PRINCE2 PRINCE2-7-Foundation Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 17

A characteristic of a project is that it involves a team with different skills. Projects typically require a combination of various skills and expertise to deliver the project's products. This collaboration of diverse skills sets projects apart from regular, routine business activities, which may not require such varied expertise.

Reference: PRINCE2 7 Foundation handbook and documents.

The Project Manager role in PRINCE2 is primarily responsible for ensuring that the project produces the required products, to the defined standards of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost. This central responsibility involves coordinating all project activities and resources to achieve the project objectives.

Reference: PRINCE2 7 Foundation resources and materials.

The Progress theme provides all management levels within the project management team with mechanisms for monitoring and control. This theme ensures that there are clear benchmarks for performance and mechanisms in place to assess progress throughout the project's life cycle.

Reference: PRINCE2 Foundation Training Manual; PRINCE2 2017 Foundation handbook.

The Controlling a Stage process ensures focus on the delivery of a stage's products and helps avoid uncontrolled change by managing by exception, authorizing work packages, and monitoring the stage's progress against its plan.

Reference: PRINCE2 Foundation Training Manual; PRINCE2 2017 Foundation handbook.

The Project Brief is created during the Starting up a Project process. It defines and confirms the scope of the project, providing a foundation for the Initiation Stage and ensuring that all project stakeholders have a clear understanding of the project's objectives and scope.

Reference: PRINCE2 Foundation Training Manual; PRINCE2 2017 Foundation handbook.

A minimum requirement for applying the Quality theme is to use lessons learned to inform quality planning. This ensures that insights gained from past projects or earlier phases of the current project are used to improve quality management practices throughout the project's lifecycle.

Reference: PRINCE2 Foundation Training Manual; PRINCE2 2017 Foundation handbook.

The 'Directing a Project' process in PRINCE2 starts when the 'Starting up a Project' process is completed. This transition is triggered by the request to initiate a project. At this point, the project has been preliminarily assessed, and a project brief and initiation documentation are ready to be developed during the 'Initiating a Project' process, pending authorization from the Project Board to proceed.

Reference: PRINCE2 7 Foundation handbook and official documents.

The process used to define how baselines will be established and controlled is 'Initiating a Project'. During this process, the project's management strategies, including quality, risk, communication, and configuration management strategies, are defined. These strategies include how baselines for the project's products and plans will be established and controlled throughout the project lifecycle.

Reference: PRINCE2 7 Foundation resources and study materials.

The risk response type that is applied on a pain/gain basis is 'Share'. Sharing involves partnering with others to share the impact of the risk. This is often used for both threats and opportunities where sharing the risk can enhance the capability to capitalize on the opportunity or mitigate the threat, with potential gains or savings being distributed according to an agreed formula.

Reference: PRINCE2 7 Foundation handbook and documents.