Assessment: Project managers
IT Skills assessment for Project Managers
The project manager in a company ensures that a project is completed on time and within budget, that the project objectives are achieved and that all participants complete their tasks correctly. Projects are usually different from the common daily business activities and require the collaboration of a group of people to achieve a set of specific goals. The project manager oversees the project to ensure that the desired result is achieved, that the most efficient resources are used and that all different interests are met. Depending on the size of the business / organization, the project manager may be a single person, or be accompanied by a group of people, each of whom has a specialization.
The day-to-day responsibilities of the people holding these positions involve.
- Providing project management consulting
- Organizing the various professionals working on a project
- Ensuring that all project objectives and quality standards are met
- Using the appropriate software to monitor people and project progress
- Hiring and monitoring specialists and subcontractors to ensure compliance with the instructions
- Supervision of accounting, costing and invoicing
- Informative reports to supervisors, clients and other stakeholders on the progress of the project
In order to perform their duties properly, these executives must know very well how to operate various applications so as to produce the desired result.
Job positions with similar typical skills
Jobs with similar formal qualifications include: Project Managers.
What does TEST4U recommend?
This job position requires very good knowledge of operating a variety of office applications. For a clearer result and a better picture, we suggest the assessing the candidates’ skills in the applications:
- Projects and Calendars
(Project Creation, Views, Interface, Project Settings, Calendars) - Entering and Scheduling Tasks
(Add and Edit Tasks, Task Linking, Recurring Tasks, Advanced Task Options) - Resource Management
(Work Resources, Material Resources, Cost Resources) - Tracking Work in Project
(Baselines and Interim Plans, Project Tracking, Sort, Highlight, Group and Filter)
- Custom Data Formats and Layouts
(Formatting and conditional formatting, cell styles) - Advanced Formulas
(SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT, AND, IF, OR, VALUE, IFERROR, OFFSET, WORKDAY.INTL, DAYS, DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS) - Statistical Analysis and Business Modelling
(Settings, scenarios, VLOOKUP, AVERAGEIFS, SLN, INDEX, MATCH, DAY MONTH, DATE) - Advanced Charts and Tables
(Pivot tables and charts, advanced filters, import data, advanced charts)
- Mail Creation
- Mail Organizing
- Outlook Settings and Printing
- Calendar
- Contacts
- Mail Management
- Manage Slides
(Views, themes, layout, printing, slide transitions) - Manage and Format Text
(Alignment, fonts, hyperlinks, dates, textbox, footer) - Tables and Charts
(Insert and format tables, charts and SmartArt) - Graphical Objects
(Grouping, alignment, formatting and copying of graphical objects)
- View, layout, and print documents
(Page size, hyphenation, document views, page break, printing) - Format Text and Paragraphs
(Font, character, line and paragraph spacing, paragraph alignment) - Header, Footers and Graphic Elements
(Page numbering, insert and modify graphic elements) - Tables and Lists
(Single or multi-level list formatting, table formatting)
The assessment uses Microsoft Office 2019
The assessment syllabus covers formulas and functionality common in the following versions of Microsoft Office:
Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2019, Microsoft Office 2021, Microsoft 365
Also, the interface of Microsoft Office remains mostly similar for all the above versions of Microsoft Office.