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PMI-200 PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Questions and Answers

Questions 4

A project team for a local government is transitioning from a predictive development life cycle to an iterative development life cycle. The project sponsor has informed the team lead that the subject matter expert (SME) for the financial functions of the solution is overallocated, so the team needs to convert the previously gathered requirements into user stories.

What should the agile lead do?

Options:

A.

Explain that the testable acceptance criteria are included in each story and it is necessary for the expert to collaborate with the developers, testers, and product owner for common understanding of the solution.

B.

Agree, and ask the developers to explain to the testers how the solution should perform for quality assurance. The testers will demonstrate to the stakeholders how the system should perform to gain acceptance.

C.

Agree, because the developers can copy and paste the requirements and include the technical specifications and performance criteria while writing the stories to save time.

D.

Explain to the project sponsor that the user stories should be assigned to the analysts, because they helped write the requirements and better understand them.

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Questions 5

An event management team is following an agile approach to prepare for an upcoming conference. The regional sales manager, from where the conference is to be held, contacts the team with a number of questions about the company's booth.

What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Inform the sponsor about the regional sales manager's disruptiveness and ask that all questions be diverted to the weekly meetings.

B.

Stay focused on the current iteration and let the project manager deal with the regional sales manager's questions.

C.

Invite the regional sales manager to the next iteration review to share the progress.

D.

Create a risk on the risk register to account for some potentially new requirements from the regional sales manager.

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Questions 6

During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture How should this technical debt be captured?

Options:

A.

Include it in the product backlog and use a new indicator to annotate that it is technical debt

B.

Include it in the product backlog as a low-priority issue

C.

Since it is not a part of agile methodologies, it should not be tracked

D.

Have team members maintain personal lists of issues and consolidate the lists during review

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Questions 7

A product owner wants to create a release plan given the team is working in a chaotic environment. They want to set expectations about what is likely to be developed and in what timeframe for some of the stakeholders.

What should the product owner include in the release plan to achieve this?

Options:

A.

The objective, iterations and underlying features, iteration timelines, other pre-release activities, dependencies, and responsible team.

B.

The key objectives and a brief description of each user story to be delivered in each iteration release timelines and release dependencies

C.

The developer who will work on a specific feature and key DevOgs engineering activities to be performed during each iteration for the code integration.

D.

The sequence of user stories to be developed in each iteration, along with their start and end timelines, dependencies, and responsible team.

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Questions 8

A member of a cross-functional project team is not able to attend regular status meetings and provide progress updates, which is impacting the productivity of the entire team. What should the product owner do to improve productivity?

Options:

A.

Discuss the issue to reduce the backlog based on decreased productivity of the team.

B.

Collect updates from each team member before the meeting and share them with all members.

C.

Ask the team member to update daily progress on the information radiators.

D.

Change the team velocity to show positive progress in shared information radiators.

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Questions 9

A member of the development team displays disrespectful behavior and continuously argues with colleagues. This is negatively impacting team morale.

Which action should the scrum master take to resolve this situation?

Options:

A.

Mitigate the new conflicts that appear and rely on the self-organization of the team.

B.

Escalate the issue to senior management to make a decision.

C.

Follow the organization's policies to remove the team member to boost team engagement.

D.

Attend daily coordination meetings and retrospectives with the agile coach.

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Questions 10

To create the project vision, an agile team has scheduled an initial meeting with their customer representative. What should the team bring to this meeting?

Options:

A.

A list of templates to be used to create the project vision

B.

A list of project stakeholders and user stories

C.

A checklist for future acceptance tests for project deliverables

D.

A list of questions for the team and customer representative

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Questions 11

During sprint planning the product owner wants the team to prioritize and deliver a number of features which have the highest business value. Due to technical dependencies, the team does not agree with the prioritization.

What should the project leader do?

Options:

A.

Encourage the product owner and team to reprioritize the features and select ones which can be delivered without any dependencies

B.

Encourage the team to continue with the current plan, do what they can. and carry forward the work not done to the next iteration

C.

Ensure the team captures the technical dependencies as issues within the backlog and prioritize based on value optimization

D.

Ensure that the required subject matter experts (SMEs) are engaged by the product owner to help with backlog prioritization

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Questions 12

An agile team is working well together, but productivity has been flat. What can the project leader do to help them improve performance?

Options:

A.

Review the burndown chart to identify ways to increase efficiency.

B.

Chair a weekly team retrospective focusing on identifying areas for continuous improvement.

C.

Ask a senior manager to initiate a root-cause analysis.

D.

Identify team key performance indicators (KPIs) and create positive incentives when targets are achieved.

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Questions 13

A new Scrum team is struggling with the various ceremonies of Scrum. Among other things, the product owner and stakeholders find the technical architecture and design presentations during sprint reviews less than informative.

What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Refocus the sprint review meetings to demonstrate working software and seek feedback on the product.

B.

Reach out to other, more experienced teams to seek input as to how to present the technical details in a more informative manner.

C.

Explain the importance of the technical architecture and design presentations and improve the presentation format.

D.

Invite technical managers and architects who will be a more appropriate audience to their sprint reviews.

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Questions 14

A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team Many team members have worked together on this product for several years During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are completed on time

What type of behavior does this describe?

Options:

A.

Synchronous

B.

Collaborative

C.

Passive-aggressive

D.

Random

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Questions 15

An agile project manager is leading an international project involving a global team consisting of members from very different cultures, countries, and time zones. The agile project manager is aware that similar projects with distributed teams have led to serious conflicts.

What should the agile project manager do to promote trust and collaboration?

A Talk with the human resources (HR) department to select team members with similar backgrounds to eliminate conflict

B. Collocate for team building to promote collaboration to build trust and improve communication.

C. Promote a project charter with the project vision and purpose to help align the team.

D Promote a team charter with a set of norms rules and agreements to facilitate the work

Options:

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Questions 16

The team is considering committing to 44 story points for the upcoming sprint. Based on the

velocity chart, what advice should the scrum master offer the team?

Options:

A.

Reduce the commitment to 40 story points to ensure a higher chance of meeting the commitment.

B.

Maintain a commitment of 46 story points, representing the most frequently completed velocity.

C.

Increase the commitment to 48 story points to push the team toward higher performance.

D.

Commit to 44 story points as it aligns with the team's average velocity for completed story points.

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Questions 17

The productivity of an agile team has fallen significantly in the last sprint. The team members have not mentioned any impediments but seem to be fatigued.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Discuss the issue with the team at the next daily standup meeting.

B.

Discuss the issue with the team at a special meeting for this purpose.

C.

Discuss the issue with the project stakeholders at a special meeting for this purpose.

D.

Discuss the issue with the team at the next project retrospective.

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Questions 18

A healthcare agency has contracted a vendor to provide a financial accountability solution. During a daily coordination meeting, the lead developer reports they cannot complete the stories for this iteration because the project director requested a document detailing all testing planned for the solution. The team lead met with the project director to discuss alternatives but insists they need the detailed plan by the end of that week. The team lead advises the lead developer to continue coding.

What should the team lead do next?

Options:

A.

Negotiate with the project director to reduce the types of tests for which they need details to reduce the impact of this request.

B.

Escalate this as an issue to the executive project sponsor for a decision because it will impact the ability of the team to deliver the product on time.

C.

Ask the test manager to provide a detailed estimate of the time required to write the plan for the solution and their capacity for the remainder of the week.

D.

Ask the team to put their work on hold and collaborate on the documentation because it can be completed quicker if everyone shares the work.

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Questions 19

A newly formed scrum team wants to foster an environment of transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future Over time what will be the result of this approach?

Options:

A.

Kaizen

B.

Specific measurable, assignable, realistic and time-based (SMART) goals

C.

Key performance indicators (KPIs)

D.

Muda

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Questions 20

During an iteration planning meeting, the team suggests changes to add product value that will require extra work and impact the schedule. What should the agile project leader do?

Options:

A.

Re-estimate the project.

B.

Finish the product as it was initially planned.

C.

Try to include as many changes as possible.

D.

Ask the product owner for approval to proceed.

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Questions 21

How should an agile project leader interact with the product owner?

Options:

A.

Conduct regular one-on-one meetings to review development features and trace them back to the product roadmap.

B.

Ensure that they attend regular sprint meetings to provide product-feature feedback

C.

Share any new versions of the project plan with them including updated statuses for tasks and project milestones

D.

Schedule meetings where they can provide team direction regarding new-feature priorities and upcoming sprints

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Questions 22

During initial planning, a project team investigates several approaches to building new application software, emphasizing the most valuable deliverables. The team needs to convince stakeholders and win their approval.

How can the project team achieve this?

Options:

A.

Use a successful platform on which several object-oriented products have been developed in the past.

B.

Create a quick mock-up of the product to serve as a visual tool and adjust it until consensus is reached.

C.

Include brief exploratory iterations, proof-of-concept (POC). to reduce project risk at the beginning of every project cycle.

D.

Deliver an iteration planning diagram, allowing a 2-week refactoring period at the end of the project.

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Questions 23

A team is delivering work as per the sprint plan, and team velocity is stabilized. However, at the end of the release, the customer is dissatisfied with project quality. What should the agile project manager have done to avoid this?

Options:

A.

Invited end customers to attend the stand ups

B.

Organized design review sessions with the customer to obtain sign-off

C.

Held regular meetings with the product owner and project team to elicit detailed business requirements

D.

Conducted frequent review meetings with the customer to continually enhance delivery effectiveness

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Questions 24

Roadmaps are defined as covering a rolling 12 months. When creating a product roadmap in an agile environment, what factor should the agile lead take into consideration?

Options:

A.

Just-in-time (JIT) refinement

B.

Stories to be released in each sprint

C.

Infrastructure updates

D.

Funding decisions

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Questions 25

During an iteration, an agile team discovers infrastructure requirements that were not initially considered. What should the team do to effectively manage this?

Options:

A.

Rework the iteration scope to accommodate these requirements.

B.

Add these requirements into the product backlog for future consideration.

C.

Raise the discovery of these requirements as an issue, and escalate to management.

D.

Immediately start working on these requirements.

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Questions 26

A new project has been approved and is critical for an organization. The project sponsor has a limited budget, and the deadline to have all requirements meet the definition of done (DoD) is short.

Which approach should the agile practitioner take to facilitate the project's success?

Options:

A.

Set up weekly calls with the key stakeholders to participate in iteration reviews and release decisions.

B.

Analyze the impacts of these constraints on the project followed by a report sent to the sponsor to anticipate any risk of delays.

C.

Set up a meeting with the client to review the scope and timelines to manage expectations.

D.

Encourage the team to build increments and ensure the customer provides early feedback for a minimum viable product.

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Questions 27

How should a project leader manage stakeholder expectations in an agile project?

Options:

A.

Establish a common vision and success criteria and involve all the stakeholders in the iteration reviews.

B.

Invite stakeholders for the iteration reviews but do not include new stakeholders which may limit project success.

C.

Involve all the stakeholders in iteration reviews but do not entertain all expectations of all stakeholders.

D.

Communicate issues to all stakeholders via email and only communicate risks to internal stakeholders.

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Questions 28

An agile team is building a training safety video based on current government regulations. The agile coach knows the regulations are likely to change before the release date.

How should the agile coach address this change?

Options:

A.

Plan for the second release to include regulatory changes and new features.

B.

Hold off making changes during the current release because the regulatory changes cannot be planned for.

C.

Verify the team is building the product in increments which can be adapted at the last minute if necessary.

D.

Monitor regulatory discussions to get a head start on the upcoming regulatory changes.

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Questions 29

The product owner is working on an application that will be built in a data lake leveraging a data

integration and transformation software application. With a budget of US$17,000 remaining, how should the product owner allocate the money? (Refer to Exhibit A)

Options:

A.

Prioritize the features based on customer feedback and potential value.

B.

Focus on the reporting module since it has the highest estimated cost.

C.

Complete the data repository and reprioritize based on the remaininq budqet.

D.

Proceed with all of the planned features to ensure completeness.

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Questions 30

A scrum master wants to encourage better collaboration within a collocated team and is coming up with a visualization method for the project. How could the scrum master promote transparency?

Options:

A.

Consolidate the team's updates in presentation slides and email them to the team regularly.

B.

Radiate key information such as the team's work, progress, and velocity at the team's common area.

C.

Share team progress individually with each top performer every week.

D.

Attach sticky notes for each assignment to the wall in the team's area.

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Questions 31

In a scrum team, who should be responsible for the budget and release plans?

Options:

A.

The scrum master assigns someone on the team to handle the budget, and the product owner is responsible for release plans

B.

The finance department is responsible for budget, and the product owner is responsible for release plans

C.

The scrum team as a whole, as they are self-organizing and share accountability

D.

The product owner is responsible for both the budget and the release plans

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Questions 32

Part way through a project, several team members are in conflict over whether or not a deliverable has been properly completed. How should the agile leader reduce this conflict?

Options:

A.

Facilitate team agreement on the definition of done (DoD) during the chartering process.

B.

Motivate the team durinq Tuckman's "storminq" phase.

C.

Ensure the product owner is grooming the backlog so user stories are clearly written.

D.

Ensure epics are broken down into smaller user stories for clarity.

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Questions 33

While attending a conference, an agile practitioner learns of a new user interface (Ul) framework that could benefit the team. What should the agile practitioner do next?

Options:

A.

Identify a team member to do a proof of concept using this framework.

B.

Email the team directing them to immediately begin using this new framework.

C.

Obtain feedback from team members on the new framework, and then suggest that the product owner create a backlog item to do a spike on it.

D.

Discuss this option at the next retrospective.

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Questions 34

A team using Kanban identifies that their cycle time has significant variation After brainstorming the team determines that the root cause is the stones' varying sizes and risks.

What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Reduce work in progress (WIP) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories

B.

Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stones

C.

Set a policy to break down stories larger than a specified complexity then adjust the WIP

D.

Create a dedicated overflow swimlane on the Kanban board for stories that are too large

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Questions 35

A senior executive contacted an agile lead about starting an agile project to solve a problem for the human resources (HR) department of a company. The project idea is not clear and no backlog has been developed.

How should the agile lead start the project?

Options:

A.

More work is needed to refine the idea and there is no backlog to start working on, so there is no way to help the manager.

B.

Identify the persona that needs help and conduct a workshop applying the empathy map technique about that persona.

C.

Review how similar problems have been resolved in other companies and see if a solution is available on the market.

D.

Start working on a list of user stones to create a backlog and suggest a product owner be assigned to the project.

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Questions 36

Agile team A struggles to deliver committed stories due to technical dependencies with team B. which continuously fails to meet its delivery commitments. What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

A.

Create a new team to deliver the dependencies, and bring team B under performance management.

B.

Conduct a vision-sharing session with the teams to communicate the project's overall goals.

C.

Swap team members from both teams so that deliveries are better supported.

D.

Discuss negotiating the delivery timelines with team A.

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Questions 37

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Organizations that implement agile project management focus on upgrading existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings, or quality enhancements for existing customers (i.e., operational agility). Organizations need to realize that the major financial gains from agile project management will result from the practice of what? (Select answer from dropdown)

Options:

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Questions 38

A Scrum team has worked hard to reach their sprint goal, but impediments have prevented them from succeeding. The team needed help from a specialist on another team, but the specialist was on a 2-week vacation.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

At the sprint retrospective, the scrum master and development team should discuss why the team did not know the specialist was unavailable during the sprint. The scrum master should then set clear rules so situations like these can be avoided in the future.

B.

It can be very distressing for a Scrum team not to reach its sprint goals. The scrum master should hold an evaluation meeting to discuss who in the team was responsible for discovering the specialist was not available, then make an improvement task for the next sprint.

C.

The scrum master, as a servant leader, should always try to remain positive about the team's work. Even when team members’ make mistakes, there should be trust that everyone is doing their best. Engaged team members work more efficiently, and a sustainable pace is important for project success.

D.

At the sprint retrospective, the Scrum team should reflect on how the past sprint has worked out. The scrum master should facilitate an open discussion to discover the root causes for the missed sprint goals and find a way to avoid similar situations in future sprints.

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Questions 39

During the retrospective meeting, it is revealed that an external dependency is causing a reoccurring impact. The impact is that an external team is not providing a fix or a stable testing environment. The scrum master has been unable to resolve this after escalating the situation to upper management several times.

What should the scrum master do now?

Options:

A.

Guide the development team to accept and adapt to the existing situation by finding sustainable workarounds.

B.

Assure that the development team plans the scope of work with this risk absorbed in the estimation.

C.

Establish a communications channel with the external team and monitor the implementation of the external task.

D.

Collect empirical data and influence upper management to be accountable for end-to-end. cross-team delivery.

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Questions 40

A new project starts and team members are pooled together to execute it. The team works together and moves from the forming stage into the storming stage. However, potentially destructive conflicts are now arising.

What should the agile coach do to develop members into a high-performance team?

Options:

A.

Teach the team how to work comfortably in chaos.

B.

Provide strong facilitation and conflict-resolution guidance.

C.

Allow the team to resolve issues on their own.

D.

Observe each team member and advise them on team relationships.

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Questions 41

An agile team had unexpected technical problems in a project and was not able to complete the deliverables on time. During the retrospective meeting, the team openly discussed the causes for these issues and what can be done to avoid similar situations in the future.

What agile values and principles did the team demonstrate?

Options:

A.

The team is being proactive by discussing how to better balance demands and capacity and make sure they have the right competencies.

B.

The team shows respect for one another by listening to everyone's opinions and valuing human interaction during face-to-face meetings.

C.

The team is providing one another with fast feedback to find those responsible for any mistakes so they can be avoided in the future.

D.

The team eliminates potential waste by discussing who should be responsible for future risk management by actively applying the pi an-do-check-act (PDCA) method.

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Questions 42

Two agile teams from different company sites need to work and collaborate on the same project. What is the first action the agile project manager should take in order to ensure a smooth collaboration between the two teams?

Options:

A.

Organize onsite backlog-refinement workshops to ensure common understanding.

B.

Set up weekly meetings where all team members will participate.

C.

Call an onsite meeting where ground rules will be discussed and agreed upon.

D.

Ask the product owner to prepare an onsite team-building activity.

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Questions 43

A backlog for a project has been prioritized and a sprint has begun. A security issue has been revealed that needs to be addressed or large security vulnerabilities will be exposed.

How should the project manager proceed?

Options:

A.

Consult with the product owner to prioritize the new work at a higher level.

B.

Consult with the project sponsor and project team to resolve the issue.

C.

Consult with the project team to rework the existing estimates.

D.

Consult with the product owner and project team.

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Questions 44

During the project initiation stage, a team has estimated story points for all user stories. When the project team explained the minimum marketable feature (MMF), however, they were not confident that the solution would actually work.

What can the team do to better manage this situation?

Options:

A.

Deliver the minimum marketable feature (MMF) to customers for feedback.

B.

Write acceptance criteria for each business requirement to conduct proper testing.

C.

Develop test cases based on user stories.

D.

Ask the customer to provide acceptance criteria before developing the user stories.

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Questions 45

A food company seeks additional business-to-business (B2B) revenues from some customers by

implementing purchase order (PO) functionality. To achieve this, the agile project team is exploring PO integration options (see item #3 in Exhibit A), as the product increment (PI) planning process is underway.

What should the project team do next?

Options:

A.

Use agile estimation techniques like planning poker or relative sizing for collaborative assessment.

B.

Break down the feature into smaller tasks or user stories for better assessment and incremental delivery.

C.

Analyze current system requirements and dependencies, including integration levels and regulatory compliance.

D.

Refer to past performance and historical data from similar projects to identity potential risks and challenges.

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Questions 46

A team member on a new scrum project previously provided support to another application Due to issues with that application, the team member's former supervisor continues assigning them tasks related to that project. The new project's scrum master includes this issue in the risk register.

What should the scrum master do next?

Options:

A.

Monitor the threats and risks while allowing the team member to multitask on both projects

B.

Assign more resources to the sprints to compensate for the absences of the team member

C.

Ensure that the threats and risks are communicated and addressed

D.

Assign fewer stories to the sprints so that the team member can still meet sprint goals

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Questions 47

What should the agile practitioner know about tracking velocity?

Options:

A.

A team with an average velocity of 50 is twice as efficient as a team with an average velocity of 25.

B.

A team with an average velocity of 50 is equally as efficient as a team with an average velocity of 25.

C.

A team that consistently meets its planned velocity is more efficient than a team that consistently exceeds its planned velocity.

D.

A team that consistently meets its planned velocity is less efficient than a team that constantly exceeds its planned velocity.

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Questions 48

A team member on a self-directed team is concerned that a feature the customer wants is outside of what the team will be able to deliver. What should the team member do next?

Options:

A.

Escalate the concern to the project sponsor for necessary action

B.

Adjust the feature to make it work as needed

C.

Work directly with the customer to arrive at a suitable compromise

D.

Log this into the risk register and inform the team at the next standup meeting

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Questions 49

During sprint planning, team members have differing opinions on a feature that delivers business value but fails to provide a long-term solution for the customer How should the team resolve this?

Options:

A.

Refer to the values of the agile framework and the team

B.

Review the signed customer contract

C.

Check the sprint priority list

D.

Submit the problem to the product owner

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Questions 50

The team is derailed by a demand from a senior manager unrelated to the project. How does the agile coach help the team?

Options:

A.

By coaching the team to outperform previous velocity

B.

By coaching the team to adhere to expectations set by the scrum master

C.

By encouraging overestimation to increase velocity

D.

By advising the team to remain committed and focused on project goals

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Questions 51

The agile practitioner has determined that two different team members are working on addressing the same major issue on the project. How should the agile practitioner address this?

Options:

A.

Implement a burnup chart and add the issue resolution as a task to the product backlog for the customer to prioritize.

B.

Add the issue to the kanban board and assign the it to the team member who has made the most progress on resolving it.

C.

Conduct a root-cause analysis on the issue and identify related risks and risk response owners at the next retrospective.

D.

Document all project issues in a common space and ask the team members to decide on task allocation principles.

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Questions 52

Two similar stories A and B are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, is estimated at 8 points After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took much longer than story C.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Assign story B more than 8 story points so to provide a better estimate

B.

Add points to story B's iteration to account for the error but keep story B at 3 points

C.

Assign more resources to story B to bring it in line with the estimate

D.

Reestimate all stories including values for A; B and C

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Questions 53

For what is the MoSCoW method used?

Options:

A.

Estimating story size

B.

Prioritizing stories

C.

Validating a product

D.

Tracking progress

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Questions 54

A seven-member agile team's composition vanes considerably in age. gender culture, personality type, and professional background When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?

Options:

A.

Networking

B.

Social awareness

C.

Communication

D.

Leadership

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Questions 55

A senior team member feels underutilized. What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Transfer the senior member to another team that will more fully utilize their skill set.

B.

Conduct a performance evaluation to determine whether or not this member is a team player.

C.

Encourage the project team to involve the senior member in more project activities.

D.

Ask the functional manager to determine the best course of action.

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Questions 56

Which of the following allows DevOps to enable and sustain a fast workflow from development into operations?

Options:

A.

A mindset shift to establish controls over all development and operations processes.

B.

Planned incremental iterations and a focus on people over processes.

C.

A culture of collaboration, tools, and processes to support continuous delivery.

D.

New tools that enable teams to continuously build, test, and integrate.

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Questions 57

During its first sprint, a new scrum team realizes that it has insufficient team members with test automation skills to effectively complete its stories. What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Cross-train some members in the automation framework to broaden their capacity with that skill

B.

Ask the product owner to add team members to boost this particular skill set

C.

Send a member to automation framework training when funds are available

D.

Avoid using test automation by swarming on the testing tasks and using manual testing

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Questions 58

How can the scrum master respond to a stakeholder who suggests using velocity as a metric to measure team efficiency in an agile project?

Options:

A.

Velocity of a Scrum team will stop once it becomes stable and only then the team will become efficient with its deliverables.

B.

Velocity can only measure if a Scrum team has a stable and predictable run rate but not whether or not they are delivering better deliverables efficiently.

C.

Velocity will become more predictable only in stable teams and velocity should not be measured in Scrum teams until that occurs.

D.

Velocity is a great way of measuring the Scrum team's efficiency, and a stable velocity means the team is predictable and efficient.

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Questions 59

During a team meeting, conflicting opinions arise regarding the best approach to complete a project task. The project manager wants to ensure that the team can effectively handle these conflicts and come to a resolution that benefits the project.

What is an effective way to handle conflicting opinions in team meetings in an agile environment?

During a team meeting, conflicting opinions arise regarding the best approach to complete a project task. The project manager wants to ensure that the team can effectively handle these conflicts and come to a resolution that benefits the project.

What is an effective way to handle conflicting opinions in team meetings in an agile environment?

Options:

A.

End the discussion until there is consensus.

B.

Wait for the problem to resolve itself.

C.

Choose the option that is best for the team.

D.

Restate the positions to find what is in common.

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Questions 60

On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stones fit into the overall product. How should this be addressed?

Options:

A.

Review the iteration goals and have the team each describe the work to create shared understanding

B.

Create a story map for the minimal viable product (MVP) functionality

C.

Capture this as a task in the retrospective and ensure there is more detail provided at the next planning session

D.

Have the product owner explain the product vision and review the release plan with the team

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Questions 61

Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date

B.

Announce that the team has exceeded the predicted velocity and that the end date will be earlier than planned

C.

Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then replan subsequent iterations

D.

Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision

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Questions 62

If an individual is working on a project team in a phase delivering an increment, according to the definition of done (DoD), who was that defined by?

Options:

A.

Project sponsor and project team

B.

Scrum master

C.

Product owner

D.

Stakeholders and project team

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Questions 63

A software development team is working in an environment in which increased competition, demanding customer expectations, and new technological developments pose significant challenges. How should the team plan improvements to their product?

Options:

A.

Follow the project schedule created at the start of the project.

B.

Hold regular retrospectives and have team members commit to specific actions.

C.

Allow team members to choose improvement items and trust their judgment.

D.

Encourage team members to write code that is tightly coupled together.

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Questions 64

A product owner is working on a special agile project for the automobile industry. The project team is responsible for all of the issues related to vehicle electronic control units. The team hasobserved a significant backlog of items in the “In progress' column (Refer to the kanban board). This accumulation is causing delays in task completion and impacting overall project timelines. The team operates in a dynamic environment where requirements frequently change, and stakeholders demand quick turnarounds.

What should the project team adopt to address this issue and improve task flow, considering all the demands?

Options:

A.

Increase the number of items allowed in the 'In progress" column to accommodate the high volume of tasks and provide flexibility.

B.

Limit the work in progress (WIP) and implement strict policies to encourage team members to focus on completing existing tasks before starting new ones, ensuring a balanced workload.

C.

Move tasks to the 'Done" column regardless of their completion status to give the appearance of progress and alleviate the pressure of the backlog.

D.

Add more team members with varying levels of expertise to handle the increased workload, aiming to accelerate task completion and reduce the backlog in the 'In progress" column.

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Questions 65

Based on the burndown chart, what is the iteration's status?

Options:

A.

It trended ahead of schedule and completed everything on time

B.

It took more time than expected and had to be lengthened.

C.

It trended behind schedule and did not complete everything on time

D.

It took less time than expected and had to be shortened.

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Questions 66

A team member starts discussing a project roadblock during a daily coordination meeting. The team discusses details of the impediment, which takes up most of the meeting time.

What should the agile facilitator do?

Options:

A.

Dismiss the rest of the team from the meeting to focus on the problem reported by the team member

B.

Ask the team member to wait to discuss until the next daily coordination meeting, the team needs to review the current status.

C.

Inform the team that the meeting will be extended so there is time to hear what the team member is reporting

D.

Stop the team politely and suggest scheduling another meeting to discuss this specific matter.

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Questions 67

A newly formed, colocated team is participating in daily standups, but is otherwise working largely as individual contributors. This has resulted in misalignment of activities. Planned velocity is being met.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Plan activities that will require the team to work collaboratively on a regular basis.

B.

Set collaboration metrics and evaluate individuals against those metrics.

C.

Request that line management add more collaborative team members to the team.

D.

Allow the team to continue with no interference as activities are being met.

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Questions 68

An agile project manager is working on a project to develop a customer service website. The project manager is organizing a workshop to plan the next release: To add the feature of receiving and resolving customer complaints. Which two actions should the project manager ask the team members to take before the workshop? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Prepare an effort estimation for each story based on their technical expertise.

B.

Compile a list of ideas to improve the velocity of the team so they can plan more story points in the next sprint.

C.

Prepare a list of tasks required to accomplish the goal and the order in which they should be executed.

D.

Read and identify user stories from the backlog that will contribute to accomplishing the goal.

E.

Consider the possible risks of each selected user story and the value they add for the final user.

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Questions 69

A company has decided to use an agile delivery method for launching a new product to improve the customer checkout experience. How should the project manager ensure the experienced predictive delivery teams are capable of adopting the agile model?

Options:

A.

Assign agile roles within the team and conduct training for each role to provide understanding of the agile methodology.

B.

Organize training and development workshops to help all stakeholders to form a shared understanding of agile practices.

C.

Plan a transformation to agile delivery methods for senior leadership before starting project implementation.

D.

Apply only agile methods and practices for specific deliverables of the work and assign this work to experienced agile team members.

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Questions 70

An e-commerce company acquired a tool to customize subject line generation for marketing campaigns. In sprint planning, the team discussed integrating this tool with the customer relationship management system.

Which mitigation strategy is most appropriate to ensure the final product meets the business objectives? (Refer to the Risk Register Exhibit)

Options:

A.

Conduct thorough requirements analysis and validation.

B.

Allocate experienced developers and perform code reviews.

C.

Plan for sufficient support resources post-deployment.

D.

Develop comprehensive testing involving the quality assurance team.

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Questions 71

A project manager is leading a large agile project with multiple deliverables at each phase of completion. The project team has informed the project manager that the deliverables are completed per the team agreement.

Which agile practice should the project manager advise their team use to ensure deliverables are completed and ready for release?

Options:

A.

Requirements backlog and ready for release

B.

Acceptance criteria and release

C.

Definition of ready (DoR) and review

D.

Definition of done (DoD) and demonstrate

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Questions 72

After conducting the second retrospective with project stakeholders, the customer expresses frustration. The customer wants a more predictable roadmap for the delivery of features and functionalities.

How should the project manager respond to the customer?

Options:

A.

Explain to the customer that an agile approach requires re-prioritization at the beginning of each sprint, so it is not possible to provide a roadmap.

B.

Ask the customer to develop a roadmap the team can follow for future delivery.

C.

Work with the customer to understand which user stories will deliver the best business value, re-prioritize the backlog, and share it with the customer to provide release plans.

D.

Work with the product owner to develop a tentative roadmap for the customer but explain that it is always subject to change.

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Questions 73

Case Study

An agile project lead for a company is leading a sales team who has committed to delivering new product functionality to the customer at the end of five sprints. The agile project lead performed initial planning with the team and with the team's support has committed to the scope and deadline.

Check in with the project in three stages to answer the associated questions.

How do two additional features and more story points added by the product owner impact the team's progress and ability to complete work within the iteration, considering the burndown rate of the team has not changed? (Refer to the Case Study and End of Sprint 3 Exhibit)

Options:

A.

The scope of the items in the backlog has been increased to reflect an increase in velocity.

B.

The backlog has been increased and the velocity of the project may no longer be on track.

C.

The team has committed to additional work added to the backlog and will increase velocity.

D.

The team did not complete the backlog items at the same velocity due to external issues

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Questions 74

An agile team identifies that their velocity is lower than predicted, and that their previous forecasts in the product roadmap are wrong. The team is worried that they will be unable to meet a critical release date without corrective action.

What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Collaborate with the product owner to reprioritize the product backlog, thus ensuring that more features will be completed before the release.

B.

Ask the team lead to calculate the team's target velocity according to the project plan, and assign additional resources to increase capacity.

C.

Focus on velocity and schedule concerns during the retrospective to inspect, adapt, and improve the process and plans.

D.

Reestimate the backlog items from the release, ensuring that contingency is included to set stakeholder expectations.

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Questions 75

Iterations last between a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference for the shorter time. What is the goal for each iteration?

Options:

A.

Complete the assigned tasks.

B.

Deliver working software frequently.

C.

Demonstrate the software to the customer.

D.

Provide a high-level timeline.

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Questions 76

A newly formed team is struggling to work together and agree on how to complete tasks in the upcoming sprint. What should the scrum master do to support the team?

Options:

A.

Resolve the disagreement for the team as a servant leader.

B.

Encourage the team to continue trying to resolve their disagreements.

C.

Advise the team on the correct course of action to avoid disagreements.

D.

Remove the team members that are in disagreement to ensure unity in the team.

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Questions 77

What can an agile team use to prioritize stories?

Options:

A.

Planning poker technique

B.

Weighted average calculation

C.

Risk-value quadrant

D.

INVEST scale

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Questions 78

A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only from a generic user's perspective. This may lead the team to miss stories for non-generic users.

What agile tools can help the team address these issues?

Options:

A.

Information radiators and wireframes

B.

Information radiators and story maps

C.

Process flows and personas

D.

Personas and extreme characters

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Questions 79

DRAG DROP

All the developers on a project team are working offshore in a different time zone, resulting in many issues. Match the issues to the agile practitioner's recommendations for resolutions below. (Drag the Problems/Issues on the left to the box in the center, corresponding to the correct Recommendations for Resolution on the right)

Options:

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Questions 80

An agile team is having a meeting with a customer to formulate the product requirements for the next iteration. The outcome of the meeting is a set of clear and detailed requirements.

What should the team do next?

Options:

A.

Run automated tests on the legacy functionality.

B.

Ask the customer to write tests that will be used to know when a story has been correctly developed.

C.

Start coding on the selected user stories to meet the requirements.

D.

Write tests that will be used to know when a story has been correctly developed.

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Questions 81

An agile lead is working on a project to build a new product that will bring substantial business value to a company. Company executives want to present the first release at an important industry fair the following month. The agile lead started the project the previous month, and the team planned the release to take 8 iterations. For the past 4 iterations, work has been performed as planned and on time. In the current iteration, however, one team member will be out for the remainder of the project. Without this team member, velocity would drop 30%.

What should the agile lead do to ensure the release will be on time for the fair?

Options:

A.

Reduce the scope of the release to meet the deadline.

B.

Deliver as many features as possible based on the new velocity.

C.

Extend the project timeline to accommodate the missing team member.

D.

Hire a new team member to replace the missing one.

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Questions 82

Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release. What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Conduct frequent demos and obtain feedback from users throughout the development of the next release

B.

Inform senior management that since the product was successfully released, the project is considered delivered and should be closed

C.

Request additional budget to implement a Scrum of Scrums approach to scale the teams and add capacity

D.

Implement a better definition of done to ensure that continuous integration processes are managed effectively

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Questions 83

The customer asked the IT project manager to change a few specifications for the software being developed, which will affect the project budget. The financial sponsor is having difficulty approving changes to the budget that was already allocated to the project.

What should the project manager do next?

Options:

A.

Explain that agile principles mandate that there should be a contingency budget for agile projects.

B.

Request the team work overtime to get the work done on time and within the allocated budget.

C.

Encourage the product owner and team to analyze the impact of the changes and prioritize the backlog.

D.

Review the contract documentation with the customer to clarity the specific agreed upon budget amount.

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Questions 84

During a coaching session, an agile project manager discussed embracing communication to keep all stakeholders aligned. The agile project manager recently had a discussion with their team and decided to display a product roadmap.

What is the agile project manager trying to show?

Options:

A.

The project's total number of story points.

B.

Product releases and what will be included.

C.

The number of completed user stories.

D.

Where the team is in the project life cycle.

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Questions 85

A scrum team has eight developers, but only two are database engineers. During the last few retrospectives, the team identified that most sprint stories are dependent upon database engineers. This has created a bottleneck in completing stories.

What should be proposed to the team?

Options:

A.

Have other team developers attend training to learn database skills.

B.

Monitor the retrospectives of two additional sprints before taking action.

C.

Plan fewer stories for the sprint to reduce the database engineers' workload.

D.

Ask the scrum master to work with the product owner to remove backlog stories that have database dependency.

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Questions 86

During a daily stand up, the tester engages the developer in a discussion about what will be tested during unit testing versus regression testing. What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Ask the tester and developer to discuss it after the meeting, since it is not a part of the daily stand up.

B.

Encourage the discussion to resolve impediments.

C.

After the meeting, escalate this issue to the tester's supervisor to ensure that this does not reoccur.

D.

Ask more questions about the testing techniques to obtain clarification on team efforts for quality improvements.

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Questions 87

An organization strives hard to accelerate value delivery by improving product design, development, and transition activities. What ways of working should the organization discontinue to become an effective player?

Options:

A.

Leverage continuous feedback from customers to seamlessly align delivery with requirements.

B.

Define software functionality by relying on the developers' experience designing similar system

C.

Engage end users in user acceptance testing to ensure the product meets their expectations.

D.

Educate end users and other stakeholders to understand desired outcomes through user stories.

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Questions 88

A global organization is migrating its IT infrastructure from traditional, physical assets to cloud-based assets. Agile concepts are new to the organization because it currently uses a predictive approach.

What should an agile coach do to facilitate a culture change to an agile approach?

Options:

A.

Develop and distribute a high-level summary of how agile offers greater benefit than predictive to mid-level managers and let them decide if it should be distributed to lower-level workers.

B.

Develop and distribute a high-level summary of competing vendors' product alignment and agile project execution to the product owner for approval.

C.

Develop and distribute a high-level summary of how agile offers greater benefits than predictive to all members of organization.

D.

Develop and distribute a high-level summary of how agile offers greater benefits than predictive to the organization's executive directors, and if executive directors agree with the summary, distribute it organization-wide.

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Questions 89

A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.

What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

A.

Send the member to training?

B.

Ask the outside specialists if database administration is required from the team

C.

Send one member to training only after asking the team if there is an issue with the current work flow

D.

Wait until all members of the team can attend training

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Questions 90

A team member has asked a question about the responsibilities of the product manager, QA, and the team regarding quality. What should the agile project manager advise?

Options:

A.

The entire team is responsible for quality and each team member is accountable for ensuring the success of every component.

B.

The entire team is responsible for quality, but each team member's role may vary as stated in the definition of done (Do

C.

The entire team is responsible for quality and QA is responsible for surprises, gaps, and other intricacies that may have been overlooked.

D.

Quality is the responsibility of the entire team, and the product manager defines the functionality from end to end.

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Questions 91

A legal department representative contacts the scrum master because, while the project's budget has been maintained, it has exceeded its original contracted time and scope What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Meet with the team to gain alignment with the legal department's need to stay within the contracted time and scope

B.

Work with the customer to narrow the scope

C.

Share the project's trajectory with the legal department

D.

Meet with the legal department to help them understand that the customer and the team are satisfied with the time and deliverables

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Questions 92

An agile coach advised a project manager to continuously improve their ability to support their team and remove any obstacles in the project's way. What role is the agile coach advising to the project manager to take on?

Options:

A.

Scrum master

B.

People manager

C.

Servant leader

D.

Squad leader

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Questions 93

A senior manager has asked an agile team to ensure that the data for the burndown charts are updated in real-time. However, the team is not comfortable with this approach as they think this is not productive.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Ask the product owner to manage and share the metrics with appropriate stakeholders.

B.

Meet with requestors to agree and align on reporting requirements.

C.

Deny the request and explain the team's stance to the stakeholders.

D.

Work with the team to create the metrics requested by the stakeholders.

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Questions 94

A scrum master assumes a project that is essential to organizational growth. The project is expected to be in production for three years. What should the scrum master do first?

Options:

A.

Work with the customers to build the product backlog and identify their initial requirements.

B.

Meet with the stakeholders and enterprise architects to understand the project's vision.

C.

Plan and execute a sprint 0 to establish the project's foundational needs.

D.

Create a backlog, and execute a sprint 1 to quickly deliver value to the customers.

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Questions 95

During backlog refinement, a team routinely creates tests to demonstrate to the customer that each acceptance criterion has been met. Most acceptance tests results are observable or demonstrable, but testing for one requirement is providing a challenge to the team. The requirement states that the home button should be recognizable and the team is unsure how to test this.

What should the team lead do?

Options:

A.

Determine if the home button is present and if it is shaped like a house, it is recognizable.

B.

Record the product owner's opinion on how they will know if the button is recognizable.

C.

Skip creating a specific test for Ibis particular requirement because it is too abstract

D.

Consult the design team as subject matter experts (SMEs) for criteria on what makes a button recognizable.

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Questions 96

A product owner feels that the last sprint failed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to their organization's overall project goals. What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?

Options:

A.

Solutions to project problems that were built into the last sprint

B.

Problems that arose

C.

Solutions that saved the organization the most time and money

D.

Problems that were solved

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Questions 97

An agile coach is facing a dilemma: On one hand, there is a requirement that is vital and will consume all capacity of the team. On the other hand, there are some chore-related tasks that will improve the team's ability to produce results. The team insists on implementing these tasks since they will increase efficiency.

What should the agile coach do?

Options:

A.

Characterize chores as low priority since they do not add obvious value to the product

B.

Delegate chore-related tasks to another team.

C.

Escalate the issue to the shareholders/steering committee.

D.

Get the product owner and team to meet to prioritize the work.

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Questions 98

How can a project team effectively work toward a common goal and communicate as they scale and expand to build a new business-critical platform, given that they have been responsible for a small customer-facing product with little complexity over the past 2 years?

Options:

A.

Daily coordination meeting

B.

Instant messaging tools

C.

Web conferencing

D.

Work collaboration platform

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Questions 99

Several team members have complained to senior management about their scrum master's processes. What should the scrum master do to address the team's process concerns?

Options:

A.

Include senior management in the process decisions.

B.

Communicate the processes and expectations to the team.

C.

Conduct retrospectives at the end of every sprint.

D.

Include process feedback in the next sprint planning session.

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Questions 100

The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status and a demo of all the stories to the business. What should the product owner have done differently?

Options:

A.

Demonstrated only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback

B.

Presented the budget situation and review the cost variance

C.

Reviewed the test results to gam confidence from the stakeholders

D.

Presented a demo of all the stones including the work in progress stories

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Questions 101

When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?

Options:

A.

High-risk and high-value

B.

High-risk and low-value

C.

Low-risk and low-value

D.

Low-risk and high-value

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Questions 102

Several new stakeholders are concerned about being asked to review a product demo before it is complete. How should the agile coach explain to the stakeholders the value of working this way?

Options:

A.

The product owner may act as the stakeholders' proxy at the demo and that the stakeholders do not need to be directly involved with the team.

B.

The demo will show whether or not the team understands the level of effort required to complete the project.

C.

The stakeholders will learn whether or not the implementation has worked by getting immediate feedback so they can correct their assumptions for the next sprint.

D.

The stakeholders will be better positioned to evaluate whether or not the resources expended by the organization are worthwhile.

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Questions 103

An agile coach has been hired to improve the performance and quality of developed software. The coach performed an analysis of the software and discovered an excessive number of escaped defects, leading to external failures.

How can the agile coach effectively address and correct defects in the software development process while maintaining predictability and keeping workloads within capacity?

Options:

A.

Work with the team to create explicit rules such as coding and quality standards and testing policies.

B.

Discipline the team members and institute status meetings with penalties for any future escaped defects.

C.

Hire more generalized specialists because the current team members cannot keep up with the pace.

D.

Apply work in process (WIP) limits so the developers are not pressured to release code that is problematic.

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Questions 104

An agile project manager notices that the product owner manages team members' day-to-day tasks in a way that distracts them from their core responsibilities. In addition, the team believes that their questions on product backlog prioritization are not being answered on time.

What should the agile project manager do?

Options:

A.

Discuss and address this in the iteration retrospective.

B.

Let the product owner know it is the project manager's responsibility to drive a team's tasks.

C.

Discuss the roles and responsibilities of the project team with the product owner

D.

Ask the product owner to work extra hours to answer the team's questions

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Questions 105

During the high-level estimation for a project, the team contacted the product owner about the client’s requirements. The team is seeking guidance as their estimate is too big and there is a risk of not finishing the project in time.

What should the product owner do to help the team?

Options:

A.

Work with the client to ensure that the requirements are clear enough to allow a correct estimation and refine the backlog if needed.

B.

Assist the team with schedule planning to mitigate risks, including the possibility of crashing if needed.

C.

Implement clear measurements to control any deviation and therefore ensure the project's success per client requirements

D.

Recommend that the team skip requirements that are too complex and estimate them later through progressive elaboration.

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Questions 106

While reviewing the sprint burn down during a stand up. The scrum team identifies that they have fallen behind Upon further discussion they discover that some quality assurance (QA) team members were unable to use the new automation framework, which caused a bottleneck.

What should the scrum team do?

Options:

A.

For upcoming sprints, have QA team members ensure that their respective skill sets are considered when acceptingstones

B.

Have QA team members with the appropriate skill sets spend extra time to help the team succeed

C.

Ensure that QA team members who lack the appropriate skill sets sign up for training within the next few weeks

D.

Ask QA team members experienced with the new automation framework to cross-train the other QA members

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Questions 107

Members of an agile team are complaining that user stories are too large, taking multiple sprints to complete them. They say this way of working is becoming difficult to handle and it has been challenging to map relationships between stories. This situation is affecting the value delivery for the product owner.

What should the scrum master do to handle this situation?

Options:

A.

Separate large user stories.

B.

Apply work-in-progress limits.

C.

Organize user stories into epics.

D.

Replace user stories into features.

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Questions 108

While struggling to take ownership of delivery an agile team fails to keep up with its sprint commitments What should the agile coach do?

Options:

A.

Work with the sponsor to develop team expectations

B.

Provide the customer with a list of deliverables and obtain agreement

C.

Encourage the team to more frequently interact with all stakeholders

D.

Work on finishing upfront product design rather than comprehensive documentation

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Questions 109

In a planning meeting, the client does not have a clear understanding of the most beneficial features of a project, because there are too many stakeholders with different requirements. How should the project manager approach this project?

Options:

A.

Define all requirements so value can be added by delivering a high-level plan at the initiation phase.

B.

Suggest the product owner prioritize the work items by feature to maximize value.

C.

Ask the customer to define the requirements of all stakeholders and select the most valuable features.

D.

Ensure the client has a clear idea about the features and end product before the project starts.

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Questions 110

A product owner adds user stories to the backlog on a daily basis. The stories are vague requests, and the product owner expects the details to be clarified once the team works on the prioritization list.

How should the team members address this challenge so that the prioritization meeting does not become a brainstorming session?

Options:

A.

Ask the product owners to invite a subject matter expert (SME) to the meeting so the prioritization meeting will be more effective.

B.

Ask the product owner to review their items with the product owner's teammates before adding user stories to the backlog.

C.

Ask the product owner to schedule a meeting with a subject matter expert (SME) to review items before adding user stories to the backlog.

D.

Ask the product owner to review the stories with the scrum master before the prioritization meeting takes place.

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Questions 111

Based on the chart, what is the current status of the iteration when comparing story points planned versus completed?

Options:

A.

The iteration is in jeopardy.

B.

The team has removed scope.

C.

The iteration is ahead of schedule.

D.

The team's velocity is constant.

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Questions 112

An agile coach is working with a team that serves clients making product requests by phone. During a daily commitment and replanning meeting, a team member states that they were unable to resolve a client request because they lacked sufficient product knowledge.

What should the agile coach do?

Options:

A.

Facilitate a team discussion to identify knowledge gaps and determine the best way to address them.

B.

Ask the line manager to assign the team member with the required technical knowledge.

C.

Meet with the team member's line manager to discuss their development plan.

D.

Provide the team member with training in any lacking areas.

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Questions 113

During an agile team retrospective, some junior team members discussed an approach that could improve the overall team performance. How should the agile practitioner handle the recommendation?

Options:

A.

Record the suggestion to be considered for future projects.

B.

Invite the team to evaluate the suggestion and measure the effectiveness of the implementation.

C.

Let the product owner consider the proposal and decide whether to adopt the suggested practice.

D.

Let the team's senior members decide whether to adopt the suggested practice.

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Questions 114

The manager of the team is responsible for delivering a specific initiative within the organization. They are preparing for the monthly project review meeting, where they will present the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the initiative's current status.

Which summaries are correct and will be presented during the monthly project review? (Refer to

the email and exhibits to the Team Manager)

Options:

A.

MVP has 25 remaining story points; MVP will complete at the end of sprint 8; with no otherdeviations, the entire backlog will complete at the end of sprint 15.

B.

MVP has 30 remaining story points; MVP will complete at the end of sprint 8; with no otherdeviations, the entire backlog will complete at the end of sprint 15.

C.

MVP has 25 remaining story points; MVP will complete at the end of sprint 9; with no otherdeviations, the entire backlog will complete at the end of sprint 16.

D.

MVP has 30 remaining story points; MVP will complete at the end of sprint 9; with no otherdeviations, the entire backlog will complete at the end of sprint 16.

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Questions 115

How can a scrum team obtain more feedback from a minimally responsive outside stakeholder?

Options:

A.

Keep sprints short.

B.

Invite the stakeholder to the daily stand ups.

C.

Ask the stakeholder for estimates for each user story.

D.

Schedule more demos during each sprint.

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Questions 116

An agile team has been given a complex project with a basic set of requirements which need further elaboration and review. How should the team iteratively build out the backlog of requirements with the stakeholders?

Options:

A.

Conduct a requirements gathering workshop.

B.

Deliver the basic requirements iteratively.

C.

Have the product owner fill out the requirements backlog.

D.

Have the stakeholders fill out the backlog before starling the project.

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Questions 117

A project's product owner asks the scrum master to facilitate the estimation activity. The scrum master then meets with the team and the product owner to clarify the user stories. Following the meeting, the team assembles and provides individual user-story estimates.

What technique did the team use?

Options:

A.

Lessons learned

B.

Wideband Delphi

C.

Formal point counting

D.

Planning poker

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Questions 118

During a project's last iteration, an agile team struggled with a feature's delivery due to the lack of a required skill. The project has already incurred a five-day delay. A further delay of at least 10 days is anticipated.

What should the agile project leader have done to avoid this situation?

Options:

A.

Provided just-in-time training of the required skill to specific team members

B.

Lowered the feature's priority until a team member acquired the skill to build it

C.

Assigned the feature to another agile team that had members with the required skills

D.

Ensured that the team was comprised of cross-functional, generalized specialists

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Questions 119

The lead developer informed the team that they have learned of some possible integration challenges in creating customer dashboards using the architecture the team has chosen. What should an agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Conduct an architectural spike immediately to decide how the functionality will be determined.

B.

Work with the product owner to avoid the risk by determining if their requirements could be met with reporting or a similar functionality.

C.

Continue the priority defined by the product owner on the backlog for the functionality they determined to be the highest priority.

D.

Identify this as a risk, decide on the response, and prioritize spike to determine the solution on the product backlog.

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Questions 120

A new agile team is forming to address a high-priority project. Team members are dispersed over a wide geographic area. The scrum master and the team are currently defining their working agreement.

What should be part of the working agreement for a dispersed team?

Options:

A.

Identity support needed from external vendors to assist dispersed team members.

B.

Meet face to face at regular intervals to enhance shared understanding.

C.

Designate one person to communicate with all team members working at different locations.

D.

Define what project work can be done by dispersed team members.

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Questions 121

Due to its complexity a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story. What advice should the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?

Options:

A.

Hand the story over to a more experienced team member

B.

Break the story up and focus on the most valuable parts

C.

Discuss the story at the next retrospective

D.

Pick another story from the product backlog

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Questions 122

The team is working to build a new Al model that will summarize and create presentation materials for executive leaders from external and internal content. The team believes there is value in increasing the scope of work as it will benefit the organization.

Which two actions should the product owner take first? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Determine the cost and resource requirements.

B.

Create a spike to determine the dependencies.

C.

Create a change request to formalize the requirements.

D.

Seek executive approval on the approach.

E.

Determine the purpose and value proposition on the approach.

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Questions 123

Halfway through the execution of an agile project, a retrospective meeting is held. One of the team members believes that the actual time and cost to complete the work has consistently been greater than what was originally estimated.

Which of the following activities should be performed next?

Options:

A.

The product owner should reduce the scope of the project so that the items delivering the highest business value can be completed.

B.

The team should perform a spike to conduct research on their technical solutions and prove their viability.

C.

The team should consolidate small stories into larger ones so that there are less work items to be estimated.

D.

The team should reevaluate time and cost estimates to reflect the latest understanding of the work effort.

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Questions 124

A product owner needs to elaborate on a product roadmap. How can the product owner collaborate with stakeholders to identify the features that offer maximum value?

Options:

A.

Identify the product users and their high-level key activities to get their perspective because the product is intended for them.

B.

Obtain the project sponsor's perspective to get an initial idea of the features they believe the product should have to guide the development team.

C.

Analyze the development team's capacity and skills because these will determine which features to include in the roadmap.

D.

Create a draft of the product roadmap that the development team can use as a guide for further guidance.

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Questions 125

Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO):

Customer: I am requesting a calendar feature for scheduling and reminding of upcoming releases that we can manage. We also need the calendar to indicate quarterly metrics deadlines, code freeze dates for financial close, and things like that.

PO: My understanding is that this is for tracking project deadlines. Would you need to see the project deadlines on your phone calendar?

Customer: Yes. I need to see a single snapshot on my phone. So, is it possible for me to connect my phone to this calendar app?

PO: Let me write up the requirements and get the development team on board with the deadlines. What phone do you own?

Customer: I own an Android phone, but I also need integration with the Apple phones.

Identify three minimum viable product (MVP) items. (Refer to Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO). Choose three.)

Options:

A.

Monthly calendar view

B.

Android phone integration

C.

Windows end of support deadlines

D.

Vacation calendar for team members

E.

Scheduler to add events

F.

Product increment release dates

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Questions 126

The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope Unless this change is accepted, there is no value to the customers during this iteration.

What must the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Add the new change request as a new user story in the product backlog for the upcoming iteration

B.

Evaluate the impact of the change request and let the team and product owner decide and re-prioritize based on value C. Recommend cancelling the current iteration and plan the change request into the next iteration.

C.

Recommend that the product owner add this change request as a user story to the backlog for the current iteration

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Questions 127

A scrum master is overseeing the launch of a chatbot for the service desk. Complaints come up post-release about edge case responses to queries. After analyzing the issues, the business decision was made to take the chatbot offline, resulting in workflow disruptions and risking the reputation.

How could this situation have been avoided? (Refer to Testing Protocol Table)

Options:

A.

Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure the chatbot meets stakeholder needs and expectations.

B.

Perform integration testing to minimize any bugs between the chatbot components.

C.

Perform functional testing to verify the chatbot performs the reguired functions.

D.

Conduct regression testing to ensure all previously functioning chatbot features continue to work after updates.

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Questions 128

All blockers are caused by some Impediments, but not all impediments are blockers. Which two scenarios should be considered blockers? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Due to frequent context switching, the daily 15-minute touchpoints last an hour even/ day, reducing the team's time to finish activities for the demonstrations.

B.

A developer is unable to work on their tasks within an iteration, because senior management is constantly pulling them into production incident analyses.

C.

The development team needed to urgently set up all the test data the previous week; however, due to a glitch in the system this will not be available until before the demonstration.

D.

The offshore testing team is pulled away at the last minute from a high-profile initiative and testing cannot be resumed until a new testing team is assigned.

E.

Performance issues in the testing environment, leading to a 2-day delay in implementing the code.

F.

The team has started working on the iteration, but the requirements artifacts are under review by the product owner.

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Questions 129

A project team member expresses frustration about the length of time it takes to make decisions for a complex project. Approvals needs to happen at many levels in the company.

What should the team lead do to improve decision quality and reduce the time required to make decisions?

Options:

A.

Make sure the project owner is fully embedded into the project team so that they are readily available to make quick decisions.

B.

Establish collaborative behaviors among all members of the organization through a group decision-making process.

C.

Ensure all decisions are routed as quickly as possible to the project sponsor and have the rules of engagement visibly posted.

D.

Reduce the number of required approvals and expand the decision-control limits to the scrum master.

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Questions 130

A Scrum team is visualizing the blockers that arise when they work on their activities on the kanban board. The team decided to analyze why the blockers occur so they can take action to minimize their occurrence and reduce lead times.

Which practices should the team use?

Options:

A.

The most important principle in Scrum is reducing work in process (WIP). The lower the number of items, the lower the risk of items getting blocked. Based on the team’s capacity, they should set the lowest WIP limits possible.

B.

The team should look at all the blockers, determine the reason behind them, group them, and determine if there is a pattern. They should then determine what and how they can make relevant changes.

C.

The team should discuss the issue with their scrum master because it is their responsibility to remove impediments, such as blockers, in cooperation with other teams.

D.

Blockers are a result of bottlenecks. The team should ask for more resources to prevent bottlenecks from arising and reduce the risk of long lead times.

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Questions 131

An agile team lead noticed their team’s velocity was slowing down. They did not deliver a working software during the last iteration and there have been miscommunications between team members.

What should the agile team lead do at the end of this iteration?

Options:

A.

Focus on performance in the retrospective, then present performance indices and validate with the team.

B.

Start using feedback loops in every sprint to reevaluate project and team performance.C Emphasize business requirements and investigate the pair-programming approach

C.

Run a spike at the end of the sprint to investigate the issue and reduce project risk.

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Questions 132

A high-profile project team is struggling to meet planned velocity. During a retrospective, the team agreed that their lack of experience in the technology resulted in an excess of rework.

What should be done to resolve this challenge?

Options:

A.

Increase the duration of iterations to minimize the frequency of priority changes that are distracting the team.

B.

Reduce the duration of iterations so that the product owner can reprioritize work to ensure business value alignment.

C.

Increase the level of effort in testing to ensure that all defects are identified and properly documented so they can be resolved before the end of the iteration.

D.

Implement a spike lo enhance creativity by experimenting with new techniques and process ideas in order to discover more efficient and effective ways of working

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Questions 133

The coach on a new agile team notices that one team member is influencing most of the team's decisions. What should the coach do?

Options:

A.

Replace the team member with a more collaborative individual.

B.

Permit the team member to continue influencing because agile teams are self-organizing.

C.

Ask probing questions to other team members to encourage dissenting viewpoints.

D.

Intervene if the team's velocity drops.

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Questions 134

A product that recently went to market is receiving a great deal of attention from upper management who expresses interest by directly emailing and calling the developer team. The team expresses frustration during a standup.

What should the Scrum Master do?

Options:

A.

Ask the product owner how upper management's comments can be redirected.

B.

Direct the developer team to ignore the phone calls and emails.

C.

Ask the product owner to enter the requests into the product backlog as high priority.

D.

Personally respond to upper management's phone calls and emails.

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Questions 135

A new stakeholder has recently joined a project. During a meeting with the scrum master, the new stakeholder tries to understand the status of the project and the remaining tasks for completion.

How should the scrum master inform the new stakeholder?

Options:

A.

Show the stakeholder the latest release breakdown for the project.

B.

Invite the stakeholder to attend the next sprint review meeting.

C.

Show the stakeholder the progress radiators for the project.

D.

Invite the stakeholder to attend the next sprint planning meeting.

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Questions 136

A mature agile team welcomes a new member Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate.

What should the agile project leader do?

Options:

A.

Bring up the new member's impediments at the next meeting to demonstrate team support of input

B.

Assure the new member that inputs on impediments are valued and demonstrate this at the next meeting

C.

Have a senior lead work with the new member to avoid a negative impact on team productivity

D.

Privately work with the new member to address any impediments

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Questions 137

A scrum team is working together virtually. One of the team members sends a daily email to the other team members listing impediments that they find. During retrospective meetings, the team member complains that their colleagues fail to take actions on the impediments.

How should the team address this issue?

Options:

A.

The team member that is complaining should talk individually with the scrum master to remove impediments.

B.

They should ask for more details about the impediments and then resolve them when the team has more time to investigate.

C.

The team member that is complaining should address the impediments in daily scrum, communicating them directly.

D.

Team members should state that they need to prioritize their work instead of responding to daily emails about impediments.

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Questions 138

A product's scope and acceptance criteria have been defined, and the product is planned for release at the end of the next quarter. What should the project team do next?

Options:

A.

Estimate the project team's capacity.

B.

Determine how much work can be delivered.

C.

Calculate how much work will fit into the next iteration.

D.

Estimate items in the product backlog.

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Questions 139

A mobile application project is halfway through development. The team reaches a stabilized velocity after 8 iterations. The sprint duration is two weeks and requirements assigned by the product owner are not changing frequently.

What is the estimated time remaining for the project?

Options:

A.

Eight months

B.

Two months

C.

Four months

D.

Six months

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Questions 140

The product owner of an agile project is frustrated because the team is unable to deliver as many features as expected. The product owner asks the team to reduce test-automation levels, since the quality assurance team will test the product at project completion. The product owner expects that more features will be delivered in each iteration using this approach.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Ask the opinion of key stakeholders and the client to ensure the correct approach is being used.

B.

Work with the team to use this approach and request a quality assurance iteration after every three iterations

C.

Propose to completely eliminate test automation, since this is a quality assurance function.

D.

Suggest merging the quality assurance and delivery teams to enhance each iteration's test-automation levels and reduce redundancy

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Questions 141

A new CIO advocates an agile framework for new IT projects, but the team has reservations. How should the CIO ensure that the team will be aligned with this?

Options:

A.

Obtain executive team buy-in by conducting a meeting to present the advantages of agile principles and processes.

B.

Issue a memo of understanding that agile principles should be implemented for all new projects.

C.

Introduce agile principles and processes, then make the change an experiment to obtain buy-in.

D.

Require all staff and management to attend agile training and adhere to its principles.

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Questions 142

During sprints, the development team members are frequently invited to various meetings to provide technical opinions, consuming the team's working time and causing compliance issues. Which action should the scrum master take to address this situation?

Options:

A.

Request additional resources to prevent compliance issues while still fostering a collaborative workplace.

B.

Escalate the concern to the product owner and request that they prioritize the development work.

C.

Designate a single team member to attend the meetings and establish a capacity buffer for each sprint.

D.

Reject all external meetings for the development team so they can fully focus on their sprint tasks.

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Questions 143

During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initiative, review the iteration charts to discuss changes to the iteration's functional goal.

What practice is the agile facilitator implementing?

Options:

A.

Building openness and transparency on the project's health and status

B.

Facilitating conflict resolution among executive team members

C.

Using active stakeholder involvement to build features in an incremental and iterative approach

D.

Seeking continuous feedback from executive team members

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Questions 144

The product owner is very concerned about work not being completed and tested before a hard release date. What can the agile team do to mitigate this risk?

Options:

A.

High-risk features can be prioritized to fit into releases with less work in progress.

B.

Low-risk, low-value features can be prioritized and completed first.

C.

High-risk, low-value features can be evaluated by the team early in the release.

D.

The work in progress can be adjusted to get more reviews with high-risk features.

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Exam Code: PMI-200
Exam Name: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Last Update: Apr 16, 2025
Questions: 482

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