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PRINCE2® Agile Version 2 · Foundation

The PRINCE2 Agile Foundation exam format, explained

Forty questions in sixty minutes, closed book, twenty-four to pass. The exam is not about agile and it is not about PRINCE2: it is about the seam between them, which is a harder thing to revise.

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40Questions
60 minTime limit
24 / 40Pass mark
ClosedBook

The exam on paper

PRINCE2 Agile Foundation (Version 2) is the entry module of the PRINCE2 Agile scheme, and the prerequisite for its Practitioner.

Questions40, multiple choice
Duration60 minutes
Pass mark60% — 24 correct answers out of 40
MaterialsClosed book
PrerequisitesNone
Accredited trainingNot required
LanguagesTen — Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish — also Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish

Ninety seconds a question, and no manual

Forty questions in sixty minutes is ninety seconds each — half as generous again as PRINCE2 7 Foundation, which gives sixty. That extra half-minute is not decoration: PRINCE2 Agile questions tend to describe a small situation before they ask anything, so there is more to read per question.

Sixteen wrong answers is the margin. It is the same proportion as every other Foundation in the PRINCE2 family, and the same trap: people spend it early on two questions they could have marked and returned to.

What the nine areas actually cover

  1. The agile mindset and values
  2. Blending agile with PRINCE2 governance — the core of the module
  3. Stakeholder engagement
  4. Agile leadership
  5. Risk and change in an agile setting
  6. Progress tracking and metrics
  7. Agile roles and responsibilities
  8. Scaling agile across an organisation
  9. Value-driven thinking and prioritisation

Read that list again and notice how few of the nine are about agile alone. Most are about a tension: governance against responsiveness, fixed against variable, a project board against a team that wants to decide for itself. The exam lives in those tensions, and the answers are rarely the purest agile option or the purest PRINCE2 one.

Where candidates lose it

Knowing Scrum well is not an advantage here, and can be a handicap. Candidates who arrive from a working agile practice often answer what their team would do, rather than what the syllabus says PRINCE2 Agile does.

The same goes in reverse for PRINCE2 practitioners: the instinct to control everything through the project board is wrong just as often. The module is explicit that some things are fixed and some are flexed, and it is specific about which.

What this means for how you prepare

Learn what is fixed and what flexes. If you can say which of time, cost, scope and quality PRINCE2 Agile expects to move, a good share of the paper follows.

Do not answer from your own team’s practice. Answer from the guidance, even where you disagree with it.

Rehearse at ninety seconds a question, closed book. Sixteen wrong answers is the whole margin.

Questions people ask

Do I need PRINCE2 before PRINCE2 Agile Foundation?

No. PRINCE2 Agile Foundation (Version 2) has no prerequisites.

What is the pass mark in questions rather than per cent?

Twenty-four correct answers out of forty. The published figure is 60%.

Is it open book?

No. Foundation is closed book; the Practitioner above it is open book.

Which languages is the exam offered in?

Ten: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish.

Do I need a course?

No. Accredited training is not required for this module.

Is this the same as PRINCE2 7 Foundation?

No. Different exam, different syllabus, different scheme — 40 questions here against 60 there, and an agile subject rather than the core method.

Sources. Every figure on this page comes from PeopleCert’s own published certification pages, checked in September 2026.

The answers sit between agile and PRINCE2, not at either end

We do not sell PRINCE2 Agile packages. The official PRINCE2 7 packages are on sale here, exam voucher always included.

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