Microsoft Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013 (74-343) Free Practice Test
Question 1
You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Excel 2013.
Your company decides to migrate all of the current projects in Microsoft Excel 2013 to Project Professional 2013. They allow all employees to spend 8 hours migrating each project plan. Your current and unique project plan has 462 tasks with duration in days, and resources have been assigned and named. You have a status meeting in two days.
You need to provide your project's information by using Project Professional 2013.
What should you do?
Your company decides to migrate all of the current projects in Microsoft Excel 2013 to Project Professional 2013. They allow all employees to spend 8 hours migrating each project plan. Your current and unique project plan has 462 tasks with duration in days, and resources have been assigned and named. You have a status meeting in two days.
You need to provide your project's information by using Project Professional 2013.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: A
Question 2
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.)
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.)
Correct Answer: B,C
Question 3
You manage a project by using Project Professional 2013. Your project is updated with changes to the baseline for selected tasks.
You back up your project fife before you start your next tracking cycle. After completing the tracking cycle, you notice that the baseline duration values on some of the summary tasks are not correct.
You need to correct these values before re-entering the tracking data.
You open the backed up version of the project schedule.
What should you do next?
You back up your project fife before you start your next tracking cycle. After completing the tracking cycle, you notice that the baseline duration values on some of the summary tasks are not correct.
You need to correct these values before re-entering the tracking data.
You open the backed up version of the project schedule.
What should you do next?
Correct Answer: C
Question 4
You are a project manager for a company that uses baselines in Project Standard 2013.
Project stakeholders approve an update to the baseline of a project in progress. You enter the new tasks necessary to include the project schedule changes.
You need to update the baseline for the new tasks.
What should you do?
Project stakeholders approve an update to the baseline of a project in progress. You enter the new tasks necessary to include the project schedule changes.
You need to update the baseline for the new tasks.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: D
Question 5
You manage a project by using Project Professional 2013.
The work variance for a task is 48 hours. The remaining work is 25 hours. The work for this task has been completed.
You need the work variance to be adjusted to reflect what has occurred during the performance of the task.
What should you do?
The work variance for a task is 48 hours. The remaining work is 25 hours. The work for this task has been completed.
You need the work variance to be adjusted to reflect what has occurred during the performance of the task.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Question 6
DRAG DROP
You are an independent project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
You are starting a new marketing campaign project for your own company. You want to use Project Professional 2013 to plan and manage this project. You have never worked with a marketing project, so you choose to start your project plan with one of many templates available at the Microsoft Office website.
You need to access the correct template.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the three appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
You are an independent project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
You are starting a new marketing campaign project for your own company. You want to use Project Professional 2013 to plan and manage this project. You have never worked with a marketing project, so you choose to start your project plan with one of many templates available at the Microsoft Office website.
You need to access the correct template.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the three appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Box 1: Go to File - New
Box 2: Select your template or search online.
Box 3: Download and save the selected template.
Note:
Microsoft Project Professional 2013 includes an ever-growing library of Project templates on Office.com, a Microsoft-owned Office online resource.
Question 7
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?
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?
Correct Answer: A
Question 8
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.
When viewing the critical path, you notice that there are some inconsistencies. To investigate the status of the critical path, you insert the Total Slack column into a task table.
You discover that many of the tasks have negative Total Slack values.
You need to resolve the negative Total Slack values.
What should you do?
When viewing the critical path, you notice that there are some inconsistencies. To investigate the status of the critical path, you insert the Total Slack column into a task table.
You discover that many of the tasks have negative Total Slack values.
You need to resolve the negative Total Slack values.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: C
Question 9
Your company uses Project Standard 2013 to track project progress.
You need to accurately calculate cost performance index (CPI) as a health indicator.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)
You need to accurately calculate cost performance index (CPI) as a health indicator.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)
Correct Answer: A,B,E