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

NEW QUESTION 1
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?

• 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.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting. What should the scrum master do?

• A. Email the product owner requesting detailed story specifications and wait for a response
• B. Gather the details from the team members before sprint planning
• C. Schedule a story grooming session with the product owner before sprint planning
• D. Conduct a planning poker session with the team

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 3
An organization highly values security However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features. What should the team member do?

• A. Influence the customer
• B. Mention the idea at the next retrospective
• C. Show the customer how much time and money would be saved.
• D. Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 4
A team is delivering work as per the sprint plan, and team velocity is stabilized. However, at the end of the release, the customer is dissatisfied with project quality. What should the agile project manager have done to avoid this?

• A. Invited end customers to attend the stand ups
• B. Organized design review sessions with the customer to obtain sign-off
• C. Held regular meetings with the product owner and project team to elicit detailed business requirements
• D. Conducted frequent review meetings with the customer to continually enhance delivery effectiveness

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 5
A globally distributed project team is using email and phone calls as the only way to share information. Delays in resolving issues often occur due to misinterpreted communications, leading to a lower team velocity.
What steps should the project leader take to improve knowledge sharing?

• A. Meet individually with each team member to identify the issues and relay information to the remaining members through status reports.
• B. Establish a live video feed between the dispersed teams to enable spontaneous engagement and collaboration on issues.
• C. Request that the customer co-locate the team to overcome the communication issues, as this is the only method to ensure agility.
• D. Inform the customer of the challenges and lower velocity of the project to accomodate for the slower delivery pace.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6
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

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
Unable to meet a sprint's committed velocity, an agile team approaches the agile coach to define the next sprint's velocity. What should the agile coach advise?

• A. Split each story into multiple stories to meet the desired velocity.
• B. Set the velocity to the delivered story points of the last sprint.
• C. Use different estimation methods for stories and defects to meet the desired velocity.
• D. Re-estimate by assigning more story points to smaller stories to increase the velocity.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 8
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.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 9
The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product. How can the team members support this?

• A. Add new security features to the backlog and prioritize.
• B. Execute a spike to research security features for the project.
• C. Ask questions to determine where and how the product owner wants to use the product.
• D. Ask questions to determine if the product owner can define the desired level of security.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10
Throughout the project, an agile practitioner notices that one team member is becoming an emergent leader. What should an agile practitioner do?

• A. Present opportunities in order to be supportive and grow that team member's talents.
• B. Encourage the team member to fit in more with the established team norms.
• C. Bring this to management's attention so they don't disrupt the team.
• D. Ask team member to respect defined roles on the project to avoid confusion with the team.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
A company has decided to combine Iwo similar products consisting of multiple teams into one product Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at re-organizing it's teams.
What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?

• A. All the teams from both products should be simultaneously called together and allowed to completely self-manage
• B. Teams that worked on similar components in the separate products should be combined to minimize disruption and capitalize on synergies
• C. After grouping individuals by role multi-discipline teams should be created that are comprised of one member from each role
• D. Features should be prioritized and then teams should be orgainzed around those priorities

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 12
A new learn member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan. What should be the proper response?

• A. Competitors joined forces with the team
• B. The customer Changed requirements
• C. Project team members obtained additional certifications
• D. Technology which did not interfere with the final product

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 13
A scrum master is part of a project team using technologies overseen by the IT department. The IT director oversees several company initiatives and is unfamiliar with the details of each one.
As an active project stakeholder, to which meeting should the IT director be invited?

• A. Planning
• B. Daily scrum
• C. Sprint demo
• D. Retrospective

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 14
During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds The non-functional requirements state that it should respond in less than two seconds. The team complains that this requirement was not communicated to them.
What should have been done to avoid this?

• A. A comprehensive user story with all non-functional requirements should have been created.
• B. Non-functional requirements should have been added to the acceptance criteria
• C. Non-functional requirements should have been added to the definition of done
• D. A team review of the scope of work should have been conducted

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
An agile team has been in place for five years and the customer is satisfied with the team's performance and deliverables. Now that the product is built and delivered, the customer is considering the future role of the Scrum Master.
What should the customer do?

• A. Expand the Scrum Master's role to other projects, while allowing them to support the current project.
• B. Release the Scrum Master, since the team is adequately skilled with agile practices.
• C. Expand the product owner's role to serve as the Scrum Master, while providing additional product knowledge.
• D. Increase the functional manager's role to act as the Scrum Master, while providing additional information about functional areas.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 16
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.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 17
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