Questions from Paris exam

Question 1

Creating a Benefit plan you have field “Offset types” (field to indicate when the benefits start realizing) with 3 choices, what are those?

Answer 1

Milestones
Start Date
End Date

Question 2

What role can assign time sheet (or card) policy to a user?

Answer 2

Time Card Administrator (can assign a time sheet policy to a user)

Question 3

Where can you make changes in RAIDAC…?

Answer 3

Flow Designer

Question 4

What field (and tab?) is Capex/Opex chosen in?

Answer 4

Project Form->Cost Plan->Field: Cost Type (Capex & Opex / 5 choices each)

• External Labor
• Labor
• Software
• Hardware
• Other

Question 5

Something about “derrive from assignee…” where do you set this option?

Answer 5

Project form->Preference tab-> Derive assignee list from resource plan (limits the possibility to only derive resources from allocated resource plans for the project).
Also: Derrive Time component from planned dates

Question 6

What role is needed to see details tab in project(not sure)?

Answer 6

it_project_user: Can see details tab

it_project_manager (?)- configuration access right to all Project Management application features and functionality.
it_project_portfolio_user: User who can view IT Portfolio Project records (can see details…)

Question 7

What values are project score based on?

Answer 7

Risk - value - size

Question 8

What cannot be part of several programs (or portfolio, not sure)? (several examples)

Answer 8

*Project & demand can NOT be part of multiple
Programs, only 1
*Program can be part of 1 portfolio or no portfolio
*You can have projects and demands that can directly be part of a portfolio and not part of a program

Question 9

What is WBS?

Answer 9

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a hierarchical representation of all the tasks in your project

Question 10

What plugin is needed to activate investment funding?

Answer 10

Investment Funding for PPM plugin (com.snc.investment_planning_pmo)

Question 11

Something about: What can PM or Time Card Admin create to specify activities….? Timecard/timesheet, what is the difference?

Answer 11

• Time cards are used to record the time worked on a task by a task assignee
• A time sheet groups all the time cards for a user for the given week
• The time card retrieves time accrued on a project or spent working on any record in the Task table from the Time worked field (user must be Timecard User & Assigned to task)

Question 12

Customer need to be able to connect time entries to specific activities, how do you do that(?)???

Answer 12

Track the activities of a time card, such as who submitted or approved a time card, in the Activities section on the Time Card form. To track the activities, enable the State field of the Time Card [time_card] table for auditing the time card activities, if it is not already enabled
**Project time category - used to specify

Question 13

Whats the default schedule for project?

Answer 13

Mon-fri, 8-12 & 1-5 (8h)

Question 14

When is assessments sent for a demand?

Answer 14

Screening state

Question 15

Something about stakeholderlist??? 5 diffrent types, what are they?

Answer 15

Assessment Stakeholders- asmt_m2m_stakeholder
Demand Stakeholder- dmn_m2m_demand_stakeholder
Stakeholder Register- dmn_stakeholder_register
Project Stakeholder- pm_m2m_project_stakeholder
TeamSpace1…- tsp1_stakeholder_register

Question 16

How long is the default sprint period?

Answer 16

14 days

Question 17

What colors (statuses) are there for projects(?)

Answer 17

Green-Yellow-Red

Question 18

What diffrent types of roadmaps are there in PPM (3)?

Answer 18

CIO
Project
Demand

Question 19

What dates are populated from a demand when project is created?

Answer 19

Planned end-start

Approved start-end

Question 20

What role can access a MPP project imported to a Teamspace???

Answer 20

Project user (it_project_user) - Can only view Project form fields. Can modify additional fields on the Project Task form, such as Time constraint and State.

Project manager - Has configuration access right to all Project Management application features and functionality
MPP imported into a teamspace is only available to users who can access the teamspace.. tsp_project_user?

Question 21

Where does the “status” for a project come from?

Or what color/status is picked up by overall status?

Answer 21

overall health field in the most recent project status report of the project.

Question 22

The Project Task form includes a Time Constraint field, which can be either of these values(4)?

Answer 22

Start ASAP
Start on specific date.
Start no earlier than
Start no later than

Question 23

What execution types are there for projects?

Answer 23

Waterfall
Agile
Hybrid

Question 24

In allocation workbench you can filter on 2 “time types”?

Answer 24

In Allocation Workbench you choose week or month,

Question 25

What box/field needs to be checked for surveys to be sent to a specific stakeholder?

Answer 25

Assessment Recipient (set to yes)

Question 26

To create several tasks at once, what feature do you use?

Answer 26

Project Task Creator

Question 27

What needs to be done to have a task outside a schedule?

Answer 27

In Planning Console, set task to “Allow dates outside schedule”

Question 28

Time sheet policy, on what levels can you set it (?)

Answer 28

As a time card administrator, you can assign a time sheet policy to a user.

Question 29

What zoom levels are there in (project) Planning Console?

Answer 29

Day
Week
Month
Quarter
Year
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