MSP-Foundation Practice Questions

A.  

1 and 2

B.  

2 and 3

C.  

3 and 4

D.  

1 and 4

A.  

Understanding how the outcomes will be achieved through delivery projects and other work

B.  

Controlling the work required to manage each tranche of delivery

C.  

Supporting stakeholders in the business to adopt the capabilities into new ways of working

D.  

Confirming the information in the programme mandate

A.  

Deliver the capabilities

B.  

Embed the outcomes

C.  

Evaluate new information

D.  

Identify the programme

A.  

Does the programme continue to demonstrate value for money?

B.  

Do business operations have sufficient resource?

C.  

Is the governance approach sufficient?

D.  

Is the programme vision compelling?

A.  

It enables governance across multiple organizations to be established

B.  

It ensures that work is planned to align with key organizational events

C.  

It ensures that the programme's importance to the organization is understood

D.  

It accepts that programmes are fundamentally volatile, uncertain and complex

A.  

Issue owner

B.  

Change agent

C.  

Business change manager

D.  

Programme manager

A.  

Assurance plan

B.  

Financial plan

C.  

Benefits realization plan

D.  

Stakeholder engagement and communications plan

A.  

By scheduling the right assurance activities to occur at the right time to add value and prevent issues that slow delivery

B.  

By focusing assurance resources on the riskiest areas to bring greater certainty and enable better response to emerging change

C.  

By focusing assurance on risks that could affect the achievement of measurable outcomes of benefit to enable benefits to be realized

D.  

By designing the three lines of defence to support leaders in their decision-making, focusing leaders' attention on things they can influence

A.  

To ensure the organization(s) involved understand the programme vision, benefits, risks, and the target operating model

B.  

To ensure that up-to-date information is considered as the programme progresses, taking into account each theme and principle

C.  

To analyse the drivers and initial justification to ensure they align to the organization's strategy, and that the investment is likely to be worthwhile

D.  

To ensure that the investing organization(s) are ready to maximize the benefits to be realized

A.  

By encouraging a culture of continual improvement to demonstrate the value added by programme management

B.  

By ensuring stakeholders understand how benefits will be measured so they can focus on the programme's purpose

C.  

By ensuring stakeholders have the knowledge they need to understand the programme's current priorities

D.  

By making knowledge as accessible as possible so that teams can adapt to and learn from new knowledge