BTA CBPM Certification Sample Questions

01. Four competing grain traders will share a permissioned ledger for an agriculture provenance MVP. Each trader's negotiated contract prices with growers are commercially sensitive, but buyers need to verify that the contract terms attached to a shipment have not changed since signing.
What should the project manager recommend for the contract price data?
a) Keep prices off-chain; anchor a salted hash of each contract
b) Record the prices on-chain and restrict access through the user interface of each trader's application
c) Leave the contracts out of the MVP and add them after the network has launched
d) Record the prices on-chain in encrypted form and share the decryption key with every participant

02. The development partner for a carbon-credit registry MVP plans to deploy the credit-issuance smart contract next month. Asked how a defect found after launch would be fixed, the partner says the team will 'work that out if it happens'.
What should the project manager require before deployment?
a) A commitment from the partner to deploy a corrected version quickly, whenever a registry participant reports a production defect
b) An agreed upgrade approach for the contract, including how participants approve a change
c) An extended warranty provision in the development contract, covering any defect discovered after deployment
d) A delay until the MVP has been fully specified

03. A PoC for a shared pharmaceutical batch-release ledger succeeded. The sponsor, facing a partner deadline in ten weeks, asks the project manager to "just harden the PoC" into the MVP.
The PoC contracts were deployed without any upgrade mechanism, all partners' signing keys were generated and held in one shared test vault, and security review was out of scope.
What should the project manager propose?
a) Ask the partners to move their deadline by six months
b) Harden the PoC code with a security audit and ship it as the MVP by the deadline
c) Keep the PoC running for the deadline and rebuild it properly in the background afterwards
d) Build the MVP anew from the PoC's lessons, narrowing scope to meet the date

04. On a live seafood-provenance MVP, a processor's staff recorded a batch as wild-caught when the invoice shows it was farmed. Retailers have already used the entry on shelf labels. The processor asks the project manager to have all node operators remove the entry so that the ledger shows no trace of the mistake.
Which response should the project manager recommend?
a) Remove the entry through the node operators, then record a note explaining the removal
b) Ask the node operators to coordinate a rollback of the ledger to a point before the entry was made
c) Record a correcting entry that references the original, and notify the retailers who relied on it
d) Leave the ledger unchanged, as an immutable record is not open to correction

05. Five pharmaceutical distributors are joining a returns-tracking MVP on a shared ledger. During integration planning the team finds that each distributor identifies products differently: two use national product codes, one uses internal SKUs and two use supplier catalog numbers.
What should the project manager prioritize before integration build starts?
a) Adopting the identifier scheme of the largest distributor, as it carries the most returns volume on the network
b) Letting each distributor write its own identifiers to the ledger and reconciling them in monthly reports
c) Deferring the identifier question until after go-live
d) Agreement on a shared product identifier and a mapping from each distributor's codes

06. Nine months after an MVP launched for tracking recycled-plastic shipments on a consortium blockchain, three of the eight member firms have quietly stopped running their nodes. The remaining members' IT teams report that the software is stable. The firms that stopped say they carry hosting costs while the two largest members receive most of the benefit.
What is the most likely root cause the project manager should address?
a) Weak IT skills at the three firms
b) Instability in the node software and hosting that the IT teams have not yet detected
c) An unbalanced cost and benefit arrangement among members
d) An MVP scope too minimal to hold the members' continued interest

07. An insurer is planning the MVP for a shared claims ledger with two reinsurers. The engineering lead's estimate covers smart contracts, node setup and a claims-submission screen. Each of the three companies will need the ledger to exchange data with its existing core policy administration system.
What should the project manager do with this estimate before baselining the MVP plan?
a) Add a ten percent contingency to the ledger components and baseline the plan with its current scope and dates
b) Accept it, as the ledger components, not integration, are the largest source of uncertainty
c) Ask the reinsurers to estimate their own integration effort once the MVP is live
d) Add integration with each company's core system, and the related change work, as a major workstream

08. Six regional hospitals are preparing to launch an MVP of a shared blockchain network for verifying clinician credentials. During go-live planning, one hospital's CIO asks what would happen to its node, its access and the credential records it has written if it left the consortium next year. Nobody has an answer.
What should the project manager recommend?
a) Agree member exit rules in the consortium agreement before launch
b) Promise that a departing hospital's records will be deleted from the ledger
c) Keep every member's node running after exit
d) Record the question in the risk log and revisit it when a member leaves

09. A commodity-grading MVP will record grading certificates on a shared ledger for growers, grain elevators and buyers. The legacy archive holds 22 years of certificates in three formats, with quality varying by decade. Buyers need certificates for grain currently in storage, roughly the last two seasons. The data team estimates that validating the full archive would take nine months.
What should the project manager conclude about migrating historical certificates?
a) Migrate the full archive without validation, accepting that older records may be less reliable
b) Check and load only the certificates for current stock
c) Launch with no historical certificates, so that only newly graded grain is recorded on the ledger
d) Migrate the full 22-year archive before launch, as a complete history gives buyers the most value

10. In a community energy-trading MVP, households sell surplus solar power to neighbors in 15-minute settlement intervals. Tests so far were run at low overnight volumes, where trades became final within several minutes. No test has yet been run at the evening peak, when most trading happens.
What should the project manager conclude?
a) Hold off setting the MVP scope until peak-time finality is tested against the 15-minute window
b) Settlement intervals should be lengthened to a day to suit the ledger
c) The ledger should be replaced with a centralized database run by the local utility
d) The overnight results already fit inside the window, so finality can be treated as settled for the MVP