Microsoft Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013 - 74-343 Exam Practice Test
Question 1
You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.
You manage a software development project and have acquired two additional resources to assist in the completion of tasks that are on the critical path. Both resources are also assigned to participate in other projects. Resource1 is available 50% and Resource2 is available 75%.
You need to add the resources with their availability to the project schedule and make any allocation problems visible.
What should you do?
You manage a software development project and have acquired two additional resources to assist in the completion of tasks that are on the critical path. Both resources are also assigned to participate in other projects. Resource1 is available 50% and Resource2 is available 75%.
You need to add the resources with their availability to the project schedule and make any allocation problems visible.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Question 2
You are a project manager, and you successfully complete a server consolidation project for one of your data centers. You use Project Standard 2013 to plan and track the work.
Your manager wants you to begin similar projects on two other data centers. You need to create a template based on the plan you used to manage the first data center consolidation project.
You need to ensure that the template has all baseline and actual data values removed.
What should you do?
Your manager wants you to begin similar projects on two other data centers. You need to create a template based on the plan you used to manage the first data center consolidation project.
You need to ensure that the template has all baseline and actual data values removed.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
Question 3
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
You are planning an office move, which will occur over a weekend. You use Auto Scheduled tasks and create a weekend working calendar.
You need to assign the weekend working calendar to the task.
What should you do?
You are planning an office move, which will occur over a weekend. You use Auto Scheduled tasks and create a weekend working calendar.
You need to assign the weekend working calendar to the task.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: D
Question 4
DRAG DROP
You are using Microsoft PPM.
Your organization provides temporary staff to its customers. Temporary staff members are organized into junior level, standard level, and senior level. Each level is further categorized by two rates. The regular rate is for work within 100 kilometers and a higher rate is for work beyond that distance. You must include all temporary staff and all rates in your schedule.
You need to ensure that Project calculates total resource cost immediately when making a resource assignment. You want the ability to switch between the regular rate and the higher rate for each task.
Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
You are using Microsoft PPM.
Your organization provides temporary staff to its customers. Temporary staff members are organized into junior level, standard level, and senior level. Each level is further categorized by two rates. The regular rate is for work within 100 kilometers and a higher rate is for work beyond that distance. You must include all temporary staff and all rates in your schedule.
You need to ensure that Project calculates total resource cost immediately when making a resource assignment. You want the ability to switch between the regular rate and the higher rate for each task.
Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
References: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-resources-to-your-project-
1 a744960-d960-426a-b687-e42ba3f6c0cb
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enter-costs-for-resources-b4ced847-2655-4fa4- a621-3fc26fc81c88
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/View-project-cost-totals-0d3a2451-fb1e-4ba0-826e-
20ee3b3d60cc
Question 5
While creating a schedule with Project Professional 2013, you notice that there is a three- day duration on the Database Design task.
After working for only two days, the resource performing the task reports two days of work and notifies you that the task is finished.
You need to update the schedule with this information.
What should you do?
After working for only two days, the resource performing the task reports two days of work and notifies you that the task is finished.
You need to update the schedule with this information.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Question 6
You are a project manager, and your company uses Project Professional 2013. You are setting up a preliminary schedule by using manually scheduled tasks.
You create two manually scheduled tasks and link them in a Finish to Start relationship.
The project team member asks you to increase the duration of the predecessor task.
You notice that the successor task start date is now before the finish date of the predecessor task.
You want the successor task to start after the predecessor finishes.
What should you do?
You create two manually scheduled tasks and link them in a Finish to Start relationship.
The project team member asks you to increase the duration of the predecessor task.
You notice that the successor task start date is now before the finish date of the predecessor task.
You want the successor task to start after the predecessor finishes.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Question 7
You are a project manager for a large telecommunications company that uses Project Professional 2013.
The project you have been assigned has a fixed cost of 5150,000. The fixed cost is for the entire project and not for an individual task.
You need to add the fixed cost of S 150,000 to your schedule and spread it across the duration of the project.
What should you do?
The project you have been assigned has a fixed cost of 5150,000. The fixed cost is for the entire project and not for an individual task.
You need to add the fixed cost of S 150,000 to your schedule and spread it across the duration of the project.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: D
Question 8
You are an independent project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
You work on multiple projects for different customers and use only one project to manage their tasks. You invoice your customers on a monthly basis. To identify tasks that have not been invoiced, you create a custom field called Not Invoiced.
Without losing the original project tasks' sort order, and without hiding any information, you need to see all tasks which have not been invoiced.
You create a custom filter based on the Not Invoiced custom field.
What should you do next?
You work on multiple projects for different customers and use only one project to manage their tasks. You invoice your customers on a monthly basis. To identify tasks that have not been invoiced, you create a custom field called Not Invoiced.
Without losing the original project tasks' sort order, and without hiding any information, you need to see all tasks which have not been invoiced.
You create a custom filter based on the Not Invoiced custom field.
What should you do next?
Correct Answer: A
Question 9
You are a project manager who uses Microsoft project.
Your manager wants you to plan an office move. You have a project schedule from a prior office move named OfficeMove.mpp.
You need to create a new project schedule based on the old project schedule by performing the fewest steps possible.
What should you do?
Your manager wants you to plan an office move. You have a project schedule from a prior office move named OfficeMove.mpp.
You need to create a new project schedule based on the old project schedule by performing the fewest steps possible.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
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