CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005)

Explore infrastructure concepts for it projects, including competing services, multi-tiered 3-tier architecture, data storage, data management, data warehouse, networking, and essential documentation.

Explore cloud models, from on-site deployments to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, with examples like AWS Elastic Beanstalk and OpenShift, and understand capital expenses becoming operating expenses.

Explore how enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management integrate with databases, data warehouses, electronic document management systems, content management systems, and financial systems to influence IT projects.

Protect project assets with physical security controls guarding against unauthorized access to buildings, devices, and data. Implement mobile device safeguards, removable media encryption, and layered facility access through clear policies.

Apply operational security to protect sensitive information through background screening and controlled access. Verify certifications, check credit history for financial roles, and set security clearance levels to govern data access.

Strengthen digital security for projects by managing resource access and permissions, enforcing access via virtual network, and implementing multi-factor authentication across knowledge, ownership, biometrics, location, and time with auditing logs.

Explore data classification and data security across the data life cycle, learn to apply classification levels from public to confidential, enforce need-to-know access, and map roles and policies.

Learn how IT security policies and restrictions shape access for project teams and contractors, and how branding and security awareness training protect the organization’s identity.

Analyze environmental, social, and governance factors to assess a project's impact on local and global environments, align with company mission and branding, and navigate applicable regulations.

Explore compliance and privacy considerations for projects by understanding data confidentiality across data states, encryption techniques, and protecting sensitive information under laws like GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA.

Explore predictive, adaptive, and hybrid development approaches, compare their planning, scope, and uncertainty dynamics, and learn to select the best fit for each project context.

Explore the software development life cycle as a predictive model guiding project management, detailing initiation, functional and security requirements, design, development, testing, release, monitoring, maintenance, and change management.

Learn how the Waterfall model operates as a predictive, linear project management approach, detailing requirements, analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

Explore PRINCE2, a strict predictive project management method, covering mandates, initiation, control, and closing, with project boards, detailed briefs, work packages, and stage boundaries.

Explore agile as an adaptive project management approach that emphasizes individuals and collaboration over processes. Learn how incremental delivery and frequent stakeholder feedback drive flexible, value-driven projects.

compare devops and devsecops, showing how devops accelerates delivery through development and operations cycles, while devsecops embeds security at every stage—from plan through monitoring.

Kanban offers a visual, board-based agile method with to-do, doing, and done columns to visualize work, limit work in progress, and improve through explicit policies and feedback.

Explore scrum, an agile framework built around 30-day sprints that deliver a usable form of the product, with roles like scrum master and product owner, and practices as daily scrums.

Explore SAFe, a scaled agile framework, that organizes enterprise work into team, program, and portfolio pillars, integrating value streams, ARTs, budgeting, and releases for cohesive enterprise delivery.

Explore extreme programming (xp), the most specific agile method, guided by simplicity, communication, feedback, courage, and respect. Promote cross-functional teams, pair programming, user stories, and iterations with 10-minute builds.

Compare agile and waterfall methods through criteria for selection, tolerance for change, environment, compliance, team roles, and stakeholder feedback for project success.

Explore how project factors are grouped into constraints, resources, and risks and change control, and how scope, requirements, schedule, budget, quality, stakeholders, procurements, and communications shape outcomes.

Explains the four major project constraints—scope, quality, schedule, and budget—and how trade-offs among them shape delivery, with strategies to adjust resources, schedule, or scope for hard deadlines.

Identify key project resources, including stakeholders, the project team, physical assets, and procurements, and learn how to craft a clear communication plan that protects scope and ensures delivery.

Identify project risks early and prepare plans to mitigate their impact on schedule, budget, and scope; use change control to document, approve, and deploy changes with clear communication.

Collect stakeholder requirements using interviews, brainstorming, focus groups, and surveys; define scope by classifying needs as business, stakeholder, quality, or functional, for predictive or adaptive projects.

Understand the work breakdown structure (WBS) and how to decompose project scope into deliverables, activities, and work packages with unique IDs to estimate, schedule, and budget.

Identify milestones and break them into activities to form a project schedule using the WBS and high-level milestones for stakeholders. Compare predictive and adaptive approaches, including sprints and sprint goals.

Explore how story estimation and story points drive agile projects by breaking epics into user stories, tasks, and a product backlog for sprint planning.

Explore how activities relate and depend on each other, distinguishing mandatory from discretionary and internal from external dependencies. Master finish-to-start, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish relationships for scheduling.

Explore estimating techniques and resource loading to plan schedules and budgets, using 3-point estimates (most likely, optimistic, pessimistic) with triangular or pert methods, plus contingency and management reserves.

Explore how to maintain project schedules through contingency reserves, cadence management, critical path analysis, forecasting, and sprint planning with backlog prioritization.

Explore the difference between revised baseline and rebaseline in project management, including change requests, and how scope, schedule, and cost baselines evolve in predictive and adaptive projects.

Explore cost estimation techniques, budgeting strategies, and forecasting methods to manage project costs using analog, parametric, three-point estimates, reserves, and performance indices.

Learn to manage quality and performance through retrospectives and lessons learned, including sprint and release retrospectives, service level agreements, and KPIs to improve cost, schedule, and scope.

Examine cost and schedule performance using key performance indicators, focusing on schedule variance and cost variance formulas. Demonstrate planned value, earned value, and actual cost with examples.

Explore testing types, including audits, inspections, unit, smoke, regression, stress, performance, and acceptance testing, plus verification, validation, and post-implementation support.

Explore functional, projectized, and matrix organizational structures and how they shape resource availability and project manager authority. Learn how negotiation with functional managers and the matrix balance impact project success.

Understand the resource life cycle from acquisition to decommissioning, including needs assessment, maintenance, end-of-life software, and successor planning for human and physical resources.

Explore resource types and their criticality, including human, physical, and capital resources, internal versus external resources, and shared versus dedicated allocations, with calendars and skills tracking to prevent delays.

Gap analysis helps project managers compare actual resources to desired results, guiding budgeting, procurement, staffing, and decisions on outsourcing or training to bridge gaps and adjust schedules.

Maintain project momentum by applying directive leadership to guide the team through chaos and advance, while leveraging the forming through adjourning stages to foster collaboration and provide ongoing performance feedback.

Identify roles and responsibilities across a project, from sponsor and stakeholders to product owner and scrum master, covering core and extended teams, PMO, program manager, product manager, and key roles.