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Microsoft Project MCQ Set 1
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1. 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?
Start-to-Start (SS)
Finish-to-Start (FS)
Start-to-Finish (SF)
Finish-to-Finish (FF)
2. What does the Resource View display?
Initials
Standard Rate
All of these
Resource Name
3. What does PERT stand for?
Project Evaluation Review Templates
Program Examples & Review Templates
Program Evaluation Review Technique
Project Event & Record Tools
4. How does Microsoft Project calculate work?
Materials x Dependency = Work
Material x Unit = Work
Duration x Materials = Work
Duration x Units = Work
5. The ______ tab on the ribbon allows you to customize text, columns, colors, and other elements of each type of view.
Resource
Calendar
Format
View
6. Which of the following is NOT a valid duration measurement for a task?
Hours
Minutes
Days
Seconds
7. A project template has this file extension:
.mpt
.mst
.mtt
.mot
8. MS project is NOT interoperable with:
Outlook
Mantis bug tracker
Project Server Excel
Excel
9. What is a successor activity?
An activity that requires a lot of physical work. For example, a construction activity that takes a very high amount of manual labor.
An activity that follows another activity and is dependent on the predecessor activity and usually cannot start without the predecessor activity being finished
A "loose" activity in your project schedule.
An activity that must happen in order for the predecessory activity to be successful.
10. A _________ is a deliverable oriented decomposition of a project into smaller components.
Summary task
PERT chart
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
baseline
11. How many nested levels of sort criteria are available in the Sort dialog box?
2
1
3
None of the above
12. A resource can be created by:
Adding name to resource sheet
Only on the resource sheet of resource form
Adding name to resource form
All of these
13. Which of the following is a valid task link type?
Finish-to-Finish
Start-to-Start
Start-to-Finish
All of the above
14. What is a milestone?
A resource
Another word for task
A major sub-project in which other tasks may be nexted
Microsoft Project does not include milestones
15. ______ is any deviation from the baseline of a project.
Slip
Lag
Variance
Lead
16. ___ are scheduled events that indicate the completion of a major deliverable.
Milestones
Tasks
Summary tasks
Baselines
17. By default, Duration is measured in:
Weeks
Days
Hours
Months
18. What is a run chart?
A pie chart that shows the amount of time the project has run over.
A line chart that shows trends over time, variation over time, and declines/improvements over time.
A scatter chart that that shows distribution of various defects during the implemetation phase.
A bar chart that shows the occurrence of defects in process at a point in time.
19. Which of the following is NOT a standard field contained within a project?
Task
Start/Finish dates
Quality
Resources
20. What is the default duration assigned to an automatically scheduled task?
1 day
7 days
1 month
1 week
21. What is the default unit of time by which Lag Time is measured?
Hours
Weeks
Months
Days
22. FS dependency implies?
The work can overlap or proceed in parallel.
Task 1 must finish before Task 2 can start
The work can happen in parallel and the tasks must end at the same time.
This is not possible
23. How do you mark or indicate a task is a subtask of another?
Italicize the subtask
Highlight the subtask
Indent the subtask
Bold the summary task
24. ___ is a delay between two tasks that are linked by a dependency.
Delayed start time
Lead time
Lag time
Slip
25. The _______ is the longest duration of linked tasks in a project which must be completed on time for the project to complete on time.
critical path
lead time
lag
schedule variance
26. FF dependency implies?
Task 2 must finish before Task 1 can start
Task 1 must finish before Task 2 can start
The work can happen in parallel and the tasks must end at the same time.
The work can overlap or proceed in parallel.
27. 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?
$500,000 * 12 months = $6,000,000 payback per year
$5,000,000/$500,000 = 10 months
$5,000,000 / 12 months = $416,666 per month in payback
$5,000,000 - $500,000 = $450,000 payback period
28. The ______ view, automatically displayed above other views, shows a concise overview of the entire schedule.
Calendar
Timeline
Network Diagram
Resource Usage
29. What does PMI stand for?
Project Method Identifier
Project Manager Identification
Project Method Instruction
Project Management Institute
30. ___ scheduling starts at the end of the project and works backwards through the project tasks to the present.
Baseline
Bottom up
Best guess
Estimated
31. Which of the following is NOT a valid import type for tasks?
Excel workbook✖
CSV
SAP ALV grid
Tab-delimited text
32. The __________ is the approved project schedule and issued to determine the variation between the plan and actual.
plan
slack
baseline
milestone
33. 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?
Finish to Start
Start to Start
Finish to Finish
Start to Finish
34. How does Microsoft Project calculate the total work time of a summary task?
Time between the earliest start date and the latest finish date of its subtasks.
Total work time is not specified on summary tasks
Sum the work time of all subtasks.
Total work time of the longest subtask.
35. Breaking a project into phases and then further dividing into summary tasks and subtasks is called _________ scheduling.
best guess
bottom up
baseline
top down
36. How will a task appear on the Gantt chart when it is a successor of another task?
It will appear indented
It will be underlined
It will be highlighted
It will be bolded
37. What is the best way of doing resource loading in a project having lot of dependencies?
Resource should multi task as it is internet age
Ensure 1 resource works on only one dependent task and does not move till it is complete
Ensure resource does 50% of 1 task and 50% of second task before coming back to first task
Ensure resource is idle between 2 tasks for a minimum time of 4 hours
38. How can you change the duration on a summary task?
You cannot change a summary task duration, you must update the individual subtasks.
Double-click on the duration.
Open the Task Information and on the General tab, update the duration.
Update it using the Task tab on the Ribbon.
39. Putting 9FF3 in the predecessor column of task 10 causes which of the following to happen?
Task 9 finish three days after task 10 finishes
Task 8 to complete three days after Task 9
Task 3 to complete nine days before Task 4
Task 10 complete three days after task 9 completes
40. 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.
Resource utilization graph
Gantt Chart
PERT chart
Network diagram
41. Use the _____ feature to resolve resource conflicts and over-allocations.
Task Inspector
Resource Reallocation
Resource Variance
Resource Leveling
42. Press the ____ key to display KeyTips over each feature.
Shift
ALT
CTRL
ESC
43. What is a Gantt chart?
A bar chart that illustrates the project schedule
A table showing tasks allocated by resource
A line graph plotting the amount of time each task has allocated
A graph showing the amount of tasks each person has
44. What does WBS stand for?
Work By Schedule
Work Breakdown Structure
Work Breakdown Schedule
Why Buy Software
45. The formula to calculate Cost Variance is:
CV = TV/(AC*TV)
CV = AV + AC
CV = AV/(AC*TV)
CV = EV - AC
46. Which of the following is NOT a constraint type?
Must finish on
As late as possible
Must start on
As quickly as possible
47. 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.
Task Overview Chart
Task Path Highlighting
PERT Chart
Resource Graph
48. What does leveling refer to?
Applying duration evenly across resources
Applying work evenly across resources
None of these
Making all tasks the same duration
49. _______ is the length of time by which a task is ahead of schedule and will be completed early if continued.
Slack
Lag
Slip
None of These
50. What character follows an estimated duration?
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