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

Raise an issue

Include details in a Checkpoint Report

Include details in a Highlight Report

Raise an Exception Report

Which is assumed to be the customer's responsibility in the PRINCE2 customer/supplier environment?

To specify the desired result

To ensure the technical integrity of a project

To provide the skills to deliver the desired result

To develop the project's products

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

Issue register

Risk register

Quality register

Lessons log

Identify the missing words in the following sentence. The customer’s quality expectations are a statement [ ? ].

about individual products

of prioritized needs

about the project product

of measurable definitions

Which is a purpose of the Controlling a Stage process?

To take action so that the stage remains within tolerance

To agree tolerances for the stage

To agree, perform and deliver project work

To draft a plan for the next stage

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

To implement actions to resolve tolerance deviations from the stage plan

To ensure that all threats and opportunities for the current stage have been closed

To request authorization to start the next stage

To ensure that work on products allocated to the team for the next stage is authorized

Which is a purpose of the change theme?

To identify changes needed to the project as a result of acting on lessons

To assess and control a project's threats and opportunities

To ensure any potential changes to baselined products are controlled

To prevent changes to what was agreed in the project initiation documentation

Which process provides an interface with corporate or programme management?

Directing a Project

Managing a Stage Boundary

Managing Product Delivery

Controlling a Stage

What must the project board do, as a minimum requirement for applying the change theme?

Request a product status account

Agree acceptable corrective actions

Establish a change budget

Define a change authority

How is the Project Initiation Documentation used during the Closing a Project process?

It is updated to include relevant lessons from previous projects

It provides the controls for the final stage of the project

It provides the Project Product Description for approval by the Project Board

It is used as the basis for comparing the original aim of the project against what was actually achieved

Which is a purpose of the plans theme?

To establish a coding system for all components of the project's products

To identify, assess and control uncertainty within the project

To define the means of delivering the products

To produce a benefits management approach

In which process is authorization given to deliver the project's products?

Managing a Stage Boundary

Starting up a Project

Directing a Project

Initiating a Project

Identify the missing words in the following sentence. Any change to the products agreed at the start of a stage is monitored as part of the [ ? ] process, on a day-to-day basis.

controlling a stage

directing a project

closing a project

managing a stage boundary

Which is a recommended quality review team role?

Project Support

Senior User

Presenter

Project Assurance

Which process is used by a team manager to coordinate work on one or more of the project's products?

Managing product delivery

Managing a stage boundary

Initiating a project

Controlling a stage

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

Identify activities and dependencies

Implement responses for opportunities

Baseline the project deliverables

Describe the means of communication for the project

What is used to identify any interested party who needs to be informed of project closure?

Communication Management Strategy

Configuration Management Strategy

Project Brief

Project management team structure

Which is a minimum requirement for applying the organization theme?

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

To ensure that the change authority is delegated

To ensure that the supplier resources are available

To ensure the senior user verifies user requirements

Which statement describes the Directing a Project process?

It enables the Project Board to assure that there is continued business justification

It ensures there are regular progress meetings

It begins on completion of the Initiating a Project process

It covers the day-to-day activities of the Project Manager

Which is an objective of the Managing a Stage Boundary process?

To act as a break between those managing the project and those creating products

To review and, if necessary, update the Project Initiation Documentation

To enable the Project Board to commit resources and expenditure required for the initiation stage

To ensure a periodic review is carried out to approve the products created within the completed stage

In which situation might the Controlling a Stage process be used?

To create an Exception Plan to replace the current Stage Plan

To organize support activities following the handover of products to operations

To manage a long initiation stage of a complex project

To manage the activities of a complex programme

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

The project management team will understand the tolerances allowed

The project management team will understand the customer's expectations

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

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

What is the trigger for the Starting up a Project process?

Project mandate

Project Plan

Project Brief

Outline Business Case

Which process is triggered by the project manager's request to initiate a project?

Starting up a project

Managing a stage boundary

Directing a project

Initiating a project

Which is a purpose of a project brief?

To capture lessons from previous projects

To confirm that the project is able to deliver the detailed business case

To define the quality techniques to be applied during the project

To document a common understanding of the starting point for the project

Which is a minimum requirement for applying the business case theme?

To appoint a senior user from an area of the business impacted by the project

To delegate the development of the business justification to the project manager

To have the benefits management approach approved by the participants of benefits reviews

To document the responsibility for defining the standards for the business case

What is likely to be avoided by applying the 'tailor to suit the project' principle?

Unnecessary management effort

Procurement procedures

Training

Project risks

Which is a purpose of the Starting up a Project process?

To establish whether the Project Plan can meet the required target dates

To confirm to corporate management that quality expectations will be met

To create the Project Initiation Documentation so the project can be initiated

To ensure that the prerequisites for initiating the project are in place

What should be provided by a project mandate?

Tolerances for each management stage

Terms of reference for a project

A plan for the initiation stage

A detailed business case

Which statement is true of Project Assurance but NOT of quality assurance?

It is appointed as part of the project management team

It is responsible for monitoring the conduct of the project

It is responsible for reviewing the project for compliance with corporate standards

It is independent of the Project Manager

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