PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner

Goal

The PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner course eqips the delegate with a detailed knowledge of the PRINCE2 method. This 5 day training course is aimed at learning and measuring whether a candidate would be able to apply PRINCE2 to the running and managing of a project within an environment supporting PRINCE2.

The successful completion of the Foundation & Practitioner Exam will give the delegate a recognised Practitioner qualification.

 Participants

This course is suitable for project managers, team managers, project support staff, quality assurance staff and for anybody else who requires a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the project lifecycle and the deliverables created during each stage of a project. 

Course description

The PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner course will prepare the delegate by covering all the elements described in the Foundation course for the first 3 days with a foundation exam at the end of the 3rd day. After the delegate has succesfully passed the Foundation exam, the next 2 days will cover the Practioner course syllabus. 

The PRINCE2 Practitioner course is set up as a very practical exam preparation course with the official exam on the afternoon of the second day. Students will go through hundreds of practitioner style questions on all PRINCE2 subjects and will receive a full PRINCE2 Practitioner test exam with sample answers.

The Practitioner course includes our PRINCE2 Practitioner Event manual, a PRINCE2 Practitioner test exam and the OGC ‘Managing Successful Project with PRINCE2’ manual. Students are required to complete this test exam in the evening on day 1. The official PRINCE2 Practitioner exam can be taken on day 2 from 14.00 to 17.00 hours or at a later date if requested by the student prior to attending the training course.

This training course is an absolute must for delegates who wish to take the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam. The training course is given in partnership with Stichting Partners In Business, an Accredited PRINCE2 Training organization. An accredited PRINCE2 trainer from Trans-Atlantic Consulting Group will give the training course.

PRINCE2™ Practitioner exam

The overall objective of the Practitioner Exam is to measure whether a candidate would be able to apply PRINCE2 to the running and managing of a project within an environment supporting PRINCE2. To this end the candidate needs to exhibit the competence required for the Foundation qualification, and show that the candidate can apply and tune PRINCE2 to address the needs and problems of a specific project scenario. Specifically, the candidate 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.
• Demonstrate the understanding the relationships between processes, components,
techniques and PRINCE2 products and can apply this understanding.
• Demonstrate the understanding of the reasons behind the processes, components and
techniques of PRINCE2, and the understanding of the principles underpinning these elements.
• Demonstrate the ability to tune PRINCE2 to different project circumstances.

The Practitioner exam uses objective test questions which require a student to choose a response to a question from a set of choices for which the correct answer is pre-determined. The Practitioner exam demands a greater level of understanding and application of the method than the Foundation exam which largely tests knowledge of principles and terminology of the method. The 3 hour exam consists of 9 main questions with a number of part-questions. Each main question is worth 40 marks. The pass rate is 180 marks out of a possible 360. The exam includes one scenario which will provide a description of the organisation, the business rationale for the project and the project objectives.

The exam questions are divided into 5 learning levels. Each level has its own marking scheme. The more difficult the question, the more marks will be awarded for that question.

There are 6 types of questions on the exam:

• Classic Multiple Choice Questions – ‘ choose one from a list’ of possible answers
• Yes/No – requires the candidate to assess whether a statement is correct ‘ Yes’ or ‘No’
(chosen as the standard for ‘True/False’ type questions) ;
• Multiple Response – ‘choose the correct options from a list’
• Matching – involves linking items in one list to items in a second list
• Sequencing – events to be positioned in a sequence
• Assertion/Reason – consists of two statements an assertion and a reason, candidate must determine whether each statement is true and if both true whether the reason correctly explains the assertion.

During the Practitioner exam the candidate is only allowed to bring the ‘Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2’ manual into the exam room. The student is allowed to make notes in the ‘Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2’ manual. No additional notes, diagrams or event manuals may be used during the exam

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