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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
A live, instructor-led PMI-ACP® preparation program offered by P.U.L.L. for practitioners working in agile and hybrid teams.
- Cover the current PMI-ACP® domains: Mindset, Leadership, Product and Delivery
- Learn Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP and scaling concepts the way the exam frames them
- Practice on a simulator built around team-level agile scenarios and rationales
- Follow a personalized study roadmap with daily follow-up and coaching calls
- Earn instructor-led agile training hours that can count toward PMI's requirement
- Build a credential that spans frameworks rather than one vendor's method
Overview
What the PMI-ACP® exam expects of you
The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® is PMI's credential for people who work in agile and hybrid teams, and it is framework-neutral by design. Per PMI, the current exam content outline is organized into four domains: Mindset (28%), Leadership (25%), Product (19%) and Delivery (28%). Instead of testing one method, it asks whether you understand agile values and principles deeply enough to choose a sensible practice in a given situation, whether that is Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming or a scaled approach.
This is a program offered by P.U.L.L. for practitioners who already work in or alongside agile teams and want to formalize that experience. Live sessions are built around team situations: a product owner who cannot prioritize, a team whose velocity is unstable, a stakeholder who wants a fixed scope and date, a retrospective that produces no change. You learn how an agile practitioner would respond and, just as importantly, why the exam prefers that response.
You receive a personalized study roadmap, daily follow-up between sessions, coaching calls for the domains that give you trouble, and an exam simulator with timed mocks and explanations. Application support helps you describe your agile project experience and confirm your training hours in the way PMI expects.
Exam at a glance
PMI-ACP® exam facts, per PMI
- Domains
- Mindset (28%); Leadership (25%); Product (19%); Delivery (28%)
- Format
- Computer-based, at a testing center or online proctored, with scenario-based multiple-choice and other item types that are framework-neutral.
- Questions
- 120 questions
- Time
- 180 minutes, with one scheduled 10-minute break
- Languages
- English, with additional language options listed on pmi.org
- Validity
- Three years
- Renewal
- 30 PDUs every three-year cycle, focused on agile topics
Per PMI; confirm current details on pmi.org.
Key features of the P.U.L.L. program
- Live online cohort sessions with an instructor, run with agile ceremonies as teaching tools
- A personalized study roadmap mapped to the four PMI-ACP® domains
- Daily follow-up on practice sets and simulator scores
- Coaching calls for mindset and leadership questions, where most candidates lose marks
- Exam simulator with timed mocks and framework-neutral rationales
- Application support for agile experience descriptions and training hours
- Corporate cohorts for teams adopting or scaling agile
Skills covered
- Agile values and principles
- Servant leadership
- Team facilitation
- Product vision and roadmaps
- Backlog refinement
- User stories and acceptance criteria
- Iteration and release planning
- Kanban and flow metrics
- Lean waste reduction
- Continuous integration and quality
- Retrospectives and improvement
- Scaling agile
Who this is for
Product owners and business analysts
You shape backlogs and priorities and want a deeper grounding in agile product thinking.
Project managers moving to hybrid delivery
Your organization is blending predictive and agile approaches and you need to lead credibly in both.
Developers, testers and designers
You work inside agile teams and want to understand the leadership and product side of the work.
Training optionsLive Online Cohort
Choose how you want to prepare
Every option is taught live by our instructors and follows the same success formula: roadmap, daily follow-up, coaching calls, simulator, support until you pass.
$999 USD
pay in full
- Live, instructor-led cohort
- Personalized study roadmap
- Daily follow-up and coaching calls
- Exam simulator and mock reviews
- Application support
- Recordings for review
Corporate / Group
Custom
dedicated cohort for your team
Request a proposal- Live virtual delivery in your time zone
- Scenario work built around your industry
- Individual roadmaps for every participant
- Support after the classroom ends
PMI exam fees and PMI membership are paid separately to PMI. Program fees are generally not refundable once you enroll; you may transfer once, free, before the first session; if P.U.L.L. cancels the cohort before it starts you choose a full refund or a transfer, and if a material schedule change makes the cohort unworkable for you, you may transfer or be refunded for the undelivered portion. See our conditional pass guarantee and enrollment terms. Questions before you enroll? Email pull@pullacademy.com.
Curriculum
PMI-ACP® curriculum
Agile foundations and exam approach
- The Agile Manifesto values and principles
- How the four domains are weighted and tested
- Framework-neutral thinking across Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP
- Your personalized roadmap and simulator schedule
Mindset
- Empiricism, transparency, inspection and adaptation
- Psychological safety and a culture of learning
- Customer collaboration and responding to change
- Recognizing anti-patterns that look agile but are not
Leadership
- Servant leadership and removing impediments
- Coaching, mentoring and facilitating self-organizing teams
- Conflict, decision-making and team health
- Engaging stakeholders and sponsors in an agile way
Product
- Product vision, strategy and roadmaps
- Backlog creation, refinement and prioritization techniques
- User stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done
- Value-based delivery and incremental releases
Delivery
- Iteration planning, daily coordination and reviews
- Kanban boards, work-in-progress limits and flow metrics
- Estimation, velocity and release forecasting
- Technical practices, quality and continuous improvement
Scaling and hybrid contexts
- Coordinating multiple agile teams
- Agile within predictive governance
- Lean portfolio and value stream concepts
- Metrics for leadership reporting
Simulation and application support
- Timed full-length mock exams and domain gap repair
- Describing agile project experience for the PMI application
- Confirming agile training hours
- Exam-day logistics and scheduling
Eligibility
PMI’s PMI-ACP® requirements
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Per PMI. Requirements change; confirm the current certification handbook on pmi.org.
Practice test
Try five PMI-ACP® questions
Original situational questions in the style of the exam, with instant feedback and the reasoning behind each answer.
Exam and certification
PMI-ACP® questions, answered
Is the PMI-ACP exam about Scrum?
No, per PMI the exam is framework-neutral and draws on Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming and other approaches. Our sessions teach you to answer from agile values and principles rather than from one framework's rulebook.
How many questions are on the PMI-ACP exam and how long do I get?
Per PMI, the PMI-ACP® exam has 120 questions and allows 180 minutes. Our simulator mocks match that length and pacing.
What are the PMI-ACP exam domains?
Per PMI, the current exam is organized into Mindset (28%), Leadership (25%), Product (19%) and Delivery (28%). Mindset and Delivery together make up more than half of the questions.
How much agile experience do I need to apply?
Per PMI, you need a secondary diploma or higher, 21 hours of formal agile training, and ONE of the following: 24 months of agile experience within the past 5 years; a GAC-accredited degree plus 12 months of agile experience; 12 months of agile experience plus a current third-party agile certification (for example Scrum or SAFe) that was earned more than one year ago; or an active PMP® certification. Our application support helps you document the months correctly.
Do the course hours count toward the agile training requirement?
Yes, instructor-led agile training can be counted toward the 21 hours of agile training PMI requires for the PMI-ACP® application, per PMI's guidelines. We provide documentation of your completed hours.
How do I renew the PMI-ACP certification?
Per PMI, the PMI-ACP® is valid for three years and renewed with 30 professional development units in agile topics. Much of your day-to-day agile work and learning can count.
Why prepare with P.U.L.L.
We run the class the agile way
Sessions use backlogs, stand-ups and retrospectives as teaching tools, so you experience the practices while you study them.
Framework-neutral by design
You learn to reason from agile values and principles, which is how the exam is written, instead of memorizing one method's ceremonies.
Coaching where marks are lost
Mindset and leadership questions trip up experienced practitioners most, so coaching calls concentrate on those domains.
Roadmap, follow-up, application
A personalized plan, daily check-ins and help with your experience write-ups mean nothing is left to chance between enrollment and exam day.
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