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You are working on a project schedule. You need two tasks to end at the same time so that your review team can do their work on both tasks. Which link type is appropriate?

1. Start-to-Start (SS)
2. Finish-to-Start (FS)
3. Start-to-Finish (SF)
4. Finish-to-Finish (FF)

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the Resource View display?

1. Initials
2. Standard Rate
3. All of these
4. Resource Name

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does PERT stand for?

1. Project Evaluation Review Templates
2. Program Examples & Review Templates
3. Program Evaluation Review Technique
4. Project Event & Record Tools

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How does Microsoft Project calculate work?

1. Materials x Dependency = Work
2. Material x Unit = Work
3. Duration x Materials = Work
4. Duration x Units = Work

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The ______ tab on the ribbon allows you to customize text, columns, colors, and other elements of each type of view.

1. Resource
2. Calendar
3. Format
4. View

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is NOT a valid duration measurement for a task?

1. Hours
2. Minutes
3. Days
4. Seconds

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A project template has this file extension:

1. .mpt
2. .mst
3. .mtt
4. .mot

✅ Correct Answer: 1

MS project is NOT interoperable with:

1. Outlook
2. Mantis bug tracker
3. Project Server Excel
4. Excel

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is a successor activity?

1. An activity that requires a lot of physical work. For example, a construction activity that takes a very high amount of manual labor.
2. An activity that follows another activity and is dependent on the predecessor activity and usually cannot start without the predecessor activity being finished
3. A "loose" activity in your project schedule.
4. An activity that must happen in order for the predecessory activity to be successful.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A _________ is a deliverable oriented decomposition of a project into smaller components.

1. Summary task
2. PERT chart
3. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
4. baseline

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How many nested levels of sort criteria are available in the Sort dialog box?

1. 2
2. 1
3. 3
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A resource can be created by:

1. Adding name to resource sheet
2. Only on the resource sheet of resource form
3. Adding name to resource form
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is a valid task link type?

1. Finish-to-Finish
2. Start-to-Start
3. Start-to-Finish
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is a milestone?

1. A resource
2. Another word for task
3. A major sub-project in which other tasks may be nexted
4. Microsoft Project does not include milestones

✅ Correct Answer: 3

______ is any deviation from the baseline of a project.

1. Slip
2. Lag
3. Variance
4. Lead

✅ Correct Answer: 3

___ are scheduled events that indicate the completion of a major deliverable.

1. Milestones
2. Tasks
3. Summary tasks
4. Baselines

✅ Correct Answer: 1

By default, Duration is measured in:

1. Weeks
2. Days
3. Hours
4. Months

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is a run chart?

1. A pie chart that shows the amount of time the project has run over.
2. A line chart that shows trends over time, variation over time, and declines/improvements over time.
3. A scatter chart that that shows distribution of various defects during the implemetation phase.
4. A bar chart that shows the occurrence of defects in process at a point in time.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is NOT a standard field contained within a project?

1. Task
2. Start/Finish dates
3. Quality
4. Resources

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the default duration assigned to an automatically scheduled task?

1. 1 day
2. 7 days
3. 1 month
4. 1 week

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the default unit of time by which Lag Time is measured?

1. Hours
2. Weeks
3. Months
4. Days

✅ Correct Answer: 4

FS dependency implies?

1. The work can overlap or proceed in parallel.
2. Task 1 must finish before Task 2 can start
3. The work can happen in parallel and the tasks must end at the same time.
4. This is not possible

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How do you mark or indicate a task is a subtask of another?

1. Italicize the subtask
2. Highlight the subtask
3. Indent the subtask
4. Bold the summary task

✅ Correct Answer: 3

___ is a delay between two tasks that are linked by a dependency.

1. Delayed start time
2. Lead time
3. Lag time
4. Slip

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The _______ is the longest duration of linked tasks in a project which must be completed on time for the project to complete on time.

1. critical path
2. lead time
3. lag
4. schedule variance

✅ Correct Answer: 1

FF dependency implies?

1. Task 2 must finish before Task 1 can start
2. Task 1 must finish before Task 2 can start
3. The work can happen in parallel and the tasks must end at the same time.
4. The work can overlap or proceed in parallel.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Payback period is the time it takes to pay back what a project costs. For a project that costs $5,000,000 and delivers increased revenue of $500,000/month, how do you calcuate payback period?

1. $500,000 * 12 months = $6,000,000 payback per year
2. $5,000,000/$500,000 = 10 months
3. $5,000,000 / 12 months = $416,666 per month in payback
4. $5,000,000 - $500,000 = $450,000 payback period

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The ______ view, automatically displayed above other views, shows a concise overview of the entire schedule.

1. Calendar
2. Timeline
3. Network Diagram
4. Resource Usage

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does PMI stand for?

1. Project Method Identifier
2. Project Manager Identification
3. Project Method Instruction
4. Project Management Institute

✅ Correct Answer: 4

___ scheduling starts at the end of the project and works backwards through the project tasks to the present.

1. Baseline
2. Bottom up
3. Best guess
4. Estimated

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is NOT a valid import type for tasks?

1. Excel workbook✖
2. CSV
3. SAP ALV grid
4. Tab-delimited text

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The __________ is the approved project schedule and issued to determine the variation between the plan and actual.

1. plan
2. slack
3. baseline
4. milestone

✅ Correct Answer: 3

You are the project manager on the installation of a new ERP system. Before the system can be installed on the company's servers, the operating system must be upgraded. This is an example of what type of precedence relationship?

1. Finish to Start
2. Start to Start
3. Finish to Finish
4. Start to Finish

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How does Microsoft Project calculate the total work time of a summary task?

1. Time between the earliest start date and the latest finish date of its subtasks.
2. Total work time is not specified on summary tasks
3. Sum the work time of all subtasks.
4. Total work time of the longest subtask.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Breaking a project into phases and then further dividing into summary tasks and subtasks is called _________ scheduling.

1. best guess
2. bottom up
3. baseline
4. top down

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How will a task appear on the Gantt chart when it is a successor of another task?

1. It will appear indented
2. It will be underlined
3. It will be highlighted
4. It will be bolded

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the best way of doing resource loading in a project having lot of dependencies?

1. Resource should multi task as it is internet age
2. Ensure 1 resource works on only one dependent task and does not move till it is complete
3. Ensure resource does 50% of 1 task and 50% of second task before coming back to first task
4. Ensure resource is idle between 2 tasks for a minimum time of 4 hours

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How can you change the duration on a summary task?

1. You cannot change a summary task duration, you must update the individual subtasks.
2. Double-click on the duration.
3. Open the Task Information and on the General tab, update the duration.
4. Update it using the Task tab on the Ribbon.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Putting 9FF3 in the predecessor column of task 10 causes which of the following to happen?

1. Task 9 finish three days after task 10 finishes
2. Task 8 to complete three days after Task 9
3. Task 3 to complete nine days before Task 4
4. Task 10 complete three days after task 9 completes

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A _______ is a chart with a series of horizontal lines showing the amount of work done in certain periods of time in relation to the amount of work planned for those periods.

1. Resource utilization graph
2. Gantt Chart
3. PERT chart
4. Network diagram

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Use the _____ feature to resolve resource conflicts and over-allocations.

1. Task Inspector
2. Resource Reallocation
3. Resource Variance
4. Resource Leveling

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Press the ____ key to display KeyTips over each feature.

1. Shift
2. ALT
3. CTRL
4. ESC

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is a Gantt chart?

1. A bar chart that illustrates the project schedule
2. A table showing tasks allocated by resource
3. A line graph plotting the amount of time each task has allocated
4. A graph showing the amount of tasks each person has

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does WBS stand for?

1. Work By Schedule
2. Work Breakdown Structure
3. Work Breakdown Schedule
4. Why Buy Software

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The formula to calculate Cost Variance is:

1. CV = TV/(AC*TV)
2. CV = AV + AC
3. CV = AV/(AC*TV)
4. CV = EV - AC

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is NOT a constraint type?

1. Must finish on
2. As late as possible
3. Must start on
4. As quickly as possible

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The ________ new feature in Microsoft Project 2013 allows you to select any task and see the complete chain of predecessors and successors linked to it.

1. Task Overview Chart
2. Task Path Highlighting
3. PERT Chart
4. Resource Graph

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does leveling refer to?

1. Applying duration evenly across resources
2. Applying work evenly across resources
3. None of these
4. Making all tasks the same duration

✅ Correct Answer: 2

_______ is the length of time by which a task is ahead of schedule and will be completed early if continued.

1. Slack
2. Lag
3. Slip
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What character follows an estimated duration?

1. ?
2. ~
3. !
4. *

✅ Correct Answer: 1