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Risk Management Professional (RMP)

Standardize your team on Risk Management Professional (RMP) with a structured PMI training path — virtual labs and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets training subscription.

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Course
$520 USD for PMI members, $670 USD for non-members
Exam cost
5
Core skills
Project management team in planning session reviewing Gantt charts
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam cost
$520 USD for PMI members, $670 USD for non-members
Courses on path
1
Official source
Vendor cert page
Exam code
  • PMI-RMP

Exam datasheet

Exam length
150 minutes
Questions
115
Passing score
70-75%
Prerequisites
Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree, or global equivalent), 36 months of project risk management experience within the last 5 years, and 40 hours of project risk management education OR a four-year degree, 24 months of project risk management experience within the last 5 years, and 30 hours of project risk management education.
Recommended experience
3-5 years of experience in project risk management
Recertification
3 years
Hiring-market salary
90,000 - 120,000 USD
Certified professionals
Over 6,000
Testing centerExam blueprint

Public hiring-market data — not a CBT Nuggets guarantee.

Skills your team builds

risk identificationrisk assessmentrisk mitigationproject managementstrategic planning

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Risk Management Professional (RMP) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    PMI-RMP

    Earn the advanced PMI-RMP certification and become the kind of project leader who anticipates risk before it strikes. This PMI-RMP training satisfies PMI's required 30 hours of risk management education, and will teach you to identify and mitigate threats to your project’s success using proven risk management frameworks from the Project Management Institute. Taught by seasoned risk management expert Bob Mahler, this training helps you think ahead, act decisively, and confidently prepare for the PMI-RMP while positioning yourself for high-level project and risk management roles.

    Bob Mahler
    249 videos30h
    Open course

Every certification includes

Expert-led video training
Virtual labs
Certification practice exams
Per-team completion reporting

PMI career ladder

Where Risk Management Professional (RMP) sits in your team's PMI progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Professional level

    4 certs

    Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

    CAPM

    Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)

    PMI-PBA

    Program Management Professional (PgMP)

    PgMP

    Risk Management Professional (RMP)

    PMI-RMP

    You are here
Customer outcome

Make RMP a coverage number your auditor can quote

Risk Management Professional (RMP) certified engineers are easy to count and easy to prove. CBT Nuggets bundles the prep into a single team playlist so leadership sees who's on the path, who finished, and who's exam-ready — without spreadsheets.

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1 path
from foundation to credential — assigned and tracked as one playlist

Coverage proof

Make RMP a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on RMP gives leadership and auditors a coverage number they can quote — and gives PMI incident response a baseline of capability you can predict instead of hoping for.

Credential: Risk Management Professional (RMP)

Exam
  • PMI-RMP

Frequently asked questions about Risk Management Professional (RMP) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Risk Management Professional (RMP) training for their team.

How does Risk Management Professional (RMP) fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Team reporting in CBT Nuggets documents assigned training, completion, and certification coverage for internal governance or external audit conversations. Pair the Risk Management Professional (RMP) path with your auditor's control crosswalk for the formal compliance mapping your specific framework requires.

What's the ROI of certifying our team on Risk Management Professional (RMP)?

IT Directors typically frame Risk Management Professional (RMP) ROI in operational terms — faster troubleshooting, defensible role coverage, predictable onboarding velocity, and audit-ready training documentation. The metrics that matter aren't seat-time or completion percentages; they're mean time to resolve, time-to-productivity for new PMI hires, and certification coverage by role.

How does CBT Nuggets Risk Management Professional (RMP) training compare to Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, or Udemy Business?

CBT Nuggets Risk Management Professional (RMP) courses are built by named expert trainers (not crowd-sourced contributors), include hands-on virtual labs in many courses, and include certification practice exams mapped to the vendor's published exam objectives. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion, and exam-readiness per engineer — the surface managers actually use to manage team training programs. See /compare for the full feature comparison.

How do I assign and track Risk Management Professional (RMP) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers create a training playlist (one or more courses on the Risk Management Professional (RMP) path), assign it to specific engineers or role groups, and track completion + practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can export for monthly leadership reviews or quarterly compliance reporting. No spreadsheet, no per-engineer license fiddling.

How long does it take to certify a team on Risk Management Professional (RMP)?

Depends on the cert and the team's starting baseline. Entry-level PMI certs typically run 4–6 weeks per engineer from a cold start; associate-level certs run 8–12 weeks; professional/expert tracks can run 3–6 months. Most teams budget the full quarter for any associate-level certification so engineers have time to actually apply the lab work before the exam.

What if PMI updates the Risk Management Professional (RMP) exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates PMI course content as exam objectives refresh — typically within weeks of the vendor's release. When PMI restructures or renames a track (a common pattern), the assigned training paths stay aligned with the same team training plan; managers don't have to rebuild the playlist from scratch. The training stays current without anyone losing their certification status mid-stream.

Ready to Risk Management Professional (RMP)-certify your team?

Build Risk Management Professional (RMP) capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT Directors plan and track Risk Management Professional (RMP) training across the team — labs, practice exams, and reporting included.

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