Managing Projects and Portfolios with Microsoft PPM v8.0

You are a project manager in a large organization. During the project, some tasks have slipped, but the dependencies are still valid.
You are reviewing the projects Gantt chart.

You are a project manager in an organization that is using Microsoft PPM. You are managing a 12-month project. Resources have been working on the project for six months.
You need to determine how the project is tracking against the initial goals in terms of duration, work and cost.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area, and arrange them in the correct order.

You are an administrator for your companys Microsoft PPM environment. You implement several project level enterprise custom fields and add these fields to new and existing views.
Some users report they spend too much time scrolling left and right in a view named Team
Status. You determine that the column width for the Enterprise Project Type field may be causing the issue.
You need to reduce the amount of scrolling.
Which four actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

You are a project manager for an organization that uses visibility projects in Microsoft PPM.
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select
No.

Your company has had several large projects fail due to cost overruns and the lack of available resources. These projects use an enterprise project type named Large IT Project and use a workflow to govern the approval of the projects. The workflow consists of four phases: Initiate, Plan, Execute, and Close.
You need to use Microsoft PPM to compare the value that a new project provides with the cost of implementing the project.
Which three configuration changes should you make? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

You are a project manager in an organization that uses Microsoft PPM. You create a proposal for a new project by entering values for the Name, Description, Proposed Cost,
Proposed Benefits, and Sponsor Name properties.
The PMO must be able to approve all project proposals that have a proposed cost above a certain threshold value.
You need to use a project approval workflow.
Which three objects should use? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

You are a resource manager in an organization that uses Microsoft PPM for resource management. You manage two teams, one local and one remote. Project managers are instructed to always submit resource requests based on generic roles instead of named resources. Resource managers replace the generic resources with available named resources.
Project managers must not start work on projects that have generic resources assigned.
You need to replace proposed requests with committed, named resources.
Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

Your organization uses Microsoft PPM and Power BI to manage projects. You create status reports for projects by using Microsoft Excel files and Power BI Desktop. You plan to combine several specific reports into a single Power BI dashboard.
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select
No.

You are a project manager for an organization that is using Microsoft PPM to manage projects. Projects are staffed using the enterprise resource pool.
You assign a resource to a task and set the value of Work hours to 10. You assign no overtime hours.
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select
No.

You are an administrator for an organization that uses Microsoft PPM. A project manager is building a team for a project.
The project manager reports that a newly hired resource is not visible in Build Team.
You need to ensure that newly added users are available in Build Team.
What should you do?

You are the Microsoft PPM administrator for a large organization.
You need to ensure that line managers can delegate timesheet approvals to their team members.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area, and arrange them in the correct order.

Your organization is using Microsoft PPM to manage large projects. Within the Microsoft
PPM environment, you use SharePoint sites with task lists to manage smaller projects. You turn on the Timesheets feature.
You must collect information about the time that resources spend on all projects.
You need to ensure that you can capture timesheet data from the existing SharePoint task lists.
Which two actions will achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.
To review the resource engagements requested by a project manager, the resource manager can navigate to the Resource Requests page and accept or reject the requests.
Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select No change is needed.
If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.

Your organization uses Microsoft PPM for tracking projects.
For one specific cross-functional project, different managers are responsible for different phases. These managers must be able to receive the task status updates for the project tasks that they are responsible for.
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select
No.