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A mobile banking team completed 18, 22, and 20 story points in its last three iterations. Each iteration is two weeks long. The product owner reports 140 story points remaining. Assuming stable scope, what elapsed time should she forecast to finish the remaining work?

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Practice for PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), the entry-level project management credential. Covers all four domains of the current exam content outline: project management fundamentals, predictive plan-based methodologies, agile frameworks, and business analysis.

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About the CAPM - Certified Associate in Project Management Exam

The Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) is PMI's entry-level credential, and since the 2023 exam content outline it covers far more ground than most people expect. The exam no longer tests a single way of working. It spans four domains: project management fundamentals and core concepts at 36 percent, predictive plan-based methodologies at 17 percent, agile frameworks and methodologies at 20 percent, and business analysis frameworks at 27 percent. That last figure surprises candidates most - more than a quarter of the exam is business analysis, a subject the older CAPM barely touched. CAPM is aimed at people who work on projects but have not yet accumulated the experience PMP demands. Coordinators, analysts, junior PMs, engineers and graduates all use it to prove they understand the vocabulary and the mechanics before they have led a project themselves. The eligibility bar is deliberately low: a secondary degree and 23 contact hours of formal project management education, with no requirement to have run anything. The exam itself is 150 questions in three hours, of which 135 are scored. PMI does not publish a pass mark, and it does not report a percentage. You get a performance rating per domain instead, which means a weak area cannot be quietly averaged away by a strong one. The questions are situational rather than definitional - you are shown a scenario and asked what a project professional should do next, which is why memorising a glossary is not enough on its own.

Exam Domains Covered

  • Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts36%
  • Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies17%
  • Agile Frameworks/Methodologies20%
  • Business Analysis Frameworks27%

Exam Format & Details

150 questions (135 scored, 15 unscored pretest) in 180 minutes, with one 10-minute break after question 75. Delivered at Pearson VUE test centres or via online proctoring. Question formats include standard multiple choice, drag-and-drop matching, and hotspot point-and-click items, with some scenarios presented as comic strips or short animations. PMI does not publish a percentage pass mark - results are scored psychometrically and reported per domain as Above Target, Target, Needs Improvement or Below Target. Exam fee is USD 225 for PMI members and USD 300 for non-members. Eligibility requires a secondary degree plus 23 contact hours of formal project management education.

Why Practice Questions Matter

CAPM questions are scenario-driven, so the gap between recognising a term and choosing the right next action is where most candidates lose marks. Working through a large bank trains the judgement the exam actually measures: spotting whether a scenario is predictive or agile, knowing which artefact or role owns a decision, and reading business analysis questions correctly when they make up 27 percent of your score. Because PMI reports results per domain rather than as one percentage, practising to a weighted distribution matters - a weak domain shows up on its own line. Timed practice also builds the pace you need for 150 questions in 180 minutes.

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Sample Practice Questions

The following questions are a preview of the type of syllabus-aligned questions you will practise in CertCrush. They reflect the format and reasoning style of the CAPM - Certified Associate in Project Management exam, not actual exam content.

Q1.A mobile banking team completed 18, 22, and 20 story points in its last three iterations. Each iteration is two weeks long. The product owner reports 140 story points remaining. Assuming stable scope, what elapsed time should she forecast to finish the remaining work?

  • A.About 14 weeks
  • B.About 7 weeks
  • C.About 10 weeks
  • D.About 28 weeks

Domain: Agile Frameworks/Methodologies

Q2.A project manager is deciding which life cycle to use for a new product initiative rather than copying what her department used last time. Which factors legitimately drive that decision? Select all that apply.

  • A.How well understood the requirements are
  • B.How available stakeholders will be for ongoing feedback
  • C.How urgently value needs to reach users
  • D.What approach the department used on its previous initiative
  • E.The project manager's personal comfort with a particular method

Domain: Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Q3.An airline's loyalty platform was delivered on time, on budget, and met every documented requirement, yet 18 months later the promised increase in repeat bookings has not appeared and nobody was tracking it. Which artifact was most likely missing or neglected?

  • A.The benefits management plan
  • B.The business case, which should have predicted the benefit more conservatively
  • C.The product roadmap, which should have shown the booking increase as a milestone
  • D.The situation statement, which should have quantified the booking shortfall

Domain: Business Analysis Frameworks

Q4.A film production company hires a complete crew for a single feature, the director assigns all work and priorities for the duration of the shoot, and the crew is released when filming wraps. Which organizational structure does this illustrate?

  • A.Projectized
  • B.Strong matrix
  • C.Balanced matrix
  • D.Composite functional

Domain: Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Q5.A reviewer is examining a single initiative to determine whether it is genuinely hybrid rather than mislabeled. Which observations would support a hybrid classification? Choose two.

  • A.One component follows a fixed, approved plan because mid-course change there is prohibitively expensive
  • B.Another component in the same project deliberately allows requirements to evolve through short feedback cycles
  • C.The team abandoned its original approach midway because that approach was failing
  • D.The project uses both a schedule and a backlog tool from the same vendor
  • E.The sponsor could not decide between two approaches, so the team split the difference

Domain: Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Q6.A veterinary group tells its business analyst that "an owner can register several pets, but each pet belongs to exactly one owner." Which model records this most precisely?

  • A.An entity relationship diagram, which shows entities as boxes and labels the cardinality of the relationship between them.
  • B.A process flow, which shows the sequence of steps in the pet registration procedure.
  • C.A state diagram, which shows the events that move a pet record from one state to another.
  • D.A use case diagram, which shows which actors take part in which use cases.

Domain: Business Analysis Frameworks

Q7.A dispatcher describes the emergency call intake process in an interview, but the analyst suspects real practice differs because incident reports mention steps nobody described. Which technique should the analyst use next?

  • A.Observation or job shadowing of dispatchers during live shifts
  • B.A second, more probing interview with the same dispatcher
  • C.A survey asking all dispatchers to list every step they perform
  • D.A brainstorming session about what the process should look like

Domain: Business Analysis Frameworks

Q8.During a Sprint on a payments integration, the Developers discover a design flaw that will likely cause the Sprint Goal to be missed. Raising it will be uncomfortable because a senior architect proposed the design. Which Scrum values most directly call for the team to raise it now? Choose two.

  • A.Openness
  • B.Courage
  • C.Commitment
  • D.Focus
  • E.Respect

Domain: Agile Frameworks/Methodologies

Q9.A governance board is deciding whether a proposed initiative should be managed as a project. Which two attributes must both be present for the work to meet the definition of a project? Choose two.

  • A.It is temporary, meaning it has a defined end point
  • B.It creates a unique product, service, or result
  • C.It has a dedicated budget separate from operating funds
  • D.It is governed by a formal signed contract
  • E.It involves staff from more than one department

Domain: Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Q10.Before writing any production code for a new fare-calculation feature, a developer at a transit authority writes an automated test that currently fails, then writes just enough code to make that test pass. Which practice is this?

  • A.Test driven development
  • B.Continuous integration
  • C.Refactoring
  • D.Simple design

Domain: Agile Frameworks/Methodologies

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