PRINCE2 PRINCE2-7-Practitioner - PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner (Version 7)

While preparing the project plan, the project manager and BuildyBrick's planning specialist use the product flow and data from previous projects to determine that the utilities and systems can be delivered in parallel as separate work packages.
Is this an appropriate application of the 'plans' practice, and why?

• A. Yes, because product dependencies determine sequence, and independent work packages may be planned to run in parallel
• B. No, because setting work-package tolerances determines the order in which products must be produced
• C. Yes, because data from previous projects should determine the schedule without reviewing the dependencies between the products
• D. No, because work delivered by the same supplier must be scheduled sequentially and should avoid running in parallel

During a periodic evaluation of the security-system work package, the team manager reviews the work package description, team plan, and the related issue, risk, quality, product, and lessons information. Missing electrical cabling means that installation is now forecast to finish one week late, exceeding the work-package time tolerance.
The team manager raises the issue with the project manager and reports the current status in the checkpoint report. Is this an appropriate application of the 'evaluate a work package' activity, and why?

• A. No, because only the project manager may evaluate the status of a work package and decide what it should report
• B. No, because a forecast work-package tolerance breach should be reported directly to the project board in an exception report
• C. Yes, because the team manager should review the work-package information, report progress for the agreed period, and notify the project manager when a tolerance is forecast to be exceeded
• D. Yes, because evaluation confirms that completed quality activities are recorded and that the current status is understood by the relevant parties

The Business Opportunities Director, acting as project executive, proposes that the Head of the Portfolio Office should perform business assurance and should also approve the viability of the business case and the achievability of the project plan.
Is this an appropriate application of the organization practice, and why?

• A. No, because a portfolio-office role may never perform assurance work for an individual project
• B. No, because assurance may review and provide confidence, but the project executive remains accountable for the business case
• C. Yes, because business assurance, rather than the project executive, owns the business case and project plan
• D. Yes, because appointing project assurance transfers the project executive's accountability to the assurance provider

During initiation, the project team holds a product-based planning workshop to break the site-preparation and foundation products into greater detail. The analysis identifies the need for a more comprehensive and costly environmental impact assessment because of Louistown's 'green town' status.
During which 'initiating a project' activity should this workshop take place?

• A. Agree the tailoring requirements
• B. Agree the management approaches
• C. Prepare the project plan
• D. Prepare the full business case

Before the end of stage 2, the project board authorizes a change that adds more trees and seating to the external landscaping. The change can be delivered in stage 3 without any forecast breach of project tolerance.
While preparing the next stage plan, the project manager incorporates the additional products and work, updates the relevant product descriptions and product register entries, and reviews whether the project initiation documentation needs to be updated.
Is this an appropriate application of 'prepare the next stage plan', and why?

• A. Yes, because the next stage plan should reflect authorized changes, with affected product information and the project initiation documentation updated where necessary
• B. Yes, because every authorized change must be implemented through an exception plan before the related work may enter the following stage
• C. No, because authorized changes should remain outside the next stage plan until the project has been re- authorized by the business layer
• D. No, because project assurance should prepare the next stage plan and update the affected product information independently of the project manager