74-343 Exam - Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013

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Q1. Your organization uses Project Professional 2013 and Microsoft SharePoint 2013. 

You are responsible for a project with resources in different offices. All offices share the same SharePoint intranet, and all resources have valid accounts to log into the company intranet. Your project plan already has the correct names and assignments for each resource involved in this project. 

You need to share and receive project plan updates dynamically with your resources. 

What should you do? 

A. Sync with SharePoint Tasks List, automatically creating a Project Site synchronized to your Project Plan. 

B. Create the Project Site in SharePoint and upload the project plan to the project site. 

C. Create the Project Site in SharePoint and save the project plan to the project site. 

D. Copy and paste the project tasks to a SharePoint task list. 

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Q2. RAG DROP 

You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013. 

Your project is approved, and you identify named resources to replace the generic resources for your project tasks. 

You need to update the project schedule to assign the named resources to their appropriate tasks. 

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.) 

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Q3. 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? 

A. Create a resource and specify non-working days for the resource which reflect the closure. Assign this resource to each task. 

B. Open the Project Calendar and modify the default work week by setting the dates as non-working time. 

C. Create a new calendar and assign this to the tasks that are scheduled over the period of closure. 

D. Open the Project Calendar and enter the planned closure in the Exceptions tab. 

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Q4. You are a project manager and have built a project plan by using Project Professional 

2013. 

Your project plan has both fixed duration and fixed work tasks. 

You have been asked to denote key existing tasks as milestones in the Gantt view. 

What should you do? 

A. Format the bar styles in the Gantt view to denote the tasks as milestones. 

B. Enter the word Milestone in the Task Duration column to set the task as a milestone. 

C. Set the Duration column to 0 to set the task as a milestone. 

D. Navigate to View, Text Styles, select Milestones, and then select the black diamond. 

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Q5. Your organization uses Project Professional 2013. 

You are setting up a preliminary schedule by using manually scheduled tasks. 

As you build the task breakdown, you notice a potential scheduling problem indicated by a 

wavy red line under the finish date of a detail task. 

You need to determine the cause of the wavy red line. 

What should you do? 

A. Evaluate the task to determine if there is a deadline. 

B. Insert the Constraint Type field and view the task constraints. 

C. Evaluate the task by using the Task Inspector. 

D. View the Resource Sheet to see if you have overallocated resources. 

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Q6. 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? 

A. Delete the current baseline and re-baseline the entire project. 

B. Copy the current schedule to the baseline1 fields. 

C. Select the new tasks and copy the schedule to the baseline1 fields for the selected tasks. 

D. Select the new tasks and set the baseline for the selected tasks. 

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Q7. 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? 

A. Open the Project calendar and mark the work day as working. 

B. Open the resource's working calendar and edit the Work Week details to set the day as working. 

C. Open the resource's working calendar and delete the exception. 

D. Open the resource's working calendar and mark the day as working. 

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Q8. You are a project manager for a company that is based in New York and London. The company uses Project Professional 2013. 

Teams from both offices are working together on a project. Since the two offices are located in different regions, the teams have separate company holiday schedules and working times. 

You need to ensure that the effort for each resource and task is set up properly in the calendar. 

You want to achieve this goal by using the least amount of time and effort. 

What should you do? 

A. Create a London calendar from the standard calendar and assign the London calendar as the project calendar. 

B. Create a new base calendar for London that includes all of the London office's company holidays and assign it to all London resources. 

C. Manually edit each London resource's calendar to add all of the London office's company holidays. 

D. Assign the 24-hour calendar to all tasks and select Scheduling ignores resource calendars. 

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Q9. 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? 

A. Create a material resource with a material label of gallons. Enter $20 in the cost per use and $5.00 in the standard rate. 

B. Create a cost resource, add the resource to a task, and enter $25 in the actual cost. 

C. Create a material resource with a material label of gallons. Enter $20 in the standard rate and $5.00 in the cost per use. 

D. Create a cost resource, add the resource to a task, and enter $2520 in the actual cost. 

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Q10. Your company uses Project Professional 2013. 

You are building a schedule by using predecessors to help determine a logical duration. The following image shows a baselined list of tasks with predecessors: 

You have been told that Task C is optional, and you recommend inactivating the task to keep it visible on the schedule. 

You need to determine what the results are to the schedule when inactivating Task C. 

How should you answer? 

A. The finish date is reduced by four working days, cost remains unchanged, and baseline cost is reduced by $400. 

B. The finish date is reduced by five working days, cost remains unchanged, and baseline cost is unchanged. 

C. The finish date is reduced by six working days, cost is reduced by $400, and baseline cost is reduced by $400. 

D. The finish date is reduced by four calendar days, cost is reduced by $400, and baseline cost is reduced by $400. 

E. The finish date is reduced by six calendar days, cost is reduced by $400, and baseline cost is unchanged. 

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