Training
PMP® Exam Prep Cohort: 36 Live Hours With an Instructor Who Has Taught PMP® Exam Prep Since 2012
Six weeks. Twelve live sessions. A self-paced track that gives you your 35 contact hours. One instructor the whole way through. $695.
EnrollmentWho it's for
You've led projects, you want the credential, and you don't want to sit through 35 hours of slide reading to get it. You want someone who'll teach you how PMI thinks, so you can answer the questions they actually ask, not the ones you wish they asked.
What you get
Twelve live sessions
12 live online sessions, 3 hours each, twice a week for six weeks. Taught live by me, recorded for anyone who misses one.
The self-paced course
BridgeGap's self-paced exam prep course: 35 hours of structured study across 14 modules, mapped to PMI's 2026 PMP® Exam Content Outline, with section-level reading assignments from the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition. It opens the day you enroll, by act: Act I at once, and each later act before the live session that works it, with the whole track open from 7 January. It runs at your pace. Completing it earns your certificate of completion for 35 hours of project management education, which is the proof PMI asks for.
Two tools
The Tailoring Decision Model and the Judgment Codex: two tools built to make exam questions predictable instead of mysterious.
Practice and a full mock
Practice question sets after every session, written in the exam's current question formats, and a full-length timed mock in week six, taken at home: 180 questions in 240 minutes, the same as the real exam.
An application workshop
How to check your experience against PMI's 10-year window and write your own experience summaries clearly and accurately.
A second cohort if you need it
If you don't pass on your first attempt, sit the next cohort free.
Samples
See what it looks like
One lesson screen from the self-paced course and one question from the timed mock.
Three questions before you choose an approach
- How stable are the requirements? If they can be settled up front, planning them up front pays off. If they'll only emerge through use, it doesn't.
- How costly is a change once the work is built? The higher the cost of a late change, the more the design has to be right before the work starts.
- Can the customer use part of it early? If a partial delivery has real value, short cycles and early feedback become possible.
On the exam: look for these clues in the scenario before you read the answers. The scenario usually tells you which approach fits.
Reading for this lesson: PMBOK Guide 8th Edition, The Standard, section 4.3
Match each project to the delivery approach that fits it best.
See the answer and the reasoning
Runway: predictive. Stable requirements and a high cost of late change favor planning up front.
App: adaptive. Requirements emerge through use, and each release can have value on its own.
Production line: hybrid. One part of the work is fixed and costly to change, and the other part learns from feedback.
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How the 35 hours work
This is not a PMI Authorized Training Partner course and I don't use PMI's licensed material. The course is BridgeGap's own. Your 35 contact hours come from completing the self-paced track. PMI accepts self-paced training from any organization, but from 1 December 2026 it accepts live classes only from Authorized Training Partners, registered providers in China and eligible accredited academic programs, so the live sessions here don't count toward the 35. The live sessions are where you learn to pass; the self-paced track is what satisfies the application requirement. Finish the hours before you submit your application. They don't expire, so you can apply when you're ready.
If you already hold an active CAPM® certification, you don't need the 35 hours at all. If you already hold the PMP certification, the live sessions count toward renewal: 36 PDUs if you attend all twelve, under PMI's Courses or Training category. You get a letter of attendance with a suggested split across PMI's three skill areas (Ways of Working, Power Skills, Business Acumen).
Six weeks
What the live sessions cover
The live sessions follow the project manager's decision journey rather than the book's chapter order. Each week pairs a judgment session with an application session.
- Week 1 Sessions 1, 2
Why the project exists: how the exam thinks, value and strategy, governance and compliance, and the Judgment Codex
- Week 2 Sessions 3, 4
How it should be delivered: predictive, adaptive or hybrid through the Tailoring Decision Model, then launching the project and forming the team
- Week 3 Sessions 5, 6
Planning it as a system, part one: scope and value-based delivery, schedule and finance
- Week 4 Sessions 7, 8
Planning it as a system, part two: resources, procurement, quality, and risk
- Week 5 Sessions 9, 10
Leading it through delivery: leading the team and resolving conflict, then stakeholders, communication, and knowledge transfer. A third of the exam.
- Week 6 Sessions 11, 12
Finishing well: executing, measuring and adapting, change control, value and closure. Then mock review by domain, application workshop, exam-day plan
Dates and price
First cohort
Dates
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12 January to 18 February 2027, 4:30 to 7:30 pm Mountain Time (UTC-7). Every session is recorded. The self-paced track opens the day you enroll, Act I first and the rest as each act is released, so you can start the reading before the live sessions begin.
Enrollment closes 5 January 2027 or when the cohort reaches 40, whichever comes first.
Price
$695 for the live cohort and the self-paced track. No kit fee, no platform fee, no upsell. Paid to PMI separately: the exam fee and, if you want it, PMI membership. The readings use the PMBOK Guide 8th Edition, which PMI members download free; non-members buy it from PMI.
About the instructor
Jason D. Farley has taught project management since 2012, PMP exam preparation for many of those years, and holds the PMP certification. He's a systems engineer by background and runs BridgeGap Consulting. He built this course to teach the part most preparation leaves to you: knowing what PMI believes is one thing, and using it under a clock is another.
We train because we do. BridgeGap teaches project management because we practice it for clients, and if that ever stops being true, we'll stop teaching it. If you'd rather have the work done than learn to do it, we do that too. See what we do
Questions people ask
- Is this an ATP course?
- No. The 35 hours come from the self-paced track, not the live sessions. See above.
- What if I can't make a live session?
- Watch the recording. Practice sets and the mock work either way.
- I'm not in a Mountain Time zone.
- Sessions are recorded. Live attendance is better, but a cohort from anywhere works.
- How much time outside the sessions?
- Plan on 6 to 8 hours a week across the self-paced track and practice sets.
- What if I don't pass?
- Sit the next cohort free.
PMP, CAPM and PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. BridgeGap Consulting is not affiliated with the Project Management Institute.
Enroll
Enrollment opens 24 November 2026.
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