You work as the Project Manager for company.com Inc. You are using Microsoft Project Web Access to manage your project teams. You would like to create a resource that serves as a model resource for…

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Options

• AYou can create a resource and set it to offline status, so that it is not used in any project.
• BYou can create the resource and mark yourself as the resource owner, so that no other project
• CYou can create the resource and set the resource type to private, so that it is only for your project.
• DYou can create the resource and mark the resource as generic.

• A
  4% (2)
• B
  6% (3)
• C
  14% (7)
• D
  76% (39)

Explanation

Generic resources, or dummy resources, are used to specify the staffing requirements for a project based on the type of skillset needed for assignments. Answer option A is incorrect. There is not an offline status for resources. Answer option C is incorrect. There is not a private resource setting. Answer option B is incorrect. This is not a valid answer for this question; marking yourself as the resource owner is not a valid What are generic resources? Generic resources represent skill sets rather than specific people. By assigning generic resources to tasks, a user can estimate how many resources he needs of each skill set for each time period of a project. Later, generic resources can be replaced with specific resources.

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