P2 Practitioner Quiz

What are the four main qualities that a good Project board should possess?

• Authority, Availability, Connections, Ability to delegate

• Authority, Credibility, Commitment, Availability

• Authority, Credibility, Ability to delegate, Availability

• Authority, Credibility, Connections, Ability to delegate

Whose responsibility is it to ensure that the Communication Management Strategy is suitable and that the defined communication activities actually happen?

• Project Manager

• Corporate or Programme Management

• Project Assurance

• Project Support

What principle serves as the foundation for the quality theme and provides an explicit understanding of what the project seeks to achieve?

• Manage by stages

• Learn from the experience

• Manage by exception

• Focus on products

Who decides what the tolerances are for a work package?

• The project board

• The project manager

• The team manager

• Corporate or program management

In a project at a window manufacturer to deliver customised windows for a local council, a team manager responsible for the work package to construct the window frames has realised his team won’t be able to produce their frames on time due to difficulties in sourcing the particular type of metal the client requires. The team manager raises this delay as an exception to the Project Manager. Is this action appropriate?

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

Team manager raises an issue to the project manager. Project manager raises an exception report to the project board should they forecast the stage will go out of tolerance.

In an organsation with a programme environment and they have a number of small projects. They wish to speed up the communication between the projects and the programme. They wish to let some project managers report directly to the programme. Is this ok?

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

No! You shouldn’t jump levels in communication. Any communication with programme level should come from the Project Board. Maybe the programme level wants to tell the project manager to make a particular high level decision, but that is the responsibility of the project board.

In a joint venture project between two organisations, the project manager decides to create two risk registers – one for the joint venture and one for risks just from their own organisation’s point of view. Is this ok to do?

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

Yes, because there may be information specific to one party that they don’t want to share with the other party (such as budget or funding issues, or key people leaving, so you don’t want to let the other party know too early on of certain internal confidential or delicate risks or issues).

Project Support help the Project Manager in the following ways?

(tick all that apply)

• Maintain configuration item records

• Produce product status account reports

• Hand out new work to the Team Managers

• Maintain the Issue Register

PRINCE2 provides control through which of the following:

(tick all the answers that are true)

• Delegating authority from one level to the level above

• Dividing the project into stages and authorising one stage at a time

• Using time driven reports

In the Initiation stage, the PM decides to establish two separate documents: one for capturing just change request items, and the other containing all other issues. Is this allowed under PRINCE2?

• Yes

• No