PRINCE2F PRINCE2 Practices Practice Question
A project manager is creating the project product description. Which practice provides the guidance for defining the project's outputs and acceptance criteria?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mix-up: candidates confuse the Plans practice with defining outputs, but PRINCE2 explicitly assigns the definition of outputs and acceptance criteria to the Quality practice, not to Plans.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Quality
The Quality practice in PRINCE2 provides the guidance for defining the project's outputs and acceptance criteria. It ensures that the project product description includes the quality criteria, quality methods, and acceptance criteria that the product must meet to be accepted by the customer. This practice directly addresses how to specify and verify the project's deliverables.
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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Change
Why it's wrong here
Change practice governs issue and change control, including baselining and configuration management, not product definition. It would be correct when assessing and approving changes to a baselined product, not when initially defining outputs and acceptance criteria.
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Risk
Why it's wrong here
Risk practice guidance addresses uncertainty, probability and impact, not the definition of outputs or acceptance criteria. It would be the correct practice when identifying, assessing and responding to threats to the project's objectives, not when specifying what a product must deliver.
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Quality
Why this is correct
The Quality practice supplies the guidance for authoring the project product description, including its composition and the acceptance criteria and quality tolerances it must define. This satisfies the stem's requirement for the practice governing outputs and acceptance criteria, rather than Plans, Change or Progress.
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Plans
Why it's wrong here
The Plans practice covers delivery approaches, schedules and tolerances, not product definition. Product descriptions and acceptance criteria sit within the Plans practice only insofar as the product breakdown is planned; the guidance for defining outputs and acceptance criteria comes from the Plans practice's product-based planning technique, not from Plans as a whole.
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