Primavera P6 Pro Live Lessons: Free Questions & Answers (Part - 1)

Primavera P6 is a widely used and popular project-portfolio management (PPM) software tool. I  find it to be quite robust and capable of managing multiple projects, simultaneously, which is rare. The Primavera P6 Pro Live Lessons online course uses this software tool. It course is hands-on, practical and in-depth.

This course uses the latest release of Primavera P6 Professional Project Management R22.x and R24.x and is prepared with the inputs, feedback and suggestions from professionals who I've taught Primavera P6 and also have learned from them.

These questions are taken from the course: Primavera P6 Pro Live Lessons Online Course. This course comes with full money-back guarantee, applicable for the entire course duration. In other words, there are no terms and conditions (T&Cs). Use the course and if you don't like, I'll refund the money any time. 

To answer these questions, you need to have:

• Solid understanding of Primavera P6 software in managing teams and projects.  
• Out of the box usage of Primavera P6 project management capabilities, which can be used in a variety of scenarios and situations.
• Basic understanding of traditional project management.
• Critical thinking, logical reasoning, ability to think out of the box and also answering questions with speed and accuracy.  

This first series has 6 questions and answers. The next part has another set of 6 questions with answers.

I hope you enjoy doing these questions and it helps in learning the Primavera P6 Pro Live Lessons Online Course.

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Question – 1: A number of activities have been started and tracked using a mixture of Update feature and individual activity tracking. The current set of activities are shown below. Which one of the following activities are yet to be started considering this view?

A A1190 and A1030 

B A1200 and A1030

C A1000 and A1210

D A1000 and A1210

Question – 2: For a project the planning work has been done. Next, you are going for the tracking and have not set the data date. Now, if you use the Spotlight feature of Primavera P6, how many days ahead will be highlighted by the Spotlight?

A 1 day

B 7 days

C Two weeks

D One month

Question – 3: There are ways to compute performance % complete in Primavera P6. Which one of the following is used by default? 

A WBS Percent Complete

B Activity Percent Complete 

C Either 0/100 Percent Complete or 50/50 Percent Complete

D The setting related to Custom Performance Complete

Question – 4: As a project-portfolio manager (PPM) tracks a project, the earned value S-curve is created below by Primavera P6. It shows the Estimate At Completion (EAC) cost in pink, Planned Value (PV) Cost in green and Earned Value (EV) Cost in orange. This is shown below. Which one of the following Earned Value parameters will be finally the end of the EAC curve? 

A Actual Cost (AC) curve ends with the EAC 

B Both Earned Value (EV) and Planned Value (PV) cost curves can end with EAC

C EAC curve is separate than other graphs related to Planned Value Cost, Earned Value Cost, or Actual Cost

D EAC curve is dependent on the Estimate to Complete (ETC)

Question – 5: For your project, you have been preparing the custom project calendar. Next you want to create resource specific calendars. For which one of the following resources you can’t create calendars? 

A Labor resources

B Both non-labor and material resources

C Only material resources

D Calendars can be created for all types of resources

Question – 6: As you prepare a report from the Classic Schedule Layout, actual work for the Level of Effort (LOE) activity related to management work is not shown, though actual work is shown. It’s shown below. What can be done to rectify it?

A Change the timescale of LOE activity to Planned Bar

B Change both the timescale of LOE activity Current Bar and reschedule

C Only change the timescale of LOE activity to Remain Bar

D Delete the LOE activity and create a new one

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