The correct answer is D . During agree the management approaches , the project determines how the various aspects of management will be handled and ensures that those approaches align with relevant organizational strategies, policies, standards, and established practices. A project operating within a portfolio does not develop its digital and data arrangements in isolation.

The LOB portfolio office is therefore an appropriate source of specialist support because it can ensure that the project’s digital and data management approach conforms to portfolio-wide data governance standards and technical requirements . This can include requirements concerning information architecture, access, security, storage, retention, tooling, ownership, and integration with portfolio information systems.

Option A is incorrect because PRINCE2 does not mandate the stated rigid sequencing in which the digital and data management approach must always be finalized before the communication management approach. Management approaches are interdependent and may be developed iteratively. Option B describes legitimate content of digital and data management but does not explain why the portfolio office’s involvement is specifically appropriate. Option C makes an unsupported generalization about linear-sequential delivery necessarily producing more documentation than iterative or incremental delivery.

The decisive factor is organizational alignment: project-specific management arrangements must operate consistently with applicable business and portfolio standards.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Initiating a project; agree the management approaches; digital and data management approach; portfolio standards; governance; tailoring.

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The correct answer is B — Organization . The organization practice defines the project’s structure of accountability and responsibility and ensures that the business, user, and supplier interests are appropriately represented throughout the project.

The proposed appointment concerns representation of the supplier interest on the project board . The senior supplier is accountable for ensuring that the specialist products can be designed and delivered and that suitable supplier resources, expertise, and technical capability are available. Where the supplier environment changes substantially between stages, the suitability of the project management team should be reconsidered rather than assuming that the original organizational structure must remain unchanged for the entire project.

The replacement subcontractor is expected to undertake the utilities and systems work during stage 3. It is therefore appropriate at the stage boundary to assess whether its account manager should provide senior supplier representation for the forthcoming stage.

Option A, plans, concerns what will be delivered and how, when, and by whom at the planning level, but the specific decision being described concerns project-governance representation. Option C concerns establishing and controlling product quality. Option D concerns monitoring actual and forecast performance against authorized plans and tolerances.

The scenario therefore applies the organization practice within managing a stage boundary to ensure that the governance structure remains appropriate for the next stage.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Organization practice; senior supplier; project board; supplier interest; managing a stage boundary; project organization.

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The correct answer is A . The purpose of the business case is to provide the information needed to determine whether the project represents a desirable, viable, and achievable investment. Developing that justification requires the project to evaluate credible alternatives rather than assuming that the initially proposed solution is automatically the optimum investment.

The option without the underground car park is described as credible. It is therefore appropriate for the project manager to include an investment appraisal of that option so that decision-makers can compare its costs, benefits, risks, dis-benefits, and overall value with those of the preferred solution. The main contractor’s objection does not remove the project’s responsibility to examine legitimate business alternatives; supplier preferences must not determine investment justification.

Option B is incorrect because PRINCE2 does not impose a universal requirement for customer and supplier organizations to maintain completely separate business cases. Option C incorrectly treats initial scope as immutable. During development of the business case, alternative configurations can be evaluated when this helps determine the most appropriate investment. Option D similarly assumes that one anticipated benefit—parking income—precludes examination of other options. A benefit is an input to investment appraisal, not a reason to suppress alternatives.

The scenario therefore demonstrates objective option appraisal as part of sound business justification.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Business case practice; business options; investment appraisal; justification; desirability, viability and achievability; initiating a project.

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The correct answer is D . The confirm project acceptance activity ensures that the project’s products have been accepted by the appropriate parties and that responsibility can be transferred from the temporary project organization to the operational environment. Successful closure requires more than confirming that physical construction has finished; the organization receiving the project product must also be ready to operate and maintain it.

The project manager is therefore correct to verify that the Council’s operations and facilities teams are prepared to take responsibility for the completed shopping centre before BuildyBrick’s remaining supplier personnel demobilize. This provides confidence that handover is complete, operational responsibilities are understood, and the completed product can move safely into business-as-usual use.

Option A relates more closely to evaluating project performance and producing closure reporting rather than confirming operational acceptance. Option B may be an appropriate people-management activity in some circumstances, but it is not the purpose of confirm project acceptance. Option C reverses the logical emphasis: archiving project information is part of closure administration, but the acceptance of the completed project product is not dependent on every project record first being archived.

The essential control is confirmation that the receiving operational and maintenance environment can take ownership of the completed project product.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Closing a project; confirm project acceptance; handover; operational and maintenance environment; acceptance; transition to business as usual.

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The correct answer is D . PRINCE2 distinguishes between the risk owner and the risk action owner . The risk owner is responsible for managing, monitoring, and controlling an assigned risk, including ensuring that an appropriate response is established. A risk action owner is responsible for carrying out a specific agreed response action.

In the scenario, the project executive may legitimately be assigned ownership if that allocation is appropriate to the nature and significance of the risk. However, the response consists of operational activities—surveying buildings and monitoring vibration—that will actually be performed by specialists. Naming the project manager as the sole action owner merely because the project manager coordinates project delivery does not accurately allocate responsibility for implementing those specific actions.

Option A therefore overstates the requirement for the project manager to own every response action. Option B focuses only on seniority and potential effect on business justification, rather than addressing the inappropriate action ownership. Option C is incorrect because PRINCE2 does not require the risk owner and risk action owner to be the same person.

Clear allocation matters because it establishes precisely who monitors the overall exposure and who is accountable for implementing each agreed response action.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Risk practice; risk owner; risk action owner; risk responses; ownership and accountability; risk register.

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The correct answer is A — Authorize a work package . Within the controlling a stage process, the project manager formally delegates responsibility for producing one or more products through a work package . Authorization establishes the controlled interface between the project manager and the team manager and gives the team manager authority to begin the agreed specialist work.

In this scenario, the request for change has already been approved, BuildyBrick has agreed to produce the promotional video, and its product description has been prepared. The remaining action is therefore to formally instruct the BuildyBrick team manager to commence production. That instruction belongs to the authorize a work package activity.

During authorization, the work package description should be reviewed and co-created as appropriate with the team manager. The project manager confirms relevant products, constraints, tolerances, reporting arrangements, quality requirements, interfaces, and other applicable information before obtaining the team manager’s acceptance and authorizing work to begin.

Option B concerns monitoring an already authorized work package. Option C concerns capturing newly identified issues and risks, whereas the request for change has already been dealt with. Option D involves corrective action within the project manager’s delegated authority when actual or forecast performance requires intervention; it is not the standard mechanism for authorizing new specialist work.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Controlling a stage; authorize a work package; work package description; project manager/team manager interface; Ref. 16.4.1.

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The correct answer is B — Appoint the project executive and manager . During starting up a project , the business layer ensures that appropriate project leadership is established and that the prospective project executive understands the mandate, organizational context, and principal business expectations attached to the proposed project.

The information described in the scenario—strategic importance to the LOB portfolio, the expectation that the project will increase business opportunities, and the required completion timeframe—is fundamental business direction. It provides context within which the executive will subsequently ensure that an appropriate project organization and initial business justification are established.

Option A occurs when the wider project management team is designed and appointed. Although role requirements and representation are addressed there, the scenario specifically concerns the initial relationship between the business layer and the prospective executive. Option C concerns deciding how the project’s products should be delivered, such as the delivery method and sourcing approach. It does not principally establish the executive’s understanding of the mandate. Option D concerns preparing the plan for the initiation stage, including the activities, resources, timescale, and controls required to perform initiation.

Therefore, clarification of the mandate and business expectations appropriately accompanies establishment of the executive and project manager roles.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Starting up a project; appoint the project executive and project manager; project mandate; business layer; initial project leadership.

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The correct answer is C . PRINCE2 applies management by exception through a hierarchy of delegated authority. The project board establishes the management stage within which the project manager operates, whereas the project manager normally authorizes individual work packages and agrees their requirements and tolerances with the relevant team managers.

The problem in the scenario is therefore not the existence of recycling or sustainability tolerances. Such measurable constraints may legitimately be delegated to a delivery team when they are relevant to its work. The problem is that the project board bypasses the project manager and directly inserts detailed work-package tolerances without those delegated targets being agreed through the normal work-package authorization relationship.

Option A incorrectly creates a direct routine control relationship between the project board and team managers. Option B similarly conflicts with the normal reporting structure: team managers report work-package progress to the project manager, while the project manager provides appropriate progress information to the project board. Option D is incorrect because sustainability performance can be translated into delegated targets and tolerances at lower management levels when appropriate.

The project manager should therefore authorize the relevant work packages, agree achievable delegated tolerances with team managers, and monitor performance against them within the overall stage tolerances authorized by the project board.

PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Progress practice; management by exception; work packages; tolerances; project manager/team manager interface; delegated authority.

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