Practise for the portfolio management exam with full-length timed simulations, executive-level scenarios and an explanation for every option.
The PfMP is for senior portfolio managers: the people who decide which programs and projects an organisation takes on, and in what order. It is earned in two stages. A panel first reviews your portfolio experience, then you sit a multiple-choice exam.
The exam tests portfolio-level judgement: turning strategy into selection criteria, balancing the portfolio against capacity and appetite for risk, governing decisions and reporting to executives. The simulator prepares you for the exam stage.
Who it suits
How it is earned
Meet the experience requirement
Applicants need years of business and portfolio management experience.
Pass the panel review
Experienced reviewers assess written summaries of your portfolio work.
Sit the exam
One timed sitting of scenario questions. The simulator rehearses this step.
Every full-length exam in the simulator uses this length, clock and mix of domains.
questions
170minutes
240About 85 seconds a question. The cells show one full exam, coloured by domain.
Full-length exams follow these weights. Domain quizzes and custom practice let you aim at one domain or topic at a time.
Domain weights
5 domains
43 questions in every full-length exam
43 questions in every full-length exam
34 questions in every full-length exam
25 questions in every full-length exam
25 questions in every full-length exam
Topics in the question bank
The same simulator as every certification, loaded with this exam's questions, domains and clock.
Question bank
Written for the PfMP
Exam-style questions, each with an explanation for every option, right or wrong.
Full-length timed exams
Domain quizzes and custom practice are unlimited on every plan.
Score by domain
ExampleAfter every exam: your score by domain, the questions to review and what to drill next.
What the PfMP plans include
Every PfMP plan runs the same simulator. Choose the access period that fits your exam date.
Practise for the PfMP® exam
30 days access
What's included:
45 days access
Everything in Basic, plus:
60 days access
Everything in Premium, plus:
30-day money-back guarantee
All plans: one-time payment, no subscription.
One plan covers one certification; the two PRINCE2 levels share one. Courses with live training are priced on their course pages — see the courses.
Volume pricing for five or more candidates, with one invoice for your company.
A baseline exam, a week for each part of the exam in order of weight, then full-length exams to close. The app builds it around your exam date.
Default plan
6 weeksDomain weeks follow the exam's weights: the heaviest domains get a week of their own.
Baseline
A full-length exam to find your starting score, then read the explanation for every question you missed.
Portfolio Risk Management and Communications Management
A domain quiz most days; read every explanation, right or wrong.
Strategic Alignment
Domain quizzes on these topics during the week, then a full-length exam at the weekend.
Portfolio Performance
A domain quiz most days; read every explanation, right or wrong.
Governance
Domain quizzes on these topics during the week, then a full-length exam at the weekend.
Exam week
Weak-area drills, a final full-length exam three days out, flagged questions reviewed, and rest the day before.
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Create a free account, try the sample questions and see where you stand. No card needed.
PfMP is a mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. CareerFocusArea is an independent provider and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Project Management Institute. The simulator prepares you for the multiple-choice exam; it does not cover the panel review of your experience.
