PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
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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
You are working with the team and trying to understand each aspect of the sprint, how can Kanban help reduce bottlenecks in the process?
A. Remove feedback loops
B. Increase work-in-progress
C. Visualize the workflow
D. Increase inventory
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
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
What tool is represented in the |h %5coutput%5ct18%5cmisc%5cp143.html image?
A. Burn up chart
B. Cumulative flow diagram
C. Radar diagram
D. Burn down chart
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
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
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
You’ve formed working agreements with key stakeholders, and held periodic reviews to ensure your team is building the right product. What else is crucial to stakeholder engagement?
A. Share information early and often
B. Involve them in strategic initiatives
C. Prioritize cost effectiveness
D. Taking charge and making decisions
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 Kaizen?
A. Change for the better
B. Control chart
C. Risk probability
D. PDCA cycle
Why do you need to set work-in-progress limits when scheduling your Agile project?
A. Helps prevents bottlenecks
B. Reduce throughput
C. Identifies training gaps
D. Ensure task accuracy
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
You are a project manager in a large company that has very detailed documentation. They also provide a large process framework for sponsored projects. What is the best way to tailor the processes to optimize value delivery?
A. Begin with the process framework and eliminate any unnecessary processes
B. Start with a small framework and use only necessary processes
C. Follow the prescribed framework for sponsored projects
D. Start from scratch and create a new framework of necessary processes for the team
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
Who authorizes the project and signs the project charter in an Agile project?
A. The project sponsor
B. The product owner
C. The project manager
D. The Agile team
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
As a project manager, what can help you foster innovation, collaboration, and creativity on team?
A. Create a red zone
B. Focus on listening
C. Be self-aware
D. Create a green zone
Which of the following is NOT an example of participatory decision models?
A. Shared collaboration
B. Convergent
C. Complex adaptive
D. Fist of Five
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’re close to the end of a project and you are reviewing the risk burn down chart. You continue to communicate the status of threats and issues. One stakeholder questions the why the risk contingency reserve are still at the same levels the start of the project. What is the most common cause?
A. All the risks were transferred
B. Risk-adjusted items in the backlog were not updated
C. ScrumMaster didn’t hold enough meetings
D. Inappropriate risks were logged
David is working on home food delivery system for vendors and restaurants. The customer is happy with app interface but wants to leverage Google Maps to show all the vendors in the region. The stakeholders agree that this adds value to the customer and needs to be part of the project. David and her team are working on the next iteration. What should David do?
A. Increase the frequency of reviews
B. Minimize project cost overrun
C. Consult the product owner
D. Increase the team size
The customer wants a one-click online ordering system. Your team has created a robust system and added an opportunity for the end user to review the order and enter payment details. They also suggest competitor sites if the product is discontinued or out of stock. The key focus is to make the end user happy. What is the issue in this scenario?
A. Gulf of evaluation
B. Adapting cadence
C. Participatory decision making
D. Managing with KPIs
What is another term for test-driven development?
A. Pass/fail
B. Exploratory testing
C. Red-Green-Clean
D. Red-Green-Yellow
The product owner provides the backlog and the user stories are arranged horizontally on a wall. Each team member size each item relative to other items, then each item is place in relative size buckets, and data is stored. What is technique is being explained?
A. Value-based decomposition
B. KPI estimation
C. Kanban boarding
D. Affinity estimation
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
Bob is working on a large project, and most of his team will be virtual. What approach is best for Bob to take to facilitate the virtual team?
A. Co-locate the team for the planning meetings and two iterations if possible
B. Make cultural training available
C. Replace wit a cross-functional team
D. Define goals
What is the most useful aspect of a project charter?
A. Communication plan
B. Story maps
C. Success criteria
D. WIP limits
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
You are reviewing the financial metrics of a potential project. You consider the percent of the benefit of the investment to the money invested. Which metric does this represent?
A. Future value (FV)
B. Net present value (NPV)
C. Return on investment (ROI)
D. Internal rate of return (IRR)
In your current Scrum project, the product owner finished working on the product backlog. What should happen next?
A. A sprint retrospective to identify what worked and what didn’t
B. A sprint meeting to decide how much work to take on
C. A daily Scrum to share progress updates
D. A sprint review to demonstrate the results
The product owner and development team are going through the product backlog. They identifying the priorities and a team member raises a concern about a low priority item, stating they could try a different approach. The team is already behind, what is the best course of action?
A. Explain completing the task on time is higher priority
B. Create a new task with the new approach
C. Increase the priority of the task
D. Allow the team member to try the new approach
An Agile team continues to introduce errors in the code because they are not following coding conventions, even though they know and have been reminded of the standard procedures. The velocity of the team is decreasing. What type of cause is this?
A. Exploratory cause
B. Common cause
C. Special cause
D. Kaizen cause
Which of the following is a self-assessment tools or techniques?
A. Kaizen
B. DSDM
C. PDCA
D. Shore
What can help you integrate the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct?
A. Ensure each team member has a copy of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
B. Adhere to and model behavior based on the PMI ethical standards
C. Discuss any potentially unethical behavior you have noticed with colleagues
D. Inform stakeholders of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
If project A costs $500,000 but is expected to save $50,000 each year. Project B costs $1,200,000 but will make $100,000 each year. Project C costs $200,000 but will make $30,000 each year. Project D costs $50,000 and will make $10,000 each year. Which project is a better investment based on the payback period method?
A. Project D
B. Project C
C. Project B
D. Project A
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
What conclusions can you draw from this |h %5coutput%5ct14%5cmisc%5cp125.html burn up chart?
A. All planned work is complete
B. The project will be complete when the red line meets the blue line
C. New features have been added
D. The first user story was completed in week 3
There are 3 projects under consideration by the sponsors. Project A has an NVP of $500,000. Project B has an NVP of $450,000. Project C has an NVP of $550,000. Project D has an NVP of $400,000. Which project would be the best investment?
A. Project C
B. Project B
C. Project A
D. Project D
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
During a sprint review, a customer identifies a small new feature that would be useful. Both the product owner and customer believe the value of this new feature outweighs the effort in developing it, significantly. What should be done?
A. Add it to the next release of the product
B. Add it to the current iteration
C. Add it to the prioritized backlog
D. Do not add the feature
What can be used when applying control limits to work?
A. Kanban board
B. Fishbone diagram
C. ROI
D. Personas
When is the best time to establish continuous integration architecture?
A. Iteration Spike
B. Post mortem
C. Retrospective
D. Iteration Zero
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
Like every Agile project, Phil is aiming to deliver a usable product after every sprint. He wants the product to be complete in gathering and analyzing requirements, design, coding, testing, review, and documentation. What’s the best technique to help Phil adopt the desired output?
A. Planning Poker
B. Feedback methods
C. Sashimi
D. Burn down charts
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
Which item will allow you to see the project and its priorities as a whole?
A. Themes
B. Persona
C. Epics
D. Story maps
Your team starts a project 4 weeks after the request from a customer. Your team takes 3 weeks to design and prototype a new photo app, 2 weeks to create process documentation for the team, and another 3 weeks to develop, test, and release it. What is process cycle efficiency (PCE)?
A. 0.33
B. 0.66
C. 0.75
D. 0.25
You are considering different brainstorm techniques and want to maximize the number of ideas and encourage spontaneity. Which brainstorming technique is best for this scenario?
A. Collaboration games
B. Free-for-all
C. Quiet writing
D. Round-robin
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
The last iteration was not complete. There continues to be major issues with the team’s cycle time and velocity. The project is significantly behind. What’s the best tool to help you identify the cause and effect?
A. Five whys
B. MoSCoW
C. Ishikawa diagram
D. Kano analysis
Phil is on a project that has been off track. After last sprint, there were number of major issues identified. What’s should change for the next sprint planning?
A. Decrease the review frequency
B. Limit the number of sprints
C. Reduce increment size of future iterations
D. Increase the increment size of future iterations
Why should Agile leaders continuously improve their emotional intelligence?
A. To identify future project leads
B. In order to encourage collaboration on the team
C. To stay competitive in the business environment
D. To embrace globalization
You just hired a remote member from a different country to join your Agile team. You want to continue daily collaborative communication. What’s the best type of communication channel you should encourage?
A. Video conferencing
B. Written documentation
C. Workshops
D. Telephone calls
What can negatively impact stakeholder engagement?
A. Adaptive leadership
B. Reviews
C. Irregular availability
D. Informal communication
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