Two questions decide your route. Answer them and the site rearranges itself.

PMI's eligibility rules are arithmetic, not opinion: your education level sets the experience months you owe, and everyone owes 35 contact hours of formal training. This page runs that arithmetic and shows you only the route you actually qualify for.

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1. Your highest completed education

2. Months you have spent leading project work

3. Have you completed 35 contact hours of formal project-management education?

PMP exam preparation — full program

You are applying now. This program exists to make the application audit-proof and the exam boring.

35 contact hours includedApplication narrative reviewTimed mocks on the current outline

$498 programIllustrative pricing, pending owner review — confirmed on your enrollment reply.

Full details for this route

35 contact hours — PMI-accepted training

Ticks the one box you are missing, and the certificate lands in your register the day you finish.

Certificate issued on completionSelf-paced with live clinicsCounts toward your PMP application

$349 programIllustrative pricing, pending owner review — confirmed on your enrollment reply.

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CAPM preparation — 23 contact hours included

The honest first credential when the months are not there yet.

No experience requirementReal PMI credentialStudy work carries into the PMP

$279 programIllustrative pricing, pending owner review — confirmed on your enrollment reply.

Full details for this route

Study platform

Enrolled students study at getcertifiedthefastway.com/pmp/study — question banks, timed mocks, and your score history in one place.

The platform is in beta and free while it is. Your login is created when your cohort starts; practice material appears there once your instructor opens it.

Prefer to ask a person?

Eligibility edge cases — whether your role counted as leading, how to write an audit-proof narrative, which credential to sit first — are answered faster by an instructor than by a form.

PMP, CAPM and PMI are registered marks of the Project Management Institute. We are not affiliated with PMI; PMI administers the exams and awards the credentials. Eligibility rules quoted here follow PMI's published handbook as encoded July 2026 — re-verified before your cohort locks, and confirmed against PMI's own site before you apply.