diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/TestCapacityScheduler.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/TestCapacityScheduler.java
index 447ee3d18f..bf1f6eb63e 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/TestCapacityScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/TestCapacityScheduler.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.BrokenBarrierException;
 import java.util.concurrent.CyclicBarrier;
 
+import com.google.common.base.Supplier;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.token.Token;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier;
+import org.apache.hadoop.test.GenericTestUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.LocalConfigurationProvider;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.ApplicationMasterProtocol;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords.AllocateRequest;
@@ -3626,7 +3628,7 @@ public void testDefaultNodeLabelExpressionQueueConfig() throws Exception {
     Assert.assertEquals(queueInfoB.getDefaultNodeLabelExpression(), "y");
   }
 
-  @Test(timeout = 30000)
+  @Test(timeout = 60000)
   public void testAMLimitUsage() throws Exception {
 
     CapacitySchedulerConfiguration config =
@@ -3754,7 +3756,8 @@ protected RMNodeLabelsManager createNodeLabelManager() {
   private void verifyAMLimitForLeafQueue(CapacitySchedulerConfiguration config)
       throws Exception {
     MockRM rm = setUpMove(config);
-    rm.registerNode("127.0.0.1:1234", 2 * GB);
+    int nodeMemory = 4 * GB;
+    rm.registerNode("127.0.0.1:1234", nodeMemory);
 
     String queueName = "a1";
     String userName = "user_0";
@@ -3770,6 +3773,14 @@ private void verifyAMLimitForLeafQueue(CapacitySchedulerConfiguration config)
         Resource.newInstance(amResourceLimit.getMemorySize() + 2048,
             amResourceLimit.getVirtualCores() + 1);
 
+    // Wait for the scheduler to be updated with new node capacity
+    GenericTestUtils.waitFor(new Supplier<Boolean>() {
+        @Override
+        public Boolean get() {
+          return scheduler.getMaximumResourceCapability().getMemorySize() == nodeMemory;
+        }
+      }, 100, 60 * 1000);
+
     rm.submitApp(amResource1, "app-1", userName, null, queueName);
 
     rm.submitApp(amResource2, "app-2", userName, null, queueName);