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Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Which requirements do you want to display?






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






10. What period will be evaluated?






11. Which fields do you want to display?






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






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






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






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






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






17. Comparison or evaluation of data?






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






19. Plant Data Collection






20. 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.






21. Finally Confirmed






22. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






23. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.






24. Which data will be evaluated






25. 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."






26. Determines the latest dates






27. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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






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






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. Released






39. Actual Finish Date






40. 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.






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






42. 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






43. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. Which period do you want to split?