PRINCE2-PRACTITIONER Practices Practice Test 10 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A project is subjected to a quality audit. The auditor notes that a product was signed off without checking one of the mandatory quality criteria specified in its Product Description. According to the Quality practice, what is the appropriate corrective action?

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Accepted Answer

Log an off-specification issue and evaluate whether rework is required to meet the criterion.. When a product is signed off without meeting a mandatory quality criterion, it is a non-conformance. PRINCE2's Quality practice requires logging this as an off-specification issue and evaluating whether rework is needed to bring the product into conformance. This maintains the integrity of the quality management process.

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Penalize the auditor for finding a non-conformance.

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Automatically reject the entire project stage and restart it.

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Update the Quality Management Approach to exclude that criterion retroactively.

Question 2

During stage execution, a Team Manager realizes that a work package cannot be completed within the agreed time tolerance due to unexpected technical hurdles. What should the Team Manager do according to the Issues practice?

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Inform the Project Manager immediately by raising an issue.. Under PRINCE2's Issues practice, a Team Manager who cannot complete a work package within agreed tolerances must inform the Project Manager immediately by raising an issue. The Project Manager then assesses whether the deviation can be handled within stage tolerances or requires escalation. The Team Manager does not escalate directly to the Project Board.

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Directly submit an Exception Report to the Project Board.

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Quietly absorb the delay by reducing product quality.

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Cancel the work package and hire a new team.

Question 3

A project manager is analyzing a newly identified risk regarding potential supply chain disruption. After assessing its probability and impact, the project manager decides to engage with a key supplier to redesign the component to use locally sourced, sustainable materials instead. Which risk response category does this represent?

Accepted Answer

Reduce. Engaging with a key supplier to redesign the component to use locally sourced, sustainable materials reduces the probability and/or impact of the supply chain disruption risk. This is a 'Reduce' (or 'Mitigate') response, as it takes proactive action to lessen the risk.

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Avoid

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Share

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Transfer

Question 4

A project manager is configuring the Progress practice for a high-risk project. The Project Board wants to ensure that management by exception is fully operational. Which parameter must be explicitly agreed upon between the Project Board and Corporate Management to establish the Project Board's authority?

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Project-level tolerances. Project-level tolerances define the delegated authority boundaries the Project Board agrees with Corporate/Programme Management, enabling management by exception at the board level. Once set, the Board can allow the project to proceed without escalation as long as forecast remains within these six tolerance areas (time, cost, scope, quality, risk, benefit). This is the parameter that establishes the Board's own authority to direct the project without constant upward referral.

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Daily task schedules

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Team-level work package tolerances

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Individual team member KPIs

Question 5

During a project stage, a major regulatory change occurs that mandates an immediate alteration to the project's design standards to meet new environmental laws (ESG). The Project Manager assesses that this will breach cost and time stage tolerances. What should the Project Manager do?

Accepted Answer

Raise an Exception Report and prepare an Exception Plan for the Project Board.. When a major regulatory change threatens to breach stage tolerances, the Project Manager must escalate by raising an Exception Report to the Project Board and preparing an Exception Plan. The Exception Report describes the deviation, and the Exception Plan proposes how to recover or adjust. The Project Board then decides whether to approve the Exception Plan or take other action.

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Stop the project immediately without notifying the Project Board.

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Ignore the regulatory change if it was not in the original Business Case.

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Absorb the cost by reducing testing quality.

Question 6

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 7

A project is operating under a commercial contract where the supplier is incentivized to deliver early. However, early delivery increases environmental resource consumption (ESG trade-off). The Project Board needs to evaluate this trade-off. Which practice is primarily responsible for balancing benefits, dis-benefits, and costs?

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The Business Case practice. The Business Case practice is responsible for balancing benefits, dis-benefits, costs, and risks to ensure the project remains viable and aligned with strategic objectives. When a commercial incentive (early delivery) creates an ESG trade-off (higher resource consumption), that trade-off directly affects the project's value proposition and must be evaluated within the Business Case. The Project Board uses the Business Case to decide whether the net benefit still justifies continued investment.

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The Quality practice

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The Risk practice

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The Progress practice

Question 8

When implementing the Risk practice in a PRINCE2 7 project, which THREE of the following steps are part of the risk management procedure? (Choose three)

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Identify (context and risks). The PRINCE2 7 risk management procedure consists of five steps: Identify, Assess, Plan, Implement, and Communicate. Option B (Identify) is correct because the procedure begins with identifying the risk context and then the risks themselves, establishing what could threaten or enhance the project objectives. Option E (Assess) is correct because this step covers estimating each risk's probability and impact and then evaluating them to prioritize which risks need attention. Option D (Plan) is correct because this step involves selecting appropriate risk responses and preparing the specific response plans for the prioritized risks. Options A (Depreciate) and C (Liquidate) are incorrect because they are financial/accounting and contract-closure concepts, not steps in the PRINCE2 risk management procedure.

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Depreciate (writing off risk assets over time)

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Liquidate (closing supplier contracts automatically)

Question 9

Which THREE of the following are recognized risk response categories for threats in PRINCE2 7? (Choose three)

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Transfer. In PRINCE2 7, the recognized risk response categories for threats are Avoid, Reduce, Transfer, Accept, and Prepare (with Share and Enhance being opportunity responses). Option B (Transfer) is correct because transferring a threat shifts the financial impact and ownership of the risk to a third party, such as through insurance or outsourcing. Option C (Reduce) is correct because reducing a threat involves taking action to lower either the probability or the impact of the threat. Option E (Avoid) is correct because avoiding a threat means changing the project scope, approach, or plan so that the threat no longer applies. Option A (Enhance) does not belong because Enhance is an opportunity response category used to increase the probability or impact of a positive risk. Option D (Share) does not belong because Share is also an opportunity response, involving a third party to help realize a positive risk.

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Enhance

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Share

Question 10

Which TWO of the following describe valid aspects of the Issues practice in PRINCE2 7? (Choose two)

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Issues can be categorized as Requests for Change, Off-specifications, or Problems/Concerns.. Option D is correct because PRINCE2 7 classifies issues into three types: Requests for Change (RFCs), Off-specifications (something not meeting a specification), and Problems/Concerns (general issues raised by stakeholders). Option E is correct because the Issues practice requires that all formal issues be captured and logged in the Issue Register, which is maintained by the Project Manager as part of the project's issue management approach. Option A is incorrect because cost tolerances are set by the Project Board and can only be changed by them, not by Team Managers. Option B is incorrect because the Issue Register is maintained by the Project Manager within the project, not by Corporate Management outside it. Option C is incorrect because issues are not resolved exclusively by the Executive; the Project Manager and team members are typically involved in assessing and resolving issues, with escalation to the Project Board only when tolerances are threatened.

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Team Managers have the authority to increase project stage cost tolerances.

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The Issue Register is maintained by Corporate Management outside the project.

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Issues must be resolved exclusively by the Executive without team input.

Question 11

Which TWO of the following reports are used in the Progress practice to communicate status between different levels of management? (Choose two)

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Checkpoint Report (Team Manager to Project Manager). In PRINCE2's Progress practice, the Checkpoint Report (option C) is the regular progress report sent by the Team Manager to the Project Manager, providing status on the work package at the team-to-project-management level. The Highlight Report (option E) is the report the Project Manager sends to the Project Board at agreed intervals, summarizing project progress at the project-management-to-board level; together these two are the standard progress communication reports between management levels. Option A is not a PRINCE2 progress report — the Business Case is a document reviewed at decision points, not a Team Manager-to-Senior User status report. Option B is incorrect because the Risk Log is a project document, not a report sent by a Supplier to an External Auditor. Option D is wrong because the Project Product Description is a product-definition document owned by the Project Manager, not an Executive-to-corporate-management progress report.

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Business Case Review (Team Manager to Senior User)

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Risk Log Summary (Supplier to External Auditor)

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Project Product Description (Executive to Corporate Management)

Question 12

Which THREE of the following roles are mandatory members of the Project Board in PRINCE2 7? (Choose three)

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The Senior Supplier. In PRINCE2 7, the Project Board is made up of three mandatory roles that represent the business, user, and supplier interests: the Executive (D), the Senior User (C), and the Senior Supplier (B). The Executive (D) is the single individual ultimately accountable for the project's success and owns the business case, making this role mandatory. The Senior User (C) is required to represent the interests of those who will use the project's products and to specify benefits and acceptance criteria. The Senior Supplier (B) is required to represent the interests of those designing, developing, and delivering the products, providing supplier resources and expertise. The Project Assurance Lead (A) is not a Project Board member role but rather an assurance responsibility that can be delegated by the Board, and the Team Manager (E) is an optional role responsible for managing a team's work, not a mandatory Project Board member.

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The Project Assurance Lead

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The Team Manager

Question 13

Which TWO of the following are true regarding the Quality practice in PRINCE2 7? (Choose two)

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Quality management requires defining customer quality expectations and acceptance criteria.. Option C is correct because PRINCE2 7's Quality practice begins by capturing the customer's quality expectations and then translating them into measurable acceptance criteria that products must satisfy. Option D is correct because the Quality Management Approach is the document that defines how quality will be managed across the project, including roles, responsibilities, standards, and techniques. Option A is wrong because quality reviews are a planned, mandatory part of the quality management approach, not an optional activity contingent on budget. Option B is wrong because the Project Board (not Team Managers) approves the Quality Management Approach, which is part of the project initiation documentation. Option E is wrong because PRINCE2 explicitly discourages 'gold-plating' — delivering more than the agreed acceptance criteria is out of scope and a form of scope creep.

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Quality reviews are optional and only conducted if the budget permits.

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Team Managers are responsible for approving the overarching Quality Management Approach.

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Project managers should encourage teams to exceed agreed acceptance criteria ('gold-plating').

Question 14

When integrating sustainability and ESG into the Business Case practice, which THREE of the following factors should typically be evaluated? (Choose three)

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Social value and impact on local communities and workforce. Option A is correct because integrating ESG into the Business Case requires assessing social value, including impacts on local communities and the workforce, which are core 'S' (Social) considerations. Option B is correct because the environmental dimension of ESG demands evaluating the environmental impact and carbon footprint of project outputs, aligning with 'E' (Environmental) criteria. Option D is correct because governance structures, ethical compliance, and supply chain transparency represent the 'G' (Governance) pillar, which must be factored into the Business Case to ensure responsible and transparent delivery. Option C is not correct because office seating arrangements are an operational logistics detail unrelated to sustainability or ESG evaluation criteria. Option E is not correct because daily task assignment schedules for junior team members are routine project management activities, not ESG factors.

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Office seating arrangements for the project support staff

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Daily task assignment schedules for junior team members

Question 15

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