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Subject : it-skills
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1. Released






2. Factors influencing Scheduling: Internal Processing - External Processing - ____________ - Relationships (ES Earliest Start - LS Latest Start - EF Earliest Finish - TF - Total Float - FF Free Float - FS Finish Start - SF Start Finish - SS






3. What period will be evaluated?






4. Task in a network that has a defined start and finish. Project Systems has the following activity types Internal processing - external processing - costs - service.






5. A component of Materials Management with the following tasks; procuring materials and services externally - determining possible sources of supply for a requirement - monitoring goods deliveries and payment.






6. An organizational unit within a company - used to represent a closed system for cost accounting purposes. A controlling area may include single or multiple company codes that may use different currencies.






7. A request or instruction to Purchasing to procure a quantity of a material or service so what it is available at a certain point in time.






8. A customer request to a compnay for the delivery of goods or services at a certain time. The request is received by a sales area that is then responsible for fulfilling the contract.






9. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






10. Which fields do you want to display?






11. Project-specific notification category. A claim is used to document varioances form the project plan. You can use claims to plan costs incurred by variances - as well as initiate and monitor follow up activities.






12. The actual dates for a WBS element can only be entered either - Manually - Calculateted by extrapoaltion of actual dates of lower ranked WSB elements - Derived from the provisional actual dates of assigned activities.






13. An organizationl unit that defines where and by whom an activity is to be carried otu. The data in the work center can be used for scheduling - costing - and capacity planning.






14. The network structures that are not directly associated with a project and can be used as templates for creating other standard networks or operative networks.






15. An organizational unit within a controlling area that represents a defined location of cost incurrence. The definition can be based on funcitonal requirements - allocation criteria - physical locations or responsibility for costs.






16. A neutral work breakdown strucutre that can be used several times over and only serves as a template for creating operative owrk breakdown structures.






17. A model of the project that shows the project activities to be fulfilled in the hierarchical form. It divides the project into clearly-structured sections. The individual elements of the work breakdown structure are called WBS elements.






18. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






19. An organizational unit in Accounting that reflects a management-oriented structure fo the organization for the purpose of internal control.






20. Only affects the activities for which a reduction strategy has been stored






21. Determines the latest dates






22. Internal cost allocation procedure where by the valuated atcitives (allocation bases) carredi out by cost centers are reallocated to the cost receiver according to the cause. In internal activity allocation - the service carried out by thte cost cent






23. A customer request to a company for a quotation or sales information that is not binding. The request is recieved by a sales area that is then responsible for processing it further.






24. A complete - structured list of the components that comprise an object. Bill of materials. The list contains a description - the quantity and the the unit of measure. The components are known as BOM items.






25. Objects Maintained in _______: Work Breakdown Structures - Network - Milestone - Project Definition






26. Object representing events that are particularly important for the progress of the project or are of special interest. You can assign milestones to individual acitvities or WBS elements.






27. Which data will be evaluated






28. Predfined cost framework for a task or project within the specific period. Budgeting differs from cost planning in that it is bindiing. Whereas you must estimate your project costs as accurately as possible during project cost planning - it is the ap






29. Determines the earliest dates.






30. Hierachical structuring of a company's undertaking to create tangible assets or render services for an approval year.






31. A term from Inventory Management denoting a physical inward movement of goods or material from a company - usally with reference to a purchase order or production order.






32. Factors that can have an influence on the __________ of networks: The transaction used to carry out the scheduling - Relationships to other networks - The control key for the activity - Dates of assigned WBS elements - The work center in activities






33. The system can checkthe heirachical consisteny co time scheduling within the project and extapolate dates within the project strucure automaticallly on saving using the planning methods "top down" "bottom up " and "strict bottom up."






34. Finally Confirmed






35. Top Down - Bottom Up - Free Planning - Strict Bottom Up






36. Order for detaled planning and associated documetnation of measures during maintenance.






37. Determines the original direction in which scheduling is carried out. Networks are always scheduled forwards and backwards. They are used for both network and WBS scheduling.






38. Controls how actual dates from partial confirmations affect further scheduling runs






39. Comparison or evaluation of data?






40. Lifecycle of _________: Progress - Structure - Bottlenecks/Comparison - Analyses - Machines - Persons - External assignment - Work Center






41. Plant Data Collection






42. Which requirements do you want to display?






43. A list of dates from which down payment request and sales relevant invoices are sent to customers. The planned revenues and planned incoming payments are automatically derived from the billing plan and recorded in the relevant WBS element.






44. List some ________: Internal processing - External processing - costs -service






45. The smallest organization unit within a company - used to represent a closed system for cost accounting purposes. A controlling area may include single or multiple company codes that may use different currencies.






46. Actual Start Date






47. Actual Finish Date






48. CJ29 - Project Scheduling Transaction - OSPU - Used to set control keys.






49. Automatically calculated by the system for materials during the project based on the projected finish date of the activity.






50. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.