PRINCE2-PRACTITIONER Online Practice Questions and Answers

DRAG DROP

PROGRESS

Here are three statements related to tolerances for the Health and Safety Training Project.

For each statement, select the tolerance area (A-E) it represents.

Choose only one tolerance area for each statement. Each tolerance area can be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Select and Place:

The Health and Safety Training Project has been commissioned in response to recent government legislation relating to health and safety on construction sites. While the legislation has been finalized, it will only become clear how the governments accrediting agency will interpret the legislation in key areas as they accredit the products and trainers.

How should the project manager respond to this situation when preparing the project product description, and why?

A. By prioritizing the acceptance criteria, because it may not be possible to meet all acceptance criteria

B. By prioritizing the acceptance criteria, because the acceptance criteria should form a list of measurable attributes

C. By allowing the acceptance criteria to evolve, because the project manager should include information through change control when it is known

D. By allowing the acceptance criteria to evolve, because the executive should approve the finalized project product description

ABC Company's development team are using an agile delivery approach to produce the 'classroom-based training materials'. They have asked if their existing product owner can also act as team manager for their work package, although the team will continue to organize its own work within delegated limits of authority. The project manager has agreed to this request.

Is this an appropriate action, and why?

A. Yes, because the product owner can also act as team manager while allowing the team to self-organize

B. Yes, because agile teams need to be empowered by the use of management by exception

C. No, because the team manager is responsible for managing the work of project team members

D. No, because the product owner should represent the wider view of the customer in cross-functional projects

The 'e-learning course' is being delivered by an external consultancy. The testing of the e-learning has been completed by ABC Company's testers and some faults have been found that still need to be fixed. The team manager for the 'e-learning course' work package believes the faults can be fixed within existing work package tolerances and has raised a request for change with the project manager.

Is this an appropriate action, and why?

A. Yes, because the testers have authority to request changes to the way the e-learning works

B. Yes, because team managers should raise issues to the project manager for capture and analyse

C. No, because the team manager should raise an off-specification for the faults, rather than a request for change

D. No, because the faults can be fixed within existing work package tolerances and do not need to be recorded

Starting Up a project is triggered by which of the following?

A. Legislation

B. Corporate Strategy

C. Risks

D. Mandate

The change control approach defines how products should be controlled and protected during the project. The accreditation of the 'classroom-based training materials' was planned to take place during stage 2. At the end of the stage, the configuration item record shows that the 'classroom-based training materials' have been accredited. However, the project manager decides to request an audit of the product as well.

Is this appropriate, and why?

A. Yes, because the project should verify that the recorded status reflects the actual status of the products.

B. Yes, because the change control approach should specify how the configuration item records are approved.

C. No, because the project manager should ensure that the change control approach is tailored to the project.

D. No, because the issue management and change control procedures can be treated as separate, but related, procedures.

The project is in stage 3. Zero time tolerance has been given for this stage. When checking progress, the project manager noticed that the checkpoint report from the external supplier of the 'e-learning course' is late. As work package progress information is missing, the project manager has decided to raise an exception report.

Is this an appropriate action, and why?

A. Yes, because an exception report should be used to request guidance on how this situation should be handled.

B. Yes, because there is zero time tolerance for this stage the checkpoint report must be delivered on time.

C. No, because the project manager should check the operations and maintenance interfaces in the work package first.

D. No, because the team plan should be discussed with the supplier to check whether work will be completed on time.

There is no Project Brief. How can there be a common understanding of the desired outcomes for the prepared calendar pack?

A. The simple Project Initiation Documentation contains the Quality Management Strategy. This contains details of the acceptance criteria for this project.

B. The Project Brief should have been produced and approved before the project progressed into the initiation stage.

C. The simple Project Initiation Documentation contains the project definition.

Which 2 statements apply to either the Reporting arrangements or Problem handling and escalation sections?

A. Replace entry 8 with 'Checkpoint Report every Monday by 10.00 am' because Highlight Reports are intended for the Project Board.

B. Delete entry 9 because this level of detail is unnecessary.

C. Move entry 10 to Problem handling and escalation because that section describes how issues are handled.

D. Add 'Any risks identified to be added to the Risk Register' to Reporting arrangements.

E. Delete entry 11 because the impact analysis should be provided when the issue is notified.

The executive identified that there would be a benefit to the construction companies as their working time lost due to accidents would be reduced. This was included as a benefit to ABC Company in the business case for the Health and Safety

Training Project.

Is this appropriate, and why?

A. Yes, because the benefits to the customer are an essential part of business justification for a project.

B. Yes, because both tangible and intangible benefits should be included in the business case.

C. No, because ABC Company will not achieve their benefits if construction companies do not book the courses.

D. No, because it is the customer's benefits that should be used to justify the project business case.