PMI CD-P study guide
PMI CD-P · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The PMI Citizen Developer Practitioner (CD-P) is a PMI certification aimed at people who build applications and automations on low-code or no-code platforms outside a formal IT engineering role. This page is an independent study resource. The PMI CD-P study guide has 5 sections and about 1,947 words.
01Business Problem Framing and Discovery
This domain tests whether you can decide what to build before touching a platform: how to frame a business problem, quantify it and scope a citizen-development solution the business and IT can both live with. Expect questions on process discovery, value hypotheses, requirements elicitation and build/no-build decisions.
374 words, about 2 min02Citizen Development Platform and Tooling
This domain tests platform literacy: what low-code and no-code tools can and cannot do, how to match capability to problem type, and when platform limits mean the work belongs with professional developers. Questions tend to target connectors, environments, licensing, data limits and reuse.
394 words, about 2 min03Application Design and Build
This domain tests whether you can turn agreed requirements into a working, maintainable app: data model, screens, roles, rules and build hygiene. Expect questions on data modeling, least-privilege access, validation, UX for the process worker and iterative delivery.
390 words, about 2 min04Testing, Quality and Deployment
This domain tests whether you can prove an app works, get it adopted and support it after release. Expect questions on test levels, user acceptance testing, data handling in test, release promotion, rollback and hypercare.
390 words, about 2 min05Governance, Risk and Collaboration with IT
This domain tests guardrails: how to let citizen developers move quickly without creating unmanaged risk. Expect questions on risk tiering, data classification, data loss prevention, app inventory, lifecycle ownership and working with IT as a partner rather than a gatekeeper.
399 words, about 2 min