PRINCE2-Practitioner Practice Test

PRINCE2-Practitioner Practice Test practice questions, page 3 of 25, with answer review and explanations.

Question 11

Which of the following activities is the Executive responsible for?

  1. Ensure the desired outcome of the project is specified
  2. Responsible for the benefits review plan
  3. Assess and update the Business Case at the end of each stage
  4. Responsible for the Benefits Review Plan post project

Question 12

Project Scenario – Health and Safety Training Project: ABC Company is a well-established training company that uses a standard model to develop training materials and deliver courses to customers. ABC Company has commissioned a project in response to recent changes in government legislation relating to health and safety on construction sites. The project will deliver “capability to provide health and safety training”, including the materials needed for classroom-based training and e-learning. The expected benefits for construction companies include a reduction in lost days and legal costs due to accidents. The e-learning course will be developed by a specialist external consultancy. The materials for classroom-based training will be delivered by ABC Company’s development team. All course materials will be piloted before they are used. ABC Company will deliver training to its customers and also hopes to sell the course materials to other training companies as part of their operational business. ABC Company will use their own sales and marketing departments to promote the courses. The legislation requires construction companies to comply with the new legislation within two years. The course materials and trainers have to be accredited by a government agency before courses can be delivered. ABC Company is planning to deliver pilot courses within five months of starting the project. The ABC Company standard development model for new courses recommends the following stages: End of the Project scenario. Additional Information: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) founded the company five years ago. Under her leadership, ABC Company has grown quickly into a successful training company. It delivers a range of accredited professional training. The Finance Director is also a founder member of ABC Company and is responsible for authorizing budgets for the Operations and Development Teams. She authorizes all large contracts personally. The Purchasing Manager reports to the Finance Director and is responsible for managing and monitoring supplier contracts. The Operations Director is responsible for the delivery of all training and for the training development budget. His department organizes courses, venues and trainers. They work with the Product and the Sales teams to provide a comprehensive training schedule. ABC Company’s IT manager reports to the Operations Director. The Business Development Director has recently been appointed to identify new training needs and propose new products. She will work with the Operations Director to ensure a cost-conscious approach and that appropriate development technologies are used for the health and safety course. The Training Development Manager reports to the Business Development Director and is responsible for developing training materials and gaining accreditation, in accordance with the standard course development model. Course developers in his team have skills in a range of development technologies and are allocated to projects as needed. The Training Delivery Manager, who reports to the Operations Director, is responsible for ensuring that internal and external trainers deliver ABC Company training courses to the required standard. He also checks course materials to ensure they are fit for purpose and of the required quality. The Central Services Director has responsibility for corporate communications, facilities management and configuration management. He recently led a project to consolidate all company quality systems into one quality management system and set up a corporate quality department, now managed by the Corporate Quality Manager. The Corporate Document Manager reports to the Central Services Director. She helped establish the company’s document management system and now operates it across the business. She manages a team of administrators and contracts staff when workload is high. The Sales Director joined ABC Company two months ago and is keen to establish himself by suggesting new markets for the courses and material. All account managers and the marketing team report to him. They promote existing training courses to other training companies and existing customers. End of the additional information. All the products that are due in stage 3 have been completed, apart from the ‘updated corporate quality procedures’. The work has been completed but the product has not yet been approved. The executive has been told that it will be signed off before the end of the project. In response to an exception report, the executive has instructed the project manager to plan to obtain approval of the product in stage 4. Is this appropriate application of the report management stage end’ activity, and why?

  1. Yes, because approval of the product can be carried forward into the next stage, with authority from the project board.
  2. Yes, because the completion of the product in the next stage is a follow-on action recommendation for stage 4.
  3. No, because approval of the products was planned for stage 3 and must be completed before the stage ends.
  4. No, because a project-level exception plan is required before approval of the quality procedures can be delayed.

Question 13

BUSINESS CASE - Here are three statements from the business case for the Health and Safety Project. Under which heading in the business case (A-F) should they be recorded? Choose only one heading for each statement. Each heading can be used once, more than once, or not at all. Select and Place:

Question 14

Project Scenario – Health and Safety Training Project: ABC Company is a well-established training company that uses a standard model to develop training materials and deliver courses to customers. ABC Company has commissioned a project in response to recent changes in government legislation relating to health and safety on construction sites. The project will deliver “capability to provide health and safety training”, including the materials needed for classroom-based training and e-learning. The expected benefits for construction companies include a reduction in lost days and legal costs due to accidents. The e-learning course will be developed by a specialist external consultancy. The materials for classroom-based training will be delivered by ABC Company’s development team. All course materials will be piloted before they are used. ABC Company will deliver training to its customers and also hopes to sell the course materials to other training companies as part of their operational business. ABC Company will use their own sales and marketing departments to promote the courses. The legislation requires construction companies to comply with the new legislation within two years. The course materials and trainers have to be accredited by a government agency before courses can be delivered. ABC Company is planning to deliver pilot courses within five months of starting the project. The ABC Company standard development model for new courses recommends the following stages: End of the Project scenario. Additional Information: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) founded the company five years ago. Under her leadership, ABC Company has grown quickly into a successful training company. It delivers a range of accredited professional training. The Finance Director is also a founder member of ABC Company and is responsible for authorizing budgets for the Operations and Development Teams. She authorizes all large contracts personally. The Purchasing Manager reports to the Finance Director and is responsible for managing and monitoring supplier contracts. The Operations Director is responsible for the delivery of all training and for the training development budget. His department organizes courses, venues and trainers. They work with the Product and the Sales teams to provide a comprehensive training schedule. ABC Company’s IT manager reports to the Operations Director. The Business Development Director has recently been appointed to identify new training needs and propose new products. She will work with the Operations Director to ensure a cost-conscious approach and that appropriate development technologies are used for the health and safety course. The Training Development Manager reports to the Business Development Director and is responsible for developing training materials and gaining accreditation, in accordance with the standard course development model. Course developers in his team have skills in a range of development technologies and are allocated to projects as needed. The Training Delivery Manager, who reports to the Operations Director, is responsible for ensuring that internal and external trainers deliver ABC Company training courses to the required standard. He also checks course materials to ensure they are fit for purpose and of the required quality. The Central Services Director has responsibility for corporate communications, facilities management and configuration management. He recently led a project to consolidate all company quality systems into one quality management system and set up a corporate quality department, now managed by the Corporate Quality Manager. The Corporate Document Manager reports to the Central Services Director. She helped establish the company’s document management system and now operates it across the business. She manages a team of administrators and contracts staff when workload is high. The Sales Director joined ABC Company two months ago and is keen to establish himself by suggesting new markets for the courses and material. All account managers and the marketing team report to him. They promote existing training courses to other training companies and existing customers. End of the additional information. CLOSING A PROJECT - Benefits relating to income and business reputation after the project has closed cannot be shown at project closure. Which statement describes how the ‘closing a project’ process makes provision for this?

  1. As part of the ‘prepare planned closure’ activity. It will be confirmed that the project has delivered what was defined in the project product description.
  2. As part of the ‘prepare planned closure’ activity. It will be confirmed that the acceptance criteria defined in the project product description have been met.
  3. As part of the ‘hand over products’ activity, the benefits management approach will be updated to include future activities for benefit measurement.
  4. As part of the ‘hand over products’ activity, the ‘finalized materials’ will be passed to the operational business environments.

Question 15

The executive has asked the project manager to plan for the 'e-learning course' to be used as soon as it is accredited. The aim is to start selling the 'e-learning course' while the remainder of the outputs relating to classroom-based delivery are finished. The sales of the 'e-learning course' will be entered into the business case. Why is the executive's decision to deliver the benefits early appropriate for managing the business case?

  1. Because organizations with mature project management often include the early justification for the project in the business case.
  2. Because the outputs being delivered incrementally will be beneficial and will allow the business case to be justified.
  3. Because one of the PRINCE2 principles is that a project should focus on products to deliver the outputs early.
  4. Because the business case should be updated after every increment of the 'e-learning course'.