PRINCE2F PRINCE2 Processes Practice Question
Which process is used by the Project Manager to authorize work for a Team Manager?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse the Project Manager's authorization activity in 'Controlling a Stage' with the Team Manager's execution activity in 'Managing Product Delivery', leading candidates to select option A.
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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.
Correct answer & explanation
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Controlling a Stage
In PRINCE2, the 'Controlling a Stage' process is used by the Project Manager to assign work to Team Managers and authorize Work Packages. This process includes the 'Authorize a Work Package' activity, which formally delegates the delivery of one or more products to a Team Manager. The other processes either occur before the stage is underway or are performed at the management level above the Project Manager.
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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Managing Product Delivery
Why it's wrong here
Managing Product Delivery is the Team Manager's process for accepting, executing and delivering a work package; the Project Manager does not authorise work there. It tempts because work packages are central to it, but the authorisation itself is issued from Controlling a Stage.
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Controlling a Stage
Why this is correct
Controlling a Stage is where the Project Manager authorises work packages, delegating agreed products and tolerances to Team Managers. Work authorisation occurs at stage level, not during Initiating a Project or Managing Product Delivery, which receives rather than grants that authority.
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Starting Up a Project
Why it's wrong here
Starting Up a Project covers the pre-project activities that produce the project brief and appoint the project board; it issues no work authorisation to a Team Manager. It tempts as the earliest process where the Project Manager is active, but authorising work packages belongs to Controlling a Stage.
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Directing a Project
Why it's wrong here
Directing a Project is the project board's process for decision-making and overall direction, not the Project Manager's route for issuing work packages. It tempts because it authorises the project itself, but the Project Manager authorises a Team Manager's work through Controlling a Stage.
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