Certification Provider: Microsoft
Exam Name: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013
Exam Code: 74-343
Official Exam Time: 120 mins
Number of questions in the Official Exam: 45-55 Q&As
Latest update time in our database: September 25,2023
74-343 Official Exam Topics:
  • Topic1 : Initialize a project
  • Topic2 :  Create a template from a completed project, create a project from an existing template, existing project, SharePoint task list, or Excel workbook / Create custom fields
  • Topic3 :  Create basic formulas, graphical indicator criteria, lookup tables, and task and resource custom fields / Customize option settings
  • Topic4 :  Set default task types, manual versus auto-scheduling, project options, calendar options, customized ribbon, and quick access toolbar / Create a user-controlled schedule
  • Topic5 : Manage resources and assignments / Enter and edit resource information
  • Topic6 :  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
  • Topic7 :  View task and resource usage, view availability across multiple projects, change assignment information, level, replace resources / Manage resource allocations by using Team Planner
  • Topic8 :  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
  • Topic9 :  Display warnings, suggestions, and task drivers by using Task Inspector and Task Path, identify resource over-allocations /  View the critical path in single or master projects, view total slack, display progress against baseline or deadlines
  • Topic10 : Communicate project information / Apply and customize views
  • Topic11 :  Use auto-filter, apply views, group, filter, highlight, create and manage tables, sort, customize views, share a view with Organizer /  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
  • Topic12 :  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
  • Topic13 :  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 /

You are a project manager for a software development company that uses Project Professional 2013.For managing projects, your company has its own specialized processes, all of which you are familiar with, except for the reporting processes.Additionally, your company’s status reports of project progress are based on Work and Cumulative Work.Thirty minutes before a meeting is scheduled to begin, the president of your company asks you to present the status report at the meeting.You need the report to show all project tasks, resources assigned, and their respective Work and Cumulative Work on a monthly basis.What should you do?

You are a project manager for a software development company that uses Project Professional 2013.For managing projects, your company has its own specialized processes, all of which you are familiar with, except for the reporting processes.Additionally, your company’s status reports of project progress are based on Work and Cumulative Work.Thirty minutes before a meeting is scheduled to begin, the president of your company asks you to present the status report at the meeting.You need the report to show all project tasks, resources assigned, and their respective Work and Cumulative Work on a monthly basis.What should you do?
A . Select the Network Diagram View.Choose Format Box Styles and add Cumulative Work to the Critical Task Box style.
B . Select the Task Usage view that has all project tasks and resources assigned.Right-click the Details table, selecting Work and Cumulative Work.Adjust the timescale by zooming in or out to fit the monthly basis.
C . Select the Gantt Chart view that has all project tasks and resources assigned.Click Add New Column to add Work and Cumulative Work.Go to the Gantt chart and adjust the timescale by zooming in or out to fit the monthly basis.
D . Select the Gantt Chart view that has all project tasks and resources assigned.Right-click on the Gantt chart, selecting Work and Cumulative Work.Adjust the timescale by zooming in or out to fit the monthly basis.

Answer: B

What should you do?

You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You are creating a project with several phases.Your customer requires the delivery phase of the project to start on July 1 and to finish within four weeks.The delivery phase includes a summary task, which consists of five separate sub tasks.You need to monitor this phase closely to ensure that it does not overrun.

What should you do?
A . Set a deadline date for the automatically scheduled summary task for four weeks after July 1.Monitor the progress of the summary task against the deadline.
B . Create an automatically scheduled summary task of 20 days.Set the start date to July 1.
C . Create a manually scheduled summary task of 20 days.Create a deadline for the task which is set to July 29.Monitor the progress of the summary task against the deadline.
D . Create an automatically scheduled summary task of 20 days.Set the finish date to July 29.
E . Create a manually scheduled summary task of 20 days.Enter a Finish No Later Than constraint which is set to July 29.

Answer: A

What should you do?

You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.You work on a construction project that requires propane as a fuel source for your equipment.The foreman requires that you enter project costs associated with all work completed on your project.The propane costs $5.00 per gallon, and the tank holds 500 gallons of propane.Each time the tank is refilled, you must pay a fee of $20.You need to enter the propane costs into your project schedule prior to filling the propane tank for the first time.

What should you do?
A . Create a cost resource, add the resource to a task, and enter $25 in the actual cost.
B . Create a material resource with a material label of gallons.Enter $20 in the cost per use and $5.00 in the standard rate.
C . Create a cost resource, add the resource to a task, and enter $2520 in the actual cost.
D . Create a material resource with a material label of gallons.Enter $20 in the standard rate and $5.00 in the cost per use.

Answer: B

What should you do?

You manage a project for an organization that relies heavily on schedule baselines in Project Standard 2013.A change is approved for an in-progress project which you manage.You enter the new tasks necessary to include the changes to the project schedule.You need to update the baseline in the most efficient manner.

What should you do?
A . Update the current baseline to the baseline1 fields.
B . Copy the current schedule to the baseline fields.
C . Select a range of tasks and update the baseline for the selected tasks.
D . Select a range of tasks and update the schedule to the baseline1 fields for the selected tasks.

Answer: C

You need to resolve the negative Total Slack values.What should you do?

You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.When viewing the critical path, you notice that there are some inconsistencies.To investigate the status of the critical path, you insert the Total Slack column into a task table.You discover that many of the tasks have negative Total Slack values.

You need to resolve the negative Total Slack values.What should you do?
A . Re-assign resources that have more availability at the time of the negative slack.
B . Remove lag time from task relationships.
C . Remove as many constraints as possible.
D . Remove lead time from the task relationships.

Answer: C

You need a graphical view that shows the current schedule to baseline.Which view should you use?

You are a project manager who uses Project Professional 2013.After updating a project schedule, you want to determine the amount of time that the schedule has slipped from the original scheduled dates.

You need a graphical view that shows the current schedule to baseline.Which view should you use?
A . Tracking Gantt view
B . Leveling Gantt view
C . Detail Gantt view
D . Gantt Chart view

Answer: A

You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.You regularly customize the Bar Styles for a project prior to printing the project schedule.You need to add the Bar Styles button to the Quick Access Toolbar as quickly as possible.What are two ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution.Choose two.)

You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.You regularly customize the Bar Styles for a project prior to printing the project schedule.You need to add the Bar Styles button to the Quick Access Toolbar as quickly as possible.What are two ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution.Choose two.)
A . Right click the Bar Styles button in the ribbon and select Add to Quick Access Toolbar.
B . Expand the Quick Access Toolbar drop-down menu, and select Format Bar Styles from the menu list.
C . Customize the Quick Access Toolbar and add Format Bar Styles (Gantt Chart) command to the ribbon.
D . Collapse the ribbon.Commonly used Ribbon commands are automatically placed onto the Quick Access Toolbar.

Answer: AC

What should you do?

You are managing a project using Project Professional 2013.

Your project schedule is showing task overallocation indicators in the Gantt chart view.You navigate to the Team Planner view to investigate more details regarding the over allocations.

You discover that the BA1 resource is overallocated and you need to see all assignments with details for BA1 to understand their current workload before making any assignment changes.

What should you do?
A . Click View, check Details, select Task Form then click on the BA1 resource.
B . Right-click the BA1 resource and select Information.
C . Click the BA1 resource and scroll to the end of the project.
D . Click View, check Details, select Resource Form then click on the BA1 resource.

Answer: D

You are a project manager, and your organization uses Project Professional 2013.You have created a detailed project schedule and have identified two tasks that are causing your resource to be overallocated.You need to use the Team Planner to reassign these tasks from the overallocated resources to underallocated resources with the same skill set.What should you do?

You are a project manager, and your organization uses Project Professional 2013.You have created a detailed project schedule and have identified two tasks that are causing your resource to be overallocated.You need to use the Team Planner to reassign these tasks from the overallocated resources to underallocated resources with the same skill set.What should you do?
A . Right-click the resource and reassign it to the underallocated resource.
B . Drag the underallocated resource on the task to reassign it.
C . Right-click the task and reassign it to the underallocated resource.
D . Drag one of the tasks from the overallocated resource to the Unassigned Tasks section.

Answer: C

You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.Your current project has resources with the standard calendar as the base calendar.Some tasks of the project need to be done overnight so the night shift calendar is assigned to those tasks.When you assign a resource to one of these tasks, you get an error.You need to correctly assign the resource.What should you do?

You are a project manager who uses Project Standard 2013.Your current project has resources with the standard calendar as the base calendar.Some tasks of the project need to be done overnight so the night shift calendar is assigned to those tasks.When you assign a resource to one of these tasks, you get an error.You need to correctly assign the resource.What should you do?
A . Change the task type to Fixed Units, Effort Driven, and then re-assign the resource.
B . Select scheduling ignores resource calendars for the task.
C . Remove the night calendar from the task and re-assign the resource.
D . Change the task mode to Manually Scheduled.

Answer: B