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Subject : it-skills
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1. Actual Start Date






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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."






5. 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.






6. 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.






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. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






14. Which data will be evaluated






15. 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.






16. Which fields do you want to display?






17. Comparison or evaluation of data?






18. 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






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






20. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






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






26. Released






27. 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.






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






29. Which requirements do you want to display?






30. Determines the latest dates






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






32. 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.






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






34. Which period do you want to split?






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. Plant Data Collection






38. What period will be evaluated?






39. Finally Confirmed






40. Determines the earliest dates.






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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.