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From: Gilgamesh on 2 Feb 2010 19:56
Hi,
I know that nobody here can fix this but it irritated me so much I felt a
need to vent and this seemed the best place.

I've been looking through this is preparation for the exam but how can a
book that is supposed to prepare you for an exam be so blatantly wrong in
some areas?
Are we supposed to put in wrong answers in the hope that the exam follows
the book, or has the exam been corrected so we can enter correct answers.

The item I'm specifically talking about was in chapter 2, lesson 5 about
building slack into your schedule. They say that changing the "Tasks are
critical if slack is less than or equal to" value to a non-zero value will
add slack. Wrong - it will just increase the number of tasks that are shown
as critical.

Even in the lesson review, question 5 is about giving tasks that have
slipped extra time to complete. One of the options is to change "Tasks are
critical if slack is less than or equal to" to a day or 2.
They list this as correct because "Changing the default slack time from 0 to
something else will cause some tasks to change from critical to non-critical
immediately", which is the complete opposite of what really happens.

I'm only in chapter 2, I wonder what other huge errors this book has in
store for me.

Thank you for letting me vent :-(

From: Andrew Lavinsky on 2 Feb 2010 21:13
By all means feel free to vent. Lest anyone think otherwise, I have to say
that I took that test a couple of years ago, and thought it was a pretty
good skills assessment. I've recommended organizations require candidates
to pass the test as a certification that they know the product.

Prep books on the other hand, I have no opinion on. They can be quite hit
or miss.

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

> will just increase the number of tasks that are shown as critical.
>


From: Trevor Rabey on 2 Feb 2010 21:32
Good vent. Vent some more.
There are errors in all of the books about MSP.
I won't name them but we all know them.
There are also errors in the MSP HELP
Errors are sometimes just matters of subtle nuance of terminology and
sometimes just plain wrong.
The people who write the documentation may not know the software as well as
the people who design it and write the code.
Which book are you using?
What does it say about tracking and updating?
--
Trevor Rabey
0407213955
61 8 92727485
PERFECT PROJECT PLANNING
www.perfectproject.com.au

"Gilgamesh" <gilgamesh(a)dont.spam.me> wrote in message
news:eTlgb0GpKHA.1548(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I know that nobody here can fix this but it irritated me so much I felt a
> need to vent and this seemed the best place.
>
> I've been looking through this is preparation for the exam but how can a
> book that is supposed to prepare you for an exam be so blatantly wrong in
> some areas?
> Are we supposed to put in wrong answers in the hope that the exam follows
> the book, or has the exam been corrected so we can enter correct answers.
>
> The item I'm specifically talking about was in chapter 2, lesson 5 about
> building slack into your schedule. They say that changing the "Tasks are
> critical if slack is less than or equal to" value to a non-zero value will
> add slack. Wrong - it will just increase the number of tasks that are
> shown as critical.
>
> Even in the lesson review, question 5 is about giving tasks that have
> slipped extra time to complete. One of the options is to change "Tasks
> are critical if slack is less than or equal to" to a day or 2.
> They list this as correct because "Changing the default slack time from 0
> to something else will cause some tasks to change from critical to
> non-critical immediately", which is the complete opposite of what really
> happens.
>
> I'm only in chapter 2, I wonder what other huge errors this book has in
> store for me.
>
> Thank you for letting me vent :-(


From: Jack Dahlgren MVP on 3 Feb 2010 13:21
I can say that the test questions and answers ARE all correct.

The book is certainly not.

But since you are finding errors in it, I would think you may be ready to
just take the test as is.

-Jack Dahlgren




"Gilgamesh" <gilgamesh(a)dont.spam.me> wrote in message
news:eTlgb0GpKHA.1548(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I know that nobody here can fix this but it irritated me so much I felt a
> need to vent and this seemed the best place.
>
> I've been looking through this is preparation for the exam but how can a
> book that is supposed to prepare you for an exam be so blatantly wrong in
> some areas?
> Are we supposed to put in wrong answers in the hope that the exam follows
> the book, or has the exam been corrected so we can enter correct answers.
>
> The item I'm specifically talking about was in chapter 2, lesson 5 about
> building slack into your schedule. They say that changing the "Tasks are
> critical if slack is less than or equal to" value to a non-zero value will
> add slack. Wrong - it will just increase the number of tasks that are
> shown as critical.
>
> Even in the lesson review, question 5 is about giving tasks that have
> slipped extra time to complete. One of the options is to change "Tasks
> are critical if slack is less than or equal to" to a day or 2.
> They list this as correct because "Changing the default slack time from 0
> to something else will cause some tasks to change from critical to
> non-critical immediately", which is the complete opposite of what really
> happens.
>
> I'm only in chapter 2, I wonder what other huge errors this book has in
> store for me.
>
> Thank you for letting me vent :-(

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