PRINCE2 Foundation

What you will practice:

Core definitions, PRINCE2 integrated elements, project context, performance aspects, and delivery approaches tested at Foundation level.

• Integrated elements of PRINCE2: principles, people, practices, processes, and project context.
• Project vs project management; characteristics of a project and why project management is used.
• Project context and environment: constraints, stakeholders, governance, and organizational factors.
• Aspects of project performance to manage (for example: scope, time, cost, quality, risk, benefits, sustainability).
• Delivery approaches: linear-sequential, iterative-incremental, and hybrid.

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

The seven principles and how tailoring is justified, influenced, documented, and owned.

• Explain each principle: continued business justification; learn from experience; define roles and relationships; manage by stages; manage by exception; focus on products; tailor to suit the project.
• How and why principles underpin the application of PRINCE2.
• Tailoring factors: project scale, complexity, risk, delivery approach, organizational standards, and context.
• Tailoring responsibilities: who decides, who approves, and who maintains tailoring decisions.
• How tailoring decisions are documented (for example within the PID).

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

People-related concepts, distinctions, and management products that enable effective stakeholder engagement and change.

• Define: organizational ecosystem, project ecosystem, change management, stakeholder, culture, collaboration and co-creation, leadership, management.
• Distinguish: people within the project vs people affected; leadership vs management.
• Explain why change management matters and how stakeholder engagement and communication support successful delivery.
• Effective team considerations: diversity, capability, and competence.
• Purpose of PID approaches: change management approach and communication management approach; integration with other PRINCE2 elements.

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

Foundation-level understanding of PRINCE2 management products and how they support governance and control.

• Purpose of PRINCE2 management products and how they enable consistent control and decision-making.
• PID (Project Initiation Documentation): what it contains and why it is produced.
• Project log: what it is, what it captures, and how it supports day-to-day management.

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

Business justification, benefits, and sustainability management as the basis for ongoing decision-making.

• Purpose: Explain the purpose of the Business Case practice
• Principle links: Key relationships between Business Case practice and the principles
• Management products: Project brief, Business case, PID: Benefits management approach, PID: Sustainability management approach
• Key concepts: Output, Outcome, Benefit, Dis-benefit, Business objective
• Guidance: Business case lifecycle, Aligning products to business objectives and tolerances, Establishing business justification
• Technique: PRINCE2 technique for the Business Case practice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

Project governance, roles, team structures, and commercial considerations that enable effective direction and delivery.

• Purpose: Explain the purpose of the Organizing practice
• Principle links: Key relationships between Organizing practice and the principles
• Management products: PID: Project management team structure, PID: Role descriptions, PID: Commercial management approach
• Key concepts: Project board, Project team
• Guidance: The three project interests, PRINCE2 roles, Work breakdown structure
• Technique: PRINCE2 technique for the Organizing practice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

Product-based planning, plan types, dependencies, tolerances, and sustainable delivery planning.

• Purpose: Explain the purpose of the Plans practice
• Principle links: Key relationships between Plans practice and the principles
• Management products: Work package description, Project product description, Plan (including project, stage, team, and exception plans)
• Key concepts: Schedule, Dependency, Project plan, Stage plan, Team plan, Exception plan, Scope
• Guidance: Planning horizon, Project stages, Product-based planning, Using tolerances to manage constraints, Delivery sustainability
• Technique: PRINCE2 technique for the Plans practice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

User quality expectations, acceptance criteria, quality planning/control/assurance, and quality-related registers.

• Purpose: Explain the purpose of the Quality practice
• Principle links: Key relationships between Quality practice and the principles
• Management products: Product description, PID: Quality management approach, Project log: Quality register, Project log: Product register
• Key concepts: User quality expectations, Acceptance criteria, Quality specifications, Requirements
• Guidance: Quality planning, Quality control, Quality assurance
• Technique: PRINCE2 technique for the Quality practice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

Threats and opportunities, risk appetite/tolerance, analysis/control, and response planning using the PRINCE2 technique.

• Purpose: Explain the purpose of the Risk practice
• Principle links: Key relationships between Risk practice and the principles
• Management products: PID: Risk management approach, Project log: Risk register
• Key concepts: A risk (threat or opportunity based on uncertainty), Risk appetite, Risk tolerance, Cause-event-effect, Risk exposure, Risk owner and risk action owner, Risk probability, Risk impact
• Guidance: Risk planning, Risk analysis, Risk control, Risk culture, Decision bias (understanding bias), Recommended risk response types, Use of data
• Technique: PRINCE2 technique for the Risk practice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

Issue types, baselines, change control, delegation of authority, and managing requests for change or off-specifications.

• Purpose: Explain the purpose of the Issues practice
• Principle links: Key relationships between Issues practice and the principles
• Management products: PID: Issue management approach, Project log: Issue register, Issue report
• Key concepts: Issue, including types such as:, Change, Problem/concern, Business opportunity, Request for change, Off-specification, Project baseline, Change control
• Guidance: Baselines, Issue resolution, Change control, Delegating authority for changes, Change budget
• Technique: PRINCE2 technique for the Issues practice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

Controls, reporting, tolerances, forecasting, escalation, lessons, and digital/data management for progress.

• Purpose: Explain the purpose of the Progress practice
• Principle links: Key relationships between Progress practice and the principles
• Management products: Checkpoint report, Highlight report, End stage report, End project report, Lessons report, Exception report, Project log: Daily log, Project log: Lessons log, ...
• Key concepts: Forecast, Exception, Tolerance, Event-driven and time-driven controls
• Guidance: Tolerances for progress control, Types of control, Reviewing progress and lessons, Reporting progress and lessons, Forecasting, Escalating, Use of data and systems in progress management
• Technique: PRINCE2 technique for the Progress practice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

The seven PRINCE2 processes and what candidates must understand for each: purpose, objectives, and context.

• For each process, explain purpose, objectives, and context (what triggers it and what it achieves).
• Processes included: Starting up a Project, Directing a Project, Initiating a Project, Controlling a Stage, Managing Product Delivery, Managing a Stage Boundary, Closing a Project.

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.