PRINCE2 Foundation Exam Study Guide & Review Questions

Derived from the earlier PRINCE technique, PRINCE2 was first released in 1996 as a generic project management method. A revision was then released in 2005 by the Office of Government Commerce. There is yet another revision coming in 2008/09.

You may think of Prince2 as a process-based approach for PM method which follows a well structured framework. It describes procedures to coordinate people and activities in a project, how to design and supervise the project, and what to do if the project has to be adjusted if it does not work out as planned.

As a process-driven PM method, PRINCE2 has become the de facto standard for project management in the UK and in many other countries. Certification can be obtained through passing the multiple choice based Foundation exam and the essay based Practitioner exam.

INFORMATION APPLIED TO THE RECENTLY REVISED SYLLABUS. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE PRINCE 2 FRAMEWORK ITSELF HAS NOT UNDERGONE ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, SO IF YOU KNOW THE FRAMEWORK WELL YOU WILL DO FINE IN THE EXAM. YOU STUDY AND LEARN THE FRAMEWORK. YOU DO NOT STUDY AND LEARN THE EXAM QUESTION ALONE.

PRINCE2 covers eight major processes, which are: i, Starting Up a Project (SU); ii, Planning (PL); iii, Initiating a Project (IP); iv, Directing a Project (DP); v, Controlling a Stage (CS); vi, Managing Product Delivery (MP); vii, Managing Stage Boundaries (SB); and viii, Closing a Project (CP). Mastery of these topics is required for passing the PRINCE2 exams. Within these 8 processes there are 45 separate sub-processes. To pass the exam you need to know these processes inside and out.

To become a Registered Practitioner, you have to first sit the Foundation Exam and then the Practitioner Exam. You are not allowed to sit the Practitioner exam without first having passed the Foundation exam. However, you do not have to take a course to sit the examinations

The foundation exam is a Multiple-choice closed book exam with 75 questions. You need to gain 50% in order to pass. Our PRINCE2 Foundation Study Guide enhances your exam readiness for the foundation exam by covering the various PRINCE2 theories and techniques as well as providing you with readings on the relevant disciplines, just to ensure that you won't get caught unprepared. THERE ARE ALSO 75 REVIEW QUESTIONS TO TEST YOUR READINESS. By helping you truly build up a competitive PRINCE2 mindset, your ability to pick the BEST choice out of a number of valid but inferior choices is guaranteed.

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SAMPLE TEXT on introducing the major PRINCE2 Project Stages

PRINCE2 covers both the project lifecycles and the necessary pre-project prep works.

PRINCE2 has defined a bunch of sub-processes. As a PRINCE2 practitioner you should have already been familiar with those hard facts (the bunch of sub processes and their names) so we are not going to repeat them here. The Foundation Exam does not really test these hard facts anyway. What you should do for exam preparation is to make things simple and straight forward. Focus your effort on the 8 major processes, which are:

 Starting Up a Project (SU)
 Planning (PL)
 Initiating a Project (IP)
 Directing a Project (DP)
 Controlling a Stage (CS)
 Managing Product Delivery (MP)
 Managing Stage Boundaries (SB)
 Closing a Project (CP)

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SAMPLE TEXT on introducing SU and PL

As the first process in PRINCE2, it is a pre-project process for ensuring that the pre-requisites for initiating the project are in place. In fact, among all stages SU as a very short pre-project stage often comes first. You first need to have a Project Mandate established.

NOTE: You have the Project Mandate in place before PRINCE2 begins.

The project team (members of the Project Board as well as the PM) is then appointed and a project brief is in place which describes the overall project approach. The project board has to authorize the PL stage here. The initiation stage plan has to be created. Note that SU is intended to be of short duration. It is designed for ensuring that all the necessary project pieces are in place prior to real project start. It assumes that you already have a provisional "Business Case" in place, although if it does not you can still have it created right here.

At the PL stage you need to identify and analyze the expected products. You need to then figure out the activities required for product creation. You may estimate the effort required for each and then schedule these activities accordingly. The mechanisms for project control and risk management are initially proposed and planned.

NOTE: Planning is a repeatable process. You choose the planning tools and methods to use, and identify the products that the project will produce. Keep in mind, planning is ALWAYS closely integrated with the Quality systems.

NOTE: The possible types of controls in PRINCE2 are event driven and time driven (those that take place at fixed intervals). Most of the PRINCE2 controls are event driven.

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