PMI-RMP Syllabus & Domain Map

Use this page as the official-domain coverage map for PMI-RMP®. The chapter structure below follows PMI’s current exam content outline, and predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches can appear across all five domains.

Official domains and weights

• Risk Strategy and Planning - 22%
• Risk Identification - 23%
• Risk Analysis - 23%
• Risk Response - 13%
• Monitor and Close Risks - 19%

What each domain covers

• Risk Strategy and Planning: preliminary document analysis, project environment, appetite, thresholds, strategy, planning artifacts, and stakeholder engagement
• Risk Identification: structured identification exercises, assumption and constraint analysis, triggers, thresholds, and register quality
• Risk Analysis: qualitative prioritization, quantitative methods, and the interpretation of threats, opportunities, complexity, and compliance impact
• Risk Response: response strategy selection, ownership, contingency logic, implementation, and residual or secondary risk effects
• Monitor and Close Risks: performance data, variance, residual risk monitoring, updates to project documents, reporting, and closeout discipline

How to use this hub

1. Use the domain chapters as the main educational guide.
2. Use the Study Plan if you want pacing.
3. Use the Cheat Sheet for formulas and fast reminders.
4. Move to Practice after each domain or after any weak cluster.
5. Use Resources for the official PMI source list.

If PMI updates the exam outline later, treat Resources as the place to verify the live official source.