Skill Sets

Exam Objectives

Resource Management

• Set an accrual option for a resource cost
• Create and apply rate tables to resource assignments
• Modify task priority values
• Set precedence when linking to the resource pool
• Use leveling options
• Apply resource contours
• Modify resource availability over time
• Update/refresh the resource pool
• Modify resource usage view
• Share resources using a resource pool

Track a Project

• Disable Split-in project tasks
• Enter overtime work
• Enable resources to delegate tasks using Project Central
• Enter actual costs
• Create interim plans
• Set project information dates
• Set options governing how tasks will honor constraint dates
• Compress the overall duration of a project schedule
• Enter remaining work or remaining duration values

Create a Project Plan

• Enter fixed costs
• Enter various costs for resources
• Create and use templates
• Modify task calendar options
• Assign resources with different units or hours of work to the same task
• Apply views which analyze slack and slip

Communicating project information

• Create and use a custom data map
• Use flag and text fields
• Use Organizer to customize a project file
• Create a new custom report incorporating custom tables and filters
• Display current, interim, and baseline plans in a Gantt chart

General Project Management Concepts

• Set options to calculate multiple critical paths
• Calculate cost of work performed (earned value analysis)
• Create activity reports to manage slack

Customizing MS Project

• Set AutoAccept rules for resources in Project Central
• Create and use custom forms
• Set accessibility and user options
• Set Security options in Project Central
• Create users and permissions in Project Central
• Create and manage views and categories in Project Central
• Format Gantt charts in Project Central
• Set various Microsoft Project options in the Options dialog box
• Customize the global template file

Customizing a project

• Create a custom box style in the network diagram
• Modify code mask
• Record, assign, and play a macro
• Set calculation options

Multi-project management

• View multiple critical paths in a consolidated project
• Modify inserted project information