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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)

What will you learn?

Everything we will cover can be found on CompTIA's exam content outline overview on the CompTIA website (https://www.comptia.org/).

You'll want to review the topics that are tested on and how each topic weighs as far as your score is concerned. The following is an overview of the skills you will learn in this guide and an overview of the exam information. All chapters have review questions to help target your exam studies, plus you'll gain an understanding of the best study tips to pass the exam the first time. When you review the exam content outline on the CompTIA website, you'll see it is broken down into several categories:

  • Project basics
  • Project constraints
  • Communication and change management
  • Project tools and documentation

All exam questions fall under these domains or categories. The following section shows everything we will cover in this guide, along with the correlating domains found on the CompTIA website.

The CompTIA website walks you through everything you will need to know for your exam: https://certification.comptia.org/certifications/project.

Exam objectives (domains)

Here are the list of things that we will cover in this guide:

Domain

% of Exam

1.0 Project Basics

36%

2.0 Project Constraints

17%

3.0 Communication and Change Management

26%

4.0 Project Tools and Documentation

21%

Total

100%