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Risk Management Professional (RMP)

Standardize your team on Risk Management Professional (RMP) with a structured PMI training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
1
Practice exam
5
Core skills
$520 for PMI members, $670 for non-members
Exam fee (PMI)
Project management team in planning session reviewing Gantt charts
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (PMI)
$520 for PMI members, $670 for non-members
Courses on path
1
Official source
PMI’s official exam page
Exam code
  • PMI-RMP

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree, or global equivalent), 36 months of project risk management experience within the last 5 years, and 40 hours of project risk management education OR a four-year degree, 24 months of project risk management experience within the last 5 years, and 30 hours of project risk management education.
Recommended experience
3-5 years of experience in project risk management
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$520 for PMI members, $670 for non-members

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Risk Management Professional (RMP) path takes PMI-RMP.

  1. PMI-RMPPMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)®Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $520 for PMI members, $670 for non-members
    Exam length
    150 minutes
    Questions
    115
    Passing score
    70-75%

    Exam blueprint: PMI-RMP

Skills your team builds

risk identificationrisk assessmentrisk mitigationproject managementstrategic planning

Training path

Your team's training path

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

  1. Start here · primary course

    PMI-RMP

    Earn the advanced PMI-RMP certification and become the kind of project leader who anticipates risk before it strikes. This PMI-RMP training satisfies PMI's required 30 hours of risk management education, and will teach you to identify and mitigate threats to your project’s success using proven risk management frameworks from the Project Management Institute. Taught by seasoned risk management expert Bob Mahler, this training helps you think ahead, act decisively, and confidently prepare for the PMI-RMP while positioning yourself for high-level project and risk management roles.

    Bob Mahler
    249 videos30h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

PMI career ladder

Where Risk Management Professional (RMP) 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

    Risk Management Professional (RMP)

    PMI-RMP

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Customer outcome

Build RMP capability across the whole team, not one engineer

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

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Team capability

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

Standardizing your team on RMP 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: Risk Management Professional (RMP)

Exam
  • PMI-RMP

Frequently asked questions about Risk Management Professional (RMP) training

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

How does the PMI-RMP fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite the PMI-RMP when documenting that the people who own project risk registers and response plans have validated, structured risk management skills. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can serve as training evidence. The auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to any formal framework requirement.

Who on the team should hold the PMI-RMP, and what can a certified team own?

The PMI-RMP suits experienced project managers, risk managers and leads who run high-stakes IT initiatives. The linked course follows the full risk lifecycle, from defining a risk management strategy and building a risk management plan integrated with other project plans, through risk identification and qualitative and quantitative analysis workshops, to planning, implementing and monitoring risk responses. A certified team can own that end-to-end risk process for projects across the portfolio.

What does CBT Nuggets Risk Management Professional (RMP) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Risk Management Professional (RMP) 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 Risk Management Professional (RMP) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Risk Management Professional (RMP) 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 the PMI-RMP?

The linked CBT Nuggets training runs about 30 hours of video across the live courses. Actual time to certify depends on each team member's starting point, including prior project management and risk analysis experience, and on how much time is set aside for the training.

What if PMI updates the Risk Management Professional (RMP) 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.

Ready to Risk Management Professional (RMP)-certify your team?

Build Risk Management Professional (RMP) capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track Risk Management Professional (RMP) training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.

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