PRINCE2 Foundation Flashcards

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Which of the following statements is true of project assurance?
1. project support can be assigned project assurance responsibilities
2. The project manager can be assigned project assurance responsibilities
3. Project assurance creates a communication management approach
4. Project assurance has 3 focuses aligned with the 3 interests of the project board

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4)
Each role on the project board - the executive, the senior user, the senior supplier - has a project assurance responsibility aligned to the area of interest

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Who does the senior supplier represent when making decisions?
A) Those who will benefit from using products
B) Corporate, programme management, or the customer
C) Those who ensure the project is following a cost-conscious approach
D) Those who are responsible for the technical integrity of product

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D)
The senior supplier is responsible for ensuring that the project’s products have the technical integrity to meet the user’s need.

The senior user = Represents those whi will benefit from using products

Corporate, program management, customer - responsible for commissioning the project

The executive - ensure the project follows a cost-conscious approach

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Which of the following level of management would authorize any deviation that exceeds stages tolerance?

A) Corporate, program management, or the customer
B) Directing
C) Managing
D) Delivering

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B)
The project board represents the directing level of management. They allocated stages with associated tolerance to the project managers.

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Which of the following PRINCE2 role is responsible for securing the funding for the project?
A. Corporate, program management, or the customer
B Executive
C. Busines sponsor
D. Project Manager

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B. Executive
The executive represents the business interest in the project, It is his responsibility to secure the funding for the project. It is very important to note that the executive represents the business perspective on the project board and is the ultimate decision-maker.

He must ensure that the project value for money

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Who is responsible for specifying the benefits and subsequently realizing the benefits by using the project’s product

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Senior user
responsible for both forecasting the benefits from the projects and then realizing the benefits by using the project’s products.

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Which is the minimum requirement for managing business justification for the project?

A. To split the project into at least 2 management stages

B. To record all quality activities carried out during the project.

C. To define a method for baselining products

D. To identify actions to ensure that the project outcomes are achieved

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B. To record all quality activities carried out during the project.

= minimum requirement of quality theme

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What is the purpose of the business case theme?

A. To help establish whether the project is still viable when making key decisions

B. To understand whether the outputs from the project are fit for purpose

C. To establish a structure of accountability for the project

D. To assess and control uncertainty throughout the project

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A. To help establish whether the project is still viable when making key decisions

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The purpose of the benefits management approach?

A. To describe how and when the performance of the project products can be measured.

B. To decument the justification of project

C. To define the project

D. To pass on details of unfinished work and ongoing risks

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To describe how and when the performance of the project products can be measured.

it plans how to measure the returns from project and plans any management actions that need to take place

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Which of the following is one of Benefits of the product-based planning?

A. It helps to define the products that are in and out of the scope of the plan by creating tools such as product breakdown structures.

B. It helps to identify the shortest possible completion time of the project

C. It helps to identify how the performance of the project’s product will be reviewed.

D. It helps to define techniques for estimating throughout a project

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It helps to define the products that are in and out of the scope of the plan by creating tools such as product breakdown structures.

This ensures the project management team is very clear about which products will be created before they start to plan necessary activities and resources

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the first step in the recommended approach to defining and analyzing the products

A. Creating a product flow diagram

B. Creating a product breakdown structure

C. Writing a project description

D. Writing a product description

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Writing a project description

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The minimum requirement for applying the quality theme

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Maintaining the records of quality activities, after each quality test has been carried out on a product.

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Purpose of the project product description

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To gain agreement from the user on the project’s scope and requirement; to define what the project will need to deliver in order for it to be acceptable to the users

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13
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Which of the PRINCE2 role is responsible for securing the funding?

A. Coporate, programme management, or the customers
B. Executive
C. Business Sponsor
D. Project Manager

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B. Executive

The executive represent the business prespective on prject board and is the ultmate decision maker

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Which of the following options is consider when structuring the project into management stages

A. The availability of the project board
B. The estimating techiques used for planning
C. The critical path of the project
D. alignment with programme activities

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D. alignment with programme activities

It may be a requirement to align the end of a management stage with a programme milestone review

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Which of the following is responsible for managing monitoring and controlling all aspects of a particular risk?

A. Risk owner
B. RIsk manager
C. Risk actionee
D. Project Manager

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A. Risk owner

A risk owner might be allocated to a risk. Their role is to monitor and manage any countermeasures.

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16
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The following are quality review technique activity EXCEPT?

A. Review preparation
B. Review Meeting
C. Review follow-up
D. Review approval

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D. Review approval

The quality review technique has 3 steps
Review preparation + review meeting + review follow-up

17
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The following information appears in PRINCE2 business case EXCEPT?

A. Business options
B. Delivery options
C. Project Costs
D. Duration over which benefits will be measured

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B. Delivery options
This will appear in the project approach but not a business case

The business case theme describes how to ensure that the project is desirable, viable, and achievable throughout the project’s life.

18
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Which of the principle listed below supports delegating authority from one level to the next supporter?

A. Continued business justification
B. Learn from the experience
C. Manage by steps
D. Manage by exception

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D. Manage by exception

= is the approach whereby one management level delegates work to the management level below by defining constraints around the lower level’s authority.

19
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During which PRINCE2 process is the project’s management team designed?

A. Starting up a project
B. Initiating a project
C. Controlling a stage
D. Manageing product delivery

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A. starting up a project

The project management team is designed in the starting up of a project process, during the design and appoint the project management team activity

20
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During PRINCE@ process model, which of the folloeing is the first plan created?

A. Project plan
B. Stage plan for the initiation stage
C. Stage plan for the first delivery stage
Programme plan

A
20
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During PRINCE@ process model, which of the folloeing is the first plan created?

A. Project plan
B. Stage plan for the initiation stage
C. Stage plan for the first delivery stage
D. Programme plan

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B. Stage plan for the initiation stage

Stage plan -> project plan -> delivery stage plan

21
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From the options below, which o f the following is NOT an example of PRINCE2 reports?

A. RIsk register
B. Product status account
C. Highlight report
D. Checkpoint report

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A. Risk Register

= it is a record, not a report
Risk register is used for record-keeping and this why the risk registers contains information on all the identified risk to reports

22
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Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 primary interests that are represented on a PRINCE2 project board?

A. Business
B. Customer
C. User
D. Supplier

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B. Customer

3 primary interest of stakeholders that are represented on the project board are :
the
Business represented by the executive;
User, represented by the senior users
Supplier, represented by the senior suppliers

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Which principle does the organization theme primarily implement?

A. Continued business justification
B. Learn from the experience
C. Tailor to suit the project environment
D. defined role and responsibilities

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D. defined role and responsibilities

The organization theme
= ensure that everyone involved in the project’s teams at the directing, and delivering levels

= clear about what is expected of them

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Which of the following is the purpose of the quality theme?

A. To ensure that issues affecting quality are appropriately managed

B. To identify, assess and control uncertainty that might affect the quality of the projects’ product

C. To establish a mechanism to provide a forecast for the project objective

D. To ensure that the project’s product meet business expectation

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D. To ensure that the project’s product meet business expectation

= also covers how to specify which products to build, how to check the quality of the products, and who will be involved in product-focused activities

25
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3 types of issues in PRINCE 2

  1. Request for change
  2. Off-specification
  3. ????

A. Potential opportunity
B. Dis-benefit
C. Problem and concern
D. External Product

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C. Problem and concern

= All sort of things, such as spending too much money, a key memeber of the staff being ill, or the supplier go bankrupt

26
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During which process are the specialist products are created?

A. Initiating a project
B. Managing product delivery
C. Controlling a stage
D. Managing a stage boundary

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B. Managing product delivery

Example like:
The project team is building a new hotel, in the middle of the project, they would deliver specialist products such as the swimming pool, the restaurant, and the sale systems

27
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Which one of the following best describes how PM would escalate a situation where stage tolerances are forecast to be exceeded?

A. Exception report
B. Highlight report
C. Exception plans
D. End stage report

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A. Exception report

= created by PM and sent to PB to alert them of a forecast breach of stage tolerance,

= report must be easily understood, so that PB can respond as quickly as possible

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Which of the following is the purpose of which the theme is to provide a forecase for the project’s objective and control any unacceptable deviation?

A. Business case
B. Plans
C. Quality
D. Progress

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D. Progress

The purpose of the progress theme is to establish mechanism to monitor and compare actual achievement against those planned;

to provide a forecast for the project objectives and the project’s continued viability and to control any unacceptable deviation

28
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Which of the following is the purpose of which the theme is to provide a forecase for the project’s objective and control any unacceptable deviation?

A. Business case
B. Plans
C. Quality
D. Progress

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D. Progress

The purpose of the progress theme is to establish mechanism to monitor and compare actual achievement against those planned;

to provide a forecast for the project objectives and the project’s continued viability and to control any unacceptable deviation

29
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Document of progress generated during each stage will be forwarded to the members of the project board. What is the PM doing to see if anyone else will get a copy sent?

A. Rountine log
B. Communication plan
C. Problem log
D. Management strategy for communication

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D. Management strategy for communication

There is no such thing as communication strategy in PRINCE2- word