CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) Practice Exam

CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) Practice Exam

About CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) Exam

The CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) exam has been developed for IT professionals tasked with handling smaller, simpler projects alongside their primary responsibilities, yet requiring fundamental project management expertise. The exam focuses on vital project management principles that extend beyond one single methodology or framework. The CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) exam equips individuals with the necessary methodologies, frameworks, and Agile proficiencies essential for proficiently overseeing and completing IT projects, while also addressing emerging areas like change management and compliance.

Who should take the CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) exam?

The CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005 is suitable for professionals looking after managing less complex projects and also responsible for managing the project life cycle, ensuring appropriate communication, managing resources, and maintaining project documentation.

• IT Project Manager
• Project Coordinator
• IT Support Manager
• Business Analyst
• IT Manager
  

What skills do you learn?

The CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) focuses on learning the following skills - 

• Project Fundamentals: Focuses on covering the essential elements such as project properties, phases, scheduling, roles, responsibilities, cost management, and introducing fundamental aspects of Agile methodology.
  
• Project Constraints: Addressing the effects of diverse constraint factors and influences across the project lifecycle, emphasizing the significance of risk management strategies and actions.
  
• Communication and Change Control: Exploring suitable communication techniques for influencing stakeholders and managing changes effectively within the project framework.
  
• Project Resources and Documentation: Delving into a range of project management tools and documentation essential for managing projects and collaborating with partners efficiently.

What is the recommended Experience?

Candidates are suggested to have equivalent to at least 6–12 months of hands-on experience managing projects in an IT environment 

Exam Details

• Exam Name: CompTIA Project+
• Exam Code: PK0-005
• Total Questions: 90 questions
• Type of Questions: Multiple-choice (single and multiple responses) and performance-based
• Exam Duration: 90 Minutes
• Passing Score: 710 (on a scale of 100-900)
• Exam Language: English, Japanese, Thai

Course Outline 

The CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) Exam covers the following topics - 

Domain 1 - 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.

Domain 2 - 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.

Domain 3 - 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.

Domain 4 - 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.