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Project Management Using Microsoft Project

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. File -> Options -> Scheduling --> Drop down for Decimal or Percentage.






2. Responsibility Assignment Matrix.






3. Focus on Gantt -> Format ribbon ->






4. 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.


5. Shows logical relationship between tasks. View tab -> 'split view' section -> details checked -> More views -> Select there.






6. If '______________' isn't checked - for example - then you won't be able to set a style for critical tasks.






7. The number of resources required to get the tasks/assignments completed.






8. Finish to start - finish to finish - start to start - start to finish. All are 'at least'.






9. Two tasks vying for one resource - who wins?






10. ______ link Summary Tasks.






11. An approach for monitoring project progress that relies on the budgeted cost of activities completed to ascribe value






12. Appears: ehr means: Elapsed hour






13. Task calendar - resource calendar - base calendar.






14. Tables - charts - usage tables - and sheets.






15. 1. Initiation 2. Planning 3. Execution 4. Monitoring & Control 5. Closing






16. Add your resources names to critical tasks _______ via bar styles/text.






17. Create file. Set up file properties. Set a start date. Set up calendars and working time.






18. The WBS contains 100% of the work defined by the project scope and captures all deliverables - internal - external - interim - in terms of the work to be completed - including project management.


19. Appears: day means: day






20. Network Diagrom -> Format ribbon -> format.






21. Always preserve the number of people working on a task. Changing units when fixed will impact duration.






22. View -> Timeline check box. Shows timeline - but by default - nothing's on it. To add items - right click and 'add to timeline'.






23. Appears: hr means: hour






24. Work divided by available resource units. Formula: D=W/U






25. 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.






26. The acceloration of the successor task. 'Negative lag'






27. Gantt Chart with 'Entry' table on left.






28. .mpp file extension. The actual project file.






29. Always preserve the number of hours to perform a task. Changing work when fixed will impact duration.






30. efines units.






31. Amendment to task type.






32. No single activity or group of activities to produce a single deliverable should be more than 80 hours of effort.


33. 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.






34. Project template (.mpt) - or Global MPT file. Drives what you see in the project. Corporations may have their own.






35. Appears: mon means: month






36. Appears: wk means: week






37. Appears: emon means: Elapsed month






38. Two critical tasks - both same duration - vying for one resource - who wins?






39. W = D + U Duration plus available resource units






40. Work - resource - cost.






41. Gantt Chart -> Format -> Bar Styles segment -> format drop down. Adjust all aspects of the bars in the gantt.






42. A logical relationship that states that for one project to begin - another must also be underway. For example - the writing of a business proposal must have begun in order for editing of the proposal to take place.






43. Shows closest thing to a 'resource gantt chart'. Shows tasks by resource. Also shows unassigned tasks - and unscheduled tasks. Allows for user-controlled scheduling.






44. 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.






45. Tasks - resources - assignments - all have dialogs. Example: resource leveling. Project information dialog very important.






46. Tables are made up of fields.






47. 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






48. To switch between ____________: (Project 2010) - Use the bottom-left icon. Use the ribbon. Task mode column in entry table. File -> options -> schedule.






49. File -> Options -> Quick Access tool bar. Examples: Tables and Vies - good stuff.


50. 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