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

Questions 4

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 5

At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What should the project team have done prior to product release?

Options:

A.

Requested approval from the project sponsor

B.

Undertaken a review of all requirements

C.

Conducted an end-of-phase demonstration

D.

Performed a retrospective to validate project deliverables

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Questions 6

The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and the frequent clarification required.

What should be done to address the issue?

Options:

A.

Stop the current iteration to discuss defect quality issues and explore solutions.

B.

Discuss and explore solutions in the next planning meeting and take corrective actions as required.

C.

Generate insights at the next retrospective and adjust processes as decided by the team.

D.

Assign corrective actions to the backlog for the team to identify the mandatory defect information.

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Questions 7

Senior management is frustrated at the lack of a detailed implementation plan that shows exactly when the project will end and when all requirements will be met. The team has been using a rolling wave planning approach so far on the project.

How should the agile practitioner explain to senior management the benefits of this approach?

Options:

A.

It ensures a consistent level of detail is available in the project schedule

B.

It prevents a wasteful buildup of requirements inventory that may never be processed

C.

It provides a concrete definition of project scope, cost and duration

D.

It allows the team to lock down the stories to be included in a release

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Questions 8

A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation. What should the new team member do?

Options:

A.

Teach the team the appropriate agile principle, obtain consensus, and drive adoption.

B.

Allow another team member to prepare those documents that do not appear to bring value.

C.

Notify the project manager about other documentation techniques, and identify which documents bring value and which do not.

D.

Follow the existing process to avoid conflicts.

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Questions 9

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 10

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 11

A team is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach Historically, the team has delivered work products that did not meet customer expectations.

What agile practice can help the team to alleviate this?

Options:

A.

Test-driven development (TDD)

B.

Clear definition of done and regular demos

C.

Collaborative team planning games

D.

Consistent team velocity

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Questions 12

The executive leadership wants to understand ways to better deliver on time and on budget. What can the project team do to assist in achieving the organizational goal?

Options:

A.

Maintain and review a lessons learned repository to improve delivery of future projects.

B.

Ask each team member to post corrective action to the backlog.

C.

Engage the project management office (PMO) to take responsibility identifying lessons learned on projects.

D.

Perform a root cause analysis to identify alternative approaches for performing the next project.

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Questions 13

During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration.

How could the project leader have avoided this?

Options:

A.

Led by example by encouraging the team to engage in consensus-driven decision making

B.

Iterated the need for agile teams to make quick decisions, then followed up with that team member

C.

Empowered a team member to facilitate decision making then made a final decision on behalf of the team

D.

Refrained from participating in the team's decision-making process, except to document and communicate results

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Questions 14

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 15

A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules How should the team lead address this?

Options:

A.

Inform management and suggest that additional resources may be required

B.

Discuss the issue with the team in the daily stand up meetings

C.

Meet personally with the stressed team member to brainstorm ways to better manage their time

D.

Begin tracking the stressed team member's tasks in a separate backlog for additional analysis and reporting

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Questions 16

A globally distributed project team is using email and phone calls as the only way to share information. Delays in resolving issues often occur due to misinterpreted communications, leading to a lower team velocity.

What steps should the project leader take to improve knowledge sharing?

Options:

A.

Meet individually with each team member to identify the issues and relay information to the remaining members through status reports.

B.

Establish a live video feed between the dispersed teams to enable spontaneous engagement and collaboration on issues.

C.

Request that the customer co-locate the team to overcome the communication issues, as this is the only method to ensure agility.

D.

Inform the customer of the challenges and lower velocity of the project to accommodate for the slower delivery pace.

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Questions 17

The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six months What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Commit to a specific feature set for delivery

B.

Explain that a commitment will be provided after planning

C.

Have the team estimate in story points to commit to a specific set of features

D.

Use the team's historical velocity to calculate a range of features that can be delivered

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Questions 18

An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release.

What should the agile coach do?

Options:

A.

Meet with the agile team lead to discuss ways to improve team velocity and get back on track

B.

Use this as a learning opportunity and allow the team to handle the situation when the marketing campaign begins

C.

In the upcoming retrospective, discuss ways to improve sharing project status information

D.

Meet with the marketing stakeholders to explain that the team will miss the planned release date

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Questions 19

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 20

During a retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives All will have a positive impact and improve team performance What should the agile coach do next?

Options:

A.

Positively acknowledge the list and share it with management

B.

Immediately have the team implement the initiatives

C.

Help the team choose one or two initiatives for immediate implementation

D.

Ask the team to choose and implement the most complex initiative

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Questions 21

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 22

An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprints

What should the agile coach do in this situation?

Options:

A.

Ensure that the spikes identify the risks early in the project to increase the chances of success

B.

Ensure that the business sponsor accepts the proposal and agrees to fund the additional spike sprints.

C.

Recommend that, in the first sprint, user stories with higher priority be executed in addition to the spike

D.

Support the decision because release planning will be improved, and the product backlog can be better groomed after all

spikes are executed

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Questions 23

An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team How should the team's coach react?

Options:

A.

Document the problem, escalate to the project manager and develop a solution for the team

B.

Add the problem to the backlog and assign resolution to a future iteration

C.

Instruct the team to try to solve the problem within the team

D.

Perform root cause analysis and report the problem to the product owner

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Questions 24

An agile team delivered a feature in the last iteration. The product owner, who missed the planning and review meetings, was dissatisfied with the feature. The team conducted a retrospective and reviewed the user stories related it.

What should the agile team do next?

Options:

A.

Ensure that the product owner reviews the acceptance criteria for delivered user stories.

B.

Augment the quality assurance and continuous integration processes for delivery.

C.

Approach the relevant developers and testers regarding quality issues in upcoming iterations.

D.

Ask the product owner to define the entire scope of delivery two to three iterations in advance.

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Questions 25

Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete all committed features.

What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Plan for overtime, and include the effort as part of the estimation.

B.

Increase team velocity to deliver more story points.

C.

Identify the reason for over-commitment to the sprint and create an action plan for the following sprint.

D.

Add resources to assist with sprint execution.

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Questions 26

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 27

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 28

How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?

Options:

A.

Ask the product owner to provide a detailed product specification document

B.

Conduct story-mapping exercises to clarify deliverables and release priorities

C.

Hold a kick-off meeting to assign roles and responsibilities.

D.

Work with the scrum master and stakeholders to ensure agile principles are followed

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Questions 29

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 30

What can a team use to prioritize stories?

Options:

A.

MoSCoW method

B.

Planning poker technique

C.

Weighted average calculation

D.

INVEST scale

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Questions 31

As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?

Options:

A.

Add more user stories.

B.

Use sprint retrospectives.

C.

Update current user stories.

D.

Update new tasks in the project plan.

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Questions 32

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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Exam Code: PMI-ACP
Exam Name: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Last Update: Dec 30, 2024
Questions: 214

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