Microsoft-Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013

You manage a project by using Microsoft Project. A critical task is out of scope for the project. The stakeholders suggest that the task be removed from the project but kept in the plan in case the task is needed in the future. You need to implement a solution to meet the stakeholder's request. What should you do?

You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project. 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?

You manage a project for an organization that uses Microsoft Project. You reset the baseline for some selected tasks. After the baseline has been updated with the new values, you realize that some of the summary baseline duration values are not correct. You need to resolve this problem. What should you do?

Your company uses Microsoft Project. 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?

Your company uses Microsoft Project. You are a program manager who has a master project created for your program. Currently you are seeing the critical path for each independent project in the master project. As a program manager, you want to ensure the resources are properly applied to successfully complete the program. You need to display the critical path for the entire program instead of each independent project. What should you do?

You are managing a project by using Microsoft Project. Your project schedule contains 1000 tasks which are in outline format. You discover that the Design summary task is located below the Build summary group of tasks. You need to move the Design summary task and its detail tasks to the proper location. What should you do?

You are a project manager, and your company uses Microsoft Project. You are setting up a preliminary schedule by using manually scheduled tasks. You create two manually scheduled tasks and link them in a Finish to Start relationship. The project team member asks you to increase the duration of the predecessor task. You notice that the successor task start date is now before the finish date of the predecessor task. You want the successor task to start after the predecessor finishes. What should you do?

You create a new blank schedule by using Microsoft Project. You need to set options that will determine the scheduling behavior of your project. In the Project Options dialog, which option should you configure?

Your company uses Microsoft Project. You have two projects, Project 1 and Project 2, as well as a resource pool to contain all of the resources. You use resource leveling and want to prioritize the projects so that Project 1 is the highest priority project and gets all the required resource availability first. Project 2 then gets resources as they become available from Project 1. You need to maintain this priority throughout the execution of the project. What should you do?

Your organization uses Microsoft Project. You are setting up a preliminary schedule by using manually scheduled tasks. As you build the task breakdown, you notice a potential scheduling problem indicated by a wavy red line under the finish date of a detail task. You need to determine the cause of the wavy red line. What should you do?