PRINCE2®

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This course prepares you to move to the ‘next level’ – the PRINCE2® Practitioner examination, having already obtained your Foundation level qualification.

Following the standard syllabus issued by the PRINCE2 Examinations Board, it focuses on the PRINCE2 framework and how this might be applied pragmatically to real projects.

THE BENEFITS

By the end of this course you’ll be able to:

• Understand the PRINCE2 process model and apply the PRINCE2 processes to business scenarios
• Design a robust and appropriate project organisation
• Apply appropriate controls at different levels and at different points in the life cycle of a project
• Understand and apply the PRINCE2 management process with a Project Board
• Manage risk, quality control and change control in a PRINCE2 project
• Take the PRINCE2 Practitioner examination paper.

COURSE CONTENT

• The course has a flexible timetable on days 1 and 2, depending on your experience and requirements
• It will be based on a number of different project case studies and will use individual and syndicate exercises, covering all the PRINCE2 topic areas, to prepare you for the Practitioner examination
• PRINCE2 Practitioner exam

THE EXAM

This exam now follows the new Practitioner Objective Test format which came into play on September 1st 2007, meaning an end to the open-ended essay style questions.

• Multiple choice in format, rather than being fully written, but equally challenging and certainly not trivial
• 9 questions, with a scenario background and appendices
• Each of the 9 questions is worth 12 marks
• A total of108 marks can be awarded, 59 is needed to pass the Practitioner exam
• 2.5 hour exam in which you can refer to your PRINCE2 manual – but nothing else!
• The Practitioner exam can only be taken when a candidate has passed the foundation exam.

ON-SITE REQUIREMENT?

Do you have 6 or more members of staff requiring this training?  We can offer a group discount on our public scheduled courses or deliver the course on your premises.

We can train a large group of staff, tailor this and any of our training courses to your specific needs or create a bespoke course to meet your organisations requirements.  Contact us for further details.