PRINCE2 Practitioner

The PRINCE2 Practitioner program is a 2 day program aimed at refining the participant’s knowledge and ability to apply PRINCE2.

This program builds on the Foundation course by exploring the key elements of the PRINCE2 in greater detail and combines techniques for approaching the PRINCE2 Practitioner certification exam.

PRINCE2 Practitioner training syllabus

The training comprises of 3 elements:

• Review and revision sessions of key elements of the PRINCE2 project management methodology
• Sample PRINCE2 Practitioner exam questions, combined with answer review and exam technique guidance led by the trainer
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification exam

PRINCE2 Practitioner exam

The aim of the Practitioner exam is to assess a participant’s ability to apply PRINCE2 on a given scenario.  The exam is a 2.5 hour scenario based exam.  It is an open book exam where participants are permitted to bring to the exam an official copy of the PRINCE2 manual; Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2.  The Practitioner exam comprises of 68 questions, where 38 or more correct answers are required to achieve PRINCE2 Practitioner certification.

The Practitioner exam questions cover the 7 principles, 7 themes and 7 processes as per the following listing:

Principles:

• Continued business justification
• Learn from experience
• Defined roles and responsibilities
• Manage by stages
• Manage by exception
• Focus on products
• Tailor to suit the project

Themes:

• Business Case
• Organization
• Quality
• Plans
• Risk
• Change
• Progress

Processes:

• Starting up a project
• Directing a project
• Initiating a project
• Controlling a stage
• Managing product delivery
• Managing a stage boundary
• Closing a project

The PRINCE2 Foundation certification is a pre-requisite to completing the Practitioner certification exam.

Target Audience

• Project managers
• Project assurance members
• Project team members
• Change managers
• Portfolio, programme and project office members

Training approach

The Practitioner program includes review and revision sessions of the PRINCE2 methodology and completion of sample exam questions.

Throughout the Practitioner program the trainer will guide the class with detailed explanations for sample exam questions together with guidance on how to approach the Practitioner certification exam and specific question styles.

Training options

Public training

Learn more about PRINCE2 project management courses by attending one of our public training programs.  View our next PRINCE2 Training Melbourne & PRINCE2 Training Perth dates.

Corporate in-house training

Our courses can also be delivered at your selected location. Contact us to request a quote for our in-house course pricing.