CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) Exam Blueprint

Explaining project characteristics, methodologies, and frameworks.

Comparing criteria for selection, team composition, and communication methods.

Applying project-specific change control and management processes.

Identifying risks, analyzing responses, and understanding roles and responsibilities.

Tracking issues, resolving them, and documenting outcomes.

Identifying milestones, sequencing activities, estimating resources, and maintaining schedules.

Comparing retrospectives, sprint reviews, service-level agreements (SLAs), key performance indicators (KPIs), audits, and testing cycles.

Assessing methods, developing platforms, and managing communication.

Setting agendas, assigning roles, timeboxing, and documenting action items.

Analyzing resource gaps, managing team performance, and defining roles.

Evaluating vendors, contracts, and procurement methods.

Explaining business cases, prequalified vendors, and financial concepts.

Developing project charters, identifying stakeholders, creating responsibility assignment matrices (RAMs), and conducting kickoff meetings.

Assigning resources, developing communication plans, defining scope, creating schedules, and performing risk assessments.

Managing tasks, vendors, meetings, budgets, conflicts, and phase gate reviews.

Validating deliverables, closing contracts, releasing resources, archiving documentation, and conducting closure meetings.

Using Gantt charts, burndown charts, PERT (program evaluation review technique) charts, issue logs, change logs, risk registers, dashboards, and time-tracking tools.

Comparing communication, collaboration, meeting, documentation, scheduling, and ticketing tools.

Analyzing histograms, Pareto charts, scatter diagrams, fishbone diagrams, burnup/burndown charts, and decision trees.

Summarizing project impacts on the environment, regulations, company values, and brand value.

Explaining physical, operational, digital, and data security concepts.

Understanding confidentiality, legal impacts, and privacy regulations.

Summarizing infrastructure, cloud models, and software basics.

Explaining IT infrastructure change control, software change control, CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment), and production vs. staging environments.