What is the PMP Exam Passing Score?

By Cornelius Fichtner, PMP The Project Management PrepCast Page 1/1 The PMP exam is a 4-hour multiple choice exam. In these 4 hours, you are going to have to answer 200 questions. Each question is either scenario based or knowledge based and has 4 possible answers - A, B, C or D. You can only select one answer. Out of these 200 questions, 25 are considered "pretest questions". These pretest questions do not affect your score. The PMI uses them as an effective and legitimate way for testing the questions. In other words: new questions for the exam are first tried out in this way, to see how well they work. The pretest questions are randomly placed throughout the exam. So you start out with 200 questions minus the 25 pretest questions which leaves 175 questions. Out of these, you must answer 106 correctly. That is 61%. If you would like more details on this, then I recommend that you read the PMP Credentials Handbook which you can find at this location: http://www.pmi.org/PDF/PDC_PMPHandbook.pdf.

Cornelius Fichtner, PMP is the host of The Project Management Podcast at www.thepmpodcast.com and The Project Management PrepCast, the first true PMP Podcast at www.pmprepcast.com. Cornelius worked as a Project Manager in his native Switzerland, in Germany and in the USA for the last 17 years. He received his PMP credential in April 2004. He has led projects for a management consulting company, a national retailer and an internet startup company. Currently, Cornelius works as a project manager for one of the oldest financial service providers in the USA. His passions are project management methodologies, PMOs and helping others pass the PMP Exam. In addition to hosting the PrepCast, he is an instructor for the PMP Workshop and the 2007 Chair of his local PMI chapter. He currently lives in Silverado, California, USA with his wife and their two computers.
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