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Which role is part of the project management team?

Presenter

Quality Assurance

Change Authority

Administrator

Which statement about management stages is CORRECT?

Delivery steps and management stages should end together

Several management stages can be scheduled to run at the same time

There can be more than one delivery step within a management stage

A project can be scheduled without management stages

Which is a purpose of a Quality Management Strategy?

To summarize the planned quality management activities

To define the customer's quality expectations for the project

To identify the level of quality required for each of the project's products

To define the quality standards to be applied to a project

Which management product should always be updated when a product fails its quality check?

Quality register

Risk register

Issue register

Lessons log

Which is a step in PRINCE2's recommended approach to planning?

Identify activities and dependencies

Implement responses for opportunities

Describe the means of communication for the project

Baseline the project deliverables

Which is a responsibility of the business representative on the project board?

To check the required quality levels are achieved by the project's products

To set tolerance levels for the project

To confirm the project delivers the required functionality

To ensure the project represents value for money

Which theme establishes mechanisms to monitor and compare actual achievements against those planned?

Progress

Change

Quality

Plans

What must be produced, as a minimum requirement for applying the plans theme?

A hierarchy of all the products to be produced during a plan

A record of the major risks relating to the project plan

A diagram showing the sequence of production of the planned products

A record of the issues that are being formally managed during a plan

How is the Product Status Account used in the Closing a Project process?

To confirm, for a planned closure, that all the project’s products have been approved

To confirm, for a premature closure, that all unfinished products are covered by concessions

To confirm how products are to be handed over to those who will maintain the products in their operational life

To confirm that the project's products have been delivered within budget

Which is an objective of the quality review technique?

To develop and improve the specification of a product through continuous assessment

To update the status in the Configuration Item Record when a product is signed-off

To involve key interested parties to promote wider acceptance of the product

To agree any changes required to the baselined product

Which is a purpose of the Risk Management Strategy?

To define the techniques to be used when assessing project risks

To identify suitable risk owners for each of the project risks

To recommend responses for each of the project risks

To summarize exposure to strategic, programme, project and operational risks

Which is a benefit of applying the 'manage by stages' principle?

The key stakeholders in the project will have representation on the project board

The project will have review and decision points so that progress can be assessed

The project management team will understand the tolerances allowed

The project management team will understand the customer's expectations

The use of which level(s) of plan is recommended by PRINCE2?

Project Plan

Project Plan, Stage Plan and Team Plan

Project Plan, Stage Plan, Team Plan and Exception Plan

Project Plan and Stage Plan

Which theme establishes mechanisms to monitor and compare actual achievements against planned achievements?

Change

Plans

Quality

Progress

Which is a characteristic of a project?

It maintains business as usual

It is considered low risk

It avoids stresses and strains between organizations

It involves cross-functional teams

Which is a task of product-based planning?

Analyze the risks

Prepare the schedule

Create the product flow diagram

Design the plan

Which is a purpose of the risk management approach?

To define the techniques to be used when assessing project risks

To summarize exposure to strategic, programme, project and operational risks

To recommend responses for each of the project risks

To identify suitable risk owners for each of the project risks

Which statement about controls is CORRECT?

A daily log is an event-driven control

A highlight report is an event-driven control

An exception report is a time-driven control

A checkpoint report is a time-driven control

Which is a reason why the 'defined roles and responsibilities' principle must be applied?

Because projects may have duplicated or inconsistent objectives

Because stages provide senior management with control points

Because more than one function may be involved in the project

Because each project will have unique outputs

Which statement about project stakeholders is CORRECT?

All stakeholders are external to the corporate organization

All three principle categories of stakeholder have their interests represented by the project board

All stakeholders must be identified at the start of the project

All stakeholders are members of the project board

According to the 'manage by exception' principle, what should be defined to establish limits of delegated authority?

Scope of the project

Tolerances for the project

Costs of the project

Timescales for the project

Which is a purpose of the 'starting up a project' process?

To ensure that there is authority to deliver the project's products

To create the management products required to control the project

To understand the resources and costs to deliver the project's products

To do the minimum to decide whether it is worthwhile initiating the project

PRINCE2 mandates that the project board represents the primary stakeholder interests. Which principle does this follow?

Manage by stages

Focus on products

Defined roles and responsibilities

Learn from experience

How should a Team Manager escalate a suggestion for an improvement to a product?

Raise an issue

Raise an Exception Report

Include details in a Highlight Report

Include details in a Checkpoint Report

How does defining a product's quality requirements support the 'focus on products' principle?

By providing an explicit understanding of what the project must deliver

By providing the project's tolerances so that authority can be delegated

By providing the responsibilities for the project management team

By providing the justification for the project to be initiated

Which is an objective of the Closing a Project process?

To check that all the project's products have been accepted by the users

To ensure that all benefits have been achieved

To capture the customer’s quality expectations

To prepare for the final stage of the project

Which statements about a project's stakeholders are CORRECT? 1. A stakeholder is anyone who thinks they will be affected by a project 2. Stakeholders require equal amounts of engagement by the project management team 3. Stakeholders remain unchanged throughout the project 4. A stakeholder may be internal or external to the corporate organization

3 and 4

1 and 4

2 and 3

1 and 2

In which situation might the 'controlling a stage' process be used?

To create an exception plan to replace the current stage plan

To manage the activities of a complex programme

To manage a long initiation stage of a complex project

To organize support activities following the handover of products to operations

Which principle is being applied when a project product description is produced?

Continued business justification

Manage by stages

Focus on products

Learn from experience

Which is a minimum requirement for applying the organization theme?

To ensure that the change authority is delegated

To ensure that all the responsibilities of the project board are fulfilled

To ensure the senior user verifies user requirements

To ensure that the supplier resources are available

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