PMICertified Associate in Project Management
The Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification validates your understanding of fundamental project management concepts, processes, and terminology as defined in the PMBOK Guide. It is designed for early-career project team members and students who want to demonstrate a solid foundation in project management. Earning the CAPM signals to employers that you possess the knowledge to contribute effectively to project teams and is a stepping stone toward the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential.
411 practice questions · Updated 2025-03-21
CAPM Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the CAPM exam measures.
- Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio
- Project vs. Operations
- Predictive vs. Adaptive Approaches
- Issues, Risks, Assumptions, and Constraints
- Project Scope Review and Critique
- PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
- Project as a Vehicle for Change
- Purpose of cost, quality, risk, schedule planning
- Project management plan vs. product management plan
- Milestone vs. task duration
- Resource identification and quantification
- Risk register usage
- Stakeholder register usage
- Project closure and transition
- Project Manager vs. Project Sponsor Roles
- Project Team vs. Project Sponsor Roles
- Project Manager Role Functions
- Leadership vs. Management
- Emotional Intelligence in Project Management
- Appropriate responses to planned strategies
- Project initiation
- Benefit planning
- Meeting effectiveness evaluation criteria
- Techniques for evaluating meeting outcomes
- Purpose of focus groups
- Purpose of standup meetings
- Purpose of brainstorming
- Other common problem-solving tools and techniques
- Predictive approach definition
- Suitability for organizational structures
- Process groups and activities
- Examples of typical activities
- Project components differences
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Float and Slack Calculation
- Critical Path Identification
- Schedule Variance (SV)
- Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Definition
- WBS Creation and Decomposition
- Work Package Definition
- Work Package Characteristics
- Quality Management Plan Application
- Integration Management Plan Application
- Predictive project artifacts
- Cost variance calculation
- Schedule variance calculation
- Adaptive vs. Predictive Pros and Cons
- Suitability of Adaptive Approach for Organizational Structures
- Organizational Process Assets Facilitating Adaptive Approaches
- Enterprise Environmental Factors Facilitating Adaptive Approaches
- Logical units of iterations
- Pros and cons of iterations
- Translating WBS to adaptive iteration
- Inputs for scope determination
- Adaptive vs predictive tracking
- Adaptive project artifacts
- Scrum components
- Extreme Programming (XP) components
- Scaled Adaptive Framework (SAFe) components
- Kanban components
- Comparison of adaptive methodologies
- Interpreting adaptive task success criteria
- Prioritizing tasks in adaptive environments
- Stakeholder Role Definitions
- Role Comparison and Distinction
- Purpose of Roles and Responsibilities
- Internal vs. External Stakeholders
- Communication channel selection
- Importance of communication in business analysis
- Requirements gathering tools
- Requirements gathering approaches
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Product backlog
- Purpose of a product roadmap
- Roadmap components
- Release planning
- Prioritization techniques
- Stakeholder communication
- Role of BA in predictive approaches
- Role of BA in adaptive approaches
- Comparing BA practices across approaches
- Define acceptance criteria
- Use requirements traceability matrix for delivery readiness
- Use product backlog for delivery readiness
Percentages reflect share of the current practice bank, not official exam weightings — no structured per-skill weight is published for CAPM, so none is invented.