A Physical % complete activity has an original duration of 10, and a remaining duration of 10. The actual start is assigned to the activity. Physical % is updated to equal 80%. What is the remaining duration for this activity?
A. 80
B. 10
C. 2
D. 8
Calculated project user-defined fields __________and__________.
A. are created by system administrators
B. are managed by Configuration Management
C. are associated with formulas
D. are viewable in either the web interface or client
E. are defined in the web interface and only viewable in the web interface
Identify the true statement regarding currencies.
A. Currencies are predefined at installation.
B. Exchange rates are automatically updated monthly.
C. P6 supports an unlimited number of currencies.
D. US dollars is the only valid currency for financial transactions.
Your customer's project teams are cross-functional and global. Therefore, any standard reports must be generated at a standing day/time so that all affected resources and users have clearly defined timelines for data quality checks prior to report creation. Identify the P6 R8 feature that will address this requirement.
A. Email monthly report to distribution list
B. Send reports directly to printers at all user locations
C. Schedule report generation to minimize performance issues
D. Post generated reports to content repository
Yon are working with a customer that has had a legacy Primavera release installed and running in their environment for four years, the CIO tells you that the current EPS does not show the data the way he would like to view it, and, therefore, he would like to restructure the entire EPS.
Before proceeding, what four options would you present to the CIO so that organizational Impacts are eliminated?
A. Modify the EPS.
B. Identify the reporting requirements.
C. Restructure the OBS.
D. Add project codes
E. Modify global filters.
F. Create user-specific filters.
G. Modify Group and Sort.
You received an e-mail from a portfolio manager asking you to check performance metrics for the past months on each of the projects filtered for that portfolio.
You cannot locate the portfolio that the email references.
What is the probable cause?
A. It is a user portfolio created by the portfolio manager.
B. It is a user-filtered portfolio that has not been refreshed.
C. You do not have the appropriate license for the web interface.
D. You have not been assigned as a resource to the projects.
You are an implementation consultant working at a company where project schedules have been managed primarily with Microsoft Project, on individual desktops. The "projects" theoretically have been multiple-year projects. Your scope of work includes migrating project data from legacy project plans and setting up project planning standards. As you look into the current Microsoft Project plans, it becomes clear that the projects are not really multi-year projects. The plans have been managed by creating "new" projects within the old projects by skipping a few lines in what has become more of a program history.
What approach would you recommend to retain the legacy data (which is a mandated requirement in the new Primavera system), while moving forward with a "one project, one plan" process?
A. Import all MS Project plans directly into the P6 production database "as is."
B. Import MS Project plans but break out current in-flight work into separate projects.
C. Create new projects only for in flight work identified in MS Project plans.
D. Retire legacy project plans and start with new project planning standards.
You are an implementation consultant responding to the requirement that a cost account structure be set up in Primavera to be able to receive actual costs incurred by each contributing organization. There is also a cost account structure set up in the customer's financial management system (FMS).
What would be the easiest long-term recommendation for setup and maintenance of the cost account structure?
A. Set up a cost account structure in Primavera that mirrors the FMS, and manually manage changes.
B. Set up a cost account structure in Primavera and a global project code to map to FMS for Integration.
C. Do not set up the cost account structure, and receive costed actuals only from the FMS.
D. Set up integration between Primavera and the FMS to maintain all ongoing costing data.
You are an application administrator. You received a change request to alter the relationship between an EPS node and its associated OBS element.
What would be a prudent course of action to complete before moving forward with this change?
A. Merge the old OBS element with the requested OBS element.
B. Create a new OBS element per the change request.
C. Determine which users would be affected.
D. Delete the old OBS element per change request.
You are an application administrator. You have been asked by your CEO to simplify the user interface for executives like her who are interested in high level summary information. Identify two ways to satisfy this request.
A. Customize the toolbar in a saved view.
B. Customize the EPS In a global view.
C. Customize security In the OBS.
D. Customize the Details fields in the Activity view.
E. Customize the menu bars in a saved view.
You are a portfolio manager looking for a new portfolio that you manually created for your own use. You have clicked the Group By drop-down list in Portfolios.
What option would you select to quickly find your portfolio?
A. Global Portfolio
B. Global filtered Portfolio
C. User Portfolio
D. User Filtered Portfolio
Identify two ways of quickly creating templates.
A. Create a template from an existing project.
B. Copy/paste existing project into templates node.
C. User Project Architect to modify templates.
D. Create complexity formulas to modify templates.
E. Base a new template on an existing template.
You are a program manager reviewing portfolio performance data. You see that many issues are assigned to a "responsible manager." What does "responsible manager" mean with Primavera P6 EPPM?
A. The person responsible for resolving the issue
B. The person who identified the issue
C. The element from the OBS associated with the issue
D. the manager to which the issue has been assigned
Identify the true statement regarding a Capacity Planning chart.
A. The Capacity Planning chart displays project allocation over time.
B. The Capacity Planning chart displays role allocation over time.
C. The Capacity Planning chart displays resource allocation over time.
D. The Capacity Planning chart displays unstaffed assignments over time.
You are meeting with a customer and demonstrating the Resource Assignments GANTT view. What data will you be highlighting?
A. Tabular-formatted data showing codes and attributes
B. Timescaled resource assignment data
C. Timescaled project and resource data
D. Timescaled cost and resource data