Students will learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Project. Some of the things discussed in this course are calendars, resources, tasks, costs, and the different views used within the software for budget, status, allocations, and earned value. This course takes you step-by-step through your mastery of Microsoft Project (all versions possible). Certification Exam This course will help you prepare for the following exam: · Project Management Institute (PMI) certification exam

MS Project Principles

• Program Structure
• Calculation method

Calendars

• Defining Basic Calendars
• Customizing Existing Base Calendars
• Set up a base calendar as a Project Calendar
• Calendar options

Tasks

• Create a to-do list
• Duration
• Relationships
• Manual scheduling
• Summary and subtasks
• Setting Restrictions
• Recurring tasks
• Using a Task Calendar
• Viewing the Critical Path
• Fixed task costs
• Inactive tasks

Resources

• Local or shared resources
• Resource types
• Resource Costs
• Resource availability
• Resource calendars

Assign resources to tasks

• Creating Assignments
• Changing assignments
• The 'Work' calculation
• Task types and scheduling based on amount of work
• The Team Planner

Overcrowding: Solving the Problem

• Different Causes/Different Remedies
• Manual Troubleshooting
• Resource redistribution the way Ms Project does it

Keeping track of a project

• Keeping a baseline
• Checking the deviation values
• Working with the Actuals
• View the project statistics
• Using the timeline

Working with multiple projects

• Save templates
• Working with subprojects
• Connect tasks across projects

Report

• How to use the built-in reports
• Impression-based reporting
• Views, tables, filters, and groups