PRINCE2 7 Pract. · PeopleCert · Plans practice · Bank updated 2026-07-03
PRINCE2 7 Pract. practice questions: Plans practice
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1/5 · Plans practice · easy
During project initiation, a Project Manager first drafts the Product Breakdown Structure, then compiles detailed Product Descriptions for each product, and only afterwards writes the Project Product Description. A colleague reviewing the initiation documents questions this sequence. Which assessment is correct?
AThe sequence is correct, provided the Project Product Description is completed before the plan is approved by the Project Board, regardless of when it was drafted relative to the other steps.
BThe sequence is incorrect: the Project Product Description should be written first, since it defines the overall scope and quality expectations that the other steps are derived from.
CThe sequence is correct: PRINCE2 does not prescribe an order for product-based planning steps, so any order producing the four outputs is equally valid.
DThe sequence is incorrect: the Product Flow Diagram must always be produced before the Product Breakdown Structure so dependencies can inform the hierarchy.
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2/5 · Plans practice
A Project Manager is directly supervising a small in-house team of three developers with no separate Team Manager appointed; work is coordinated through daily conversations and a shared task board. A quality reviewer asks why no formal Team Plan has been produced. Which response best reflects PRINCE2 guidance?
AA Team Plan is optional, typically produced when work is delegated to a Team Manager (e.g. an external supplier); where the Project Manager manages the team directly, the Stage Plan can provide sufficient detail.
BA Team Plan is only required once the project enters the closing process, so its absence during delivery is not yet a concern.
CA Team Plan is required only for teams larger than five people, so a three-person team is explicitly exempt under PRINCE2's minimum requirements.
DA Team Plan is mandatory for every team regardless of who manages it, so its absence is a non-compliance with the Plans practice.
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3/5 · Plans practice
Three weeks into a six-week stage, actual progress is slightly behind plan, but the forecast completion date remains comfortably within the stage's approved tolerance. The Project Manager updates the Stage Plan's remaining activities to reflect this progress. Should the Project Manager instead produce an Exception Plan?
ANo: an Exception Plan is only produced when a forecast breach of tolerance is anticipated; updating remaining activities within tolerance is normal progress control.
BYes: the Project Board must approve every revision to a Stage Plan's remaining activities, and only an Exception Plan carries the necessary approval authority.
CNo: Exception Plans are only ever used to replace a Project Plan, never a Stage Plan, so one would not apply here regardless of tolerance status.
DYes: any change to a previously approved Stage Plan, however minor, requires a formal Exception Plan to maintain baseline integrity.
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4/5 · Plans practice
During project startup, a project manager has completed the project product description, capturing the overall scope, quality expectations and acceptance criteria for the project's final output. Following the recommended approach to product-based planning, what should the project manager undertake next, before writing product descriptions for the individual specialist products?
AAsk each work-package owner to write and submit their own product description independently, then merge the results into a single plan.
BBuild a Gantt chart identifying the activities, owners and durations needed to deliver the project.
CCreate a product breakdown structure that decomposes the project's final output into its component products, grouped in a logical hierarchy.
DProduce the product flow diagram showing the sequence in which the specialist products will be developed and their dependencies.
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C is correct. PRINCE2's product-based planning technique follows a defined sequence: write the project product description, create the product breakdown structure, write product descriptions for the identified products, then produce the product flow diagram. Jumping to activities or descriptions before decomposing the products risks gaps or duplication in scope.
↗ the official PRINCE2 7 Practitioner syllabus (PeopleCert, 2023) — Plans practice
5/5 · Plans practice
While constructing a product flow diagram for a stage covering data migration, the team identifies a 'cleansed legacy data extract' that will be supplied by the operations department outside the project, and is required as an input before the 'migrated data set' product can be created. How should this item be treated on the product flow diagram?
ALeft off the diagram entirely, because a product flow diagram only ever shows products that the project itself creates.
BShown as an external product, since it is a needed input to the diagram but is not created by the project team.
CAdded to the product breakdown structure as though it were a specialist product the project team must deliver.
DRecorded only in the stage plan's narrative as a general dependency, without any reference on the product flow diagram.
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B is correct. The product flow diagram captures the sequence and dependencies between products needed to complete a plan, and it explicitly recognises external products — items required as inputs that the project does not itself produce. Representing them correctly avoids confusing supplier dependencies with project deliverables.
↗ the official PRINCE2 7 Practitioner syllabus (PeopleCert, 2023) — Plans practice
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