You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 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?
You are a project manager for a software development company. You use Project Professional 2013. 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 Project Professional 2013. 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 resource manager who uses Project Standard 2013. You manage all of your resources in a single plan, which acts as a Shared Resource Pool for other projects in your organization. Each resource needs to pass an annual exam in order to work on construction sites. You need to set up a method that allows you to pick the renewal month for each resource. What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013. Two of your resources job share; Resource1 works Monday, Tuesday, and a half day Wednesday. Resource2 works the remaining work week. You need to set up their calendars to reflect the job-sharing arrangement. What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013. Your manager wants you to plan an office move. You have a project schedule from a prior office move named "OfficeMove.mpp" and you want to use this project to assist in planning the current office move. In the fewest steps possible, you need to create your new project schedule based on the old project schedule. What should you do?
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013. 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 Project Standard 2013. 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 Project Standard 2013. 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?
You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013. All resources in your project schedule have availability of 8 hours per day. You notice that several of the resources on the project are overallocated. You decide to level the project to help resolve the overallocations for the resources. Team members often do not work at the same time when completing their work on the tasks. You need to resolve the overallocations by using the Resource Leveling function. What should you do?