Free Practice Questions for PMI-ACP Exam

A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to compete m the marketplace1. What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?

• Risk management
• Variance and trend
• Kano model
• Fishbone diagram

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

• Transfer the senior member to another team that will more fully utilize their skill set.
• Conduct a performance evaluation to determine whether or not this member is a team player.
• Encourage the project team to involve the senior member in more project activities.
• Ask the functional manager to determine the best course of action.

A Scrum Master would like to provide information to key stakeholders on the daily resource and project activities. Which tool should the Scrum Master use to provide these updates?

• Shared vision statement and sprint goal
• Release burnup chart
• Velocity metrics
• Iteration burndown chart

What can a team use to prioritize stories?

• MoSCoW method
• Planning poker technique
• Weighted average calculation
• INVEST scale

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?

• Encourage all team members to participate, and have them type their retrospective feedback into the agile lifecycle management tool.
• Ask more specific questions during the retrospectives.
• Use retrospective techniques, such as silent writing, clustering, and dot voting to field feedback prior to discussion by the team.
• Ask team members to email feedback that can be summarized in a spreadsheet for the team.

When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?

• High-risk and high-value
• High-risk and low-value
• Low-risk and low-value
• Low-risk and high-value

The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning to gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint. What should the agile project manager do?

• Since the team has extra time, notify the product owner and secure approval for the extra work on this feature.
• Encourage the team to document the improvement and prioritize it for the upcoming iteration, instead of building it now.
• Instruct the Scrum Master to have the team use the extra time to complete the extra feature work in the current iteration.
• Notify the product owner and have the product owner verify the backlog priority, then encourage team to continue working on the backlog.

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?

• Commit to a specific feature set for delivery.
• Explain that a commitment will be provided after planning.
• Have the team estimate in story points to commit to a specific set of features.
• Use the team's historical velocity to calculate a range of features that can be delivered.

After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI. What should the team do?

• Prioritize the backlog, and remove low-priority stories from the release plan to ensure a positive ROI.
• Replace some team members to reduce the release costs and minimize a negative ROI.
• Perform a root-cause analysis to remove waste from the delivery process and increase the ROI.
• Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan.

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?

• Encourage the team to self-organize and determine how to best complete their existing work and this spike.
• Encourage the team to complete their just existing work since the team velocity indicates they are already struggling to meet the release goal.
• Direct the team to defer the spike until the next release and add the action on the backlog for prioritization.
• Direct the team to work on the spike immediately given the importance of reporting functionality to complete the iteration.