You can download the PMBOK Guide Seventh Edition from the PMI website for free if you are a PMI member. The Seventh Edition is the latest version of the PMBOK Guide. It is a must-have guide for project-management professionals or anyone who aspires to become a PMP.
You can visit pmi.org and log in using your credentials from the “Standards & Publications” section afterward. The PMI will ask you to enter the password again to download the guide. Once you validate your password, you can download the PMBOK Guide in PDF format.
The below is the direct download Link to the PMBOK Guide in PDF (for PMI Members)
Download the PMBOK Guide in PDF form
Below is the purchase link to the PMBOK Guide in hardcover (from Amazon)
Buy the PMBOK Guide Seventh Edition
Step-by-Step Guide to Download the PMBOK Guide (PDF)
Now, I will show you how you can download the PMBOK Guide in PDF format for free from the PMI website.
Visit pmi.org and click on log in.
Enter your user ID and password.
After logging in, click on “Standards & Publications.”
Then click on “Go to PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition.”
Now, you can select the language and click on download.
After clicking the “Download” button, you will be asked to enter your password again, and your download will begin.
Note: My PMI membership has expired. That is why the above button is greyed out, and I see the message “Join PMI.”
Downloading the PMBOK Guide requires a paid membership. You can download the PMBOK Guide as many times as you want once you have subscribed to the paid PMI membership and for as long as you maintain your membership with the PMI.
Opening an account on PMI.org and getting a PMI membership are different. Anybody can open a free account on the PMI website, but you must pay 139 USD to join PMI. I have written this blog post because many aspiring PMPs thought they could download the PMBOK Guide for free after opening an account with the site. So, they opened an account and tried to download the PMBOK Guide, and when they failed, they contacted me about the issue.
Summary
You can download the latest version of the PMBOK Guide for free after joining the PMI. You can access the guide and download all foundation standards, practice standards, and frameworks—which may save you hundreds of dollars!
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I am Mohammad Fahad Usmani, B.E. PMP, PMI-RMP. I have been blogging on project management topics since 2011. To date, thousands of professionals have passed the PMP exam using my resources.
I have submitted my application for the PMP exam, and immanently after that I became a PMI member and paid my PMI registration fees, where the membership was confirmed and activated .
Now, and if my application is accepted after PMI review (withing 5 days), Will I be paying the discounted fees of $405 or the full fees of $550, please advise.
For a PMI member, is it possible to download the PMBOK Guide if the version is revised?
Yes, Naren. You can download it as long as you are a PMI member.
I paid 139$ but unable getting link for download PMBOk, please share steps, appreciate your response
Login to you PMI account and click on below link:
http://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok
So, I became a PMI member first by paying $139 and then paid the PMI-member fee to take the PMP exam. It ends up being slightly cheaper than if you were to pay the full $555 amount. Now, for whatever reason, I’m not able to click on the link to download the pdf version of the PMBOK. Not sure what the problem is here…
You will be able to do so. Log out and login again. If still not able to download it, try another browser.
If you apply for the PMP exam before becoming a PMI member you will have to pay 555 USD exam fee. Afterwards if you join PMI and local chapter, you will have pay this amount in full and you will not get any concession on the PMP exam fee which you already have submitted.
Hello , If someone has paid complete non-member fee of 555$ then he will not become member of PMI and person has to again pay 129$+10$ (optional for local chapters). Is this correct or person paying as non-member paying 555$ become member.
You can download material and read lot of online material but not if you are just the " member of the website ", you will have to pay US $ 129 to be full fledged member of PMI .You will get lots of information, discounts,. including that on the PMP exam fee .You will get periodicals by email or snail mail and participate in lots of activity happening around the project management body of Knowledge. It is more worth than the cost you pay.
Yes, you're right. I have updated the blog post to reflect it.
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