Project Management
CAPM® Certification Prep
A three-day workshop for aspiring project managers preparing for PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) exam — and for teams advancing along the PM Essentials → CAPM → PMP ladder. Aligned to the current CAPM Examination Content Outline covering Project Management Fundamentals, Predictive Methods, Agile Frameworks, and Business Analysis.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
- Duration
- 3 days
- Level
- Introductory
- From
- $1795.00
About this course
Course overview
The PMI credential most aspiring project managers should earn first.
CAPM is PMI's entry-tier project management credential and the natural next step after a 1–2 day Essentials workshop. The current exam structure (effective July 2023, refreshed annually) reflects how PM is actually practiced in 2026: roughly half predictive, a fifth agile, a quarter business analysis, with the rest on cross-cutting fundamentals. This course teaches the breadth honestly — no pretending it's all predictive, no pretending it's all agile.
Day 1 covers fundamentals, performance domains, and predictive planning across the knowledge areas. Day 2 finishes predictive, then surveys agile frameworks and business analysis. Day 3 integrates everything with cross-domain practice items, a timed mock exam, and a personalized 30-day study plan. By Friday afternoon you have a study path, a weak-topic log, and the PMI application ready to submit.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Apply the project lifecycle, project phases, and the PMI guiding principles of project performance
- Use the eight PMI performance domains (stakeholders, team, lifecycle, planning, work, delivery, measurement, uncertainty)
- Plan and manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholders in a predictive context
- Apply Scrum, Kanban, XP, and SAFe basics; recognize when each fits and how Agile principles map to the PMI Agile Practice Guide
- Apply needs assessment, stakeholder analysis, and requirements elicitation at the level CAPM tests
- Choose between predictive, adaptive, and hybrid delivery approaches for a given context
- Sit for the CAPM exam after 30 days of post-workshop self-study using a personalized weak-topic plan
Audience
Who it's for
- Project coordinators and team leads moving into formal project management roles
- Business analysts, engineers, and consultants who run projects as part of their work and want a recognized PM credential
- New project managers (1–2 years experience) targeting PMP later — CAPM is the rung-up step
- Career-transitioners pursuing their first PMI credential before the PMP work-experience requirement is met
- Teams standardizing PM vocabulary across functions where not everyone can sit for PMP
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 — Fundamentals, Performance Domains, and Predictive Planning
- CAPM exam orientation: structure, item formats, scoring, PMI-OP vs Pearson VUE delivery
- PMI eligibility, application, audit risk, and the path from CAPM to PMP
- Project / program / portfolio definitions; lifecycles, phases, and the 12 PMI principles
- Eight performance domains: stakeholders, team, lifecycle, planning, project work, delivery, measurement, uncertainty
- Predictive planning: scope (WBS), schedule (CPM, leads/lags), cost (estimating, EVM basics)
Day 2 — Predictive Continued, Agile Frameworks, and Business Analysis
- Quality, resources, communications, risk (qualitative + quantitative), procurement, stakeholders
- Integrated change control, monitoring & controlling, and project closure
- Agile manifesto + principles; Scrum (roles/artifacts/events), Kanban basics, XP basics, SAFe basics
- Hybrid delivery and choosing between predictive, agile, and hybrid for a given project
- Business analysis frameworks: needs assessment, business case, stakeholder analysis, requirements elicitation
Day 3 — Integration, Mock Exam, and Study Planning
- Cross-domain integration items spanning multiple CAPM domains
- Math-light items: schedule arithmetic, EVM basics, network-diagram traversal
- Timed mock exam (75 items / 90 min) covering all four domains in proper weight
- Item-by-item debrief, weak-topic identification, and rationale walk-through
- Personalized 30-day study plan, exam-day strategy, and PMI application audit-readiness walk-through
Public cohorts
Upcoming sessions
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We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
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