CompTIA Project+ — Practice Questions and Mock Exam

CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) validates the project management skills needed to run small to medium-sized IT projects. It is aimed at IT professionals who coordinate and manage projects as part of a wider job role, rather than at full-time project managers.

The certification covers both predictive (waterfall) and adaptive (Agile) methodologies, with a focus on IT project environments including cloud migration, software development, infrastructure deployment, and governance and compliance. Project+ is vendor-neutral and framework-agnostic.

Project Management Concepts leads at 33%, covering methodology comparison, change control, and risk and issue management. Project Life Cycle Phases follows closely at 30%, testing activities from initiation through closing — charters, scope, schedules, and vendor and organizational change management. Together the two domains make up nearly two-thirds of the exam. Tools and Documentation (19%) and Basics of IT and Governance (18%) split the remainder, covering tracking tools like Gantt charts and burndown charts alongside ESG, information security, and compliance concepts.

The exam weights process knowledge over tool mechanics: knowing when to apply a methodology and how a project moves through its life cycle matters more than memorizing a specific chart type or software feature. Basics of IT and Governance is the smallest domain, but it's also where candidates without an IT or compliance background lose the most ground, since ESG, security frameworks, and cloud concepts get little coverage elsewhere in the blueprint.

The CompTIA Project+ PK0-005 exam consists of a maximum of 90 questions, combining multiple-choice and performance-based question types, inside a 90-minute window. A score of 710 on a scale of 100 to 900 is required to pass. Performance-based questions include drag-and-drop, matching, ordering, and scenario-based exercises that test practical application rather than recall.

Every domain of the COMPTIA-PROJECT exam has enough questions in the pool to practice it in depth. A mock exam asks 90 questions in one sitting, on the same 90-minute clock as the real thing.

How long you'll need depends on how much hands-on experience you bring. The rest is set by the vendor: how the exam is delivered, how soon you can retake it, and how long the credential stays valid.

CompTIA Project+ PK0-005 is delivered at Pearson VUE test centers worldwide or online with Pearson OnVUE, in English, Japanese, and Thai. Since October 1, 2025, Project+ sits in CompTIA's continuing education program: new earners receive the Project+ CE credential directly, while holders who certified earlier were automatically granted the CE version. The certification renews on a three-year cycle, requiring 30 CEUs and a renewal fee.

Agile content expanded considerably in PK0-005 relative to the previous version, and candidates with a traditional waterfall background often underestimate how much of the exam now covers Agile artifacts, ceremonies, and hybrid methodology questions rather than treating Agile as a side topic. Basics of IT and Governance (18%) is easy to deprioritize because it doesn't feel like core project management — ESG considerations, information-security frameworks, compliance regimes like PCI-DSS and CMMC, and cloud service models all draw direct questions there. Risk management is tested at the level of quantitative versus qualitative analysis and specific response strategies, not just risk identification, and the exam expects candidates to know which artifacts and ceremonies belong to a predictive team versus an adaptive one rather than treating the two frameworks as interchangeable.