Microsoft-TS Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects Set 4

You are managing a project schedule in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. You create a fixed units task with a duration of 2 days. You have not yet assigned resources to the task. You need to increase the task duration to 4 days, and ensure that the effort associated with the task does not change. What should you do?

You are managing a project plan in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. Midway through the project, some resource names appear in red in the Resource Usage view. You find that many of these resources have no remaining availability for specific days but are completely available on subsequent days. Your organization has a strict policy that resources can work no more than a total of 115 percent in each period of 20 work days. However, the organization wants resources to be utilized as much as possible. When you level your schedule, you need to resolve as many of the situations creating red-indicated resources as possible. What should you do?

You are tracking a project in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. One of the resources assigned to the project has left the company. You need to remove the resource from your schedule without removing any of the Actual Work data that he has reported. What should you do first?

You are creating a project plan in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. Your resources work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. A fixed duration, effort-driven task with 80 hours of work has one resource assigned to it at 50%. The schedule changes, and the task now must be completed in 5 days. You need to ensure that the task is completed in 5 days. What should you do?

You are developing a project schedule in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. The project uses a shared resource pool. One of the resources assigned to the project is assigned to another project on a half-time basis during the first month of the project. You need to ascertain whether the resource is overallocated during the first month of the schedule. What should you do first?

You are managing a project in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. You will be managing similar projects in the future, and plan to reuse information from the current project. You need to save the tasks, durations, views, and formatting of the current project for reuse. What should you do?

You create a new base calendar for a project that you are tracking in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. You need to make this calendar the default calendar for the project. What should you do?

You are creating a project management methodology. You document project management procedures and create specialized project management process templates. You need to apply the processes in the context of Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007. What should you do first?

Your company tracks projects in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 by duration and milestones only. In the Gantt Chart view, you need to input the actual data for a project. What should you do?

You are tracking a project in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 by both duration and work effort. The work on a fixed units task is not proceeding as scheduled. You have data for the last status period from the resource assigned to the task. You need to enter data into the project plan to recalculate the task finish date. What should you do?