PRINCE2-PRACTITIONER Practice Test 2 — 30 Questions

Question 1

During the Managing a Stage Boundary (SB) process, the Project Manager prepares an Exception Plan. Under what circumstances is this plan created and submitted?

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When forecasts show that stage tolerances are about to be breached, replacing the current stage or remaining project plan.. An Exception Plan is created during Managing a Stage Boundary when forecasts indicate that stage tolerances are about to be breached. It replaces the current stage plan or the remaining project plan and is submitted to the Project Board for approval. It is not created automatically at every stage end, nor for minor delays or premature closure decisions.

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When a Team Manager fails to complete a single Work Package on time.

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When the Project Board wants to prematurely close the project due to corporate budget cuts.

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Automatically at the end of every successful stage, regardless of performance.

Question 2

An organization requires all projects to apply the PRINCE2 Plans practice. A project manager is developing a Stage Plan for a complex software release. The project uses agile delivery for development but traditional gating for governance. How should the Plans practice be tailored?

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Create high-level stage plans for governance control while utilizing detailed timeboxed/increment plans for the delivery teams.. When tailoring the Plans practice for a project that uses agile delivery within traditional governance, the correct approach is to maintain high-level stage plans for governance control while using detailed timeboxed or increment plans for delivery teams. This preserves PRINCE2's stage-boundary control and Product Descriptions at the governance level while allowing agile teams to plan iteratively at the delivery level. It satisfies the requirement to apply the Plans practice without forcing a rigid predictive plan onto agile work.

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Exempt the project from the Plans practice.

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Replace Product Descriptions with sprint backlogs across the entire project.

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Discard the Stage Plan entirely and rely solely on agile Kanban boards.

Question 3

In the PRINCE2 Issues practice, what are the three types of issues recognized by the method?

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Requests for change, Off-specifications, and Problems/concerns. PRINCE2's Issues practice defines three issue types: Requests for Change (RFCs — proposed changes to baselined products), Off-specifications (products that do not meet agreed quality criteria), and Problems/Concerns (any other issue raised by stakeholders, including general concerns). This classification drives how each issue is logged, assessed, and escalated through the Issue Register and daily log.

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Quality failures, Budget overruns, and Schedule delays

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Internal issues, External issues, and Strategic issues

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Risks, Issues, and Changes

Question 4

Which THREE of the following statements are true regarding the application and governance of PRINCE2 principles?

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The principles empower behavior and good practice rather than prescribing rigid bureaucratic steps.. Option A is correct because PRINCE2 principles are explicitly designed to shape behavior and embed good practice rather than impose rigid, prescriptive bureaucratic steps, giving projects flexibility in how they are applied. Option B is correct because the seven principles act as the definitive test of whether a project is genuinely being managed using PRINCE2 — if any principle is not applied, the project is not truly following PRINCE2. Option C is correct because the principles are described as universal, applying to every project regardless of industry, scale, organization, geography, or culture, which is why they form the foundation of the method. Option D is incorrect because principles must be applied throughout the entire project lifecycle, from starting up through delivery and closure, not just during initiation. Option E is incorrect because all seven principles must be applied for a project to claim it is using PRINCE2; adopting only four would mean the project is not following PRINCE2 at all.

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The principles only apply during the initiation stage and can be ignored during delivery.

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An organization can choose to adopt only four of the seven principles and still claim to use PRINCE2.

Question 5

In the PRINCE2 Progress practice, what is the primary purpose of a Highlight Report?

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To provide the Project Board with a summary of stage performance during a reporting period.. The Highlight Report is a time-driven progress report produced by the Project Manager and sent to the Project Board at a frequency defined in the Communication Management Approach. Its purpose is to summarize stage performance (status, progress, issues, risks, budget, and tolerance status) during a reporting period so the Board can exercise 'manage by exception' oversight. It is not used to escalate a forecast breach of tolerance — that is the Exception Report.

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To request additional budget from corporate management.

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To report daily progress from team members to the Team Manager.

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To formally close the project at the end.

Question 6

A project is experiencing severe scope creep and cultural resistance because different functional departments hold conflicting assumptions about the project's ultimate purpose. According to PRINCE2 7, what people-centric artifact should be reinforced or revisited to align stakeholder mindset?

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The Business Case and shared project objectives via stakeholder workshops and communication channels.. When scope creep and cultural resistance stem from conflicting departmental assumptions about the project's purpose, the root cause is a lack of shared understanding of the Business Case and project objectives. PRINCE2 7 emphasizes that the Business Case is the single source of truth for why the project exists, and reinforcing it through stakeholder workshops and communication channels realigns mindsets. This people-centric approach addresses the underlying misalignment rather than treating symptoms.

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The Daily Log tracking minor operational issues.

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The Project Management Team structure chart in the Project Initiation Documentation.

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The Work Package descriptions issued to team managers.

Question 7

In the Closing a Project (CP) process, what should be done with the project's risks and issues logs that remain unresolved at the time of closure?

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Review them and pass them on to corporate or operational management for ongoing post-project tracking.. In the Closing a Project (CP) process, PRINCE2 requires that any open risks and issues be reviewed and formally handed over to corporate or operational management for post-project tracking. This ensures that unresolved items continue to be managed and do not simply disappear when the project closes. The Project Manager does not resolve them personally, nor are they automatically turned into new projects or deleted.

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Escalate them to the Project Board so the board members can resolve them personally before disbanding.

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Automatically convert them into new projects under the same Project Manager.

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Delete them permanently because the project is closing and they are no longer relevant.

Question 8

A Project Manager is implementing Managing Product Delivery. A Team Manager discovers that a specialist product cannot be delivered within the agreed Work Package cost tolerance. What should the Team Manager do?

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Submit an Exception Report to the Project Manager. In PRINCE2, the Team Manager is responsible for managing the Work Package within the tolerances agreed with the Project Manager. If the Work Package cost tolerance is forecast to be exceeded, the Team Manager must escalate this as an Exception Report to the Project Manager, who will then decide how to handle it, possibly escalating to the Project Board if stage tolerances are threatened. This follows the 'Manage by Exception' principle.

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Escalate directly to the Project Board

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Absorb the cost by cutting quality criteria without telling anyone

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Pause the whole project until funds are secured

Question 9

In the Quality practice, who is responsible for defining the customer's quality expectations and acceptance criteria?

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The Senior User. The Senior User role represents the interests of those who will use the project's products and is accountable for specifying the user's needs, including quality expectations and acceptance criteria. This ensures the products will deliver the expected benefits and meet the users' requirements. The Senior User is also responsible for confirming that the products meet the agreed criteria before acceptance.

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The Senior Supplier

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The Project Manager

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Corporate Management

Question 10

A PRINCE2 project is executing a stage plan. The Project Manager wants to schedule a quality review for a critical deliverable. According to the Quality practice, who should normally chair the quality review meeting?

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An independent person acting as the chair (such as a designated quality reviewer). In PRINCE2's Quality practice, a quality review is a structured, independent assessment of a deliverable against its quality criteria. The chair should be an independent person — often a designated quality reviewer — who is not the author or producer of the deliverable, ensuring objectivity. This independence is a core PRINCE2 principle for quality reviews.

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The Product Author who created the deliverable

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Project Assurance

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The Executive from the Project Board

Question 11

A project is in the Managing a Stage Boundary (SB) process. The Project Manager has identified that the next stage requires specialized external resources that were not accounted for in the outline Business Case. What should the Project Manager do?

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Update the Business Case and present the revised costs and justification to the Project Board at the stage boundary.. In Managing a Stage Boundary, the Project Manager must prepare an End Stage Report and a Next Stage Plan, and any change to the Business Case justification (such as unplanned external resource costs) must be reflected in a revised Business Case presented to the Project Board for a 'continue/stop' decision. The Project Board owns Business Case approval, so the PM cannot unilaterally absorb new costs. Presenting the revised costs and justification at the stage boundary is the correct governance action.

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Cancel the project immediately without preparing an End Stage Report.

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Reduce the quality criteria of all upcoming products to offset the cost of the external resources.

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Procure the external resources immediately using project contingency funds without informing the board.

Question 12

In a highly cross-functional PRINCE2 project, the Project Manager needs to secure active collaboration from diverse subject matter experts who report to different line managers. What leadership competency does PRINCE2 7 highlight as essential in this context?

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Influencing and negotiating skills to build alignment and secure commitment without formal authority.. Influencing and negotiating skills are essential for a Project Manager to build alignment and secure commitment from diverse subject matter experts who report to different line managers, especially without formal authority over them. PRINCE2 7 emphasizes leadership competencies that enable collaboration across organizational boundaries. This approach fosters voluntary commitment rather than compliance through coercion or micro-management.

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Coercive power, enforcing compliance through direct disciplinary control.

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Laissez-faire management, allowing experts to operate in total isolation without coordination.

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Micro-management, dictating every detailed step of the experts' technical work.

Question 13

During the Managing Product Delivery process, a Team Manager has completed a specialist product. Before handing it over to the Project Manager, what quality check must the product pass according to PRINCE2?

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Verification against its Product Description quality criteria. According to PRINCE2, before a specialist product is handed over to the Project Manager, the Team Manager must ensure that the product has been verified against its Product Description's quality criteria. This verification is part of the quality control activities defined in the Quality Management Strategy and ensures that the product meets its requirements.

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Approval from Corporate, Program Management or the Customer

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formal review by Project Assurance

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Authorization of the next Stage Plan by the Project Board

Question 14

A project is in the Starting up a Project process (SU). The Executive wants to know how long SU should take and what its primary output is. Which statement is correct?

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SU is a pre-project process whose main output is the Project Brief and the Initiation Stage Plan.. Starting up a Project (SU) is a pre-project process that occurs before the project is formally initiated. Its primary outputs are the Project Brief and the Initiation Stage Plan, which together provide the basis for the Project Board to authorize the Initiation Stage. SU is not a delivery stage and does not produce the final product.

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SU is executed by the Project Board to write the detailed Project Plan.

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SU lasts for the duration of the first delivery stage and delivers the final product.

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SU replaces the Initiating a Project process for small projects.

Question 15

Which TWO of the following statements about tolerances in the Progress practice are correct? (Choose two)

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Tolerances can be established across six dimensions: cost, time, quality, scope, risk, and benefit.. Option C is correct because Progress tolerances are defined across the six dimensions of cost, time, quality, scope, risk, and benefit, giving the project board a complete set of boundaries to delegate within. Option E is correct because a tolerance is precisely the permissible range of deviation (upper and lower limits) from the approved plan that a manager may operate within without having to escalate to the next level of authority. Options A, B, and D are not correct: tolerances apply to both agile and traditional/waterfall delivery approaches, stage-level tolerances are set by the Project Board (not Team Managers, who typically receive work-package tolerances), and a forecast breach of tolerance must be escalated rather than quietly adjusted by the Project Manager.

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Tolerances are only applicable to agile projects and are not used in traditional plans.

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Team Managers have the authority to establish stage-level tolerances.

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If a tolerance is forecast to be exceeded, the Project Manager can quietly adjust it.

Question 16

A PRINCE2 project is implementing a sustainable manufacturing plant. The Project Manager needs to ensure that the project's progress tracking mechanisms include metrics for both financial expenditure and environmental resource consumption. How should the Progress practice be tailored?

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Tailor Highlight Reports and dashboards to include sustainability and ESG resource consumption metrics alongside financial metrics.. Tailoring Highlight Reports and dashboards to include sustainability and ESG resource consumption metrics alongside financial metrics is the correct approach because the Progress practice should be adapted to the project's context. This ensures that progress tracking reflects both financial and environmental performance, aligning with the project's sustainability objectives.

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Exempt the project from progress reporting because sustainability cannot be measured.

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Delegate all progress monitoring to the Senior Supplier.

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Replace Highlight Reports with the Risk Register.

Question 17

A Project Manager is preparing to execute the Managing a Stage Boundary process. Which TWO of the following activities are core parts of this process?

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Producing the End Stage Report. Option A is correct because producing the End Stage Report is a core activity of the Managing a Stage Boundary process, where the Project Manager reports on stage performance to the Project Board to support the decision to authorize the next stage. Option E is correct because preparing the next Stage Plan is also a core activity of this process, ensuring the following stage is planned in sufficient detail before seeking approval. These two activities, along with updating the Project Plan and Business Case, form the basis of the End Stage Assessment. Option B is incorrect because formal product handover to corporate operations occurs during Closing a Project, not Managing a Stage Boundary. Option C is incorrect because creating detailed Work Package descriptions is part of Controlling a Stage, where the Project Manager authorizes work packages. Option D is incorrect because appointing the initial Project Board and Executive happens in the Starting up a Project process, not during stage boundary management.

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Formally handing over project products to corporate operations

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Creating the detailed Work Package descriptions

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Appointing the initial Project Board and Executive

Question 18

Which THREE of the following elements are typically contained within a well-constructed Product Description in PRINCE2 7? (Choose three)

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Composition (what parts make up the product). In PRINCE2 7, a well-constructed Product Description typically includes the product's purpose (option B), which explains what the product is for and why it is needed, and its composition (option A), which defines the parts or components that make up the product. It also includes quality criteria and the quality method (option E), specifying the measurable attributes the product must meet and how its quality will be verified. Options C and D are not standard elements of a Product Description: complete risk response categorization for external threats belongs to risk management documentation, and individual team member salary scales and contracts are human resources or commercial information, not product definition content.

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Complete risk response categorization for external threats

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Individual team member salary scales and contracts

Question 19

In the Controlling a Stage (CS) process, how does the Project Manager handle ad-hoc requests for change originating from stakeholders?

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Capture the request in the Issue Register, assess its impact, and process it according to the Change Control Approach.. In the Controlling a Stage process, ad-hoc change requests from stakeholders are captured in the Issue Register, assessed for impact, and processed according to the Change Control Approach. This ensures that changes are evaluated and approved before implementation, maintaining control over scope and other project aspects.

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Reject all change requests automatically to prevent scope creep.

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Implement the change immediately to satisfy the stakeholder without logging it.

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Forward the change request directly to the Team Manager with instructions to build it without approval.

Question 20

A PRINCE2 project is utilizing a stage-gate approach. At the end of Stage 2, the Project Board meets to review the End Stage Report and the updated Business Case before authorizing Stage 3. What PRINCE2 principle is primarily demonstrated by this activity?

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Manage by stages. The activity described — the Project Board reviewing the End Stage Report and updated Business Case at the end of Stage 2 before authorizing Stage 3 — is the direct embodiment of the 'Manage by Stages' principle. This principle requires the project to be planned, monitored, and controlled on a stage-by-stage basis, with a Project Board decision point (End Stage Assessment) at each boundary. It ensures the project remains viable and aligned with the Business Case before committing further resources.

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Tailor to suit the project context

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Manage by exception

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Learn from experience