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PMI-ACP Exam Dumps - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Question # 4

An event management team is following an agile approach to prepare for an upcoming conference. The regional sales manager, from where the conference is to be held, contacts the team with a number of questions about the company's booth.

What should the team do?

A.

Inform the sponsor about the regional sales manager's disruptiveness and ask that all questions be diverted to the weekly meetings.

B.

Stay focused on the current iteration and let the project manager deal with the regional sales manager's questions.

C.

Invite the regional sales manager to the next iteration review to share the progress.

D.

Create a risk on the risk register to account for some potentially new requirements from the regional sales manager.

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Question # 5

At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What should the project team have done prior to product release?

A.

Requested approval from the project sponsor

B.

Undertaken a review of all requirements

C.

Conducted an end-of-phase demonstration

D.

Performed a retrospective to validate project deliverables

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Question # 6

A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful. The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than a long-term solution.

What should the project leader do?

A.

Assign the spike to another resource to continue research for the long-term solution

B.

Re-establish the spike; encourage experimentation and collaborate with the team

C.

Stop experimentation and negotiate the short-term solution with the customer

D.

Schedule a root-cause analysis with the development team on the main issues with the spike

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Question # 7

A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.

What should the agile team lead do?

A.

Send the member to training?

B.

Ask the outside specialists if database administration is required from the team

C.

Send one member to training only after asking the team if there is an issue with the current work flow

D.

Wait until all members of the team can attend training

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Question # 8

After a successful product deployment, a key stakeholder informs an agile team member that an implemented feature is failing to deliver its expected business value. The team member replies that the requirement was provided by the customer, and that the scope was clearly met.

If the problem were an issue of requirement elicitation rather than delivery, what should have been done to avoid this situation?

A.

Stakeholders should have regularly been engaged to obtain feedback and reduce the functionality risk.

B.

The team should have used the lean principle of delay, so that actual facts could be considered rather than assumptions and predictions.

C.

Interdependent teams should have been engaged using a collaborative approach to identify and leverage the best support.

D.

An owner should have been identified to obtain timely stakeholder feedback.

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Question # 9

An agile team provides feedback that user stories include insufficient details to understand the requirements. What should the agile practitioner do?

A.

Coach the product owner to update only the acceptance criteria.

B.

Instruct the agile team to fix the user stories during the next retrospective.

C.

Facilitate a user story workshop with the agile team.

D.

Inform the product owner's manager that the work items provide insufficient detail.

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Question # 10

A development team, new to scrum, questions the need to collect metrics on team performance. While learn members understand velocity and burn down, they feel that once velocity becomes settled it is needless to keep track.

What should the agile coach tell the team?

A.

Continuing to track velocity allows functional managers to assess whether or not the team is performing at the desired rate.

B.

The trends will show how the team performs against other scrum teams in the organization.

C.

Tracking velocity will provide a baseline for the team to see how their continuous improvement efforts are working.

D.

Tracking velocity will document and communicate team health to the stakeholders.

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Question # 11

A company is considering developing a new, complex application that will require a large initial investment However if successful the profit potential is high.

When preparing an analysis, what should be used to encourage stakeholders who are concerned about project failure to authorize the initial investment?

A.

Calculated planned percent complete (PPC)

B.

Many small minimally marketable features (MMFs)

C.

Story points rather than cost estimates

D.

Calculated earned value (EV)

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Question # 12

A seven-member agile team's composition varies 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?

A.

Networking

B.

Social awareness

C.

Communication

D.

Leadership

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Question # 13

A company president is concerned about the impact of a natural disaster on the company. How should management identify areas to apply its resources and mitigate potential impacts?

A.

Establish and keep an active risk register that includes mitigation strategies and a cost-benefit analysis.

B.

Establish and keep an active risk register based on qualitative risk analysis and expected losses.

C.

Have each development team post the highest risk development items on the information radiator.

D.

Avoid risk by splitting development teams into two locations to ensure knowledge continuity.

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Question # 14

During a backlog refinement meeting, a senior team member raises a concern about an epic sizing that requires the use of a new interface for a vendor product. The product owner acknowledges this as a risk. What should the product owner do now?

A.

Log the risk in the risk register, and share the information with impacted stakeholders at the next monthly review meeting.

B.

Create a spike story to determine what needs to be done to use the new interface.

C.

Lower the epic's priority so that it can be deferred, and analyze it during backlog refinement meetings.

D.

Move the work to the vendor, since they have better knowledge of interface implementation.

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Question # 15

Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.

What should the agile practitioner do?

A.

Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date

B.

Announce that the team has exceeded the predicted velocity and that the end date will be earlier than planned

C.

Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then replan subsequent iterations

D.

Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision

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Question # 16

There is a database feature requiring three members of a seven person team. A meeting is scheduled at the beginning of the sprint to go over technical needs to complete the story. Who should the Scrum Master invite to the meeting?

A.

The core team and the customer

B.

The product owner and key stakeholders

C.

The customer and the sponsor

D.

The core team and the product owner

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Question # 17

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?

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.

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Question # 18

During a sprint review the product owner identifies a required improvement for a feature's user interface (UI) delivered during the sprint What should the product owner do next?

A.

Create a user story for this new improvement and put it in the product backlog for prioritization and validation by the customer

B.

Create a user story for this new improvement and prioritize it for the next sprint

C.

Document it as a requirement creep

D.

Ask the team to take on additional story points to improve the UI

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Question # 19

Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled.

What should the team have done to avoid this?

A.

Escalated the issue to management

B.

Ensured the early engagement of key stakeholders

C.

Provided feedback to the architecture team to change the enterprise architecture standards

D.

Raised an exception for non-adherence to the enterprise architecture standards for this product

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Question # 20

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?

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.

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Question # 21

After seeing the planned features (or an upcoming release, a customer notes that a vitally important and complex one is missing. The team estimates that this feature significantly exceeds its average velocity. How can this issue be resolved?

A.

Break down the feature into smaller parts, and commit to completing the minimum viable product.

B.

Complete the iteration to which they have already committed, and include the feature in the next release.

C.

Change the planned features lo include only the vitally important one.

D.

Extend the iteration to complete the feature.

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Question # 22

What estimation technique is an agile team using when collectively estimating the relative size of its stories using story points?

A.

Parametric

B.

One-to-one comparison

C.

Affinity

D.

Planning poker

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Question # 23

During an iteration planning meeting, the team suggests changes to add product value that will require extra work and impact the schedule. What should the agile project leader do?

A.

Re-estimate the project.

B.

Finish the product as it was initially planned.

C.

Try to include as many changes as possible.

D.

Ask the product owner for approval to proceed.

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Question # 24

A company is moving into a new space and is determining the best configuration for offices. The management team is also considering moving to an agile process. What advice should an agilist give?

A.

Arrange the office space to allow co-location of development teams and centrally located information radiators.

B.

Isolate each development team to reduce all outside distractions.

C.

Ensure management understands the need for isolation to allow for concentration.

D.

Define the agile method the company will be using, and implement the office configuration based upon that method.

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Question # 25

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

A.

Since the team has extra lime, notify the product owner and secure approval for the extra work on this feature.

B.

Encourage the team to document the improvement and prioritize it for the upcoming iteration, instead of building it now.

C.

Instruct the Scrum Master to have the team use the extra time to complete the extra feature work in the current iteration.

D.

Notify the product owner and have the product owner verify the backlog priority, then encourage team to continue working on the backlog.

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Question # 26

A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation. What should the new team member do?

A.

Teach the team the appropriate agile principle, obtain consensus, and drive adoption.

B.

Allow another team member to prepare those documents that do not appear to bring value.

C.

Notify the project manager about other documentation techniques, and identify which documents bring value and which do not.

D.

Follow the existing process to avoid conflicts.

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Question # 27

During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration.

How could the project leader have avoided this?

A.

Led by example by encouraging the team to engage in consensus-driven decision making

B.

Iterated the need for agile teams to make quick decisions, then followed up with that team member

C.

Empowered a team member to facilitate decision making then made a final decision on behalf of the team

D.

Refrained from participating in the team's decision-making process, except to document and communicate results

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Question # 28

The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and the frequent clarification required.

What should be done to address the issue?

A.

Stop the current iteration to discuss defect quality issues and explore solutions.

B.

Discuss and explore solutions in the next planning meeting and take corrective actions as required.

C.

Generate insights at the next retrospective and adjust processes as decided by the team.

D.

Assign corrective actions to the backlog for the team to identify the mandatory defect information.

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Question # 29

During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories 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 the customer

D.

Identify the Scrum Master

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Question # 30

During a Kanban team's daily stand up, an agile coach observes that the team seems disinterested in the work status. While it appears that there are no issues with flow, there is a marked lack of attention to team effort. When the agile coach queries the team for reasons, members explain that work continues to be scheduled with no end in sight.

What should the agile coach do?

A.

Work with the team to determine points at which to celebrate its work.

B.

Provide the team with a break by scheduling a team event.

C.

Have the team increase work in progress (WIP) levels to more quickly complete the flow.

D.

Rejuvenate the team by temporarily reducing WIP levels.

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Question # 31

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?

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.

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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?

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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