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Hola a todos. Vi información sobre la empresa Ruta Project Latam y su simulador, pero quisiera saber si alguien de la comunidad lo ha utilizado o conoce cómo funciona.

¿Valen la pena sus programas/simuladores? ¿Es una empresa confiable? Agradezco cualquier experiencia o referencia que puedan compartir. ¡Gracias!

I am super stubborn, so my real hope in posting this is that Monday through studying I will pass the exam and be able to come back here and update this post.

My first exam I took 2ish months ago and got a 50%. Tonight I took another exam after studying for a few days and got a 57%. I took the Andrew course but didn't really find any of it engaging, so now I am just doing a few other study tricks to cram as much as I can between now and Monday with a plan to take my next practice exam on Saturday.​

Guys I don’t have a long spiel on how I prepared because I know it’s different for everyone, I just wanted to say that I completed the exam today and passed.

This is from my own hard work and I can confidently acknowledge that. The exam was quite tricky, the wording was tripping me over - It was very situational heavy with vague phrasing that made me second guess myself, a lot. By design I guess. I won’t even lie, half way through I legitimately thought I would fail.

The performance I got for each domain is as follows:

1. Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts = Above Target
2. Predictive, Plan based Methodologies = Target
3. Agile Frameworks/Methodologies = Target
4. Business Analysis Frameworks = Above Target

Which is not surprising and Agile was my weakest domain when I did a full and partial mock. I am quite surprised though at getting AT for Business Analysis but I won’t question it.

Anyways that’s it, that’s all I wanted to say. Anyone taking the exam - good luck 🤞

A CAPM candidate I'm working with sent me this question. I do not have the correct answer from them yet, it was during a practice exam. I think it's a bad question.

>A company is using Kanban to manage workflow in an adaptive project environment. The team completes the tasks continuously; however, stakeholders are expressing concerns that some of the completed work is not having an impact on key business goals.

>**What would describe success in this scenario?**

>A. Success is defined solely by completing the highest number of tasks.
B. Success is achieved if the team avoids changes after work starts.
C. Success is achieved by focusing on delivering the most valuable work.
D. Success means finishing the work exactly as defined, even if priorities shift.

Is the question asking how the team defines success? Or...is it asking how the stakeholders define success? In my mind I see C as the correct answer because the stakeholders are expressing concern that they are not getting the value they expected from the product being delivered. However, I could also make a case for D; the team is focused on delivering the tasks, so they are using "work completed" as their metric.

The problem inherent in the question is that the team and the stakeholders are not in alignment on what good looks like, so they have two different definitions of success, and therefore the question "What would describe success in this scenario?" has more than one answer.

In the end I said that I could make a case for all four responses, but only C takes the stakeholder's view into account; the team is delivering work, the stakeholders are expecting an impact to the business goals, so the definition of success has to be C.

Thoughts?

I have a camp exam in 5 days. I took the exam lightly and procrastinated for months and now karma is finally about to hit me. I know I've been a loser but I wanna give it my best shot no matter if I fail or pass. What can I do? Someone please tell me if you have the heart.

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I’ve been taking guidance from this subreddit throughout my CAPM preparation, so I wanted to give back and share exactly what worked for me.

A little background

I’m currently changing my career into Project Management. I had no formal education or professional background in PM, so I was basically starting from scratch.

My journey looked like this:

1️⃣ Started with IIT Delhi’s Project Management course

I enrolled in a Project Management certificate program from IIT Delhi.

It took around 6 months to complete.

Honestly, this was the most important step for me because it gave me a proper foundation.

Before this course, I had a very vague idea of what project management actually involved.

By the end of it, I understood the concepts, terminology, processes, and different approaches much better.

Once I had the foundation, I decided to aim for the CAPM.

2️⃣ Started my CAPM preparation

My approach was:

Read the concepts properly rather than just memorizing them.

Revise everything multiple times.

Organize my preparation according to the CAPM exam domains.

Focus on understanding why something is the correct answer.

Then came Reddit. 😅

I spent quite a bit of time reading what other people who had passed CAPM were using, and two resources kept coming up again and again:

📚 Peter Landini

📱 Pocket Prep

So I decided to purchase both.

3️⃣ Peter Landini

I completed all 8 practice papers from Landini.

My average initially was around 75%.

And honestly, I wasn't very confident at that point.

I knew the concepts, but I wasn't sure whether I was actually exam-ready.

So instead of just repeatedly reading theory, I decided to attack the questions.

4️⃣ Pocket Prep — 2,000 questions

I started working through the 2,000-question set on Pocket Prep.

For the last few weeks, I was extremely consistent with this.

⏱️ Around 3 hours every day

🎯 At least 200 questions in those 3 hours

My average score was around 80%.

The goal wasn't just to get questions right. I wanted to expose myself to as many different ways of asking the same concept as possible.

I finished the entire question set within my last 15 days of preparation.

5️⃣ Back to Landini

After finishing Pocket Prep, I went back to Landini and did the practice sets again, including the mock.

This time, I was scoring close to 87%.

At this point I finally felt like, Okay, maybe I'm actually ready. 😅

6️⃣ The actual exam 😵‍💫

And then came the reality check.

The exam felt very different from the practice questions.

The questions were not straightforward or direct.

Some were easy, but a lot of them were worded in a way that made me think:

"What exactly are they asking me here?" 😂

I genuinely felt underprepared during the exam.

At one point I was convinced I was either failing or, at best, barely passing.

But one thing that helped tremendously was understanding the concepts.

Even when I wasn't immediately sure about the answer, I could usually eliminate 2 options and then work my way toward the most appropriate answer.

So my biggest takeaway is:

Don't prepare by memorizing answers. Understand the concepts.

7️⃣ And then… "Congratulations" 🎉

When I submitted the exam and the screen said CONGRATULATIONS, I literally couldn't believe it.

Then, two days later, I received the official result:

AT — Above Target in ALL domains.

That was honestly a huge surprise because, based on how the exam felt, I was expecting a much less impressive result.

📌 What I would recommend to anyone preparing

If I had to summarize my preparation:

📖 Build the foundation first

Don't jump straight into question banks if you're completely new to project management.

A structured course helped me understand the fundamentals.

📚 Understand the concepts

Read your study material properly.

Revise.

Focus on understanding why an answer is correct.

📝 Do LOTS of practice questions

This was probably the biggest factor in my preparation.

🔥 Use Landini for difficulty

Do all the practice sets.

Don't get discouraged by your initial scores.

My first average was around 75%; later I was around 87%.

🔄 Use Pocket Prep for variety

The 2,000 questions exposed me to many different ways concepts could be tested.

I found this particularly useful for getting comfortable with unfamiliar question patterns.

⏱️ Practice like it's the real exam

Use a timer.

Try doing large sets in one sitting.

Don't always do 10 questions here and 10 questions there.

Train yourself to sit for hours and continuously analyze questions.

And finally:

Don't panic if the actual exam feels harder than your mocks.

I genuinely thought I was failing while taking the exam.

If you've understood the concepts well enough to eliminate options and identify the best answer, you're probably in a much better position than you think.

Thank you to everyone on this subreddit who shared their preparation strategies, resources, scores and experiences. A lot of what I did came from reading posts here, so hopefully this helps someone else who is currently preparing.

Good luck to everyone preparing for CAPM! You've got this. 🚀

Hi. I am taking my capm exam in roughly 2 weeks and I have a question with regards to the break. When you come back from the break are you still able to review the questions they you answered before the break or are only allowed to review/change answers only for the question after the break?

TL;DR: TIA Udemy for the foundation, then AI for targeted practice and reviewing weak areas. Went from about 68% to 88% on my practice exam and passed Above Target in every domain.

Passed the CAPM today and wanted to share what actually helped me, because I got a lot of value out of reading other people’s posts here.

I used the TIA Udemy course as my main foundation. That gave me the structure and terminology, but the biggest thing that helped me toward the end was using AI as a study partner instead of just taking practice tests over and over.

I would give ChatGPT topics I was weak on and have it ask me CAPM-style questions one at a time. I’d answer, get the explanation, and keep going until I stopped mixing up similar concepts.

That was especially helpful for things like:
Manage vs. Monitor Communications
Manage vs. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
Control Quality vs. Validate Scope
Define Scope vs. Create WBS vs. Define Activities
Risk vs. issue
Crashing vs. fast tracking
Resource leveling vs. smoothing
Verification vs. validation
Agile roles, sprint events, backlog questions, MVP, story points, technical debt, etc.

I also uploaded my practice exam and had AI look at the questions I missed and basically tell me, “Here are the patterns in what you’re getting wrong.” That was probably the most useful part.
My first practice score was around 68%. After going back through the misses and drilling those concepts, I retook it and got around 88%.

One thing I’d recommend is not using AI just to give you answers. I got more out of making it challenge me, explain why I was wrong, and then ask me a slightly different version of the same concept.
I also spent some time specifically reviewing Agile in a software/product-development context because I saw people here mention that it comes up a lot. Things like Product Owner responsibilities, changing requirements during a sprint, product backlog prioritization, Definition of Done, acceptance criteria, MVPs, releases, velocity, and customer feedback.

For formulas, I kept it pretty simple. I knew the basic EVM formulas, PERT, communication channels, and float. I didn’t try to memorize every formula imaginable.

The actual exam felt less like “do you remember this definition?” and more like “do you understand what the PM should do next?”

The biggest thing that helped me was slowing down and asking:
Is this a risk or has it already happened?
Are we planning, doing, monitoring, or approving?
Has the change been approved yet?
Is this asking for a process, output, or action?
Are we checking the deliverable or getting formal acceptance?
That mindset helped a lot.

I ended up Above Target in all 4 domains, so the prep worked well for me.

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can anyone share if this is correct why answer is acceptance criteria and not Definition of done ? what's the best way to distinct