PRINCE2® Practitioner Qualification
PRINCE2 Practitioner certification is the highest level of PRINCE2 qualification.
PRINCE2® Practitioner certification can be gained by completing a combined PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner course.
If you have already passed PRINCE2® Foundation then you can complete a PRINCE2® Practitioner upgrade course.
PRINCE2® Practitioner Syllabus
The Practitioner is the second of the two PRINCE2® examinations you are required to pass to become a PRINCE2® Practitioner.
This PRINCE2® examination is aiming to measure whether a candidate would be able to apply PRINCE2® to the running and managing of a project within an environment supporting PRINCE2®. To this end they need to exhibit the competence required for the Foundation qualification, and show that they can apply and tune PRINCE2® to address the needs and problems of a specific project scenario, specifically, candidates must be able to:
•Produce detailed explanations of all processes, components and techniques, and worked examples of all PRINCE2® products as they might be applied to address the particular circumstances of a given project scenario.
•Show they understand the relationships between processes, components, techniques and PRINCE2® products and can apply this understanding.
•Demonstrate that they understand the reasons behind the processes, components and techniques of PRINCE2®, and that they understand the principles underpinning these elements.
•Demonstrate their ability to tune PRINCE2® to different project circumstances.
The PRINCE2® Practitioner course suits:
This course is aimed at anyone wishing to gain the qualification, ideally having already achieved the PRINCE2® Foundation level qualification.
This course would benefit:
•Project Managers
•General Managers
•Programme Managers
•Team Managers and support staff
•Staff who will have a defined role
•Project Management Consultants
The new PRINCE2® Practitioner examination format
•9 questions, with a scenario background and appendices.
•Each of the 9 questions is worth 40 marks.
•An overall score of 180 out of a possible 360 is required to pass.
•Three hour duration.
•Open-book examination (only the PRINCE2® Manual is allowed)
Changes to the PRINCE2® Practitioner exam format
On the 1 st of September 2007 the PRINCE2® practitioner exam changed from a multiple choice (aka "OTE" - Objective Testing Exam) format as detailed above.
It is expected that the new PRINCE2® Practitioner exam format will mean that exam results are delivered quickly and that there is a greater consistency to the marking. This new PRINCE2® Practitioner exam format will also be more accep to the growing international market.
At first glance, it may seem that the change in format will make the PRINCE2® Practitioner exam slightly easier, however a broad knowledge is still required to pass and initial feedback confirms that the exam is very much at the same level as the previous format.
