Preparation Options

The PRINCE2® Examination Board has determined that all PRINCE2® Practitioners should be re-registered within 3-5 years of their original certification. This re-registration comprises a 1-hour examination set at the same standard as the Practitioner exam.

We offer several options to bring you up to date with the methodology and prepare you for the examination, as follows:

If you have been using the PRINCE2® Project Management methodology

We can provide a 2-day in-house PRINCE2® Conversion course which acts as a re-registration revision and exam course. A pre-course assignment will be sent to you, which will aid your preparation for the exam by developing your exam technique and offering insight on the examiner’s expectations of your answers. The course will include revision for any topics affected by updates of the method since you took your original course and discussion on changes on approach to the structure of exam answers. This course will be based on the 2005 version of PRINCE2® until 31 December 2009.

You will have the opportunity to sit the re-registration exam at the end of the course, or if you require time to consolidate what you have learnt during the course before attempting the exam, you can defer it by up to a month and come and sit it at our training centre.

Please contact our sales department on 0800 458 9121 to discuss the cost of this option.

If you have not been using the PRINCE2® Project Management methodology

If you have not been using the PRINCE2® method regularly, we recommend you attend one of our public training courses before sitting the re-registration exam. You could either attend our 5-day PRINCE2® Practitioner course, which covers the method in full or our 2-day PRINCE2® Conversion course which concentrates on the application of the method for the Practitioner Re-Registration exam. 

Please note that all Practitioner courses will be based on the 2009 version of PRINCE2®. Should you wish an in-house Practitioner course for a group of delegates based on the 2005 version of PRINCE2®, we would be happy to help. The Conversion course will be based on the 2005 version of PRINCE2® until 31 December 2009.

If you wish to learn more about the 2009 version of the PRINCE2® Project Management method, view our 30-minute Introduction to PRINCE2®.

To find out about the benefits of PRINCE2®, click here.

To see a summary of the differences between the 2009 version and the previous version of PRINCE®, click here. 

Examination Details

Practitioner Re-Registration is a 1 hour open-book, case study exam. You are expected to show your ability to apply the PRINCE2® method to a given scenario. The paper is returned to The APM Group for marking, which takes approximately 4 weeks. You will be advised of your result, by Scoll Methods, as soon as the information is available. Practitioner Certificates are raised for successful candidates.

The cost of the Re-registration exam is £80 plus VAT.