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IT-331 Microsoft Project 1 Terms
Question | Answer |
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Budget | Amount of money slated to finance the project. |
Constraint | A condition you cannot overlook or ignore for a task's completion |
Default | A setting uses unless you specify otherwise |
Duration | Length of time needed for task completion as well as the completion of the overall project. |
Entry Bar | A bar that displays the contents of the current field. |
Entry Table | The default task table. |
Field | Columns that represent a category of information. |
Formatting Toolbar | Provides shortcuts to frequently used commands for changing the appearance of field contents. |
Gantt bar | Represents each task in the timeline. |
Gantt chart | A project management tool that can be used to represent the timing of tasks required to finish a project. |
Gantt Chart view | Contains the task table and the Gantt chart for a project file. |
Indicator column | The first column in the Gantt chart that has a letter i within a blue circle as the column header. |
Menu bar | Contains common menu names that, when activated, display a list of related commands. |
Milestone | A task that marks the completion of one or more task, yet has no duration of its own. |
Project | A self-contained group of tasks performed to achieve a specific objective. |
Project Guide | A toolbar that provides wizards in 4 different areas: Task creation, resource assignment, task tracking, and project reporting. |
Project Manager | One who oversees all stages of a project plan. |
Resource | Anything needed to complete a task |
Scope | Encompasses the performance expectations of the project. |
Scrollbar | Enables you to move the project window vertically or horizontally so you can see other parts of the work area. |
Scrollbox | An object within a vertical or horizontal scrollbar so you can see other parts of the work area. |
side pane | An overall project guide that appears to the left side of the Project Window when you click the correspondng button on the Project Guide Toolbar. |
stakeholders | Key players |
Standard toolbar | Provides shortcuts to common tasks including Save, Print, Cut/Paste(Move), and Copy/Paste. |
Status bar | Provides information about current actions or settings. |
Subtask | Mini-tasks indented below a summary task. |
Summary task | A task that consists of additional tasks called subtasks indented and listed below it. |
Task ID | The number of the row the task is on. |
Task Links | Indicating when the start or finish of one task depends upon the start or completion of another task. |
Task pane | Provides quick access to related tasks. |
Task table | A list of tasks. |
tasks | Specific activities that have a start date, duration and completion date. |
Template | A model providing generic tasks and resources. |
Time constraint | The deadline of the overall project plan as well as how much time each individual task requires. |
Timeline | The graph area of a Gantt chart. |
Timescale | The time period legend appearing across the top of the Gantt chart. |
Title bar | Displays the name of the software and the name of the active project. |
Toolbar | A set of buttons |