PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) - Full Practice Exam 1

1. A board compares unrelated investments against strategic priorities and available funding. Which management perspective is it applying?
2. A board shows items in analysis, development, review, and Done. What is its primary benefit?
3. A building project has approved drawings and stable regulatory requirements. Rework late in construction is costly. Which approach is generally most suitable?
4. A business analyst wants to determine whether the delivered solution addresses the original operational problem. What should be compared?
5. A business analyst wants to understand how staff currently process insurance claims before proposing improvements. Which technique most directly reveals the actual workflow?
6. A communications plan calls for a monthly executive summary and daily team coordination. Why use different formats?
7. A contract requires launch before a fixed national event. Which planning element does the date represent?
8. A coordinator is asked to report a task as complete even though its acceptance checks failed. What is the most appropriate action?
9. A coordinator records that a regulatory review is expected to take ten business days, although the regulator has not confirmed this. How should this expectation initially be classified?
10. A critical supplier has already missed today's delivery and assembly cannot start. Which record should capture the present problem, its owner, and resolution actions?
11. A cumulative flow diagram shows the review band widening while Done grows slowly. What does this most likely indicate?
12. A customer asks for an additional report after the scope baseline is approved. What should the coordinator do before directing implementation?
13. A Daily Scrum is becoming a status report to a manager rather than helping Developers coordinate. What should be restored?
14. A deliverable is technically complete but has not received formal customer acceptance. Which process concern remains?
15. A feature passes its technical tests but fails a stakeholder-agreed acceptance scenario. What should the analyst conclude?
16. A finish-to-start dependency links installation to configuration. Installation finishes later than planned. What should the scheduler evaluate?
17. A help desk handles recurring incidents using an established process. A separate team implements a new help-desk platform. Which distinction is correct?
18. A hospital expansion is constrained by a fixed legal occupancy date. Which planning factor does that date represent?
19. A hybrid project uses iterative software delivery inside a mandatory regulatory stage-gate process. Which statement is correct?
20. A Kanban team starts many items but finishes few. Which intervention most directly targets excessive work in progress?
21. A manager assigns tasks and monitors deadlines, while also helping people understand the purpose of the work. Which distinction is most accurate?
22. A manager hears a requirement through informal conversation. It could affect multiple teams. What is the best next step?
23. A manager is asked to report an unfinished deliverable as complete to protect a milestone bonus. What should the manager do?
24. A manager pays for additional qualified workers to shorten a critical-path activity. Which technique is being used?
25. A manager shifts a noncritical activity within its available float to reduce a temporary resource peak without changing the finish date. What is this closest to?
26. A new regulation changes an existing reporting requirement. What should the analyst do before recommending the scope of the change?
27. A new stakeholder can approve a permit that the project needs, but the stakeholder is not in existing communication records. What should the coordinator do first?
28. A newly identified neighbor will be affected by construction noise but has no contract with the project. How should the person be considered?
29. A person is accountable for approving the result, while several specialists perform the work. What does this illustrate?
30. A planner identifies the required number of electricians and the dates they are needed. What is being estimated?
31. A predictive project baselines detailed requirements early. A stakeholder later requests a change. What should the analyst support?
32. A predictive project discovers a requested feature outside the approved scope. What should happen before incorporating it?
33. A process audit finds that teams routinely skip a required test step. What should the improvement primarily address?
34. A process owner and a product owner disagree about a workflow change. What should the analyst clarify first?
35. A product owner needs to choose which items should deliver the most value next. Which artifact is primarily ordered for this purpose?
36. A product roadmap groups expected capabilities into near-term and later outcomes. How should an analyst describe its purpose?
37. A product team cannot validate user preferences until users try prototypes. Which approach best addresses this uncertainty?
38. A product team frequently discovers that customers do not want finished features. Which delivery practice best reduces this risk?
39. A product team wants to understand the current handoffs before designing automation. Which artifact is most useful?
40. A project depends on an approved permit, but the permit has now been denied. What should be recorded for active resolution?
41. A project has accepted a deliverable, but recurring support questions show that its operational team cannot maintain it. Which activity best addresses the gap?
42. A project has planned value of $100,000 and earned value of $85,000. What is its schedule variance in earned-value terms?
43. A project introduces a new product; product management also plans pricing and future lifecycle evolution. Which distinction is correct?
44. A project is finishing. Operations has not received support procedures or training. What should happen before closure?
45. A project manager needs executive help resolving a funding conflict beyond delegated authority. Which role is normally best positioned to provide sponsorship and escalation support?
46. A project manager receives conflicting reports about completion. What evidence should guide the status report?
47. A project may face a material shortage next quarter, but no shortage has occurred. Where should the team first record the uncertain event and its possible impact?
48. A project replaces a manual process, but staff continue using spreadsheets after launch. Which planning area most directly addresses this gap?
49. A project team discovers an effective way to prevent recurring handoff errors halfway through delivery. When should it record and share the lesson?
50. A prototype reveals that users misunderstand an input field. What is the best use of this feedback?
51. A quality plan specifies how measurements and acceptance checks will be performed. What is its purpose?
52. A regulatory requirement has no linked test case in the traceability matrix. What should the analyst do?
53. A release candidate meets all mandatory criteria, but a low-priority enhancement remains in the backlog. What should guide the delivery decision?
54. A reporting activity may slip by two days without delaying any successor's early start. Which measure describes this allowance?
55. A requirement depends on a third-party system returning an address validation result. What should be specified?
56. A requirement says that an app must be easy to use. What revision would make acceptance more testable?
57. A requirement states that only supervisors may approve refunds above a threshold. What type of requirement is primarily described?
58. A retailer groups store refurbishment, new checkout software, and staff training to achieve coordinated customer-experience benefits. What is this coordinated group most likely to be?
59. A retailer temporarily assigns a team to open one new distribution center. After handover, warehouse employees will run it indefinitely. Which statement correctly distinguishes the work?
60. A risk register lists a possible flood but no owner or planned response. What should be added?
61. A roadmap changes after a competitor introduces a new service. What should the analyst help assess?
62. A roadmap places identity verification before self-service account changes. Why might this ordering be appropriate?
63. A schedule lists 'regulatory approval granted' with zero duration. What does this entry represent?
64. A Scrum team has several candidate features. Who is accountable for ordering the Product Backlog to maximize product value?
65. A signed baseline is used to compare current schedule performance. What is a baseline?
66. A sponsor and an end user interpret the same workflow requirement differently. Which action best helps resolve the ambiguity before development?
67. A sponsor approves a charter. What is the charter's principal role?
68. A sponsor asks how the project will improve customer retention after release. Which artifact or planning activity is most relevant?
69. A sponsor asks whether a delivered ordering portal reduced customer wait times. Which measurement most directly assesses the intended benefit?
70. A sponsor requests a new dashboard, but the analyst first asks which decisions it should improve. What is the analyst clarifying?
71. A sponsor requests one integrated view of scope, schedule, and cost effects before a decision. Why is integration important?
72. A sponsor wants a document that formally authorizes a new project and gives its manager authority to use organizational resources. Which document serves this purpose?
73. A Sprint Review reveals a new customer need. What is the appropriate product-planning response?
74. A stakeholder asks an agile team to include a feature that has lower value than urgent defect fixes. What should guide the next work selection?
75. A stakeholder cannot attend workshops but represents a critical external interface. Which approach best preserves their input?
76. A stakeholder requests a dashboard because weekly replenishment decisions are often late. What should the analyst clarify first?
77. A stakeholder requests an accessibility feature required by policy. The analyst is prioritizing requirements. What should be considered?
78. A supplier may miss a future delivery. The delivery has not yet been missed. How should this be classified?
79. A system must retain audit history for a stated period and restrict alteration. What should acceptance criteria include?
80. A team adopts pair programming and automated tests before implementation. Which methodology is particularly associated with these engineering practices?
81. A team compares estimated delivery cost with actual spending each month. Which management area is primarily involved?
82. A team completes ten items during one week. Which flow measure is directly represented?
83. A team decomposes approved project scope into deliverables and manageable work packages. What is it creating?
84. A team estimates a migration assuming the source system supports a required export format. That capability is unverified. What is this statement?
85. A team finishes 20, 24, and 22 story points in three similar Sprints. What is a reasonable simple historical average for planning?
86. A team has too many requested features for its available funding. Which approach best supports transparent prioritization?
87. A team is asked to estimate a distant release while requirements remain uncertain. Which approach is most suitable?
88. A team meeting repeatedly ends without decisions or owners. Which change best improves effectiveness?
89. A team meets after a Sprint to improve how it collaborates and performs its work. Which Scrum event serves this purpose?
90. A team member discovers that a close relative owns a bidding supplier. What is the most appropriate ethical action?
91. A team must identify who may be affected by a new warehouse process and their interests. Which artifact is the best starting point?
92. A team must show which requirements are implemented by which features and verified by which tests. What artifact best supports this?
93. A team needs a lasting written decision record that remote members can consult across time zones. Which communication approach best meets that specific need?
94. A team needs many candidate solutions before evaluating them. Which meeting technique is appropriate?
95. A team needs the main success path and alternative paths for an ATM withdrawal interaction. Which artifact best fits?
96. A team plans only the next iteration in detail while keeping later work at a higher level. What planning principle is illustrated?
97. A team plans to inspect completed components for dimensional defects. Which activity is this?
98. A team starts more work whenever someone becomes idle, but nearly finished items wait for review. What Kanban practice would most directly expose and reduce this problem?
99. A team starts testing selected completed modules before all development finishes. Which schedule-compression technique is this?
100. A team tests a transfer form only with valid amounts. Which additional scenario is most useful for validating its amount rule?
101. A team tracks elapsed time from starting an item until completing it. Which flow measure is this?
102. A team verifies that a product was built according to its specification, then asks users whether it solves their actual problem. Which distinction is illustrated?
103. A team wants frequent integration to expose conflicting code changes early. Which practice fits?
104. A team wants lessons from a previous migration before planning its own. What information source is most useful?
105. A team wants to compare the relative effort and uncertainty of backlog items without claiming exact completion dates. Which estimation technique fits?
106. A team wants to improve how it collaborates after recurring integration problems. Which Scrum event is best suited to inspect its working process?
107. A team wants to prevent a requirement from disappearing between elicitation and testing. Which practice is most appropriate?
108. A team wants to understand why defects recur rather than correct only the latest defect. Which technique best fits?
109. A team's average completed work is 20 points per Sprint. Its next Sprint includes a major holiday. How should the team use the historical figure?
110. A usable feature passes its individual acceptance criteria but lacks the security checks required by the team's Definition of Done. How should it be treated?
111. A user story is too large to complete within an iteration. What is the best next step?
112. A user story says, 'As a buyer, I want saved delivery addresses so that checkout is faster.' What does the final clause express?
113. A vendor contract is complete, but an unresolved payment claim remains. What should closure address?
114. A WBS dictionary is requested for a complex work package. What information is most appropriate?
115. A work package's scope is understood, but its output is missing from the WBS. What should the team do?
116. Activity A takes 3 days. B takes 5 days after A. C takes 2 days after A. D takes 4 days after both B and C. With no resource limits, what is the shortest project duration?
117. Activity A takes 3 days. B takes 5 days after A. C takes 4 days after A. D takes 2 days after both B and C. What is the project duration with no resource constraints?
118. An accepted risk response says to switch suppliers when a delivery forecast exceeds ten days late. The trigger occurs. What should the manager do?
119. An activity has early start day 4 and late start day 7 under the same day convention. What is its total float?
120. An adaptive team refines requirements before each iteration. How should the analyst manage detail?
121. An analyst needs to understand how clerks actually handle exceptions, which differs from the written procedure. Which elicitation technique is most useful?
122. An analyst records that only payroll administrators may export salary details. What type of requirement is this primarily?
123. An analyst wants broad feedback from 2,000 geographically dispersed customers on several defined options. Which technique is efficient?
124. An analyst wants detailed reactions from a small selected group of representative users to a proposed service. Which technique fits?
125. An estimate depends on an external expert being available in June. What should the team do with that dependency?
126. An increment fails the team's agreed Definition of Done. How should it be treated?
127. An inspection finds that a delivered component is outside the specified tolerance. Which activity identified the problem?
128. An organization coordinates a warehouse automation project and a driver training project to achieve benefits that depend on both. What management structure best fits this coordination?
129. At a status date, earned value is $60,000 and actual cost is $75,000. What is the cost performance index?
130. Budget at completion is $200,000. CPI is 0.80 and current cost efficiency is expected to continue. What is the forecast EAC?
131. Customers are unsure which workflow will provide the most value, and feedback is expected to change priorities frequently. Which delivery approach best supports this uncertainty?
132. During a Sprint, a stakeholder directly asks a Developer to substitute unrelated work that would endanger the Sprint Goal. What is the best response?
133. During a Sprint, Developers learn that the original plan needs adjustment to achieve the Sprint Goal. What should they do?
134. During a tense review, a colleague becomes defensive. What response best demonstrates emotional intelligence?
135. Earned value is $48,000 and actual cost is $60,000. What is cost variance?
136. Earned value is $70,000 and planned value is $80,000. What is schedule variance in earned-value units?
137. Earned value is $72,000 and planned value is $60,000. What does SPI = 1.20 indicate?
138. Earned value is $90,000 and actual cost is $100,000. What is the cost performance index?
139. Executives need a high-level view of product themes and likely release progression. Which artifact is most appropriate?
140. Requirements are linked to design components, test cases, and acceptance results. Which artifact supports this linkage?
141. Stakeholders approve a requirement after reviewing an ambiguous diagram differently. What should the analyst do?
142. The approved requirement is to reduce duplicate customer records. A proposed solution merely changes the screen color. What should the analyst do?
143. Two departments define an active customer differently. What should the analyst do before finalizing a shared metric?
144. Two parallel paths take 12 and 9 days. An activity only on the 9-day path slips by 2 days, with no other constraints. What happens to the completion date?
145. Two projects require the same specialist during the same week. What should their managers do first?
146. Two team members disagree about a technical approach. Both have useful evidence and there is time to discuss it. Which response best supports a durable resolution?
147. Two teams estimate the same feature at 8 and 13 points. What conclusion is most appropriate?
148. Users say a system must be 'fast enough.' Which next step best improves the requirement?
149. Which user story best expresses a user role, desired capability, and business reason?
150. Who is accountable for ordering the Product Backlog in Scrum?

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