Errors in the 70-632 Managing Projects with MS Project 2007 Book

G

Gilgamesh

Hi,
I know that nobody here can fix this but it irritated me so much I felt a
need to vent and this seemed the best place.

I've been looking through this is preparation for the exam but how can a
book that is supposed to prepare you for an exam be so blatantly wrong in
some areas?
Are we supposed to put in wrong answers in the hope that the exam follows
the book, or has the exam been corrected so we can enter correct answers.

The item I'm specifically talking about was in chapter 2, lesson 5 about
building slack into your schedule. They say that changing the "Tasks are
critical if slack is less than or equal to" value to a non-zero value will
add slack. Wrong - it will just increase the number of tasks that are shown
as critical.

Even in the lesson review, question 5 is about giving tasks that have
slipped extra time to complete. One of the options is to change "Tasks are
critical if slack is less than or equal to" to a day or 2.
They list this as correct because "Changing the default slack time from 0 to
something else will cause some tasks to change from critical to non-critical
immediately", which is the complete opposite of what really happens.

I'm only in chapter 2, I wonder what other huge errors this book has in
store for me.

Thank you for letting me vent :-(
 
A

Andrew Lavinsky

By all means feel free to vent. Lest anyone think otherwise, I have to say
that I took that test a couple of years ago, and thought it was a pretty
good skills assessment. I've recommended organizations require candidates
to pass the test as a certification that they know the product.

Prep books on the other hand, I have no opinion on. They can be quite hit
or miss.

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm
 
J

Jack Dahlgren MVP

I can say that the test questions and answers ARE all correct.

The book is certainly not.

But since you are finding errors in it, I would think you may be ready to
just take the test as is.

-Jack Dahlgren
 

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