CAT-241 Online Practice Questions and Answers

You need to restrict project editing rights for project managers to the projects within their own team. Which best practice should you follow?

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

B. Create a security group with the team's project OBS-based Project - Edit Management right and associate 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 right to the selected users directly.

In CA Clarity PPM, you use the Create Task page to define all levels of a work breakdown structure (WBS). Before you can save a new task, which information must you supply? (Choose three)

A. Name

B. Status

C. Duration

D. Start Date

E. Finish Date

Which CA Clarity PPM module is comprised of ideas and incidents?

A. Demand Management

B. Portfolio Management

C. Lifecycle Management

D. Resource Management

After you run the Post Transactions to Financial job, you notice that a Cost Could Not Be Found error appears in the Transactions Error Log. To investigate the error, you verify that a cost matrix is established and associated with the investment. What else should you do?

A. Check the dates in the matrix.

B. Check if the status of the transaction is On Hold.

C. Check that financial properties are enabled for the matrix.

D. Validate that the input type code is active, if there is one assigned.

Which statements describe a project or investment in CA Clarity PPM? (Choose three)

A. It can have a budget.

B. It has a beginning and an end.

C. It can only be tracked if it is approved.

D. Costs can only be added when it is approved.

E. It can have material and equipment resources allocated.

Sue White is a project owner and wants to track the Total Planned Cost ($350,000) and Total Planned Benefit ($400,000) because she will need to compare the actual totals at the end of the project to the planned totals. She does not need to A. Create custom attributes to hold the values.

B. Use the Budget subpage to capture the data as totals because this is all the detail she needs.

C. Enter the information in her work breakdown structure (WBS) under tasks identified as Planned Cost and Planned Benefit.

D. Calculate the monthly planned cost and monthly planned benefit by resource roles and then use the Cost Plan and Budget Plan to enter the data in monthly buckets by role.

When you create a scenario, which guideline should you follow?

A. If any field appears in read-only mode, double-click it to make it editable.

B. Avoid adding investments if you do not intend to make what-if changes to them.

C. If you add investments that are not included in the portfolio, make sure to approve them.

D. To prevent error messages, always begin by populating the Planned Cost and Planned Benefit fields.

When you define a financial Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS), which guideline should you follow?

A. Immediately after you create the Department OBS, add department units.

B. Do not base an OBS on the enterprises departments or on geographical locations.

C. Because financial OBS data elements are key to defining the enterprise's financial structure, define these data elements before any others.

D. If you need to disable access rights after an OBS and financial entity association occurs, do so from the Financial Organizational Structure page.

One of the functions you can perform on the CA Clarity PPM Idea object is to configure the:

A. Baseline.

B. Hierarchy.

C. Incident association.

D. Chargeback functionality.

In CA Clarity PPM, which Data tier component enables reporting without affecting day-to-day system use?

A. J2EE

B. Xcelcius

C. Datamart

D. Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)