Corporate performance management quiz

Test your corporate performance management (CPM) knowledge by answering 10 multiple-choice quiz questions about CPM software, trends, best practices and more.

Corporate performance management (CPM) -- sometimes referred to as business performance management (BPM) or enterprise performance management (EPM) -- is a rapidly evolving discipline that's increasingly making its way out of finance departments and into the overall enterprise. Now, CPM is often used in conjunction with business intelligence (BI) to drive enterprise-wide performance improvements. The changing market (and varying terms) can make grasping CPM basics and best practices confusing.

Think you know your stuff? Take the quiz below to see how CPM savvy you really are -- and then click on "see how you did" for the correct answers and detailed explanations. Good luck!

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