Project Management
PMP® Certification Boot Camp
A five-day PMP® exam-preparation boot camp for experienced project professionals. Build exam readiness across PMI's people, process, and business environment content while earning the 35 contact hours required for PMP application eligibility.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private corporate group
- Duration
- 1 week
- Level
- Advanced
- From
- $2995.00
About this course
Course overview
Prepare for the PMP® exam with structure, practice, and confidence.
The PMP® Certification Boot Camp is an intensive 35-hour program for project professionals who are ready to prepare for PMI's Project Management Professional credential. The course connects predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery practices to the way PMP® exam questions are written, with emphasis on situational decision-making, stakeholder judgment, and value delivery.
Across five focused days, participants review core project management knowledge, practice PMI-style reasoning, complete timed question sets, and build a practical post-class study plan. The experience is designed to strengthen both exam readiness and the project leadership skills participants use back on the job.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Explain the PMP® certification path, application requirements, and exam-readiness process
- Apply PMI-style reasoning to situational questions across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments
- Lead teams using servant leadership, communication, conflict management, coaching, and stakeholder engagement practices
- Plan and control project scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, procurement, risk, change, and delivery performance
- Connect project decisions to business value, compliance, governance, benefits realization, and strategic alignment
- Complete domain drills, timed practice sets, and a targeted post-class study plan
- Document 35 PMI contact hours / 35 education PDUs: 21 Ways of Working, 7 Power Skills, and 7 Business Acumen
Audience
Who it's for
- Experienced project managers preparing for the PMP® credential
- Professionals who lead project teams, budgets, schedules, risks, vendors, or cross-functional delivery
- Program managers, business analysts, technical leads, and operations leaders who manage project work
- Candidates who need 35 hours of project management education/training for PMP® application eligibility
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 — PMP Foundations, Exam Strategy, and People Domain
- PMP® certification path, eligibility, application, and audit readiness
- Exam structure, timing, question patterns, and PMI mindset
- Servant leadership, motivation, team formation, and performance
- Conflict management, emotional intelligence, negotiation, and coaching
- Stakeholder identification, analysis, engagement, and communications
- People-domain situational question practice
Day 2 — Predictive Planning and Project Baselines
- Project charter, management plan, and integrated change control
- Scope definition, WBS, requirements traceability, and validation
- Activity sequencing, estimating, critical path, float, and compression
- Cost estimating, budgeting, reserves, and earned value management
- Quality, resource, procurement, and vendor-performance planning
- Baseline planning exercises and exam-style review
Day 3 — Risk, Change, Agile, and Hybrid Delivery
- Risk identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and response planning
- Issue escalation, contingency planning, reserves, and change control
- Agile values, principles, roles, events, and artifacts
- Scrum, Kanban, iterative, incremental, and hybrid delivery approaches
- Backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, flow metrics, and blockers
- Delivery-performance drills across predictive, agile, and hybrid scenarios
Day 4 — Business Environment, Governance, and Integrated Practice
- Benefits realization, value delivery, and business case alignment
- Compliance, governance, regulatory considerations, and organizational change
- Portfolio, program, operations, and product interfaces
- Performance reporting, forecasting, and decision-making under uncertainty
- People, Process, and Business Environment cross-domain review
- Timed mixed-question practice set with debrief
Day 5 — Exam Simulation, Final Review, and Study Plan
- Timed PMP-style exam simulation and answer-rationale debrief
- Weakness analysis by domain, task, and question type
- High-frequency formulas, concepts, traps, and distractors
- Ethics and professional responsibility review
- PMI application walkthrough and exam scheduling strategy
- 30-day study plan, final readiness checklist, and Q&A
Public cohorts
Upcoming sessions
Secure your seat in a live, instructor-led cohort. Private team deliveries available on request.
No public cohorts on the calendar yet.
We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
Frequently asked questions
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