Joseph Phillips: Project+ Certification Details

The CompTIA examination has 80 multiple choice exam questions which you must score at least a 499 to pass. The exam lasts for up to 90 minutes. The cost of this exam is $225 per attempt, and you can register online through their website. The exam is computer-based, and you’ll take your exam at Pearson VUE or Thompson Prometric Testing centers. Before taking this exam you should, of course, visit CompTIA for the latest and most up-to-date version of the exam objectives. I’ve created an exam objective summary below:

Project Initiation and Scope Definition

This portion of the Project+ exam is worth 20% of the exam. Here’s what you’ll be tested on:

• Working with the project customer to create a high-level scope statement
• Defining the high-level business and technical requirements, project results, and the criteria for project success. This objective includes the balance of the project’s time, cost, scope, and risk
• Identify the project roles and responsibilities such as the project manager, the project sponsor, stakeholders, and the project team
• Creating the project charter and having it approved by the appropriate party

Project Planning

This exam domain is worth 30% of the exam. In this section you’ll be tested on:

• Creating the project scope statement
• Creating a WBS
• Identifying the project life cycle and strategy to complete the project
• Creating the project schedule
• Creating a list of resources needed to complete the project work
• Creating the project’s cost estimate and budget
• Completing risk analysis and risk responses
• Creating a communications management plan
• Creating a quality management plan
• Compiling the project management plan
• Validating the stakeholder expectations for the project
• Establishing the procedure to entertain, approve, and decline change requests

Project Execution, Control, and Coordination

This portion of the Project+ exam is worth 43% of the exam’s passing score. Here are the objectives you’ll be tested on this domain:

• The ability to monitor, track, and report on project performance
• Interpreting project performance indicators and identifying time, cost, scope, and quality variances
• Taking corrective action
• Updating the plan and re-planning by project phase as needed within the project
• Creating an issue log and management of issue tracking and resolution
• Creating the risk register to track and monitor risks
• Implementing risk responses
• Managing changes within the project
• Managing the project’s quality through QA and QC
• Managing the project team and completing team development activities
• Managing the project resources

Project Closure, Acceptance, and Support

This final domain of the Project+ exam is worth 7% of the exam score. The objectives for this domain are:

• Creating the project’s lessons learned documentation
• Creating the project’s final project report on the project’s success or failure
• Completing acceptance testing through user acceptance testing, factory acceptance testing, or site acceptance testing
• Moving the project’s deliverable through an operational transfer process
• Obtaining final sign-off from the customer on the project deliverable
• Closing out the project contracts with vendors
• Creating the final project records and archiving the relevant project information

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