Unit 11: Tracking Progress - Practice Quiz

1 What is a project baseline?

2 When is a project baseline usually saved?

3 Which information is commonly stored in a baseline?

4 Why should a baseline be saved?

5 What does a positive finish variance usually indicate?

6 Which pair of values is used to check whether a task started on time?

7 If the actual cost is greater than the baseline cost, the task is:

8 Which field shows the difference between current cost and baseline cost?

9 Why is a project schedule updated during execution?

10 Which value can be entered to show how much of a task is complete?

11 What does entering an actual finish date indicate?

12 Which date represents the point up to which project progress is being reported?

13 Which command is most suitable for entering progress for one selected task?

14 What can be entered when updating a task?

15 What is the Update Project command commonly used to do?

16 What happens when a task is marked as complete?

17 Why would a user customize a toolbar?

18 What is a custom field used for in a project management tool?

19 Which action adds a field to a task table?

20 Which type of field is suitable for storing a simple Yes or No value?

21 A project schedule has been reviewed and formally approved, but no work has started. What should the project manager do next to support future variance analysis?

22 The original baseline must be retained, but an approved major revision also needs to be tracked. Which action is most appropriate?

23 A manager needs a temporary snapshot of only the current start and finish dates. Which feature should be used?

24 Two approved tasks were added after the project baseline was saved. Their baseline fields are blank, and existing baseline values must remain unchanged. What should the manager do?

25 A task has a baseline cost of $50,000 and a current cost of $56,000. Using , what is its cost variance?

26 A milestone's current finish date is four working days later than its baseline finish date. What does its finish variance indicate?

27 A completed task had 100 baseline work hours but required 120 actual work hours. What is the work variance?

28 Which view is most useful when a manager wants to visually compare current task bars with baseline task bars?

29 At the status date, a task is 40% complete, but some of its unfinished work is still scheduled before that date. What update best reflects reality?

30 A task has started, and the team now estimates that five working days remain. Which value should be updated to improve the forecast?

31 A finish-to-start predecessor actually finishes two days late. If scheduling is automatic, what should normally happen to its successor?

32 All tasks progressed exactly as scheduled through the reporting date. Which project-level update is most efficient?

33 A task was scheduled to begin on Monday but actually began on Wednesday. Which field should be updated first to record this fact?

34 A task has been completed, and its exact completion date is known. Which update most accurately records its status?

35 A task is estimated to be halfway through its scheduled duration, but only 30% of its assigned labor hours have been completed. Which pair of values best represents this situation?

36 A resource has performed 24 hours of work on an unfinished task and estimates 16 hours remain. Which values provide the most useful update?

37 A project manager wants users to select task risk from only Low, Medium, or High. Which customization is most appropriate?

38 A manager wants a task field to display red, yellow, or green icons according to cost variance. Which configuration should be used?

39 A command used several times each day is buried in a menu. How can the manager improve access without changing project data?

40 A custom field and view created in one project must be reused in several other project files. Which feature is designed for this purpose?

41 A project manager saved the approved plan in Baseline. After a change request, the revised plan must be retained for comparison without losing the original commitment. What is the most appropriate action?

42 A new approved task is inserted after the original baseline was saved. Its baseline data must be added, and affected summary-task baseline totals must be recalculated without replacing baseline values for unrelated detailed tasks. Which operation best satisfies this requirement?

43 A delayed task currently starts on day 18, while its Baseline Start is day 12. The manager overwrites the original Baseline with the current schedule. No actual fields are edited. What is the immediate result?

44 A scheduler needs a lightweight snapshot of planned start and finish dates but does not need historical work or cost values. Which feature is the best fit?

45 A task has Baseline Start at working day 10, current Start at working day 13, Baseline Duration of 8 days, current Duration of 10 days, and Actual Duration of 4 days so far. What are its Start Variance and Duration Variance?

46 A task has Baseline Cost of $80,000, Actual Cost of $50,000, and Remaining Cost of $45,000. Assuming current Cost equals Actual Cost plus Remaining Cost, what cost variance is shown against the baseline?

47 At the status date, a project has earned value and actual cost . Which interpretation of cost performance is correct?

48 A completed task started two working days later than its Baseline Start but finished exactly on its Baseline Finish because its execution duration was reduced. Which variance pattern is most consistent with the result?

49 A manager uses Update Project to mark work complete through the status date. Some tasks span that date but have no separately reported actuals. What is the principal scheduling risk?

50 An in-progress task has completed work before the status date and unfinished work scheduled before that date. The manager selects Reschedule uncompleted work to start after the status date. What should normally happen?

51 A project has no status date. The manager sets one to the end of the reporting period but performs no other update. Which statement is correct?

52 A successor task actually began before its finish-to-start predecessor was completed. The actual start is verified and must not be falsified. What is the most defensible schedule update?

53 A task is updated with Actual Duration of 6 days and Remaining Duration of 4 days. Assuming duration-based percent complete and no special calculation overrides, what is the resulting Percent Complete?

54 A task scheduled to finish Friday actually finished Wednesday. The manager enters Wednesday as Actual Finish. Which associated update is logically required?

55 A ten-day task has two resources. One resource reports 30 hours of actual work and the other reports 10 hours, although their planned distribution was equal. Which update approach preserves the most accurate history?

56 At the weekly reporting cutoff, the manager has entered verified actuals for individual tasks. All unfinished work scheduled before the cutoff must now be forecast after it. Which sequence is most appropriate?

57 A custom Number field calculates task risk exposure as Probability multiplied by Impact. At summary rows, management needs the total exposure of all subtasks rather than a recalculation from summary-level inputs. How should summary-row calculation be configured?

58 A custom field calculates baseline finish slippage, but newly added tasks have no Baseline Finish. The formula displays errors or misleading values for those tasks. What is the most robust design?

59 A project requires users to choose a controlled risk category while also displaying a calculated red-amber-green indicator based on numeric exposure. Which field design best separates these requirements?

60 A manager adds the Update Project command to a custom toolbar. Another user claims that updates made from the new button use different scheduling logic from the menu command. Which statement is correct?