Microsoft-Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013 Set 1

You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project. 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?

You are a project manager for a software development company. You use Microsoft Project. You manage an integration project, and you discover that you need to add additional resources to the integration tasks in order to meet your development complete milestone date. The project is behind schedule, so you must shorten the duration of the integration development work. You identify two additional resources to work on the integration task. When you add these resources, your task now shows it will complete three days ahead of schedule, which leaves a contingency window for issues that may arise. In order to shorten the duration of the task when the resources are added, you need to set the task type before adding the resources. What should you do?

You are a project manager, and your organization uses Microsoft Project. You have created a detailed project schedule and have identified two tasks that are causing your resource to be overallocated. You need to use the Team Planner to reassign these tasks from the overallocated resources to underallocated resources with the same skill set. What should you do?

You are a senior project manager, and your organization uses Microsoft Project. You are managing a large ERP project with both part-time and full-time resources. The part-time resources have strict contractual limitations regarding working days and hourly availability. You need to make sure the tasks for your part-time resources are only scheduled in the calendar during their agreed-upon working days and hours. What should you do?

You are a project manager, and you successfully complete a server consolidation project for one of your data centers. You use Microsoft Project 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?

You are project manager who uses Microsoft Project. Your organization uses Microsoft SharePoint 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?

You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project. You have been told to build multiple project files for a program. You need to have all of your projects start with auto scheduled tasks by default. What should you do?

You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project. A senior stakeholder asks you to update your project to reflect your organization's scheduled two-week closure. You need to reflect the closure within your schedule. What should you do?

You are a project manager for an organization that uses Microsoft Project. You add shortcuts on the Quick Access Toolbar to your most frequently used commands. Your manager is impressed with the ease of use this customization provides and would like other project managers in the group to use it. You need to deploy the customization to these project managers. What should you do?

You are a project manager, and your organization uses Microsoft Project. You have created a non-working day in a resource's calendar; however, the HR department notifies you that the resource will work that day after all. You need to reflect this change in the project in the most efficient manner. What should you do?