PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 181:

  An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team. After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?

  A. Coach team members to improve functional specialties and increase overall velocity.
  B. Identify where team processes misalign with accepted Scrum practices.
  C. Facilitate the identification of problems or issues and help the team resolve them.
  D. Review the backlog to ensure that it is prioritized, refined, and properly tasked.
  B. Identify where team processes misalign with accepted Scrum practices.

• Question 182:

  Scrum dictates the use of User Stories.

  A. True
  B. False
  B. False

• Question 183:

  Suppose you are performing integrated testing on each of the different product increments developed during an iteration to ensure that the increments work together as a whole. What type of iteration is this?

  A. Hybrid Iteration
  B. Hardening Iteration
  C. Heuristic Iteration
  D. Handoff Iteration
  B. Hardening Iteration

• Question 184:

  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)
  D. Calculated earned value (EV)

• Question 185:

  During which activity is the sequence of numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 often used?

  A. Denoting development sequence
  B. Estimating development hours
  C. Indicating priority of a story
  D. Estimating points of a story
  D. Estimating points of a story

• Question 186:

  The ScrumMaster notices repeated friction between two team members in the Daily Scrum meetings. The next step should be to:

  A. Attempt to resolve the problem directly and immediately during a Daily Scrum meeting.
  B. Schedule a meeting with them after a Daily Scrum meeting to explore and resolve the issue.
  C. Ignore the friction because a self-organizing team must sort out team conflict issues.
  D. Ask for new resources to replace them before the friction undermines the team's productivity.
  B. Schedule a meeting with them after a Daily Scrum meeting to explore and resolve the issue.

• Question 187:

  An executive notices a kanban board in a highly visible location and expresses concerns to the project manager that too many people will see it. What should the project manager do?

  A. Cover up the kanban board every time the project team is not actively updating it.
  B. Demonstrate how the kanban board is necessary for assigning proper ownership for the work that has been done.
  C. Explain that the kanban board enables the team to complete the work and increases transparency on work that is not done.
  D. Remove the kanban board immediately and place it in a location where it is not visible.
  C. Explain that the kanban board enables the team to complete the work and increases transparency on work that is not done.

• Question 188:

  What is the purpose of running a test before you develop the code?

  A. To complete all test cases
  B. To ensure it fails
  C. To ensure it passes
  D. To be cross-functional
  B. To ensure it fails

• Question 189:

  A team identifies the number of threats and lists them in the order in which they were identified. After analyzing a cause-and-effect diagram, the ownership of the threats and their treatment is assigned, and a number of risk cards are places on the Kanban board. What approach should be used to manage these threats?

  A. Create a risk register detailing the threats, their causes, and their treatment strategies; and complete ownership to provide tighter risk control and a stakeholder communication tool
  B. Focus on the threats during the daily stand up and ensure they are visible to the entire team and other interested parties
  C. Prioritize the risks based on their critically and timing, and track actions to closure
  D. Ensure that the prioritization of threats is complete, and that ownership actions are assigned and visible to everyone
  C. Prioritize the risks based on their critically and timing, and track actions to closure

• Question 190:

  A change made to the internal structure of software that makes it easier to understand and cheaper to modify but does not change its observable behavior is referred to as:

  A. A Spike
  B. Technical debt
  C. A User Story
  D. Refactoring
  D. Refactoring