Free PRINCE2-P Practice Questions

Question 1

Six months into a two-year project to build a new customer booking platform, a competitor releases a free equivalent that removes most of the forecast revenue benefit. The project is currently within all of its stage tolerances and the team is performing well. The project executive recommends closing the project immediately. Is this recommendation appropriate?

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Yes, because a project should be stopped once its business justification is no longer valid

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Yes, because any reduction in the forecast benefits requires a project to be closed

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No, because the project is performing within all of its agreed tolerances and so has no grounds for closure

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No, because premature closure is only permitted once a stage tolerance has been forecast to be exceeded

Question 2

A four-week internal project has a team of three. To reduce management overhead the project manager proposes to: use the organisation's existing 'steering group' terminology in place of 'project board'; combine the highlight report and the end stage report into one fortnightly update; and run the whole project as a single management stage. Which statement about this proposal is correct?

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It is not appropriate, because a PRINCE2 project needs an initiation stage plus at least one further stage

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It is appropriate throughout, because tailoring exists precisely so that small projects can reduce their management overhead

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It is not appropriate, because renaming the project board would stop this being a PRINCE2 project

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It is not appropriate, because PRINCE2 management products may be renamed but may never be combined

Question 3

Staff in the affected department tell the project manager that they are anxious about how the new operating model will change their day-to-day roles, and several say they are unlikely to use the new system once it is delivered. Through which of the following should the project manager primarily address this?

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The change management approach, which defines how people will be moved to the target state

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The issue and change control procedure, recording each concern in the issue register

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The communication management approach, by increasing the frequency of highlight reports to the project board

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The risk management approach, by recording user resistance as a threat and appointing a risk owner

Question 4

A project delivers a new staff scheduling system on time, within budget, and meeting every one of its quality criteria. Six months after handover, most staff have reverted to the previous manual process. Which statement best describes this position?

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The project delivered its outputs, but without adoption the intended outcome and benefits are not achieved

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The project failed, because a project is not successful until its expected benefits have actually been realised

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The project succeeded, and the shortfall should be recorded in the business case as a dis-benefit

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The project failed, because the senior supplier did not confirm the system was fit for operational use

Question 5

A project to replace a delivery fleet has agreed a measurable target to cut fleet emissions by 30%, with a permitted variance of plus or minus 5%. Which statement about this target is correct?

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It is a sustainability target and, like the other project performance targets, it carries tolerance

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It is a benefit, and benefits are the one performance target against which tolerance is not set

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It is a quality criterion and belongs in the project product description, not in the business case

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It is a corporate ESG commitment and therefore sits outside the project's performance targets

Question 6

The project board is short of available people. The project executive suggests that the project manager should also carry out user assurance, on the grounds that the project manager knows the user community best. Is this appropriate?

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No, because project assurance must remain independent of the project manager

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Yes, provided the arrangement is recorded as a tailoring decision in the project initiation documentation

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Yes, because project assurance may be delegated to any member of the project management team

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No, because user assurance can only be carried out by the senior user personally

Question 7

The project will be delivered by two competing suppliers working in parallel, with payment linked to milestone acceptance. In which management product should this arrangement be documented?

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The commercial management approach, within the project initiation documentation

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The project brief, under the project approach agreed during Starting up a Project

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The project plan, recorded under external dependencies and planning assumptions

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The work package descriptions issued to each of the two suppliers by the project manager

Question 8

The project manager has written the project product description and has just agreed the product breakdown structure with the team. Which product-based planning step should be carried out NEXT?

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Write the product descriptions

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Create the product flow diagram

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Identify the activities and their dependencies

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Prepare estimates for each of the identified products

Question 9

A project will deliver a new website, a mobile app and a staff training package. The senior user states that the website's public pages must load in under two seconds on a standard mobile connection. Where should this specific requirement be recorded?

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In the product description for the website, as one of its quality criteria

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In the quality management approach, under quality tolerance

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In the quality register, so it can be checked at the quality review

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In the project product description, as one of the acceptance criteria

Question 10

At a checkpoint meeting the team manager reports that the specialist contractor engaged to install the network hardware has entered administration and has stopped work. How should the project manager treat this?

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As an issue, because the event has already occurred

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As a risk, recording it in the risk register with a high probability and a high impact

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As a lesson, recording it in the lessons log so that future projects benefit

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As an exception, because the loss of a supplier always breaches stage tolerance

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