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CA PPM 15.x Courses: 33CLR24540 CA PPM 15.1: Core Components 20033CLR24650 CA PPM 15.1: Time Management 20033CLR2467S CA PPM 15.1: Project and Investment Management 200 Dynamic Lab

or: 33CLR24670 OnDemand CA PPM 15.1: Project and Investment Management or: 33CLR24671 CA PPM 15.1: Project and Investment Management 200 (ILT)

33CLR2468S CA PPM 15.1: Resource Management 200 Dynamic Labor: 33CLR24680 OnDemand CA PPM 15.1: Resource Management 200or: 33CLR24681CA PPM 15.1: Resource Management 200 (ILT)

33CLR2470S CA PPM 15.1: Portfolio Management 200 Dynamic Labor: 33CLR24700 OnDemand CA PPM 15.1: Portfolio Management 200or: 33CLR24701 CA PPM 15.1: Portfolio Management 200 (ILT)

33CLR2469S CA PPM 15.1: Financial Management 200 Dynamic Labor: 33CLR24690 OnDemand CA PPM 15.1: Financial Management 200or: 33CLR24181 CA PPM 15.1: Financial Management 200 (ILT)

33CLR24660 OnDemand CA Clarity PPM 15.1: Demand Management 200

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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusUnderstanding CA PPM Core Components 33CLR24540 CA PPM 15.1: Core Components 200

Initial Steps: Performing Basic NavigationPersonalization: Configuring the Home Page and Account Settings

4%

Defining User Security Rights Documentation at support.ca.com, Field ExperienceDefine User Security Rights

2%

Understanding CA PPM Project and Investment Management

33CLR2467S or 33CLR24670 or 33CLR24671 CA PPM 15.1: Project and Investment Management Create NPIOsCreate ProjectsBuild Project TeamsAssign Resource to Project TasksSchedule ProjectsPerform Financial PlanningManage Collaboration InformationGroup Projects

20%

Understanding Project‐related Processes Documentation at support.ca.com, Field ExperienceDescribe Project-related Processes

2%

Managing Resources 33CLR2468S or 33CLR24680 or 33CLR24681 CA PPM 15.1: Resource Management 200 Create Roles and ResourcesBook Project Team Members Using Resource FinderManage Resource RequisitionsPerform Resource Capacity Planning

8%

Understanding Application Administration Options

Documentation at support.ca.com, Field ExperienceIdentify Application Administration Options

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Managing Demand 33CLR24660 CA PPM 15.1: Demand Management 200 Ideas: Creating IdeasIncidents: Creating IncidentsIncidents: Converting Incidents to Tasks or Projects

10%

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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusUnderstanding CA PPM Financial Management

33CLR2469S or 33CLR24690 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 15.1: Financial Management 200 Describe the Setup of Financial DataDefine Financial Organizational AttributesBuild a Cost/Rate MatrixDefine Financial Properties of Companies, Resources, and InvestmentsCreate Transaction EntriesPost Transactions to FinancialProcess WIP TransactionsSet Up Chargeback RulesManage a Service

28%

Building Portfolios 33CLR2470S or 33CLR24700 or 33CLR24701 CA PPM 15.1: Portfolio Management Build Portfolios

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Deploying Partitions Documentation at support.ca.com, Field ExperienceDeploy Partitions

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Understanding Recent Improvements Documentation at support.ca.com, Field Experience New User Experience (UX)Email Domain Restrictions for ReportsOpen Workbench-related ImprovementsSupported Upgrade Paths to 15.1

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Sample Certification Exam Questions

These sample questions are very similar to the questions in the actual exam. Some questions may include several correct options.

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Question 1Authorized project managers should be able to edit any project. However, you want to limit this ability to a certain set of project managers. Which best practice should you follow?

A. Assign the Project – Edit or Project – Edit Management right (as appropriate), based on the project Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS), to the selected users directly.

B. Create a security group with the project OBS-based Project – Edit Management right andassociate users to that group.

C. Create a security group with the Global Project – Edit Management right and associate users to that group.

D. Assign the Global Project – Edit Management right to the selected users directly.

Question 2If you intend to implement the New User Experience (UX), which factors should you consider? (Choose two)

A. If tasks need to be grouped by phases, phases need to be created in Classic CA PPM.B. The New UX will only be available if it is selected during the CA PPM 15.x installation

procedure.C. The teams on projects that are created in Classic CA PPM are not auto-assigned task

management rights.D. Pending Estimate to Complete (ETC) values from timesheets can only be seen by the

investment manager in Classic CA PPM.E. If the underlying template for a project contains named resources, management rights

will not be auto-assigned to the team.

Question 3The Planned Allocation and the Hard Allocation section for a Staff Member do not match. If Mixed Booking is enabled, what is the resulting Booking Status?

A. Soft B. Hard C. Mixed D. Hard Pending

Question 4Which statement explains the relationship between cost plans and budget plans?

A. A budget plan is submitted and becomes a cost plan when approved. B. A cost plan is submitted and becomes a budget plan when approved. C. A budget plan is submitted and becomes a benefit plan when approved. D. Values do not flow from one to another. Both are created independently.

Question 5You are defining a response strategy for a risk in CA PPM. Which steps do you perform? (Choose three)

A. Specify a resolution date. B. Select responses from a list. C. Create risk category attributes. D. Specify who the strategy is assigned to. E. Specify how you will respond to the risk using free-form text.

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Question 6Which conditions need to be met to convert an existing project to a program? (Choose two)

A. The project contains no staff. B. The project contains no tasks. C. The project contains no schedule. D. The project contains no milestones.

Question 7An instance of which object can never be deleted?

A. Task B. Issue C. Project D. Resource

Question 8What is the correct sequence for requesting a resource using requisitioning? 1. Project manager staffs a role to the project. 2. Booking/resource manager proposes a named resource for the role. 3. Booking/resource manager searches for a resource and finds a resource to fill the role. 4. Project manager creates a resource requisition and sends the requisition to the booking/resource manager. 5. Project manager reviews the proposed named resource and accepts (books) or rejects the named resource.

A. 1, 3, 2, 5, 4 B. 1, 4, 3, 2, 5 C. 2, 3, 1, 4, 5 D. 4, 5, 3, 1, 2

Question 9You create a capacity planning scenario in CA PPM. You notice that the scenario stays active as you navigate through the application. When you have completed your what-if analysis, how do you remove the scenario?

A. Click Refresh. B. Close the Scenario toolbar. C. Log out of CA PPM and log back in. D. Set the Scenario list to Plan of Record.

Question 10In Financial Management, at which levels are reports run to provide high-level roll-up reporting and detailed reporting? (Choose three)

A. Entity B. Location C. Resource D. Allocation E. Department

Question 11What MUST be established before an Entity can be created? (Choose two)

A. Location OBS B. Department OBS C. Fiscal Period Type D. Default Billing Currency

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Question 12You can use classes for various work categories, such as maintenance, administration, and development. You need to define the type of work done by resources assigned to an investment. Which type of class can you use?

A. WIP Class B. Resource Class C. Company Class D. Investment Class

Question 13Joe Smith has submitted his timesheet and his manager approved it. Overnight, the posting job ran and the timesheet was posted. When a timesheet status is posted:

A. the timesheet can be returned. B. the timesheet can be modified directly. C. the resource must create an adjustment timesheet to make changes. D. the project manager must wait 48 hours before the values posted can be viewed on the investment.

Question 14Which Chargeback rules can be used globally within an Entity to charge Departments for Investment costs?

A. Credit rules B. Overhead rules C. Standard Debit rules D. Investment-specific Debit rules

Question 15Which event must occur before the Customer Dashboard is available to a Department?

A. The Department is part of a portfolio. B. The Department has subdepartments. C. The Department has subscribed to a service. D. The Department provides subscriptions to other departments.

Question 16A portfolio inventory consists of investments and includes: (Choose three)

A. ideas. B. projects. C. incidents. D. programs. E. requirements.

Question 17When you copy an existing portfolio plan, what is carried over from the original plan to the new plan? (Choose two)

A. The ranking rules B. Portfolio properties C. The Distributed Target (Total) and the capital and operating costs D. Investments with a ranking number on the Waterlines page of the original portfolio plan, but not those listed as Not Ranked (NR)

Question 18Company A has two business units that will use CA PPM. Each business unit has a different set of values for fields that should be populated when creating a project. To meet Company A’s requirement, which CA PPM feature should you use?

A. OBS B. Partitions C. Processes D. Conditions

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Question 1 = C Question 2 = C , D, and EQuestion 3 = C Question 4 = B Question 5 = A, D, and E Question 6 = A and B Question 7 = D Question 8 = B Question 9 = D Question 10 = A, B, and E Question 11 = A and B Question 12 = D Question 13 = C Question 14 = C Question 15 = C Question 16 = A, B, and D Question 17 = A and C Question 18 = B

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