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Subject : it-skills
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1. 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






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






3. Released






4. Actual Finish Date






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. Which data will be evaluated






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






18. Which period do you want to split?






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. Which fields do you want to display?






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






27. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.






28. 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.






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






30. What period will be evaluated?






31. Finally Confirmed






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. Actual Start Date






38. Determines the latest dates






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






40. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. Which requirements do you want to display?






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






46. 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






47. Plant Data Collection






48. 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."






49. 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.






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