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Program Management Professional (PgMP)

Standardize your team on Program Management Professional (PgMP) with a structured PMI training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
7
Core skills
$800 (Member) / $1,000 (Non-member)
Exam fee (PMI)
Project management team in planning session reviewing Gantt charts
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (PMI)
$800 (Member) / $1,000 (Non-member)
Courses on path
1
Official source
PMI’s official exam page
Exam code
  • PgMP

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
A four-year degree (bachelor's or global equivalent), at least four years of experience with project management and 4 years of experience with program management within the last 15 years
Recommended experience
4-7 years of experience in a program/project management role
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$800 (Member) / $1,000 (Non-member)

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Program Management Professional (PgMP) path takes PgMP.

  1. PgMPProgram Management Professional (PgMP)®
    Exam fee
    $800 (Member) / $1,000 (Non-member)
    Exam length
    4 hours
    Questions
    170
    Passing score
    Not publicly disclosed

    Exam blueprint: PgMP

Skills your team builds

Program ManagementProject ManagementPortfolio ManagementStrategic PlanningLeadershipCommunicationStakeholder Management

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Program Management Professional (PgMP) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    PgMP

    This PgMP training teaches you the strategic leadership tactics required to manage multiple, interrelated projects as a cohesive program. This course prepares you to align complex initiatives with organizational goals, establish robust governance frameworks, and ensure consistent benefit realization. By mastering the five performance domains, you'll transition from tactical project execution to high-level strategic oversight. This PgMP training will help you navigate the rigorous PMI application process and the scenario-based certification exam. Earning your Program Management Professional credential validates the expertise you need for senior leadership roles, such as Program Director or Head of PMO.

    Simona Millham
    81 videos13h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

PMI career ladder

Where Program Management Professional (PgMP) sits in your team's PMI progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Associate level

    1 cert

    Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

    CAPM

  2. Professional level

    3 certs

    Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)

    PMI-PBA

    Program Management Professional (PgMP)

    PgMP

    You are here

    Risk Management Professional (RMP)

    PMI-RMP

Customer outcome

Build PgMP capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Program Management Professional (PgMP) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see PMI skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make PgMP a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on PgMP gives leadership a clear picture of PMI skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Program Management Professional (PgMP)

Exam
  • PgMP

Frequently asked questions about Program Management Professional (PgMP) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Program Management Professional (PgMP) training for their team.

How does Program Management Professional (PgMP) fit into our program governance and compliance documentation?

IT leaders often cite PgMP when documenting that the people running multi-project initiatives are trained in program governance frameworks, benefits management and stakeholder engagement. Team reporting in CBT Nuggets provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can support those governance or audit conversations, while your auditor's control crosswalk decides any formal compliance mapping.

Who on the team should hold Program Management Professional (PgMP), and what can a certified team own?

PgMP fits program managers and senior project leads who coordinate related projects rather than a single delivery. The linked course covers strategic program alignment, benefits management, stakeholder engagement, governance frameworks, life cycle management and program integration, so a certified team can own how IT programs tie to organizational strategy, how benefits are tracked, and how change, finance, procurement, risk, schedule and scope are managed across component projects.

What does CBT Nuggets Program Management Professional (PgMP) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Program Management Professional (PgMP) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to PMI's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Program Management Professional (PgMP) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Program Management Professional (PgMP) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on Program Management Professional (PgMP)?

The linked live courses add up to about 13 hours of video. How long the team takes beyond that depends on each member's starting point in program management and how much time they can give the training alongside their current programs.

What if PMI updates the Program Management Professional (PgMP) exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates PMI course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When PMI restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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