PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
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You want to display visual information to customers and project stakeholders. Ideally, you see work to be done, work-in-progress, and completed work. What tool would be best in this scenario?
A. Story maps
B. Kanban boards
C. Wireframes
D. Product roadmap
What is a stage of Feature-Driven Development (FDD)?
A. Demonstrate control
B. Build the features list
C. Build incrementally
D. Develop iteratively
Which estimate considers the product backlog?
A. Iteration zero
B. Ideal time
C. Project charter
D. ROI
You’ve included stereotypic users in your personas. What else should be considered or represented in a persona?
A. Requirements
B. Product owner
C. Real people
D. Scrum master
Joe is managing a small Agile project team. In the initial stages, Joe has identified 3 risk events in the |h %5coutput%5ct22%5cmisc%5cp160.html table. He’s been asked to suggest the contingency reserve. Which value would you recommend?
A. $100,000
B. $22,500
C. $36,250
D. $13,750
What is true about working agreements?
A. Working agreements are created by the team
B. Working agreements are project guidelines
C. Working agreements are created by the ScrumMaster
D. Working agreements are project performance requirements
You find out the team was creating a product feature that was not requested or required by the customer. After reviewing it with the customer, they are not happy. What happened, and what should you do?
A. Prioritization, use contingency reserves
B. Scope creep, request for additional financial support
C. Agile discovery, use Agile sizing and estimating
D. Gold plating, use pair programming
You’re forecasting the completion of a project. You have the forecasted velocity of the team. What other input is required?
A. Sum of story point estimates for all the features in the backlog
B. Approved iterations
C. Variance and trend analysis
D. Ceremonies, the number opportunities for planning
Which of the following is NOT an example of participatory decision models?
A. Shared collaboration
B. Convergent
C. Complex adaptive
D. Fist of Five
The lead time in the current project is significantly longer than other projects you’ve worked on. You’ve removed bottlenecks and delays, but you and your team can’t seem get on track. What can Manny do?
A. Set control limits
B. Complete a variance analysis
C. Swarming
D. Identify project trends
What is a common dysfunction in an Agile team?
A. Prioritizes motivation
B. Team makes their own decisions
C. Prioritizes quality
D. Inattention to results
Joe’s project team works to address each user story. Several small user stories carry from one iteration to the next. There is a gap in what result is acceptable. What’s the best approach that would have helped in this scenario?
A. Defining and meeting the definition of done
B. Tuckman’s model
C. Communication management
D. Incremental delivery
What is a principle of DSDM?
A. Eliminate waste
B. Collective code ownership
C. Business need is the primary goal
D. Develop an overall model
You’ve done well creating and shaping a self-led Agile team. But in a sprint review, two team members have a heated discussion on the approach of their development. What should you do?
A. Make a decision for them
B. Let them work out the differences
C. Use the fist of five approach
D. Request a separate meeting
There is friction on your team. There are several unidentified risks that became a reality. Your team is scrambling to work through each iteration. You had weak personnel, feature creep, and inadequate design. What could help this situation?
A. Team space and Agile tooling
B. Revised schedule impacts
C. Research-oriented development
D. Use the Silver-bullet method
Bob is a senior project manager at a large organization with traditional beliefs of functional departments and a structured hierarchy. Scrum, Kanban, and XP are used. He is looking to scale Agile throughout the organization. Which framework would be most useful in this scenario?
A. MMF
B. SAFe
C. SoS
D. LeSS
You and your team are co-located with another Scrum team. Even though there’s no current need for collaborating directly with them, you will likely need to in future. Which communication method is the best approach in this scenario?
A. Brainstorming
B. Social media based communication
C. Team space agile tooling
D. Osmotic communication
What is the most common tool for process analysis?
A. Technical debt
B. Burn-up chart
C. FMEA
D. Radar diagram
Which of the following is a self-assessment tools or techniques?
A. Kaizen
B. DSDM
C. PDCA
D. Shore
Which of the following is NOT a hybrid framework?
A. ScrumBan
B. SAFe
C. MoSCoW
D. LeSS
What can be used when applying control limits to work?
A. Kanban board
B. Fishbone diagram
C. ROI
D. Personas
In Scrum project management, when happens between sprint review and the next sprint planning meeting?
A. Scrum of scrums
B. PMO meeting
C. Sprint retrospective
D. Daily Scrum
Raheem’s Agile team is making a final group decision. With a synchronized vote, he sees the bulk of the votes with one finger. Which decision making method is Raheem’s team using?
A. Thumbs up/thumbs down
B. Fist of Five
C. Highsmith Decision Spectrum
D. Simple voting
You have 200 points left in the backlog. The first 3 iterations had a velocity of 10, 15, 14 points. Based on this velocity, how many iterations would it take to complete the project?
A. 13
B. 15
C. 12
D. 14
During a sprint retrospective, the team notices there was time spent in unnecessary meetings. Which Scrum event should you focus on to improvement the communications?
A. The sprint
B. The sprint review
C. Sprint planning
D. The daily Scrum
Juan is on an Agile team that supports the decisions made by the product owner to determine the features that should go in a release. They also set expectations and inspect all aspects of quality. How can the ScrumMaster empower the team?
A. Define the velocity of the team
B. Define the length of an iteration
C. Give complete control to the team
D. Support team members to step-up
You’ve been listening and serving your project team. When there are opportunities, you coach and help them grow. You’ve been promoting the energy and intelligence of others in creativity and collaboration. What are other aspects should you consider in a servant leadership role?
A. Promoting self-awareness, safety, respect, and trust
B. Defining the processes in the project
C. Directing the flow of communication
D. Creating a structured environment
The project team has reviewed the user stories and have put them in one of three categories. Small: < 1 day, Medium: < 1-2 weeks, Large: < 2 weeks. What approach to relative sizing does this represent?
A. Story points
B. T-shirt sizing
C. Time buckets
D. Timebox
What is a benefit of a common team space?
A. Team diversity
B. Controlled collaboration
C. Quiet writing
D. Tacit knowledge
What are the four types of risk response actions?
A. Communicate, disregard, embrace, review
B. Analyze, control, process, define
C. Identify, mitigate, test, accept
D. Avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept
You are working under the DSDM framework and are prioritizing requirements and business needs. Which one of these approaches should be applied?
A. Wireframes
B. MoSCoW
C. Affinity estimating
D. Ideal time
In drafting a project charter, you’ve identified the stakeholders, the goal of the project, start and end dates, the location, and the project methodology. What is missing?
A. Why are you doing this project?
B. How will you get the project done?
C. What are priorities of the work to be done?
D. Who will be on the project team?
Mark has set the goals for the product roadmap. He’s been communicating and align the high-level strategy. He’s considered the available resources and constraints. What other aspects should he focus on when planning for the product roadmap?
A. Create a task board
B. Check-in with end users
C. Define ideal time
D. Create a burn down chart
What is the defect rate?
A. # of defects / effort
B. # of defects / quality
C. # of defects / duration
D. # of defects / scope
What is represented in this example, “As a customer, I want to track my package until it’s delivered”?
A. User stories
B. Epics
C. Requirements
D. Themes
A team member is insistent on applying empirical process controls. What are the three aspects?
A. Organization, innovation, and focus
B. Performance, accountability, and process
C. Integration, effectiveness, and results
D. Transparency, inspection, and adaptation
Joel’s Agile team is making little progress. They seem to be using the same approach but seeing no improvements. The ScrumMaster seems to control the outcomes of the team. The team seems to have lost sight of the end goal and have little interest in solving problems or improving their work. What should Joel do?
A. Introduce frequent retrospectives
B. Identify KPIs
C. Use groupthink
D. Use Kano analysis
Emma and Ali have had heated discussion about how to implement a feature. Emma has more experience, but Ali has worked longer on the project. Emma has left the conversation numerous times. They’ve tried to come up with alternative solutions but have yet to mutually agree. This conflict is causing delays with the sprint and will have a knock-on effect to the next iteration. What’s the best approach to resolve this conflict?
A. Withdrawal
B. Smoothing
C. Forcing or directing
D. Active listening
What is a common KPI in Agile projects?
A. Completion date
B. Lead time
C. Defect rate
D. WIP limits
What is the most common tool for process analysis?
A. Radar diagram
B. FMEA
C. Technical debt
D. Burn-up chart
A long-term project has a fluctuating scope and changing requirements. You want the flexibility to modify the scope or vary the workloads. Which contract type would be best in this scenario?
A. Scope-boxed
B. Cost targeted
C. Capped time and materials
D. Fixed-price
Your team has found a defect. What should you do next to create value to the customer?
A. Use slicing or disaggregation
B. Add the issue to the current iteration
C. Add the issue to the product backlog
D. Calculate the defect rate
What is a core practice of eXtreme Programming?
A. Visualization
B. Extra features
C. Test-driven development
D. Eliminate waste
Project A has an investment of $330,000 and generates an IRR of 20%. Project B has an investment of $100,000 and generates an IRR of 40%. Project C has an investment of $200,000 and generates an IRR of 30%. Which project would you choose?
A. Project A
B. Project C
C. None
D. Project B
You’ve built an Agile team that resolves their differences, appreciate colleague's strengths, and respect the team. They accept their roles and responsibilities. Which stage is next is next in the Tuckman’s Model of Team Development?
A. Norming
B. Adjourning
C. Storming
D. Performing
What is characteristic of a high-performing Agile team?
A. Leadership role is fluid
B. Highly specialized skills
C. Focus on processes
D. Conflict is avoided
The system upgrade process must roll back all related updates if the upgrade fails. What type of requirement does this represent?
A. Security
B. Scalability
C. Reliability
D. Performance
Which one of the following is NOT an example of task boards?
A. Kaizen board
B. Kanban board
C. Scrum board
D. Agile board
The development team experimented with a different approach but failed. What is one of the roles of a Scrum Master to help “fix” the situation?
A. Observe and support the team
B. Determine priority of the failed task
C. Create a new work request
D. Reveal necessary adjustments
You are estimating the work effort with a range of variance, in an Agile project. Your team is using experiments and innovation to close the cone of uncertainty. You explain and show key stakeholders the planning results in order to increase commitment level and reduce uncertainty. Which term best describes this activity?
A. Timeboxing
B. Regulatory compliance
C. Agile discovery
D. WIP limits
After the customer adds new features, you’ve completed the value-based analysis of prioritization for the next few iterations. You are estimating how long each iteration will take. What should you do next?
A. Break down the requirements in to chunks of work, estimate how long it will take
B. Identify the available resources and the required tasks, and balance the workload
C. Ask customer to define the velocity of the team
D. Anticipate roadblocks
The ScrumMaster wants to ensure the team is paid fairly, works to build relationships with individuals and peers, and the working conditions exceed the team’s expectation. Then she focuses on the work itself and looks for opportunities for growth and advancement. What motivation models is she using?
A. Herzberg
B. Kano
C. Amabile and Kramer
D. McClelland
You have a UX designer on your Agile team. He’s knows that UX designs start from the end-user, but he also understands the business objectives the team is trying to meet. Has practice and experience to deliver high quality of work. What level of the Dreyfus model is represented?
A. Proficient
B. Competent
C. Advance beginner
D. Novice
Dave is a ScrumMaster and aims to provide transparency regarding work status by communicating team progress, work quality, impediments, and risks in order to help the primary stakeholders make informed decisions. He wants to keep the stakeholders aware of how the increased scope has impacted the goals of the project. Which information radiator should be used?
A. Burn down chart
B. Burn up chart
C. Story maps
D. Project charter
Why is it important to keep the stakeholders involved in the project?
A. To monitor the product owner’s decisions
B. To intervene team issues
C. To confirm commitment to decisions
D. To identify risk
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