Microsoft Office Project for Mere Mortals®: Solving the Mysteries of Microsoft Office Project

Appendix . Answers to Review Questions

Chapter 1

1.	You would want to use Project rather than a spreadsheet or text file to manage your projects because you can easily create and represent task relationships, understand how the work changes when you add or delete resources from a task, review the critical path, optimize your schedule, and learn from past project schedules more easily.
2.	The overall methodology for creating and maintaining a schedule in Project is as follows: Create and enter the project scope Define key task attributes Define task relationships Add resources and estimate their work Estimate the cost of tasks and the project Review the schedule Optimize the schedule Baseline Track the schedule Close down the schedule
3.	The most important functions ...