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CompTIA Project+ Study Guide: Exam PK0-004 - Second Edition

By : Kim Heldman
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CompTIA Project+ Study Guide: Exam PK0-004 - Second Edition

By: Kim Heldman

Overview of this book

The CompTIA Project+ Study Guide, Second Edition is your comprehensive resource for taking Exam PK0-004. With 100% coverage of all exam objectives, this book gives you everything you need to approach the exam with confidence. Detailed explanations and superior study tools cover and reinforce setup, initiation, planning, execution, delivery, change, control, communication, and closure, and the author Kim Heldman's twenty-five years of project management experience provide deep insight into real-world applications. The book contains detailed explanations and superior study tools that cover and reinforce all the exam objectives. You’ll begin by tackling questions related to pre-project setup and project initiation. Then you’ll solve questions about creating a project charter and planning it. You’ll also take questions about developing schedules and budgets and project execution. The later chapters provide questions on managing change, control, and communication. Finally, you’ll be given questions on project closure. By the end of the book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to be confident on exam day.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Acknowledgments
2
About the Author
15
Advert
16
EULA

Review Questions

  1. You are asked to prepare an estimate for a project that involves planting new trees in the parking lot. The trees cost $800 each, and the labor to install them is $75 per hour. You are planting 10 new trees, and each tree takes one hour of labor to plant, stake, and water. What is the estimated cost of the labor for this project, and which technique are you using to determine this estimate? Choose two.

    1. $8,000
    2. Three-point estimate
    3. Bottom-up method
    4. $750
    5. Analogous method
    6. Parametric method
    7. $8,750
  2. Top-down estimating is another name for which type of estimating technique?

    1. Parametric estimating
    2. Analogous estimating
    3. Three-point estimating
    4. Expert judgment
  3. The total time it will take for one person to complete a task from beginning to end without taking into account holidays, time off, or other project work is known as this.

    1. Duration estimate
    2. Work effort estimate
    3. Bottom-up estimate
    4. Parametric estimate
  4. A discretionary fund used by the project manager to cover...