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SkillSoft Explore Course

Bootcamps     Project Management     CompTIA     Project Management invis
CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 provides a foundational knowledge base reflecting the most up-to-date project management information so learners can effectively put principles to work at their own organizations. This course will assist in preparing the learner for the CompTIA Project+ exam. This course is aligned with exam version PK0-004.

Objectives

Scope, Schedule, and Cost Planning

  • recognize the schedule compression techniques of crashing and fast tracking, and the schedule optimization techniques of leveling and smoothing

Resource and Risk Planning

  • identify the types of organizational change

Communication, Changes, and Documentation

  • list the steps of the change control process
  • recognize the types of common project changes

Controlling Project Work and Closing

  • identify project expenditures and compare actual spending against the plan
  • use earned value management formulas to determine cost and schedule performance
  • use earned value management formulas to forecast the final project costs and variance from the budget
  • apply scheduling tools and techniques to determine project performance
  • distinguish between quality control tools
  • identify sources of lessons learned
  • list the steps required to close a project or phase

Planning and Controlling the Schedule

  • recognize if resource leveling is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
  • recognize if resource smoothing is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
  • recognize if crashing is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario
  • recognize if fast tracking is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario

Controlling Project Work, and Closing

  • calculate the planned value and earned value, given the budget, % of time passed, and % of work completed
  • calculate the schedule variance and schedule performance index, given the earned value and planned value
  • calculate the cost variance and cost performance index, given the earned value and actual costs
  • determine project performance, given a set of raw data points
  • utilize work performance data to determine project performance
  • determine the estimate at completion, using the formulas for scenarios 1 and 2
  • recognize how the choice of EAC formula depends on the project situation
  • use a control chart to determine when a process is out of control

Quality and Procurement Planning

  • list the characteristics of quality control
  • recognize the types of change requests that arise from quality processes

Project Documents, Terminology and Acronyms

  • distinguish between work performance data, information, and reports
  • identify change requests and the change log
  • distinguish between earned value management terminology and acronyms