How to Play the PMBOK 8th Edition Process Chart Game
If you are preparing for the PMP exam, knowing which process belongs to which Performance Domain is one of the most tested — and most confused — areas. This game makes that knowledge stick fast.
What the Game Does
The PMBOK 8th Edition Process Chart Game presents you with all 40 project management processes as draggable cards. Your job is simple: drag each card into its correct Performance Domain column. All 7 domains are visible on screen at once, so you’re building a mental map of the full framework with every move you make.
PMBOK® 8th Edition
Process Chart Game
Drag each process card into its correct Performance Domain.
Think you know your processes? Prove it — every card has a home. Find them all! 🎯
How to Play
Cards appear in a tray at the top of the screen, 7 at a time. Drag each card down into the domain column where you think it belongs — Governance, Scope, Schedule, Finance, Stakeholders, Resources, or Risk. As you place a card, the next one appears automatically. If you change your mind, just drag a card across to a different domain or click the remove button to send it back to the tray.
Once all 40 cards are placed, hit Check Answers. Your results appear instantly — green for correct, red for wrong. From there you have three options: review the board as-is to study what went where, fix your wrong answers and resubmit, or start a fresh game.
Three modes are available: All 40 Processes for full exam prep, Quick 20 for a short drill, and Hard Mode which removes the colour hints so you’re working from memory alone.
Why It Helps Your PMP Prep
The PMP exam doesn’t just test whether you know what a process is — it tests whether you understand the context it sits in. A question about managing stakeholder expectations will assume you know that it lives in the Stakeholders domain, not Governance. Getting the mapping wrong under exam conditions costs marks.
Repeated active recall — which is exactly what this game trains — is one of the most evidence-backed study methods available. Every time you drag a card and see whether you were right or wrong, your brain encodes the correct association more firmly than it would from reading a list. The Fix & Resubmit feature means you can zero in on your weak spots without starting over, turning each session into a targeted revision drill rather than a generic run-through.
Use it at the start of your study to build the map, and return to it in the final week before your exam to stress-test your recall under pressure.
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