Prince2 Certification

harrisd7

harrisd7

harrisd7

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Hi all,

I am new to the forum and needed your advice on Prince2 training. I’m looking to get Prince2 certified and there are numerous providers out there. Has anyone done a Prince2 certification? Would you recommend self study or through a training centre. If self study, what books are there? Any free resources out there? If training centre, which one? I'm London based and would love a quick cert.

Any advice is welcome!

Harris
 
If you want to do it quickly, get on a decent training course run by one of the big providers. I assume you mean Practiotioner level as well?

I've recently done mine through QA and the tutor was great. I did have a rough understanding of PRINCE2 before the course.
 
About to do this in September with Quanta in Worcester.

Have a look at Firebrand Training - they seem to come highly rated, mate of mine did a CEH course with them and really enjoyed it.
 
I used ilx group but did the majority of it self study at home. Be warned it is boring as hell and pretty much every place saying they use Prince2 use some very simplified version of it
 
I did the combined Foundation and Practitioner qualifications with Quanta last year.

The first three days is the Foundation (with the exam on the Wednesday afternoon) then the Practitioner part on the thursday and friday morning (exam friday afternoon)

If you're planning on doing the practitioner exam and can afford it, I recommend doing it this way as there's not much time to forget what you've learned between the "two" courses and saves spending time relearning what you need for the Practitioner.
 
harrisd7 said:
I've heard of them too..they claim that I can get Prince2 certification in 3 days - which is pretty good IMO. Will stock up some money and then opt for it.

Cheers guys!
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A friend of mine did the test course firebrand ran for the 3 dayer, he said it was ridiculous they try and crammed it into just 3 days for both if you've not done it before.

So i'd say if you've got some experience with it then it might not be a bad idea, but if it's all new to you then go for a 5 dayer.
 
We self taught ourselves for the foundation exam and it was pretty tough going. For the practitioner we had someone in from Firebrand for the day who ran through some stuff for us then did the practitioner exam the following morning, all of us passed, mostly with a very high percentage.

However, we are a project management consultancy, so I suppose it was to be expected. :)
 
Bear in mind quite a few companies have moved to preferring APM training to Prince2 so target your training with that in mind.
 
If you are in London, then Knowledge Train run PRINCE2 training classes in central London every week.

I must disagree with Flux however who says "get yourself on a decent course run by one of the big providers". I would suggest that you should only go on a course run by one of the "Big providers" if you are happy to be in a large class of 16 or more students.

If not, then Knowledge Train offer small classes (max 12 people) and also have very good exam pass results.

"Big" does not necessarily equate to "quality".
 
Fair comment, whenever i've had a training course like this they've actually been done on our site so the numbers aren't that high. I definitely wouldn't want to be with 16+ people, or even 10+ for that matter.
 
Thanks for joining the forums just to give that information in an 'old' thread projectman. You wouldn't happen to be able to get him a staff discount at Knowledge Train would you? :D
 
I did PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 day'er through Fox IT in Wokingham, pretty good to be honest.

I had _NO_ Project Management, PSO, or even any 'real' project involvement, so I had to learn all the terms. This mean't I spent quite a few hours each evening going through everything in my head. If your in a similar situation you might struggle if you think you can do other things in the evening.

What is your reasoning for going for this? PRINCE2 has become the new ITIL/CCNA/MCSE to throw on your CV to get noticed, if your just wanting it for that and to have a broad understanding, don't bother with practitioner, even if it is only a couple more days and basically just as easy as foundation.
 
I'm looking to do the same thing, but I've already learnt it all in Uni. Any chance of finding out how much it would be to just take the exams?
 
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