PRINCE2 Practitioner Examination Advice

The PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam is designed to determine if the candidate is capable of applying PRINCE2 to running  a straightforward project. To get this far you would already passed the Foundation Exam, now you will need to understand how to tailor PRINCE2 to a given Case Study.

So you will need to:

Understand the principles, processes and themes.

Understand how the processes relate to each other.

Understand the what, why, how and who of the principles, processes and themes.

Understand how to apply PRINCE2 to different types and sizes of projects.

Understand how PRINCE2 might work in a programme environment.

How are you going to prove such understanding?

The exam consists of nine questions (12 marks) each containing several sub-questions worth one mark each, the total marks available are therefore 108.

All questions should be answered within 2.5 hours.

You may use the PRINCE2 manual during the exam, but no other reference material is allowed.

You will need to gain 55% of the marks to pass.

Exam preparation:

Ensure that you have completed some sample exam questions, the OTE format (a style of complex multiple-choice examination) is one with which you may not be familiar – don’t be surprised on exam day.

Be certain that you can navigate the manual quickly and easily – it is surprisingly easy to waste a lot of time trying to find information.

Attempt all the questions – this needs good time management. My experience says that you are more likely to pass if you make an attempt at all of the questions.

Read the questions carefully including any extra information.

Make sure that you understand the use of the words  ‘should’,’would’,’could’,’will’ etc in the questions.

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If you have a problem or you would just like to run an idea past an independent mind - call us - we always have time for our customers.

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Brain Surgery

No brain surgeon, no matter how talented, would consider operating on himself - he is too close to the problem!

So it is likely that the senior management of any organization are likely to also be too close when it comes to change and change management.

Why not let Core IS take a 'stand back' look so that we can offer help.

Often we can spot barriers to change that may not be obvious to the folks that are involved.

Barriers to successful change often include -

• Most people would rather maintain the status quo, so do not start making changes in good time.
• Failure to involve stakeholders in the early stages.
• Failure to create and communicate the 'vision'.
• Failure to deal with the barriers that delay change.
• Stopping before the change has been embedded into the organization

Why not call us for a chat today - 0845 833 3210

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The times they are a changin'

The times they are a changin' - so sang Bob Dylan, here in 2010 he could not have been more right!

Charles Darwin wrote that it is not the strongest that survive, nor the most intelligent, it is the most adaptable to change. So how good is your organization at adapting to changes in the world of business? Are you going to be among the fittest that survive? Perhaps your change management is so good that you will thrive not just survive.

Is it possible to know ahead of time who is the most likely to thrive? We at Core IS believe that it IS possible.

A while back we 'blogged' about our free one day consultancy offer, but did not give much detail, intentionally so, but perhaps that led to some misconceptions about exactly what we were offering. Perhaps I can put that right...

We propose coming to your organization no matter how big or small, spending a day looking at ways to improve the way that you handle change. At the end of the day if you wish we will sit down with your senior management and discuss our findings, we will follow that up with a written report containing the actions that we think you should take.

Of course we would like to think that you would hire us to help you to make the changes, but we will not be offended if you say 'Thanks, but no thanks'. If you do think that we can help to develop some processes that you can implement or if you decide that we can train your staff to help to ensure that your business thrives -GREAT! Having helped in whatever way that we can, we don't then leave you high and dry we are always at the end of a telephone or an email to add further help with particular problems.

So why not start a relationship with us today? Take us up on our offer. What can you lose? It's free!

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Who said 'It's good to talk'?

A Common Language

I have a friend who is the head teacher at a school in inner London (UK) where sixty four different languages are spoken. Most classes need at least one interpreter in attendance! Her biggest wish is for a common language - without one it is difficult to make progress and any progress made is really slow.

Does this ring a bell? Does your organisation suffer because programme and projects skills are not transferable?
Managing Successful Programmes and Prince2 are often accused of being full of jargon, but it is just the sort of thing that my head teacher friend wishes for every day.

Makes you think!

The Wedding Planner

A few weeks ago I was attending a meeting the hotel receptionist was discussing her daughter's wedding with her colleague. It became obvious that what was needed was some Project Management!

When I returned to the office I posted her a copy of our "No Nonsense PRINCE2" guide.

A couple of weeks later I received a thank you letter describing how they had used the process and some product based planning and how easy it made the task. Let's hope that they realised the benefits!

Just goes to show that PRINCE2 can be tailored to suit any project.