Friday, 26 February 2016

Exam MB5-705 Managing Microsoft Dynamics Implementations

Published: September 21, 2013
Languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step
Credit toward certification: MCP, Microsoft Dynamics Certified Technology Specialist

Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. View video tutorials about the variety of question types on Microsoft exams.

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Explain projects and project management (10-15%)
Define a project
Define project characteristics, describe a project definition, differentiate project versus operational work, explain triple constraint
Explain project life-cycle planning and pitfalls
Explain the project management diamond, recognize recurring project challenges, describe project life-cycle planning
Define project management
Identify the definition of project management, explain project management disciplines, identify project management processes
Describe agile and waterfall models
Explain the differences between agile and waterfall development, describe the different agile methodologies, explain the scrum methodology

Define Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step (10-15%)
Describe Sure Step tools and templates
Define the purpose and value of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, describe the functionality of the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step client, identify the available project types and phases, identify the components of Sure Step, explain how to use the documents view, explain how to use the reference view, identify components of activity and task pages, identify features of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Online
Create a project repository
Explain how to create, clone, export, import, and delete Sure Step projects

Initiate a project and prepare for the diagnostic phase (10-15%)
Use solution envisioning and describe the diagnostics phase
Describe solution envisioning, identify deliverables for the diagnostic phase, describe the purpose and objectives of the diagnostic phase, describe the activity flow within the diagnostic phase, describe diagnostic phase preparation, explain diagnostic phase planning
Explain the use of Decision Accelerators
Identify the steps within a Decision Accelerator Offering, use the delivery guides to describe Decision Accelerator best practices, identify activities and deliverables for Decision Accelerators, select the appropriate Decision Accelerator Offering, identify components that are involved in a proposal generation, select an appropriate project type based on an engagement

Deliver Decision Accelerators (10-15%)
Complete a requirements and process review
Identify roles involved, describe the purpose of a requirements and process review, identify activities in a requirements and process review, identify pre-conditions of a requirements and process review
Complete a fit gap and solution blueprint
Identify roles involved, describe the purpose of a fit gap and solution blueprint, identify activities in a fit gap and solution blueprint, identify pre-conditions of a fit gap and solution blueprint

Generate a proposal and final licensing and services agreements (10-15%)
Describe the proposal generation process
Identify activities in final licensing and service agreements, identify deliverables associated with the proposal generation process, describe differences in project types, identify recommendation criteria for project types, define roles and responsibilities by using a RACI matrix, identify components of a project charter
Describe the steps after proposal generation
Describe the purpose of proposal management, select the appropriate step that follows proposal generation, describe the steps that follow proposal delivery

Describe project management disciplines (10-15%)
Manage risk
Describe risk management, identify activities included in risk management, identify the purpose of risk management, identify the pre-conditions of risk management, identify activities and classify by project management process
Manage quality
Describe quality management, identify activities included in quality management, identify the purpose of quality management, identify the pre-conditions of quality management, identify activities and classify them by project management process
Manage communication
Describe communication management, identify activities included in communication management, identify the purpose of communication management, identify the pre-conditions of communication management, identify activities and classify them by project management process
Manage scope
Describe scope management, identify activities included in scope management, identify the purpose of scope management, identify the pre-conditions of scope management, identify activities and classify them by project management process
Manage resources
Describe resource management, identify activities included in resource management, identify the purpose of resource management, identify the pre-conditions of resource management, identify activities and classify them by project management process

Use waterfall delivery (10-15%)
Manage the analysis phase
Describe the analysis phase, identify key objectives of the analysis phase, identify activities and deliverables in the analysis phase, describe the purpose of kickoff activities, describe solutions overview training, describe the detailed business process analysis process, identify the purpose of a functional requirements document
Manage the design phase
Describe the design phase, identify key objectives of the design phase, identify activities and deliverables in the design phase, identify and describe cross-phase processes, describe the solution design process, identify and describe solution design deliverables
Manage the development phase
Describe the development phase, identify key objectives of the development phase, identify activities and deliverables in the development phase, identify activities included in solution testing

Use agile delivery (10-15%)
Prepare for agile delivery
Describe the agile project type in Sure Step, explain the criteria for the agile project type, identify activities in the agile project type, identify recommendation criteria for the agile project type, describe the flow of activities in agile preparation, describe activities in agile preparation
Run an agile project
Describe the flow of activities in an agile project type, describe activities in an agile project type, describe components of a sprint cycle

Manage the deployment and operations phases (10-15%)
Manage deployment activities
Describe the deployment phase, identify key objectives of the deployment phase, identify activities and deliverables in the deployment phase, describe training activities in the deployment phase
Perform testing
Describe testing activities in the deployment phase, identify components of a production audit, identify data migration activities in the deployment phase
Go-live with the project
Describe the go-live activity, identify components of the go-live cutover plan
Manage operation activities
Describe the operation phase, identify key objectives of the operation phase, identify activities and deliverables in the operation phase, identify the purpose of quality management in the operation phase
Close the project
Describe the purpose of project closure, describe activities associated with project closure

QUESTION 1
You are a project manager, and you use Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step for implementations of Microsoft Dynamics products for your customers.
Your customer's major stakeholders identify significant changes that will increase the scope of a project.
Which two risk response strategies for the project definition update should you use? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution, Choose two.)

A. Exploit
B. Avoid
C. Enhance
D. Transfer
E. share

Answer: B,D


QUESTION 2
Which document should you use to manage project deliverables?

A. project scope statement
B. project objectives
C. technical requirements
D. functional requirements

Answer: A


QUESTION 3
You are a project manager.
You find that the personnel in the Human Resources department are new and not experienced in project work. You need to manage the project resources to accommodate the lack of project experience in the project. What should you do?

A. Add more time for the project activities.
B. Release the project team.
C. Document the problem and the impact on the scope of the project to the major stakeholders.
D. Document the impact of the lack of experience on the legal requirements.

Answer: A


QUESTION 4
You are a project manager, and you use Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Methodology to manage projects. You need to ensure that quality assurance is part of a project that you are managing. Which item should you include as part of the project?

A. a comprehensive review with the project stakeholders at the end of the project
B. a review process done at the beginning and checked off at the end of the project with the project stakeholders
C. quality assurance reviews with stakeholders, scheduled early and often across all project phases
D. a comprehensive review process performed if problems occur during the project or at a stakeholder's request

Answer: C


QUESTION 5
As a project manager, you need to incorporate a change request into the project.
Which two tasks must be completed to correctly handle this request when you use the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Methodology? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

A. Complete a customer review and approval.
B. Complete a plan-do-check-act cycle.
C. Complete a change request form.
D. Complete a work breakdown structure.
E. Complete a risk identification.

Answer: A,C

Explanation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh227544.aspx


Friday, 19 February 2016

Exam MB2-707 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization and Configuration

Published: January 22, 2015
Languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Credit toward certification: Specialist

Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. View video tutorials about the variety of question types on Microsoft exams.

Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.

Do you have feedback about the relevance of the skills measured on this exam? Please send Microsoft your comments. All feedback will be reviewed and incorporated as appropriate while still maintaining the validity and reliability of the certification process. Note that Microsoft will not respond directly to your feedback. We appreciate your input in ensuring the quality of the Microsoft Certification program.

If you have concerns about specific questions on this exam, please submit an exam challenge.

If you have other questions or feedback about Microsoft Certification exams or about the certification program, registration, or promotions, please contact your Regional Service Center.

Manage solutions (10–15%)
Plan for customization
Define xRM; differentiate configuration, customization, extending, and development; design appropriate customizations; identify documents in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation guide
Manage solutions
Understand business requirements, understand the benefits of solutions, create solutions, export managed and unmanaged solutions, import solutions, describe default solution, specify a publisher, work with multiple solutions, describe solution components
Manage customizations
Describe component dependencies; describe customization concepts for entities, fields, forms, views, and charts; publish customizations

Manage security (10–15%)
Understand security concepts
Describe business units, describe Microsoft Dynamics CRM security features, identify privileges and access levels for security roles, describe security role interaction with business units
Manage access
Create and maintain users, create owner teams, describe owner teams and sharing, manage security roles for users and teams, differentiate owner teams and access teams, create access team templates, add access team subgrids to forms
Work with field-level security
Identify entities for which field-level security is available, create field security profiles, define field permissions, add field permissions, assign field security profiles to users and teams
Manage auditing
Enable entity-level auditing, enable field-level auditing

Customize entities (10–15%)
Create custom entities
Describe entity customization concepts; create custom entities; configure display names, plural names, and schema names; configure entity ownership; create custom activity entities; set primary fields
Manage custom entities
Configure entity properties including display areas, communication and collaboration options, fixed properties, data services options, Microsoft Outlook options, mobile options; modify custom entities; delete custom entities; identify dependencies

Customize fields (10–15%)
Create and maintain fields
Describe field customization concepts, create fields, describe ways new fields can be created, delete custom fields
Configure field properties
Identify field data types; identify field display formats; configure the requirement level field property; configure searchable, audit, and field security field properties; identify properties that can be changed for existing fields
Manage special fields
Configure local and global option sets, configure status and status reason fields, describe dependencies, create calculated fields, describe the purpose of rollup fields, create rollup fields

Manage relationships (10–15%)
Describe entity relationships
Identify different relationship types; describe one-to-many, many-to-many, and manual many-to-many relationships; describe special many-to-many relationships such as marketing list members, queue items, and follows; identify supported and unsupported relationships; identify cascading behaviors such as Assign, Share, Unshare, Re-Parent, Delete
Manage entity relationships
Create entity relationships, map fields, manage connections and connection roles, work with relationship hierarchy visualization

Customize forms (10–15%)
Understand form customizations
Describe tab and section structure; add form fields; add subgrids; add social, activity, and notes controls; add other components and controls; preview form customizations
Create and edit forms
Copy existing forms or create new forms, configure quick create forms, create nested quick create forms, create quick view forms
Manage multiple forms
Identify scenarios where multiple forms are useful, specify form order, assign roles to forms
Manage mobile forms
Describe mobile forms for Microsoft Dynamics CRM for tablets, describe how forms are displayed to the user in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for tablets app, describe considerations when designing mobile forms

Customize views (10–15%)
Work with system views
Differentiate between system, public, and personal views; describe view columns and view filtering; configure multi-entity search; differentiate between multi-entity, advanced find, and quick find search; identify associated views; configure lookup views; configure quick find views
Create and configure custom views
Copy existing views, create custom views, build queries, add fields to views, arrange fields, configure field properties, sort fields, set the default public view, share views, disable views, delete views
Manage custom views
Set the default public view, share views, identify entities for which hierarchical views are available, create hierarchical views

Customize charts and dashboards (5–10%)
Understand chart concepts
Identify design considerations for charts, differentiate between personal and system charts, identify limitations of the chart designer tools in the user interface
Create and configure charts
Create system charts and personal charts, describe chart types and options, add series and categories, choose chart views for chart preview, identify fields available for use in charts, include fields from parent entities in charts
Reuse charts
Export and import charts, identify steps to update chart XML, convert personal charts to system charts, convert system charts to personal charts
Create, configure, and manage dashboards
Differentiate between personal and system dashboards, configure dashboard components, create lists (views), display charts on dashboards, manage security roles for dashboards

Configure business process flows and business rules (10–15%)
Understand business process flow concepts
Describe the purpose of business process flows; differentiate between different types of processes; identify business process flow components including steps and stages, built-in business processes, custom business processes, entities that participate in business processes, and spanning entities
Create and manage business process flows
Create business process flows, define stages and steps, describe role-based business processes, describe branching logic for guided processes, describe use cases for the client API for business process flows
Create and manage business rules
Identify use cases for business rules; differentiate between client-side and server-side logic; create business rules; configure business rule conditions; apply AND/OR, IF…ELSE, IF….THEN logic in business rules; identify business rule actions; enable business rules for forms

QUESTION 1
On the Account record in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you create business rules that update the Credit Limit based on the Relationship Type option set.
After which two user actions do these business rules apply? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.

A. Saving an Account
B. Changing a Relationship Type on an existing Account
C. Adding a Relationship Type to a new Account
D. Deleting an Account

Answer: B,C

Explanation: Ref:https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531086.aspx


QUESTION 2
You need a component that can combine form controls together with the possibility to expand and collapse them.
Which component should you choose?

A. sub-grid
B. section
C. Quick View form
D. tab

Answer: D


QUESTION 3
You create two entities, Event and Booking, in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
The Booking entity references the Event entity with an Event lookup attribute in the
Booking entity. This Event lookup attribute is used on the Booking form as lookup control.
You want to delete the Event entity.
What should you do first?

A. Delete the Event entity; all references are deleted automatically.
B. Remove the lookup attribute in the Booking entity.
C. Remove the lookup control on the Booking form.
D. Remove the relationship between Event and Booking.

Answer: C

Explanation: Ref:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309749.aspx


QUESTION 4
You want to show values from a related entity in a form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Which two components can you use to display values in a sub-grid? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.

A. dashboard
B. list
C. chart
D. report

Answer: B,C


QUESTION 5
You want to reduce the amount of data stored in auditing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Your Dynamics CRM environment has multiple audit logs. You need to delete at least one audit log.
What should you do?

A. Select the most recent audit log, and click delete.
B. Create a bulk delete job, and select the audit entity.
C. Select the oldest audit log, and click delete.
D. Select multiple audit logs, and click delete.

Answer: C

Explanation:
Ref:https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn683569.aspx#BKMK_Method10

Monday, 8 February 2016

650-127 CGE Authorized Connected Grid Engineer Knowledge Verification

Exam Number 650-127
Duration 60 minutes (55-60 questions)
Available Languages English

This exam will test the knowledge of system engineers and field engineers regarding the features, functions, design, and planning for deployment of the Cisco Connected Grid technology solution. There will be a focus on the features and benefits of the Cisco 2010 Connected Grid Router (CGR 2010) and the Cisco 2500 Series Connected Grid Switch (CGS 2500). The solution deployment planning will include design, configuration, implementation, and integration.

Exam Topics
The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.

Introduction to Cisco Connected Grid Go-to-Market and Product Positioning
How to Sell
Cisco Connected Grid Ordering and Support
Cisco 2010 Connected Grid Router (CGR) Product Overview
Cisco 2500 Connected Grid Switch (CGS) Product Overview
Cisco Connected Grid Solutions


QUESTION 1
Which of the following models supports Power over Ethernet?

A. CGS-2520-24TC
B. CGS-2520-16S-8PC
C. All CGS models
D. None of the modelsupportsPOE

Answer: C

Explanation:


QUESTION 2
Which of the following is not a supported PDI Help Desk function?

A. design and configuration support
B. technical product question
C. implementation questions and support
D. On site support
E. RFP review

Answer: D

Explanation:


QUESTION 3
Which function is available on the Cisco Series 2500 Connected Grid Switch?

A. EnergyWise
B. inputs and outputs for alarms
C. GRWIC modules
D. StackWise

Answer: C

Explanation:


QUESTION 4
Which of these describes the overall vision of the Cisco Smart Grid?

A. Create a single infrastructure for Unified Communications from electrical generation plants to all
primary and secondary substations.
B. Integrate intelligent routing protocols into existing electrical grids.
C. Sell existing Cisco IP-based products to be used from end-to-end in our utility customer smart
grid deployments.
D. Design and architect an end-to-end communications infrastructure integrated with the power.

Answer: A

Explanation:


QUESTION 5
How many power supply slots are available on each Cisco CGR 2010 chassis?

A. 1 slot
B. 4 slots
C. 2 slots
D. No slots because all power is integrated over IP.

Answer: C

Explanation: