PRINCE2F Practice Question: Overview of PRINCE2 and the project environment
A project board member is new to PRINCE2 and asks which principle requires that the project has continued business justification. Which principle should the project manager cite?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse the principle of continued business justification with the control mechanism of manage by stages, because both involve reviewing whether to proceed at stage boundaries.
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
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Continued business justification
Continued business justification is the PRINCE2 principle that requires a project to have a justifiable reason to start and to remain valid throughout. It is explicitly about the Business Case and the decision to continue, change, or stop the project. The other principles address control, learning, and tailoring, not the ongoing justification of the project.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Learn from experience
Why it's wrong here
Learn from experience is a principle that requires project teams to seek and apply lessons from previous projects and from earlier stages of the current project. It improves performance but does not require that the project remains justified. The board member's question is about justification, not about learning, so this is not the right principle.
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Tailor to suit the project environment
Why it's wrong here
Tailoring is a principle that requires PRINCE2 to be adapted to the size, complexity, and environment of the project. It ensures the method is used appropriately but does not itself demand that the project has a valid Business Case. Since the question asks about continued justification, this principle is not the correct answer.
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Manage by stages
Why it's wrong here
Manage by stages is a PRINCE2 principle that requires the project to be planned, monitored, and controlled on a stage-by-stage basis, with decision points between stages. It supports control but does not itself mandate continued business justification. The board member asked specifically about justification, so this principle is not the correct one to cite.
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Continued business justification
Why this is correct
Continued business justification is one of the seven PRINCE2 principles. It requires that a project has a justified reason to start and that this justification remains valid throughout the project. If the Business Case ceases to be viable, the project should be stopped or changed. This directly answers the board member's question about which principle mandates ongoing justification.
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