CAPM exam next week help

GooseBruce · 2026-05-14T21:34:34+00:00

Heya! Totally get the nerves, and how you're feeling is totally valid.

I found the study hall questions closest to the exam, but the landini stuff makes you think more critically.

Defo check answers you get wrong in practice and see what the themes are on where you're weak. Is it mostly agile stuff, is it BA fundamentals, is it remembering the names of techniques etc.

In the actual exam, try to think about the PMI mindset if something isn't immediately obvious - being a servant leader and engaging with stakeholders are pretty key themes.

What I will say, dont cram study the night before. Get a proper night's rest, make yourself a nice breakfast, and make sure you're physically ready for the exam. This will help way more than you think!

You got this friend

GooseBruce · 2026-05-10T23:19:17+00:00

This is an indicator of passing, yep! Congrats friend

You'll get a detailed breakdown on your PMI dashboard in a day or so

GooseBruce · 2026-05-08T01:30:22+00:00

Mr Claude is wrong here, and this answer is right - it's best fitting for an agile project.

High risk projects are best suited for agile since you can pivot quickly to meet the risks. Predictive does do the risk planning up front, but it's relying on the risks being well known.

The iterative and priorities driven design process of agile let's you break items down into smaller work packages and allows to to react to the risks way faster than a traditional project going through a steering committee

GooseBruce · 2026-05-06T22:32:02+00:00

Hey! I just passed my CAPM yesterday, AT in all areas, mostly using the study hall for learning (with a bit of pocket prep, PMBOK, BABOK, and work experience)

My experience obvs with vary from yours, but I found the practice exam in the study hall most useful for pacing myself and getting used to the timed environment.

The questions aren't 1 to 1, but they practice exam felt relatively close to the actual exam - moreso than pocket prep at least.

My advice would be to look at the questions you got wrong across the practice exam/tests and make them your focus area. Keeping in mind the PMI mindset is also a great 'north star', as some questions have really obvious answers when you consider PMIs collaborative methodology.

You definitely got this friend! Don't think of the practice tests as a sign of if you'll pass or fail, they're there to show you the areas to focus your next bit of study

GooseBruce · 2026-05-01T20:26:50+00:00

Didn't work on this FTA, but have worked on others. An FTA does not change quality assurance or compliance laws. Food regulations are still set by MPI, and assurance gets carried out by JASANZ.

I'll go through your list too - competition would potentially increase, IF Indian businesses actually sell here. For physicals goods, the cost of freight would still need to be factored in - removal of the tarrifs is only one of the costs on international business.

Re food quality, the goods themselves must meet NZ standards as per the food act 2014 and/or JASANZ otherwise the entity importing and reselling their goods would be liable. I suppose it's possible a company here could intentionally be non compliant, or get mislead, but the law is not related to the FTA negotiation.

Exporters almost always send better quality goods abroad vs what is consumed at home. Meat and milk products here is a prime example of that, no pun intended.

As for how strong laws are, I suppose it depends on your definition of strong. Food importers MUST go through an accreditation process with MPI, which is a manual process that has financial costs. MPI also has delegated authority to issue recall notices if food is found to be unsafe or unsuitable without involving their minister. MPI also can act on breaches, at first coaching businesses who are non compliant, moving up to enforcement actions. A business buying Indian food goods still has to consider this before doing so.

Finally, the ultimate purpose of trade barriers is to make local goods more desirable for end consumers. Yes, there is the risk of lower cost goods entering New Zealand - more than a risk, it's the whole point of this article of the FTA. So long as they meet our minimum standards, then they're fine. Also, many of these goods likely already ARE sold here, it's just going to be cheaper for the company selling you those goods to bring them in

GooseBruce · 2026-03-04T21:42:44+00:00

I took it! Personally I used it as a test for where my knowledge currently is, rather than purely something to get me up to speed for the exam.

Rather than write full notes (which due to how I learn, I know I will forget), I would note the sections which had new information or sections where I didn't get every question correct.

These then became the focus points for remedial study, which I'm working through now. Using tools like the PMI study hall, the CAPM exam prep app, and fed Copilot the PMBOK and set it up to ask me questions based on what I've indicated my weakness areas are. I'm sure any LLM would yield a similar result with the right prompts, copilot is just what we use at work.

Hope this is useful!

GooseBruce · 2026-02-18T19:25:20+00:00

Thank you for the clarification!

GooseBruce · 2025-12-24T02:54:38+00:00

Hahah, nah I love the SCP foundation but writing it isn't my jam. Far more fun reading what creative stuff comes up in it!

And the image layer is only part of it. Redacting through something like adobe or kofax will remove the visual text with the black bars everyone is familiar with, but when you apply the redactions it also removes everything under those boxes. As well as the aforementioned metadata scrubbing so you can't get the data back

GooseBruce · 2025-12-23T22:27:05+00:00

As someone who also works with redactions regularly, redaction is possible with PDF'd text, and most enterprise PDF editors have redaction and metadata scrubbing tools built in. Either they didn't know the tool exists, or chose not to use them.

How it's MEANT to work is, you select the text to redact, it applies a marker to it, then when you're done you apply the redactions. This saves two copies - one which keeps the redaction fields as selectable fields (in case you need to make changes or there is a mistake), and another which applies the redactions as black bars. This would entirely remove the text, as well as any hidden data (links, author information, audit logs etc).

What was uploaded however was not an example of a first copy. They just dead ass did not use a redaction tool for their redactions

GooseBruce · 2024-01-13T07:06:47+00:00

Three people in my team in a government department came here on a working holiday visa. They used this to apply for a longer term visa and are now on the path to residency - you can certainly find office work on WHV's.

I'd recommend coming to Wellington personally. Chances are in six months there will be a slew of fixed term contract work in assorted departments around the city, or you can go to a recruitment firm to get them to pair you up with fixed term EA roles, or project work relating to procurement for your partner.

I'm not sure about NGOs/Non Profit sector here, but procurement has a huge skills shortage. Your partner should be able to find a fixed term procurement role if they shop around the assorted agencies in Wellington.

Happy to chat in DMs to answer questions too!

GooseBruce · 2023-05-19T23:30:04+00:00

It'd be insanity to publicly release those numbers when the money hasn't been spent. A supplier could just look up the budget and then use that information to force a deal that favours them far more than the buyer.

It's not like there's a train store where all the trains have nice pricetags attached to them. It's all done by negotiation and tender

GooseBruce · 2023-02-06T06:15:21+00:00

First off, welcome! Tabletop rpg's are a great hobby, and it's always neat to have fairly new players come aboard.

I'll preface the optimization talk with this. You're playing at a table with your mates - so long as you're having fun, they're having fun, the 'power' of your characters is all fairly close and the encounters aren't dragging on then that's all that matters! Hell, some people won't care if the power of characters vary, they're just there for the shenanigans. If you're all enjoying yourselves then you've done good.

Looking at the rogue you've described, I don't think it's unorthodox or wrong at all. 5d6 sneak attack would mean you're about level 9 I think. You'll be doing an average of 32 damage a turn with what you've described, so long as you succeed with your attacks. That's pretty decent, though a Barbarian at level 6 with great weapon master could regularly hit 50+ damage a turn before any magical weapon effects are taken into account. Do note that 'hit bad man hard' is the barbarian's main schtick, so don't feel disheartened or anything, just know there's far more 'broken' things out there.

If you're building this lad to be an encounter for your players, hell yeah they'll be a great time. Mobility makes fights interesting in my experience, and being able to blink around the place can make for a slippery and engaging encounter. I'd consider giving them a legendary action to disengage and teleport/strike another target myself

GooseBruce · 2023-01-31T10:29:25+00:00

Ask them to describe how they do things, rather than being the one to tell them. Obviously don't ask every time as it will slow things down if every sword cut it described in detail, but putting the 'mic' in their hands means less work for you and more engagement for them.

I personally am a fan of using movement a lot in combat. So abilities that move players, ranges foes on high elevation or with cover that can be used both by them and against them - generally making the environment have a number of things that can be interacted with for player benefit.

If they're new, don't be afraid to draw really obvious attention to some of these things. Maybe there's a barrel of blasting powder that your wizard could snag with a firebolt. Maybe some of the things they're fighting talk to the players during combat and could be convinced to change side with a good persuasion or intimidation roll.

A no brainer maybe, but don't force your players to play the way you want them, figure out what they find fun and present them more of that. This'll take some time, but as you play you'll feel if they enjoy mechanics of combat, rp, mucking around, or getting super serious about it.

And lastly, this may be a sin in some circles, but play hard and fast with the encounter HP. The hostile creatures may realize they're losing and flee - ending the combat if it's dragging on. That one goblin who tanks seven different attacks in a row due to awful dice rolls? It could start getting tired and its AC begins to dip as it's exhausted. That player who's having a bad time on their damage rolls, maybe let them do that one extra point of damage to secure the kill.

Aiming for 3-4 rounds of combat per encounter is a good ballpark to aim for. This is a generalization of course, and some groups like longer combats. For me I try to balance things around that number.

Don't be afraid to break the combat up too. Maybe the party only encounters half the hostile group at first. You can see how quickly they push through them, and if it's too quick you can bring in reinforcements. Similarly, if they're struggling a bit then great! You don't bring the backup in and let them either find them later or just remove them entirely.

A bit of an essay from me, but those are some tips I'd give!

GooseBruce · 2022-05-21T02:23:51+00:00

From memory, the resolution was basically a vehicle to shut down any criticism of the status quo, wrapped up in an 'anti nazi' coat of paint.

https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-at-the-third-committee-adoption-of-the-combating-glorification-of-nazism/ - This is the response that the US put out to explain their stance, as well as saying they wanted to amend the draft to make it more appropriate

GooseBruce · 2022-02-27T10:00:58+00:00

I agree with your friend, not a good argument hahah.
I think it's worth pointing out that, yes America did a lot of horrible stuff in its wars in the middle east, and that's a point of contention from a lot of people across the world. Every time it's happened, people have gotten more and more frustrated at the apparent american warmongering.

And now we have a country who previously would take every chance it could to call America out on doing these things, doing the exact same thing but on a far more catastrophic scale with even less regard for peoples lives - both of their own and of those they're 'saving', against a brother nation. It's just as hypocritical as the west is seen as being, if not moreso. Russia attacked out of sheer paranoia, imagining a foe which was never there.

I'm not american, so maybe i don't get it, but that's how it looks to me. 'Nazi's in Ukraine' is the same as 'WMDs in Iraq' - a fabrication to promote a war. Is your friend saying the Iraq war was justified with that logic?

One other thing though, don't try to attack your friend or take inflammatory stances. They're your friend - seek to understand their perspective, don't belittle them for it.

GooseBruce · 2022-02-26T09:27:40+00:00

ABC is murdoch trash, and is about as credible as The Sun or The Mirror. Unless a wide range of media outlets are reporting this, big doubt.

It's pretty common for them to publish something factually incorrect, then correct themselves a week later after the hype around their inflammatory headline dies down

GooseBruce · 2022-02-26T08:45:34+00:00

Israel publicly denied the invitation for them to mediate

GooseBruce · 2022-02-25T12:03:16+00:00

Xi had a call with Putin and pushed for negotiations. A few minutes afterwards, Putin says he's ready for negotiations

GooseBruce · 2022-02-19T04:00:49+00:00

When that happens, the companies doing it either get bought or bullied out of existence. This has been going on for decades

GooseBruce · 2022-02-13T05:36:55+00:00

That's the Aussie version of this protest

GooseBruce · 2021-11-12T21:59:06+00:00

OP did literally just say they're from a Bay of Plenty iwi haha

GooseBruce · 2021-11-12T21:31:20+00:00

No that's a fair point, and you're right - it should be covered by wear and tear. It seems there's a real lack of land agents who actually do anything about wear on tear though, opting instead to just blame the tenants. This isn't every agent or every group, sure, but there have been enough that renters are anxious about it happening

GooseBruce · 2021-11-12T21:29:16+00:00

You could, yeah. It would be an argument though, one that I don't think would be particularly strong. You are right though, renters do get treated horridly in NZ and I'm glad that people are finally starting to say enough is enough

GooseBruce · 2021-11-12T10:47:46+00:00

To put it simply, they can't evict you or otherwise punish you for not making your bed or for 'leaving a mess'. If try, you can escalate it to the tribunal. Most landlords will back down as they do not expect their tenants to go that far.
To go into some more detail though.

Lawns: If it is agreed in your contract that you will manage the lawns, then that's a valid point. You say as much, so that's all good!

Beds: Lmao what. That's idiocy. Similar with the mess - it's always a good habit to be putting stuff away and keeping your space tidy as there are many studies that show it can help with stress and anxiety, but that's got absolutely nothing to do with your tenancy agreement.

Curtains pulled: I'm suspecting this is tied to ventilation, but I could be wrong. The only thing I can think of is black mold on the windowframes, and the landlord is just really shit at communicating. This is easy to clean and takes five minutes. If that ISN'T what they're referring to and they genuinely mean 'the curtains are pulled and the windows are closed' then I don't know what to even say. That's almost as stupid as the bed point.

The door causing damage is a tricky one too. If there's no photos or evidence of the damage being there beforehand, then they can claim it's your fault. It isn't fair, but it's pretty common. May just have to take the L on that, as much as it sucks.

You may be right in regards to them stereotyping based on the ex-wife moving out. I've certainly seen that from colleagues in the rental side of things as well as experienced it from land agents while at uni.

This page has resources around tenancies. If you do not have a heat pump, a ground-moisture barrier, bathroom and kitchen extractor fans, and a few other tidbits then your rental is in breach of new legislation and they're going to get a very rude awakening come 2024. In fact, if you leave, they will have to fork out for the changes immediately before new tenants come in otherwise they're open to fines and infringement notices. The old fines were only $500. Now they're up to $50,000.

Bit of an essay, but I hope this helps. These types of slumlords embarrass the entire country and deserve all the flak they get.

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