Benefits
There are some great benefits to studying for your PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner certification at weekends, including:
- You don’t lose money (if you’re a contractor)
- You don’t need to take time off work
- You’ll be traveling to and from the course when it isn’t so busy (nobody likes London during the weekday rush hour!)
- It takes less time than a normal weekday course
- You have more time in between the Foundation and Practitioner parts to do further study and to reflect upon what you learned in the Foundation part.
Timings
Preparation
You’ll need to complete 7 hours of precourse reading. This is available online.
Homework
Homework of 2 hours on each Saturday night will be set. Homework in between the 2 weekends might be up to 4-5 hours.
Timetable
This course lasts for 4 days (spread over 2 consecutive weekends). The course times are:
1st weekend
- Saturday: 09:30am - 17:00pm
- Sunday: 09:30am - 17:00pm
2nd weekend
- Saturday: 09:30am - 17:00pm
- Sunday: 09:30am - 16:00pm
Exam times
The PRINCE2 Foundation exam takes place on Sunday of the first weekend at 15:00pm.
The PRINCE2 Practitioner exam takes place on Sunday of the second weekend at 13:00pm.
Exams
Foundation exam
- Tests you on the terminology and concepts of the PRINCE2 methodology
- Exam time: 60 minutes
- Multiple-choice style: 60 questions
- Pass mark: 55% or more
- Closed-book exam (i.e. no reference materials are allowed during the exam)
- Knowledge Train pass rate since 2006: 99.5%. UK national average pass rate: 97%.
- Provisional results received same-day
- PeopleCert emails your official result and e-certificate after 3 business days
Practitioner exam
- Tests your ability to apply your PRINCE2 knowledge to a project scenario
- Exam time: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Multiple-choice style: 68 questions
- Pass mark: 55% or more
- Open-book exam (i.e. you are allowed to have your own annotated copy of the PRINCE2 manual during the exam)
- Knowledge Train pass rate since 2012: 83%. UK national average pass rate: 73%.
- PeopleCert emails your official result and e-certificate after 3 business days
Structure
During this weekend course, you’ll learn about the PRINCE2 approach to projects – its principles, themes, processes, and techniques. By the end of the first Sunday you’ll be well prepared to sit the PRINCE2 Foundation exam.
The PRINCE2 Foundation part of the course (1st weekend) covers the following topics:
- Overview of PRINCE2
- PRINCE2 life cycle
- Business case theme
- Organisation theme
- Quality theme
- Plans theme
- Risk theme
- Change theme
- Progress theme
- PRINCE2 processes
- PRINCE2 Foundation exam prep
- PRINCE2 Foundation exam
The PRINCE2 Practitioner part of the course (2nd weekend) covers the following topics:
- Tailoring and embedding PRINCE2
- PRINCE2 Practitioner exam practice
- PRINCE2 Practitioner exam techniques
- PRINCE2 Practitioner exam
What’s included?
- Online PRINCE2 precourse preparation
- Training from an approved PRINCE2 trainer
- Exam preparation for both PRINCE2 exams
- PRINCE2 Foundation exam
- PRINCE2 Practitioner exam
- 1 free resit included - Practitioner resit exam must be done online
- PRINCE2 Practitioner certificate (on passing the exam)
- 1 year AXELOS membership for free
- Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 - official manual
- Detailed PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner course notes
- Full colour PRINCE2 process model wall charts
- Sample PRINCE2 exams
- Guide to passing the PRINCE2 exams
- Refreshments
- Free WiFi
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