CA PPM 14.x Business Analyst Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Study Guide Version 1.2
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Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Areas of Study Experiene support.a.om Green Books and Green Papers Use Cases & Senarios CA PPM 14.x Courses: 33CLR24130 CA PPM 14.4: Core Components 200 Best Praties 33CLR24140 CA PPM 14.4: Time Management 200 33CLR2416S CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management 200 Dynami Lab or: 33CLR24160 OnDemand CA PPM 14.3: Projet & Investment Management or: 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management 200 (ILT) 33CLR24175 CA PPM 14.4: Resoure Management 200 Dynami Lab or: 33CLR24170 OnDemand CA PPM 14.4: Resoure Management 200 or: 33CLR24171 CA PPM 14.4: Resoure Management 200 (ILT) 33CLR2419S CA PPM 14.4: Portfolio Management 200 Dynami Lab or: 33CLR24190 OnDemand CA PPM 14.4: Portfolio Management 200 or: 33CLR24191 CA PPM 14.4: Portfolio Management 200 (ILT) 33CLR2418S CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Dynami Lab or: 33CLR24180 OnDemand CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 or: 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 (ILT) 33CLR24150 OnDemand CA Clarity PPM 14.4: Demand Management 200 CA Teh Insider Pratial Appliation of Course Conepts Prior Knowledge Notes: CA PPM 14.1 and 14.2 ourses are equivalent to the 14.3 ourses listed above and below. CA PPM 14.3 training is also offered OnDemand: 33CLR23810 - OnDemand CA PPM 14.3: Projet & Investment Management 200 33CLR23820 - OnDemand CA PPM 14.3: Resoure Management 200 33CLR23840 - OnDemand CA PPM 14.3: Portfolio Management 200 33CLR23830 - OnDemand CA PPM 14.3: Finanial Management 200 Searh the CA Eduation Portal for latest ourses, as they may not have been available at the time of this doument posting: Partners & Customers look here: http://eduation.a.om Employees look here: https://learn.a.om/ For doumentation, Communities, and more visit: https://support.a.om Register for the exam here: www.webassessor.om/atehnologies/index.html
Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Exam objetives as they map to related ourseware and the body of knowledge, inluding perentage of exam devoted to topis. Related Content Exam Fous Performing Basi Navigation 33CLR24130 CA PPM 14.4: Core Components 200 Initial Steps: Performing Basi Navigation Configuring the Home Page and Aount Settings Defining User Seurity Rights Creating NPIOs Creating Projets Building Projet Teams Building Projet Plans Assigning Resoures to Projet Tasks Sheduling Projets Performing Finanial Planning Managing Collaboration Information Grouping Projets 33CLR24130 CA PPM 14.4: Core Components 200 Personalization: Configuring the Home Page and Aount Settings Doumentation at support.a.om, Field Experiene Define User Seurity Rights 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Create NPIOs 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Create Projets 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Build Projet Teams 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Build Projet Plans 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Assign Resoure to Projet Tasks 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Shedule Projets 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Perform Finanial Planning 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Manage Collaboration Information 33CLR2416S or 33CLR24160 or 33CLR24161 CA PPM 14.4: Projet & Investment Management Group Projets
Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Related Content Exam Fous Understanding Projet related Proesses Doumentation at support.a.om, Field Experiene Desribe Projet-related Proesses Creating Roles and Resoures 33CLR24175 or 33CLR24170 or 33CLR24171 CA PPM 14.4: Resoure Management 200 Create Roles and Resoures Booking Projet Team Members Using Resoure Finder 33CLR24175 or 33CLR24170 or 33CLR24171 CA PPM 14.4: Resoure Management 200 Book Projet Team Members Using Resoure Finder Managing Resoure Requisitions 33CLR24175 or 33CLR24170 or 33CLR24171 CA PPM 14.4: Resoure Management 200 Manage Resoure Requisitions Performing Resoure Capaity Planning 33CLR24175 or 33CLR24170 or 33CLR24171 CA PPM 14.4: Resoure Management 200 Perform Resoure Capaity Planning Understanding Appliation Administration Options Doumentation at support.a.om, Field Experiene Identify Appliation Administration Options Creating Ideas 33CLR24150 CA PPM 14.4: Demand Management 200 Ideas: Creating ideas Creating Inidents 33CLR24150 CA PPM 14.4: Demand Management 200 Inidents: Creating Inidents Converting Inidents to Tasks or Projets 33CLR24150 CA PPM 14.4: Demand Management 200 Inidents: Converting Inidents to Tasks or Projets Understanding the Setup of Finanial Data 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Desribe the Setup of Finanial Data Defining Finanial Organizational Attributes 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Define Finanial Organizational Attributes Building a Cost/Rate Matrix 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Build a Cost/Rate Matrix Defining Finanial Properties of Companies, Resoures, and Investments 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Define Finanial Properties of Companies, Resoures, and Investments Creating Transation Entries 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Create Transation Entries 6% 6%
Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Related Content Exam Fous Posting Transations to Finanial 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Post Transations to Finanial Proessing WIP Transations 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Proess WIP Transations Setting Up Chargebak Rules 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Set Up Chargebak Rules Managing a Servie 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Manage a Servie Understanding BRM Dashboards and Portlets 33CLR2418S or 33CLR24180 or 33CLR24181 CA PPM 14.4: Finanial Management 200 Examine BRM Dashboards and Portlets Building Portfolios Deploying Partitions 33CLR2419S or 33CLR24190 or 33CLR24191 CA PPM 14.4: Portfolio Management Build Portfolios Doumentation at support.a.om, Field Experiene Deploy Partitions 6%
Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Sample Certifiation These sample questions are very similar to the questions in the atual exam. Some questions may inlude several orret options. Questions Options Question 1 In CA PPM v14.x, whih new feature has been added to improve the end-user experiene? A. Inline edits for lists B. Objet ations on menus C. Configurable notifiations D. Collapsible Smart Setions Question 2 Authorized projet managers should be able to edit any projet. However, you want to limit this ability to a ertain set of projet managers. Whih best pratie should you follow? A. Assign the Projet Edit or Projet Edit Management right (as appropriate), based on the projet Organizational Breakdown Struture (OBS), to the seleted users diretly. B. Create a seurity group with the projet OBS-based Projet Edit Management right and assoiate users to that group. C. Create a seurity group with the Global Projet Edit Management right and assoiate users to that group. D. Assign the Global Projet Edit Management right to the seleted users diretly. Question 3 The Planned Alloation and the Hard Alloation setion for a Staff Member do not math. If Mixed Booking is enabled, what is the resulting Booking Status? A. Soft B. Hard C. Mixed D. Hard Pending Question 4 Whih statement explains the relationship between ost plans and budget plans? A. A budget plan is submitted and beomes a ost plan when approved. B. A ost plan is submitted and beomes a budget plan when approved. C. A budget plan is submitted and beomes a benefit plan when approved. D. Values do not flow from one to another. Both are reated independently. Question 5 You are defining a response strategy for a risk in CA PPM. Whih steps do you perform? (Choose three) A. Speify a resolution date. B. Selet responses from a list. C. Create risk ategory attributes. D. Speify who the strategy is assigned to. E. Speify how you will respond to the risk using free-form text. Question 6 Whih onditions need to be met to onvert an existing projet to a program? (Choose two) A. The projet ontains no staff. B. The projet ontains no tasks. C. The projet ontains no shedule. D. The projet ontains no milestones.
Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Questions Question 7 An instane of whih objet an never be deleted? Question 8 What is the orret sequene for requesting a resoure using requisitioning? 1. Projet manager staffs a role to the projet. 2. Booking/resoure manager proposes a named resoure for the role. 3. Booking/resoure manager searhes for a resoure and finds a resoure to fill the role. 4. Projet manager reates a resoure requisition and sends the requisition to the booking/resoure manager. 5. Projet manager reviews the proposed named resoure and aepts (books) or rejets the named resoure. Question 9 You reate a apaity planning senario in CA PPM. You notie that the senario stays ative as you navigate through the appliation. When you have ompleted your what-if analysis, how do you remove the senario? Question 10 In Finanial Management, at whih levels are reports run to provide high-level roll-up reporting and detailed reporting? (Choose three) Question 11 What MUST be established before an Entity an be reated? (Choose two) Question 12 You an use lasses for various work ategories, suh as maintenane, administration, and development. You need to define the type of work done by resoures assigned to an investment. Whih type of lass an you use? Options A. Task B. Issue C. Projet D. Resoure A. 1, 3, 2, 5, 4 B. 1, 4, 3, 2, 5 C. 2, 3, 1, 4, 5 D. 4, 5, 3, 1, 2 A. Clik Refresh. B. Close the Senario toolbar. C. Log out of CA PPM and log bak in. D. Set the Senario list to Plan of Reord. A. Entity B. Loation C. Resoure D. Alloation E. Department A. Loation OBS B. Department OBS C. Fisal Period Type D. Default Billing Curreny A. WIP Class B. Resoure Class C. Company Class D. Investment Class
Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Questions Question 13 Joe 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: Question 14 Whih Chargebak rules an be used globally within an Entity to harge Departments for Investment osts? Question 15 Whih event must our before the Customer Dashboard is available to a Department? Question 16 A portfolio inventory onsists of investments and inludes: (Choose three) Question 17 When you opy an existing portfolio plan, what is arried over from the original plan to the new plan? (Choose two) Question 18 Company A has two business units that will use CA PPM. Eah business unit has a different set of values for fields that should be populated when reating a projet. To meet Company A s requirement, whih CA PPM feature should you use? Options A. the timesheet an be returned. B. the timesheet an be modified diretly. C. the resoure must reate an adjustment timesheet to make hanges. D. the projet manager must wait 48 hours before the values posted an be viewed on the investment. A. Credit rules B. Overhead rules C. Standard Debit rules D. Investment-speifi Debit rules A. The Department is part of a portfolio. B. The Department has subdepartments. C. The Department has subsribed to a servie. D. The Department provides subsriptions to other departments. A. ideas. B. projets. C. inidents. D. programs. E. requirements. A. The ranking rules B. Portfolio properties C. The Distributed Target (Total) and the apital and operating osts D. Investments with a ranking number on the Waterlines page of the original portfolio plan, but not those listed as Not Ranked (NR) A. OBS B. Partitions C. Proesses D. Conditions
Certifiation Exam (CAT-242) Answers Question 1 = D Question 2 = C Question 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