DRAG DROP

RISK

The following risk has been recorded:

“There may not be enough participants for the pilot courses to justify the continuation of the project.”

The recommended risk response is to improve the marketing campaign, and a risk budget exists to fund the response.

Here are three risk actions related to this response?

Which role (A-F) should be responsible for each action?

Choose only one role for each action. Each role can be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Select and Place:

HOTSPOT

Column 1 is a list of actions that occur during the Controlling a Stage process. For each action in Column 1, select from Column 2 the PRINCE2 theme that is being applied. Each selection from Column 2 can be used once, more than once or not at all.

Drop down the answer from column 1 to column 2.

Hot Area:

DRAG DROP

CHANGE

A request has been received from a user to add the function to pay by credit card to the `amended course booking procedures' for the `e-learning course'. The user has suggested that sales of the course will be reduced if this change is not

implemented.

Here are three actions relating to this request for change.

Which role (A-E) should carry out each action?

Choose only one role for each action. Each role can be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Select and Place:

The Health and Safety Training Project is a critical project within a programme. Due to resource constraints within the programme, the programme manager has been appointed as both executive and project manager of the Health and Safety Training Project.

Is this an appropriate action, and why?

A. Yes, because the programme manager can ensure that the project is aligned to the programme outcomes

B. Yes, because the programme manager can be appointed as executive of the programme's projects

C. No, because the programme manager's role should remain separate from that of the project's executive

D. No, because the role of executive and project manager should remain separate for governance reasons

During the initiation stage the project management team have reviewed and updated the project product description. They have created a project plan, which separates the project into management stages. Which reason explains why this is a good application of the 'focus on products' principle?

A. The project manager needs to plan the work so the products can be delivered

B. Products should be agreed collaboratively with the users to ensure user acceptance

C. A project needs to be delivered management stage by management stage

D. Projects should focus on what is going to be delivered including the acceptance criteria

The Health and Safety Training Project is part of a programme within ABC Company to move into legislative training courses. The programme has specified that it wants members of the programme office to participate in the pilot of the health and safety training course in the capacity of project assurance. The executive of the Health and Safety Training Project has rejected the request for the programme office to be involved in the pilot as they have appointed their own project assurance to provide advice. This has been documented in the quality management approach.

Is this an appropriate action by the executive, and why?

A. Yes, because the executive's project assurance should advise how to implement the quality management approach

B. Yes, because it is the executive's responsibility to approve the quality management approach

C. No, because the quality management approach should be tailored to suit each project's environment

D. No, because the quality management approach should be influenced by the programme's approach and needs

PRINCE2 proposes 3 levels of Plan, which are they?

A. Initiation, Project and Stage Plans

B. Project, Stage and Exception Plans

C. Initiation, Project and Benefit Review Plans

D. Project, Stage and Team Plans

The 'capability to provide health and safety training' has been delivered. During the 'closing a project' process, the marketing department sent an e-mail to all key customers reminding them of the deadline to comply with the new government legislation, with an aim to build relationships with their customers.

Which theme is being applied?

A. Risk.

B. Organization.

C. Plans.

D. Change.

ABC Company produces a corporate business plan which includes the targets for the next 12 months. For the Health and Safety Training Project, a feasibility study was carried out and, as a result, the expected sales were included in this plan. During the 'starting up a project' process, the executive advised the project manager that the corporate business plan provides sufficient justification to initiate the project.

Is this a correct application of the 'continued business justification' principle, and why?

A. Yes, because the executive is responsible for the project's continued business justification.

B. Yes, because the business justification needs to be recorded and approved in some form.

C. No, because the feasibility study provides sufficient business justification for the project.

D. No, because business justification is not required until the 'initiating a project' process.

Which product should register that the risk of a competitor producing a calendar at the same time was identified at the beginning of the project but the assessment of this risk appears to have been poor?

A. Issue Register

B. Follow-on action recommendations

C. Lessons Report

D. Risk Register