PRF Online Practice Questions and Answers

During the Managing a Stage Boundary process what product is updated with estimated costs and time for the stage that is about to begin?

A. End Stage Report

B. Team Plan

C. Work Package

D. Project Plan

Which is a benefit of using PRINCE2?

A. Provides a defined structure of accountability, delegation, authority and communication

B. Includes techniques for critical path analysis and earned value analysis

C. Enables a Project Manager to be accountable for the success of a project

D. Prevents any changes once the scope of a project has been agreed

Which is a purpose of a Project Product Description?

A. Records the costs and timescales for delivery of the project's final product

B. Shows the dependencies between the project's products to aid planning

C. Provides a list of all the products to be delivered by the project

D. Defines what the project must deliver in order to gain acceptance

Who is the key project decision-maker in the project management team?

A. Corporate management

B. Executive

C. Change Authority

D. Project Manager

When are tolerances for a Work Package agreed?

A. When accepting a Work Package

B. As work on each product within the Work Package begins

C. Once ail products have been developed and approved

D. When the Stage Plan is authorized by the Project Board

Which is NOT a type of issue?

A. A problem/concern

B. A constraint

C. An off-specification

D. A request for change

Identify the missing words in the following sentence. An objective of the Directing a Project process is to [?] throughout a project's life,

A. document how risks will be managed

B. identify who will be responsible for quality

C. provide management direction and control

D. define the benefits to be realized

Which PRINCE2 principle helps to address a concern that the project team may NOT have worked on a similar project?

A. Defined roles and responsibilities

B. Learn from experience

C. Manage by exception

D. Focus on products

Which is a purpose of the Risk theme?

A. Establish a method for the implementation of continuous improvement during the project

B. Identify, assess and control problems that have occurred

C. Provide the Project Board with a time-driven control to capture all project risks

D. Establish a cost-effective procedure to identify, assess and control risks

When considering how long the project stages should be, which might be a reason for one stage to be longer than others?

A. A substantial amount of the project budget is to be spent

B. More human resources are required than in other stages

C. The risk is lower

D. No changes to the project management team are envisaged

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

A. Initiating a Project

B. Controlling a Stage

C. Managing a Stage Boundary

D. Managing Product Delivery

Which of the following are objectives of the Directing a Project process?

1.

Ensure corporate or programme management has an interface to a project

2.

Ensure that work on products allocated to a team is authorized

3.

Ensure there is authority to initiate a project

4.

Ensure that a project remains viable

A. 1, 2, 3

B. 1, 2, 4

C. 1, 3, 4

D. 2, 3, 4

What theme establishes the mechanisms to judge whether a project is worthwhile investing in?

A. Plans

B. Business Case

C. Risk

D. Quality

Which describes a risk effect?

A. The uncertainty expressed as a negative or favourable occurrence

B. The issue which is affecting the project and has resulted in a risk

C. The impact(s) on the project objectives should the threat or opportunity occur

D. The change in the status of a risk in response to actions taken to control it

Which is the Change Authority role permitted to authorize?

A. Risks to the project

B. Adjustments to the limits on the change budget

C. Changes to stage tolerance

D. Changes to the project that do not exceed a defined budget