PRINCE2-FOUNDATION Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which best describes the purpose of a Business Case?

A. Used to define how and when a measurement of the project's benefits can be made

B. Documents the justification for undertaking the project, based on estimated costs, the benefits to be gained and offset by any associated risks

C. Allows the Project Board to manage by exception throughout the project through providing continuous justification

D. Describes the specific risk management techniques and standards to be applied throughout the project

Which of the following steps looks at the probability, impact and proximity of a risk?

A. Communicate

B. Assess (estimate)

C. Identify (context)

D. Plan

The project manager needs to record the impact assessment for a specific business opportunity.

In which management product should the project manager record this?

A. Issue report

B. Issue register

C. Risk register D. Quality register

Which is a purpose of the quality theme?

A. To establish how the project will ensure that all products created meet their requirements

B. To establish baselines against which any changes to products can be assessed

C. To identify all the products of the project to ensure the scope has been adequately defined

D. To determine the communication needs of the organization's quality assurance function

Which is a benefit of having a clear end to a project?

A. It allows the project board to assess the project's ongoing viability

B. It allows a one off review of the project's benefits by the project board

C. It enables any unachieved goals to be completed before closure

D. It enables all unachieved goals to be identified for future action

Which activity occurs during quality control?

A. Updating the quality register with the scheduled dates for performance assessment

B. Defining the quality criteria to be achieved by a specialist product

C. Updating the quality register with results from a quality review

D. Agreeing and communicating unambiguous acceptance criteria with project stakeholders

Which is an objective of the 'starting up a project' process?

A. To approve the initiation stage

B. To select the project mandate

C. To define the project quality management approach

D. To appoint the project management team

During the Managing a Stage Boundary process what product is updated with estimated costs and time for the stage that is about to begin?

A. End Stage Report

B. Team Plan

C. Work Package

D. Project Plan

Which is a purpose of the Closing a Project process?

A. Authorize the final stage of the project

B. Confirm that all benefits defined in the Business Casehave been achieved

C. Recognize whether objectives set out in the original Project Initiation Documentation have been achieved

D. Delegate day-to-day management of the end of the project to the Project Manager

What process enables an organization to understand the work that needs to be done to deliver a project's products before it is approved?

A. Directing a Project

B. Initiating a Project

C. Starting up a Project

D. Controlling a Stage

Which of the following would be done during the initiation stage?

A. Appoint the Executive

B. Establish who needs information, when and in what format

C. Establish the quality expectations of the customer

D. Define how the project will deliver the chosen business solution

What is a purpose of the Initiating a Project process?

A. Delegate day-to-day management of the project to the Project Manager

B. Answer the question: do we have a viable and worthwhile project?

C. Understand the work that needs to be done to deliver the project's products before committing to a significant spend

D. Enable the Project Board to be provided with sufficient information so that it can review the success of the current stage

Which product acts as a trigger for the Starting Up a Project process?

A. Project Brief

B. Project Initiation Documentation

C. Project mandate

D. Outline Business Case

Please refer to section 10.3.2.1 in the PRINCE2 Manual. (Exception Plans are only produced if requested by the Project Board. Team Plans and the use of seperate people as Team Managers are optional in PRINCE2)

A. Use of Team Managers

B. Use of management stages

C. Use of Exception Plans

D. Use of Team Plans

What is NOT identified when creating a product breakdown structure?

A. Products to be created in-house

B. Products to be modified

C. Resources required to produce the products

D. Products to be created by an external third party