PK0-005 Exam Dumps - CompTIA Project+ Certification (2026)

Gathering feedback from stakeholders in the closing phase of a project is a valuable activity that can help the project manager create a more structured lessons-learned session. A lessons-learned session is a meeting where the project team and stakeholders review the project outcomes, successes, failures, and best practices, and document the lessons learned for future reference and improvement. Feedback from stakeholders can provide useful insights, perspectives, and suggestions on how the project was managed, what went well, what went wrong, and what can be done better next time. Feedback from stakeholders can also help the project manager identify the gaps, issues, and risks that occurred during the project, and how they were resolved or mitigated. By collecting and analyzing feedback from stakeholders, the project manager can create a more comprehensive and structured lessons-learned report that can benefit the organization and the project management profession12.

The other options are not the best descriptions of the benefit of feedback from stakeholders. While feedback from stakeholders may highlight the performance issues of the project manager and team members (option A), or identify the stakeholders’ real opinions about the project (option D), these are not the primary purposes or benefits of feedback. Feedback from stakeholders is not meant to evaluate or judge the project manager or team members, but to learn from the project experience and improve the project management processes and practices. Similarly, feedback from stakeholders is not meant to reveal their personal feelings or preferences about the project, but to assess the project results and deliverables against the project objectives and requirements. Feedback from stakeholders may also let the project manager know which stakeholders are allies for future projects (option B), but this is not a direct or significant benefit of feedback. Feedback from stakeholders is not intended to build or maintain relationships with stakeholders, but to solicit their input and feedback on the project performance and outcomes. While having allies among stakeholders may be helpful for future projects, this is not the main goal or benefit of feedback from stakeholders1

A content management system (CMS) is a software application that allows users to create, manage, and deliver content via digital channels, such as websites, blogs, or social media12. A CMS enables multiple contributors to access, edit, and publish content without requiring technical knowledge or coding skills34. A CMS also provides features such as templates, workflows, media libraries, and analytics to help users design, organize, and optimize their content56. References = CompTIA Project+ Certification Study Guide7, CompTIA Project+ Certification Exam Objectives8, What Is a Content Management System (CMS)?1, What is a Content Management System (CMS) | Oracle2, What is a Content Management System (CMS)? | Adobe Basics3, What is a CMS?4, What is a Content Management System?5, Content Management System (CMS) - Definition from Techopedia6

ROI (return on investment) is a business-case concept used to evaluate whether the benefits/value of a project justify the investment. In CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) objectives, ROI is explicitly referenced under “Business case or business objective – Return on investment (ROI)” as an artifact used during the discovery/concept and initiation work to support approval decisions.

Option C best matches that need because it focuses on the value the project will bring after the investment (benefits/returns). This value description is what the sponsor compares against the project’s expected costs to judge attractiveness and prioritize investments.

Option A (current vs desired outcome) can help define the problem and target state, but it isn’t ROI itself. Option B describes procurement documentation such as a statement of work/contract-style responsibilities, which is not the sponsor’s ROI input. Option D focuses on operational costs (OpEx) in normal operations; while OpEx may be part of the financial picture, ROI is specifically about investment return, not just “normal operations” cost analysis.

A rollback plan is a part of the project management plan that defines how to revert the system to its previous state or baseline if the change or migration fails or causes unacceptable impacts1. A rollback plan is different from a contingency plan, which is a plan to deal with a specific risk event that may or may not occur2. A release plan and a deployment plan are not relevant to the scenario, as they are used to plan and execute the delivery and installation of the system, not to undo them. Therefore, the correct answer is A. Rollback plan.

The diagram shows that the customer added requests for previously unrequested features during execution and the change control process was not followed. That combination most strongly points to scope creep as the root cause of the missed deadline: additional scope entered the workstream without proper evaluation, approval, replanning, and schedule/budget adjustment. CompTIA Project+ emphasizes controlling scope through defined requirements, scope baselines/artifacts, and a formal change control process; when that process is bypassed, uncontrolled scope growth commonly drives schedule slippage and cost overruns.

Gold plating (building “unnecessary features”) is also present, but in the diagram it appears as a downstream effect of weak requirements discipline and poor change control—teams often overbuild when requirements are incomplete or shifting. The initiating problem highlighted is that the customer did not provide all requirements early, which increases later change requests; when those changes are not properly controlled, the project experiences scope creep and deadline impact.

Team conflicts and unvalidated deliverables are not supported by the causal chain shown. The best root-cause label among the options is scope creep.