Managing Projects and Portfolios with Microsoft PPM 70-348 exam questions

1. You are a project manager in an organization that uses Microsoft PPM. You create a proposal for a new project by entering values for the Name, Description, Proposed Cost, Proposed Benefits, and Sponsor Name properties.

The PMO must be able to approve all project proposals that have a proposed cost above a certain threshold value.

You need to use a project approval workflow.

Which three objects should use? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

2. You use Microsoft PPM to manage an e-commerce portal development program.

The program is separated into individual projects that represent each area of development. This allows each group to manage its own tasks while still having progress visibility at the program level.

You need to be able to see all programs and their associated individual projects from within Project Center.

What should you do?

3. You are the Microsoft PPM administrator for a large company. The IT manager uses four business drivers for prioritization. The priority of all four drivers is set at 25 percent.

The IT manager adds an additional business driver that has a priority value set to 30 percent.

You need to create a new prioritization that includes the additional business driver.

What should you do?

4. You are using Microsoft PPM to manage an e-commerce portal development program. The program is separated into individual projects that represent each area of development.

You have the following requirements:

You need to set up the e-commerce portal development program and its associated projects in Microsoft PPM.

Where should you add resources?

5. Your organization is using Microsoft PPM to manage large projects. Within the Microsoft PPM environment, you use SharePoint sites with task lists to manage smaller projects. You turn on the Timesheets feature.

You must collect information about the time that resources spend on all projects.

You need to ensure that you can capture timesheet data from the existing SharePoint task lists.

Which two actions will achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

6. You are a project manager using Microsoft PPM.

You need to create a new project that uses one of your company’s templates.

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

7. HOTSPOT

You are evaluating the requirements for creating a new portfolio analysis.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

8. Your organization is using Microsoft PPM to manage and track all projects.

The Project Management Office (PMO) needs to know which of the projects are aligned to the organization’s strategic objectives.

You need to configure Microsoft PPM to use Portfolio Analysis.

Which two activities should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

9. Your company has had several large projects fail due to cost overruns and the lack of available resources. These projects use an enterprise project type named Large IT Project and use a workflow to govern the approval of the projects. The workflow consists of four phases: Initiate, Plan, Execute, and Close.

You need to use Microsoft PPM to compare the value that a new project provides with the cost of implementing the project.

Which three configuration changes should you make? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

10. You are a portfolio manager for an organization that uses Microsoft PPM to manage projects. You plan to implement Power BI.

You need to import into Power BI by using the Microsoft Project Online content pack.

What should you do?

11. DRAG DROP

You are project manager in your company’s PMO. You have permission to manage the Enterprise Global view in Microsoft PPM. Your organization works with many large multiyear projects often managed by more than one project manager.

You need to provide an Enterprise Global view that displays the fields necessary for your colleagues to control whether a task is published, who will be responsible for sending the task updates for the task, and who is responsible for approving updates from resources.

Which five actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

12. HOTSPOT

Your organization uses Microsoft PPM and Power BI to manage projects. You create status reports for projects by using Microsoft Excel files and Power BI Desktop. You plan to combine several specific reports into a single Power BI dashboard.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

13. You are managing an e-commerce portal development project by using Microsoft PPM.

In order to communicate the status of your project to your stakeholders, you want to create a real time project status report using Microsoft Excel in Office Online Services.

You need to show information about your overall project status and late tasks on your status report.

What should you do?

14. DRAG DROP

You are the Microsoft PPM administrator for a large organization.

You need to ensure that line managers can delegate timesheet approvals to their team members.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area, and arrange them in the correct order.

15. The SharePoint Farm administrator for a company installs Microsoft PPM and grants you administrative rights for PWA. The PWA instance is accessible at the URL: https://AppServer/Live.

You determine that the client needs to implement a Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) to provide access to projects.

You need to ensure that the RBS is implemented.

What should you do first?

16. DRAG DROP

You are the administrator for an organization that uses Microsoft PPM.

Users must be able to create projects by using predefined templates.

You need to create a new Enterprise Project Template and make it available for users.

In which order should you perform the actions? To answer, move all of the actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

17. DRAG DROP

You are an administrator for your company’s Microsoft PPM environment. You implement several project level enterprise custom fields and add these fields to new and existing views.

Some users report they spend too much time scrolling left and right in a view named Team Status. You determine that the column width for the Enterprise Project Type field may be causing the issue.

You need to reduce the amount of scrolling.

Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

18. You are a project manager for an organization that is using Microsoft Project.

You have enabled Single Entry Mode and team members update their task using timesheets.

You need to see how these updates impact your project before you approve the tasks.

What should you do?