CAPM® Exam Review

Course Overview

This two-day course is designed for anyone preparing to sit for the Project Management Institute’s Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) exam. This course supports candidates studying to pass the CAPM Exam. It covers all of the nine knowledge areas and the five process groups in the PMBOK® Guide 4th Edition. Through lectures and practical exercises as well as access to computerized practice questions that simulate the CAPM exam, participants focus on key concepts, terms, and principles necessary to successfully pass the exam. In addition, participants are exposed to the format and makeup of the exam.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the CAPM exam process
• Demonstrate an understanding of project management terms from the PMBOK® Guide 4th Edition
• Access practice questions
• Identify tips to have a better feel for what to anticipate with this examination

Course Outline

Project Integration Management

• Define and describe each of the five project management process groups
• Develop a project charter
• Develop a preliminary project scope statement
• Develop a project management plan
• Explain the process of directing and managing project execution
• Describe integrated change control processes
• Describing the process of closing a project

 Project Scope Management

• Describe the process of scope planning
• Define scope
• Explain how to build a work breakdown structure
• Identify ways to verify and control scope

 Project Quality Management

• Describe the processes of quality planning, quality assurance and quality control
• Define quality terminology
• Identify quality planning, quality assurance, quality control tools and techniques

 Project Time Management

• Define the relationships involved in activity sequencing
• Identify methods of estimating activity duration and activity resources
• Explain schedule development
• Explain methods of schedule control

Project Cost Management

• Describe methods of cost estimating, cost budgeting, and budget control

Project Risk Management

• Identify and describe the six processes of risk management       

Project Procurement Management

• Describe the project procurement management processes
• Describe the categories and types of contracts
• Describe contract administration terminology
• Describe contract closure tools and techniques

Project Human Resource Management

• Describe the processes of human resource planning
• Identify tools and techniques for developing and managing a project team

Project Communication Management

• Describe project communication management processes
• Describe information distribution: communications theory
• Identify outputs for performance reporting
• Explain tools and techniques for managing stakeholders

CAPM Exam Information and Study Hints

• Certification Requirements
• CAPM Exam Format
• Fees
• Study Hints
• Practice Tests