Exam 70-178: TS: Microsoft Project 2010, Managing Projects Curriculum Outline
Introduction to Project 2010
Overview/Description Microsoft Project 2010 includes a variety of straightforward and easily accessible features to simplify the process of managing projects, all located and organized within the Project 2010 layout. This course provides an overview of the Project 2010 interface, including the Ribbon feature, Project 2010 Backstage, and how to navigate within the Microsoft Project 2010 application.
Target Audience Individuals involved in managing projects who have basic computer literacy
Before your project can get going, you need to have tools in place that will allow you to control tasks and organize the resources you'll use to complete your project. This course covers the steps for setting up a new project from a template, from an existing project, or from SharePoint Task Lists. The course also covers project calendars, including how to edit working days and create exceptions.
Overview/Description Your project file is probably the most important tool you will use to manage your project throughout its entire project lifecycle. In order to be effective though, it's important you understand how the file works, and how vital project information is for keeping the file relevant to your specific project. This course covers the six steps for defining a new project's properties, including setting your project start date, the project working schedule, and options unique to your particular project.
Target Audience Individuals involved in managing projects who have basic computer literacy
Overview/Description A project is made up of tasks, and the job of a project manager essentially boils down to one thing: making sure tasks are properly defined, organized, planned, and carried out. Good scheduling leads to timely completion of the project, and that relies on the ability to order and link tasks, and set appropriate durations and constraints. This course covers the steps for entering and editing tasks within Microsoft Project 2010, setting milestones, organizing tasks into phases, and identifying task dependencies. The course also introduces methods for applying constraints and deadlines to your project tasks to keep them on schedule.
Target Audience Individuals involved in managing projects who have basic computer literacy
Overview/Description The people who do the work, the materials and equipment you require to perform the work, and the money you need to fund the work are all vital project resources. As a project manager, you should understand how to work with resource information in Project 2010 so you can efficiently plan and manage your resources. This course covers entering and configuring resource information, including people, generic resources, materials, and cost resources. This course also covers how to sort and organize items in a resource sheet.
Target Audience Individuals involved in managing projects who have basic computer literacy
Overview/Description Good project management requires the ability to organize resources based on their availability, cost and consumption rates, and how many are required to complete each task. This course lays a foundation for understanding effort-driven scheduling and how Project 2010 uses resource assignment information to perform scheduling calculations. It also covers how to assign various types of resources to tasks in your project, and how to modify cost rate tables for your resources in order to accurately capture and report project costs.
Target Audience Individuals involved in managing projects who have basic computer literacy
Overview/Description Once project planning is complete, the actual project work begins. Your job as a project manager is to diligently track the progress of this work so that if schedule slippage occurs, you can make adjustments and manage the remaining work effectively. This course covers setting and maintaining project baselines, which are used to compare the planned work with actual work. This course also covers the procedure for updating project progress at the task level in order to track variance, as well as rescheduling incomplete work when an unanticipated work interruption occurs.
Target Audience Individuals involved in managing projects who have basic computer literacy
Communicating Project Information with Project 2010
Overview/Description It's been said that communication is the single most important factor in the success or failure of a project. And it's not only what you communicate, but how you format your communications to ensure they are clear, concise, and targeted to your audience. This course introduces the different reporting options you have within Project 2010, including how to create and print standard reports and how to report project information using the Timeline view. This course also introduces techniques for adding graphics to reports.
Target Audience Individuals involved in managing projects who have basic computer literacy
Overview/Description A well set up project file is essential to the success of a project. The advanced project file customizations available in Project 2010 can simplify many project management tasks, saving you time, and increasing the effectiveness of project analysis and reporting tools throughout the life of your project. This course covers how to customize default options, add new tabs and groups to the Ribbon, and add new buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar. You will also learn how to import or export a customized Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar so that project team members can share and enjoy consistent user interface customizations. This course also covers how to create custom fields that contain specially formatted task and resource data, such as formulas, graphical indicators, and outline codes that meet the unique needs of your project.
Target Audience Individuals familiar with basic project concepts who wish to use Microsoft Project 2010 at an advanced level
Advanced Tools for Managing Multiple Projects with Project 2010
Overview/Description Most project managers in today's workplace are required to juggle many projects at the same time. The ability to efficiently monitor and adjust resources and task assignments is critical for the successful management of multiple projects. This course covers tools for managing multiple, related project files so that you can see the big picture relationships between your projects. Consolidating resources and task assignments allows you to prevent over-allocation or under-allocation, view cumulative resource costs across multiple projects, and integrate schedules so that dependent tasks across projects flow smoothly. This course covers the process for creating a master project that consolidates related projects into single project file, how to create and update a resource pool, and how to create a cross-project dependencies between tasks.
Target Audience Individuals familiar with basic project concepts who wish to use Microsoft Project 2010 at an advanced level
Overview/Description An important ingredient in managing projects is the ability to easily identify potential resource issues and the impact they could have on the overall project schedule. This course covers advanced resource and scheduling adjustments, such as how to delay task start dates and apply predetermined work contours to manage assignments. You will also become familiar with Team Planner, a graphical view that allows you to view and adjust work assignments with drag-and-drop action. This course also includes several methods for leveling resources and correcting overallocation issues, including Project's built-in resource leveling tool.
Target Audience Individuals familiar with basic project concepts who wish to use Microsoft Project 2010 at an advanced level
Overview/Description Ongoing inspection and adjustment of the project plan is vital to address impacts to the project schedule and address scope and budget changes. This course covers how to easily identify warnings, solutions, and drivers for tasks using Task Inspector, how to address repetitive tasks by creating a recurring task, and how to inactivate tasks that are no longer necessary to the project. This course also covers ways to inspect a project plan by grouping, filtering, and displaying the critical path.
Target Audience Individuals familiar with basic project concepts who wish to use Microsoft Project 2010 at an advanced level
Advanced Reporting and Management Tools in Project 2010
Overview/Description Project 2010 comes with many enhanced features and tools that help project managers report on project status and carry out project management tasks with ease and efficiency. This course covers several of the advanced tools you will use to communicate project status and streamline your tasks, such as the visual reports, enhanced copy and paste, and the Compare Projects feature, which allows you to compare project files and produce an informative comparison report. This course also covers the procedure for recording macros, which will allow you to save time on repetitive tasks.
Target Audience Individuals familiar with basic project concepts who wish to use Microsoft Project 2010 at an advanced level
Microsoft MCTS for Microsoft Project 2010
(Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist)
The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications enable professionals to target specific technologies and
distinguish themselves by demonstrating in-depth knowledge and expertise within their specialized field. More than a product
certification, the new Project 2010 certification family is designed specifically to help project managers apply the best
practices and methodologies for project management as established by the Project Management Institute (PMI); resulting in
better project outcomes, greater efficiency, and optimal resource management.
The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 certification
provides industry recognition to project managers and other professionals who use Microsoft Project Standard 2010 and
Project Professional 2010 to manage and support projects in an enterprise environment. Candidates for this credential
should have experience scheduling, communicating, collaborating, and delivering projects using Project Standard 2010
and Project Professional 2010.
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Exam 70-178: TS: Microsoft Project 2010, Managing Projects
This course provides students with the knowledge to initiate projects, build and monitor a schedule, manage
resources, and communicate project information; as well as using tools for managing multiple projects. Click here to see a detailed curriculum outline.
Why CBT Direct's Online Training Works
The unique design of CBT Direct’s Microsoft MCTS certification course incorporates a proven four-step learning process:
presentation, demonstration, guidance and independent practice. This four-step proven learning model for CBT Direct’s
Microsoft MCTS training course ensures the greatest level of retention to prepare you for your Microsoft MCTS
certification exam.
The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications enable professionals to target specific technologies and
distinguish themselves by demonstrating in-depth knowledge and expertise within their specialized field. More than a product
certification, the new Project 2010 certification family is designed specifically to help project managers apply the best
practices and methodologies for project management as established by the Project Management Institute (PMI); resulting in
better project outcomes, greater efficiency, and optimal resource management.
CBT Direct also offers online mentoring for over 100 current major certification exams, including Microsoft MCTS, for IT
professionals and end-users alike. CBT Direct’s mentors have a minimum of 20 certifications each and are available 24/7*.
