Microsoft Software
Tasks - other topics exercise
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This Microsoft Software TASKS - OTHER TOPICS exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl MICROSOFT PROJECT course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: New Zealand - Task Calendars

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-932.zip
2) Open the file found in the folder shown above.
3) Assign the 24 hour calendar to each of the individual tasks within the project.
4) Make the following resource assignments, ensuring the task durations do not change.
  • Assign Kate & John to each of the individual tasks within the project.
  • Assign a Pilot, Co-Pilot and 8 Flight Crew to each of the three flight tasks.
5) The overall duration of your project will now have changed back to 4.25 days, why?
6) Correct this to ensure the overall duration is 2 days, your final plan should look similar to the below:
Exercise screen-shot 2160 Amend the zoom level to see the effect in more detail.
Training exercise hint You can chose to ignore the resource calendars on these tasks or if the resources will always work 24hours in this project, change the base calendars assigned to the resource.
7) Save the updated file as Flights Planned and close it down.

Thank you for showing an interest in this Microsoft Project training course! As mentioned above, full answers to this and other exercises are provided on the course. On all Wise Owl scheduled courses delegates can take away these model answers (together with their own efforts!) on a free USB stick.

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