Microsoft 74-344 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Microsoft 74-344 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  You are an area project manager who uses Project Server 2013. You are aligning and planning your team's availability against existing and proposed projects. You need to estimate your team members' work load for future time periods against projects that have not completed a work breakdown structure (WBS) yet. You need to account for both existing and planned projects. What should you do?

  A. Create a resource plan for the planned project, assign team members, and estimate the hours expected in the time period expected. Then view total load in the Resource Availability view.
  B. Create generic resources in the Resource Center and add them to the project in the Project Web App (PWA).
  C. Use budget work resources and assign them to tasks in the project file to view resource load.
  D. Export the project tasks to Microsoft Excel, add your proposed projects, and plan your future resource load against those proposed projects. Use Microsoft Excel to view total planned work load.
  A. Create a resource plan for the planned project, assign team members, and estimate the hours expected in the time period expected. Then view total load in the Resource Availability view.

• Question 12:

  Your company uses Project Server 2013 to evaluate and select projects based on a primary cost constraint, as well as a secondary constraint of internal rate of return (IRR). Management authorizes a budget and establishes a minimal IRR of 5% to execute any project the following year. Your company has never analyzed constraints other than cost. As the portfolio analysis expert, you need to recommend a reasonable approach to perform the analysis. What should you recommend?

  A. Create a new analysis through portfolio analysis and select the primary and secondary constraints when defining properties.
  B. Create the analysis and, during the cost analysis, introduce the secondary constraint to manually force out the non-compiling projects.
  C. Create a new analysis through Portfolio Analysis and select the primary cost constraint. Then select an alias to force-out when defining properties and name it IRR.
  D. Create the analysis and, during the cost analysis, introduce the secondary constraint to automatically force out the non-compiling projects.
  B. Create the analysis and, during the cost analysis, introduce the secondary constraint to manually force out the non-compiling projects.

• Question 13:

  You are a program manager in the Project Management Office (PMO) of an organization that has Project Server 2013. You plan to have a weekly project meeting review with all the project managers, and one of the topics that you will cover is

  the status of all active Issues. Your need to create a report that displays the following information:

  Name, Status, Priority, and Resolution of all Issues Name, Owner, and Start and Finish date of all projects What should you do?

  A. Create a Microsoft Excel Services report that pulls information from the Issues cube.
  B. Create a Microsoft Excel Services report that pulls information from the Microsoft SharePoint Configuration Database.
  C. Create a Microsoft Excel Services report that pulls information from the Microsoft SharePoint Content Database.
  D. Create a Microsoft Excel Services report that pulls information from the Project Server 2013 database.
  D. Create a Microsoft Excel Services report that pulls information from the Project Server 2013 database.

• Question 14:

  You are a project manager in an organization that uses Project Online. Project managers have access to Project Professional 2013 for schedule management. You create a project schedule with resource assignments on Monday. No resources are overallocated. However, on Tuesday, you open the same project schedule and discover on several of your tasks that resources show as overallocated. Your project has a lower priority than other projects in the organization. You need to solve the overallocation by adjusting the Scheduled Start for the resources on your tasks to when the resources are available. What should you do?

  A. Use Task Inspector to reschedule the tasks.
  B. Use the Resource Usage view to go to next overallocation.
  C. Use Team Planner view to reassign the tasks.
  D. Use Task Information to change the priority number of the tasks.
  A. Use Task Inspector to reschedule the tasks.

• Question 15:

  You are a program manager in the Project Management Office (PMO) of an organization that uses Project Server 2013. You review your organization's issue management process. You need to implement a new issue management process

  that meets the following requirements:

  All issues for future projects need to be associated with a source. Source values are either Internal or External.

  What should you do?

  A. Instruct the users to attach a text file with the source information every time they create a new issue.
  B. Instruct the users to write the information about the source into the description field every time they create a new issue.
  C. Add a new enterprise custom field named Source with an associated lookup table which contains the values Internal and External. Make this field required. Save the Project Site as a template for new Project Sites.
  D. Go to a Project Site, and customize the issue list by including a new column to allow a value from Internal or External options to be chosen. Make this field required. Save the Project Site as a template for new Project Sites.
  D. Go to a Project Site, and customize the issue list by including a new column to allow a value from Internal or External options to be chosen. Make this field required. Save the Project Site as a template for new Project Sites.

• Question 16:

  You are a project manager who uses Project Online. You build and publish a resource plan for your project. You check the resource demand in the Resource Availability screen. You do not see the correct demand as defined in the resource plan. You need to see the correct demand. What should you do?

  A. Ensure that the date range of the resource plan matches the date range of the project plan.
  B. Ensure that the resource utilization is calculated from the resource plan.
  C. Ensure that the resource's default Booking Type is set to Committed.
  D. Ensure that Work Units is set to hours for the resource plan.
  B. Ensure that the resource utilization is calculated from the resource plan.

• Question 17:

  Your organization is performing a Portfolio Analysis in Project Server 2013. You want to create a consolidated Portfolio Analysis optimization based on Cost and Resource data, which will be part of the project information in Project Server 2013. You plan to provide different simulations to your organization by using those parameters and returning the best prioritization. This organization has two different unit directors, who have the final decision on the consolidated Portfolio Analysis results. You need to provide the ability for your unit directors to modify the final portfolio selection. Which element should you use?

  A. Resource Requirements
  B. Project/Proposal Priority
  C. Field Cost Constraint
  D. Project Original Start
  E. Field Force In/Out
  E. Field Force In/Out

• Question 18:

  As a team member, you submit your timesheet for approval in Project Server 2013. After sending the timesheet to the timesheet manager, you realize you forgot to include some work. You need to ensure that the work is added to your timesheet. What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

  A. Make an adjusting entry on your next timesheet and then submit that one.
  B. Re-open it immediately. Make your changes and re-send it.
  C. Recall the timesheet from the Manage Timesheets page. Make your changes and re- send it.
  D. Ask your timesheet manager to reject your timesheet. Make your changes and re- send it.
  C. Recall the timesheet from the Manage Timesheets page. Make your changes and re- send it.
  D. Ask your timesheet manager to reject your timesheet. Make your changes and re- send it.

• Question 19:

  You are a resource manager for an organization that uses Project Server 2013 in Project Server Permission Mode with default security settings. One of the resources you manage is unexpectedly out of the office, and timesheets are due today. The resource has told you their current work and what should be on their timesheet. You do not have access to the resource's corporate user ID and password. You need to meet the submission deadline by updating their timesheet so that the system recognizes you as your resource. What should you do?

  A. Delegate yourself as the resource and update their timesheet as them.
  B. Reassign the tasks to your user ID and update the tasks as the resource.
  C. Wait until the resource can sign onto the system and do it themselves.
  D. Ask the administrator to give you the Update Tasks for the resource's permission.
  A. Delegate yourself as the resource and update their timesheet as them.

• Question 20:

  You are a portfolio manager for an organization that uses Project Server 2013. You plan to create several portfolio reports for the executive team. You need to ensure that your first report shows a list of all projects in your organization with timephased information regarding how the Actual Work and the Actual Cost have varied on a monthly basis. What should you do?

  A. Create a Project Center view with the following project fields: Name, Start Date, Finish Date, Actual Work, and Actual Cost. Export the view to Microsoft Excel, and group the projects by using the Finish Date column. Save the file into the Reports library in Project Web App (PWA).
  B. Create a Pivot Table in Microsoft Excel that gets data from the OLAP Portfolio Analyzer data connection. Include the dimensions of Project List and Time, and the measures of Actual Work and Actual Cost. Save the file into the Reports library in Project Web App (PWA).
  C. Create a Project Center view with the following project fields: Name, Start Date, Finish Date, Actual Work, and Actual Cost. Export the view to Microsoft Excel, and group the projects by using the Start Date column. Save the file into the Reports library in Project Web App (PWA).
  D. Create a Pivot Table in Microsoft Excel that gets data from the Project Server - Simple Projects List data connection. Include the dimensions of Project List and Time, and the measures of Actual Work and Actual Cost. Save the file into the Reports library in Project Web App (PWA).
  B. Create a Pivot Table in Microsoft Excel that gets data from the OLAP Portfolio Analyzer data connection. Include the dimensions of Project List and Time, and the measures of Actual Work and Actual Cost. Save the file into the Reports library in Project Web App (PWA).