EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following would be carried out as part of a post-project benefits review?

Question2: Which of the following are valid risk responses for threats?

Question3: Which of the following is a quality review team role?

Question4: Which of the following is FALSE?

Question5: Which step in the issue and change control procedure would be used to evaluate the alternative options to respond to an issue?

Question6: Which describes risk appetite?

Question7: In respect of the project's organization structure, one of the seven principles of PRINCE2 is that every project must have which one of the following?

Question8: What name is given to the permissible deviation allowed above and below a plan's target for time and cost without escalating the deviation to the next level of management?

Question9: Which project management team role has a specific responsibility for ensuring that the quality activities relating to products at all stages has appropriate user representation?

Question10: What role is responsible for creating a Team Plan in the Managing Product Delivery process?

Question11: What is a purpose of the Business Case theme?

Question12: Which of the following is a request for change?

Question13: Which of the following describes risk proximity?

Question14: Who determines the use of a change authority and change budget during project initiation?

Question15: In which process would a concern about the amount of stage tolerance remaining be recorded in the Issue Register?

Question16: What is risk appetite?

Question17: How does the Progress theme assist the Project Board to assess project viability at regular intervals?

Question18: Who are allowed to raise an issue?

Question19: Which role has a specific responsibility for planning, monitoring and managing the team's work?

Question20: Identify the missing words in the following sentence.... The Managing a Stage Boundary process is predicated on dividing the project into [?]

Question21: Which of the following are a purpose of an Issue Report?
1.Document an off-specification
2.Record an issue's resolution
3.Capture all problems or concerns within the project
4.Capture recommendations for handling a request for change

Question22: Which product is used to inform the Project Board of a forecast deviation of stage-level tolerance?

Question23: Which is a purpose of the Business Case theme?

Question24: The Controlling a Stage process is used for which of the following?

Question25: Are the right people being involved in writing Product Descriptions is a question for which role to answer?

Question26: Which is the base product against which the Project Board and Project Manager can assess progress, issues and questions regarding ongoing viability?

Question27: Which level of management in the project management team has the ability to review progress and decide whether to continue, change or stop the project?

Question28: What is NOT identified when creating a product breakdown structure?

Question29: Which statement describes risk cause?

Question30: Which product would be updated to show that a decision has been made on an off-specification which has now been closed?

Question31: The outputs from a PRINCE2 project are considered to be what?

Question32: Which of the following is a specific objective of the Managing Product Delivery process?

Question33: Which of the following is NOT a PRINCE2 Principle?

Question34: What characteristic relates to a project having a defined start and defined end?

Question35: What principle is supported by the Project Product Description?

Question36: Which of the following steps would involve the actioning of any planned risk responses and monitoring their effectiveness?

Question37: Which is an objective of the Closing a Project process?

Question38: Whose responsibility is it to assure the project's stakeholders that the project remains desirable, viable and achievable at all times?

Question39: What is the trigger for the Starting up a Project process?

Question40: Which role does PRINCE2 state would contribute expertise in specialist tools and techniques such as planning and control tools and risk analysis?

Question41: Which role is the key decision-maker on the project management team?

Question42: In PRINCE2, the information regarding the business justification for the project is normally documented in which management product?

Question43: A pre-requisite of effective issue and change control is the establishment of which of the following?

Question44: According to PRINCE2, which of the following roles can the Project Manager also undertake?

Question45: Identify the missing words in the following sentence... A PRINCE2 project focuses on [ ? ], in particular their quality requirements

Question46: Which is NOT an objective of the Directing a Project process?

Question47: Which of the following steps looks at the aggregated net effect of a project's threats and opportunities?

Question48: Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Question49: If, for whatever reason, the business justification disappears once the project is underway, what does PRINCE2 suggest should happen?

Question50: Which product is used to record information regarding any issues that are being managed informally?

Question51: When it is forecast that one or more tolerances are to be exceeded, what should happen first?

Question52: What process enables an organization to understand the work that needs to be done to deliver a project's products before it is approved?

Question53: Which product is continuously maintained in order to inform the Project Manager of where a product is at any time, what its status is and who is working on it?

Question54: Select the missing words from the following sentence... The Senior User is responsible for ensuring that the project produces products which will deliver the desired [ ? ].

Question55: In what product would a product's quality tolerance be defined?

Question56: Which role is part of the project management team?

Question57: Which product would contain information on project and stage tolerance status, products completed during the period and a summary of actual or potential problems and risks?

Question58: Which is a purpose of a Configuration Management Strategy?

Question59: Which is a definition of a risk cause?

Question60: What environment does PRINCE2 assume?

Question61: Which of the following statements are correct regarding the use of management stages?
1.Provide review and decision points
2.Enable key decisions to be made prior to the detailed work
3.Facilitate the manage by exception principle
4.Enables the project manager to have complete autonomy over the products to be produced

Question62: Which of the following shows the scope of a plan?

Question63: Whose responsibility is it to ensure that the project is focused throughout its life on achieving its objectives?

Question64: In which situation might the Controlling a Stage process be used?

Question65: When producing an Exception Plan for a stage, why would the Quality Register be updated?

Question66: For whom does the Senior User make decisions on behalf of?

Question67: Which product identifies the source products from which a product is to be derived?

Question68: What is a purpose of a Lessons Log?

Question69: What is NOT an objective of the Directing a Project process?

Question70: Which of the following steps looks at the aggregated net effect of a project's treats and opportunities?

Question71: Which of the following, produced in the Starting Up a Project process, defines the way the project is to be delivered after evaluating the various delivery methods?

Question72: Which of the following is FALSE regarding an Exception Report?

Question73: Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence... PRINCE2 recommends three [ ? ] to reflect the needs of the different levels of management involved in a project.

Question74: According to PRINCE2, as well as holding informal problems/concerns, which product can also be used to record required actions or significant events not caught elsewhere?

Question75: Which is NOT an event-driven control?

Question76: Which product is the Executive specifically responsible for overseeing the development of?

Question77: Which of the following are a purpose of the Benefits Review Plan?
1.Define how a measurement of the achievement of the project's benefits can be made
2.Define what benefits assessments need to be undertaken
3.Define the project, in order to form the basis for its management and an assessment of its overall success
4.Define the activities required to measure the expected project's benefits

Question78: Which process would ensure that there is continued business justification?

Question79: Are the following statements regarding the Communication Management Strategy true?
1.Defines how and where the project's products will be stored
2.Contains a description of the means and frequency of communication to parties both internal and external to the project

Question80: When authorizing a stage, in which product would the Project Board look for an explanation of any deviations from the approved plans that are within tolerance?

Question81: Which of the following are product-based planning tasks? 1. Write a Project Product Description.
2. Identify activities and dependencies 3. Create a product breakdown structure. 4. Create a product flow diagram

Question82: Which is an objective of the Managing a Stage Boundary process?

Question83: Which of the following is a Project Board control?

Question84: Which of the following would be done during the initiation stage?

Question85: Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence... The development and maintenance of a credible [?] provides a baseline against which progress can be measured.

Question86: The PRINCE2 principle 'focus on products' states that a successful project is which one of the following?

Question87: Identify the missing words in the following sentence... A Project is a that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to an agreed Business Case?

Question88: Which of the following steps would involve the actioning of a planned response to an opportunity and monitoring its effectiveness?

Question89: Which of the following PRINCE2 elements are described as being the guiding obligations and good practices which determine whether the project is being managed using PRINCE2?

Question90: Who are allowed to raise issues?

Question91: Which of the following is a typical activity of a configuration management procedure?

Question92: The Managing Product Delivery process views the project from which role's perspective?

Question93: Which of the following are benefits of using PRINCE2?
1.Provides a common vocabulary for all project participants, promoting effective communication
2.Promotes regular progress meetings for senior management
3.Plans are carefully designed to meet the needs of the different levels in the project organization, improving communication and control
4.Defines a thorough but economic structure of reports

Question94: Which is a purpose of a Configuration Item Record?

Question95: Which of the following would be defined within the Project Brief?

Question96: A pre-requisite of effective issue and change control is the establishment of which of the following?

Question97: What is a responsibility of the business representative on the Project Board?

Question98: Which is NOT established as part of the Starting Up a Project process?

Question99: When is the Risk Management Strategy produced?

Question100: Which role is accountable to corporate or programme management for the ultimate success of the project?

Question101: Which of the following is within the context of the Closing a Project process?

Question102: Which is NOT a factor to consider when defining management stages?

Question103: Once the project has been authorized, within which process are checks made for any necessary changes to the project management team or their role descriptions?

Question104: Which theme has a purpose of providing the mechanisms to forecast the project's continued viability?

Question105: Where would a Team Manager find information regarding the specific quality required for a product?

Question106: Which role has a specific responsibility for identifying and advising the Project Manager of any issues and risks associated with a Work Package?

Question107: Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence... Quality planning provides the definition of the required products with their associated [ ? ] as a foundation for Project Board agreement.

Question108: Which process can trigger a premature close of the project?

Question109: Which process has a specific objective to ensure there is business justification for initiating the project?

Question110: Which of the following is NOT a typical activity of a configuration management procedure?

Question111: Which product would be updated with the planned quality management activities for the next stage of the project?

Question112: Within the PRINCE2 customer/supplier environment, what is a supplier responsibility?

Question113: What is NOT a purpose of the End Stage Report?

Question114: Which theme includes the estimating of the effort required to develop the project's products?

Question115: Which of the following is NOT within the authority of the Project Board?

Question116: Which product establishes the baseline against which the project's actual performance is compared?

Question117: Which product would be updated to show that a decision has been made to accept an off-specification?

Question118: Identify the missing word in the following sentence... A Project Board member is responsible for [?] Assurance

Question119: Are the following statements regarding technical stages true or false?
1.There can be more than one technical stage per management stage
2.The work can be grouped by the set of techniques used or the products created

Question120: Which is NOT a purpose of the Plans theme?

Question121: Which of the following risk responses can be used to seize an opportunity to ensure a risk will occur?

Question122: Which of the following products is used after the Starting Up a Project process to capture and maintain information on all of the identified threats and opportunities relating to the project?

Question123: Please refer to section 8.2.1 in the PRINCE2 Manual. (The answer describes a 'favourable' impact on objectives, i.e. an opportunity, the other options are 'negative' impacts, so would be threats)

Question124: Why does PRINCE2 recommend having three levels of plan?

Question125: Which of the following are correct regarding the definition of a technical stage?
1.Technical stages never overlap
2.They are typified by the use of a particular set of specialist skills
3.Cover elements such as design, build and implementation
4.The work can be grouped by the set of techniques used

Question126: What is a purpose of the Initiating a Project process?

Question127: Identify the missing word(s) from the following sentence. A project is a temporary organization that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to an agreed?

Question128: Which process ensures that provision has been made to address any open issues of risks, with follow-on action recommendations?

Question129: Which of the following information does a Product Description provide?
1.Necessary abilities of the people needed to produce the product
2.Why the product is needed and what it will look like
3.Necessary abilities of the people needed to review the product
4.Time and cost needed to produce the product

Question130: What product is reviewed by the Project Manager as part of progress assessment to determine whether a Work Package is performing to the agreed cost and time tolerances?

Question131: What process covers the acceptance and execution of project work by external suppliers?

Question132: Which of the following describes the situation when an Issue Report would be produced?

Question133: What is the goal of the 'Identify context' step within the recommended risk management procedure?

Question134: If any type of issue or risk (or aggregation of them) cannot be resolved within the tolerances set by the Project Board, which of the following products would first be sent to the Project Board to inform them of this deviation?

Question135: The creation of an Exception Plan often follows which situation?

Question136: Which PRINCE2 role has a specific responsibility for referring to the Project Board if any delegated limits of authority or allocated change budget are forecast to be exceeded?

Question137: Which of the following documents the quality techniques, standards and procedures to be applied during the project?

Question138: Which is a specific responsibility of Project Assurance?

Question139: Who is responsible for providing the project mandate?

Question140: What's the purpose of the 'Plan' step within the risk management procedure?

Question141: What is produced by the Project Manager to define and keep control of the work to build products?

Question142: What is defined within the Organization theme?

Question143: Which of the following is a PRINCE2 principle?

Question144: What is a purpose of a Daily Log?

Question145: Which product produced at project closure would document any unfinished work, ongoing issues and risks?

Question146: What is a purpose of the Communication Management Strategy?

Question147: Which level of management has control over a Work Package, as long as they are within the Work Package tolerances?

Question148: The reviewer(s) and approver(s) of a particular product are identified in which of the following?

Question149: Which PRINCE2 principle supports planning only to a level of detail that is manageable and foreseeable?

Question150: What is a purpose of the Risk Management Strategy?

Question151: Which of the following does PRINCE2 recognize as being project characteristics?
1.Projects are the means by which we introduce business change
2.Projects have a defined start and end
3.No project is unique
4.Projects often cross the normal functional divisions within an organization

Question152: What process ensures that plans for achieving the expected benefits are managed and reviewed?

Question153: If a Work Package is forecast to exceed its tolerances, how should a Team Manager inform the Project Manager?

Question154: The creation of an Exception Plan often follows which of the following situations?

Question155: Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence... The purpose of the Closing a Project process is to provide a fixed point at which acceptance for the [?] is confirmed.

Question156: Which of the following would contain the business option of doing nothing, regarding the project's investment?

Question157: Identify the missing words in the following sentence... A PRINCE2 project is and controlled on a stage-by-stage basis?

Question158: Which is a characteristic of a project?

Question159: Identify the missing words in the following sentence... PRINCE2 management stages equate to [?], which is a factor that differentiates them from technical stages

Question160: In what process are the project's risk management techniques and standards defined?

Question161: Which process provides an opportunity to ensure that all unachieved goals and objectives are identified?

Question162: Identify the missing words in the following sentence. The Project Board will allocate tolerances [ ? ] to the Project Manager.

Question163: Identify the missing word from the following sentence... PRINCE2 uses the [ ? ] to define how issues will be handled

Question164: Which is an objective of the quality review technique?

Question165: In which product are acceptance criteria documented?

Question166: The Project Board needs to assess project viability at certain points as defined in the Project Plan. How does the Progress theme assist this?

Question167: Which role has a specific responsibility for referring to the Project Board if any delegated limits of authority or allocated change budget are forecast to be exceeded?

Question168: Which process would check and accept Work Packages?

Question169: Which of the following are uses of the Risk Register during the Controlling a Stage process?
1.Obtain details on risks to include in a Highlight Report
2.Obtain details of risks that may affect the Stage Plan for the next stage
3.Capture uncertainties identified when authorizing a Work Package
4.Obtain details of any potential impacts that may affect the Business Case while reviewing the stage status

Question170: Which of the following is a specific quality review role responsible for submitting questions on a product?