PRINCE2™ PRACTITIONER EXAMINATION

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The Practitioner is the second of the two PRINCE2™ Examinations you are required to pass to become a PRINCE2™ Practitioner.

This exam aims to measure whether a candidate would be able to apply PRINCE2™ to the management of a project within a PRINCE2™ environment. They need to exhibit the competence required for the Foundation qualification, and show that they can apply and tune PRINCE2™ to address the needs and problems of a specific project scenario, specifically, candidates must be able to:

• Produce detailed explanations of all processes, components and techniques, and worked examples of all PRINCE2™ products as they might be applied to address the particular circumstances of a given project scenario.
• Show they understand the relationships between processes, components, techniques and PRINCE2™ products and can apply this understanding.
• Demonstrate that they understand the reasons behind the processes, components and techniques of PRINCE2™, and that they understand the principles underpinning these elements.
• Demonstrate their ability to tune PRINCE2™ to different project circumstances.

The exam is of three hours duration and is an open-book examination (only the PRINCE2™ Manual is allowed). The exam consists of nine questions and a short scenario plus some appendices that are relevant to specific questions. Each of the nine questions will be sub-divided into parts. Each of the nine questions is worth 40 marks giving a total possible of 360 marks. The pass mark is 180. No reading time is provided prior to the exam.

The Practitioner exam uses objective test questions which require a candidate to choose a response to a question from a set of choices for which the correct answer is pre-determined.

The examination will comprise of 9 Syllabus Areas (questions) selected from 11 topics:

• Organisation
• Business Case
• Controls
• Change Control
• The Management of Risk
• Quality in a Project Environment
• Plans
• Configuration Management
• Processes
• Product-based Planning
• Quality Review

The questions can be made up of the following question types:

• Classical multiple choice
• Yes/no
• Multiple response
• Matching
• Sequencing
• Assertion/reason

No material other than the Question Booklet, the Scenario Booklet, the Answer booklet and the PRINCE2™ Manual can be used. The PRINCE2™ manual may be annotated but no additional support material is permitted, including use of post it notes or stapled sheets.

The PRINCE 2 Manual "Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2™" (ISBN 0-11-330946-5) is available for purchase from Rational Management, please email manager@rational.com.au with your details.

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