Real Microsoft Project 74-343 Exam Questions Online

1. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.After updating a project schedule, you want to determine the amount of time that the schedule has slipped from the original scheduled dates.

You need a graphical view that shows the current schedule to baseline.Which view should you use?

2. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.All resources in your project schedule have availability of 8 hours per day.You notice that several of the resources on the project are overallocated.You decide to level the project to help resolve the overallocations for the resources.

Team members often do not work at the same time when completing their work on the tasks.You need to resolve the overallocations by using the Resource Leveling function.What should you do?

3. You are a project manager for a company that uses Project Professional 2013.You are developing a schedule and plan to use the leveling order of Priority, Standard.You need to create a task which leveling will not change.What should you do?

4. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.Your organization migrates all project plans from Microsoft Excel to Project Professional 2013.One of the directors of the company has several years of experience using Excel Pivot Tables to analyze and make decisions about projects.You need to enable project managers to view relevant project information in Excel Pivot Tables.What should you do?

5. You are a project manager, and your organization uses Project Professional 2013.You have created a detailed project schedule and have identified two tasks that are causing your resource to be overallocated.You need to use the Team Planner to reassign these tasks from the overallocated resources to underallocated resources with the same skill set.What should you do?

6. You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.Your manager wants you to plan an office move.You have a project schedule from a prior office move named “OfficeMove.mpp” and you want to use this project to assist in planning the current office move.In the fewest steps possible, you need to create your new project schedule based on the old project schedule.What should you do?

7. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You work on a software development project, and the Project Management Office (PMO) requires you to enter project costs associated with all work completed on your project.You receive invoices for $5,000 for software licenses and $150 for supplies.Software licensing costs are associated with Task A: Obtain Software License.Supply costs are associated with Task H: Project Management Administration.You need to enter the costs into your project schedule.Which two steps should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution.Choose two.)

8. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You have worked on a project for four years and have created a very detailed project plan in Project Professional 2013.You use milestones as key deliverables, and you use summary tasks as phases.Your company requests a presentation of the key deliverables for each phase of your project plan in a simple and consolidated view that fits in one Microsoft PowerPoint slide.You need to ensure that phases and key deliverables are clearly shown in the timeline and are not confusing to the audience.What should you do?

9. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.When viewing the critical path, you notice that there are some inconsistencies.To investigate the status of the critical path, you insert the Total Slack column into a task table.You discover that many of the tasks have negative Total Slack values.

You need to resolve the negative Total Slack values.What should you do?

10. Your company uses Project Professional 2013.You have several projects that are part of a program, but you do not use Project Server.You use a Resource Pool file to share resources across all projects.

You are informed that one of the projects is cancelled before it starts.As a result, you need to delete the project.

What happens in the resource pool after you delete the project?

11. You are managing a project using Project Professional 2013.

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?

12. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You are planning an office move, which will occur over a weekend.You use Auto Scheduled tasks and create a weekend working calendar.You need to assign the weekend working calendar to the task.What should you do?

13. You use Project Professional 2013 to manage a project schedule which includes all task relationships.The resource who is assigned to the “Develop software delivery” task is no longer available to work on your project.You can find another resource to perform this task, but you are not sure when the resource will become available.

You need to know which future tasks could be affected as a result of the resource leaving your project.What should you do?

14. You are a program manager for a complex software development project.You use Project Professional 2013 to manage your project.Your resources work on many different projects across the program, and you need to resolve resource overallocations.Your project team uses a resource pool to manage resources.Resource1 has been assigned to assist on a project that is on the critical path.After assigning Resource2 to the task, you notice that Resource1 is overallocated during the month of November.Project A, which is on critical path, takes priority over Project B, which Resource1 is also assigned to.

Using resource leveling in Project Professional 2013, you need to resolve the overallocation for Resource1 for the month of November only.

What should you do?

15. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You need to change the default for all new projects so that tasks will be created in Auto Scheduled mode.What should you do?

16. You are managing a project by using Project Professional 2013.

Your project schedule contains 1000 tasks which are in outline format.You discover that the Design summary task is located below the Build summary group of tasks.You need to move the Design summary task and its detail tasks to the proper location.

What should you do?

17. You manage a project by using Project Standard 2013.

You need to use the Baseline2 fields to calculate Variance at Completion (VAC).You have already set Baseline2.What should you do?

18. Your company uses Project Professional 2013.You are building a schedule by using predecessors to help determine a logical duration.The following image shows a baselined list of tasks with predecessors:

You have been told that Task C is optional, and you recommend inactivating the task to keep it visible on the schedule.You need to determine what the results are to the schedule when inactivating Task C.How should you answer?

19. You work as a project manager for a construction company that uses Project Professional 2013.You have created your work breakdown structure (WBS) and are adding resources to your tasks.However, one of your tasks requires multiple resources.You have the name of the project’s lead support individual, and you have been provided with the equivalent of three full-time support resources.These three resources are not named individuals but are part of a group.The actual individuals from this group will change based on coverage schedules.The resources have the following cost structures:

・The lead is billed out at $175/hour.

・The group resources are billed out at $140/hour.You need to add these resources to the schedule and track your project costs.Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution.Choose two.)

20. You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.Your current project has resources with the standard calendar as the base calendar.Some tasks of the project need to be done overnight so the night shift calendar is assigned to those tasks.When you assign a resource to one of these tasks, you get an error.You need to correctly assign the resource.What should you do?

21. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You have created a project which involves three other colleagues who are also using Project Professional 2013.You and your colleagues are over budget and cannot spend any more money on this project.

To ensure that the latest version of the project file is always the one being used, you need to save, share, and sync this project plan file among your colleagues without using email.

What should you do?

22. Your organization uses Project Professional 2013 and Microsoft SharePoint 2013.You are responsible for a project with resources in different offices.All offices share the same SharePoint intranet, and all resources have valid accounts to log into the company intranet.Your project plan already has the correct names and assignments for each resource involved in this project.You need to share and receive project plan updates dynamically with your resources.

What should you do?

23. You are a senior project manager, and your organization uses Project Standard 2013.You are managing a large ERP project with both part-time and full-time resources.The part-time resources have strict contractual limitations regarding working days and hourly availability.You need to make sure the tasks for your part-time resources are only scheduled in the calendar during their agreed-upon working days and hours.What should you do?

24. You are project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.Your organization uses Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and uses a SharePoint task list to define the tasks required on an upcoming project.The task list contains over 100 items.You need to create a project based on the tasks in the SharePoint list in the most efficient manner.

What should you do?

25. You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You work in a software development project, which is in progress and has reached 60% of actual progress.Your company decides to use the new Project Reports views to communicate all the project progress across the key users.They also decide to report information about a specific period only, normally one month behind the current day.You need to access the report view that your company previously created; however, you must only modify the period displayed in the report and ensure that another period will not be presented.What should you do?