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Log In / Sign UpYou are a program manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
You manage a portfolio of projects for a large point of sale implementation. All of your project managers have created individual project schedules. You discover that you have resource constraints since multiple resources are working on multiple projects.
You need visibility into resources across all projects so that you can most efficiently manage the resources and their availability.
What should you do?
Your organization uses Microsoft Project 2013.
You are finalizing the Project Schedule for a very complex project with over 100 resources.
You need to ensure that all tasks are assigned to resources.
What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
You work on a construction project that requires propane as a fuel source for your equipment. The foreman requires that you enter project costs associated with all work completed on your project.
The propane costs $5.00 per gallon, and the tank holds 500 gallons of propane. Each time the tank is refilled, you must pay a fee of $20.
You need to enter the propane costs into your project schedule prior to filling the propane tank for the first time.
What should you do?
You are a project manager for a software development company. You use Project Professional 2013.
You manage an integration project, and you discover that you need to add additional resources to the integration tasks in order to meet your development complete milestone date. The project is behind schedule, so you must shorten the duration of the integration development work.
You identify two additional resources to work on the integration task. When you add these resources, your task now shows it will complete three days ahead of schedule, which leaves a contingency window for issues that may arise.
In order to shorten the duration of the task when the resources are added, you need to set the task type before adding the resources.
What should you do?
DRAG DROP -
Your company uses Project Professional 2013.
You are a program manager in charge of a multi-program software integration project. The project is scheduled from January 1, 2012-August 3, 2013. You have a consultant resource that charges a different rate based on each task completed. Tasks 1 through 9 are billed at a rate of $150.00 per hour. Tasks 10 through 20 are billed at a rate of $175.00 per hour.
You need to set up your schedule to ensure that the correct resource rate is associated with the correct tasks.
Which two actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate two actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
Select and Place:

You are a project manager, and your organization uses Project Professional 2013.
You have created a detailed project schedule and have identified two tasks that are causing your resource to be overallocated.
You need to use the Team Planner to reassign these tasks from the overallocated resources to underallocated resources with the same skill set.
What should you do?
You are a senior project manager, and your organization uses Project Standard 2013.
You are managing a large ERP project with both part-time and full-time resources. The part-time resources have strict contractual limitations regarding working days and hourly availability.
You need to make sure the tasks for your part-time resources are only scheduled in the calendar during their agreed-upon working days and hours.
What should you do?
Your organization uses Project Professional 2013.
A senior stakeholder in a project asks you to determine when a task is over budget by comparing the baseline cost of a task to the cost. Additionally, the senior stakeholder wants you to display a graphic indicator when the baseline cost is greater than the cost.
You write a formula to display the indicator, but it only displays for normal tasks and not for summary tasks.
You need to make the indicator display for summary tasks.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)
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?
You are project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
Your organization uses Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and uses a SharePoint task list to define the tasks required on an upcoming project. The task list contains over
100 items.
You need to create a project based on the tasks in the SharePoint list in the most efficient manner.
What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.
You have been told to build multiple project files for a program.
You need to have all of your projects start with auto scheduled tasks by default.
What should you do?
You are a resource manager who uses Project Standard 2013.
You manage all of your resources in a single plan, which acts as a Shared Resource Pool for other projects in your organization. Each resource needs to pass an annual exam in order to work on construction sites.
You need to set up a method that allows you to pick the renewal month for each resource.
What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
Two of your resources job share; Resource1 works Monday, Tuesday, and a half day Wednesday. Resource2 works the remaining work week.
You need to set up their calendars to reflect the job-sharing arrangement.
What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013, and your task list includes a flag field that indicates, with Yes or No, if a non-summary task represents a physical deliverable.
Your project involves several tasks marked as deliverables, and management requires you to track how many deliverables are completed. The deliverable is considered completed when the Percent complete field is 100%.
You need to create a formula to calculate the total number of deliverables that are completed.
Which two steps should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)
You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.
Your manager wants you to plan an office move. You have a project schedule from a prior office move named "OfficeMove.mpp" and you want to use this project to assist in planning the current office move.
In the fewest steps possible, you need to create your new project schedule based on the old project schedule.
What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
A senior stakeholder asks you to update your project to reflect your organization's scheduled two-week closure.
You need to reflect the closure within your schedule.
What should you do?
You are a project manager for an organization that uses Project Standard 2013.
You add shortcuts on the Quick Access Toolbar to your most frequently used commands.
Your manager is impressed with the ease of use this customization provides and would like other project managers in the group to use it.
You need to deploy the customization to these project managers.
What should you do?
You are a project manager, and your organization uses Project Standard 2013.
You have created a non-working day in a resource's calendar; however, the HR department notifies you that the resource will work that day after all.
You need to reflect this change in the project in the most efficient manner.
What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
All resources in your project schedule have availability of 8 hours per day. You notice that several of the resources on the project are overallocated. You decide to level the project to help resolve the overallocations for the resources.
Team members often do not work at the same time when completing their work on the tasks.
You need to resolve the overallocations by using the Resource Leveling function.
What should you do?
You manage a project for an organization that relies heavily on schedule baselines in Project Standard 2013.
A change is approved for an in-progress project which you manage. You enter the new tasks necessary to include the changes to the project schedule.
You need to update the baseline in the most efficient manner.
What should you do?