PRINCE2 7 Found. · PeopleCert · Progress practice · Bank updated 2026-07-03
PRINCE2 7 Found. practice questions: Progress practice
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1/5 · Progress practice · easy
According to PRINCE2 7, what is the primary purpose of the progress practice?
ATo provide a structure for evaluating whether the project remains desirable, viable and achievable purely in investment terms.
BTo ensure that products are fit for purpose and meet the acceptance criteria defined by the customer.
CTo establish mechanisms to monitor and compare actual achievements against those planned, provide a forecast for the project objectives and continued viability, and control any unacceptable deviations.
DTo define the roles, responsibilities and reporting lines for everyone involved in delivering the project.
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2/5 · Progress practice
A project manager forecasts that the current management stage will exceed its cost tolerance and raises an exception report. The project board reviews the situation and decides that the stage should continue under a revised plan. What should the project manager produce to replace the remainder of the current stage plan?
AA new project brief to restart the project from initiation.
BAn exception plan, covering the period from the present time to the end of the current stage.
CA highlight report summarising progress since the last report.
DA checkpoint report from each team manager.
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3/5 · Progress practice · easy
In PRINCE2 7, who is responsible for producing highlight reports, and who is the primary audience for them?
AProject support produces highlight reports for the project assurance role only.
BThe project board produces highlight reports for corporate or programme management.
CThe project manager produces highlight reports for the project board, at a frequency agreed with the board.
DThe team manager produces highlight reports for the project manager, at a frequency set by corporate or programme management.
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4/5 · Progress practice · hard
A project manager is approaching the planned end of a management stage. Before the project board will authorise the next stage, the project manager must present a management product that compares actual stage performance against the approved stage plan and justifies the plan for the next stage. Which management product is this?
AA checkpoint report.
BThe end stage report.
CA highlight report.
DAn exception report.
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5/5 · Progress practice · hard
During a management stage, the project manager forecasts that a supplier delay will cause a key product to miss its agreed quality tolerance. Before any revised plan is produced, what should the project manager do first?
ASubmit a highlight report noting the quality concern for information, and wait until the next scheduled stage boundary for the board to consider it.
BUpdate the quality register and proceed without informing the project board, since quality tolerance is managed solely by the project manager.
CRaise an exception report to the project board describing the deviation, the available options and a recommendation.
DIssue an exception plan replacing the stage plan for the board's immediate approval, without first describing the deviation and options.
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C is correct. PRINCE2 separates the escalation step from the re-planning step: a forecast tolerance breach is first raised as an exception report, which sets out the deviation, its causes, options and a recommendation for the next management level to decide on. Only if that level requests it does the project manager go on to produce an exception plan to replace the exceeded plan; reporting routinely or silently absorbing the deviation are both misapplications of the process.
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