PROJECT QUESTIONS

Part 1
1. Which view would you use for comparing your project schedule to the baseline?
A) Gantt Chart
B) Leveling Gantt
C) Network Diagram
D) Tracking Gantt

2. Which of the following is NOT a Resource Type in Microsoft Project 2013?

A) Labor
B) Material
C) Cost
D) Work

3. How would you configure Microsoft Project to display the Project Summary for all new projects?
A) The Show Project Summary Task checkbox via the Schedule Project Options
B) The Show Project Summary Task checkbox via the Advanced Project Options
C) Project Summary Task checkbox via the FORMAT tab
D) Project Summary Task checkbox via the VIEW tab

4. In order to accommodate an executive who is using Microsoft Office 2007, you have to Save your
Microsoft Project 2013 file as an older version. You want to make sure that the new file contains no
added constraints. What should you do before saving the file?
A) Make sure all tasks are Active
B) Make sure all of the tasks are automatically scheduled
C) Make sure all of the tasks are manually scheduled
D) Make sure all of the summary tasks are automatically scheduled

5. Your project milestone are slipping past the original delivery dates, and you need to display the
slippage visually. What should you do to the milestones?
A) Add a “Finish No Later Than” constraint
B) Add a “Finish On” constraint
C) Add a Finish Date
D) Add a Deadline
6. Task A and Task B are in a Finish to Start relationship that was manually scheduled. Task A has a
duration of 4 days and Task B has a duration of 8 days. After talking with the developer, you find out
that Task A will actually take 6 days. You update the durations for Task A to 6 days, but you notice
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that Task B now starts 2 days before Task A ends. What should you do to maintain the original task
relationship?
A) Update the the Task relationship to a Finish to Finish relationship
B) Add a “Start No Earlier Than” constraint
C) Click the “Respect the Links” button on the Task menu
D) In the Team Planner view move Task B to the right 2 days

7. Task A has a task type of Fixed Work with a duration of 6 days, work of 48 hours, and units of 100%.
You decide to decrease the work to only 24 hours. How will this affect the other two variables.
A) The Duration will decrease by 3 days.
B) The Units will decrease by 50%
C) the Duration will increase by 3 days.
D) The Units will increase by 50%.

8. Which view allows you to see all tasks assigned to a single Resource?
A) The Task Form
B) The Task Sheet
C) The Resource Form
D) The Resource Sheet

9. Which view helps visually display resources that are overallocated via vertical bar graph?
A) The Resource Sheet
B) The Resource Graph
C) The Team Planner
D) The Resource Usage

10. Your resource, Kelly, originally scheduled time off the Friday after Thanksgiving, and the project was
schedule knowing she was out. Due to a strict deadline, your resource is now working the Friday
after Thanksgiving. How would you update the project to reflect this change?
A) Update the Working Time via the Task calendar
B) Update the Working Time via the Resource calendar
C) Remove the Exception from the Resource calendar
D) Remove the Exception from the Project calendar
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11. What is the easiest way to view the legend for the Gantt chart?
A) Double click an empty area on the Gantt Chart
B) Right click the Gantt Chart and click View Legend
C) On the View tab, click the Legend checkbox
D) On the Format tab, click the Legend checkbox

12. In order to accommodate an Executive who is used to analyzing project data via an Excel Pivot
table, what should you do?
A) Export the project data into Excel and use Excel to create the Pivot tables
B) Use the default Dashboard Reports feature
C) Copy and paste the data from Microsoft Project to Excel
D) Use the default Visual Reports feature

13. Which of the following is NOT a Report category?

A) Dashboards
B) Resources
C) In Progress
D) Schedule
E) Costs

14. You need to find all of the Milestones on the project, without hiding other tasks or changing the order
of the tasks. What should you do?
A) Use the Filter on Milestones
B) Use the Group by on Milestones
C) Use the Highlight on Milestones
D) Use the Duration column to filter on 0d tasks

15. You are using the Resource Sheet to list all of your resources for the project. There is a piece of
equipment that costs $15/hour and each time it is used there is a $20 fee. What resource type
should you pick?
A) Labor
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B)Material
C) Cost
D) Work

PART 2

MICROSOFT PROJECT 2013

1. You want to customize the appearance of the Work Burndown chart on the Work
Overview report. Which tabs can you use?

A. The Layout contextual tab under the Table Tools contextual tab.
B. The Report tab.
C. The format contextual tab under the Chart Tools contextual tab.
D. The Design contextual tab under the Report Tools contextual tab

2. What steps can you follow to create a copy of your plan’s Timeline view that is
customized to fit in an email message?

A. Click anywhere in the Timeline view, and then click the Format tab. In the Copy
group, select Copy Timeline, and then select for E-mail.
B. Double-click anywhere in the Timeline view, and in the Copy section of the
Timeline View dialog box, select For-Email. Then click OK.
C. None of the above.
D. Select anywhere in the Timeline view, click the View tab, and then in the
Timeline group, select Send to E-mail.

3. Why would you share a Timeline view with other people?

A. To show them how work is progressing on your plan.

B. To show them the amount of time you have allocated to a specific task.
C. To show them which resources are assigned to which tasks.
D. To give them a quick summary of your plan.
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4. Why is it important to capture a project baseline?

A. So that you can make sure that the actual work for the project is completed
according to your plan’s schedule.
B. So that you can easily compare actual project performance with your original
plan.
C. So that you can more easily share the project’s progress with workers and
stakeholders.
D. So that you can easily switch out resources without losing track of the work that
previous resources have completed.

5. What methods can you use to track progress for your project?

A. Record each task’s percentage of completion.

B. Record project work as scheduled.
C. Record actual start and finish dates, actual work, and actual and remaining
durations for each task.
D. All of the above.

6. Which view would you use for comparing your project schedule to the baseline?

A. Gantt Chart

B. Leveling Gantt

C. Network Diagram
D. Tracking Gantt
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7. Which of the following is NOT a Resource Type in Microsoft Project 2013?

A. Labor

B. Material

C. Cost
D. Work

8. To accommodate an executive who is using Microsoft Office 2007, you must Save your

Microsoft Project 2013 file as an older version. You want to make sure that the new file
contains no added constraints. What should you do before saving the file?

A. Make sure all tasks are Active

B. Make sure all of the tasks are automatically scheduled

C. Make sure all of the tasks are manually scheduled

D. Make sure all of the summary tasks are automatically scheduled

9. Your project milestone is slipping past the original delivery dates, and you need to

display the slippage visually. What should you do to the milestones?

A.

B. Add a “Finish No Later Than” constraint

C. Add a “Finish On” constraint

D. Add a Finish Date

E. Add a Deadline
10. Task A has a task type of Fixed Work with a duration of 6 days, work of 48 hours, and

units of 100%. You decide to decrease the work to only 24 hours. How will this affect the

other two variables?

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A. The Duration will decrease by 3 days.

B. The Units will decrease by 50%.

C. The Duration will increase by 3 days.

D. The Units will increase by 50%.

11. Which view allows you to see all tasks assigned to a single Resource?

A. The Task Form

B. The Task Sheet

C. The Resource Form

D. The Resource Sheet

12. Your resource, Kelly, originally scheduled time off the Friday after Thanksgiving, and
the project was schedule knowing she was out. Due to a strict deadline, your resource is
now working the Friday after Thanksgiving. How would you update the project to reflect
this change?

A. Update the Working Time via the Task calendar

B. Update the Working Time via the Resource calendar

C. Remove the Exception from the Resource calendar

D. Remove the Exception from the Project calendar

13. What is the easiest way to view the legend for the Gantt chart?

A. Double click an empty area on the Gantt Chart

B. Right click the Gantt Chart and View Legend

C. On the View tab, click the Legend checkbox

D. On the Format tab, click the Legend checkbox

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14. Which of the following is NOT a Report category?

A. Dashboards

B. Resources

C. In Progress

D. Schedule

15. You need to find all the Milestones on the project, without hiding other tasks or changing

the order of the tasks. What should you do?

A. Use the Filter on Milestones

B. Use the Group by on Milestones

C. Use the Highlight on Milestones

D. Use the Duration column to filter on the tasks

16. You are using the Resource Sheet to list all your resources for the project. There is a

piece of equipment that costs $15/hour and each time it is used there is a $20 fee. What

resource type should you pick?

A. Labor

B. Material

C. Cost
D. Work

17. You are creating a preliminary project schedule and are estimating the number of
resources required prior to finalizing the schedule. You do not have named resources to
complete the tasks, but you know the resource roles that are necessary. One of the roles
needed is architect.
You need to estimate how many architect hours are required to complete the work.
What should you do?

A. Add a Material Resource named architect.

B. Add a Budget Resource named architect.

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C. Add a Work Resource named architect.

D. Add a Cost Resource named architect.

18. You are a program manager. The project managers want to utilize the same resources
across their projects. You need to combine the projects, as well as the project resources,
to see allocations across the projects. What should you do?

A. Copy and paste all resource assignments into a Master file.

B. Share resources from an external resource pool.

C. Create a Master project and insert subprojects by using Link to project.

D. Open all projects in a new window

19. You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project 2013. You work on a construction
project that requires propane as a fuel source for your equipment. The foreman requires
that you enter project costs associated with all work completed on your project. The
propane costs $5.00 per gallon, and the tank holds 500 gallons of propane. Each time the
tank is refilled, you must pay a fee of $20. You need to enter the propane costs into your
project schedule prior to filling the propane tank for the first time. What should you do?

A. Create a material resource with a material label of gallons. Enter $20 in the cost
per use and $5.00 in the standard rate.

B. Create a cost resource, add the resource to a task, and enter $25 in the actual cost.

C. Create a material resource with a material label of gallons. Enter $20 in the
standard rate and $5.00 in the cost per use.
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D. Create a cost resource, add the resource to a task, and enter $2520 in the actual
cost.

20. You are a project manager, and you successfully complete a server consolidation project
for one of your data centers. You use Microsoft Project 2013 to plan and track the work.
Your manager wants you to begin similar projects on two other data centers. You need to
create a template based on the plan you used to manage the first data center consolidation
project. You need to ensure that the template has all baseline and actual data values
removed. What should you do?

A. Within Microsoft Windows Explorer, create a copy of the original project plan
and rename the file type from .mpp to .mpt.

B. Open the plan and use the Move Project button to set the start date to the start of
the new project. Save the project file as Template.mpp.

C. Open the plan and reset the percent complete for each task to 0. Save the file as
Template.mpp.

D. Open the plan, and copy and paste all the task information into a new plan. Save
the plan as a Project Template.

21. Your organization uses Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and uses a SharePoint task list to
define the tasks required on an upcoming project. The task list contains over 100 items.
You need to create a project based on the tasks in the SharePoint list in the most efficient
manner. What should you do?

A. Export the tasks into Microsoft Excel and then import the Excel file into
Microsoft Project 2013.

B. Edit the Project Summary Task hyperlink column to point to the SharePoint task
list and click the Import button.

C. Open the tasks directly from the SharePoint site into Microsoft Project 2013.

D. Copy and paste the tasks from SharePoint into Microsoft Project 2013.
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22. You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project 2013. After updating a project
schedule, you want to determine the amount of time that the schedule has slipped from
the original scheduled dates. You need a graphical view that shows the current schedule
to baseline. Which view should you use?

A. Detail Gantt view

B. Tracking Gantt view

C. Leveling Gantt view

D. Gantt Chart view

23. You use Project 2013 to manage a project for your organization. You are tracking work
in a project which contains a baseline and resource assignments. You want to view the
work variance for a specific resource for a specific task. You need to choose a view that
will show this information. What should you do?

A. View the Resource Sheet that shows the Work table.

B. View the Gantt chart in split view with Task form formatted to show Work
Details.

C. View the Resource Sheet view and insert the Work Variance field.

D. View the Task Usage view and insert the Work Variance column on the left side
of the view.

24. You are managing a project by using Project 2013, and you notice a potential scheduling
problem indicated by wavy red lines under some of the dates in the Finish column. You
need to resolve the issue. What should you do?
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A. Recalculate the project schedule.

B. Adjust the resource assignment on the task to when the resource is available.

C. Activate Task Inspector for the task to decide if adjustments are necessary.

D. Adjust the finish date on the task to a date in the future.

25. You manage a project by using Project 2013. The Indicators column in the Gantt Chart
view shows that there are overallocated resources for a task. A resource is assigned to
multiple tasks at 100% on a specific day, totaling 2.5 hours of work for the day. The
resource has availability of 8 hours for the day. You need to solve this problem. What
should you add to the task?

A. A deadline

B. A Finish to Start relationship

C. A Finish to Finish relationship

D. More work

26. You manage a project schedule by using Project 2013. You are concerned about project
costs. After viewing the Cost Variance column, you realize that the project has a cost
variance of 55,000.00. You need to view graphically which tasks and resources are
causing the $5,000.00 cost variance. What should you do?

A. View the Resource Graph's Cumulative Cost view.

B. View the Task Cost Overview report.
C. View the Over Budget Tasks report.
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D. View the Cost Overrun report.

27. 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= 4hours
 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 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.
B. B. 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.
C. 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.
D. Open the Task Form and format it to show Schedule View. Enter 18 hours in the
Work column for the resource.
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28. You are creating a project with several phases. Your customer requires the delivery phase
of the project to start on July 1st and to finish within four weeks. The delivery phase
includes a summary task, which consists of five separate sub tasks. You need to monitor
this phase closely to ensure that it does not overrun. What should you do?

A. Create a manually scheduled summary task of 20 days. Enter a Finish No Later

Than constraint which is set to July 29.

B. Create a manually scheduled summary task of 20 days. Create a deadline for the
task which is set to July 29. Monitor the progress of the summary task against the
deadline.

C. Create an automatically scheduled summary task of 20 days. Set the finish date to
July 29.

D. Set a deadline date for the automatically scheduled summary task for four weeks
after July 1st . Monitor the progress of the summary task against the deadline.
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29. You are responsible for a project with resources in different offices. All offices share the
same SharePoint intranet, and all resources have valid accounts to log into the company
intranet. Your project plan already has the correct names and assignments for each
resource involved in this project. You need to share and receive project plan updates
dynamically with your resources. What should you do?

A. Sync with SharePoint Tasks List, automatically creating a Project Site

synchronized to your Project Plan.
B. Create the Project Site in SharePoint and upload the project plan to the project
site.
C. Create the Project Site in SharePoint and save the project plan to the project
site.
D. Copy and paste the project tasks to a SharePoint task list.

30. Management wants to see an overview of your project that shows the overall start and
finish dates, total duration, and the name of the project. They want to see this information
in a simple layout that does not include task details. You need to show one-line item that
displays all the requested information in the Gantt view. What should you do?

A. Apply the Top-Level Tasks filter.

B. On the format ribbon, check the box next to Project Summary Task.
C. Apply the default Summary Tasks filter.
D. On the format ribbon, check the box next to Summary Tasks.