Which of the following statements about the programme management environment is true?
1) Programmes respond to economic influences on corporate strategies
2) Programmes initiate, monitor and align the projects
- A . Only 1 is true
- B . Only 2 is true
- C . Both land 2are true
- D . Neither 1 or 2 is true
Which part of the scope of programme quality is MOST likely to be concerned with making best use of skills and experience?
- A . Standards management
- B . People management
- C . Process management
- D . Communications management
What programme role is MOST likely to also have a role within a project board to represent the interests of the business?
- A . Programme Office
- B . Programme Manager
- C . Programme Board
- D . Business Change Manager
Which information is included in Benefit Profiles?
- A . Scheduled reviews
- B . Dependent capabilities
- C . Procedures to avoid double counting
- D . Information audit requirements
Which information is included in Benefit Profiles?
- A . Scheduled reviews
- B . Dependent capabilities
- C . Procedures to avoid double counting
- D . Information audit requirements
Which information is included in Benefit Profiles?
- A . Scheduled reviews
- B . Dependent capabilities
- C . Procedures to avoid double counting
- D . Information audit requirements
Aligns the programme with corporate strategy
- A . Only 1 is true
- B . Only 2 is true
- C . Both 1 and 2 are true
- D . Neither 1 or 2 is true
What role is responsible for tracking the progress of risk responses?
- A . Risk actionee
- B . Risk Manager
- C . Risk owner
- D . Design Authority
Which label refers to one of the organizational risk perspectives?
- A . Operational
- B . Political
- C . Portfolio
- D . Economic
Which should be done during the process Closing a Programme?
- A . Confirm that key stakeholders are satisfied with the improvements
- B . Provide an opportunity to plan a post-project review
- C . Identify the need for future assessment of benefit realization
- D . Enable all outstanding risks to be closed
Which is a trigger for a compliance programme?
- A . The corporate board has created a vision for change
- B . A number of stand-alone projects would benefit from better coordination
- C . The organization has to change to meet requirements of new legislation
- D . The organization chooses to take a new innovative approach to product development
Which is a governance theme?
- A . Identifying a Programme
- B . Planning and Control
- C . Risk Management Cycle
- D . Managing the Tranches
What type of programme is sometimes referred to as a must do programme?
- A . Vision-led
- B . Emergent
- C . Compliance
- D . Specification-led
What does the I stand for in POTI, the model that helps with Blueprint development?
- A . Investment
- B . Implementation
- C . Induction
- D . Information
Which is represented in a summary risk profile?
- A . Category of risk response
- B . Impact of an issue
- C . Likelihood of a risk
- D . Cause of a risk
Which is represented in a summary risk profile?
- A . Category of risk response
- B . Impact of an issue
- C . Likelihood of a risk
- D . Cause of a risk
Which is represented in a summary risk profile?
- A . Category of risk response
- B . Impact of an issue
- C . Likelihood of a risk
- D . Cause of a risk
Include the costs for tools to track and report on progress,
- A . Only 1 is true
- B . Only 2 is true
- C . Both 1 and 2 are true
- D . Neither 1 or 2 is true
What role description includes support for project assurance and health checks which is independent of the projects?
- A . Programme Manager
- B . Business Change Manager
- C . Senior Responsible Owner
- D . Programme Office
Which is evidenced by the Business Case?
- A . Continuing affordability of the programme
- B . Responsibility for managing the Business Change Team
- C . Information about what will be subject to review
- D . Risk responses for the initial programme risks
Which is ensured by the Business Change Manager in the process Realizing the Benefits?
- A . Optimal running of the programme verified by audits and reviews
- B . Effective benefits realization through creating a Benefits Management Strategy
- C . Readiness of the organization to implement the changes
- D . Alignment of project scope with benefits realization
What is the step in the Benefits Management Cycle that includes carrying out activities to transition the capabilities delivered by the projects into outcomes?
- A . Deliver benefits realization
- B . Identify benefits
- C . Develop the benefits management approach
- D . Plan benefits realization
What is the step in the Benefits Management Cycle that includes carrying out activities to transition the capabilities delivered by the projects into outcomes?
- A . Deliver benefits realization
- B . Identify benefits
- C . Develop the benefits management approach
- D . Plan benefits realization
What is the step in the Benefits Management Cycle that includes carrying out activities to transition the capabilities delivered by the projects into outcomes?
- A . Deliver benefits realization
- B . Identify benefits
- C . Develop the benefits management approach
- D . Plan benefits realization
Should include all possible constraints
- A . Only 1 is true
- B . Only 2 is true
- C . Both land 2are true
- D . Neither 1 or 2 is true
What role focuses on ensuring appropriate ownership of risks relating to external events beyond the boundaries of the programme?
- A . Risk owner
- B . Programme Manager
- C . SeniorResponsibleOwner
- D . Risk actionee
Which activity includes addressing the disadvantages of doing nothing to those stakeholders that object to the programme?
- A . Analyse stakeholders
- B . Sum ma rise risks
- C . Carry out a health check
- D . Conduct a visioning workshop
Which is a responsibility of the Programme Manager?
- A . Approves programme’s progression to next tranche
- B . Defines risk thresholds for the programme’s projects
- C . Ensures appropriate programme assurance is in place
- D . Reports regularly on programme progress
Which is NOT representative of the programme management principles?
- A . Allow flexibility in how the programme is managed
- B . Provide a clearly defined set of rules and procedures
- C . Embrace all types of programmes
- D . Encompass best practice and lessons learned
What process provides the outputs required to deliver the Blueprint?
- A . Managing the Tranches
- B . Delivering the Capability
- C . Benefits Management
- D . Realizing the Benefits
Which is NOT a programme management principle?
- A . Envisioning and communicating a better future
- B . Adding value
- C . Designing and delivering a coherent capability
- D . Defining roles
Which is a purpose of a summary risk profile?
- A . Explain the programme risk exposure in monetary terms
- B . Show the relationship between critical risks in a programme
- C . Highlight any low probability benefits that are being managed as opportunity risks
- D . Determine the residual risk exposure, assuming that planned mitigation actions are successful
Which describes an impact of a risk?
- A . Effect on the programme if something goes wrong
- B . An event that might increase a programme’s outcome
- C . The amount of risk that will be tolerated
- D . Possibility that something will go wrong
Which is an example of a programme resource?
- A . Configuration management
- B . Benefit
- C . Process
- D . Funding
Which is a description of a programme resource?
- A . The objective of a programme
- B . A process to control a programme
- C . A logical grouping of projects within a programme
- D . An input required by a programme
What document defines the performance measures that will show whether a benefit is being realized?
- A . Blueprint
- B . Benefits Management Strategy
- C . Vision Statement
- D . Benefit Profile
Which is NOT a core element of successful communications?
- A . Mechanism for stakeholder feedback
- B . System to deliver messages
- C . Method for understanding stakeholders
- D . Tool to maintain a clear audit trail
Which is one of the three core concepts of the MSP framework?
- A . Sponsoring Group
- B . Vision
- C . Principles
- D . Risk management
Which statement relates to preparing the programme plan?
- A . Defining the approach to risk management
- B . Describing deliverables to be produced in Defining a Programme
- C . Appointing the Senior Responsible Owner
- D . Processing large amounts of information
Which statement relates to preparing the programme plan?
- A . Defining the approach to risk management
- B . Describing deliverables to be produced in Defining a Programme
- C . Appointing the Senior Responsible Owner
- D . Processing large amounts of information
Which statement relates to preparing the programme plan?
- A . Defining the approach to risk management
- B . Describing deliverables to be produced in Defining a Programme
- C . Appointing the Senior Responsible Owner
- D . Processing large amounts of information
Audit trail is established
- A . Only 1 is true
- B . Only 2 is true
- C . Both land 2are true
- D . Neither 1 or 2 is true
Which is a governance area of focus for the Programme Manager in consultation with other stakeholders?
- A . Providing support for governance assurance reviews
- B . Initiating assurance reviews of programme viability
- C . Providing business intelligence for Stakeholder Profiles
- D . Designing the programm s governance arrangements
What document describes a programme s projects, their timescales and dependencies?
- A . Project brief
- B . Highlight report
- C . Blueprint
- D . Projects Dossier
Which is a focus of the Programme Office in managing risks and issues?
- A . Accountable for the management and control of all aspects of the risks assigned to them
- B . Responsible for the implementation of risk response actions
- C . Monitors and reports on business performance issues
- D . Maintains the Risk Register and Issue Register
What role has a focus on leading reviews and ensuring adequate assurance is designed into controls?
- A . Senior Responsible Owner
- B . Programme Manager
- C . Business Change Manager
- D . Programme Office
Which is an outcome?
- A . Product developed by a project
- B . Measured operational improvement
- C . Products transitioned into live use
- D . New service ready for handover
Which is a transformational flow process?
- A . Leading change
- B . Adding value
- C . Benefits Management
- D . Realizing the Benefits