MCTS: Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 training course

Quick course guide

This course is ideal for

Project team members
Project Managers
Project Schedulers

What you'll learn

Set up a project
Schedule tasks
Estimate and budget tasks
Optimise resource utilisation
Track project progress
Report on a project performance

Included

24x7 support - get help from expert mentors anytime
Hands-on interactive exercises
Practise exam questions
Self-paced study format
Certification guarantee - get certified or get your money back

70-632 TS: Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects

• Recognise the distinguishing features of projects
• Interpret the relationships between the elements of a project
• Match project management phases with their descriptions
• Turn the project guide on or off
• Access views in project 2007
• Match project 2007 reports with their descriptions
• Access help in project 2007
• Recognise project 2007′s help options
• Create and save a new project
• Create a new project from a template
• Define a project
• Define general work times for a project
• Create a new project
• Define a project
• Define general work times for a project
• Create a task list
• Set a task’s duration
• Recognise the characteristics of milestone tasks
• Create a project structure
• Create a task dependency link
• Recognise the characteristics of task dependencies
• Creating a recurring task
• Split a task
• Add information to a task
• Add a hyperlink to a task
• Impose a constraint on a task
• Create a task dependency link between two tasks
• Add a hyperlink to a task
• Impose a constraint on a task

Specifying and Assigning Resources in Project 2007

• Add a work resource to a project
• Add a material resource to a project
• Set the working time for a resource
• Assign a work resource to a task
• Assign a material resource to a task
• Add information to a resource assignment
• Add a work resource to a project
• Specify a resource’s working hours
• Assign a resource to a task
• Disable effort-driven scheduling
• Change the task type in a given scenario
• Apply a contour to a task in a given scenario
• Level a resource
• Find out what resources have been over allocated
• Add a cost for a resource
• Recognise costs that need to be fixed
• Level a resource
• Add a cost for a resource
• Manage project resources in a given scenario

Tracking and Reporting Progress with Project 2007

• Create a baseline for a project
• Create an interim plan
• Clear a baseline
• Track project information for a task
• Use the correct task tracking method in a given scenario
• Recognise the functions of project 2007′s tracking tools
• Prepare a project for tracking
• Identify the tracking view to use in a given scenario
• Check the progress of a project
• Display progress lines
• Create a baseline for an entire project
• Prepare a project for tracking
• Track the progress of a project
• Identify the available reporting options in project 2007
• Select a view in a given scenario
• Select a report in a given scenario
• Change the information in a view
• Change the appearance of the gantt chart view
• Recognise the reasons for identifying the critical path
• Format a report for printing
• Set up and print a report or view
• Identify the print options available from the print current view wizard
• Use a filter to change a view
• Preview a report
• Set up and print a report

Advanced Customization with MS Project 2007

• Modify the default settings in Project 2007
• Create a custom toolbar
• Customise the Project Global template
• Recognise the conditions for customising the Enterprise Global template
• Save a project as a template
• Add a custom field in Project 2007
• Create a custom form
• Customise a toolbar
• Add a custom field
• Edit the Project Global template
• Add information to tasks
• Add custom information to resources
• Customise a table
• Recognise the uses of WBS codes
• Create a new WBS code
• Customise task information
• Create a custom table
• Create a WBS code

Project Data Management and Performance with MS Project 2007

• Import data into a project
• Import a task list into a project
• Export data from project 2007
• Recognise the basic sorting options in project 2007
• Perform an advanced sort in project 2007
• Apply a filter in project 2007
• Create a custom group
• Sort information in project 2007
• Apply a filter in project 2007
• Apply a group in project 2007
• Update actual work for a project
• Update the actual start and finish dates for a task
• Update the actual and remaining duration for a task
• Update percentages for a task
• Recognise the purpose of project 2007′s cost tables
• Update costs in project 2007
• Set actual start and finish dates
• Set a project’s actual duration
• Update costs for a project
• Create sub-projects for a consolidated project
• Consolidate a project
• Recognise the different options for saving a consolidated project
• View critical paths for sub-projects in a consolidated project
• Share a project’s resources in a resource pool
• Disable a resource pool
• Create an external dependency
• Update external dependencies
• Create a sub-project in project 2007
• Create a resource pool
• Create a consolidated project
• Create external dependencies

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