PRINCE2 7 Foundation Examination
The PRINCE2 Foundation level introduces the PRINCE2 method. The Foundation certification is also a prerequisite for the Practitioner certification.
The examination is designed to assess whether you can demonstrate sufficient recall and understanding of the PRINCE2, as described in the syllabus.
Take advantage of the mock exams and set yourself up for success! Mock exams are one of the best ways to engage in practice and tackle exam anxiety.
You will sit a one-hour examination. All questions are multiple choice and there is only one correct answer per question.
Remember, this is a closed-book exam, so you must not have any notes or resources available.
You will need to answer 36 out of 60 questions correctly to pass.
You can always use the Take 2 resit option, which is available at a fraction of the original exam price, if you require another attempt.
PRINCE2 7 Practitioner Examination
The PRINCE2 Practitioner examination is designed to assess whether you can demonstrate sufficient application and analysis of the PRINCE2 method.
The PRINCE2 Foundation certificate is a prerequisite for the Practitioner course.
Remember, this is an open book exam.
You will need to answer 42 out of 7 questions correctly to pass.
You can always use the Take 2 resit option, which is available at a fraction of the original exam price, if
you require another attempt.
PRINCE2 Practitioner Standard Questions
So, what do we mean about standard matching?
Well, the number of standard question items in the exam will be 68 and the number of matching question items equals 11
Now if you’re wondering why that’s a larger number than the 46 questions it’s because these particular question types will have for example three sections. I’ll show you examples in the coming screens so that each matching question has three items to be matched
So 3 11s are 33 what you’ve got to do is to apply and carry this out using PRINCE2 and apply the techniques and rules
In the exam, you’ll be identifying connections and relationships between
concepts plus information provided to solve problems in context
Above is an example of a standard question and you’ll immediately
recognize it as being very similar to the foundation exam in structure not in
depth of course
The example I’ve chosen here states:
“What should the recreation manager do as part of accepting a work package activity for the refurbished bandstand?”
Here, I’ve invented a particular scenario which you’ll get of course with the
practitioner exam and it’s either A or B or C or D so there’s a standard example.
What you’ll find is in the new exam is that you’ll be asked to assess and analyze information in the context in order to reach a conclusion
What the exam questions will be asking is to break down the information to the component parts, and then to understand how they relate to one another and PRINCE2.
Then you will find evidence to either support or oppose a course of action or reasoning
PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam Matching Questions
Another type of practitioner exam question is called a matching example and they will tell you to which it relates to I’ve chosen one from the change theme:
This is an example of what you’ll find, and I quote:
“The launch event is planned to be held at a local hotel. Three weeks before the event is due to take place torrential rain causes severe flooding and the venue will no longer be available but an out-of-town upmarket hotel is available for hire but is double the price of the original venues”
So the examiner will just set a little sub-scene here and then describe the questions. So there are three actions being taken in response to the flooding, and the question asks which role from A to E should be responsible for carrying them out.
Choose any one role for each action – each role can be used once more than once or not at all.
So what you’ll get here is three questions and I’ve chosen these as number thirty nine forty or forty one simply where they occur within the structure of the exam.
What you need to do for each of these is to decide which one of these roles would be involved with each action.
Your PRINCE2 Exam Answer Sheets
Thanks to COVID, current exams are being taken online. But, I assume that once we are back to normal, those classroom-based exams will return.
In any event, here is the procedure for a classroom based exam.
Your answer sheets consist of sets of ovals, one for each question’s optional answer. You will be given a pencil, which you use to shade in your chosen answer.
WARNING. Shading these in does take a little time, and many candidates merely write or note their answer on the question sheet itself.
There is nothing wrong with this, but be aware, that when time is called, you do not have ‘extra’ time to do all your shading!
I once had the heart-rending responsibility to physically take the PRINCE2 practitioner exam papers off a delegate, as they did not shade any question in during the exam, and were frantically filling them in after I called full time.
Of course, I wrote a report to the examiner and asked for leniency. I won’t tell you whether the candidate passed or not, but it was a devastating mistake for him to make.
I recommend that you may prefer to mark up the question sheet as you go, and before you start the next of the nine practitioner exam questions – shade in your answer sheets!
PRINCE2 Practitioner exam sequence
You might be tempted to answer the PRINCE2 practitioner exam questions in an order of preference, but this can get dangerous. I strongly recommend that you do them in the order they are given.
I have two reasons for saying this:
Its an assumption on my part, but there may be some information or clues in earlier questions that may help you in later questions.
If you jump around and deviate to the question order, you may get near the end of the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam only to find that you miss-counted (or that you had forgotten to shade in certain answers), and you find that instead of having plenty of time, you are now panicking because you have an extra question to fit in… I have seen this happen time and again…
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