Practise for your first project management credential with full-length timed exams, quizzes by domain and plain-English explanations for every option.
The CAPM is an entry-level project management credential. It shows that you understand the fundamentals, predictive and agile ways of working and the basics of business analysis, without asking for years of project experience first.
Questions are shorter and more direct than on the senior exams: the right concept for a clear situation, the right document, the right role. The simulator matches that level, with some harder questions that ask you to choose between two plausible answers.
Who it suits
How it is earned
Complete the education hours
Applicants need a secondary education and project management education hours. No project experience is required.
Apply and book
Once the application is approved, pick an exam date.
Sit the exam
One timed sitting. The simulator rehearses this step.
Every full-length exam in the simulator uses this length, clock and mix of domains.
questions
150minutes
180About 72 seconds a question. The cells show one full exam, coloured by domain.
Full-length exams follow these weights. Domain quizzes and custom practice let you aim at one domain or topic at a time.
Domain weights
4 domains
54 questions in every full-length exam
41 questions in every full-length exam
30 questions in every full-length exam
25 questions in every full-length exam
Topics in the question bank
Ways of working in the questions
The same simulator as every certification, loaded with this exam's questions, domains and clock.
Question bank
Written for the CAPM
Exam-style questions, each with an explanation for every option, right or wrong.
Full-length timed exams
Domain quizzes and custom practice are unlimited on every plan.
Score by domain
ExampleAfter every exam: your score by domain, the questions to review and what to drill next.
What the CAPM plans include
Every CAPM plan runs the same simulator. Choose the access period that fits your exam date.
Practise for the CAPM® exam
30 days access
What's included:
45 days access
Everything in Basic, plus:
60 days access
Everything in Premium, plus:
30-day money-back guarantee
All plans: one-time payment, no subscription.
One plan covers one certification; the two PRINCE2 levels share one. Courses with live training are priced on their course pages — see the courses.
Volume pricing for five or more candidates, with one invoice for your company.
A baseline exam, a week for each part of the exam in order of weight, then full-length exams to close. The app builds it around your exam date.
Default plan
6 weeksDomain weeks follow the exam's weights: the heaviest domains get a week of their own.
Baseline
A full-length exam to find your starting score, then read the explanation for every question you missed.
Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
A domain quiz most days; read every explanation, right or wrong.
Business Analysis Frameworks
Domain quizzes on these topics during the week, then a full-length exam at the weekend.
Agile Frameworks/Methodologies
A domain quiz most days; read every explanation, right or wrong.
Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies
Domain quizzes on these topics during the week, then a full-length exam at the weekend.
Exam week
Weak-area drills, a final full-length exam three days out, flagged questions reviewed, and rest the day before.
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Create a free account, try the sample questions and see where you stand. No card needed.
CAPM is a mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. CareerFocusArea is an independent provider and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Project Management Institute. The simulator prepares you for the exam itself; it does not provide the project management education hours needed to apply.
