Test 000-648: Rational Portfolio Manager

Section 1 - Basic usage features (20%)

1. User Interface for work and scope management views and layouts
2. Extensive project management, staffing, and scheduling features
3. Timesheet entry, Proposal creation and Portfolio Management

Section 2 - Reports and Portfolio Viewer (14%)

1. Examination of Investment Maps, OLAP Pivots, Scorecards, Reports and What-if tools
2. Configure and export information from Portfolio View tools
3. Standard and best practice utilization of tools

Section 3 - Work and State Flow (14%)

1. Creation and Execution of work and state flows
2. Identifying processes to be supported by them
3. Aspects of RPM overall that are configured to support them
4. Standard and best practice utilization of tools

Section 4 - Security Rights and Layouts (14%)

1. Review settings that affect product licensing and access to the overall system
2. Identify how settings influence and access to objects within the system
3. Discerning Role based and Resource based security setting influences
4. Creation and deployment of layouts for all system objects
5. Standard and best practice security settings and layout management

Section 5 - Application Administration (14%)

1. Describe the main functions and key deployment considerations for each administration tab
2. Standard and best practices for all Application Administration tabs

Section 6 - Deployment Fundamentals (10%)

1. Describe use and purpose of Usage Models
2. Discern the differences between Fast Track and Standard deployments
3. Leverage the essential guides provided in Modular Service Offering materials
4. Standard and best practices for overall deployments of various sizes

Section 7 - Resource Management (14%)

1. Examine the qualities that are core in defining resources
2. Describe use of resource pools and reports to observe resources
3. Review essential settings for creating resources
4. Standard and best practices for creation and management of resource pools and resources