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CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide

By : J. Ashley Hunt
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CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide

By: J. Ashley Hunt

Overview of this book

The CompTIA Project+ exam is designed for IT professionals who want to improve their career trajectory by gaining certification in project management specific to their industry. This guide covers everything necessary to pass the current iteration of the Project+ PK0-004 exam. The CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide starts by covering project initiation best practices, including an understanding of organizational structures, team roles, and responsibilities. You’ll then study best practices for developing a project charter and the scope of work to produce deliverables necessary to obtain formal approval of the end result. The ability to monitor your project work and make changes as necessary to bring performance back in line with the plan is the difference between a successful and unsuccessful project. The concluding chapters of the book provide best practices to help keep an eye on your projects and close them out successfully. The guide also includes practice questions created to mirror the exam experience and help solidify your understanding of core project management concepts. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop creative solutions for complex issues faced in project management.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Developing the project schedule

Let’s look at the road so far. First, you created a task list and milestones by decomposing the work packages in your WBS. Then, you sequenced activities based on dependencies and relationships. After which, you estimated your resources and durations, taking into consideration dates, and effort, lead, and lag time, along with those estimates for the duration of the tasks. Now, we have a schedule. What we don’t have is a finish date, a total duration, and the answer to the question of how long it will take. That brings us to schedule creation. There are several techniques we will go through and I’m sure you have noticed that time management takes a lot of time to review!

The techniques we will cover are these:

  • Critical path
  • Critical chain
  • Monte Carlo technique
  • Schedule compression
  • Resource optimization

Before we dive into the...