PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner Syllabus
Everything you need to know to get ready for PRINCE2 Certification!
The PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner examinations have specific concepts that are tested in the examination.
PRINCE2 Foundation Syllabus
The PRINCE2 Foundation examination syllabus is as follows:
- A project’s definition and characteristics
- The six aspects of project management that must be managed
- PRINCE2’s integrated elements: themes, principles, processes, and the project environment
- What classifies a project as a PRINCE2 project
- The customer or supplier context on which PRINCE2 is based
- Continued business justification
- Learning from experience
- Defined roles and responsibilities
- Managing by stages
- Managing by exception
- Focusing on projects
- Tailoring to suit the project
- Business case theme
- Business case and benefits management approach
- PRINCE2’s minimum requirements for applying the business case theme
- Key concepts related to business justification and the difference between them: outcomes, outputs, benefits and cons
- Organization theme
- Communication management approach
- The minimum requirements of PRINCE2 for applying the organization theme
- Project board
- Executive
- Senior user
- Senior supplier
- Project assurance
- Change authority
- Project manager
- Team manager
- Project support
- Stakeholder
- The three project interests and how they are represented in the four levels of management
- Quality theme
- Product description, project product description, quality management approach, quality register
- PRINCE2’s minimum requirements for applying the quality theme
- Quality control and quality planning
- Quality assurance and project assurance
- Customer quality expectations and acceptance criteria
- Plan’s theme
- Project plan, stage plan, exception plan, team plan
- PRINCE2’s minimum requirements for applying the plans theme
- Recommended approach to planning
- Recommended approach to defining and analyzing products
- Factors to consider when dividing the project into management stages
- Risk theme include why a risk budget is needed
- Risk management approach, risk register
- PRINCE2’s minimum requirements for applying the risk theme
- A risk – opportunity or threat
- Recommended types for risk responses
- Risk owner and risk actionee
- Cause, event, and effect
- Risk probability, risk impact, and risk proximity
- Recommended risk management procedure
- Change theme, including why a change budget is required
- Change control approach, configuration item record, issue register, issue report, product status account
- PRINCE2’s minimum requirements for applying the change theme
- Issue types
- Recommended issue and change control procedure
- Progress theme
- Daily log, lessons log, lessons report, work package, end stage report, end project report, checkpoint report, highlight report, exception report
- PRINCE2’s minimum requirements for applying the progress theme
- Time-driven and event-driven controls
- Exceptions and tolerances, including how exceptions are reported and tolerances are set
- Project start up, include the purpose of the project brief
- Directing a project, including the purpose of the Project Initiation Document or PID
- Project initiation
- Control of a stage
- Manage product delivery
- Manage a stage boundary
- Project closure
- Objectives and context of the PRINCE2 processes (as stated in the previous point, excluding project brief and PID)
PRINCE2 Practitioner Syllabus
The PRINCE2 Practitioner syllabus is as follows:
- Business case and benefits management approach
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- Outcomes, outputs, benefits, and cons
- Assessing if the approach to applying the business case theme is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the theme
- Communication management approach
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- Recommended structure of project management team
- Assessing if the approach to applying the organization theme is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the theme
- Product description, project product description, quality management approach, quality register
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- Quality planning, quality control, quality assurance
- Assessing if the approach to applying the quality theme is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the theme
- Project plan, stage plan, team plan, exceptions plan
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- Recommended approach to planning, including the recommended approach to defining and analyzing the products
- Assessing if the approach to applying the plans theme is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the theme
- Risk management approach, risk register
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- Recommended risk management procedure
- Assessing if the approach to applying the risk theme is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the theme
- Change control approach, configuration item record, issue register, issue report, product status account
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- Recommended issue and change control procedure
- Assessing if the approach to applying the change theme is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the theme
- Checkpoint report, daily log, end project report, end stage report, exception report, highlight report, lessons log, work package
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- Raising exceptions and tolerances
- Assessing if the approach to applying the progress theme is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the theme
- Recommended associated actions
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- How to apply the themes
- Assessing if the approach to starting up project process activities is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the process
- Recommended associated actions
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- How to apply the themes
- Assessing if the approach to directing project process activities is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the process
- Recommended associated actions
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- How to apply the themes
- Assessing if the approach to initiating project process activities is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the process
- Recommended associated actions
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- How to apply the themes
- Assessing if controlling project process activities is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the process
- Recommended associated actions
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- How to apply the themes
- Assessing if managing product delivery process activities is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the process
- Recommended associated actions
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- How to apply the themes
- Assessing if managing stage boundary process activities is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the process
- Recommended associated actions
- Recommended roles and responsibilities
- How to apply the themes
- Assessing if closing project process activities is effective considering the context, PRINCE2 principles, requirements, and purpose of the process.
PRINCE2 Foundation exam is not very difficult, and you can take it in two to three weeks. PRINCE2 Practitioner examination is however a little more difficult and you may need approximately three months to prepare for it.
PRINCE2 syllabus was last updated by Axelos in 2017 and new exams in English were released. The PRINCE2f foundation and PRINCE2 practitioner course outline and content follow the new syllabus now.
The PRINCE2 examination and courses are based on the publication: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2: 2017 edition. You can purchase this book and browse other publications at the Axelos online store.
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Eligibility criteria to take the PRINCE2 Foundation exam
There are no pre-requisites to take the PRINCE2 Foundation certification examination.
What are the eligibility criteria to take the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam?
You must have passed one of the following certification examinations to take the PRINCE2 Practitioner certification exam:
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
- IPMA Level A(Certified Projects Director)
- IPMA Level B(Certified Senior Project Manager)
- IPMA Level C(Certified Project Manager)
- IPMA Level D(Certified Project Management Associate)
What are the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner exam formats?
PRINCE2 Foundation Exam Format:
- Type: Multiple choice examination questions
- No Of Questions:75 questions per paper, Five questions to be trial and not counted in scores
- Result: 35 marks required (out of 70 available) to pass - 50%
- Examination duration: One hour's (60 minutes) duration
- TypeClosed book
PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam Format:
- Type: Multiple choice examination questions
- No Of Questions: Eight questions - 10 question items per question, each worth one mark
- Result: 44 marks or more required to pass (out of 80 available) - 55%
- Examination duration: Two-and-a-half hours’ (150 minutes) duration, no additional reading time
- Type: Open book exam (official PRINCE2 manual only)
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