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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 principles, themes and processes 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 principles, themes and processes and PRINCE2 products and can apply this understanding.
Demonstrate that they understand the reasons behind the principles, themes and processes 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 12 marks.
An overall score of 59 out of a possible 108 is required to pass.
2.5 hour duration.
Open-book examination (only the PRINCE2 Manual is allowed)

Changes to the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam format

On the 1st 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 acceptable 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.