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Subject : it-skills
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1. Hierachical structuring of a company's undertaking to create tangible assets or render services for an approval year.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. What period will be evaluated?






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






8. 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






9. Determines the latest dates






10. Which data will be evaluated






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






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






13. 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.






14. Actual Start Date






15. Comparison or evaluation of data?






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. Plant Data Collection






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






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






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






23. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






24. 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.






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






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






27. Which fields do you want to display?






28. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






29. Released






30. 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.






31. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. Which requirements do you want to display?






36. 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."






37. Which period do you want to split?






38. 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.






39. Actual Finish Date






40. 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.






41. Finally Confirmed






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. 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.