Microsoft 74-343 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Microsoft 74-343 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 101:

  You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project.

  You manage a software development project and have baselined the project. Your Project Management Office (PMO) requires you to capture the actual hours per resource for each task in your project schedule. You use these weekly actual

  hours to generate a weekly report for your project sponsor.

  Your resources report their actual hours each Friday.

  You need to enter the hours in your Project Schedule on a weekly basis.

  What should you do?

  A. Choose Resource Usage view, add an Actual Work row, and enter total weekly hours per assignment in the appropriate week.
  B. Display the Team Planner view, add an Actual Work column, and enter total weekly hours for each task.
  C. Choose Gantt Chart view, add a Work column, and enter total weekly hours for each task.
  D. Choose Resource Form view, right-click to view Work Details, and enter total weekly hours for each task.
  A. Choose Resource Usage view, add an Actual Work row, and enter total weekly hours per assignment in the appropriate week.

• Question 102:

  You are building a schedule by using Microsoft Project.

  You use the Import Wizard to import five columns of data from an older Microsoft Excel workbook into Project. You receive an error message, and the tool does not import the requested data into the open schedule.

  You need to import the data from Excel.

  What should you do?

  A. On the Macro Settings tab of the Trust Center Settings dialog, enable all macros.
  B. Copy and paste the five columns from the Excel workbook into a Microsoft Word table. Then import the Word table into Project.
  C. On the Legacy Formats tab of the Trust Center Settings dialog, select the Do not open/save file with legacy or non-default file formats in Project option.
  D. On the Legacy Formats tab of the Trust Center Settings dialog, select the Allow importing of legacy or non-default formats option.
  D. On the Legacy Formats tab of the Trust Center Settings dialog, select the Allow importing of legacy or non-default formats option.

• Question 103:

  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?

  A. Click on the task, and click Inactivate.
  B. Move the task to after the ending date for the project.
  C. Delete the task from the schedule.
  D. Click the Unlink Task button to unlink the predecessors and successors for the task.
  A. Click on the task, and click Inactivate.

• Question 104:

  While creating a schedule with Microsoft Project, you notice that there is a three-day duration on the Database Design task.

  After working for only two days, the resource performing the task reports two days of work and notifies you that the task is finished.

  You need to update the schedule with this information.

  What should you do?

  A. Reschedule uncompleted work for the project schedule.
  B. Add two days of actual duration and change the remaining duration for the task to zero.
  C. Update the task to show 100% completion on the ribbon bar.
  D. Enter a status date for the task.
  B. Add two days of actual duration and change the remaining duration for the task to zero.

• Question 105:

  This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.

  You are a project manager on a corporate IT project. Your finance manager has asked you to present the overall financial status of your project in a 10-minute time slot at the next meeting of the executive team. You decide to display the Cost

  Overview Dashboard report, paste it onto a Microsoft PowerPoint slide to show at the meeting, and print handouts.

  Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select "No change is needed". If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.

  A. No change needed.
  B. display the Resource Cost Overview, copy it to a PowerPoint slide, and print it to hand out at the meeting
  C. print the Tracking Gantt with the Costs table to hand out at the meeting
  D. open the Milestone Report, use PowerPoint's Insert Screenshot command to create a slide, and print handouts for the meeting
  A. No change needed.

• Question 106:

  You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project.

  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?

  A. Open the old OfficeMove.mpp file, change the project start date and project title, and clear the baseline. Save the file using the current project name.
  B. Open the old OfficeMove.mpp file, click on Save As, save the file using a new file name, clear the baseline, and set all tasks to zero percent complete.
  C. Open the old OfficeMove.mpp file, save the file as an .mpt file type, removing the baseline and actual values. Save the .mpt file as an .mpp file type, assigning the current project name.
  D. Open the old OfficeMove.mpp file, click on Save As, and save the file using a new file name. Then enter the project name in the ProjectSummary Task. Set all tasks to zero percent complete.
  C. Open the old OfficeMove.mpp file, save the file as an .mpt file type, removing the baseline and actual values. Save the .mpt file as an .mpp file type, assigning the current project name.

• Question 107:

  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?

  A. On the Schedule tab, configure Hours per day.
  B. On the Display options tab, configure Duration.
  C. On the Schedule tab, under Calculations for this project, configure Update task status updates resource status.
  D. On the Calculations for this project tab, configure Tasks are critical if slack is less than or equal to.
  C. On the Schedule tab, under Calculations for this project, configure Update task status updates resource status.

• Question 108:

  This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.

  You are reviewing a project schedule and observe that some of the finish dates are displaying wavy red lines, which indicate that there is an error in the task format.

  Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select "No change is needed". If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.

  A. that there are overallocated resources on the task which need to be resolved
  B. No change is needed.
  C. that there is potentially an error in the calculation of the schedule and it should be resolved
  D. that the task is on the critical path, no action is needed
  C. that there is potentially an error in the calculation of the schedule and it should be resolved

• Question 109:

  You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project.

  You are creating a project with several phases. Your customer requires the delivery phase of the project to start on July 1 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 an automatically scheduled summary task of 20 days. Set the finish date to July 29.
  B. Create a manually scheduled summary task of 20 days. Enter a Finish No Later Than constraint which is set to July 29.
  C. 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.
  D. Create an automatically scheduled summary task of 20 days. Set the start date to July 1.
  E. Set a deadline date for the automatically scheduled summary task for four weeks after July 1. Monitor the progress of the summary task against the deadline.
  E. Set a deadline date for the automatically scheduled summary task for four weeks after July 1. Monitor the progress of the summary task against the deadline.

• Question 110:

  You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project.

  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.
  C. Add a Work Resource named architect,
  D. Add a Cost Resource named architect.
  C. Add a Work Resource named architect,