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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)

Requirement documentation

Collecting requirements is easier said than done. It’s important to make sure that you speak to the right stakeholders, ask for clarification as needed, and document the requirements in such a way that you can trace and manage them throughout the project. It’s also an iterative process that could involve project scope or product scope requirements, which are two vastly different things. Project scope is what you are learning about in this guide. It’s the best practices, tools and techniques, documentation, and diverse ways of managing your projects effectively – all of which are dependent on the product scope requirements.

This spot is as good as any to stop and remind you that reading carefully is the most important exam tip I can give you. Project management exams are notoriously vague in the situational questions they present...