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Subject : it-skills
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1. Finally Confirmed






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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. 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.






9. 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.






10. Which requirements do you want to display?






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






12. Determines the earliest dates.






13. 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






14. 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.






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






17. Plant Data Collection






18. 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.






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






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






21. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






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






23. 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.






24. Which fields do you want to display?






25. 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.






26. Comparison or evaluation of data?






27. Actual Start Date






28. Determines the latest dates






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






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






31. Actual Finish Date






32. 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.






33. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.






34. 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.






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






36. Which data will be evaluated






37. 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






38. Which period do you want to split?






39. Released






40. 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.






41. What period will be evaluated?






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. 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.






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