PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner Syllabus
Discover the key concepts relating to projects and understand the PRINCE2 Principles, including continued business justification, learn from experience, defined roles and responsibilities, manage by stages, manage by exception, focus on products, and tailor to suit the product.
Learn all the PRINCE2 themes: Business Case, Organisation, Quality, Plans, Risk, Change and Progress, and understand how these themes can be applied throughout the project.
Understand how to follow the project lifecycle from start to finish with the seven PRINCE2 Processes: starting a project, directing a project, initiating a project, controlling a stage, managing product delivery, managing stage boundaries and closing a project.
Syllabus (6th Edition)
- Advance your understanding of the PRINCE2 methodology to Practitioner level and learn how to apply the seven PRINCE2 Principles within your project.
- Understand how to apply and tailor relevant aspects of the seven PRINCE2 Themes in context.
- Study the seven PRINCE2 Processes and learn how to apply and tailor them in context.
- To gain PRINCE2 certification, you are required to take two exams - one closed-book and one open-book.
PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner Exam Details
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Foundation
Aim: To measure whether you can act as an informed member of a project management team, using PRINCE2® methodology throughout a project environment.
Exam Format - Multiple-choice.
Number of questions - 60.
Duration - 60-mins.
Pass mark - 33/60 (55%).
Open book - No.
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Aim: To measure whether you can apply the PRINCE2® methodology to run and manage a non-complex project within a project environment.
Exam Format - Objective testing.
Number of questions - 68.
Duration - 150-mins.
Pass mark - 38/68 (55%).
Open book - Yes (official PRINCE2 manual only).
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