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CompTIA Project+

Entry-level project management skills for IT professionals.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.
CompTIA
Exam version: V5
Target roleIT project manager

Skills you'll

learn

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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

Everything you need to know before taking the CompTIA Project+ exam.
Exam versionV5
Exam series codePK0-005
Launch dateNovember 8, 2022
Number of questionsMaximum of 90 questions
Types of questionsMultiple-choice and performance-based
Duration90 minutes
Passing score710 (on a scale of 100–900)
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, and Thai
Recommended experienceEquivalent to 6–12 months of hands-on experience managing projects in a tech environment

Exam

objectives

The CompTIA Project+ (V5) exam covers the following domains, weighted by their share of the exam.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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