UDEMY Microsoft 74-343: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project

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Description

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.

Initialize a project (15–20%)
Create a new project
Create a template from a completed project, create a project from an existing template, existing project, SharePoint task list, or Excel workbook
Create and maintain calendars
Set working or non-working hours and days for calendars, set a base calendar, resource calendar, and hours per day, apply calendars to project, task, and resource levels
Create custom fields
Create basic formulas, graphical indicator criteria, lookup tables, and task and resource custom fields
Customize option settings
Set default task types, manual versus auto-scheduling, project options, calendar options, customized ribbon, and quick access toolbar

Create a task-based schedule (20–25%)
Set up project information
Define project start date, apply calendars and current date, enter project properties, display the project summary task on a new project
Create and modify a project task structure
Create and modify summary tasks and subtasks, rearrange tasks, create milestones, create manually scheduled tasks, outline, set tasks as active or inactive
Build a logical schedule model
Set date constraints, deadlines, dependencies, links, duration equations, effort-driven tasks, and formulas, choose a task type
Create a user-controlled schedule
Enter duration, set or change the task mode (manual or auto), display warnings and suggestions, use estimated durations and user-controlled summary tasks
Manage multiple projects
Create a shared resource pool, connect to a resource pool, create links between projects, resolve conflicts between linked projects, work with master projects and sub-projects, summarize data in master projects

Manage resources and assignments (20–25%)
Enter and edit resource information
Enter and edit max units, resource types, resource rate table, cost per use, availability, resource group, generic resources, and cost resources
Create and edit resource assignments
Use task forms, assign multiple resources, assign resources to tasks using units that represent part-time work, edit assignments
Manage resource allocation
View task and resource usage, view availability across multiple projects, change assignment information, level, replace resources
Manage resource allocations by using Team Planner
Display current resource allocations and assignments, manage unassigned tasks, resolve resource conflicts, level resource over-allocations, substitute resources
Model project costs
Enter and assign resource-based costs (work, material, cost), cost per use, fixed costs, accrual method, apply a resource rate table

Track and analyze a project (20–25%)
Set and maintain baselines
Use multiple baselines, baseline an entire project, baseline selected tasks, update a baseline
Update actual progress
Update percentage completion, actual or remaining duration, actual work, remaining work, status date, current date, actual start and actual finish, use actual work and usage views, reschedule uncompleted work, cancel an unneeded task
Compare progress against a baseline
Use date variance, work variance, cost variance, and task slippage, show variance of the current plan against baseline (tracking Gantt), select a view to display variance
Resolve potential schedule problems
Display warnings, suggestions, and task drivers by using Task Inspector and Task Path, identify resource over-allocations
Display critical path information
View the critical path in single or master projects, view total slack, display progress against baseline or deadlines

Communicate project information (15–20%)
Apply and customize views
Use auto-filter, apply views, group, filter, highlight, create and manage tables, sort, customize views, share a view with Organizer
Share data with other applications
Import data from Excel, export data to Excel, attach documents or link hyperlinks to supporting information, copy and paste timeline and reports to other Office Web Apps, create and generate visual reports in Excel and Visio, export a timeline view to email
Configure and display reports and dashboards
Report progress status, save to PDF or XPS, display Gantt information, schedule, or timeline, display data based on date range, create built-in dashboards and reports, change and customize built-in dashboards and reports, copy pictures, work with cumulative fields
Connect and share data with SharePoint
Sync to SharePoint, share plans and get updates through SharePoint, share project plans through SharePoint (bi-directional sync of tasks, progress, and timeline elements), collect actual progress from a team through SharePoint
Extend Project
Acquire Apps from the Office Store, save files in OneDrive for Business, automate frequent tasks with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

 

Who this course is for:

• Candidates for this exam are seeking to prove professional knowledge in Microsoft Project.

 

 

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