PRINCE2® Foundation Exam
Here you can buy a voucher for the official PRINCE2® Foundation exam.The exam is online and you can take it from home or work, anywhere in the world.
The exam process:
This is what happens after you buy the exam voucher:
- After your purchase, we will contact you to confirm your information.
- Then we register you with the examination institute and send you the exam voucher. The voucher will be valid for 12 months.
- You can use the exam voucher to set the date and time of your exam with the examination institute.
- At the date and time that you’ve set, you will go online and take the exam. The exam is proctored online.
- You’ll receive the result at the end of the exam.
- If you pass the exam, the electronic certificate will be emailed to you in a few days.
- If you fail the exam, you’ll need to pay for and take the exam again.
Take²
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The PRINCE2® Foundation exam format:
- Has no prerequisites
- Online
- Proctored
- 60 questions
- Multiple-choice (one right answer for each question)
- 55% passing score
- 60 minutes duration
- Closed book
Extras
You will receive the following for free when you buy the exam voucher:
- PRINCE2 Foundation Exam Simulator
- PRINCE2 Foundation Training Manual (PDF)
Valid for one year
Sample Questions
The following are a few sample questions from this exam to help you familiarize yourself with the style of the questions. There's also a comprehensive Exam Simulator for this exam, which you can use for free when you buy the official exam voucher.
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Within which integrated element does PRINCE2 set minimum requirements?
- Principles
- Themes
- Processes
- Tailoring
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Identify what may be considered to be one of the six aspects of project performance.
- Benefits
- Roles
- Change
- Issues
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Which principle advises that a project should have three primary stakeholders?
- Manage by exception
- Learn from experience
- Manage by benefits
- Defined roles and responsibilities
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Which principle delegates authority from one management level to the next by setting tolerances?
- Define roles and responsibilities
- Manage by exception
- Manage by stages
- Manage by Delegation
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What is the result of the change derived from using the projects outputs?
- Outcomes
- Outputs
- Benefits
- Profit
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Which management product is a minimum requirement for the organisation theme?
- PID
- Communication management approach
- Project product description
- Plans
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What should be considered when defining the number of management stages in a project?
- When project support will be available
- When highlight reports will be submitted
- The availability of quality assurance
- When key decisions need to be made
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Themes — Themes are knowledge areas; e.g., business case, organization, quality. There are a number of questions on the Minimum Requirements for each theme. E.g. The minimum requirements documents for the Business Case theme are: 1) Business Case and 2) Benefits Management Approach
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Benefits — The six variables are: time, cost, quality, scope, benefits, and risk
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Defined roles and responsibilities — All projects have the following primary stakeholders: business, users and suppliers. This is one of the topics in the ‘defined roles and responsibilities’ principle.
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Manage by exception — Accountability is established by delegating authority from one management level to the next by setting tolerances against six aspects of performance for the respective level of the plan. This is the ‘manage by exception’ concept.
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Outcomes — Outcomes describe what users can do better; e.g., faster reporting or better-looking reports.
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PID — PRINCE2 requires that 2 organisation related products (documents) be produced and maintained and that both of these documents should be created during the initiating a project process. These are the PID and the communication management approach (CMA).
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When key decisions need to be made — The following will be considered when defining the number of management stages:
- how far ahead in the project it is sensible to plan
- where the key decision points need to be on the project
- the amount of risk within the project
- Level of control required by project board
- how confident the project board and project manager are in proceeding
FAQ
The following are the most common questions. Feel free to contact us if you can’t find the answer to your question here.You can take it from anywhere, as long as you’re in a small and quiet room. There should be no other people in that room, and no content related to the exam on the walls or desk.
At the beginning of the exam, you will be asked to move your webcam and show the whole room.
The exam is available in the following languages:
- English
- German
- Dutch
- Polish
Most candidates prefer to take the exam in English though.
It’s not mandatory, but it’s recommended.
You can use our eLearning course to fully prepare for this exam: PRINCE2® Foundation
The first lessons are free and you can start taking the course now, even without registering on our website.
PRINCE2 is a project management methodology that tells you what you need to do, and all about the roles and responsibilities, documents, etc.
PRINCE2 is the most popular project management methodology that is usable in every type of project.
Note: In case you’re familiar with the PMBOK® Guide, it’s worth mentioning that the PMBOK Guide is not a methodology and is designed to tell you “how” to do things (that you know you want to do), while PRINCE2 is designed to answer the “what”, “when”, and “by whom” questions instead. These two together form a great combination.
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