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CAPM Certification

A full route to the PMI CAPM: deciding it fits, the education hours and application, predictive, agile and business analysis study, timed practice, exam day and putting the credential to work.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for CAPM Certification, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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CAPM Certification

Studying for PMI's CAPM as an entry project management credential: the required training hours, project fundamentals, agile and business analysis basics and the exam.

  1. Deciding whether CAPM or PMP fits you now
  2. Current CAPM exam outline and rules check
  3. PMI account and membership decision
  4. Choosing a course for the education hours
  5. Completing and evidencing the education hours
  6. Assembling the CAPM reference library
  7. Diagnostic CAPM practice test and baseline
  8. CAPM study plan to a target exam date
  9. Submitting the CAPM application
  10. Twice-weekly protected CAPM study blocks
  11. Daily fifteen-question practice set
  12. Wrong-answer log and weekly review
  13. Spaced review cards for CAPM vocabulary
  14. Monthly timed CAPM practice exam
  15. Domain accuracy log
  16. Weekly CAPM study partner check-in
  17. Monthly CAPM plan reset
  18. One CAPM concept applied each week
  19. Project management fundamentals and core concepts
  20. Choosing between predictive, adaptive and hybrid approaches
  21. Predictive scope, WBS and schedule planning
  22. Cost, risk, quality and procurement basics
  23. Stakeholder engagement and communication basics
  24. Agile mindset, Scrum and Kanban for CAPM
  25. Backlogs, user stories and agile measures
  26. Requirements elicitation and traceability
  27. Business analysis roles, needs and solution evaluation
  28. Critical path, float and earned value drills
  29. Situational question technique
  30. Choosing a CAPM practice question bank
  31. Online proctored or test centre decision
  32. Rebuilding a stalled practice score
  33. Employer sponsorship or study budget request
  34. Book, hold or postpone readiness decision
  35. Booking the CAPM exam appointment
  36. Full-length CAPM mock under exam conditions
  37. Final fortnight before the CAPM
  38. CAPM exam day logistics and ID check
  39. Reading your CAPM result and next step
  40. Earning the CAPM while still at university
  41. CAPM for a move into project coordination
  42. Formalising the accidental project role
  43. Studying for the CAPM around a job and family
  44. Sitting the CAPM in a second language
  45. Testing accommodations request
  46. CAPM retake plan after an unsuccessful attempt
  47. Putting the CAPM on your CV and profiles
  48. Keeping the CAPM active with PDUs
  49. Logging experience from CAPM toward the PMP
  50. Running a CAPM study circle for classmates or colleagues

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Deciding whether CAPM or PMP fits you now

Plenty of people buy CAPM materials when they already have enough led project experience to apply for the PMP, and others aim at the PMP years before they can qualify. Comparing your actual experience against both sets of eligibility rules takes an evening and tells you which exam deserves the next few months.

First tasks

  • Read the CAPM and PMP eligibility pages on the PMI website
  • List every project you have worked on with dates and your role
  • Check whether that experience already meets the PMP rules
  • Write down which credential you are pursuing and why

Current CAPM exam outline and rules check

PMI revises the CAPM Exam Content Outline, fees and retake rules, and study guides printed a few years ago may describe a different exam. An hour with the official handbook and outline before buying anything stops you studying for a version that has been retired.

First tasks

  • Download the current CAPM Exam Content Outline from the PMI website
  • Download the CAPM certification handbook and note the eligibility period
  • Write down the current fees and retake rules with today's date
  • Check the publication date of any CAPM book you already own

PMI account and membership decision

Membership lowers the exam fee and usually includes digital copies of the PMI standards you will study from, but it has its own yearly cost and a local chapter fee is optional on top. Working out the numbers once tells you whether joining before you apply saves money or simply adds a renewal you will forget.

First tasks

  • Create a PMI account using the name on your passport or national ID
  • Compare the exam fee for members and non-members with the membership cost
  • Look up whether a local PMI chapter runs student or new-member events
  • Record your membership decision and the renewal date if you join
  • Check your PMI membership renewal date and decide whether to keep it @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install CAPM Certification, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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