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PRINCE2® Practitioner Lesson 20—PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam and Exercises

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Objectives After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

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Understand the structure of the PRINCE2® Practitioner exam

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Identify the various question types in a PRINCE2® Practitioner exam

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Solve different scenario-based sample exercises

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Attempt full length PRINCE2® Practitioner mock tests

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Introduction to PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam The different features of the PRINCE2® Practitioner exam are as follows: ●

The PRINCE2® Syllabus contains some learning objectives that are only required at the Practitioner level.

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The exam aims to enable the participant to exhibit a comprehension of PRINCE2® and apply PRINCE2® methodologies correctly to the scenarios provided.

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The validity of PRINCE2® Registered Practitioner qualification is of 5 years.

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Structure of PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam There are three booklets in the PRINCE2® Practitioner exam. The three booklets are as follows:

Scenario Booklet

Contains a scenario involving an organisation, including its description, as well as requirement and objective of a project. It can also contain additional information for one or more questions.

Question Booklet

It contains 6 questions about Themes and 2 questions about Processes.

Answer Booklet

Contains answer sheets on which the participant needs to write the answers.

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PRINCE2® Practitioner—Syllabus There are 15 syllabus areas in PRINCE2® Practitioner exam encompassing the following topics:

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Syllabus Areas

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Syllabus Areas

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Business Case theme

2.

Organisation theme

3.

Quality theme

4.

Plans theme

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Risk theme

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Change theme

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Progress theme

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Starting up a Project Process

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Initiating a Project Process

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Directing a Project Process

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Managing a Stage Boundary Process

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Closing a Project Process

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Controlling a Stage Process

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Managing Product Delivery Process

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Overview including principles and tailoring PRINCE2® to a project environment Copyright 2014, Simplilearn, All rights reserved.

PRINCE2® Practitioner—Exam Pattern The PRINCE2® Practitioner exam consists of five different types of questions within the paper. Multiple Choice Questions Multiple Response Questions Matching Questions Sequencing Questions Assertion/Reason

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There are multiple options given for the question, of which, the participant will have to choose the correct one. There are more than one correct answer for these type of questions. The participant needs to match the content in column A with B. The participant needs to sequence the events in the order they should appear in. The participant needs to decide if the assertion as well as the reason given for the assertion is TRUE or FALSE.

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Question Type—Multiple Choice Questions The multiple choice questions have a standard statement of “choose one from a list of possible options”. Following is an example:

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Answer the following question about the relationship between the Communication Management Strategy and other PRINCE2 products and themes. Which statement correctly describes the relationship between the Communication Management Strategy and the

Organization theme?

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A. The Communication Management Strategy is approved by the Project Manager. B. The Communication Management Strategy includes the information flow both to the interested stakeholders from the project, and from the interested stakeholders to the project. C. All identified stakeholders should review the Communication Management Strategy.

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Question Type—Multiple Response Questions The multiple response questions have a standard statement of “choose two correct options from a list of 5 options”. Following is an example:

Q A

Answer the following question about the use of configuration management. Remember to select 2 answers to each question. Verification and audit: Which 2 areas would be reviewed when doing a configuration audit?

A. The entries in the Project Product Description are correctly specified. B. Specialist products are identified correctly. C. A product matches the state recorded in its Configuration Item Record.

D. The retrieval of products is following the configuration management procedure. E. Risks to products are being assessed according to the Risk Management Strategy.

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Question Type—Match the column questions The matching questions have a standard statement of “link items in one list to items in a second list”. Following is an example:

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Column 1 is a list of true statements from the Starting up a Project process. For each statement in Column 1, select from Column 2 the product in which the statement should have been recorded. Each selection from Column 2 can be used once, more than once or not at all. Column 1

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The feasibility study must be approved by the Board of Directors before any development on the new project can commence.

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The company could ignore the recommendation from the feasibility study and NOT produce the new product.

B.

Outline Business Case

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Other new product developments have suffered adversely when the business areas were not involved during the development of the products.

C.

Stage Plan

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70% of the people from the trial group must confirm that they would buy the new product.

D.

Project Product Description

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Column 2

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Question Type—Sequencing Questions The sequencing questions have a standard statement of “link items in one list to items in a second list”. Following is an example:

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Column 1 is a list of true statements from the Starting up a Project process. For each statement in Column 1, select from Column 2 the product in which the statement should have been recorded. Each selection from Column 2 can be used once, more than once or not at all. Column 1

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Approval of the feasibility study by the Project Board before any work on the project can commence.

A.

NOT made in the Starting up a Project process

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Decide if the source of funding is sufficient to fund the project's objective.

B.

First

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Assess which parties should be involved during the project, as suggested by previous development projects.

C.

Second

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Evaluate two possible candidates for Project Manager and decide which should be appointed.

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Third

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Column 2

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Question Type—Assertion and Reason The Assertion and Reason questions have a standard statement of “evaluate two statements (an assertion and a reason), to determine if either, both or neither is true and, if both are true, whether

the reason explains why the assertion is true”. Following is an example: Using the Project Scenario, answer the following question. Lines 1 to 2 in the table below consist of an assertion statement and a reason statement. For each line identify the appropriate option, from options A to E, that applies. Each option can be used once, more than once or not at all. Option

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Assertion

Reason

A.

True

True

B.

True

True

C.

True

False

D.

False

True

E.

False

False

AND the reason explains the assertion BUT the reason does not explain the assertion

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Question Type—Assertion and Reason (contd.) Examples of assertion and reason statements are given below:

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Assertion

Reason

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The expected benefits from increasing staff flexibility should be included in the Business Case.

BECAUSE

All known Business Case benefits should be described clearly in measurable terms.

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The expected benefits from increasing staff flexibility should be included in the Business Case.

BECAUSE

Information about expected project benefits forms part of the justification for undertaking a project.

KEY—1: TRUE, TRUE (B) 2: TRUE, TRUE (A)

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Sample Scenario After looking at the different elements of PRINCE2® Practitioner exam, a sample scenario “Real Icecreams Expansion project” is given below to solve: Introduction to the scenario: The sample scenario explains that the UK based company “Real Ice-creams Private Limited (RIPL)” is

under increasing pressure from its European competitors and needs ways of cost saving. Project Transform has been kicked off for implementing multiple changes in the organisation.

To read the full scenario, check the classroom exercise scenario provided.

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Sample Scenario-based Exercises for Practice The content of this slide is given as classroom exercise to attempt and solve.

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Additional Sample Exam Papers Along with sample scenario, exercises and its solutions, Simplilearn provides two additional real time sample PRINCE2® Practitioner exam papers with solutions as downloadable PDF. Each sample exam paper contains

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A Project Scenario; Question Booklet; Marking Scheme and Rationale.

Please check the sample PRINCE2® Practitioner exam papers provided for further practice.

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