PMI-ACP sample questions

Question 1

A project team identifies a number oftechnical challenges with features in the next sprint. What should they do?

Accepted Answer

Ask the product owner to assign the tasks to the most appropriately skilled resources

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Request direction from the technical manager

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Encourage the product owner to reallocate the features to another sprint

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Determine who is best qualified to address the challenges

Question 2

In Scrum, the development team decides which events or ceremonies take place during a Sprint.

Accepted Answer

False

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True

Question 3

An agile team is under pressure to deliver an application. The product owner anticipates many change requests from customers once the product is released. What should the agile team do?

Accepted Answer

Continuously work with the product owner to do backlog refinement and product reviews

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Demand frequent product reviews by the product owner

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Have the product owner provide detailed requirement specifications to ensure the proper features are delivered

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During the planning session, ensure the team is committed to deliver within the specifications

Question 4

During backlog refinement meeting, the new developer on the team asks the product owner to discuss a new performance threshold requirement and how it impacts the stories in the backlog.

What should the team do?

Accepted Answer

Create a spike story to analyze the impact of the threshold requirement on current stories

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Add this threshold requirement request as acceptance criteria in all impacted stories

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Conduct design planning session to reviewthe performance threshold requirement

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Identify the tasks for the new performance threshold requirement

Question 5

Which of the following describes the 'Shu-Ha-Ri' model of skill acquisition in the context of coaching an agile team?

flowchart LR Shu["Shu (Follow the Rule)"] --> Ha["Ha (Break the Rule)"] Ha --> Ri["Ri (Be the Rule)"]

Accepted Answer

A progression where a team first learns the rules, then innovates on them, and finally transcends them through deep understanding.

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A method for prioritizing backlog items based on their stage of completion.

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A conflict resolution technique involving three stages of mediation.

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A release planning strategy that defines three levels of feature readiness.

Question 6

When developing user stories, user expectations are best captured in what form?

Accepted Answer

Acceptance tests

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Entrance criteria

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Done criteria

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Go and no-go limits

Question 7

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

What should the agile practitioner do?

Accepted Answer

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

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

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

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Reestimate all stories including values for A, B and C

Question 8

During sprint retrospectives, some team members are very vocal and tend to dominate the conversation, while others are more reserved and less likely to participate. What should the scrum master do?

Accepted Answer

Ask more specific questions during the retrospectives.

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Encourage all team members to participate, and have them type their retrospective feedback into the agile lifecycle management tool.

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Use retrospective techniques, such as silent writing, clustering, and dot voting to field feedback prior to discussion by the team.

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Ask team members to email feedback that can be summarized in a spreadsheet for the team.

Question 9

An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects.

What should the project manager do to share this project’s knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?

Accepted Answer

Invite people from across the organization to attend retrospectives

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Invite people from across the organization to attend daily stand ups

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Invite people from across the organization to attend the release meeting and project retrospectives

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Regularly meetwith people across the organization to share the project’s lessons learned and best practices

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