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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)

Defining tasks

Remember when we discussed the work breakdown structure (WBS) and you reviewed how to decompose large deliverables down to the work package level? Now, we will take those work packages and decompose them to the task level. This is where the WBS begins to influence the schedule but is still not a schedule. We will use the WBS to get to the task level, and once that occurs we will have a task list and milestones that will guide the creation of the actual schedule and the baseline. I realize that for the most part I’m writing philosophy here. We are involved in the realm of easier said than done right now. This piece can be very time consuming especially if you have never done a project before or you are working on something totally new. For the sake of the exam, the defining of tasks process is self-explanatory, meaning you don’t need to know a whole...