Lynda - MS Project

What does WBS codes represent?

A hierarchy of tasks, A breakdown of tasks making work easy to assign, track and manage, and Uniquely identify each task in your project.

Summary Tasks act as:

A management resource to plan and track your work in progress and work completed.

When two tasks overlap using the same resource, what indication appears in the Timeline view?

A red line appears in the Timeline indicating the conflict.

Which of the following best describes Baseline and Actual in MS Project?

Baseline is the expected timeline of the project at its creation and Actual is a record of when tasks are completed.

With auto scheduled tasks, Project uses all of the following to figure out start and finish dates except?

task type

What happens if you modify a critical task in a project? (i.e. change the duration of a critical task from 3 days to 5 days)

It affects the project's finish date

Why is it not a good idea to have Project create new resources?

It may lead to creation of duplicate resources.

You might want to set the Project Finish Date when working on a project, but what is the problem with that?

Microsoft Project works backwards to figure out the start date, leaving no wiggle room.

If using recurring tasks and a project gets delay MS Project will:

Not adjust anything, you must create new tasks

Which way is NOT a valid method of importing an Excel Workbook into Microsoft Project?

Overwrite the data in the active project

Which of these is an example of a project resource?

People Equipment Money Time

What does earned value analysis measure?

Performance based on how much of the project cost you've earned by completing work

If someone sends a project file from an older version of Project, in Legacy Formats within the Trust center, the best option to select

Prompt when loading with legacy or non-default file format

In order to detect potential problems, it is a good idea to do what on a regular basis in Microsoft Project?

Review the project schedule

When the stakeholders approve your project plan, what is the next step in Microsoft Project?

Saving the baseline

If you want to track variances, what must you do before you record progress?

Set a baseline and status date.

A milestone is a good way to do all except which of the following?

Show the duration of a task

When tasks overlap, what can you do in Microsoft Project in order to allow resources to finish a short task and then go back to other work?

Split tasks and assignments

When you save a baseline it saves:

Start and finish dates, duration, work, and cost

What is earned value?

The converted cost and work progress into dollars.

What is the critical path?

The longest linked sequence of tasks in a project.

In Microsoft Project, what information does a Burndown report provide?

The number of tasks completed and the amount of work completed compared to your plan

What is the purpose of the Organizer in the Backstage view?

The project uses it to store things like View, Reports, and Tables.

What does it mean for a task to have a positive cost variance?

The schedules cost is higher than the baseline.

Which element would you utilize in the event that you need to sort tasks by duration and cost?

The sort feature, along with the sort by option

Over allocation is where

There are more tasks going on than what resources can handle

Why is it important to add lag or lead time to linked tasks?

They are beneficial when planning the scheduling of things when dealing with time constraints ahead of time.

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?.

Total slack of zero

How do you check and see Successors and Predecessors of a task?

View Tab > Check Details Checkbox > Right-click in Task Form > Choose Predecessors and Successors

In MS Project Gantt, Task and Timeline are all examples of what?

Views

Task links/dependencies are

Which task controls the other

If using the Team Planner, you can assign and schedule a task by

Dragging the task into the timescale

What values determine how Microsoft Project calculates resource assignments?

Duration, work, and units

The task inspector is good for _______.

Finding and fixing scheduling problems

Which type of links is the most commonly used?

Finish-to-Start (fs)

What type of chart is used to display the summary of tasks?

Gantt Chart

Which tab is NOT included in the backstage view?

Import

How do you change the working time to set days for nonworking time?

Click change working time, go to work weeks, and click on details.

Which resource would you use to track expenses that aren't based on time or quantity; such as airfare, fees or tuition?

Cost Resource