Prince2

alexthecheese

alexthecheese

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I’m looking into taking the Prince2 foundation and practicioner exams towards the end of the year and going about passing through self study and not bothering with training.

Has anybody done this before? How did you find it?

It’s not as expensive as I thought - £540 for both exams – and would definitely allow me to earn more money in the long run. The company that I work for is not interested in getting me any training to pass it, and I need this to develop professionally, so have bought the Prince2 bible from Amazon. I’m going to buy the ‘passing the prince2 exam’ book also, but would really like some feedback from people who are already practicioners or those in particular who tought themselves.

Cheers
 
My wife is the sales director for a compay that specialises in Prince2, ITIL, project managemt etc. They have a 85% success at Practitioner level and 92% success at Foundation level with candidates using there CBT course alone.

Send me some contact details and I will pass them on for you, she will answer all your queries.
 
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what book did you buy from amazon? tried searching for the prince2 bible and nothing came up.

Interested in having a go myself.
 
I took both foundation and practitioner in March and i'll tell you now, the practitioner is hard hard hard.

The foundation is doable if you are good at understanding naming conventions and differentiating similar names e.g. project plan, project initiation document etc.

I paid £1800 for a 5 day intensive course and passed first time, but it is immensely difficult if you do not come from a project management background and self study.

The big red prince2 book is all you need really and the practitioner paper is basically designed to test you know where things in the book are - its mainly a case of copying verbatim what is in the book but changing it to suit the example question.
 
not as far as im aware.

You can get past papers to test yourself on. My company are paying for me to take the course soon
 
I have done the Prince2 computer based training course that my wifes company produces, you can be ready for the foundation exam after 8 1 hour sessions of the CBT course easy its that good.
 
I'm about 2 weeks away from starting a 5-day course. There is a lot of pre-course reading to do - this does not look easy... but it's probably do-able if you can get hold of the book:

"Managing Successful Projects with Prince2" 2005 edition
ISBN 0 11 330946 5

This is the 'bible' that's used in both foundation and practioner exams, but you'll have to understand it inside out. It's probably not the only training tool you should use too. Any exam materials you can get hold of, e.g. sample question CD-roms etc should help.

The foundation exam is apparently fairly straightforward if you understand most of the fundamentals and terminology. But the practioner exam is open-book, and demands that you have a completely thorough understanding of the PRINCE2 methodology. Both my parents were PRINCE2 trainers at one point, so I have added pressure to pass it... I've not really fully managed projects before, so this is going to be fairly hard for me.
 
Well if anyone has any questions with regards to what to look for in Prince2 training let me know and I can get your queries answered.
 
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Are they open book exams ?
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The foundation isn't but practitioner is.

Yet to know of anyone who has failed Foundation as on the course you do that many past papers you've already seen many of the questions by the time you sit the exam.

The practitioner is a lot more difficult though.

We're finding at present a lot of company's now assume Prince 2 by default and are looking for APM Quals.
 
The main thing to look out for if you are going to self study is that you will find it hard to get 'writing' practice. This was the first written exam i had taken since leaving college 10+yrs ago, in the practitioner exam i wrote about 14 sides of A4 paper and had a bit of cramp at the end of it even after practice in the course and all the homework they give you.

As said, no one failed the foundation exam when i took it (about 15 of us in the classroom), about 5 people failed the exam, but they were all people who argued the toss over everything 'But, you don't do that in the real world of project management!!!' types. Yes, a chunk of Prince2 is not very useful in real project management, but you are taking a Prince2 exam so forget all the stuff you have learnt in real life and just do Prince2!

Mind you, Prince2 is nowhere near as hard as ITIL red badge training, but is probably harder thatn MSP and M_o_R! :)

Kef
 
I've got Practitioner for MSP, M_o_R and Prince2 and also passed my ITIL Service Managers exam, company are looking at putting me through ISO20000 consultancy training in the near future and also Business Continuity courses approved by the BCI. Then there's ITIL V3 on the horizon which i suppose i will need to upgrade to at some point near the end of the year!

/edit. I'm thinking of changing my job title to Professional Exam Taker at some point also! :) Also been asked to take part in reviewing the new MSP 2007 manual and course material which should be fun! :rolleyes:
 
kefkef said:
I've got Practitioner for MSP, M_o_R and Prince2 and also passed my ITIL Service Managers exam, company are looking at putting me through ISO20000 consultancy training in the near future and also Business Continuity courses approved by the BCI. Then there's ITIL V3 on the horizon which i suppose i will need to upgrade to at some point near the end of the year!

/edit. I'm thinking of changing my job title to Professional Exam Taker at some point also! :) Also been asked to take part in reviewing the new MSP 2007 manual and course material which should be fun! :rolleyes:
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Who do you work for if you don't mind me asking?
 
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