Here are some study tips to help you prepare for the exam:
- Take and retake practice exams until you score approximately 85-90% several times in a row. Be aware that the practice questions in your student guide will not be the same questions you will get on your exam as there is a test pool of thousands of questions.
- You never know which questions you will get on your exam. You could be sitting next to someone taking their Project+ exam and they would have a different pool of questions to answer. The content is aligned to the domains and exam content outline, but it is presented in different ways.
- The exam itself is not adaptive, so the pool of questions you get when you sit down will not change based on your knowledge of one topic over another.
- I highly recommend that you use these practice questions as a way to solidify the information rather than to rote memorize it, as you will find the actual exam questions will differ.
I'll let you know when there is anything you need to memorize for exam purposes as you move through this book.
- If you find yourself memorizing the answers to the questions in this guide without actually knowing why an answer is correct or incorrect, it may be helpful to test yourself with additional practice exams that present the information in a different way.
- CompTIA can also provide you with a couple of free questions via request from their website, and they offer a paid service called CertMaster Practice.
- Be careful about old or incorrect brain dumps on the internet as there are multiple websites that have exam information. Do your research before selecting sites that provide additional practice questions.
Make sure any practice questions you find outside of the student guide refer to this latest version of the Project+ exam (PK0-004). With the amount of questions that you have in this guide, you should not need to look elsewhere unless you deem it necessary for your own success.
- Make sure that you read everything carefully! If you don't read carefully, you may miss a better answer or the nuance of the question itself.
- Use this study guide to review all pertinent information, best practices, and suggested processes. You may find if you are already working on projects that you do not need to utilize what is suggested as a best practice in a student guide and on the exam. The reason for this may be because of your organizational processes and your enterprise environment.
- Remember project management is not a one-size-fits-all situation. You may learn some new best practices that you want to incorporate in your day-to-day, and you may learn some best practices that are not relevant in your day-to-day. The best advice is to learn the content as it's presented to pass your exam and then determine ways where you can incorporate the recommended best practices into your current or future projects.
Don't forget to breathe! The exam is comprehensive but not impossible. Cramming won't help you, so my best advice is to get into the mindset of the best practices, take and re-take practice exams, and read through this guide as much as needed to solidify the concepts.
