Unit 5: Resources - Practice Quiz

1 What is the main purpose of the Resource Sheet view?

2 Which type of information is commonly displayed in the Resource Sheet view?

3 In which field is a new resource's name entered?

4 Which resource type should be selected for a person who performs project work?

5 What do Max Units represent for a work resource?

6 What does a Max Units value of usually mean for one person?

7 Which field stores the normal pay rate of a work resource?

8 Which rate is applied when a resource performs overtime work?

9 What does the Cost/Use field represent?

10 What does the Accrue At setting control?

11 Which Accrue At option spreads a resource's cost across the duration of a task?

12 Which Accrue At option records a resource's cost when the task begins?

13 Why would the same base calendar be assigned to a group of resources?

14 Which calendar is suitable for resources who regularly work during the night?

15 What is created when a resource is added to a task?

16 Which dialog box can be used to assign selected resources to a task?

17 What does an individual resource calendar define?

18 Where should a resource's planned vacation normally be recorded?

19 What does the Team Planner view help a project manager do?

20 Which resource is most suitable for a new task during a given period?

21 A project manager wants to compare each resource's standard rate, maximum units, and base calendar in one table. Which view is most appropriate?

22 Several resource names appear in red in the Resource Sheet view. What does this formatting normally indicate?

23 A team needs to track concrete consumption by cubic meter rather than by working time. How should concrete be entered?

24 Travel expenses vary by assignment and are not calculated from hours or quantities. Which resource type should be entered for them?

25 A resource works 4 hours per day on a task in a calendar with an 8-hour workday. What assignment units should be used?

26 A resource's Max Units value is 200%. What does this mean when evaluating assignments?

27 A developer's standard rate is $60 per hour and overtime rate is $90 per hour. An assignment contains 16 regular hours and 4 overtime hours. What is the labor cost?

28 A consultant charges one rate for analysis and another rate for training. What is the most appropriate way to store both rates for the same resource?

29 A subcontractor must be paid the full assigned amount when work begins. Which Accrue At setting should be selected?

30 A resource costs $4,000 for a task, and its cost is set to accrue on a prorated basis. When the task is 25% complete, approximately how much cost should be recognized?

31 All technicians work the same night shift. What is the most maintainable way to apply this schedule to the group?

32 A holiday must apply to every resource using the Warehouse Shift calendar. Where should the holiday normally be added?

33 A fixed-work, effort-driven task has 80 hours of work and one full-time resource. If a second equally capable full-time resource is added, what is the expected duration under ideal conditions?

34 Two resources must work on a task, but only one has the specialized skill needed to complete most of the work. What should the manager do?

35 The project calendar permits work Monday through Friday, but one engineer is unavailable every Friday. What is the best configuration?

36 A resource calendar marks Tuesday as nonworking, but the resource is assigned to a two-day task beginning Monday. Assuming normal scheduling, when should the resource's second workday occur?

37 In Team Planner, an unassigned task is dragged onto Priya's row and placed in an available time period. What is the primary result?

38 Team Planner shows two tasks overlapping on the same resource row. Which action most directly resolves the visible conflict without changing resource capacity?

39 A manager needs a designer who can provide at least 16 hours during the next two weeks. Which feature is most appropriate?

40 A manager wants the Resource Sheet to separate overloaded resources from those within capacity. Which operation should be applied?

41 A resource named Concrete is consumed in cubic metres. Its price is $120 per cubic metre, and assigning 15 cubic metres should create a variable cost of $1,800. Which Resource Sheet configuration is correct?

42 A project manager wants travel expenses to be entered independently for each assignment rather than calculated from hours or quantities. Which resource configuration best supports this requirement?

43 A company has ten interchangeable database administrators. The schedule must track each person's calendar and detect individual overallocations. Which entry strategy is most appropriate?

44 A task contains 120 hours of work and must finish in five 8-hour working days. Ignoring calendar exceptions, what total assignment units are required?

45 A resource has Max. Units of 200% and simultaneous assignments of 75%, 50%, and 100% during the same hour. What is the correct interpretation?

46 A resource performs 16 regular hours: 8 hours before a dated rate change at $60/h and 8 hours after it at $75/h. No cost per use applies. What scheduled cost should Project calculate?

47 The same engineer bills $90/h on internal tasks and $140/h on client tasks. Both rates must remain available without duplicating the resource. What should be configured?

48 A resource records 40 hours of total work, of which 8 hours are explicitly entered as overtime work. The standard rate is $50/h, the overtime rate is $75/h, and there is no cost per use. What is the assignment cost?

49 A $12,000 resource assignment spans four equal working weeks. Before any actual work is reported, which accrual setting places the full scheduled resource cost at the assignment's planned beginning?

50 A rate-based assignment costs $8,000 over eight equal working days and uses Prorated accrual. After three planned working days, how much scheduled cost is time-phased through the end of day three?

51 Twenty resources must change from the Standard base calendar to Night Shift, while retaining any resource-specific exceptions already recorded. Which bulk action is most suitable?

52 A group of resources uses a shared base calendar. A public holiday is later added directly to that base calendar. What is the expected result, assuming no conflicting exceptions?

53 An effort-driven Fixed Work task has 80 hours of work, one resource assigned at 100%, and an initial duration of ten 8-hour days. A second equally available resource is added at 100%. What is the expected result?

54 A single-resource Fixed Work task has no date constraints. Its resource is replaced by another resource with the same Max. Units but a different working calendar and rate. Which outcome is most accurate?

55 A task calendar permits Monday through Saturday, but its assigned resource calendar permits only Monday through Friday. The option Scheduling ignores resource calendars is cleared. When can the assignment normally be scheduled?

56 A task calendar allows weekend work, but the assigned resource's calendar marks weekends nonworking. Which setting allows the task calendar to schedule that resource on the weekend?

57 In Team Planner, an assignment is on the correct resource row but overlaps another assignment. The manager wants to retain the resource and move only the selected assignment to a later period. Which action matches that intent?

58 A task moved in Team Planner returns to a later date because a finish-to-start predecessor has not completed. What best explains this behavior?

59 Over a two-day period of 8-hour days, Resource A is at 100% Max. Units with 4 assigned hours per day, Resource B is at 50% with no assignments, and Resource C is at 100% with 2 assigned hours per day. Which resource has at least 12 hours of remaining capacity?

60 A resource's total monthly work is below monthly capacity, but two assignments overlap for one hour and exceed Max. Units during that hour. When the Resource Sheet is grouped by the Overallocated field, where should the resource appear?