Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog

Luka Gospodnetic is writing this blog primarily about Microsoft Office Project 2007 and its correlation to project management.

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My name is Luka Gospodnetic and I work in the company named IN2 (Zagreb). Welcome to my blog which is dedicated to Microsoft Office Project 2007 and it's connection to project management. The blog will cover MS Project basics, advanced issues and also some nice tips & tricks that I hope will help current and maybe future users to master their ability to use MS Project. From time to time I will also try to provide a fun (realistic? :) ) side of the project management such as images, quotes etc.

If you have any questions or just want to say hello, don't hesitate to contact me:
   e-mail: lukag (at) in2.hr
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Passed the Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects (70-632) exam

I know I've said that I would take the exam two weeks ago, but then I got sick (read: hospitals etc.) so I had to reschedule it for a while :(

The exam was registered through Prometric test center. And after this experience, I have to say that they should really look up to VUE test center.

First, the registration procedure on Prometric web site is not user friendly (you have to select the exam, schedule, location...and than you register for the exam), you have to enter your MCP ID every time you register exam. And finally, the worst part, is the test taking software. It froze 5 times during the exam (2-5 minutes), and one time I had to call the supervisor to intervene. Not to mention that it took 5-10 seconds each time I clicked on the next question. I am saying this, so you can be prepared if it happens to you.

By passing this exam you receive the following credential: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007.

Now some info about the exam, and the materials I used to study for the exam:

  1. Some of the questions can be passed using your project experience in handling resources, budgeting, defining tasks. You eliminate all the stupid answers (usually two of them), and then you are left with two or three which you can answer by using your experience.
  2. I read the Microsoft Project 2007 Bible (Wiley & Sons) and Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Step by Step. Both of them have a lot of beginner stuff in them (step by step, click by click) that you can glance over, and concentrate on new 2007 features and features that you haven't used in MS Project yet.
  3. Use the Project 2007 help. Unbelievable, but it has some nice info in there :)
  4. Get to know all of the menus and the options in them. They like to ask the little detailed question like: how would you do this... And it is a multiple answer question... Example: How would you disable (some type) error message for appearing again? The answer would be something like: Click don't show this message again and go to the project options and disable messages.

There were a lot of questions about budget and cost resources and at least 10 out of 55 were about defining the task (fixed units, fixed duration, fixed work, effort driven) so I recommend you take some time to study these parts (easy points on the exam).

I hope this post helps you in some way since this is a new Microsoft exam. If somebody needs some more info, please use the post comment (so everybody can benefit from it)

 

Posted: lis 26 2007, 12:00 by lugospod | with 3 comment(s) |
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