PMI® Authorized

Certified Associate
in Project
Management
(CAPM)®
Exam Prep Course

An Overview of the Course

Version 1.0 | 2023 Release

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In this
session:
• What is a project?

• What is project management?

• What is PMI®?

• All about the CAPM® credential

• What makes this course different?

• What is our problem?

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 Course Contents
Session 1 Session 3 Session 5 Session 7 Session 9 Session 11
Becoming a Organizing for Planning, Project Planning, Measurement, Business
Certified Project Work, and Project Work, Tracking, and Analysis
Associate in Performance Delivery: and Delivery: Managing Domains
Project Predictive Adaptive Uncertainty
Management Methodologies Approaches

Session 2 Session 4 Session 6 Session 8 Session 10 Session 12

The Project Development Project Work and Overview of Business Putting
Environment Approach and Delivery Adaptive Analysis It All Together
and Value Life Cycle Frameworks Frameworks
Delivery Performance
Domain
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About This Course

• Icons Important Interactive Use Expert Judgment

Tools / Techniques Question Discussion

Note

DEFINITION
• Project management terminology: A course glossary is included as a PDF file.
Your instructor may show definitions from the glossary on slides during the course.
Example: Project Management

Definition slider
Defined words are
colored

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Before We Get
Started We take frequent breaks Ask lots of questions

We start on time Take lots of notes

Keep an open mind Keep your camera on

Help each other out Eliminate distractions

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An Overview of Project Management

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What Is
Project The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and
Management?

Portfolio Management
techniques to project activities to meet the
project requirements. See also portfolio
management and program management.

Program Management
Lexicon of terms | Project
Management Institute. (n.d.).
Retrieved from
https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-
guide-standards/lexicon

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Who Is PMI?

PMI is the Project Management Institute—the leading

professional association for project management, and the
authority for a growing global community of millions of project
professionals and individuals who use
project management skills.

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The Certified Associate in Project
Management (CAPM)® Certification

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What Is the
Certified
Associate in
Project The Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM)
Management certification is an essential step in building a career as a project
(CAPM)® manager.
Certification?

It can also aid you in pursuing many of our major certifications

including the gold standard project management certification, the
Project Management Professional (PMP).

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Why Earn
Your CAPM®?
90 Million
Project professionals currently employed in industries
across the world

25 Million
New project professionals needed to meet global talent
demands by 2030

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Are You
Eligible?

Have a secondary degree— Complete at least 23 hours

such as a high school of project management
diploma, GED, or its global education
equivalent

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What’s on the
Test? Fundamentals of project management
and the role of project managers 36%

150 questions
Project management environment,
and project integration management
17%

20%
Project scope, schedule, cost, quality,
Up to 3 hours to
and resource management
complete

27%
Project procurement, communication,
stakeholder, and risk management

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Project Demonstrate an Demonstrate an
understanding of the understanding of
Management various project life project management
Fundamentals cycles and processes planning
and Core
Concepts
Demonstrate an Determine how to
understanding of follow and execute
project roles and planned strategies or
Covered in lessons
responsibilities frameworks
2, 3, and 4

Demonstrate an
understanding of
common problem-
solving tools and
techniques

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Predictive Explain when it’s
Plan-Based appropriate to use a
predictive, plan-based
Methodologies approach

Demonstrate an
understanding of a
Covered in lessons project schedule
5 and 6

Determine how to
document project
controls of predictive,
plan-based projects

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Adaptive Explain when it is
Frameworks appropriate to use an
Determine how to plan
project iterations
and adaptive approach
Methodologies

Determine how to
Explain the
document project
components of an
Covered in lessons controls for an adaptive
adaptive plan
project
7, 8, and 9

Determine how to
prepare and execute
task management
steps

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Business Demonstrate an
Determine how to
understanding of
Analysis business analysis roles
conduct stakeholder
Frameworks and responsibilities
communication

Covered in lessons Demonstrate an

Determine how to
understanding of
10 and 11 gather requirements
product roadmaps

Determine how project

Validate requirements
methodologies
through product
influence business
delivery
analysis processes

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This Course Is Different

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 This will enable you
You’re Going to capitalize on one
to Work in
another’s
Small Groups
resources,
experience, and
skills as you ask
one another for
information,
evaluate one
another’s ideas, and
monitor one
another’s work.

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 So, you’re going to be given a series of real-world
This Course Is problems to solve.
Also Problem
Based

People learn better

when they’re
engaged in solving
real-world
problems or
accomplishing
real-world tasks.

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Scaffolding Early on, you’re going to need considerable
support.
As you learn, this support will be gradually
withdrawn,
so, you can learn to do the tasks
on your own.

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