74-344 by Microsoft Valid Free Exam Practice Test

Question 1

Your organization uses Project Online for project portfolio selection. The business drivers and priorities are set, as are the main constraints to identify the efficient frontier.
The company has been collecting business cases for new proposals in which many projects may solve the same business need. For example, the selection for a Customer Relationship Management system has six different proposals, whereas only one is necessary to fulfill the business need.
You need to guarantee that the analysis will produce the most viable proposal in terms of cost and resources and that no repetitive efforts exist in the portfolio selection.
What should you do?

A. Exclude these projects from the Portfolio Analysis to prevent a deviation from the main goal. B. Create a mutual exclusion dependency among all these projects. C. Create a mutual inclusion dependency among all these projects. D. Exclude the related projects from the portfolio after the cost analysis with the Force in/out option.

Correct Answer: B

Question 2

You are an administrator in an organization that uses Project Server 2013. Single entry mode is disabled.
Resources use the Tasks page in Project Web App (PWA) to report task progress. You need to ensure that resources have the ability to report work actuals per day.
What should you do?

A. Set the tracking method to percent of work complete. B. Set the tracking method to actual work done and work remaining. C. Set the tracking method to hours of work done per period. D. Enable the option to allow users to define custom periods for task updates.

Correct Answer: C

Question 3

You are a program manager in the Project Management Office (PMO) of an organization that uses Project Server 2013.
You review your organization's issue management process.
You need to implement a new issue management process that meets the following requirements:
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All issues for future projects need to be associated with a source. Source values are either Internal or External.
What should you do?

A. Add a new enterprise custom field named Source with an associated lookup table which contains the values Internal and External. Make this field required. Save the Project Site as a template for new Project Sites. B. Instruct the users to write the information about the source into the description field every time they create a new issue. C. Go to a Project Site, and customize the issue list by including a new column to allow a value from Internal or External options to be chosen. Make this field required. Save the Project Site as a template for new Project Sites. D. Instruct the users to attach a text file with the source information every time they create a new issue.

Correct Answer: C

Question 4

Your organization uses Project Server 2013. For security reasons, only individuals inside your organization have access to Project Web App (PWA).
You want to keep track of progress made by a third-party vendor. The vendor will email task progress to the resource manager. The resource manager will be responsible for reporting vendor progress back to the project manager in PWA.
You need to enable this functionality.
You add the vendor as a resource in Project Server.
What should you do next?

A. Assign the resource manager as the Status Manager. B. Assign the administrator as the Status Manager. C. Assign the project manager as the Assignment Owner. D. Assign the resource manager as the Assignment Owner.

Correct Answer: D

Question 5

You are a project manager in an organization that uses Project Server 2013. Single-entry mode is disabled. The Only allow task updates via Tasks and Timesheets option is enabled.
Project team members submit updates to tasks through Project Web App (PWA).
A team member submits a status update to you for approval. The team member later
informs you that they made a typing mistake in the status update.
You need to correct the status update.
What should you do?

A. Reject the status update in Project Professional 2013 and have the user send the correct status. B. Instruct the team member to recall the timesheet. C. Accept the status update in Project Professional 2013 and correct the user's mistake. D. Instruct the team member to enter the correct information and send the status again.

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

You are a program manager in the Project Management Office (PMO) of an organization that uses Project Server 2013. The Project Site Provisioning Mode for your organization allows users to choose when to provision project sites.
You use Project Web App (PWA) to create a new enterprise project named Sub1 that will be inserted as a subproject in your existing master project named Master.
You need to create a new project site for Sub1 as a subsite of the existing Master Project Site.
What should you do?

A. Open the Sub1 project for editing in PWA, click the Project Site button, and provision the Sub1 site under the Master Project Site. B. Open the Sub1 project in Project Professional 2013, publish, and provision the Sub1 site under the Master Project Site. C. Open the Master project in Project Professional 2013, insert Sub1 as a subproject, publish, and provision the Sub1 site under the Master Project Site. D. Open the Sub1 project for editing in PWA, publish, and provision the Sub1 site under the Master Project Site.

Correct Answer: B

Question 7

You are a program manager for an organization that uses Project Server 2013.
You are responsible for implementing a data warehouse that compiles relational data from many business areas. Your project managers need to be able to manage the implementation for a business area as separate projects, while still recognizing the dependencies at a program level.
You need to maintain ownership and authority of key program dates at the program level.
What should you do?

A. Create and publish a master project file with general durations for each business area sub-project, and have the area project manager reconcile the dates in their own project manually each week. B. Create one project file for all project managers that includes the program-level tasks and each sub-project's tasks. Require each area project manager to share the file, and add their dependencies within their own tasks. C. Have the project managers create, save, and publish sub-projects for each area. Then insert them into a program-level project, define dependencies, and save and publish the program-level project to the server. D. Create a master project and insert your projects, but never publish the file on the server.

Correct Answer: C

Question 8

You are a project manager in an organization that uses Project Server 2013. You manage two projects named Proj1 and Proj2.
You create a deliverable dependency between both projects by taking the following actions:
- You create a deliverable named Deliverable1 against a milestone named Milestone1 in Proj1. The Finish date for Milestone1 and the Deliverable Finish date for Deliverable1 are the same.
- On Proj2, you associate a dependency that has a milestone named Milestone2 to the Deliverable1.
After several days of work, Proj1 has been rescheduled, which moves the Finish date for Milestone1 ahead by five days.
You need to ensure that these changes are reflected in both projects.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

A. Open Proj2 in Project Professional 2013, open the dependency panel by choosing Manage Dependencies option in the Task tab, and select Accept all server changes. Save and publish the project. B. Open Proj1 in Project Professional 2013, select Milestone1, and choose Sync Deliverables option in the Task tab. Save and publish the project. C. Open Proj2 in Project Professional 2013, select Milestone2, and choose Sync Deliverables option in the Task tab. Save and publish the project. D. Open Proj1 in Project Professional 2013, open the dependency panel by choosing the Manage Dependencies option in the Task tab, and select Accept all server changes. Save and publish the project.

Correct Answer: B,D

Question 9

You are a project manager who uses Project Server 2013.
You have an in-progress project. A resource who has reported actual work on the project is no longer available. You want to preserve their actual work.
You need to replace this resource with a newly-hired resource.
What should you do?

A. Open the project in Project Professional 2013 and manually edit the resource in the Gantt view. B. Open the project in Project Web App (PWA) and manually edit the resource in the Gantt view. C. Open the project in Project Professional 2013. Edit the project, build the team, and then select the resource to add and the resource to replace. Then click Replace. D. Open the project in Project Professional 2013. Go to the Resource Sheet view and add the new resource. Then replace the resource assignment in the Assignment view with the new resource.

Correct Answer: C

Question 10

You are a project manager for an organization that uses Project Server 2013. When you publish a new schedule, a default Project Site is created for you.
A team member asks you to create a task list separately from the schedule. The team member wants to use the list for specific work they need to perform in order to complete one of the assignments in the project schedule.
On your Project Site, you have the tasks that they have asked for in a task list. The work being performed by this team member becomes critical to the success of your overall schedule.
Management asks for a simple report showing them the task list in an easy-to-read format.
You need to implement this request.
What should you do?

A. In your Project Site, open the task list and add the tasks to the Timeline for management to view. B. In your Project Site, open the task list and export it to Microsoft Excel. Add the tasks to the Pivot Chart for management to view. C. In Project Web App (PWA), open the schedule and export the task list to Microsoft Excel. Add the tasks to the Pivot Chart for management to view. D. In Project Web App (PWA), open the schedule and add the tasks to the Timeline for management to view.

Correct Answer: A

Microsoft Managing Programs and Projects with Project Server 2013 - 74-344 Exam Practice Test