PRINCE2-FOUNDATION Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which is an objective of the `managing a stage boundary' process?

A. To manage risks and issues that may impact the current stage

B. To prepare an exception plan as directed by the project board

C. To define how and when all the project's products will be delivered and at what cost

D. To control the delivery of the project's products

According to the 'manage by exception' principle, what should happen if the stage cost tolerance is forecast to be exceeded?

A. The change authority should allocate the available change budget to bring the stage back within cost tolerance

B. The other tolerances should be immediately increased to ensure that the project remains within the cost tolerance

C. The project manager should escalate to the project board once the cost tolerance is actually exceeded

D. The forecast to exceed cost tolerance should be treated as an exception and escalated immediately to the project board

Which process is used to define how baselines will be established and controlled?

A. Controlling a stage

B. Directing a project

C. Initiating a project

D. Starting up a project

Which level of management sets the project level tolerances?

A. Project board

B. Team manager

C. Corporate, programme management or the customer

D. Project manager

Which is one of the six aspects of project performance to be managed?

A. Efficiency

B. Timescales

C. Estimate

D. Work

Which of the following statements about customer's quality expectations and acceptance criteria are true?

1.

Customer's quality expectations form a specific and precise list of measurable criteria that a project product should meet in order to be acceptable to key stakeholders.

2.

Acceptance criteria are often expressed in broad terms as a means to gain common understanding of general quality requirements.

A. Only 1 is true

B. Only 2 is true

C. Both 1 and 2 are true

D. Neither 1 or 2 are true

According to PRINCE2, the quality review technique compliments the use of which of the following?

A. Product Descriptions

B. Quality Assurance

C. Issue and change control procedure

D. Customer's quality expectations

Which of the following project management team roles can be shared?

1.

Project Assurance

2.

Executive

3.

Senior User

4.

Senior Supplier

A. 1,2,3

B. 1,3,4

C. 2,3,4

D. 1,2,4

Which of the following management levels sits outside the project management team, but will be responsible for commissioning a project?

A. Directing

B. Managing

C. Corporate or programme management

D. Delivering

There should be at least two management stages in a PRINCE2 project. Which of the following options describes those stages?

A. Initiation as the first stage, the remainder of the project as the second stage

B. Initiation as the first stage, closure activities as the second stage

C. Procurement as the first stage, design and implementation as the second stage

D. Pre-project work as the first stage, initiation as the second stage