PMI Authorized Training Partner · For the New 2026 PMP® Exam
PMP® Certification Training in Mumbai & Online
Live, instructor-led prep for the new PMP® exam that PMI introduced on 9 July 2026, from a 30-year PMI Authorized Training Partner. Get your 35 contact hours, PMI-authorised courseware, full exam application & audit support, and a free re-attend guarantee.
Why Train With Princeton Academy
A PMI Authorized Training Partner you can actually verify
Founded in 1997, Princeton Academy is one of India’s most established corporate-training institutions, and it brings that pedigree to your PMP® journey.
Trusted by teams at Tata Motors, Mahindra, Aditya Birla, RPG Enterprises, CEAT, Vodafone, Yes Bank, HPCL, Indian Oil, Hitachi and Toyota, among 5,000+ organisations.
Is PMP® Worth It?
The credential that pays for itself
PMP® is the world’s most recognised project-management certification, and in India it’s a measurable career and salary lever, not just a line on your CV.
We quote the conservative, defensible figure from PMI’s own India salary survey (~18–20% / ~₹3L uplift). The upside reported elsewhere runs higher, but you should choose a provider that gives you honest numbers, not inflated ones.
What’s Included
Everything you need to pass, in one programme
35 Contact-Hour Certificate
The 35 hours of project management training PMI requires before you can apply for the exam. Issued on completion, valid for life.
PMI-Authorized Courseware
As an ATP we teach PMI’s official content, aligned to the Exam Content Outline of the new exam (predictive, agile & hybrid).
Mock Exams & Question Bank
Full-length simulator exams plus a full practice question bank, mapped to the real exam’s difficulty and pace.
Application & Audit Support
We help you write the PMI application and prepare for the dreaded audit, the step most self-study candidates get stuck on.
PMI Membership Guidance
We show you how PMI membership works. For candidates in India, PMI lists the PMP® exam at ₹27,406 for members and ₹55,488 at full price, so weigh the ₹28,082 difference against the membership fee before you book.
Case Studies & Group Practice
Interactive learning with case studies & group discussions, plus post-class doubt-clearing until you sit the exam.
Transparent Pricing & Guarantee
One clear price. No surprises.
Most providers hide their fee until you fill a form. We don’t. Here’s exactly what it costs, and what happens if you don’t pass.
Free re-attend guarantee · no hidden charges, no lock-ins
- 35 contact-hour certificate (exam eligibility)
- PMI-authorised courseware & participant kit
- Full-length mock exams + full practice question bank
- PMI application & audit assistance
- Case studies, group discussions & exam drills
PMI exam fee is paid separately, directly to PMI (see the full cost breakdown below).
Free Re-Attend Guarantee
Attend the complete programme and follow our study plan and mocks. If you sit the exam and don’t clear it, you’re covered:
- Re-train with the next batch for free, within 12 months
- Mock exams until you are consistently exam-ready
- Unlimited doubt-clearing until you’re exam-ready
Exam and membership fees are set by PMI and paid directly to PMI. We’ll guide you through both. Exam prices as PMI showed them to candidates in India on 25 September 2026. Source: PMI, PMP® certification.
Upcoming Batches
Choose a batch that fits your schedule
New weekday fast-track and weekend cohorts start every month. Pick the date that fits your schedule. All times are India Standard Time (IST).
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The New Exam & Curriculum
Built for the new PMP® exam, live since 9 July 2026
PMI’s new PMP® exam went live on 9 July 2026, and all exams scheduled from that date use it. It tests three performance domains across predictive, agile and hybrid approaches, and every session maps directly to them.
What changed: the new exam adds AI, sustainability and stakeholder engagement in project scenarios, puts more weight on outcomes, value and business impact, and moves the domain weighting to People 33% (from 42%), Process 41% (from 50%) and Business Environment 26% (from 8%). The scoring method has not changed. Source: PMI, the new PMP® exam.
People
- Building and keeping a shared project vision
- Leading the team, conflict and ground rules
- Engaging and aligning stakeholder expectations
- Knowledge transfer and communication planning
Process
- Integrated planning, scope and schedule
- Procurement, finance and quality
- Value-based delivery, predictive to agile
- Project status, documentation and closure
Business Environment
- Governance, success metrics and escalation
- Compliance, change control and impediments
- Risk planning and the risk register
- Organisational and external business change
Delivered as 35 hours of live, instructor-led training over five days, as a weekday fast-track or across weekends, with case studies, group exercises and practice on the new exam’s content outline throughout.
Every task the PMP® exam can ask about
This is the complete PMP® Exam Content Outline, the document PMI writes the exam from, set out domain by domain. All 26 tasks and every enabler below are covered in the programme. Open a domain to read what the exam will actually ask of you.
33%
Domain IPeople
8 tasks
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Develop a common vision
- Help ensure a shared vision with key stakeholders.
- Promote the shared vision.
- Keep the vision current.
- Break down situations to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding of the vision.
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Manage conflicts
- Identify conflict sources.
- Analyze the context for the conflict.
- Implement an agreed-on resolution strategy.
- Communicate conflict management principles with the team and external stakeholders.
- Establish an environment that fosters adherence to common ground rules.
- Manage and rectify ground rule violations.
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Lead the project team
- Establish expectations at the team level.
- Empower the team.
- Solve problems.
- Represent the voice of the team.
- Support the team’s varied experiences, skills, and perspectives.
- Determine an appropriate leadership style.
- Establish clear roles and responsibilities within the team.
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Engage stakeholders
- Identify stakeholders.
- Analyze stakeholders.
- Analyze and tailor communication to stakeholder needs.
- Execute the stakeholder engagement plan.
- Optimize alignment among stakeholder needs, expectations, and project objectives.
- Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives.
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Align stakeholder expectations
- Categorize stakeholders.
- Identify stakeholder expectations.
- Facilitate discussions to align expectations.
- Organize and act on mentoring opportunities.
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Manage stakeholder expectations
- Identify internal and external customer expectations.
- Align and maintain outcomes to internal and external customer expectations.
- Monitor internal and external customer satisfaction/expectations and respond as needed.
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Help ensure knowledge transfer
- Identify knowledge critical to the project.
- Gather knowledge.
- Foster an environment for knowledge transfer.
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Plan and manage communication
- Define a communication strategy.
- Promote transparency and collaboration.
- Establish a feedback loop.
- Understand reporting requirements.
- Create reports aligned with sponsors and stakeholder expectations.
- Support reporting and governance processes.
41%
Domain IIProcess
10 tasks
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Develop an integrated project management plan and plan delivery
- Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude.
- Recommend a project management development approach (i.e., predictive, adaptive/agile, or hybrid management).
- Determine critical information requirements (e.g., sustainability).
- Recommend a project execution strategy.
- Create an integrated project management plan.
- Estimate work effort and resource requirements.
- Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued business value.
- Maintain the integrated project management plan.
- Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions.
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Develop and manage project scope
- Define scope.
- Obtain stakeholder agreement on project scope.
- Break down scope.
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Help ensure value-based delivery
- Identify value components with key stakeholders.
- Prioritize work based on value and stakeholder feedback.
- Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally.
- Examine the business value throughout the project.
- Verify a measurement system is in place to track benefits.
- Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value.
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Plan and manage resources
- Define and plan resources based on requirements.
- Manage and optimize resource needs and availability.
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Plan and manage procurement
- Plan procurement.
- Execute a procurement management plan.
- Select preferred contract types.
- Evaluate vendor performance.
- Verify objectives of the procurement agreement are met.
- Participate in agreement negotiations.
- Determine a negotiation strategy.
- Manage suppliers and contracts.
- Plan and manage the procurement strategy.
- Develop a delivery solution.
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Plan and manage finance
- Analyze project financial needs.
- Quantify risk and contingency financial allocations.
- Plan spend tracking throughout the project life cycle.
- Plan financial reporting.
- Anticipate future finance challenges.
- Monitor financial variations and work with the governance process.
- Manage financial reserves.
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Plan and optimize quality of products/deliverables
- Gather quality requirements for project deliverables.
- Plan quality processes and tools.
- Execute a quality management plan.
- Help ensure regulatory compliance.
- Manage cost of quality (CoQ) and sustainability.
- Conduct ongoing quality reviews.
- Implement continuous improvement.
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Plan and manage schedule
- Prepare a schedule based on the selected development approach.
- Coordinate with other projects and operations.
- Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points).
- Utilize benchmarks and historical data.
- Create a project schedule.
- Baseline a project schedule.
- Execute a schedule management plan.
- Analyze schedule variation.
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Evaluate project status
- Develop project metrics, analysis, and reconciliation.
- Identify and tailor needed artifacts.
- Help ensure artifacts are created, reviewed, updated, and documented.
- Help ensure accessibility of artifacts.
- Assess current progress.
- Measure, analyze, and update project metrics.
- Communicate project status.
- Continually assess the effectiveness of artifact management.
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Manage project closure
- Obtain project stakeholder approval of project completion.
- Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase.
- Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next phase).
- Conclude activities to close the project or phase (e.g., final lessons learned, retrospectives, procurement, financials, resources).
26%
Domain IIIBusiness Environment
8 tasks
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Define and establish project governance
- Describe and establish the structure, rules, procedures, reporting, ethics, and policies through the use of organizational process assets (OPAs).
- Define success metrics.
- Outline governance escalation paths and thresholds.
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Plan and manage project compliance
- Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety, sustainability, regulatory compliance).
- Classify compliance categories.
- Determine potential threats to compliance.
- Use methods to support compliance.
- Analyze the consequences of noncompliance.
- Determine the necessary approach and action(s) to address compliance needs.
- Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance.
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Manage and control changes
- Execute the change control process.
- Communicate the status of proposed changes.
- Implement approved changes to the project.
- Update project documentation to reflect changes.
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Remove impediments and manage issues
- Evaluate the impact of impediments.
- Prioritize and highlight impediments.
- Determine and apply an intervention strategy to remove/minimize impediments.
- Reassess continually to help ensure impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team are being addressed.
- Recognize when a risk becomes an issue.
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on an approach to resolve the issues.
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Plan and manage risk
- Identify risks.
- Analyze risks.
- Monitor and control risks.
- Develop a risk management plan.
- Maintain a risk register (e.g., poor IT security).
- Execute a risk management plan (e.g., risk response for security and managing sustainability risks).
- Communicate the status of a risk impact on the project.
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Continuous improvement
- Utilize lessons learned.
- Help ensure continuous improvement processes are updated.
- Update organizational process assets (OPAs).
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Support organizational change
- Assess organizational culture.
- Evaluate the impact of organizational change on the project and determine required actions.
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Evaluate external business environment changes
- Survey changes to the external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology, geopolitical, market).
- Assess and prioritize the impact on project scope/backlog based on changes in the external business environment.
- Continually review the external business environment for impacts on project scope/backlog.
Task and enabler wording follows PMI’s published Exam Content Outline, so you can map your study straight to the exam. Want it as a PDF? Ask us and we will send it across, no strings attached.
Am I Eligible?
Four ways to qualify for the PMP® exam
PMI counts project experience from the last 10 years. Every route also needs 35 hours of project management training, which this programme provides. Source: PMI, PMP® eligibility.
High school diploma
- A high school diploma or secondary school certificate
- 5 years of experience managing projects
- 35 hours of project management training, included here
Associate’s degree or vocational diploma
- An associate’s degree or a vocational trade school diploma
- 4 years of experience managing projects
- 35 hours of project management training, included here
Bachelor’s degree or higher
- A bachelor’s degree or higher, or the global equivalent
- 3 years of experience managing projects
- 35 hours of project management training, included here
PMI-accredited degree
- A bachelor’s or post-graduate degree from a PMI Global Accreditation Center (GAC) programme
- 2 years of experience managing projects
- 35 hours of project management training, included here
From 1 December 2026, PMI changes which live classes count.Hours from a live class will count toward the 35 only if the course is delivered by a PMI Authorized Training Partner, a China Registered Education Provider or an eligible accredited academic programme. Princeton Academy is a PMI Authorized Training Partner, so our live online and Mumbai classroom batches count before and after that date. Self-paced courses from any provider still count, and training completed before 1 December 2026 stays eligible. Source: PMI, the new PMP® exam.
Not sure if you qualify yet?Send us your experience and we’ll check your PMP® eligibility for free, with no obligation. Not eligible yet? We’ll point you to CAPM®.
Check My EligibilityYour Journey to PMP®
From enrolment to certified, we’re with you at every step
Your Faculty
Taught by PMI-certified, ATP-authorised instructors
Every PMP® cohort is led by a PMI-certified, ATP-authorised instructor, an active project-management practitioner with a long track record of getting candidates certified. We don’t headline individual names, because at Princeton Academy your guarantee is the institution’s vetting standard, not any single trainer. Whoever we field has been selected against it.
- PMI-certified PMP® instructors
- ATP train-the-trainer authorised
- 15+ years of real delivery experience
- Hundreds of PMP® aspirants mentored
Reviews
Rated 4.7 on Google from 6,000+ reviews
That is Princeton Academy’s Google rating across all its programmes, as Google showed it in October 2026. Read the reviews on Google.
PMP® FAQs
Your questions, answered honestly
For working project professionals, yes. PMI’s own India salary survey shows PMP-certified PMs earn a median ~18–20% (around ₹3 lakh) more than non-certified peers, and many employers and government/MNC tenders now require PMP-staffed PMs. It’s also globally portable and widely recognised across the Gulf. We’ll always give you the conservative, honest figures rather than inflated marketing numbers.
PMI’s new PMP® exam went live on 9 July 2026, and all exams scheduled from that date use it. It still has 180 questions, and the total testing time is now 240 minutes (4 hours), including two 10-minute breaks. You can take it at a Pearson VUE test centre or online, and the scoring method has not changed. The content adds AI, sustainability and stakeholder engagement in project scenarios, puts more weight on outcomes, value and business impact, and reweights the domains to People 33%, Process 41% and Business Environment 26%. Our programme follows the new outline. Source: PMI, the new PMP® exam.
PMI asks for project management experience from the last 10 years: 5 years with a high school diploma, 4 years with an associate’s degree or vocational diploma, 3 years with a bachelor’s degree or higher, or 2 years with a degree from a PMI-accredited (GAC) programme. Every route also needs 35 hours of project management training, which this course provides. Not there yet? CAPM® has no experience requirement and is a great stepping stone. Send us your background and we’ll check your eligibility free.
The exam is written from PMI’s Exam Content Outline, which sets out three performance domains: People at 33%, Process at 41% and Business Environment at 26%. Between them they hold 26 tasks, running from developing a common vision and managing conflict, through integrated planning, procurement, finance, quality and schedule, to governance, compliance, risk and external business change. Predictive, agile and hybrid ways of working are tested across all three domains rather than in a section of their own. We publish the whole outline, task by task, in the curriculum above.
Yes. On completing the programme you receive a 35 contact-hour certificate that meets PMI’s requirement of 35 hours of project management training for the PMP® exam. It’s valid for life.
From 1 December 2026, PMI will count hours from a live class toward the 35 hours of training only if the course is delivered by a PMI Authorized Training Partner, a China Registered Education Provider or an eligible accredited academic programme. Self-paced courses from any provider still count, and any training completed before 1 December 2026 stays eligible under the current rules. Princeton Academy is a PMI Authorized Training Partner, so our live online and Mumbai classroom batches count toward your 35 hours before and after 1 December. Source: PMI, the new PMP® exam.
No, and you should be wary of anyone who blurs this. The PMI exam fee is paid directly to PMI. For candidates in India, PMI lists it at ₹27,406 for members and ₹55,488 at full price (PMI, PMP® certification, 25 September 2026). Our training fee is ₹16,500 + GST. We’ll guide you through membership and exam booking, and help you weigh the ₹28,082 member saving against the membership fee.
You’re covered by our free re-attend guarantee: attend the full programme and follow our study plan, and if you sit the exam without clearing it, you can re-train with the next batch free within 12 months, with mock exams and doubt-clearing until you are ready.
Both are live and instructor-led. Live online suits working professionals who want zero commute, and our Mumbai classroom (Holiday Inn, Andheri East) suits those who learn best in the room. Same curriculum, same faculty standard, same guarantee.
Yes. Writing the application and handling a possible PMI audit is where most self-study candidates stall. We help you document your experience correctly and prepare audit-ready paperwork.
Yes. Princeton Academy is a verifiable PMI ATP, which means we’re authorised to teach PMI’s official courseware with PMI-vetted instructors. We’re a 30-year institution (founded 1997) with 6,50,000+ professionals trained and 5,000+ corporate clients, not an anonymous online-only brand.
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