PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® — Requirements & Free Practice
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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
A professional certification for agile practitioners across agile frameworks and methodologies.
Licensing authority: Project Management Institute (PMI)
Initial by examination
- Application
- PMI application acceptance, payment and individual examination scheduling; applications may be audited
- Claim Ids
- ["acp-route-conditions","acp-route-adoption"]
- Education
- Secondary diploma (high school diploma, GED, or global equivalent)
- Examination
- Pass the PMI-ACP examination within the one-year eligibility period; up to three attempts within that period
- Experience Any Of
- ["2 years of agile experience in past 5 years","1 year agile experience and degree from Global Accreditation Center (GAC) program","1 year agile experience and active 3rd party agile certification (current and earned more than 1 year ago), demonstrating knowledge of Agile approaches and principles","Active PMP® Certification"]
- Interpretation
- Existing certifications are applicant qualifications; they neither add their underlying exams to this route nor waive the PMI-ACP examination.
- Learning
- At least 21 hours of formal learning based on the agile approaches, tools and techniques in the ECO, completed before application with proof of completion. Course sources must align to the ECO, include experiential exercises, balance subject-matter expertise with test-wise content (practice exams), and provide an end-of-course assessment and certificate of completion.
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Examination
- Format
- Multiple-choice, multiple response, drag-and-drop-style items, and exhibits; test center or online proctored delivery
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 120; Scored questions: 100; Unscored questions: 20; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
- Time limit
- 3 hours; one 10-minute break after items 1–60
Examination outline
Mindset (28%)
- Experiment Early
- Embrace Agile Mindset
- Promote Collaborative Team Environment
- Build Transparency
- Foster Psychological Safety
- Shorten Feedback Loops
- Embrace Change
Leadership (25%)
- Empower Teams
- Facilitate Problem Resolution
- Promote Knowledge Sharing
- Promote agile mindset principles and practices
- Promote shared vision and purpose
- Facilitate conflict management
Product (19%)
- Refine product backlog
- Manage increments
- Visualize work
- Manage value delivery
Delivery (28%)
- Seek early feedback
- Manage agile metrics
- Manage impediments and risk
- Recognize and eliminate waste
- Perform continuous improvements
- Actively engage customers
- Optimize flow
Examination sources
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
p. 4, Introduction, candidate scope instruction
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
p. 5, complete domain allocation table and header
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
p. 6, Domains, Tasks, and Enablers
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
pp. 12–13, Tools and Techniques, complete table and qualifier
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
p. 14, six Knowledge and Skills image charts; read visually in eco-page-14.png
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
p. 17, PMI-ACP Exam Information, opening paragraph
- PMI Certification Handbook
Establishing the Passing Score
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
p. 6, scored and unscored examination composition; corroborated by the complete p. 17 table
- PMI-ACP current certification page
Get ready for exam day; What to Expect on Exam Day
- PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline
p. 18, Taking the Exam