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V5
Project+
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.
Skills you'll learn
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.
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
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| Best for: |
Best for those looking to build skills, learn concepts, and gain hands-on experience. No prior related job role experience needed. |
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Comprehensive learning with robust set of lab activities in real and simulated environments to practice skills and job readiness. |
Comprehensive learning with lab activities to practice skills. |
Confirm exam readiness and close gaps. |
Apply skills in real-world scenarios. |
| Contains: |
Instructional content, video, interactives, labs (simulated and live virtual machines), assessments, practice tests |
Instructional content, video, interactives, labs (simulated), assessments, practice tests |
Timed practice exams, objective quizzes, exam objective mastery scores |
Live virtual lab environment with guided tasks and real world-scenarios |
| Estimated duration: |
30–60 hours |
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Project+ (V5) exam objectives
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.
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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.
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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.