Wednesday 30 January 2008

More Projects 4.0 questions

In response to Koongs request, here are some more questions from the Dynamics Ax 4.0 Projects exam

Enjoy!


When is the use of project periods mandatory?

In connection with the project estimate function on fixed price projects
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How can you configure the system to make sure that overtime payment is calculated for employees entering timesheets on a fixed price project?

They change the line property on the overtime hours to one which has a cost percentage set up
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What is an advantage of using category groups?

They make it possible to define the posting rule the group
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The project manager wants to track travel expenses and who is generating them on all projects. How should the system be configured to achieve this?

By setting the employee option on the travel category to mandatory
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What is the purpose of sorting fields?

To group projects
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What are the three specific internal project types in Microsoft Dynamics Ax?

Time, cost and investment
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Which of the following describes why cost templates are used?

To define which categories to include in the calculation of a completion percentage
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What is caused by creating the project directly from the project quotation?

A forecast can be created directly from the lines in the project quotation
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What is a prerequisite for using the scheduling function?

A work centre group and a work centre must be set up
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When the assessment principle is “Completed Percentage and Sales Value” for a fixed price project, which value is posted to the Accrued revenue-Sales value account when the estimate control process is run?

The contract value multiplied by completion percentage
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The difference between t and d

Howdy

When entering the date in a date/time field in Axapta, you can use either t or d as a quick way of entering the current date/time

There is a difference between the two though;

t uses the date/time according to Windows

d uses the Axapta system date/time

Sunday 20 January 2008

Please enter the VAT number for this EU customer









This can happen when using Axapta demo data (which is european and based around a Danish light bulb company)

A quick solution if you're not using any EU customers is to just set the country type to domestic in Basic --> Setup --> Addresses --> Country type
(screenshot)

This isn't something that should be done blindly in a live environment though

Googling Ax problems

One thing that baffles me is why there aren't more solutions to simple Axapta problems on the web

Not problems with customised versions of Axapta of course but problems with standard Axapta using the demo data

So I'll be putting up solutions to these types of problems here whenever I come across them

These aren't meant to be used in live situations but are fine for training purposes and self study

Sunday 6 January 2008

Dynamics Ax 4.0 Projects exam

Hi there

I recently sat and passed the Ax
4.0 Projects exam and remembered some questions, so here they are:


What is the purpose of the Employee/category validation setup?

To suggest or control what categories employees may use in project journals
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The item CL-100-B is frequently consumed in projects you set up. Where can project category be set up when CL-100-B is sold or purchased from Project?

On the item
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On a time and material project, the hotel expenses are to be invoiced directly to the customer, there is a 3% service charge levied by the travel agency that books the hotels. How can this charge be automatically added to the customer invoice?

On the hotel category, set the sales price method to misc. percentage and 3%
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You have just finished a project and are about to start a new one. You want to keep the same team of employees on the next project. What are the three ways of setting up validation rules to apply to the new project?


Locate the individual employees in the Employee table and link them to the new project


Copy the old project by using the copy wizard and include the employee/project validation setup in the new project


Create a new validation group where you link the employees to the new project



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On which type of project are cost templates used in?

Fixed price projects
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Post a comment and let me know if you want some more, I've got loads more of these from this and the financials exams in my notes tucked away in a drawer somewhere

AJ