Exam 74-344, Managing Programs And Projects With Project Server 2013 Exam

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Candidates who wish to give this exam are managing projects, programs and portfolios in the Microsoft Project Portfolio Management (PPM) environment. They should have a strong understanding of project management concepts and terminology.

Exam Topics
The exam measure the ability of candidates to complete the technical task listed below.

Create Enterprise Projects and Portfolios
 Define strategic alignment: define business drivers, create multiple drivers, analyze consistency ratio, rate projects against business drivers , determine primary cost constraints and resource constraints.
 Optimize portfolios: setting project dependencies, create a portfolio analysis, review and modify prioritizations in an analysis.
 Create a program with master projects and sub-projects: inserting sub-projects, creating cross-project task dependencies and temporary master project.

Plan Enterprise Projects and Resources
 Manage resources and teams: edit resources with Project Web App and with Project Professional.
 Build a resource plan: building a team ...
... for a resource plan for a project, setting resource utilization.
 Build a project team: building a Project Team through Project Professional and Project Web App.
 Resolve resource over allocations across projects: use levelling tools, Team Planner, Usage and Resource Center availability views.
 Baseline enterprise projects: set a protected baseline.

Track and Collaborate on an Enterprise Project
 Select a tracking method: usehours per period, actual work remaining, done and not done fields.
 Manage task assignments: publishing assignments, selecting a status manager, an assignment owner.
 Update tasks and timesheets: submit and recall timesheets, inserting and removing tasks, reassign tasks and update Task Status.
 Approve tasks and timesheets: accept task updates, view impacts of updates, rejects updates, approving and rejecting timesheets.
 Update a project schedule: reschedule uncompleted work, update cost resources, publish schedule changes, utilize task update history.

Manage Configurable Enterprise Objects
 Customize Project Web App views and reports: create portfolio report, copy and edit views, set default views, rename field names.
 Manage and extend Project Online and Project Server: create and manage enterprise project templates, define enterprise custom fields.
 Manage risks, issues, and deliverables: adding risks, issues, documents, and deliverables.
 Customize a project site: adding Document Library, Lists, Calendar and Folders.

Prerequisites
It is advised that candidates have practical experience in using Microsoft Project Professional 2013 and Project Web App 2013.
Exam Preparation
Candidates are recommended to have practical experience with the product as this will help them in preparing for the exam. Currently there are not classroom training, e-learning or books available to candidates. However, practice test are available at MeasureUp (Measureup.com) and Self-Test Software (Selftestsoftware.com)

Exam Details
The 74-344 exam was published in April 2013 and targets IT professionals. The exam is offered in English language. Candidates can register for an exam at the Prometric website.

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