For practitioners already accountable for delivery — tests the trade-offs you make when the plan meets reality.
Frameworks are easy to memorise and useless under pressure. What separates a working project manager from someone who has read the book is judgement: knowing which constraint to break when all three cannot hold.
This examination is written around exactly those moments. Scenario questions put you in front of a slipped dependency, a stakeholder who has changed their mind, and an estimate you can no longer defend — and ask what you do.
It sits in the Core Project Management track at Professional tier, and is issued with a unique credential ID, a two-year validity period and an independently hosted digital badge.
Practitioners already accountable for delivery outcomes. You are expected to have made real trade-offs on live work: cutting scope under pressure, re-planning around a slipped dependency, or defending an estimate that stakeholders did not want to hear. There is no formal hours requirement, but the paper assumes you have been there.
The paper is weighted across five domains. Weightings show how much of the examination each area accounts for, so preparation can be planned against them.
| Domain | Weighting | |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Delivery planning and scope control | 25% |
| 02 | Stakeholder engagement and governance | 20% |
| 03 | Risk, issue and dependency management | 20% |
| 04 | Schedule, cost and resource discipline | 20% |
| 05 | Closure, benefits and lessons learned | 15% |
Professional-tier delivery roles are competitive, and most candidates describe the same responsibilities in the same words. An assessed credential changes the conversation from what you say you have done to what has been independently tested.
It also travels. The credential ID resolves on a public register, so a recruiter in another country can check it without knowing anything about us.
Yes. The Professional tier assumes you are already working on live delivery. There is no formal hours requirement, but the examination is written for practitioners who have made real trade-offs on real work.
Online, monitored by a live proctor alongside automated integrity checks. You book a slot after enrolling and can sit it from home or your workplace.
Two years from issue. The expiry date is printed on the certificate and shown on the public verification record, so a lapsed credential is always visible.
A certificate carrying a unique credential ID and verification QR code, plus a digital badge hosted independently by LiveCertification for LinkedIn, a CV or an email signature.
Yes, without contacting us. Every credential ID resolves on our public register, and the digital badge carries its own independent verification page.
You receive a result breakdown by domain so you know where to focus. A retake can be booked from your dashboard at a lower fee than the original enrolment.