CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) Practice Exam — All Questions

Within business analysis, what is 'elicitation'?

• a.Formally closing out project contracts
• b.Assigning tasks to team members during execution
• c.Drawing out information about needs and requirements from stakeholders and other sources✓
• d.Calculating the project's return on investment

Elicitation is the activity of drawing out and discovering requirements and other information from stakeholders and sources, using techniques such as interviews, workshops, observation, and document analysis.

Which type of requirement describes a specific behavior or function that a solution must perform, such as 'the system shall send a confirmation email'?

• a.A non-functional requirement
• b.A functional requirement✓
• c.A business requirement
• d.A transition requirement

Functional requirements specify what the solution must do, its behaviors and functions. Non-functional requirements describe qualities such as performance or security, while business requirements state higher-level goals.

What is the primary purpose of a requirements traceability matrix?

• a.To assign a monetary value to each stakeholder
• b.To schedule the project's iterations
• c.To record risks and their response owners
• d.To link requirements to their origin and track them through to the deliverables that satisfy them✓

A requirements traceability matrix connects each requirement to its source and to the deliverables, tests, and objectives it supports. It helps ensure every approved requirement is delivered and nothing is added without justification.

When prioritizing requirements, the MoSCoW technique groups them into which categories?

• a.Must have, should have, could have, and won't have (this time)✓
• b.Mandatory, optional, deferred, and rejected
• c.High, medium, low, and none
• d.Functional, non-functional, business, and transition

MoSCoW prioritizes requirements as Must have, Should have, Could have, and Won't have (for now). It helps stakeholders agree on what is essential versus desirable within the available time and resources.

In agile requirements work, what is 'backlog refinement' (grooming)?

• a.Deleting the backlog and starting a new one each iteration
• b.A one-time activity done only at project start
• c.The ongoing activity of adding detail, estimates, and order to backlog items✓
• d.The act of assigning backlog items permanently to individuals

Backlog refinement is the continuous activity of reviewing backlog items, adding detail and estimates, splitting large items, and reordering them so upcoming work is ready and well understood.