management from operations management by comparing temporary projects with defined start and end dates to ongoing operations with no end date, such as sales, finance, and it support.

project governance provides a framework and decision-making models to guide project management activities—scope, schedule, budget, risks, and stakeholders—and defines roles and responsibilities to align with organizational goals.

Explore leadership styles such as laissez-faire, servant, charismatic, transactional, transformational, and interactional, and learn how to apply servant leadership in agile teams.

Adopt a holistic view of projects, seeing scope, finance, schedule, risk, and governance as one interconnected system where changes in one area affect others, guiding root-cause identification and decision making.

Explore the project lifecycle and phases from start to finish, including phase gate reviews, cost of change, risk and uncertainty, and the role of stakeholder feedback in delivering value.

Master the PMP focus areas and the 40 project management processes across initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing, delivering deliverables and utilizing the project charter.

Learn how expert judgment, powered by subject matter experts, guides cost estimates, schedules, risks, and quality across planning, execution, and monitoring control in projects.

Data drives project decisions by gathering, analyzing, and presenting information to stakeholders. Learn how to apply data gathering, data analysis, and data representation as essential tools throughout the project lifecycle.

Plan scope management teaches defining, validating, and controlling project scope, and how to create the scope management plan and requirements management plan, including defining the WBS.

Develop scope structure by applying inputs from the project management plan, scope management plan, scope statement, and requirements documentation to create the scope baseline, WBS, and the WBS dictionary.

Learn common estimation techniques for time, cost, and resources, including expert judgment, analogous and bottom-up estimates, parametric formulas, and relative size estimation with Agile story points using the Fibonacci sequence.

Plan stakeholder engagement shows how to create a stakeholder engagement plan and a stakeholder engagement matrix to keep stakeholders engaged, using iterative assessment and methods like product demos and meetings.

Plan resource management by defining the resource management plan, detailing how to estimate, acquire, manage, and release physical and HR resources, with roles, responsibilities, and a team charter.

Execute the communication management plan to collect, create, distribute, store, and dispose project information for timely stakeholder updates. Learn inputs, tools, and skills for effective, tailored, two-way communication.

Navigate to the final step in monitoring and controlling: validate scope, where the customer formally accepts the verified deliverable to close the project and confirm quality.

Define value as the worth, importance, or usefulness of something, driven by perspective, and in projects, measure benefits relative to effort, cost, and organizational strategic objectives.

Master the Scrum process from product backlog to sprint delivery, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives, learning value-based prioritization and incremental releases under the product owner.

Define a shared Definition of Done at project start to ensure the team and customers globally agree on completion, including tests, documentation, and output requirements.

Explore lean software development inspired by the Toyota production system, focusing on eliminating waste, empowering teams, delivering fast iterations, building quality in, and amplifying learning to maximize customer value.

Explore agile roles—delivery team, product owner, and scrum master—and how they build increments, run standups, and conduct sprint reviews, guided by a servant-leader agile project manager.

Explore burnup and burndown charts to track completed versus remaining work. Learn velocity charts and backlog points to gauge agile team pace for PMP exam relevance.

Learn a standardized risk management process from the PMBOK Guide applicable to agile and traditional projects, covering planning, risk identification, qualitative and quantitative assessment, responses, implementation, and continuous monitoring.