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Project Management Using Microsoft Project
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. File -> Info -> Organizer. Access global mpt - delete views - etc. (ADD MORE)
Organizer (Project 2010)
Initializing a Project (Project 2010)
'80 hour rule'
Gantt Chart Wizard (Project 2010)
2. Responsibility Assignment Matrix.
'80 hour rule'
RAM
Material resource
d (Abbreviations Project 2010)
3. Appears: min means: minute
Calendar/ Working time (Project 2010)
m (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Reccuring Tasks
PDM
4. Appears: mon means: month
SNET
mo (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Task Type
h (Abbreviations Project 2010)
5. ______ link Summary Tasks.
Earned Value
Task with minimum duration
d (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Do not
6. Appears: day means: day
'Hiding' columns (Project 2010)
Fixed Units
d (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Views (Project 2010)
7. Changing the working time in the 'details' section of the working time dialog won't change the default start time in the options -> scheduling settings. Try to keep these in sync.
8. Create file. Set up file properties. Set a start date. Set up calendars and working time.
Actual Cost
Project information dialog (Project 2010)
Views (Project 2010)
Initializing a Project (Project 2010)
9. View -> Timeline check box. Shows timeline - but by default - nothing's on it. To add items - right click and 'add to timeline'.
Bar Style (Project 2010)
Views (Project 2010)
Timeline (Project 2010)
PDM
10. Work - resource - cost.
Resource types
w (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Reccuring Tasks
Critical Tasks
11. Shows logical relationship between tasks. View tab -> 'split view' section -> details checked -> More views -> Select there.
Relationship Diagram (Project 2010)
Timeline (Project 2010)
SNET
Remaining Duration
12. Task calendar - resource calendar - base calendar.
eh (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Actual Cost
Task with minimum duration
Calendars to consider
13. An approach for monitoring project progress that relies on the budgeted cost of activities completed to ascribe value
w (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Earned Value
Relationship Diagram (Project 2010)
Fixed Units
14. Always preserve the number of hours to perform a task. Changing work when fixed will impact duration.
GO TO (Project 2010)
'The 100% Rule'
Fixed Work
The task which has the LEAST slack is more important - Min-slack wins
15. Appears: ehr means: Elapsed hour
Splitting tasks (Project 2010)
Manually
h (Abbreviations Project 2010)
eh (Abbreviations Project 2010)
16. Work divided by available resource units. Formula: D=W/U
Lead
Duration
PDM
ed (Abbreviations Project 2010)
17. Hiding does not delete data. If you hide a column - data maintains - but to get it back - you'll need to right click - insert column.
18. 'Start no earlier than' constraint.
ew (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Effort Driven
SNET
em (Abbreviations Project 2010)
19. Matches the outline number initially in Project 2010. It is common for work breakdown structure elements to be numbered sequentially to reveal the hierarchical structure. For example 1.3.2 Rear Wheel identifies this item as a Level 3 WBS element - si
Effort Driven
WBS Code (Project 2010)
Summary tasks (WBS)
Box Styles (Project 2010)
20. Two CRITICAL tasks vying for one resource - who wins?
Task with minimum duration
Lead
Organizer (Project 2010)
Reccuring Tasks
21. Appears: eday means: Elapsed day
ed (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Work
Calendars to consider
Initializing a Project (Project 2010)
22. Contains information relative to tasks.
Form (Project 2010)
Dialogs (Project 2010)
Material resource
Fixed Work
23. Single Start - Single Finish. No 'danglers'. Everything must be connected. No loops.
Table (Project 2010)
Task with first ID
Network Diagram best practices
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
24. Fixed Duration - Fixed Units - or Fixed Work. Described on page 72 of Project 2010 book.
h (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Reccuring Tasks
Task Type
Box Styles (Project 2010)
25. Their purpose is to ORGANIZE. Summary tasks have work packages or other summary tasks which comprise the parent summary task. Summary tasks are NOT scheduled. The children tasks are what need to be scheduled.
Customize 'Quick Access Tool Bar'
Initializing a Project (Project 2010)
Summary tasks (WBS)
Project information dialog (Project 2010)
26. The Precedence Diagram Method is a tool for scheduling activities in a project plan. It is a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram that uses boxes - referred to as nodes - to represent activities and connects them with arrows that
m (Abbreviations Project 2010)
ew (Abbreviations Project 2010)
SNET
PDM
27. To switch between ____________: (Project 2010) - Use the bottom-left icon. Use the ribbon. Task mode column in entry table. File -> options -> schedule.
Manual and Auto scheduled tasks
Task with first ID
Show Assignment Units as (Project 2010)
The task which has the LEAST slack is more important - Min-slack wins
28. Appears: emon means: Elapsed month
'80 hour rule'
Project information dialog (Project 2010)
emo (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Customize 'Quick Access Tool Bar'
29. Can be added to the ribbon - and it walks user through formatting of the gantt chart. Pretty cool.
DSM Design Structure Matrix
Gantt Chart Wizard (Project 2010)
Default view (Project 2010)
RAM
30. Task ribbon -> 'task' -> recurring task. An easy way to schedule reccuring meetings.
Reccuring Tasks
RAM
mo (Abbreviations Project 2010)
h (Abbreviations Project 2010)
31. Start date - Current date - finish date - status date - schedule from - calendar - & priority (with project pro). Enterprise custom fields here too - if you're hooked into enterprise.
Finish to Start
eh (Abbreviations Project 2010)
d (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Project information dialog (Project 2010)
32. File -> Options -> Quick Access tool bar. Examples: Tables and Vies - good stuff.
33. It is NOT an exhaustive list of work. It is instead a comprehensive classification of project scope. Contains Sub-components - work packages (child of sub-component). Further work packages can be children of other work packages. Summary tasks are the
emo (Abbreviations Project 2010)
DSM Design Structure Matrix
Views (Project 2010)
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
34. Two critical tasks - both same duration - vying for one resource - who wins?
w (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Work Package (WBS)
Network Diagram best practices
Task with first ID
35. A compact - matrix representation of a system or project. The approach can be used to model complex systems in systems engineering or systems analysis - and in project planning and project management.
Timeline (Project 2010)
Task Type
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
DSM Design Structure Matrix
36. Project Tab -> Change Working time. Define the actual 'hours' of work - which days work happens (weekends grayed out by default) - and 'exceptions' to standard work times. Work weeks tab present too.
Earned Value
Work
emo (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Calendar/ Working time (Project 2010)
37. Always preserve the number of people working on a task. Changing units when fixed will impact duration.
Task with first ID
Fixed Units
Gantt Chart Wizard (Project 2010)
Timeline (Project 2010)
38. Gantt Chart -> Format -> Bar Styles segment -> format drop down. Adjust all aspects of the bars in the gantt.
Project Files (Project 2010)
Bar Style (Project 2010)
File Name vs. Project name (Project 2010)
Fixed Work
39. The acceloration of the successor task. 'Negative lag'
Calendars to consider
Critical Tasks
Finish to Start
Lead
40. File -> Options -> Scheduling --> Drop down for Decimal or Percentage.
Team Planner (Project 2010)
Do not
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
Show Assignment Units as (Project 2010)
41. Appears: wk means: week
w (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Project information dialog (Project 2010)
Effort Driven
m (Abbreviations Project 2010)
42. Add your resources names to critical tasks _______ via bar styles/text.
Manually
File Name vs. Project name (Project 2010)
eh (Abbreviations Project 2010)
WBS Code (Project 2010)
43. Time delay. Sometimes - it's preferred to have lag shown as a task. You can assign costs to it - that way. Style sheets will indicate this.
Lag
Project Files (Project 2010)
Effort Driven
Views (Project 2010)
44. The number of resources required to get the tasks/assignments completed.
Resource types
Peak
Manual and Auto scheduled tasks
Task with minimum duration
45. Task ribbon -> schedule section -> broken task icon. Reschedule incomplete work - etc.
Calendars to consider
Drawing on Gantt (Project 2010)
Terminal element
Splitting tasks (Project 2010)
46. Always preserve the duration of a task. Changing duration when fixed will impact work.
em (Abbreviations Project 2010)
Default view (Project 2010)
Fixed Duration
Actual Cost
47. Two tasks vying for one resource - who wins?
Remaining Duration
Task with first ID
Dialogs (Project 2010)
The task which has the LEAST slack is more important - Min-slack wins
48. Tasks - resources - assignments - all have dialogs. Example: resource leveling. Project information dialog very important.
Customize 'Quick Access Tool Bar'
Organizer (Project 2010)
PDM
Dialogs (Project 2010)
49. If '______________' isn't checked - for example - then you won't be able to set a style for critical tasks.
Critical Tasks
Bar Style (Project 2010)
DSM Design Structure Matrix
w (Abbreviations Project 2010)
50. efines units.
PDM
Material resource
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
Units