PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam
Here you can buy a voucher for the official PRINCE2® Practitioner 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.
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The PRINCE2® Practitioner exam format:
- Online
- Proctored
- 68 questions
- Scenario-based, multiple-choice questions
- 55% passing score
- 150 minutes duration
- Open book (only the official manual)
You will need to renew this certificate every 3 years by passing a re-registration exam, or with PRINCE2 membership and demonstrating your professional development.
You must have at least one of the following certificates before taking the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam:
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- PMP®
- CAPM®
- IPMA Level A, B, C, or D
Extras
You will have access to the PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam Simulator for free when you buy the exam voucher.
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.
Note that the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam is scenario-based, meaning that you have a text file containing information about the project, and use that to answer the questions. These sample questions (as well as our exam simulator) have combined the scenario —where needed— into the question, to make the presentation simpler, and the practice easier.
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Directing a project: During which “directing a project” process activity should the following action occur? Approve the request for an AI specialist to help write the product descriptions and assist in planning the project.
- Request an exception plan
- Authorize project closure
- Give ad-hoc direction
- Authorize initiation
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Initiating a project: During the ‘initiating a project’ process of the Satellite SmartPhone App, the team manager said they would have to support the application once it goes into production, and it will cost €200 per month. As this support is necessary for the project, the project manager has added this new cost to the benefits management approach. Is this an appropriate action for the prepare the ‘benefits management approach’ activity, and why?
- Yes, because this gives more information to the baseline data
- No, because this information should be added to the business case
- Yes, because this adds extra cost of the project and affects to return on investment
- No, because this adds additional risk to the project and should be added to the risk register.
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Controlling a stage: The sales application project is now at stage 4, and work on the warehouse stock module is being developed, but there is an estimated delay of about two weeks. During which controlling a stage activity should the following action occur? Handover the approved products work package to the correct person.
- Authorize a work package
- Review work package status
- Review management stage status
- Receive completed work package
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Managing a stage boundary: During the ‘update the project plan’ activity for the Sales Application project, the project manager noted the following in the daily log: The stock warehouse module could not be completed until the API module was complete, so the API module needed to be done within its time tolerance. Which theme is being applied?
- Progress
- Organisation
- Risk
- Change
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Closing a project: During the ‘hand over products activity,’ the project manager updates the futures sales forecast based on new market information and therefore updates the benefits management approach document. Who should approve the updated sales forecast?
- The executive
- Corporate management team
- The senior supplier
- The senior user
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Authorize initiation — Review and approve the stage plan for the initiation stage:
- understand any risks that affect the decision to authorize the initiation stage
- obtain or commit the resources needed by the stage plan for the initiation stage
- ensure that adequate reporting and control mechanisms are in place for the initiation stage and set tolerances for it.
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No, because this information should be added to the business case — The Keyword here are: ongoing operations and maintenance costs. So the future support costs of €200 would fall under this heading.
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Review the management stage status — If the ownership of any of the products is to be transferred to the customer as part of a phased handover: ensure that the:
- Products have been approved by those specified in its product description
- Products meet all the quality criteria or are covered by approved concessions
- Operation and maintenance organizations are ready to take responsibility for the products
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Progress — It is a good idea to see the daily log as an A5 notebook that the project manager writes anything of interest concerning the project. PRINCE2 uses many different management products to control the project and the daily log in one of these. The daily log can be used to record informal issues and any other notes or observations that are not captured by any other registers or logs.
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Corporate management team — You may have guessed the senior user, but the senior supplies benefit information (forecast and actual) and will continue to do this after the project is complete. The senior user can then not approve their changes to the benefits management approach.
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 the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam if you have at least one of the following certificates:
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- PMP®
- CAPM®
- IPMA levels A, B, C, or D
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.
You can take the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam if you have at least one of the following certificates:
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- PMP®
- CAPM®
- IPMA Levels A, B, C, or D
Please note, however, that our PRINCE2 Practitioner eLearning course is designed for candidates who are already familiar with PRINCE2 at the Foundation level. So, if you’re not PRINCE2 Foundation certified but you can still take the exam because you satisfy the prerequisites by having other certificates such as PMP and IPMA-D, you may find the Practitioner course too difficult. In that case, we suggest that you take the PRINCE2 Foundation course first. You don’t have to take the PRINCE2 Foundation exam if you have one of the other certificates, but the course is necessary.
The exam is open-book format (with only the official manual allowed). Therefore, it’s a good idea to obtain a copy of the manual and use it in the exam.
If you use our eLearning course, the exam topics will be covered and no extra study will be required. The manual will be mainly used as a reference during the exam. However, if you’re planning to self-study, the manual would be one of your main resources.
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® Practitioner
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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