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1- Document the justification for the project is a minimum requirement for which
theme?

Yours Expected

✘ ✘ a. Organisation

✘ ✘ b. Quality
✘ ✘ c. Risk
✓ ✓ d. Business case

Other min requirements are:

1. keep the business justification up to date

2. define follow-up benefits/actions in the BMA
3. define the business case and benefits and roles and
responsibilities.

 17. Business Case Theme, Minimum Requirements

2- Projects differ from business as usual or a repeating process. Which of the
following is NOT a project characteristic?

Yours Expected

✘ ✘ a. Unique

✓ ✓ b. Expensive
✘ ✘ c. Uncertainty
✘ ✘ d. Cross-Functional
a. All projects are unique as there is always something in the
project that has not been done before.
b. Projects do not have to be expensive. Anyway the focus should
be on the potential benefits and the return on investment.
c. As parts of the project are unique, you can never be 100% sure
how it is going to work out useless you have a crystal ball.
d. A project team includes people from different silos (departments)
and levels of seniority that work together for the duration of the
project.
Projects have a number of characteristics, which is how projects
differ from business as usual or a repeating process. You should be
able to see these characteristics in all projects in all PRINCE2
projects. These characteristics are: Change, Temporary, Cross-
functional, Unique and Uncertainty.

 14. Structure of PRINCE2

3- Which principle helps to ensure that the purpose of a project

is to fulfil stakeholder expectations by making sure there is a
common understanding of the products required and the
quality expectations?

Yours Expected

✓ ✓ a. Focus on products

✘ ✘ b. Manage by exception
✘ ✘ c. Product-based planning
✘ ✘ d. Stakeholder management
b. Manage by exception is about giving people some tolerance to
work within.
c. Product-based planning is not a PRINCE2 principle, but it
supports the principle focus on products.
d. Stakeholder management is not a PRINCE2 principle.
A PRINCE2 project focuses on the definition and delivery of
products, in particular their quality requirements.

 06. Principles
The purpose of a project is to fulfil stakeholder expectations in
accordance with the business justification; and to do this, there
must be a common understanding of the products required and the
quality expectations.
4- Identify the management product that is normally created by the PM for each item
listed in the product breakdown structure, which also contains quality criteria
information.

Yours Expected

✘ ✘ a. End stage report

✓ ✓ b. Product description
✘ ✘ c. Highlight report
✘ ✘ d. Lessons report
b. Product descriptions contain the following information:

 identifier
 title
 product purpose
 product composition
 quality criteria
 quality tolerance
 quality method
 quality skills required
 quality responsibilities.

A product description is normally created for each item in the

product breakdown structure. They are created in the IP and
SB processes.

 27. Quality Products

 34. Product Based Planning
 35. Designing the Plans
 36. Defining and Analyzing the Products
5- Projects are temporary and have a characteristic of uniqueness that makes projects
challenging. Which principle helps the project deal with the lack of knowhow within
the project team?

Yours Expected

✘ ✘ a. Tailor to suit the project environment

✘ ✘ b. Manage by stages
✓ ✓ c. Learn from experience
✘ ✘ d. Manage by exception

a. Tailor to suit the project environment is about making PRINCE2

fit your project size and type. So you use only the parts of PRINCE2
that bring value to the project.
b. Manage by stages is about breaking the projects up into stages
(chunks) as this makes it easier to manage
c. The principle learn from experience is about learning from other
projects, people, and stages, and capturing lessons in the lessons
log.
d. Manage by exception is about giving people some tolerance to
work within.
Key message: PRINCE2 project teams learn from experience:
lessons are sought, recorded and acted upon throughout the life of
the project.

 06. Principles

Learning from experience encourages all stakeholders to bring

lessons to the project and these lessons are based on experience.
6- Which role specifies the needs of those who will operate or maintain the project's
products after the project is complete?

Yours Expected

✓ ✘ a. Change authority

✘ ✘ b. Executive
✘ ✓ c. Senior user
✘ ✘ d. Quality Assurance
b. The executive is the single point of accountability for the project.
In smaller projects, the executive and the senior user role can be
combined and sometimes the senior supplier. The executive is
responsible to secure funding,  business assurance, the business
case, making sure the project gives value for money, ensures that
risk management is done,..

 20. Roles and Responsibilities

 22. Combining Roles

The senior user specifies the needs of the users who will use the
project products, and they also liaise between the project and the
users. The senior user role is part of the project board.

7- Which PRINCE2 principle ensures value for money?

Yours Expected

✓ ✓ a. Continued business justification

✘ ✘ b. Define business roles and responsibilities

✘ ✘ c. Focus on business
✘ ✘ d. Stakeholder management
b. Everybody needs to know what is expected of them and what to
expect from others.
c. Focus on products is about creating the product descriptions
before starting work to create the products.
d. Stakeholder management has nothing to do with the continued
business justification principle.
Key message: A PRINCE2 project has to have continued business
justification.

 06. Principles

Projects should be supported by a business justification to

demonstrate that the chosen option represents the best value for
money.

8- The project manager seeks opportunities to implement improvements during the

life of the project. Which principle is being applied here?

Yours Expected

✓ ✓ a. Learn from experience

✘ ✘ b. Focus on products
✘ ✘ c. Manage by lessons
✘ ✘ d. Manage by stages
a. The principle learn from experience is about learning from other
projects, people, and stages, and capturing lessons in the lessons
log.
b. Focus on products is about creating the product descriptions
before starting work.
c. There is no such principle as manage by lessons
d. Manage by stages is about breaking the projects up into stages
(chunks) as this makes it easier to manage
Key message: PRINCE2 project teams learn from experience:
lessons are sought, recorded and acted upon throughout the life of
the project.
  06. Principles

Projects continue to learn and lessons should be included in

relevant reports and reviews. The goal is to seek opportunities to
implement improvements during the life of the project.

9- Which principle advises that a project should have three primary stakeholders?

Yours Expected

✘ ✘ a. Manage by benefits

✘ ✘ b. Tailor to suit the project environment

✓ ✓ c. Define roles and responsibilities
✘ ✘ d. Roles management
a. There is no such principle as manage by benefits. Benefits are
defined in the business case and benefits management approach.
b. Tailor to suit the project environment is about making PRINCE2
fit your project size and type. So you use only the parts of PRINCE2
that bring value to the project.
d. Roles management is not a PRINCE2 principle.
Key message: A PRINCE2 project has defined and agreed roles
and responsibilities within an organisation structure that engages
the business, user and supplier stakeholder interests.

 06. Principles

All projects have the following primary stakeholders: business,

users and suppliers.

10- Ensure the PM spends an appropriate amount of time on issue and change control
during the controlling a stage process is a minimum requirement for which theme?

Yours Expected
✘ ✘ a. Procurement

✓ ✓ b. Change
✘ ✘ c. Cost management
✘ ✘ d. Plans
a. Procurement is not a PRINCE2 theme.
c. Cost management is not a PRINCE2 theme.

The PRINCE2 minimum requirements for change control (Change)

are:

1. have an approach to handle issues

2. define how baselined products are created, maintained, and
controlled
3. maintain some kind of issue register
4. ensure the PM spends time on issue and change control
5. learn from experience and use these lessons.

 48. Change Theme, Minimum Requirements

11- Identify one of the six project variables of project performance.

Yours Expected

✘ ✘ a. Supplier benefits

✓ ✓ b. Risk
✘ ✘ c. Issues
✘ ✘ d. Roles
a. Supplier benefits are not one of the six project variables
b. All projects have risk, so risk needs to be managed for the project
to have a better chance to succeed. 
c. Issues are not one of the six project variables.
d. Roles are not one of the six project variables
There are six variables (performance targets) to control in a project
and these are: Timescales, Costs, Quality, Scope, Benefits, and
Risk. Also known as: six aspects of project performance. The two
most common variables to control in a project are time and cost.

 14. Structure of PRINCE2

12- There are numerous benefits to using PRINCE2. What is a NOT a benefit of using
PRINCE2?

Yours Expected

✓ ✓ a. PRINCE2 guarantees project success if the principles are followed.

✘ ✘ b. PRINCE2 can be tailored to meet the specific needs of the organisation.

✘ ✘ c. PRINCE2 provides a structure for roles and accountability.
✘ ✘ d. PRINCE2 promotes continual improvement in organisations
a. Using PRINCE2 can help your project succeed, but it cannot
guarantee success.
b. PRINCE2 can be tailored to meet the specific needs of the
organisation and be scaled to the size and complexity of different
projects.
c. PRINCE2 provides a structure for roles and accountability,
meaning that all should know what is expected of them and what
they can expect from others.
d. PRINCE2 promotes learning from project experience and
continual improvement in organisations
PRINCE2 has a number of benefits:

1. proven best practice

2. can be used for all kinds of projects
3. structure for roles and accountability
4. product-focused
5. uses management by exception
6. can assess the viability of the project from a business case
point of view, etc...

 14. Structure of PRINCE2