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

Questions 4

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 5

During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good. What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

A.

Require the team to try only those ideas that will ensure success.

B.

Allow the team to try ideas, but remind them that results will be reviewed by high-ranking executives.

C.

Associate idea successes and failures with the team's incentive plan to ensure accountability.

D.

Encourage the team to try the ideas, even if failure may be the outcome.

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Questions 6

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 7

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

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Questions 8

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 9

What role should a servant leader perform to reduce team distractions and improve progress toward project goals?

Options:

A.

Managing: To ensure compliance with the project plan

B.

Mentoring: To share their knowledge with the team

C.

Controlling: To ensure compliance with the scope, budget, and schedule

D.

Auditing: To ensure adherence to organizational compliance policies

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Questions 10

An experienced product owner presents the epics and corresponding stones during a release planning session with the established team. The executive sponsor asks the team when the features will be delivered.

What should the agile team do?

Options:

A.

Evaluate how much can be delivered based on the Scrum Master's estimation

B.

Identify a set of user stones based on the team's velocity

C.

Initiate an estimation session

D.

Consult historical data for project completion

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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

A product owner obtains customer confirmation on product requirements and provides them to the team. After explaining the user stories, the product owner receives agreement for acceptance from the team. What should the team do next?

Options:

A.

Use agile estimation techniques to create a shared understanding of when the user stories will be completed.

B.

Agree upon development and testing activities for the user stories.

C.

Complete the user stories, and provide a demo for the product owner and customer.

D.

Complete the user stories, and hold a retrospective to discuss them.

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Questions 13

A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Advise the product owner that the story will have to wait until the next sprint.

B.

Work extra hours to complete the story and satisfy the customer's requirements.

C.

Break down the story into smaller increments and negotiate other stories on the sprint backlog.

D.

Increase the length of the sprint to accommodate the story.

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Questions 14

A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.

What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?

Options:

A.

Decrease the sprint time box until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint

B.

Discuss estimating techniques in the daily scrum meeting

C.

Increase the size of the development team until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint.

D.

Begin tracking estimated effort metrics as an input to performance evaluation

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Questions 15

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 16

During a review session, an agile team presented done requirements to a group of stakeholders Stakeholder feedback indicated that the done requirements failed to meet the most pressing needs and provide value.

What should the team have done to prevent this?

Options:

A.

Reprioritized requirements prior to committing to iteration work

B.

Ensured that requirements remained stable during the iteration cycle

C.

Had stakeholders focus on items created after the product backlog was initially built

D.

Worked on features rather than a set of components

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Questions 17

A new product owner needs to manage the backlog of a high-visibility fast-moving project that is consuming a considerable amount of time What should the product owner do?

Options:

A.

Schedule regular meetings with the scrum team to write, groom and size user stories

B.

Focus on stories based on the highest number of story points to first address those items with the highest value

C.

Seek regular input from project stakeholders, and reflect this input in the backlog's priorities

D.

Schedule in-person monthly meetings with key stakeholders to review the project's progress

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Questions 18

An agile team lead is assigned to a project that must ensure data security. What should the team lead do to guarantee that security, as a non-functional requirement, is managed throughout the project?

Options:

A.

Include security concerns on the agenda for every meeting.

B.

Request that a security expert be added to the team.

C.

Add security as a non-functional requirement to the risk register, and review regularly.

D.

Ensure that planning and prioritizing includes consideration of security requirements.

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Questions 19

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 20

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 21

Unable to meet a sprint's committed velocity, an agile team approaches the agile coach to define the next sprint's velocity. What should the agile coach advise?

Options:

A.

Split each story into multiple stories to meet the desired velocity.

B.

Set the velocity to the delivered story points of the last sprint.

C.

Use different estimation methods for stories and defects to meet the desired velocity.

D.

Re-estimate by assigning more story points to smaller stories to increase the velocity.

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Questions 22

During a planning session, four out of five team members vote to include eight story points in a particular story, while the fifth member votes for five story points. How should this be handled?

Options:

A.

The story should be assigned eight story points as per the majority vote

B.

The story should be added to the backlog and reassessed later

C.

The story should be assigned points after a discussion with the fifth team member to see if a consensus can be reached

D.

The decision for the number of story points should be made by the customer

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Questions 23

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 24

A client states that a product is not being built as requested How should the agile team address this?

Options:

A.

Conduct an internal review to validate functionality before shipping

B.

Audit the quality control process to ensure that the product adheres to requirements

C.

Lengthen iterations to ensure there is sufficient time to build functionality

D.

Hold product review sessions with the client to obtain product acceptance

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Questions 25

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 26

An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity. What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Re-estimate the sprint's completed stories to increase and adjust the sprint's velocity.

B.

Increase the duration of the next sprint to accommodate the incomplete user stories and maintain velocity.

C.

Work with the product owner to create a spike with another agile team.

D.

Re-estimate the incomplete stories for the next sprint because its relative size has changed.

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Questions 27

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 28

A project sponsor is upset that an enhancement will be unavailable until next year. What should the product owner do?

Options:

A.

Accept responsibility for the product's delay.

B.

Ensure that the project sponsor's priorities are in the product backlog.

C.

Negotiate with the project sponsor for increased funding.

D.

Empower the project sponsor to manage the product backlog.

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Questions 29

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 30

An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team. After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Coach team members to improve functional specialties and increase overall velocity.

B.

Identify where team processes misalign with accepted Scrum practices.

C.

Facilitate the identification of problems or issues and help the team resolve them.

D.

Review the backlog to ensure that it is prioritized, refined, and properly tasked.

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Questions 31

During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog. What should the team do first to define the tasks needed to implement the user stories?

Options:

A.

Self-organize

B.

Assign tasks to each team member

C.

Meet with the customer

D.

Identify the Scrum Master

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Questions 32

What role should a servant leader perform to reduce team distractions and improve progress toward project goals?

Options:

A.

Managing To ensure compliance with the project plan

B.

Mentoring: To share their knowledge with the team

C.

Controlling To ensure compliance with the scope, budget and schedule

D.

Auditing: To ensure adherence to organizational compliance policies

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Exam Code: PMI-ACP
Exam Name: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Last Update: Nov 25, 2024
Questions: 212

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