Took the CompTIA Project+ beta

2022-01-29 11:04:00

Back in November, CompTIA announced the upcoming Project+ v5 certification exam. My day-to-day job does not entail project management, but I was curious about the exam anyway.

It's no secret that beta-testing CompTIA exams has become a hobby of mine. Thus, I jumped at the chance to take it, when someone posted about it on Reddit. As has become tradition, I pludged the exam: i.e. I went in with zero preparation, only browsing through the exam objectives document. 

My impressions of Project+ PK1-005 (to become PK0-005):

• The curriculum is pretty wide, covering a number of different project management methods. 
• If anything, the focus on traditional project management feels a bit heavy compared to agile / scrum and their ilk. I guess that makes sense though, what with the target market for CompTIA still being American Enterprise, Government and Military. 
• The questions on the exam are as good as I'm used to from CompTIA: they do not want simple regurgitation of facts, they're testing for understanding of the concepts. 

Overall, I'm feeling pretty good about this update to Project+. 

Will it be a valuable certificate for your resumé? Maybe not, with bigger brand names having more recognized project management certs. But will it rank up there with something like PSM-I or PSPO-I? Or something like PRINCE2 fundamentals? Yeah, probably. 

Finally, do I think I passed? I expect I didn't: my experience and knowledge of formal project management, especially things like PRINCE2, is very meager. 

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