Microsoft Project
Planning and Scheduling
Misc
100

This activity type is a rollup of tasks. It can be expanded and collapsed.

What is a Summary Task

100

This is often better to use to represent a wait time instead of a lag

What is a Schedule Visibility Task (SVT)?

100

This is a the difference between a critical path and driving path

The critical path is the path that drives the very end of the project. A driving path is the path that drives any activity before the end of the project.

200

This activity type is a marker that represents a significant accomplishment and has no duration, work, or cost assigned to it.

What is a Milestone?

200

This is "The Law of Dependencies"

The predecessor MUST _____ before the successor CAN _______

200

What is a best practice for names of resources in Microsoft Project?

Resource names should be generic (ie. Systems Engineer, not Bob or John)

300

These are the three dependency types we can use between Predecessors and Successors in Microsoft Project

What is Finish-to-Start (FS), Start-to-Start (SS), and Finish-to-Finish (FF)

300

This is the best way to develop a name for a task

What is a Verb + Adjective + Noun

300

These are considered "Soft Constraints"

Start-No-Earlier Than (SNET), Finish-No-Earlier-Than (FNET)