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

Question 1

A product owner for two highly visible projects spends a great deal of time meeting with and reporting to senior stakeholders. The product owner is overwhelmed because both project teams request clarification on the requirements and the overall priorities.

What should the agile project manager do?

Options:

A.

Provide both project teams with the highest priority needs.

B.

Request the project teams' questions in writing prior to the next meeting.

C.

Facilitate a meeting with each team and the product owner to find a solution.

D.

Provide both teams with each project's documentation.

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Question 2

An agile team notices that the same problems continue to occur during multiple iterations Several team members have suggestions to fix the problem.

What is the proper agile approach to handle this?

Options:

A.

Hold frequent retrospectives and share the responsibility for making changes

B.

Understand that this is the nature of innovative business and strive to work harder

C.

Collect team member feedback and discuss them privately with the product owner

D.

Conduct a team-building exercise to increase trust among the team members

Question 3

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

Question 4

An executive sponsor of a new scrum team actively attends scrum ceremonies How does this benefit the team?

Options:

A.

It helps the team to focus on and meet sprint goals.

B.

It reminds the team about who sponsors the project.

C.

It provides high-level project updates to the sponsor

D.

It helps to quickly resolve issues using the sponsor's Influence

Question 5

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.

Question 6

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

Question 7

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.

Question 8

Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner do?

Options:

A.

Ask the agile practitioner to help write the user stories.

B.

Ask the agile team to facilitate a story-writing workshop.

C.

Ask subject matter experts (SMEs) to help write the user stories.

D.

Ask the agile practitioner to facilitate a story-writing workshop.

Question 9

Business stakeholders of an agile project frequently skip the review meetings. What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Ask the product owner to inform all stakeholders about the project's progress.

B.

Send meeting notes to all stakeholders after each review meeting.

C.

Include the results of the review meetings in the information radiators.

D.

Convince the stakeholders of the benefits of attending the review meetings.

Question 10

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.

Question 11

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

Question 12

A product owner new to the role is very enthusiastic about an agile project with an energetic team What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?

Options:

A.

Hold a meeting with the team and the product owner to develop the team charter working agreement, guiding principles and product vision

B.

Ask the product owner to create the project vision and charter, and then discuss the guiding principles with the team

C.

Hold a meeting during which the team can present the project charter high-level project plan, and team values to the product owner

D.

Send the product owner to formal product-owner training where the product owner can learn how to create a product vision

Question 13

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.

Question 14

A team's technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Tell the technical lead to do the testing

B.

Facilitate an open and focused team discussion that reinforces team agreements

C.

Ask the team manager to advise the technical lead that all tasks are important

D.

Encourage the team to take ownership of the delivery

Question 15

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

Options:

A.

Small user stories

B.

Simple acceptance criteria

C.

Lean features

D.

Lean backlogs

Question 16

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

Question 17

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.

Question 18

An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the Scrum Master do?

Options:

A.

Dismiss the team member

B.

Discuss the situation with the functional manager

C.

Report the functional manager to the project sponsor

D.

Demand that the functional manager respect the project charter

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

An agile practitioner notices that team members are disengaged. As a result, the team's velocity has decreased. What should the agile practitioner do to get the team back on track?

Options:

A.

Escalate the issue to the project sponsor.

B.

Remove stories to increase velocity.

C.

Hold a standup to address the issue.

D.

Facilitate a team retrospective.

Question 22

An agile project has three more iterations before the release. There is a lot of report functionality to be created and defects to be cleared. During a daily scrum, a team member suggests a timebox spike to find a more efficient way to deliver reports.

What should the project leader do?

Options:

A.

Encourage the team to self-organize and determine how to best complete their existing work and this spike.

B.

Encourage the team to complete their just existing work since the team velocity indicates they are already struggling to meet the release goal.

C.

Direct the team to defer the spike until the next release and add the action on the backlog for prioritization.

D.

Direct the team to work on the spike immediately given the importance of reporting functionality to complete the iteration.

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this.

What should the team do next?

Options:

A.

Add risk mitigation tasks to the backlog, then prioritize in current and upcoming sprints

B.

Add risk mitigation time to each requirement

C.

Apply the 80/20 rule, reserving 20 percent of each sprint’s capacity for risk mitigation

D.

Hold all risks until they become issues, then add issue resolution tasks to the product backlog

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog. What should the Scrum Master do next?

Options:

A.

Ask the project manager to work with the product owner to help generate clearer stories in the future.

B.

Develop guidelines to prevent future occurrences.

C.

During the retrospective, discuss the issue and create an action plan to avoid it in the future.

D.

Allow the team to devise a corrective action without external intervention.

Question 29

A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several iterations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these requirements was not communicated.

What should the Scrum Master do?

Options:

A.

Point out that the team chose to work on other requirements to speed up the project

B.

Ensure that the product owner reviews the contents of the information radiator

C.

Ensure that the next sprint planning meeting reviews the satisfaction histogram

D.

Point out that it is the responsibility of the product owner to clarify requirements

Question 30

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?

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

Conduct design planning session to review the performance threshold requirement

D.

Identify the tasks for the new performance threshold requirement

Question 31

During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and still meet the product launch date.

What should the project leader do?

Options:

A.

Finalize the feedback in the form of a change request

B.

Limit the scope of the feedback to only those changes that the team can feasibly accommodate

C.

Encourage all feedback then work with the customer to prioritize work for future sprints

D.

Allow the team to decide what feedback to incorporate

Question 32

A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint. What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Engage the team to determine the sprint velocity based on previous agile projects.

B.

Average the sprint velocity based on input from team members

C.

Share the sprint velocity obtained from the sponsor with the team

D.

Run multiple sprints before determining the sprint velocity with the team.

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