ACSM Certified Personal Trainer Exam

010-111 is ACSM's Certified Personal Trainer (ACSM-CPT) exam: 135 multiple-choice questions (120 scored), 150 minutes, passing scaled score of 550 out of 200–800. It's a clinically-oriented cert — exercise physiology, anatomy, and safe program design for both healthy clients and those with medically cleared health conditions.

Domain II (Exercise Programming and Implementation) is 43% of the exam on its own, so it deserves the most study time of the four domains.

Exam Domain Breakdown
These four domains come directly from ACSM's official Exam Content Outline, effective July 10, 2025.

I. Initial Client Consultation and Assessment : 25%

Intake paperwork, health history, informed consent, risk stratification, and selecting/administering fitness assessments

II. Exercise Programming and Implementation : 43%

FITT principle, exercise selection, program design, demonstrating exercises, monitoring technique, and progressions

III. Exercise Leadership, Client Education and Client Engagement : 22%

Motivation and adherence strategies, basic nutrition education, and collecting client feedback

IV. Legal and Professional Responsibilities :10%

Scope of practice, emergency action plans, risk management, confidentiality, HIPAA/FERPA basics