Four domains, each with a fixed share of the questions. Predictive, agile and business analysis ideas also run through all four. The topics below follow the tasks in PMI's outline.
| Questions | 150: 135 scored and 15 unscored |
|---|---|
| Time | 3 hours, with a 10-minute break after question 75 |
| Domains | Four, weighted 36%, 17%, 20% and 27% |
| Passing score | Not published by PMI |
Projects, programs, portfolios and operations; predictive and adaptive life cycles; issues, risks, assumptions and constraints; the code of ethics; the parts of a project plan, milestones, resources and the risk and stakeholder registers; closure; roles of the project manager, sponsor and team, leadership and emotional intelligence; business cases, charters and benefits; and meetings and problem-solving tools.
When a plan-based approach fits, organizational structures, the activities of each process group, the WBS and work packages, the critical path, quality and integration planning, predictive artifacts, and cost and schedule variance.
When an adaptive approach fits, planning iterations and turning a WBS into a backlog, adaptive tracking and artifacts, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming and scaled frameworks, success criteria and prioritization.
Stakeholder roles, communicating with stakeholders, gathering requirements with the right tool, traceability matrices and backlogs, product roadmaps and releases, how the analyst's role changes with the approach, and acceptance criteria and readiness to deliver.
A project manager needs a database specialist for six weeks, but the specialist's department head wants to keep her for an internal upgrade. They agree she will work two days a week on the project now and full time in the final month. Which role did the project manager play?
Paint must dry for 2 days before the second coat can start. How is this shown in the schedule?
'The system shall email a receipt to the customer when a payment is completed.' What type of requirement is this?
Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts, at 36% of the questions, then Business Analysis Frameworks at 27%.
PMI says the outline was built from a job task analysis, not bound to one book, and every question appears in at least two references, including the PMBOK Guide, the Agile Practice Guide and PMI's business analysis guides.
Yes. Every lesson and question is tagged to a task in the CAPM Examination Content Outline linked from PMI's CAPM page on 14 October 2026.