Microsoft 074-343 Value Pack (Frequently Bought Together)

You are using Microsoft Project Professional 2013.
Three years ago, you successfully completed a project to review all of the suppliers within your organization, and you have been asked to run a similar project again. You still have the project plan from three years ago.
You need to use the most efficient method to produce a new plan with tasks based upon the old project plan.
What should you do?

• A. Rename the old plan to a .mpt file, and select it from the featured templates to create the new project.
• B. Open the file in an earlier version of Project Professional and save it as a Project Professional 2013 file format. Open the file in Project Professional 2013.
• C. Use the New from existing project option to create the new project.
• D. Open the file, and copy and paste the task list into the schedule.

You are a project manager for a company that is based in New York and London. The company uses Project Professional 2013.
Teams from both offices are working together on a project. Since the two offices are located in different regions, the teams have separate company holiday schedules and working times.
You need to ensure that the effort for each resource and task is set up properly in the calendar.
You want to achieve this goal by using the least amount of time and effort.
What should you do?

• A. Assign the 24-hour calendar to all tasks and select Scheduling ignores resource calendars.
• B. Create a London calendar from the standard calendar and assign the London calendar as the project calendar.
• C. Create a new base calendar for London that includes all of the London office's company holidays and assign it to all London resources.
• D. Manually edit each London resource's calendar to add all of the London office's company holidays.

You are a project manager for a company that uses baselines in Project Standard 2013.
Project stakeholders approve an update to the baseline of a project in progress. You enter the new tasks necessary to include the project schedule changes.
You need to update the baseline for the new tasks.
What should you do?

• A. Delete the current baseline and re-baseline the entire project.
• B. Select the new tasks and set the baseline for the selected tasks.
• C. Select the new tasks and copy the schedule to the baseline1 fields for the selected tasks.
• D. Copy the current schedule to the baseline1fields.

You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.
You manage a large project and are capturing actual work for the tasks as they are being worked.
You do not need to enter the time on the actual day worked; however, you need to capture the total amount of time spent on the task.
The fixed work task has a baseline of 20 hours, and the developer's timecard displays the following hours:
* Monday = 2 hours
* Tuesday = 8 hours
* Wednesday = 4 hours
* Thursday = 2 hours
* Friday = 2 hours
The developer informs you that the task is now complete.
You need to update the actual work and mark the task complete.
What should you do?

• A. Open the Task Form and format it to show Schedule Details. Enter 18 hours in the Actual Work for the resource. Enter 2 hours in the remaining work. Mark the task as 100% complete.
• B. Open the Task Form and format it to show Schedule View. Enter 18 hours in the Work column for the resource.
• C. Open the Task Form and format it to show Work Details. Enter 20 hours in the Actual Work for the resource. Enter 0 hours in the remaining work. Mark the task as 100% complete.
• D. Open the Task Form and format it to show Work Details. Enter 18 hours in the Actual Work for the resource. Enter 0 hours in the remaining work.

Your company uses Project Professional 2013.
You are building a schedule by using predecessors to help determine a logical duration.
The following image shows a baselined list of tasks with predecessors:

You have been told that Task C is optional, and you recommend inactivating the task to keep it visible on the schedule.
You need to determine what the results are to the schedule when inactivating Task C.
How should you answer?

• A. The finish date is reduced by six working days, cost is reduced by $400, and baseline cost is reduced by $400.
• B. The finish date is reduced by five working days, cost remains unchanged, and baseline cost is unchanged.
• C. The finish date is reduced by six calendar days, cost is reduced by $400, and baseline cost is unchanged.
• D. The finish date is reduced by four calendar days, cost is reduced by $400, and baseline cost is reduced by $400.
• E. The finish date is reduced by four working days, cost remains unchanged, and baseline cost is reduced by $400.