PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Exam Prep

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1. Level 1: The CAPM Exam: Format, Rules and How to PrepareFree
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn what the CAPM exam is (150 questions, 135 of them scored, 3 hours with one 10-minute break), its four weighted domains, its question styles, and what this independent course does and does not provide.
2. Level 2: What Makes Work a Project: Projects vs OperationsFree
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the defining features of a project (temporary, with a unique outcome) and how it differs from ongoing operations.
3. Level 3: Projects, Programs and Portfolios
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn how projects, programs and portfolios relate, and what each level is managed to achieve.
4. Level 4: Project Life Cycles: Predictive, Adaptive and Hybrid
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn what a project life cycle and its phases are, and compare the predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive and hybrid ways of moving through them.
5. Level 5: Issues, Risks, Assumptions and Constraints
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn to tell apart four terms the exam often tests together: issue, risk, assumption and constraint.
6. Level 6: Professional Ethics in Project Management
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the four values of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (responsibility, respect, fairness and honesty) and apply them to dilemma scenarios.
7. Level 7: Planning Scope, Schedule and Resources
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn what a project management plan is and how scope, schedule and resource planning fit together at a conceptual level.
8. Level 8: Planning Cost and Quality
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn how a project budget is estimated and built, and how quality is planned into the work rather than inspected in afterwards.
9. Level 9: Planning for Risk and the Risk Register
   [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the steps of risk planning, from identifying risks to choosing responses, and how the risk register records them.
10. Level 10: Stakeholders and the Stakeholder Register
    [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn who counts as a stakeholder, how to analyse them and how the stakeholder register and communications planning guide engagement.
11. Level 11: Closing a Project or Phase
    [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the activities that formally close a project or phase and why closure matters even when a project is ended early.
12. Level 12: Project Roles: Project Manager, Sponsor and Team
    [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the responsibilities of the project manager, the sponsor, the project team and supporting bodies such as the project management office.
13. Level 13: Leadership versus Management
    [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the difference between leading and managing, the common leadership styles and when each suits a team.
14. Level 14: Emotional Intelligence and Team Performance
    [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the components of emotional intelligence and how they affect conflict, motivation and team performance.
15. Level 15: Following Planned Strategies During Delivery
    [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn how a project manager acts on the plans already made, carrying out planned risk responses, communications and stakeholder engagement, and what to do when reality departs from the plan.
16. Level 16: Problem-Solving Tools and Effective Meetings
    [Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts] Learn the standard problem-solving tools and techniques, and how to run meetings that reach decisions.
17. Level 17: When a Predictive Approach Fits
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Learn the project conditions that make a predictive, plan-based approach the right choice.
18. Level 18: The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Learn how to break the total project scope down into a work breakdown structure of deliverables and work packages.
19. Level 19: Sequencing Activities and Network Diagrams
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Learn how work packages become activities linked by dependencies and drawn as a schedule network diagram.
20. Level 20: Critical Path and Float: Worked Calculations
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Learn to calculate the critical path, project duration and float on a network diagram using the forward and backward pass.
21. Level 21: Earned Value Basics and Schedule Variance
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Learn the three building blocks of earned value management (planned value, earned value, actual cost) and use them to calculate schedule variance (SV = EV − PV) and the schedule performance index (SPI = EV ÷ PV) through worked examples.
22. Level 22: Cost Variance, CPI and Forecasting the Finish
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Extend earned value to cost by calculating cost variance (CV = EV − AC) and the cost performance index (CPI = EV ÷ AC), then forecast the outcome with budget at completion, estimate at completion, estimate to complete and variance at completion.
23. Level 23: Baselines and Monitoring Against the Plan
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Understand how the scope, schedule and cost baselines together form the performance measurement baseline, and how a predictive project is monitored by comparing actual results with those baselines.
24. Level 24: Integrated Change Control in Predictive Projects
    [Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies] Follow a change request from the moment it is raised, through impact analysis and a change control board decision, to the updated baseline and change log, and recognise scope creep when this process is bypassed.
25. Level 25: When an Adaptive Approach Fits
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn the agile mindset from first principles (the four values and the principles behind the Agile Manifesto) and the project conditions, such as uncertain requirements and a need for frequent feedback, that make an adaptive approach a better fit than a predictive or hybrid one.
26. Level 26: Iterations, Releases and Logical Units of Work
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Understand how adaptive projects divide work into time-boxed iterations grouped into releases, the benefits and drawbacks of working this way, and how the deliverables of a work breakdown structure translate into epics, features and user stories.
27. Level 27: Planning an Iteration: Estimating and Committing
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn how a team plans a single iteration: the inputs that determine its scope, relative estimation with story points and planning poker, and using team capacity to decide how much work to commit to.
28. Level 28: Adaptive Controls: Velocity, Burn Charts and Reviews
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn how adaptive projects are tracked and controlled, calculating velocity, reading burndown and burnup charts, and using task boards, iteration reviews and retrospectives as controls, and how this differs from tracking against a predictive baseline.
29. Level 29: Scrum: Accountabilities, Events and Artifacts
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn the parts of Scrum: the product owner, scrum master and developers; the sprint, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective; and the product backlog, sprint backlog and increment.
30. Level 30: Kanban: Visualising Flow and Limiting Work
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn how Kanban manages a continuous flow of work with a visual board, work-in-progress limits and a pull system, and how lead time, cycle time and throughput reveal bottlenecks.
31. Level 31: Extreme Programming (XP): Practices for Quality
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn the values and core technical practices of Extreme Programming (pair programming, test-driven development, continuous integration, refactoring, small releases and sustainable pace) and why XP concentrates on engineering quality.
32. Level 32: SAFe and Choosing Between Adaptive Frameworks
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) coordinates many teams through Agile Release Trains and PI Planning, and contrast Scrum, Kanban, XP and SAFe side by side so the right one can be picked in an exam scenario.
33. Level 33: Adaptive Task Management and Prioritisation
    [Agile Frameworks/Methodologies] Learn how adaptive teams prepare and carry out tasks: refining the backlog, writing success criteria for a task, ordering work with techniques such as MoSCoW and value-versus-effort ranking, and moving tasks to done on a task board.
34. Level 34: What Business Analysis Is and What the Analyst Does
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] Learn from first principles what business analysis is (identifying business needs and recommending solutions that deliver value) and the responsibilities a business analyst carries across the life of a project.
35. Level 35: Business Analysis Roles: Internal and External
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] Learn the roles that take part in business analysis (process owner, product manager, product owner, project manager, sponsor, subject matter expert and end user) and how to tell internal roles from external ones such as customers, suppliers and regulators.
36. Level 36: Choosing Communication Channels and Tools
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] Learn how a business analyst selects the best way to communicate with each stakeholder, choosing between push, pull and interactive communication, formal and informal channels, and tools such as reports, presentations and collaboration platforms.
37. Level 37: Why Communication Makes or Breaks Business Analysis
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] Understand why communication is central to the analyst's work as the bridge between business stakeholders and the delivery team, using active listening, facilitation and feedback loops to build shared understanding and prevent costly misunderstood requirements.
38. Level 38: Types of Requirements
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] Learn the categories requirements fall into (business, stakeholder, solution (functional and nonfunctional), transition, project and quality requirements) so that each statement gathered can be classified correctly.
39. Level 39: Elicitation I: Interviews, Workshops and Focus Groups
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] Learn the conversational techniques for gathering requirements (interviews, facilitated workshops, focus groups and brainstorming), how to prepare for and run each, and how to match the technique to the situation.
40. Level 40: Elicitation II: Observation, Documents, Surveys, Prototypes
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] Learn the techniques for gathering requirements without relying on conversation alone (observation or job shadowing, document analysis, surveys and questionnaires, and prototyping) and how to combine them for a complete picture.
41. Level 41: Business Analysis in a Predictive Project
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] How a plan-based approach shapes business analysis: requirements are elicited, documented and approved up front, then held as a baseline that only changes through formal change control.
42. Level 42: Business Analysis in an Adaptive Project
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] How an adaptive approach shapes business analysis: requirements emerge and are refined just in time as backlog items, with analysis work carried out continuously alongside the product owner and team.
43. Level 43: Tracing Requirements with a Traceability Matrix
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] How a requirements traceability matrix links each requirement back to the business need it serves and forward to the deliverable and test that satisfy it.
44. Level 44: Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] How to state, before work begins, the testable conditions a requirement must meet to be accepted, and how those conditions differ from a team-wide definition of done.
45. Level 45: Validating Requirements Through Product Delivery
    [Business Analysis Frameworks] How delivered work is confirmed against requirements and the original business need through reviews, demonstrations and user acceptance testing, ending in acceptance or a managed gap.
46. Level 46: Quality and Integration Management Plans in Use
    PMI's outline for the predictive domain asks the candidate to apply a quality management plan and an integration management plan. This lesson names the project management plan's component plans, shows what a quality management plan holds and how to act on one in a scenario, and explains integration management as the work of keeping every plan, baseline and change consistent from charter to closure.
47. Level 47: Timed Mock Exam: 100 Questions in 120 Minutes Timed mock
    [All four domains] A timed mock exam of 100 original scenario questions in 120 minutes with a 70% pass mark, testing all four CAPM domains in proportion to their exam weights: Fundamentals and Core Concepts 36%, Predictive 17%, Agile 20% and Business Analysis 27%.

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