PMI PMI-ACP Practice Exam Questions

PMI PMI-ACP Sample Question Answers

Question # 1

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 he delivered What should the agile team do?

A. Evaluate how much can be delivered based on the Scrum Master's estimation
B. identify a set of user stored based on the team's velocity
C. initiate an estimation session
D. Consult historical data for project completion

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Question # 2

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?

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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Question # 3

On what should an agile team work to achieve predictable flow?

A. Small user stories
B. Simple acceptance criteria
C. Lean features
D. Lean backlogs

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Question # 4

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? 

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 
D. Recommend that the product owner add this change request as a user story to me backlog tor the current aeration 

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Question # 5

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

A. Self-organize
B. Assign tasks to each team member
C. Meet with me customer
D. Identify the Scrum Master

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Question # 6

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

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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Question # 7

A learn using Kanban identifies mat 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?

A. Reduce work in progress (W1P) 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 lo break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP
D. Create a dedicated overflow swimlane on the Kanban board for stones that are loo large

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Question # 8

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

A. Request direction from the technical manager.
B. Encourage the product owner to reallocate the features to another sprint.
C. Determine who is best qualified to address the challenges.
D. Ask the product owner to assign the tasks to the most appropriately skilled resources.

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Question # 9

What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements? 

A. Invite the team to iteration review meetings  
B. Obtain agreement from the product owner on business requirements
C. Request that regular reports are sent to stakeholders
D. Confirm managers and stakeholders are invited to product review meetings.

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Question # 10

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? 

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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