PRINCE2F People: organizations, teams, and leadership Practice Question
Which role is responsible for providing administrative support to the project team?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mistake is assuming the Project Manager handles all administrative tasks, but PRINCE2 explicitly separates Project Support from management to ensure clear role boundaries and efficiency.
Answer choices
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
✓
Project Support
Project Support is the correct role because it is specifically defined in PRINCE2 as providing administrative and clerical services to the project team, such as maintaining files, scheduling meetings, and managing project documentation. This role is distinct from management or assurance functions, ensuring the team can focus on delivery without administrative overhead.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✓
Project Support
Why this is correct
Project Support provides the administrative and clerical services the project team needs, such as maintaining files, configuration records and project documentation. That administrative remit is precisely the responsibility the question asks about, distinguishing it from management or assurance roles.
- ✗
Project Manager
Why it's wrong here
The Project Manager owns overall delivery, planning, risk and reporting, not the clerical administrative support function. It is tempting because the Project Manager is accountable for the project's information and documentation, which is correct when the question asks who is accountable for the project's management products rather than who provides administrative support.
- ✗
Team Manager
Why it's wrong here
The Team Manager is responsible for ensuring the team delivers the products allocated by the Project Manager, including managing the team's work, not for administrative support such as maintaining the project filing, logs and configuration management. It is tempting because the role sits closest to day-to-day team activity, which is correct when the question asks who ensures products are delivered.
- ✗
Project Assurance
Why it's wrong here
Project Assurance monitors the project's viability, business case and risks on behalf of the board; it does not deliver administrative support such as scheduling meetings, maintaining logs or document control. That administrative function belongs to the Project Support role, which Project Assurance may recommend but never performs itself.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
Courseiva writes every PRINCE2F question from scratch — 1,189 in total, each with an explanation and a wrong-answer breakdown. None are copied from real exams or dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
Same concept, more angles
1 more way this is tested on PRINCE2F
These questions test the same concept from different angles. Work through them to make sure you can recognise it however the exam phrases it.
Variation 1. Which PRINCE2 role is optional and provides administrative support to the project?
easy- A.Change Authority
- B.Project Assurance
- C.Team Manager
- ✓ D.Project Support
Why D: In PRINCE2, Project Support is an optional role that provides administrative services to the project, such as maintaining files, collecting progress data, and managing project documentation. The role is not mandatory because the project manager can perform these tasks or they can be delegated to a separate support function. This distinguishes it from the other roles, which have specific governance or delivery responsibilities.
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This PRINCE2F practice question is part of Courseiva's free PeopleCert certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the PRINCE2F exam.