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Preparing the CCMP® exam: format, the 21-hour education requirement, QEP™ prep courses compared, study plans and practice questions.
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The Leanova certificate of completion proves you finished the 21-hour QEP course and passed its 50-question exam. A digital badge lets anyone verify it. It is not the CCMP, which only the ACMP awards.
The ACMP Code of Ethics binds members, certificate holders and applicants to five duties: honesty, responsibility, fairness, respect and advancing the discipline. Each comes with an original fictional case, and how complaints are handled.
Annex B of the ACMP Standard re-sorts its processes into nine subject groups, and Annex A names sixteen knowledge areas. Read alongside the five process groups, they make a two-lens CCMP revision method. The Standard publishes no exam weighting.
For the CCMP, a QEP course with 21 hours of instruction is the safest prep. On 7 October 2026 prices ran from US$595 to US$4,500.
To apply for the CCMP®, you need a four-year degree plus 4,200 hours of experience, or 7,000 hours without one, and 21 hours of training from the past 7 years.
Six weeks is enough for a full-time professional to finish the 21 training hours, file the application and sit three 150-question mocks.
The CCMP requires 21 hours of change management training aligned with the ACMP Standard, taught with an instructor present, within the past 7 years.
The CCMP exam has 150 multiple-choice questions and lasts three hours; the ACMP publishes neither a pass mark nor a pass rate (checked on 7 October 2026).
