PMI-SP® — PMI Scheduling Professional — Study Hub

Meet your PMI-SP® home base. This hub focuses on real scheduling work: building a logical schedule model, integrating resources and constraints, baselining, analyzing variance, optimizing with what‑if scenarios, and communicating schedule impact clearly.

For the latest official exam requirements (eligibility, policies, updates), use PMI’s certification page: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/scheduling-sp

This hub’s syllabus is mapped to the PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI‑SP)® Exam Content Outline (©2012).

The syllabus is organized into five domains:

1. Schedule Strategy (14%)
2. Schedule Planning and Development (31%)
3. Schedule Monitoring and Controlling (35%)
4. Schedule Closeout (6%)
5. Stakeholder Communications Management (14%)

Start with Overview for the exam snapshot and what to prioritize.

What you’ll find here

• Overview: what PMI‑SP tests and how to think through questions.
• Study Plan: 30/60/90‑day schedules you can actually follow.
• Syllabus: learning objectives by domain with quick links to targeted practice.
• Cheatsheet: CPM/float, baselines, status rules, EVM schedule metrics, and schedule QA checks.
• Practice: drills and mixed sets in the Mastery Cloud app.
• FAQ: fast answers to common PMI‑SP prep questions.
• Resources: official links + primary references.

Who this is for

PMI‑SP is designed for practitioners who build and maintain schedules and need to make defensible schedule decisions: what drives the date, what is truly critical, what to do when resources are constrained, and how to communicate impact and recovery options.

How to use this hub (simple loop)

1. Read the Overview to understand what the exam rewards.
2. Work through the Syllabus domain-by-domain.
3. Keep the Cheatsheet open while you do drills.
4. Use Practice to build speed, then repair weak objectives using the syllabus.

In this section

• PMI-SP® Cheatsheet — CPM/Float, Baselines, Status Rules, and Schedule QA
  High-yield PMI-SP® cheat sheet: dependency logic, critical path/float, resource constrained scheduling, baselines/change control, status rules, schedule QA checks, and core EVM schedule metrics.
• PMI-SP® FAQ — Eligibility, What to Study, and Prep
  Quick answers to common PMI-SP® questions: eligibility, what’s on the exam, key scheduling concepts, and how to use the study hub effectively.
• PMI-SP® Overview — What’s Tested and How to Prepare
  High-level PMI-SP® overview: what’s covered, domain weights, common pitfalls, and a practical prep loop for project scheduling scenarios.
• PMI-SP® Practice — Topic Drills & Mixed Sets
  Open the practice app for PMI-SP®. Start with targeted drills by domain and task, then move to mixed sets to build scheduling scenario instincts.
• PMI-SP® Resources — Official PMI Links and Primary References
  Official and primary resources for PMI-SP® prep: PMI certification page, the PMI-SP Exam Content Outline, and PMI standards relevant to scheduling and EVM.
• PMI-SP® Study Plan (30 / 60 / 90 Days)
  A practical PMI-SP® study plan: 30-day intensive, 60-day balanced, and 90-day part-time schedules organized by PMI-SP domains.
• PMI-SP® Syllabus — Learning Objectives by Domain
  Blueprint-aligned PMI-SP® learning objectives organized by domain, with quick links to targeted practice for each topic.