p2-30questions

Which is a purpose of the benefits management approach?

To document the justification for undertaking a project

To provide a schedule for measuring the achievement of benefits

To summarize project performance to date for the project board to decide what action to take next

To provide the reasons for the project, to put into the business case

Which process includes the acceptance and execution of project work by external suppliers?

Managing a Stage Boundary

Managing Product Delivery

Controlling a Stage

Directing a Project

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

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

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

Which is a feature of PRINCE2?

It is designed to manage both projects and programmes

It promotes continual learning in organizations

It is a method specifically designed for technical projects

It includes many motivational techniques

On which environment is PRINCE2 based?

Information technology

Customer/supplier

Procurement

Programme

How many tasks does the product-based planning technique describe?

Four

Three

Two

One

What is defined when deciding how to tailor PRINCE2 to suit the project?

When the project's outputs will be delivered

Which of the six tolerance areas will be included

When the project's progress will be reviewed

Which primary stakeholder interests will be represented

Which management stages must a PRINCE2 project consist of, as a minimum?

Starting up, initiation, and at least one other stage for the rest of the project

Initiation, at least one stage for developing products, and a closing stage

At least one stage for developing products, and a closing stage

Initiation, and at least one other stage for the rest of the project

Which is a purpose of the 'closing a project' process?

To define the handover procedures for the project's products

To inform the project board that the final stage is about to start

To provide the project board with sufficient information to confirm continued business justification

To provide a fixed point at which acceptance of the project product is confirmed

Which is a purpose of the Communication Management Strategy?

To identify the communications required from the Team Manager(s) to the Project Board

To define the structure of responsibilities in support of effective decision-making in a project

To identify how and by whom the project’s products will be controlled and protected

To define the method of communication between the project and its stakeholders

Which process provides the project board with the information it requires in order to commit resources to the project?

Controlling a stage

Directing a project

Initiating a project

Managing product delivery

Which is a minimum requirement for applying the risk theme?

To assign risk actionees to undertake planned risk responses

To record identified threats in a risk register

To escalate identified threats to the project board

To establish a risk budget to fund responses to risks

Which defines the sequence in which the project's products should be developed?

Product breakdown structure

Product flow diagram

Project Product Description

Product Description

Which role is responsible for the management of a risk assigned to it?

Project assurance

Risk owner

Project support

Risk actionee

Which is a minimum requirement for applying the organization theme?

To ensure that the supplier resources are available

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

What should be funded from a change budget?

Requests for change

A fallback plan

Actions to reduce a threat

The Change Authority

Which is an objective of the 'initiating a project' process?

To summarize how the organization's project management method will be tailored for the project

To ensure that there is authority to initiate the project

To request authority from programme, corporate management or the customer to deliver the project

To prepare the plans for the subsequent delivery stages

Which theme is applied to ensure that a project is desirable, viable and achievable?

Progress

Business Case

Risk

Organization

What is risk probability?

A measure of the likelihood of the risk occurring

A probable timeframe within which the risk may occur

The scale of the risk should it occur

The probable effect on the project being able to deliver its objectives

Which is a purpose of the Closing a Project process?

To inform the Project Board that the final stage is about to start

To define the handover procedures for the project's products

To provide a fixed point at which acceptance of the project product is confirmed

To provide the Project Board with sufficient information to confirm continued business justification for the project

What must be recorded in the project initiation documentation to meet the minimum requirements for applying the progress theme?

The tailoring required for progress reports

The tolerance areas that will not be controlled

The levels of management control that will be used

The overall approach to managing by exception

Which describes the 'implement' step within the recommended risk management procedure?

The project manager formulates the risk management approach

The risk owner and the risk actionee carry out activities to control and deal with the risk

The risk owner decides the best response to control the risk

Project support allocates the risk budget to fund the selected risk responses

Which characteristic distinguishes a project from regular business operations?

It produces benefits

It incurs cost

It manages stakeholders

It introduces business change

Which is an objective of the 'managing product delivery' process?

To report progress to the project board

To ensure that work on products is authorized

To sign off completed work packages

To ensure that the business case is kept under review

Which product is a time-driven control?

Exception report

Checkpoint report

Lessons report

End stage report

To which role should a Team Manager report an exception?

Project Manager

Project Support

Project Board

Project Assurance

When should the 'managing a stage boundary' process be undertaken?

At the end of the 'starting up a project' process

Close to the end of each management stage

Close to the start of each management stage

At the end of the final stage

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

Lessons log

Quality register

Issue register

Risk register

Which aspect of project performance must be managed in order to have a clear understanding of what the project is to deliver?

Costs

Timescale

Scope

Risk

How is the project initiation documentation used during the 'closing a project' process?

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

It is updated to include relevant lessons from previous projects

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