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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

What Does This Book Cover?

This book follows that CompTIA Project+ exam blueprint and is divided into chapters that cover major topic areas. Each section is explained in sufficient detail to become a Project+ certified professional. Certain areas have been expanded upon, which are important concepts to know. However, they do not map directly to an exam objective.

You will learn the following information in this book:

  • Chapter 1: Initiating the Project provides a high-level overview of project management, introducing the basic terminology of project management, including the types of organization structures a project manager may work in.
  • Chapter 2: Project Team Roles and Responsibilities outlines the various roles involved in project management, from stakeholders and project champion/sponsors to project manager and project team members.
  • Chapter 3: Creating the Project Charter begins with a detailed discussion of the process groups defined by PMI®: Initiating, Planning, Executing,...