MS Project Questions Part 2

D

67. If you want to track variances, what must you do before you record progress? A. Set a baseline. B. Set the status date. C. Set a baseline and display the Variance table. D. Set a baseline and status date.

D

. Material Resources are assigned by ______. A. Cost B. Time C. Difficulty D. Quantity

A

37. What is the downfall in assigning overtime as part of your original project plan? a. You won't have any wiggle room if not everything goes as planned. b. It is against the law to pre-assign overtime. c. Overtime means you have to pay salaried employees more. d. There's nowhere to add overtime in the project view.

D

38. What tool can be used to see if your project is progressing as planned? a. The view tab. b. The in-built project progression macro. c. You have to download external software in order to achieve this. d. The Tracking Gantt

A

39. Which of the following is a problem with using Project Finish Date for the 'Schedule from' field when creating a new project? A. Microsoft Project will work backwards to figure out start date, thus leaving no wiggle room if something goes wrong. B. Stakeholders often change their deadline making the approximated times unreliable C. Hardly ever does someone know their required finish date for a project D. When a project is configured from the finish date you cannot edit tasks

C

40. Which way is NOT a valid method of importing an Excel Workbook into Microsoft Project? A. As a new project B. Append the data to the active project C. Overwrite the data in the active project D. Merge the data into the active project

B

41. With auto scheduled tasks, Project uses all of the following to figure out start and finish dates except? A. task values B. task type C. task links D. resource assignments

D

43. Which type of links is the most commonly used? A. Start-to-Finish (sf) B. Finish-to-Finish (ff) C. Start-to-Start (ss) D. Finish-to-Start (fs)

B

44.. When the option 'As Soon As Possible' is selected in the 'Constraint' field for a task, what does project NOT use to calculate the start date? A. predecessors B. projected project finish date C. duration D. resource assignments

C

50. The summary table is a nice overview of the information about tasks. Which of the following is NOT a displayed field in the summary table? A. Percent of duration that's complete B. How many work hours are involved C. Percentage of tasks that have been delayed D. The task cost

B

51. The task inspector is good for _______. A. Scanning for syntax errors in tasks B. Finding and fixing scheduling problems C. Non-manually scheduled tasks D. Replacing the repair option

C

52.How do you change the working time to set days for nonworking time? a. Use the project options dialogue box. b. Import the time management to project. c. Click change working time, go to work weeks, and click on details. d. It will already happen when you start a new project.

A

53. What are the steps needed to create a manually scheduled task? a. Set task mode to manually scheduled, name the task, and fill in the information you have. b. Open the project and click on project options. c. Name the task and fill in the information you have d. Enable baseline task mode.

C

54. What are summary tasks useful for? a. Incorporating the time and goals into the project. b. Summarizing the aspects of the project. c. To see certain levels of tasks or what's going on in your project. d. To give a summary of the project when it is completed.

B

55. What is a reason one might group tasks? a. To delegate roles to work resources b. To see how much you're spending on labor for employees, contractors, and third-party vendors. c. To manipulate the cost-benefits of certain tasks d. To increase the time management capabilities.

C

56. What might happen if tasks overlap? a. Faster task efficiency b. Excess time needed to manage c. Resources may not have enough time available to get their work done. d. Resources may have more time needed for a certain task.

C

57. What should you do if a project was put on hold and you want to reschedule the unfinished work now that the project has resumed? a. Update time management b. Change resource time allocation. c. Update project dialog box -> reschedule uncompleted work d. You must remake another project.

A

58. What is a burndown report? a. Shows the work you've completed compared to the plan and the tasks completed compared to what is left to do. b. Shows the cost and resources still available for a project. c. Shows the overview for all the over allocated resources. d. Shows the resource stats of the baseline of the work and the actual work compared to the remaining.

A

59. What does earned value analysis measure? a. Performance based on how much of the project cost you've earned by completing work b. Performance based on how much of the equity was lost during the project. c. Performance based on the resources used by the end of the work. d. Performance based on the amount of actual money spent vs how much was projected.

D

60. A project was assigned and you were given a deadline for it. What is the drawback of using that specific date as your Project Finish Date compared to scheduling it in the Project Information dialog box? a. Never accept deadlines that were given to you by other colleagues. b. No drawbacks, always begin at a specific date as your project finish date. c. If you get to pick your finish date, you should manually determine your start date. d. Microsoft project will work backward to help you find your start date however it's not flexible.

D

61. All of the following are reasons why you want to manually schedule tasks, except: a. Set up schedule quickly b. Set specific dates. c. Complete task information haven't been given d. Microsoft Project won't determine certain dates that you want for your task

A

62. Changing the duration of sub-tasks, what will happen? a. The duration of the summary task "will" also be changed. b. Receive a notification that your summary task will change. c. The duration of the summary task "always" be changed. d. Manually tell your project to recalculate the summary task duration.

D

63. To see the quantity of hours that an asset is over-allocated, the best view to show is: a. Resource graph b. Task Usage c. Gantt Chart d. Resource Usage

A

64. If using the Team Planner, you can assign and schedule a task by A. Dragging the task into the timescale B. Right click on the task, selecting edit task detail C. Drag the task over to the name of whoever it is being assigned to, then choose your date from the popup calendar

C

65. Which element would you utilize in the event that you need to sort tasks by duration and cost? A. The duration fields sort smallest to largest menu entry B. No more than one field at a time can be sorted C. The sort feature, along with the sort by option D. The sort feature, along with the duration option

A

66. In some Gantt chart views, critical tasks are marked in red, and non-critical tasks are marked in blue. What do critical tasks have that makes them different from non-critical tasks?. A. Total slack of zero B. Fixed durations C. Variable durations D. No durations