Live CCMP cohort: what three days of training look like, exam drills included
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What happens in a three-day live CCMP course?
Three consecutive days, 8:30 to 17:00 Eastern Time, with an instructor on Teams or Google Meet, and the 21 QEP hours (code Q000609) that the ACMP asks for before an application.
The course page for CCMP Exam Prep Live Online lists US$795 on 7 October 2026 (list price US$1,880), with the self-paced course included. The sessions are in English, and French and Spanish versions are also offered. The ACMP registry lists this 21-hour course as QEP Live Online (Microsoft Teams, in English, Spanish and French), with 45 modules tied to the five phases and nine competency areas of the Standard and the VitaNova Health case study, seen on 7 October 2026. We follow Leanova Academy on this site, and what we describe below comes from its published facts plus our own reading of the ACMP Standard. Leanova does not publish a minute-by-minute agenda in the material we hold, so the day split in this article is our mapping, a way to see how the five process groups fit three days.
The ACMP’s Standard for Change Management is the text the exam is built on. Participants who read its process groups before day one find the discussion easier to follow, since each scenario question maps to one of the groups.
Take Amira Haddad, a fictional programme manager in Montréal with five years of project and transformation work. She has registered for a Tuesday-to-Thursday cohort and plans to apply to the ACMP the following month. Her case is invented, but the constraints are the ACMP’s own: experience hours with no time limit, training completed within the past seven years, and an exam of 150 multiple-choice questions in three hours.
The five process groups mapped onto three days
Five process groups across three days means one to two groups per day, with the first day on evaluation and strategy, the second on planning and execution, and the third on closing the effort and drilling the exam.
On the first day Amira would start with the Standard’s own vocabulary and move through the evaluation of change impact and organisational readiness, then the formulation of a change strategy. Questions at this stage ask for a judgement: given a project with a rushed deadline and a team that is already tired, what do you assess first? The right answer comes from the Standard’s sequence, not from a favourite model.
The second day belongs to the plan and its execution. A change management plan holds the communications, leadership engagement, training and resistance work, and a live format lets you stop the instructor on any of them. The third morning completes the effort, which means transition, reinforcement and lessons learned, and the afternoon turns to exam technique. Our suggested split looks like this.
| Day | Process groups from the Standard | Exam work |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Evaluate change impact and readiness; formulate the strategy | Vocabulary, first scenario questions |
| Day 2 | Develop the plan; execute the plan | Scenario questions on plans and resistance |
| Day 3 | Close the change management effort | Timed drills, review of weak areas |
The exam drills: timed sets of scenario questions
Drills are timed sets of multiple-choice scenario questions, built to match the real exam of 150 questions in three hours, which gives an average of 72 seconds per question.
Leanova sells a separate practice pack of 450 questions in three 150-question mock exams for US$95 (list US$160), with one year of access. A live cohort and a mock pack work together: the cohort gives the reasoning, the pack gives the repetitions. Here is the kind of item Amira would meet, written by us for this article. A senior executive asks for an announcement to all 400 staff before the impact assessment is finished. The answer that follows the Standard completes the assessment and tailors the message, not a sentence of enthusiasm sent to everyone.
The exam itself is delivered by online proctoring through Kryterion or at a Kryterion test centre, with up to three attempts within a year. The ACMP does not publish a pass mark or a pass rate, so no course can promise a result. What a cohort can offer is a way to find out where you hesitate before you pay the application fee. After each timed set, we would sort the missed questions by process group, because a cluster of errors in one group says more than a total score does. Two or three passes of that kind fill the evening of day three and the weeks that follow.
Live or self-paced: weighing the US$200 gap
Live helps people who stall alone; self-paced helps people who prefer their own rhythm. On 7 October 2026 the gap was US$200, US$795 live against US$595 for the self-paced version.
The self-paced course has 45 modules, one year of access and English subtitles, and the live price includes it, so a live participant leaves with both. For a first credential with three years of experience, we would choose live if you cannot hold yourself to a schedule, and self-paced if you can. Both carry the 21 hours and a 14-day money-back guarantee. Leanova’s Trustpilot score was 4.7 out of 5 from 39 reviews that day.
When should you take the exam after the cohort?
Within a few weeks of the cohort, while the reasoning is fresh, and always inside the seven-year window that the ACMP applies to the 21 hours of training.
The ACMP’s exam preparation page sets up to three attempts within a year, and the eligibility page sets the seven-year limit on the training. Our practical advice follows from that. Apply after the cohort, book a date four to six weeks out, and use the mock exams in between. A participant who also plans the next credential can read about the MCMP live course, which needs an active CCMP first. To compare cohorts from other providers, see the live online programmes we compared.
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