PRINCE2 Foundation Practices: 840 practice questions

12 of the 840 Practices questions in the Certsqill PRINCE2 Foundation bank, shown in full below. Each one carries an explanation for every option, not just the correct one — the wrong answers are where the marks go.

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1. Acceptance criteria: Which concept provides measurable conditions for that acceptance?

1. Acceptance criteria ✓

   Acceptance criteria are measurable conditions that must be met before the final project product is accepted.
2. Quality specifications

   Quality specifications define measurable product-level criteria, but they are not the overall conditions for final acceptance.
3. User quality expectations

   User quality expectations express broad needs, while acceptance criteria state measurable conditions required for final acceptance.
4. Quality register

   The quality register records planned and completed quality-control activities and their results, rather than acceptance conditions.

Acceptance criteria state measurable conditions for final acceptance of the project product.

2. Business case practice: Which practice provides the relevant review?

1. Risk practice for identifying uncertain events and responses.

   Risk information can inform the review, but risk practice is not the complete assessment of continued justification.
2. Quality practice for checking product fitness against requirements.

   The quality practice checks products against requirements, not whether continued investment remains justified.
3. Plans practice for delivery structure and control.

   The plans practice addresses planned work, resources, costs, timing, and controls rather than continued justification.
4. Business case practice ✓

   The business case practice reviews whether the project remains desirable, viable, and achievable using updated information.

The business case practice reviews continued project justification.

3. Quality control: Which quality concept describes this activity?

1. Quality control ✓

   Quality control checks products against their agreed specifications to determine whether they meet defined requirements.
2. Quality planning

   Quality planning defines criteria, descriptions, methods, and roles before quality-control activities are performed.
3. Quality assurance

   Quality assurance provides planned, systematic confidence, usually independently of the project team, rather than checking one product.
4. Project assurance

   Project assurance is the board’s responsibility across business, user, and supplier interests, not product inspection itself.

Quality control checks products against agreed specifications.

4. A business opportunity: What is it?

1. A positive risk

   A positive risk is an uncertain prospective event, whereas the described item is classified as a business-opportunity issue.
2. A request for change

   A request for change proposes altering an approved baseline, whereas this possibility concerns a potential beneficial opportunity.
3. A business opportunity ✓

   A business opportunity is a positive issue representing a potential beneficial outcome requiring project-management consideration.
4. A benefit

   A benefit is a measurable advantageous improvement, while this is only a possibility being considered.

A business opportunity is a positive issue representing a possible beneficial outcome.

5. Progress practice: Which concept is being applied?

1. Exception management after a forecast beyond tolerance

   Exception management is required when a forecast goes beyond agreed tolerance; the scenario explicitly states that progress remains within tolerance.
2. Quality practice for checking product specifications

   Quality practice checks products against agreed specifications, whereas this activity evaluates delivery performance against plans and tolerances.
3. Progress practice ✓

   The progress practice compares achievement and forecasts with plans and tolerances to support control before thresholds are exceeded.
4. Plans

   Plans provide the baselines and controls for delivery, but the described activity is comparing achievement and forecasts against them.

The progress practice compares achievement and forecasts with plans and tolerances.

6. Stage plan: The sentence reads: “The [ ?

1. Stage plan ✓

   A stage plan provides detailed information for the manager to control a particular management stage.
2. Project plan

   The project plan provides the high-level overall baseline, rather than detailed control information for one management stage.
3. Exception plan

   An exception plan replaces an affected plan after approval when tolerances are forecast to be exceeded.
4. Team plan

   A team plan supports work-package delivery where needed, rather than controlling the whole management stage.

A stage plan gives the manager detailed control information for one management stage.

7. Risk exposure: Which term applies?

1. Risk exposure ✓

   Risk exposure represents the aggregate amount of project objectives currently at risk from identified risks.
2. Residual risk

   Residual risk is the remaining risk after responses, not the aggregate exposure across the project’s objectives.
3. Risk tolerance

   Risk tolerance defines agreed limits and escalation boundaries, rather than aggregating current exposure across objectives.
4. Risk appetite

   Risk appetite expresses willingness to take risk, not the combined amount of objectives exposed to identified risks.

Risk exposure is the aggregate amount of objectives currently at risk.

8. Superseded: The earlier starting-up document has therefore been [ ?

1. Archived

   Archiving may describe record handling, but it is not the PRINCE2 relationship created when the PID replaces the brief.
2. Superseded ✓

   The project brief is superseded by the PID, which establishes how the project is justified, organized, and controlled.
3. Escalated

   Escalation sends matters beyond delegated authority for a decision; it does not replace the project brief with the PID.
4. Baselined

   Baseline status concerns approved products subject to change control, not the relationship between the project brief and PID.

The project brief is superseded by the PID during project initiation.

9. Product register: Which management product is most relevant?

1. Project log

   The project log collects evolving records, while the product register specifically identifies products and acceptance information.
2. Product register ✓

   The product register identifies products and records relevant acceptance information for the project.
3. Issue register

   The issue register records matters needing project-management consideration, not the project’s product inventory and acceptance details.
4. Quality register

   The quality register records quality-control activities and results, rather than identifying the project’s products and acceptance information.

The product register identifies project products and their acceptance information.

10. 1 and 3: Select ONE pair of statements that is correct.

1. 2 and 4

   Neither statement is correct: issues need not change baselines, and authority cannot be exceeded without proper authorization.
2. 2 and 3

   Issues may be positive, but not every issue changes an approved baseline; some require consideration without baseline change.
3. 1 and 4

   Any stakeholder can raise an issue, but a manager cannot approve beyond delegated authority merely because the outcome is beneficial.
4. 1 and 3 ✓

   Any stakeholder can raise an issue, and issues include positive opportunities as well as negative matters.

Issues can be raised by any stakeholder and may represent positive opportunities.

11. quality register: The [ ?

1. product register

   The product register identifies products and their acceptance, rather than documenting quality-control activity results.
2. quality management approach

   The quality management approach describes methods, standards, responsibilities, and arrangements for managing quality.
3. quality register ✓

   The quality register records planned and performed quality-control activities together with their results.
4. product description

   A product description defines one product’s purpose, composition, quality criteria, and development information.

The quality register records planned and performed quality-control activities and their results.

12. baseline: A request for change is a proposal to modify an approved [ ?

1. baseline ✓

   A request for change proposes altering an approved baseline and therefore requires assessment and authorized decision.
2. quality register

   The quality register records control activities and results, not the approved project products being proposed for change.
3. work package

   A work package authorizes assigned delivery work; it is not the general object of every change request.
4. risk response

   A risk response addresses uncertainty, whereas a request for change proposes altering an approved baseline.

A request for change proposes altering an approved baseline and requires authorized consideration.

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