Important ICMA Announcements: Take a Prometric Test Drive

CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) candidates are advised of the following important announcements:

All 2025 Exam Windows Are Now Open

The 2025 windows for the CMA exam—January/February, May/June, and September/October—are now open. To register to take the exam in 2025, please visit the exam registration page.

Note that starting in September 2024, the exam reflects updates and additions in the areas of data management, internal controls testing/remediation, data ethics, and business fraud. The new names of Part 2 content areas are:

  • Business Decision Analysis (formerly Decision Analysis)
  • Enterprise Risk Management (formerly Risk Management)
  • Capital Investment Decisions (formerly Investment Decisions)

Take a Prometric Test Drive

Want to ease your exam-day stress? Did you know that for a small fee, you can take a “test drive” to see what the actual experience of taking an exam at a Prometric testing center will be like?

This special “test drive” experience allows you the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in an exact exam-day experience, before your actual testing date. Test drives provide the opportunity for CMA candidates to take a 30-minute "dry-run" of the complete in-center, computer-based experience prior to their exam. It will walk you through in-center check-in procedures, such as ID and paperwork verification, while making sure you know exactly where to go on exam day. While the test drive will not necessarily reflect the exact questions or content of the CMA exam, it will allow you to experience samples of question types that you might encounter on the actual exam.

The option is available at Prometric testing centers around the world. You can find out all the details and schedule your appointment at Prometric Test Drive.

Changing or Canceling Exam Dates

Candidates may request a transfer to the next testing window for a fee under the following circumstances:

  • To submit a request to change your exam to the next testing window, you must complete the Exam Switch Form. To submit the form, your membership and entrance fee must be active, you cannot have a scheduled appointment, and you must agree to pay the applicable fees. These fees cannot be waived.
  • If you have an exam appointment, the exam appointment must be canceled before the transfer request can be processed. If your appointment is not canceled in time, ICMA cannot switch your registration.
  • Prometric will charge a fee if you are canceling or rescheduling your exam within three to 30 days of the appointment date. This fee cannot be waived.

Candidates also have the option to reschedule their appointment within the same testing window. Prometric will charge a fee to candidates who reschedule/cancel appointments within three to 30 days of the scheduled test date. No payment will be due to ICMA for this option.

If you miss your appointment, or if you cancel your exam within three days (72 hours) of your scheduled appointment, you will be considered a “no-show” and you will forfeit your exam fee.

Remember: Both exam parts must be successfully completed within three years of the date of entry into the CMA program. Entrance fees cannot be extended.

Candidate Conduct

Question Sharing: Sharing CMA multiple-choice and essay exam questions with others after taking the exam is a violation of ICMA’s examinee conduct policy and is considered cheating. CMA candidates will be expelled from the CMA program if they disclose CMA exam questions:

  • To other candidates
  • To review course providers
  • On social media or any other online forum

Cheating: Examinees who are caught cheating will have their grades invalidated and be expelled from the CMA program. Cheating includes copying answers during the exam, using unauthorized materials during the exam, helping another candidate during the exam, removing exam materials from the testing room, disclosing exam questions to others, and/or falsifying credentials.

Copyright Violation: In addition, any reproduction, reuse, or distribution of CMA review course materials without prior written permission from the publisher is illegal and a material violation of the IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practice. A CMA candidate who reproduces, reuses, or distributes CMA materials without prior authorization from the publisher is subject to legal action as well as expulsion from the CMA program.

Violation of these policies is also a violation of IMA’s ethics policy and will result in expulsion from IMA.

Exam Prep Resources

All candidates are reminded about the helpful CMA Candidate Resource Center on the IMA website, which features useful videos, practice questions, study guides, webinars, and other resources to help candidates pass the exam.

Candidates should also become familiar with the CMA Handbook, which contains all the information about the exam program, requirements, scores, etc. Many candidate questions are answered in this handbook.

For questions about any of these announcements, please contact ima@imanet.org.