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CAPM practice questions across PMI’s four weighted domains

The CAPM is 150 questions in three hours, 135 of them scored. PMI’s content outline weights it fundamentals 36%, business analysis 27%, agile 20% and predictive 17%. You need a secondary degree plus 23 hours of project management education, and PMI does not publish a passing score for it.

Formally the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification exam. Awarding body: Project Management Institute (PMI). Neuron Trainer is an independent study app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the organization that owns this exam.

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CAPM at a glance, with the source for every line

Every row below is quoted from a document published by PMI and carries the date we checked it. Where PMI publishes nothing, the row says so instead of quoting a number from somewhere else.

Questions
150 questions, of which 15 are pre-test questions, so 135 are scored.Source: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Time allowed
3 hours.Source: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Official domain weights
Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts 36% · Business Analysis Frameworks 27% · Agile Frameworks/Methodologies 20% · Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies 17%.Source: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Question types
Multiple-choice questions, drag-and-drop questions and animations/comic strips. Hot spot questions may also appear.Source: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Eligibility
A secondary degree (high school diploma, GED or global equivalent) plus 23 hours of project management education, completed before the exam.Source: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Retakes
Up to three attempts within the one-year eligibility period. After three attempts you must reapply.Source: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Certification cycle
Renewal every 3 years through PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) Program.Source: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Pass rate
Not published by PMI. PMI does not publish a pass rate for the CAPM, so we do not quote one. Results come back as a pass or fail with proficiency ratings by domain.Checked against: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Passing score
Not published by PMI. PMI does not publish a passing score or percentage for the CAPM. Results are reported as pass or fail with proficiency ratings by domain.Checked against: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026
Exam fee
Not published by PMI. PMI prices the CAPM by membership status and region rather than publishing a single global fee, so we do not quote one.Checked against: Project Management Institute, verified 7 August 2026

Always verify: PMI prices the CAPM by membership status and region and can revise its content outline. Confirm the current outline, the 23-hour education requirement and the fee with PMI before you apply.

What PMI publishes as the official CAPM blueprint

These weights are PMI's, quoted from the source below. They are the only weights on this page that describe the real exam.

Published by PMI and verified on 7 August 2026.
AreaWeight PMI publishes
Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts36%
Business Analysis Frameworks27%
Agile Frameworks/Methodologies20%
Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies17%

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Source: PMI, CAPM Examination Content Outline, verified 7 August 2026.

What our CAPM question bank covers

What this app's question bank covers — our own category shares across 650 questions, not PMI's published blueprint.
CategoryQuestions in our bankShare of our bank
PM Fundamentals & Core Concepts
Project life cycle, performance domains, project value, governance, vocabulary
23335.8%
Predictive (Plan-Based)
Waterfall life cycle, planning, scope/schedule/cost baselines, EVM basics
11117.1%
Agile Frameworks
Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, agile principles, ceremonies, backlog, velocity
13020%
Business Analysis
Requirements elicitation, stakeholder analysis, traceability, validation
17627.1%

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4 questions from our CAPM bank

Four questions from the 650 inside the app, one from each PMI domain. Each carries the full explanation, including why the near-miss options fail.

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  1. Question 1 of 4

    A product team categorizes each backlog feature as Must have, Should have, Could have, or Won't have for the upcoming release. Which requirements prioritization technique is the team using?
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: MoSCoW analysis

    MoSCoW analysis sorts requirements into four labeled tiers: Must have (non-negotiable for launch), Should have (important but not critical for initial release), Could have (desirable if time and budget allow), and Won't have (explicitly excluded from this release but possibly reconsidered later). The four letters M, S, C, W give the technique its name. Weighted ranking assigns numerical scores to requirements using criteria such as business value, cost, and risk — it does not use the Must/Should/Could/Won't vocabulary. The Kano model classifies features by their effect on customer satisfaction into basic, performance, and excitement categories — a different framework entirely. The Delphi technique is an anonymous expert-consensus method used for forecasting and estimation, not feature prioritization.

  2. Question 2 of 4

    In a Kanban system, what is the PRIMARY purpose of establishing Work In Progress (WIP) limits?
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: To cap the number of items simultaneously active in each workflow stage

    WIP limits define the maximum number of active items allowed in each workflow stage (column). When a column reaches its limit, the team must finish existing work before pulling new items, which improves flow, reduces multitasking, and surfaces bottlenecks. WIP limits do not assign work to individuals — Kanban teams typically self-select tasks. They do not set deadlines; cycle time is a separate metric. And while managing WIP can improve throughput, measuring output per week is a distinct metric called throughput — not the purpose of setting WIP limits.

  3. Question 3 of 4

    In Earned Value Management, the value of work actually completed, expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work, is called:
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: Earned Value (EV)

    Earned Value (EV) is the measure of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget allocated to that work. It answers: 'How much budget value should we have spent for the work we actually completed?' Planned Value (PV) is the authorized budget for work scheduled to be done by a given point in time — what you planned to spend. Actual Cost (AC) is the total cost incurred for work performed — what you actually spent. Budget at Completion (BAC) is the total approved budget for all project work. EV is the pivotal variable that bridges the plan (PV) and actuals (AC), enabling both schedule and cost variance calculations.

  4. Question 4 of 4

    During project planning, the team identifies that the product must be delivered by a fixed date to support a regulatory deadline, but the scope is flexible and can be adjusted. Which constraint is MOST critical to this project?
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: Schedule

    Schedule is the most critical constraint because the regulatory deadline is fixed and non-negotiable. The scenario explicitly states that scope is flexible, meaning features can be adjusted to meet the deadline. This is a classic example of prioritizing the triple constraint (scope, schedule, cost) where one constraint dominates. Scope is explicitly flexible here, so it's not the critical constraint. Cost isn't mentioned as a limiting factor. Quality must always meet minimum standards, but the regulatory date is the driving factor. When a constraint is fixed and others can flex, that fixed constraint becomes the primary driver of project decisions.

What actually trips people up on the CAPM

Business analysis, the domain people skip

At 27% it is the second-largest domain and the one candidates coming from a project background have never formally studied. Requirements elicitation techniques, the four requirement categories, the traceability matrix, MoSCoW prioritization. Our bank puts 176 questions here and they are the highest-yield unfamiliar material on the exam.

Agile vocabulary at exam precision

Agile is 20% and the questions test exact ownership: the product owner orders the backlog, the developers own the sprint backlog, the Scrum Master removes impediments. “The team decides together” is the answer that feels right and is usually wrong. 130 questions in our bank.

Predictive planning and earned value

Predictive is only 17%, but it carries the formulas for planned value, earned value, actual cost and budget at completion, and formulas either land or they do not. Learn what each variable means in words first; the arithmetic is trivial once the definitions are clean. 111 questions here.

Fundamentals overlapping everything else

At 36% this is the biggest domain and the easiest to under-rate because it looks like definitions. It is the life cycles, performance domains, governance and the vocabulary the other three domains are written in. There are 233 questions in our bank, so get this to green first and the rest gets noticeably easier.

How long to study: four weeks, one domain at a time

Four weeks is the shape below, one domain a week, in the order the domains build on each other. Our 650-question bank maps closely to PMI’s published weights: 233 fundamentals · 176 business analysis · 130 agile · 111 predictive. Work them in that order and each block makes the next one lighter.

Week 1: fundamentals

36% of the exam and the shared vocabulary for everything else. Topic Drill until the category is green, then keep a short daily refresher going.

Week 2: business analysis

27% and probably new to you. Elicitation techniques, requirement categories, traceability, prioritization frameworks. Read every explanation, including on correct answers.

Week 3: agile then predictive

Agile is 20% and predictive 17%. Studying them back to back makes the contrast obvious, which is exactly how the exam frames its questions.

Week 4: timed simulations

Run full 150-question simulations at three hours until the readiness score is stable. Then book, and if PMP is the goal, remember an active CAPM waives its 35 training hours.

Is the CAPM hard?

PMI does not publish a CAPM pass rate or passing score, so there is no percentage to quote and none to aim at. What you get back is a pass or fail with proficiency ratings by domain, which makes per-domain readiness the only sensible target.

CAPM is a vocabulary and framework exam rather than a judgment exam. That makes it more learnable than the PMP, and it also means the traps are precision traps: the product owner orders the product backlog, the developers own the sprint backlog, and earned value is the budgeted value of the work completed rather than what you actually spent. Answers that feel collaborative and reasonable are frequently the wrong ones.

The one genuinely unfamiliar block is business analysis at 27%. Most candidates have never studied requirements elicitation, traceability or MoSCoW prioritization formally, and it is more than a quarter of the exam. Of the 650 questions in our bank, 398 sit at difficulty 3 or 4, so the drilling escalates rather than plateauing.

The format itself catches people out too. PMI lists drag-and-drop items and animations or comic strips alongside the multiple choice, and says hot spot questions may also appear, so part of the exam asks you to place things rather than pick a letter. There is no reading-comprehension warm-up either: 150 questions in three hours is 72 seconds each, and the business analysis items are the longest to read. Candidates who pace themselves off the fundamentals questions, which are short and definitional, tend to find the back half tighter than they planned for.

How the CAPM differs from the exams beside it

CAPM is where you start when you have not yet led projects: no experience requirement, just a high school diploma and 23 hours of education. The content is genuinely different from PMP rather than a lighter version of it. Business Analysis Frameworks is 27% of CAPM and does not appear as a domain on PMP at all, while PMP’s situational judgment barely features here. CAPM rewards precise vocabulary; PMP rewards judgment. The sitting is a different day too: 150 questions in three hours here, against a longer PMP paper with two scheduled breaks in the middle of it. And a live CAPM waives PMP’s 35 training hours later, which makes it a step rather than a detour.

Questions people actually ask about the CAPM

How many questions is the CAPM exam?

150 questions in three hours. Fifteen of them are pre-test items that do not affect your score, so 135 count. PMI publishes both figures in its CAPM content outline.

What is on the CAPM exam?

Four domains: Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts 36%, Business Analysis Frameworks 27%, Agile Frameworks/Methodologies 20% and Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies 17%.

What is the passing score for the CAPM?

PMI does not publish one. You get a pass or fail plus proficiency ratings by domain, so there is no percentage to aim at. Aim at green across all four domains instead.

Is the CAPM hard?

PMI publishes no pass rate and no passing score, so there is no number to quote. CAPM is a vocabulary and framework exam rather than a judgment exam, which makes it more learnable than the PMP. The traps are precision traps, and business analysis at 27% is material most candidates have never formally studied.

Do I need project experience for the CAPM?

No, and that is the point of it. You need a secondary degree, meaning a high school diploma, GED or global equivalent, plus 23 hours of project management education completed before you sit.

CAPM or PMP: which should I take?

If you have not yet led projects, CAPM, because PMP requires documented experience leading them, and how much depends on your education. CAPM also waives PMP’s 35 training hours later, so it is a step on the path rather than a substitute for it.

What question types will I see?

Multiple choice, drag-and-drop, and animations or comic strips, with hot spot questions also possible. It is a more varied format than the plain multiple choice most candidates expect.

Are these real CAPM questions?

No. Reproducing live items would violate exam security. These are original questions written to PMI’s four published domains at the same difficulty, each with a full explanation.

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The app

The CAPM app is still in development

The CAPM app ships 650 questions with full explanations, mapped closely to PMI’s published weights: 233 fundamentals, 176 business analysis, 130 agile and 111 predictive. Smart Quiz targets the domain you keep missing, Topic Drill lets you isolate business analysis until it stops being unfamiliar, and the fixed-length timed Exam Simulator runs a full 150-question paper at three hours. There is a calculator for the earned-value items and an AI tutor for anything the explanation leaves open. One caveat that has nothing to do with the questions: the CAPM app is not on the App Store yet. It is in development, the roadmap tracks its release order, and the shipped version will be free to start with a subscription for unlimited AI explanations and the whole bank.

  • Smart Quiz — keeps returning to the categories you keep missing
  • Topic Drill — one category at a time, on its own
  • Exam Simulator — a fixed-length timed paper (150 questions in 180 minutes, as this app sets it). It does not get harder as you go; the length and the mix are fixed.
  • AI tutor — re-explains any question in plain English
  • Progress tracking, reported per category
  • On-screen calculator
  • Study reminders
  • Light and dark themes

The app calls you ready at 65% on its own simulator. That is an in-app practice target we chose, not PMI's passing standard.

Not on the App Store yet. This one is still in development, so there is nothing to download today. The practice questions above are the whole of what we can give you right now, and they are free and complete. See where it sits in the queue, or browse the apps that are live.

Four domains. One three-hour paper.

The questions above are free, no signup. The app will cover fundamentals, business analysis, agile and predictive with a readiness score for each, so you know which one is still holding you back.

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Sources, and when we last checked them

This page was last reviewed on . The 7 facts quoted above were last checked against their sources on . Where PMI publishes nothing, the table above says so rather than guessing.

CAPM, PMP and PMI are marks of the Project Management Institute. Neuron Trainer is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PMI; the names are used descriptively to identify the exam this app prepares you for.