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PMI-ACP study guide — free revision notes

The complete PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) study library — 24 lessons mapped to every domain and topic in the official exam guide. Free to read, no account needed.

Lessons
24
across 4 domains
Reading time
8 hrs
473 minutes in total
Exam
120 Qs
180 min · pass Pass / fail
Price
Free
no account required

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The PMI-ACP blueprint, domain by domain

PMI publishes exactly what the PMI-ACP tests and how much each part is worth. Here it is — every domain, its weight, the topics inside it, and the lessons that cover them.

Domain 1

Mindset

28%
of the exam

Living the agile mindset: experimenting early, agile values and complexity models, collaborative and psychologically safe teams, transparency, short feedback loops and embracing change. Official weighting 28%.

7 topics in this domain
  • Experiment early
  • Embrace agile mindset
  • Promote collaborative team environment
  • Build transparency
  • Foster psychological safety
  • Shorten feedback loops
  • Embrace change
7 lessons · 129 min of reading · 266 practice questionsStart this domain
Domain 2

Leadership

25%
of the exam

Servant leadership on agile teams: empowering and coaching people, resolving problems and conflict, sharing knowledge, promoting agile principles and keeping a shared vision. Official weighting 25%.

6 topics in this domain
  • Empower teams
  • Facilitate problem resolution
  • Promote knowledge sharing
  • Promote agile mindset principles and practices
  • Promote shared vision and purpose
  • Facilitate conflict management
6 lessons · 118 min of reading · 239 practice questionsStart this domain
Domain 3

Product

19%
of the exam

Owning what gets built: refining and prioritizing the backlog, sizing work, managing increments, visualizing work and defining and measuring value. Official weighting 19%.

4 topics in this domain
  • Refine product backlog
  • Manage increments
  • Visualize work
  • Manage value delivery
4 lessons · 90 min of reading · 184 practice questionsStart this domain
Domain 4

Delivery

28%
of the exam

Delivering with agile approaches: early feedback, agile metrics, impediments and risk, eliminating waste, continuous improvement, customer engagement and flow. Official weighting 28%.

7 topics in this domain
  • Seek early feedback
  • Manage agile metrics
  • Manage impediments and risk
  • Recognize and eliminate waste
  • Perform continuous improvements
  • Actively engage customers
  • Optimize flow
7 lessons · 136 min of reading · 263 practice questionsStart this domain

How to revise for the PMI-ACP

Reading every note front to back is the slowest way to pass. The exam is weighted, so your revision should be too — the blueprint above tells you exactly where the marks are.

Read in weight order, not page order

Mindset carries the most marks on the PMI-ACP, so it earns the most of your attention. Work down the blueprint from the heaviest domain to the lightest rather than starting at domain 1 and grinding forward.

First pass for coverage, second pass for recall

Read each lesson once without stopping to memorise — you are building a map, not a memory. On the second pass, read only the "what's tested" and key-takeaway blocks. If a takeaway surprises you, that lesson goes back on the pile.

Turn takeaways into questions

Cover a lesson's key takeaways and try to say them out loud from the heading alone. Recall you can produce under your own steam is the only recall that survives a timed exam; recognition on a re-read is not the same thing.

Stop reading when practice, not the page count, says so

Finishing the notes is not the goal — scoring is. Move to PMI-ACP practice questions early, then come back to the exact lessons your wrong answers point at. That loop is worth far more than a third read-through.

Beyond the PMI-ACP notes

PMI-ACP cheat sheetEvery key takeaway from these notes on one page, grouped by domain. For the week of the exam.PMI-ACP flashcardsThe same key facts one at a time, answer hidden until you commit — recall practice rather than re-reading.PMI-ACP practice questions952 exam-realistic questions with an explanation on every option. Reading is not the same as knowing.PMI-ACP mock exams120 questions in 180 minutes, scored like the real thing. Sit one before you book.PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) (PMI-ACP) exam overviewExam facts, who it is for, cost and how it fits alongside the other certifications.

PMI-ACP revision notes: your questions

Yes. All 24 PMI-ACP lessons are readable in full without an account and without payment. Creating a free account adds progress tracking, bookmarks and a readiness score — it does not unlock extra reading.

Source

Exam structure, domain weights and scoring on this page come from the official PMI-ACP exam guide.