Who this is for
- Graduates and NYSC professionals targeting project coordination.
- Career changers moving into project support.
- Coordinators who are not yet eligible for PMP® and refuse to wait with no credential.
Edge Line® Careers · PMI · Exam preparation
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
CAPM® — Start Your Project Management Career
For graduates, career changers, and developing professionals who want to establish a foundation or switch to project management.
Career focus: Project Coordinator, Project Administrator, Junior Project Professional.
Next cohort
14 November 2026
14 November 2026
Exam-prep cohort · 23 contact hours
Physical and virtual · Lagos · Abuja · Zoom
This class has started
Ask an adviser about the next intake.
Class starts 14 November 2026.
Why the market wants this
Entry project roles ask for ‘knowledge of project management’ and then hire the person who can prove it. CAPM® is that proof while your hours are still building.
Why enrol on this intake
Waiting until you qualify for PMP® leaves you uncertified in the roles you need in order to qualify. Start here. The exam invoice is separate.
Enrol nowWhat you stand to gain
Pay
Project-coordination offers move when you can show a PMI® credential, not only a degree.
Leadership
You learn the language of leading work before you are handed a team with no map.
Promotion
CAPM® is the step boards and supervisors recognise on the way to a project-lead title.
Remote and international work
It is a PMI® credential. Remote and international coordinators are screened with it.
INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATIONS
PMP® · CAPM®
PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP)
Edge Line® Careers is an Authorized Training Partner (ATP) with Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP® and CAPM® certification training.
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Why this credential.
Build a recognised foundation in project management—even without extensive project-leadership experience. Ideal for graduates, career changers, project coordinators and professionals preparing for entry-level project roles. CAPM® is PMI’s associate credential: no months leading projects are required. An active CAPM® later waives the 35-hour training gate on a PMP® application.
Graduates and NYSC alumni entering PMO, coordinator or analyst roles.
Career changers who need PMI language before they have three years leading projects.
PMP® candidates who still need documented project-management education and a first PMI credential.
The exam you will sit.
Facts below follow the current public outline. Our advisers walk you through eligibility and the application.
- Awarding body
- PMI
- Questions
- 150 (135 scored + 15 pretest)
- Time
- 180 minutes · one 10-minute break
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE centre or online proctor
- Experience gate
- None — education + 23 hours
- Age
- At least 18
Content outline
After each block: what you will do, and the strength you leave with.
Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
36%
Exam weight
On the job you will walk into a kick-off and use the same language as the project manager: lifecycle, roles, constraints, and how work is structured from start to close. You will tell a project from operations, name who owns what, and follow how value is supposed to be delivered. This is the largest CAPM® domain — the vocabulary hiring managers expect. Strength you leave with: you sound like you belong in a PMO or coordinator seat, not like you memorised a slide deck.
Business Analysis Frameworks
27%
Exam weight
You leave able to take a fuzzy request and turn it into a requirement a team can actually deliver. You will identify stakeholders, capture needs, and keep analysis from silently changing the scope. Coordinators who can do this get trusted with conversations — not only with the minutes. Strength you leave with: you protect delivery by making the need visible before work is wasted. This domain is 27% of the exam and is where many first-time candidates under-prepare.
Agile Frameworks / Methodologies
20%
Exam weight
In an agile or hybrid team you will work without slowing delivery down. You will know the events, artifacts and accountabilities, and you will be able to say when adaptive work is the right call versus a locked plan. Strength you leave with: you stop treating “agile” as a slogan. You can explain why a Daily Scrum is for the Developers, when a backlog item is Done, and how to sit in a stand-up without turning it into a status meeting for the boss.
Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies
17%
Exam weight
On plan-driven work you will read a baseline, follow a critical path, and see why a date moved instead of guessing. You will use plan-based tools for scope, schedule and cost on the projects that still run that way — construction, compliance, government, capital work. Strength you leave with: you become useful on the plan, not only in the chat. This is 17% of the CAPM® outline; we still drill it so you do not give those marks away.
| Domain | Weight | Strength you leave with |
|---|---|---|
| Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts | 36% | You sound like you belong in a PMO seat on day one. |
| Business Analysis Frameworks | 27% | You turn a fuzzy request into a requirement a team can deliver. |
| Agile Frameworks / Methodologies | 20% | You sit in a Scrum or hybrid team without slowing it down. |
| Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies | 17% | You can read a baseline and see why a date moved. |
Eligibility — what the body actually checks.
- Secondary degree (high school, GED or global equivalent) — PMI’s published CAPM® path.
- At least 23 hours of project-management education completed before you sit.
- At least 18 years old.
- PMI reviews the application. Edge Line® Careers documents the education hours; PMI decides.
How we prepare you.
- 01
PM fundamentals
Projects vs operations, value, tailoring and the language hiring managers use.
- 02
Predictive delivery
Scope, schedule, cost and the plan-based 17% of the outline.
- 03
Agile and hybrid
Scrum events, artifacts and when adaptive work is the right call.
- 04
Business analysis
The 27% domain: needs, requirements and stakeholder collaboration.
- 05
Exam technique
Scenario items, matching and timed mocks at CAPM® length.
What the training includes
- Certificate of Completion
- 23 contact hours documented for your PMI application
- CAPM® training materials
- Recordings of every class session
- LMS access for up to 6 months
- 700+ exam-style questions, mocks and simulators
- Application and exam-booking assistance