CAPM Predictive Planning, WBS and Process Group Practice Questions

This topic covers the planning side of the predictive domain: when a plan-based approach fits, what happens in each process group, how the WBS breaks scope into work packages, and how quality and integration plans are applied. Practice original questions with an explanation for every option.

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  • 32 original predictive planning questions, every option explained
  • Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies (17% of the exam)
  • ECO tasks: II-1 Explain when it is appropriate to use a predictive, plan-based approach; II-2 Demonstrate an understanding of a project management plan schedule
Free sample · Question 1 of 3Predictive · Predictive planning

A stakeholder asks the team to add a feature to a predictive project whose scope baseline is approved. What happens first?

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What our predictive planning questions cover

  • When a predictive, plan-based approach fits the project and the organization (virtual, colocated, matrix, hierarchical)
  • The five process groups (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing) and typical activities in each
  • The work breakdown structure, the WBS dictionary and work packages
  • Project components: baselines, subsidiary plans and project documents
  • Applying a quality management plan and an integration management plan; change control
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This list is our own summary of the tasks, written for practice. PMI publishes the full task statements and enablers in the CAPM Examination Content Outline.

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150 questions on the real 3-hour clock, weighted to PMI’s four domains, with the optional break after question 75, a score by domain and topic, and an explanation for every option.

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Ideas the questions test most

  1. A predictive approach fits when the requirements are clear and stable, the technology is well understood and the product has value only when it is complete; scope, schedule and cost are planned up front.
  2. The WBS is a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work. Its lowest level is the work package, which can be estimated, scheduled and assigned. The scope baseline is the scope statement, the WBS and the WBS dictionary.
  3. The five process groups are initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. They are not phases: monitoring and controlling runs throughout the project.
  4. In a predictive project, a change to a baseline goes through integrated change control: log the request, analyze the impact, decide through the change control board, then update the plan.

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Common questions

What is a work package?

The lowest level of the work breakdown structure: a piece of work small enough to estimate cost and duration, schedule, assign to an owner and monitor. Work packages are broken down further into activities for the schedule.

What are the five process groups?

Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. They describe kinds of project management activity and overlap in time; they are not the same as project phases.

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150 questions on the real 3-hour clock, weighted to PMI’s four domains, with the optional break after question 75, a score by domain and topic, and an explanation for every option.

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Domains, tasks and exam format: PMI: Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® Examination Content Outline, 2023 Exam Update · PMI: CAPM certification page (exam length, time, domains, eligibility, retakes), checked November 2026.

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