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CompTIA Exam Syllabus
PK0-005 syllabus, skills measured, and exam topics
CompTIA Project+ validates the abilities of project managers on a globally-recognized scale. Learn about the certification, available training and the exam.
Skills measured by domain
Use the weighting table to decide where to spend the most study time.
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| Project management concepts | 33% |
| Project life cycle phases | 30% |
| Tools and documentation | 19% |
| Basics of IT and governance | 18% |
What to know before you study
These sections explain the role, audience, and exam framing behind the outline.
Detailed outline
Scan each section as a working study checklist instead of one long wall of text.
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.