People
33%
−9 pts from 42%
Was 42%
Now 33%
~56 of 170 scored
14 tasks → 8 broader tasks
Still the human exam. Leadership widened: shared vision, stakeholders, customer expectation, strategic communication — not only team dynamics.
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PMP® domain shifts. Why a 2021 study plan fails a 2026 exam.
Effective 9 July 2026, PMI reweighted the Examination Content Outline. The October Ikeja cohort sits this exam — not the 2021 one. Weights below follow PMI’s published outline.
PMP® exam · July 2026 ECO
The domain shift that makes old PMP notes dangerous.
PMI kept the three domain names. It did not keep the weights. From 9 July 2026 the exam you sit is People 33%, Process 41%, Business Environment 26% — published by PMI on the current Examination Content Outline.
Process
41%
−9 pts from 50%
Was 50%
Now 41%
~70 of 170 scored
17 tasks → 10
Still the largest domain. Planning and delivery remain, with more value-based, hybrid and adaptive judgement inside the same questions.
Business Environment
26%
+18 pts from 8%
Was 8%
Now 26%
~44 of 170 scored
4 tasks → 8
The shift that fails old study plans. Governance, compliance, organisational change, benefits, external context. Triple the weight.
| What moved | Until 8 July 2026 | From 9 July 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Domain weights | People 42 · Process 50 · Business 8 | People 33 · Process 41 · Business 26 |
| ECO tasks | 35 tasks | 26 broader tasks |
| Scored items | 175 of 180 | 170 of 180 (10 pretest) |
| Approach mix | ~50% predictive / ~50% agile-hybrid | ~40% predictive; balance adaptive & hybrid |
| AI & sustainability | Not a scored emphasis | In-context scenarios, not isolated definitions |
| Reference | PMBOK® 6/7 era materials | PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition aligned |
What each domain now asks you to do
Tasks consolidated from 35 to 26. Fewer line-items, more integrative questions. Memorising ITTO tables is no longer a strategy.
People · 33%
Lead people in a business context
- · Manage conflict
- · Lead a team
- · Support team performance
- · Empower team members and stakeholders
- · Ensure people are adequately trained
- · Build a shared understanding / common vision
- · Engage and support virtual and cross-functional teams
- · Plan communication and negotiate stakeholder agreements
Process · 41%
Deliver work, protect value
- · Develop an integrated plan and recommend a delivery approach (predictive, adaptive or hybrid)
- · Develop and manage scope
- · Help ensure value-based delivery
- · Plan and manage resources and procurement
- · Plan and manage schedule, cost and quality
- · Evaluate project status with data and metrics
- · Integrate change control and issue resolution
- · Close, transition and capture lessons
Business Environment · 26%
Think like the organisation
- · Define and establish project governance
- · Plan and manage compliance, ethics, safety and regulatory obligations
- · Connect outcomes to organisational strategy
- · Support organisational change
- · Plan for benefits realisation and value delivery
- · Evaluate external business-environment changes
- · Manage impediments, issues and risk in context
- · Use AI and data responsibly; treat sustainability as a planning constraint — in scenarios, not definitions
AI and sustainability are not extra chapters
PMI’s own note: they appear inside project situations. You may see an AI dashboard as an artifact and be asked what a project leader should do with it — evaluate the tool, the trade-off, the risk, the ethics. You will not be asked to name a vendor. Sustainability shows up in planning, quality, compliance and risk decisions that shape how the work is defined.
How Edge Line weights the Ikeja class
Modules 4–6 on the Lagos timetable map directly to People, Process and Business Environment. Mocks and the 1,000+ question bank follow the 33 / 41 / 26 split, not the retired 42 / 50 / 8 split. If you studied with 2021 notes, this is the correction.
Domain names and weights are from PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® Examination Content Outline — July 2026, and PMI’s public “new exam” summary. PMP, PMI and PMBOK are marks of Project Management Institute, Inc. Edge Line® Careers is an exam-preparation provider; this page is not a PMI publication.