Microsoft Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013 (074-343) Free Practice Test
Question 1
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?
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?
Correct Answer: B
Question 2
You are managing a project by using Project Professional 2013, and you notice a potential scheduling problem indicated by wavy red lines under some of the dates in the Finish column.
You need to resolve the issue.
What should you do?
You need to resolve the issue.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: B
Question 3
You manage a project for an organization that uses Project Professional 2013.
You reset the baseline for some selected tasks. After the baseline has been updated with the new values, you realize that some of the summary baseline duration values are not correct.
You need to resolve this problem.
What should you do?
You reset the baseline for some selected tasks. After the baseline has been updated with the new values, you realize that some of the summary baseline duration values are not correct.
You need to resolve this problem.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Question 4
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
You manage a critical project, which involves many team members. You are the only team member who has Project Professional 2013. You need to receive updates from team members directly from Microsoft SharePoint without having to reenter the updates in your project.
What should you do?
You manage a critical project, which involves many team members. You are the only team member who has Project Professional 2013. You need to receive updates from team members directly from Microsoft SharePoint without having to reenter the updates in your project.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: D
Question 5
DRAG DROP
You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project 2013.
A resource manager notifies you that your assigned resource is now only available 50% to work on the communication plan task. The estimated amount of work for the task remains the same at 16 hours. The task must also be completed within the original two-day commitment even though the resource is only available 50% of the time.
You need to bring on another resource to assist with the remaining 50% of the work while ensuring that the same amount of work gets done in the two days that were originally committed.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate three actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project 2013.
A resource manager notifies you that your assigned resource is now only available 50% to work on the communication plan task. The estimated amount of work for the task remains the same at 16 hours. The task must also be completed within the original two-day commitment even though the resource is only available 50% of the time.
You need to bring on another resource to assist with the remaining 50% of the work while ensuring that the same amount of work gets done in the two days that were originally committed.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate three actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Box 1: Assign the additional resource to the task.
Box 2: Set the task type to fixed work,
Box 3: Change both the new and existing resource units to 50%.
Note:
For a fixed-work task
Question 6
You manage a project by using Project Professional 2013.
A critical task is out of scope for the project. The stakeholders suggest that the task be removed from the project but kept in the plan in case the task is needed in the future.
You need to implement a solution to meet the stakeholder's request.
What should you do?
A critical task is out of scope for the project. The stakeholders suggest that the task be removed from the project but kept in the plan in case the task is needed in the future.
You need to implement a solution to meet the stakeholder's request.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: B