What the course covers
About this course map
Three domains, mapped one-for-one to PMI's Project Management Professional Examination Content Outline and taught in the same order, so nothing on the exam is left uncovered.
The outline that defines the current PMP took effect with the July 2026 exam update, and it supersedes the January 2021 outline that most published study material still follows. The three domain names are unchanged — People, Process, Business Environment — but the balance between them moved sharply. People fell from 42% to 33%, Process from 50% to 41%, and Business Environment rose from 8% to 26%. If you are revising from older material, that last shift is the one that will catch you out, and we give it the classroom time the new weighting demands. The 2026 refresh also pushes artificial intelligence, sustainability and stakeholder engagement into the scenarios, and reframes the questions around outcomes, value and business impact rather than process compliance.
Delivery approach is not a separate domain. PMI states that roughly 40% of exam items sit in predictive project management, and the remaining 60% divides between adaptive or agile and hybrid approaches — and all three run through every domain and nearly every task. So we do not teach a predictive course with an agile chapter bolted on. Each task below is worked through in whichever approaches the exam is likely to put it in, and a recurring part of the practice is deciding which approach a given situation actually calls for.
PMP is a judgement exam. It rarely asks what a technique is; it asks what you would do next, with an unhappy sponsor, an ambiguous requirement and a team that has stopped talking to each other. The teaching is built for that — short input blocks, then situational work where you have to commit to an action and defend it.
Domain 01 — People
Leading the people who do the work, and the people who have opinions about it. 33% of the exam, across eight tasks.
Domain 02 — Process
The technical work of getting a project delivered. 41% of the exam, the largest domain, and ten tasks wide.
Domain 03 — Business Environment
The project's relationship with the organisation and the world outside it. 26% of the exam — more than triple its weight under the previous outline — across eight tasks.
Who should take this
Project managers who are already running work and want the credential that reflects it, programme and delivery leads, PMO staff, consultants, and technical leads who have taken on delivery responsibility and now need the discipline behind it.
PMI sets real eligibility requirements, and they are checked. You must hold one of the following combinations of education and project leadership experience, with the experience gained in the last ten years:
Every pathway except the GAC route also requires 35 hours of project management training aligned to the Exam Content Outline. An active CAPM certification satisfies that requirement in place of the training hours.
This course is designed to provide project management education hours toward that 35-hour requirement, and we issue a certificate of completion recording the hours you attended. Hacky Security is not a PMI Authorised Training Partner, so we do not award official PDUs and we make no claim of PMI accreditation. Confirm with PMI that your combination of training will be accepted before you apply.
The exam
The PMP is set and awarded by PMI, and delivered at Pearson VUE test centres or by online proctoring.
The exam fee is paid separately to PMI, and PMI members pay less than non-members. You submit your own application, which may be selected for audit, and you book your own exam date.
How we deliver it
Four days, classroom or online live, or at your office for a private group. Short teaching blocks followed by situational work — you are given a project in trouble and asked what you would do, then asked to justify it against the outline.
Domain checkpoints each day, and a full-length 180-question mock under exam conditions on the final afternoon, including the case study section, with a review of every item you got wrong and why the distractor appealed.
Mapped to PMI's Project Management Professional Examination Content Outline as updated for July 2026. Taught from Hacky Security's own curriculum by instructors who hold the certification and run delivery for a living.
Exam & certification
- 1Train with us40 hours of instructor-led preparation, labs and practice questions.
- 2Sit the official examExam voucher sold separately. We buy it from the certification body on your behalf and send you the code — you book your own exam date.
- 3Get certifiedThe certification is awarded by PMI when you pass their exam.
What you receive
- PMI certification — issued by PMI after you pass, and verifiable with them.
- Hacky Security certificate of completion — for the training itself, with a unique ID.
- Checkable by employers — anyone can confirm our certificate on the Verify page.
This course is Hacky Security’s own preparation training. The certification itself is awarded by PMI, not by us.
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