PK0-005
- Duration
- 90 min
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CompTIA
Credential
Certification
Level
Certification
Exam duration
90 min
credential overview
About this credential
Entry-level IT project management certification covering project concepts, life-cycle phases, tools and documentation, governance, communication, risk, resources, and delivery.
Who this is for
IT professionals who manage or support small to medium-sized projects.
Assessment
Exam details
Exam blueprint
Skills measured
Project management concepts (33%)11 topics
- Explain project characteristics, methodologies, and frameworks.
- Compare agile and waterfall approaches.
- Apply project-specific change control and management processes.
- Identify risks and analyze response strategies.
- Track and resolve project issues.
- Identify milestones, sequence activities, estimate resources, and maintain schedules.
- Compare quality and performance management techniques.
- Assess communication methods and manage communication.
- Set agendas, assign meeting roles, timebox, and document actions.
- Analyze resource gaps, team performance, and roles.
- Evaluate vendors, contracts, and procurement methods.
Project life cycle phases (30%)5 topics
- Explain discovery artifacts such as business cases and financial concepts.
- Develop project charters, identify stakeholders, create responsibility matrices, and conduct kickoffs.
- Assign resources, define scope, build schedules, and perform risk assessments.
- Manage execution tasks, vendors, budgets, conflicts, and phase gates.
- Validate deliverables, close contracts, release resources, archive documentation, and conduct closure meetings.
Tools and documentation (19%)3 topics
- Use project tools such as Gantt charts, burndown charts, PERT charts, logs, risk registers, dashboards, and time tracking.
- Compare communication, collaboration, meeting, documentation, scheduling, and ticketing tools.
- Analyze quality and performance charts such as histograms, Pareto charts, scatter diagrams, fishbone diagrams, and decision trees.
Basics of IT and governance (18%)5 topics
- Summarize ESG impacts on projects.
- Explain physical, operational, digital, and data security concepts.
- Understand confidentiality, legal impacts, compliance, and privacy regulations.
- Summarize infrastructure, cloud models, and software basics.
- Explain IT infrastructure and software change control, CI/CD, and production versus staging environments.
Before you certify
Requirements and recommended experience
Recommended experience
6-12 months of hands-on experience managing projects in a tech environment
Corporate certification enablement
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