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PK0-005 syllabus, skills measured, and exam topics

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Skills measured by domain

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Domain Weight
Project management concepts 33%
Project life cycle phases 30%
Tools and documentation 19%
Basics of IT and governance 18%

Detailed outline

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Project management concepts (33%)

  • Project characteristics and methodologies: Explaining project characteristics, methodologies, and frameworks.
  • Agile vs. waterfall: Comparing criteria for selection, team composition, and communication methods.
  • Change control: Applying project-specific change control and management processes.
  • Risk management: Identifying risks, analyzing responses, and understanding roles and responsibilities.
  • Issue management: Tracking issues, resolving them, and documenting outcomes.
  • Schedule management: Identifying milestones, sequencing activities, estimating resources, and maintaining schedules.
  • Quality and performance management: Comparing retrospectives, sprint reviews, service-level agreements (SLAs), key performance indicators (KPIs), audits, and testing cycles.
  • Communication management: Assessing methods, developing platforms, and managing communication.
  • Meeting management: Setting agendas, assigning roles, timeboxing, and documenting action items.
  • Team and resource management: Analyzing resource gaps, managing team performance, and defining roles.
  • Procurement and vendor selection: Evaluating vendors, contracts, and procurement methods.

Project life cycle phases (30%)

  • Discovery phase artifacts: Explaining business cases, prequalified vendors, and financial concepts.
  • Project initiation: Developing project charters, identifying stakeholders, creating responsibility assignment matrices (RAMs), and conducting kickoff meetings.
  • Project planning: Assigning resources, developing communication plans, defining scope, creating schedules, and performing risk assessments.
  • Project execution: Managing tasks, vendors, meetings, budgets, conflicts, and phase gate reviews.
  • Project closing: Validating deliverables, closing contracts, releasing resources, archiving documentation, and conducting closure meetings.

Tools and documentation (19%)

  • Project tools: Using Gantt charts, burndown charts, PERT (program evaluation review technique) charts, issue logs, change logs, risk registers, dashboards, and time-tracking tools.
  • Productivity tools: Comparing communication, collaboration, meeting, documentation, scheduling, and ticketing tools.
  • Quality and performance charts: Analyzing histograms, Pareto charts, scatter diagrams, fishbone diagrams, burnup/burndown charts, and decision trees.

Basics of IT and governance (18%)

  • Environmental, social, and governance (ESG): Summarizing project impacts on the environment, regulations, company values, and brand value.
  • Information security: Explaining physical, operational, digital, and data security concepts.
  • Compliance and privacy: Understanding confidentiality, legal impacts, and privacy regulations.
  • IT concepts: Summarizing infrastructure, cloud models, and software basics.
  • Change control : Explaining IT infrastructure change control, software change control, CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment), and production vs. staging environments.

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