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74-343 practice questions, page 3 of 4, with answer review and explanations.

Question 11

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?

  1. Change the part-time resources' tasks to manually scheduled to ensure the dates do not go past the agreed-upon terms of their contract.
  2. Enter the availability start and end dates for each resource and change the percent of units to the agreed-upon amount in their contract.
  3. Enter the availability start and end dates for each resource and change the working time for each resource to only include days and hours agreed upon in their contract.
  4. Change the part-time resources' units to the percentage they are available and set task constraints to must finish on to ensure the dates do not go past the

Question 12

Your organization uses Project Professional 2013. A senior stakeholder in a project asks you to determine when a task is over budget by comparing the baseline cost of a task to the cost. Additionally, the senior stakeholder wants you to display a graphic indicator when the baseline cost is greater than the cost. You write a formula to display the indicator, but it only displays for normal tasks and not for summary tasks. You need to make the indicator display for summary tasks. Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

  1. Within the Custom Field, set Calculation for task and group summary rows to Use Formula.
  2. Within the Custom Field, set Calculation for task and group summary rows to Maximum.
  3. Within the Graphical Indicators dialog box, check the Import Indicator Criteria button.
  4. Within the Graphical Indicators dialog box, check Summary rows inherit criteria from nonsummary row.

Question 13

You are a project manager, and you successfully complete a server consolidation project for one of your data centers. You use Project Standard 2013 to plan and track the work. Your manager wants you to begin similar projects on two other data centers. You need to create a template based on the plan you used to manage the first data center consolidation project. You need to ensure that the template has all baseline and actual data values removed. What should you do?

  1. Within Microsoft Windows Explorer, create a copy of the original project plan and rename the file type from .mpp to .mpt.
  2. Open the plan and use the Move Project button to set the start date to the start of the new project. Save the project file as Template.mpp.
  3. Open the plan and reset the percent complete for each task to 0. Save the file as Template.mpp.
  4. Open the plan and save the plan as a Project Template.
  5. Open the plan, and copy and paste all of the task information into a new plan. Save the plan as a Project Template.

Question 14

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?

  1. Export the tasks into Microsoft Excel and then import the Excel file into Project Professional 2013.
  2. Edit the Project Summary Task hyperlink column to point to the SharePoint task list and click the Import button.
  3. Open the tasks directly from the SharePoint site into Project Professional 2013.
  4. Copy and paste the tasks from SharePoint into Project Professional 2013.

Question 15

You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013. You have been told to build multiple project files for a program. You need to have all of your projects start with auto scheduled tasks by default. What should you do?

  1. Under schedule options, set New tasks created to Auto Scheduled for each project.
  2. Use the Task Mode field to change the first task to Auto Schedule, then copy down for all of your tasks.
  3. Under schedule options, set New tasks created to Auto Scheduled for all new projects.
  4. Highlight all of the tasks in your schedule and select the Auto Schedule button.