Ultimate Microsoft Project 2007 Exam Prep Boot Camp
Microsoft Certification Exam 70-632
PMPs Earn 21 PDUs
Course Overview
This intensive 3-Day boot camp delivers the fundamental scheduling skills that you need to manage projects successfully with Microsoft Office Project 2007, and prepares you for the Microsoft 70-632 certification exam (Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects).
Mastering the Microsoft Project scheduling engine is the key to enjoying your work with the software. This course shows you how to drive the tool through each stage of the project management life cycle 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 Office Project 2007, you will also master the foundational through intermediate knowledge needed for the challenging Microsoft 70-632 certification exam.
As preparation for the 70-632 certification exam, each student receives the following:
- A copy of the 902-page Ultimate Learning Guide to Microsoft Office Project 2007 book, which serves as both the course manual and a valuable reference book
- A detailed Preparation Guide document detailing the competencies and knowledge required to pass the certification exam
- An in-class practice exam that simulates the actual certification exam
- Guidance from a Microsoft Certified IT Professional instructor who has taken and passed each of the certification exams for Microsoft Project 2007 and Project Server 2007
For courses taken via Cyberspace, each participant must use his or her own computer to access the virtual training environment. A high-speed internet connection is recommended. Participants do not need to have Microsoft Project installed in order to participate in the hands-on exercises.
Target Audience
Every Project Manager and Scheduler that wants to assert their expertise through Microsoft Certification should take this course. We target this course to the specific needs of full-time project managers, those who function as project schedulers or project support technicians who are serious about passing Microsoft Certification Exam 70-632. If you want or need to take the Microsoft 70-632 Certification Exam, this course is 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
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the stages of the project management process
- Understand the Microsoft Project user interface
- Understand the Microsoft Project Data Model as it relates to Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups
- Define a new project
- Perform all required task planning and understand how to use task dependencies and task constraints properly
- Add resources to a project and assign resources to tasks
- View the Critical Path in a project
- Save a baseline for a project
- Enter task progress using three different methods of tracking progress
- Analyze project variance
- Create custom Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups
- Revise a project based on project variance
- Change a project based on change control methodologies and re-baseline the project using multiple methods
- Report on project progress by printing Views and Reports, and by using Visual Reports with Microsoft Office Excel and Visio
- Close a project
- Define a custom Outline Code field to contain hierarchical data
- Create and use Cost resources
- Perform Earned Value Analysis (EVA) on a project
- Import and export project data with another application
- Create a shared Resource Pool file for a master project
- Prepare to take the Microsoft 70-632 certification exam (Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects)