Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® — Requirements & Free Practice

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PMI professional certification recognizing associate-level project management knowledge.

Initial by examination

Applicability: The live official CAPM page adopts the exact submitted English ECO and same four-domain examination. Current applicability is established for this investigation; no published examination/credential/route start or end date is established, so date boundaries remain null. Copyright, document revision and retrieval dates are not official effective dates.
Applicant: Individual seeking initial CAPM certification; English is the selected offering of the single CAPM examination.
Application: Submit education in the PMI application; comply with an audit if selected, pay, schedule and pass the CAPM examination. Course/end-of-course assessments satisfy educational eligibility and are not additional CAPM certification exam leaves.
Ethics: Comply with the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Its 17 November 2025 effective date belongs to the Code, not this credential, route or exam version.
Qualifications: Secondary degree (high school diploma, GED or global equivalent), age at least 18, and at least 23 hours of project-management education completed before the exam. The current page supplies the age condition; omission from the ECO summary is not a conflicting age rule.

Provider: Pearson VUE
Format: English computer-delivered examination, at a test center or online; multiple-choice, enhanced matching/drag-and-drop, hot spot/hot area and animation/comic-strip scenarios. Online proctored delivery uses comic strips rather than animation video.
Exam questions: Total questions: 150; Scored questions: 135; Unscored questions: 15; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit: 3 hours; a 10-minute break follows questions 1-75 after answer review. Optional tutorial and survey time is excluded.

Examination outline

Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts (36%)
- Project life cycles and processes
- Project management planning
- Project roles and responsibilities
- Following and executing planned strategies or frameworks
- Common problem-solving tools and techniques
Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies (17%)
- Suitability of a predictive, plan-based approach
- Project management plan schedule
- Documenting predictive project controls
Agile Frameworks/Methodologies (20%)
- Suitability of an adaptive approach
- Planning project iterations
- Documenting adaptive project controls
- Components of an adaptive plan
- Preparing and executing task management steps
Business Analysis Frameworks (27%)
- Business analysis roles and responsibilities
- Stakeholder communication
- Gathering requirements
- Product roadmaps
- Influence of project methodologies on business analysis
- Validating requirements through product delivery

Examination sources

PMI CAPM page
Exam Content Outline (ECO), English selected download; HTML selected English URL rev=583ca4688c844ea59a5f84258c106146
PMI CAPM ECO
PDF page 7 / printed page 6, Domains and Tasks; full domain/task scope on PDF pages 6-11
PMI CAPM ECO
PDF page 14 / printed page 13, opening paragraph and count table
PMI Certification Handbook
PDF page 17, Establishing the Passing Score; CAPM included on page 3
PMI CAPM ECO
PDF page 14 / printed page 13, duration sentence
PMI CAPM page
Path to a CAPM certification, scheduling; About the Exam lists English
PMI Certification Handbook
PDF page 6, Exam Eligibility