PMP Study Guide: 184 Flashcards on the Exam Domains, Knowledge Areas and PDU Rules
What a 184-card PMP deck really teaches: the three exam domains, eligibility and PDU rules, the retired process groups to suspend, and the cards to delete.
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The deck is called PMP: All Knowledge Areas, but after reading all 184 cards the honest description is different: this is a deck about the PMP credential — the exam format, the eligibility rules, the PDU cycle — with the ten Knowledge Areas reduced to one-line definitions. Know that before you start and it is a genuinely useful deck for the administrative half of your preparation. Expect earned value formulas and you will be stuck.
Study this deck: PMP: All Knowledge Areas
1 / 10What does PMP stand for?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Eight representative cards
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| What are the three domains tested since January 2021? | People (42%), Process (50%), Business Environment (8%) |
| How many questions are on the PMP exam? | 180 multiple-choice questions |
| How many of the 180 are actually scored? | 175 (5 are unscored sample questions, placed randomly) |
| How long do you have to complete the exam? | 230 minutes, with two 10-minute breaks included in that time |
| What are the prerequisites with a four-year degree? | 36 months leading projects within the past 8 years + 35 hours of PM education or CAPM |
| What are the ten Knowledge Areas? | Integration, Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholder |
| How many PDUs are required to maintain certification? | 60 PDUs over a three-year cycle |
| What is the PMI Talent Triangle? | Technical, leadership, and strategic and business management expertise |
The vocabulary you will own
ECO (Examination Content Outline) and its 4–5 year revision cycle, PMBOK Guide, CAPM, CCR, PDU, R.E.P., Pearson VUE, the four proficiency ratings (Above Target, Target, Below Target, Needs Improvement), the 35-hour education requirement, the 60-month path for a high school diploma, one-year eligibility windows, application audits, three retakes per eligibility year, inputs / tools and techniques / outputs, the five retired process groups with their old weightings, predictive versus agile versus hybrid, and the PRINCE2 comparison by region.
Delete these cards before your first review
Seven cards have no answer on the back. They say "check PMI's website for current pricing", "check PMI's current retake policy", "check current policy on PDU carryover", "check with Pearson VUE". A flashcard that answers go look it up trains nothing and steals a slot in your queue — look those five facts up once, write the real numbers on the backs, or delete the cards.
Tip 1 — quarantine the pre-2021 material
Cards 13 to 19 and 93 to 98 teach the five process groups (Initiating 13%, Planning 24%, Executing 31%, Monitoring and Controlling 25%, Closing 7%) and the 49 processes. That structure was retired in January 2021 — the deck says so itself on card 114. It is still worth knowing as background, but suspend those thirteen cards until you have the three current domains automatic, or you will answer exam-style questions from the old map. Same for the dated statistics: the 1,036,368 certified professionals and 314 chapters are July 2020 figures, and card 80 anchors the deck to PMBOK 6th Edition while the 7th Edition has been out since 2021 and the exam is written against the ECO, not a PMBOK edition.
Tip 2 — collapse the duplicates, then write what is missing
Cards 25–35 define the ten Knowledge Areas; cards 99–107 ask the same ten questions in different words. Keep one set. That frees room for what no card in the deck covers: earned value (CV, SV, CPI, SPI, EAC), critical path and float, the WBS, contract types (FFP, CPFF, T&M), the change control board and the risk register. Those are scenario-question fuel, and 184 cards of exam trivia will not supply them.
Find the deck in Flip It as PMP: All Knowledge Areas, code LW7248.
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