You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
GITLABGitLab Certified Agile Portfolio Management Associate
The GitLab Agile Project Management Associate certification validates your ability to plan, track, and deliver projects using GitLab's built-in agile planning tools. It is designed for project managers, product managers, and team leads who want to streamline workflows, improve collaboration, and increase delivery predictability. Earning this credential demonstrates that you can leverage GitLab to manage epics, milestones, and issues effectively in a DevOps environment.
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryGitLab Learn
Free questions290
The certification
What GitLab Certified Agile Portfolio Management Associate proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
5domains
14objectives
77concepts
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The GitLab Agile Project Management Associate certification confirms that you can apply agile principles and practices within the GitLab platform to manage projects from ideation to delivery. It focuses on the practical use of GitLab's planning features—such as epics, milestones, issues, and boards—to organize work, track progress, and communicate status across teams.
This certification is ideal for professionals who are responsible for planning and delivering projects in a DevOps context. It goes beyond basic tool familiarity, emphasizing how to configure and use GitLab to support agile ceremonies, maintain a single source of truth, and enable continuous improvement. By earning this credential, you show that you can help your team ship value faster and with greater transparency.
Who it’s for
This certification is for project managers, program managers, product managers, and team leads who use GitLab to plan and deliver projects. It is also valuable for agile coaches and Scrum Masters who want to deepen their knowledge of GitLab's planning capabilities. You should have hands-on experience with GitLab's project management features and a solid understanding of agile methodologies. The certification is designed for practitioners who are ready to move beyond basic usage and apply best practices for managing work in a DevOps environment.
Recommended experience
At least six months of hands-on experience using GitLab for project management, including creating and managing issues, milestones, and epics. Experience planning and tracking projects using GitLab issues and boards; Familiarity with agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban; Understanding of GitLab's hierarchy: epics, milestones, issues, and tasks; Ability to use GitLab reports and analytics to monitor progress
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective GitLab measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official GitLab exam outline · See the source
Organizational Structure
- Configure groups, subgroups, and projects
- Set up the organizational hierarchy for portfolio management
Issue Lifecycle Management
- Manage issue lifecycles with labels
- Configure issue dependencies
- Track issue status across the workflow
Visual Workflows with Boards
- Create and configure issue boards
- Set up board lists and workflows
- Visualize work in progress
Strategic Planning with Epics and Roadmaps
- Plan work with epics
- Build and use roadmaps
- Organize portfolio-level planning
Team Velocity and Tracking
- Track team velocity
- Use milestones and burndown charts
- Report on delivery progress
On the day
The exam itself
Everything GitLab publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
CertificationGitLab Certified Agile Portfolio Management Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryGitLab Learn
LanguagesEnglish
Certification levelAssociate
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path GitLab lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to GitLab Certified Agile Portfolio Management Associate
Credential earnedGitLab Certified Agile Portfolio Management Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
GitLab certifications do not require renewal. Once earned, the credential remains valid. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. GitLab maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by GitLab
Exam registration
Register for the exam through GitLab Learn, GitLab’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official GitLab certification page for exam policies and requirements.
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And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
How does this certification relate to the GitLab Certified Agile Portfolio Management exam?
The Agile Project Management Associate certification focuses on project-level planning and execution, while the Agile Portfolio Management exam covers portfolio-level strategy and prioritization. They are separate credentials, and earning one does not require the other.
Is there a higher-level GitLab certification that builds on this one?
GitLab offers a Professional-level certification track, but the Agile Project Management Associate is not a formal prerequisite for any specific Professional certification. You can pursue Professional certifications independently.
How do I schedule the exam?
The exam is delivered online through GitLab Learn. You can register and schedule directly from the official exam page using your GitLab account.
What are the online proctoring requirements?
You must have a stable internet connection, a webcam, and a quiet environment. A valid government-issued photo ID is required for identity verification before the exam starts.
What is the retake policy if I fail the exam?
GitLab allows retakes, but you must wait a specified period before attempting again. Check the official exam page for the current waiting period and any retake limits.
Are there any hands-on or lab components in the exam?
The exam is multiple-choice and does not include a hands-on lab. However, you should be prepared to answer scenario-based questions that test your practical knowledge of GitLab features.
What job roles does this certification align with?
This credential is relevant for project managers, product managers, agile coaches, and team leads who use GitLab to plan and deliver projects in a DevOps environment.
Can I recertify by passing a different GitLab exam?
Since GitLab certifications do not expire, there is no recertification requirement. You can pursue additional certifications to broaden your skills, but it is not required to maintain this credential.
Practice free questions 290 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept GitLab measures — each one written out.
5domains
14objectives
77concepts
64free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official GitLab exam outline · See the source
1Organizational Structure30 questions
2Issue Lifecycle Management63 questions
3Visual Workflows with Boards52 questions
4Strategic Planning with Epics and Roadmaps71 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Configure groups, subgroups, and projects4 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
17 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
290 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
290questions
64pages
14objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Organizational Structure30 questions
2Issue Lifecycle Management63 questions
3Visual Workflows with Boards52 questions
4Strategic Planning with Epics and Roadmaps71 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
77concepts
290free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from GitLab
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
1official link
77concepts mapped
The source
GitLab’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official GitLab outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 14 objectives, 77 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When GitLab changes the outline, this page changes with it.
14objectives on the outline→77concepts written→290free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.