Microsoft 74-343 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Microsoft 74-343 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 51:

  You are managing a project using Microsoft Project.

  Your project schedule is showing task overallocation indicators in the Gantt chart view. You navigate to the Team Planner view to investigate more details regarding the over allocations.

  You discover that the BA1 resource is overallocated and you need to see all assignments with details for BA1 to understand their current workload before making any assignment changes.

  What should you do?

  A. Click the BA1 resource and scroll to the end of the project.
  B. Click View, check Details, select Resource Form then click on the BA1 resource.
  C. Click View, check Details, select Task Form then click on the BA1 resource.
  D. Right-click the BA1 resource and select Information.
  B. Click View, check Details, select Resource Form then click on the BA1 resource.

• Question 52:

  You are a project manager for a company that is based in New York and London. The company uses Microsoft Project.

  Teams from both offices are working together on a project. Since the two offices are located in different regions, the teams have separate company holiday schedules and working times.

  You need to ensure that the effort for each resource and task is set up properly in the calendar.

  You want to achieve this goal by using the least amount of time and effort.

  What should you do?

  A. Create a London calendar from the standard calendar and assign the London calendar as the project calendar.
  B. Create a new base calendar for London that includes all of the London office's company holidays and assign it to all London resources.
  C. Manually edit each London resource's calendar to add all of the London office's company holidays.
  D. Assign the 24-hour calendar to all tasks and select Scheduling ignores resource calendars.
  B. Create a new base calendar for London that includes all of the London office's company holidays and assign it to all London resources.

• Question 53:

  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?

  A. Use an automatically scheduled task and set the task type to fixed duration.
  B. Use a manually scheduled task and set the task type to fixed work.
  C. Use an automatically scheduled task and set the task type to fixed work.
  D. Use a manually scheduled task and set the task type to fixed duration.
  C. Use an automatically scheduled task and set the task type to fixed work.

• Question 54:

  You create a new schedule by using Microsoft Project. All calendars and working hours use default settings. You configure the schedule to show all assignment units as decimal values.

  A resource reports a reduction in availability for your project by two hours per day.

  You need to update the project to reflect the availability of the resource.

  What are two possible ways to achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

  A. Set the values of the Available From and Available To fields for the resource to NA. Set the value of the Units field to 0.75 before assigning the resource.
  B. Set the value of the Max Units field for the resource to 0.75 before assigning the resource.
  C. Modify the value of the Assignment Units field for the resource to 0.80.
  D. Modify the value of the Assignment Work field for the resource to 6 hours.
  E. Modify the value of the Assignment Units field for the resource to 0.75.
  A. Set the values of the Available From and Available To fields for the resource to NA. Set the value of the Units field to 0.75 before assigning the resource.
  B. Set the value of the Max Units field for the resource to 0.75 before assigning the resource.

• Question 55:

  While scheduling with Microsoft Project you notice that there are three days of remaining duration on the Database Design task.

  The resource performing this task indicates that the work is completed.

  You need to update the schedule to reflect this change.

  What should you do?

  A. Enter a status date for the task.
  B. Enter 0 in remaining duration.
  C. Reschedule uncompleted work for the project schedule.
  D. Click on the task, and then click 100% complete.
  B. Enter 0 in remaining duration.

• Question 56:

  You are a project manager who uses Microsoft Project.

  Your organization has been working with a new status report model for the last month. This new status report is created through the Built-in Dashboards and Reports in Microsoft Project.

  The standard Microsoft Project report views named Late Tasks and Milestone Report already have all the information required for the new model.

  You are assigned to consolidate the information from these two reports into a dashboard view named Status Report Model. Your organization wants to keep the same format, colors, and layout.

  You need to implement this solution.

  What should you do?

  A. Use the Organizer to merge the reports.
  B. Select all components on each view, and copy and paste directly to a new dashboard report.
  C. Use the Burndown dashboard report to view this information.
  D. Use the Work Overview dashboard to view the data.
  B. Select all components on each view, and copy and paste directly to a new dashboard report.

• Question 57:

  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?

  A. Under schedule options, set New tasks created to Auto Scheduled for each project.
  B. Use the Task Mode field to change the first task to Auto Schedule, then copy down for all of your tasks.
  C. Under schedule options, set New tasks created to Auto Scheduled for all new projects.
  D. Highlight all of the tasks in your schedule and select the Auto Schedule button.
  C. Under schedule options, set New tasks created to Auto Scheduled for all new projects.

• Question 58:

  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?

  A. Open the Project calendar and mark the work day as working.
  B. Open the resource's working calendar and edit the Work Week details to set the day as working.
  C. Open the resource's working calendar and delete the exception.
  D. Open the resource's working calendar and mark the day as working.
  C. Open the resource's working calendar and delete the exception.

• Question 59:

  Your organization uses Microsoft Project.

  A senior stakeholder in a project asks you to determine when a task is over budget by comparing the baseline cost of a task to the cost. Additionally, the senior stakeholder wants you to display a graphic indicator when the baseline cost is

  greater than the cost.

  You write a formula to display the indicator, but it only displays for normal tasks and not for summary tasks.

  You need to make the indicator display for summary tasks.

  Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

  A. Within the Custom Field, set Calculation for task and group summary rows to Use Formula.
  B. Within the Custom Field, set Calculation for task and group summary rows to Maximum.
  C. Within the Graphical Indicators dialog box, check the Import Indicator Criteria button.
  D. Within the Graphical Indicators dialog box, check Summary rows inherit criteria from nonsummary row.
  A. Within the Custom Field, set Calculation for task and group summary rows to Use Formula.
  D. Within the Graphical Indicators dialog box, check Summary rows inherit criteria from nonsummary row.

• Question 60:

  You manage a project by using Microsoft Project. Your project is updated with changes to the baseline for selected tasks.

  You back up your project fife before you start your next tracking cycle. After completing the tracking cycle, you notice that the baseline duration values on some of the summary tasks are not correct.

  You need to correct these values before re-entering the tracking data.

  You open the backed up version of the project schedule.

  What should you do next?

  A. Manually update the summary tasks with the new duration values.
  B. Reset the summary tasks to manual scheduling.
  C. Ensure the tasks durations are of the same denomination values. Then reenter the tracking data.
  D. Reset the baseline checking the Roll up baselines to all summary tasks option. Then reenter the tracking data.
  D. Reset the baseline checking the Roll up baselines to all summary tasks option. Then reenter the tracking data.