Project +

Project +

Duration: On Demand

Language: English

CompTIA Project+ is the only industry certification designed to teach IT pros the entry-level skills they need to successfully manage small to medium-sized projects. It showcases professionals’ capabilities in planning, executing, and delivering projects on time and within scope while ensuring effective communication and resource management. CompTIA Project+ focuses on practical, hands-on skills to tackle real-world project challenges. Prepare for your Project+ (V5) certification with access to the Project+ Complete Bundle with Voucher Plus Retake Assurance. This all-in-one solution provides the knowledge, hands-on skills, and exam prep tools you need to succeed.

What’s included: Exam voucher, Certmaster Learn+Labs and Practice Exams.

Project management concepts (33%)

• Project characteristics and methodologies: Explaining project characteristics, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Agile vs. waterfall: Comparing criteria for selection, team composition, and communication methods.
• Change control: Applying project-specific change control and management processes.
• Risk management: Identifying risks, analyzing responses, and understanding roles and responsibilities.
• Issue management: Tracking issues, resolving them, and documenting outcomes.
• Schedule management: Identifying milestones, sequencing activities, estimating resources, and maintaining schedules.
• Quality and performance management: Comparing retrospectives, sprint reviews, service-level agreements (SLAs), key performance indicators (KPIs), audits, and testing cycles.
• Communication management: Assessing methods, developing platforms, and managing communication.
• Meeting management: Setting agendas, assigning roles, timeboxing, and documenting action items.
• Team and resource management: Analyzing resource gaps, managing team performance, and defining roles.
• Procurement and vendor selection: Evaluating vendors, contracts, and procurement methods.

Project life cycle phases (30%)

• Discovery phase artifacts: Explaining business cases, prequalified vendors, and financial concepts.
• Project initiation: Developing project charters, identifying stakeholders, creating responsibility assignment matrices (RAMs), and conducting kickoff meetings.
• Project planning: Assigning resources, developing communication plans, defining scope, creating schedules, and performing risk assessments.
• Project execution: Managing tasks, vendors, meetings, budgets, conflicts, and phase gate reviews.
• Project closing: Validating deliverables, closing contracts, releasing resources, archiving documentation, and conducting closure meetings.

Tools and documentation (19%)

• Project tools: Using Gantt charts, burndown charts, PERT (program evaluation review technique) charts, issue logs, change logs, risk registers, dashboards, and time- tracking tools.
• Productivity tools: Comparing communication, collaboration, meeting, documentation, scheduling, and ticketing tools.
• Quality and performance charts: Analyzing histograms, Pareto charts, scatter diagrams, fishbone diagrams, burnup/burndown charts, and decision trees.

Basics of IT and governance (18%)

• Environmental, social, and governance (ESG): Summarizing project impacts on the environment, regulations, company values, and brand value.
• Information security: Explaining physical, operational, digital, and data security concepts.
• Compliance and privacy: Understanding confidentiality, legal impacts, and privacy regulations.
• IT concepts: Summarizing infrastructure, cloud models, and software basics.
• Change control: Explaining IT infrastructure change control, software change control, CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment), and production vs. staging environments.

Exam details

• Exam version: V5
• Exam series code: PK0-005 Launch date: November 8, 2022
• Number of questions: maximum of 90 questions
• Types of questions: multiple-choice and performance-based Duration: 90 minutes
• Passing score: 710 (on a scale of 100-900) Languages: English, Japanese, and Thai
• Recommended experience: equivalent to 6–12 months of hands-on experience managing projects in a tech environment

Skills learned

• Understand the properties of a project, including phases, schedules, roles and responsibilities, cost controls, and the fundamental aspects of agile methodology.
• Analyze the impact of various constraint variables and influences throughout a project while applying risk strategies and activities.
• Implement appropriate communication methods and change control processes within the context of a project.
• Utilize various project management tools and create project and partner-centric documentation to support project success.

Prepare for your Project+ (V5) certification with access to the Project+ Complete Bundle with Voucher Plus Retake Assurance. This all-in-one solution provides the knowledge, hands-on skills, and exam prep tools you need to succeed.

What’s included:

•  Voucher Plus Retake Assurance  CertMaster Learn+ Labs
•  CertMaster Practice

*All included products must be redeemed within 12 months of purchase.

Key benefits:

• Exam attempt with retake assurance: Take your exam confidently, knowing you’re covered to retake it if needed.
• Comprehensive preparation: Master Project+ objectives with lessons, labs, and practice tools.
• Interactive learning: Engage with videos, quizzes, and performance-based questions.
• Real-world application: Complete tasks in simulated environments with actionable feedback.
• Extensive practice: Access hundreds of questions, assessments, and timed practice tests to reinforce your knowledge.
• Gradable assessments: Track your progress with actionable feedback from labs and practice tools.
• Year-long access: Study anytime with 12 months of training