Project+

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.

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.

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