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Subject : it-skills
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Which requirements do you want to display?






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






7. A structure element of the work breakdown structure. It describes a concrete task or a partial task that can be further subdivided. Planned and actual values for a project are defined and aggregated in WBS elements.






8. Actual Start Date






9. Released






10. Finally Confirmed






11. 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






12. Comparison or evaluation of data?






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






14. Network activities can only be linked to each other by means of relationships in the project system. The work breakdown structure has a purely hierachical structure however.






15. 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.






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






17. 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






18. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.






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






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






21. What period will be evaluated?






22. Plant Data Collection






23. Dates in ____: Network header (Basic and Forecast Dates) - Network activity Constraints (Earliest and Latest Dates) - Activity element






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






25. Which period do you want to split?






26. A binding framework for all the organization elements created in a project. The project definition contains default and control values. When you create a work breakdown structure - you automatically create a proejct definition.






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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.






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






32. Which data will be evaluated






33. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






34. Determines the latest dates






35. Describes the chronological sequence of and dependencies between events and activites in a project - and maps the actual flow of the project.






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. Sets of dates - Planning form - Scheduling - Planning Different Calendars - Shift - Extrapolation - Inherit - Check dates






42. 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.






43. Determines the earliest dates.






44. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






45. A request or instruction from a purchasing organization to a vendor (external supplier) or a plant to deliver a quantity of material or render a service at a certain point in time.






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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






49. A way of describing the link between the start and finish points of two activities in a network. Relationships determine the sequence of activities.






50. 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.