Which exam?
PMP vs PRINCE2
The most geographic choice in certification. PMP is a US-originated competence standard; PRINCE2 is a UK-originated method. Which one helps you depends heavily on where you intend to work.
PMI
PMP: Project Management Professional
10 free questions
Choose this if you are in or targeting North America, or a multinational. PMP tests judgement across predictive, agile and hybrid approaches, and requires documented leadership experience to sit at all.
Practise PMPPRINCE2
PRINCE2-Foundation: PRINCE2 Foundation
10 free questions
Choose this if you are in the UK, Europe, Australia or working with public-sector clients, where PRINCE2 is often named explicitly in tenders. Foundation has no experience requirement, so you can hold it far sooner.
Practise PRINCE2-Foundation
Our recommendation
Look at ten job adverts in your market and count which acronym appears. In UK government and much of Europe that will be PRINCE2; in the US it will be PMP almost every time. They are complementary, and plenty of people hold both.
What each exam covers
PMP: Project Management Professional
PMP is the project management credential most employers recognise, and it changed substantially in July 2026 when PMI aligned it to the PMBOK Guide 8th Edition — any preparation quoting the old People 42% / Process 50% / Business Environment 8% split is out of date. The current weighting is Process 41%, People 33% and Business Environment 26%. The exam is 180 questions in four hours with two ten-minute breaks, and it now opens with a case-study section before the independent questions; formats include drag-and-drop and hands-on practicum items alongside multiple choice. Eligibility is tiered by education — three years leading projects with a bachelor's, five with upper-secondary — plus 35 hours of project management training, waived if you hold an active CAPM.
PRINCE2-Foundation: PRINCE2 Foundation
PRINCE2 Foundation is one of the PRINCE2 tests covered here. PRINCE2 belongs to PeopleCert, which acquired AXELOS in 2021, and the name now covers several formerly separate schemes: core PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, and the rebranded MSP and MoP programmes now called PRINCE2 Programme Management and Portfolio Management. Version 7 arrived in 2023 and changed more than the content. Foundation is 60 questions in 60 minutes, closed book; Practitioner is 56 questions worth 70 marks in 150 minutes, open book; and both now pass at 60%, where the 2017 edition used 55% and a different question structure — so older practice figures no longer describe the paper you will sit.
Common questions
- PMP vs PRINCE2 — which is harder?
- Look at ten job adverts in your market and count which acronym appears. In UK government and much of Europe that will be PRINCE2; in the US it will be PMP almost every time. They are complementary, and plenty of people hold both.
- Can I practise both PMP: Project Management Professional and PRINCE2-Foundation: PRINCE2 Foundation?
- Yes. Each opens with 10 free questions. A single exam is a one-time $19.99 for 30 days, and full access at $39.99 a month covers both and every other exam in the catalogue.
- Is there a timed practice test for each?
- Yes — 65 questions in 130 minutes on both, scored the moment you finish, so you can compare how ready you are for each before committing to one.
Practise both before you decide
10 free questions on each, no card and no account. Full access at $39.99 a month covers both and everything else.