Exam 70-177 - Microsoft Project Server 2010, Configuring
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
Install Project Server 2010 (23%)
- Configure prerequisites
- Domain accounts, SQL Server accounts, prepare servers for Project Server 2010 roles, features, ports, and protocols, configure SQL for OLAP cubes, configure SQL roles for Project Server farm administration, configure analysis services account to read Project Server, configure SharePoint services (in support of Project Server prerequisites)
- Install software required for Project Server 2010 and related technologies
- PSCONFIG, Project Professional 2010 profiles/accounts, install a new Project Web Access (PWA) instance, configure Secure Store, configure Microsoft Office Exchange integration, configure Project Server 2010 services, configure Excel Services
- Manage a Project Server 2010 upgrade
- Migrate data from Project Server 2003 or Project Server 2007 to Project Server 2010, upgrade from Project Server 2003 or Project Server 2007 to Project Server 2010, upgrade from Portfolio Server 2007 to Project Server 2010, configure backward compatibility with Project 2007 clients
Manage resources and security (25%)
- Configure for time management
- Time reporting mode, single entry mode, financial periods, protected actions, administrative time, configure Status Manager, Timesheet Manager, and Default Assignment owner role, configure task status updates, configure timesheets
- Configure enterprise resources and organizational structure
- Custom fields/lookup tables, calendars, costs, availability, type, department, teams, configure resource breakdown structure
- Manage users and permissions
- Active Directory synchronization, project workspace permissions settings, configure options and access for a new project, configure delegation, add a new user to the system and assign the correct role, add groups
Configure Project Server 2010 (25%)
- Configure enterprise project types and templates
- Configure a Project Detail Page (PDP), create an enterprise project type, create, implement, and enforce the use of templates for the enterprise
- Configure for business intelligence (BI)
- BI permissions settings, create Excel services reports for online analytical processing (OLAP), create analysis cubes for use in BI tasks, configure OLAP cubes for departments, set report permissions, add custom fields to OLAP cubes, update OLAP cubes on demand, associate a secure store services ID with reporting
- Configure metadata and views
- Lookup tables; custom fields, including formulas and indicators; configure views; configure business drivers
- Modify the Enterprise Global Template
- Standard duration, work types, macros, tables, views, filters, groups
- Manage workflows
- Visible project pages, configure phases, configure stages, deploy a new workflow, restart workflows, move projects in a workflow, reassign a workflow, deploy a new workflow
Administer Project Server 2010 (27%)
- Configure for data governance
- Archive, retention, forced check-in of enterprise objects, delete enterprise objects
- Back up and restore Project Server 2010
- SharePoint links, farm backup and restore, site backup and restore, backup and restore of enterprise objects, schedule backups
- Administer SharePoint for Project Server 2010 implementation
- Change the default workspace template, create a new workspace, create a project website for an existing project, re-link a workspace URL, modify uses of the grid and other Web Parts, configure and maintain the site provisioning process
- Monitor Project Server health
- Event, Unified Logging Service (ULS), and usage logs; active cache management; Health Analyzer; check the queue for errors; change history or queue settings; cancel jobs; configure the queue; check the ULS log location; use the Developer Dashboard to assist in farm administration