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PRINCE2 Practitioner Resource Book

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Change Theme 9 B 4

The project is now in Stage 4. The MD has decided that the seats should be painted the same
colour as the ride steelwork (green). Work has already started painting the seats red and
whilst this can be achieved within the timeframes specified there will be an additional cost of
£25,000. There is £300,000 left in the Change Budget. The Change Authority specified in the
Configuration Management Strategy is the Project Board.

Lines 1 to 4 in the table below consist of an assertion statement and a reason statement. For each
line identify the appropriate option, from options A to E, that applies. Each option can be used once,
more than once or not at all.
Option Assertion Reason
A True True AND the reason explains the assertion
B True True BUT the reason does not explain the assertion
C True False
D False True
E False False

Assertion Reason
1 Something that should be provided
The change in requirements should be BECAUSE by the project, but currently is not
treated as a request for change.
provided is an off-specification.
2 All deviations from agreed
An Exception Plan at project level must BECAUSE
tolerances require an Exception
be produced to reflect this change.
plan.

3 If the Project Manager needs to see if any
other products are affected s/he should
look in the Configuration Item Record.
4 As the change can be paid for by the
Change Budget the Project Manager can
authorise the change.
The Configuration Item record
BECAUSE contains the relationship with other
items.
BECAUSE The Change Authority only deals
with changes that require funding.

Question Part

9 B A B C D E

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