Managing Projects using Microsoft Project 2013 and Certification

Course Overview

This 3 day, instructor-led course is intended for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Microsoft Project. The course begins with the basic concepts and leads students through all the functions they’ll need to plan and manage a small to medium-size project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress. This course will also help students prepare for Microsoft Project 2013 Exam 74-343 Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013.

This course shows you how to drive the tool through each stage of the project management lifecycle and offers multiple best practices for using the software while defining, planning, executing, and closing a project. Although framed around PMI’s project life cycle, the course content is methodology-agnostic and focuses on hands-on learning methods. As you learn how to manage projects properly using Microsoft Project 2013, you will also master the foundational through intermediate knowledge needed for the challenging Microsoft 74-343 certification exam. As preparation for the 74-343 certification exam, each student receives the following:

A copy of the MS Project 2013 Training Manual and exercise files.
A set of videos that would further assist the student in mastering the application and preparing for the exam.
An in-class practice exam that simulates the actual certification exam
Certificate of attendance on completion of the course

Target Audience

Everyone who manages projects using Microsoft Project 2013 or previous editions of Microsoft Project (2010, 2007) should take this course. We target this course at the needs of full-time project managers, as well as those who function as project schedulers or project support technicians. If you need to take the Microsoft 74-343 certification exam, this course is especially for you!

Pre-Requisites

Although not required, it is helpful for students to have hands-on project management experience or a general understanding of project management principles.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Leverage the various MS project interfaces (new Ribbon) to navigate the application
Create a new Project file
Create tasks in a Project
Create relationships between tasks
Create a pool of resources for a project
Assign resources to tasks
Create an initial schedule
Level over allocated resources
Enter and determine project costs
Set the project baseline
Monitor actual progress in a project
Format output and print progress report
Sharing project information with other programs – Excel, Word

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