PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  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.
  D. Ask questions to determine if the product owner can define the desired level of security.

• Question 12:

  During a daily stand up, the tester engages the developer in a discussion about what will be tested during unit testing versus regression testing. What should the scrum master do?

  A. Ask the tester and developer to discuss it after the meeting, since it is not a part of the daily stand up.
  B. Encourage the discussion to resolve impediments.
  C. After the meeting, escalate this issue to the tester's supervisor to ensure that this does not reoccur.
  D. Ask more questions about the testing techniques to obtain clarification on team efforts for quality improvements.
  A. Ask the tester and developer to discuss it after the meeting, since it is not a part of the daily stand up.

• Question 13:

  During the daily standup meeting, a team member states that an issue has been encountered. This leads to the team members getting into a problem-solving discussion. How should the ScrumMaster respond?

  A. Ask the team members to table the discussion until after the meeting is over.
  B. If the item is really important, allow the discussion to expedite resolution of the issue.
  C. Abruptly end the daily standup meeting and schedule another meeting to discuss the issue.
  D. Ask the team how they would like to use the daily standup meeting for that day.
  A. Ask the team members to table the discussion until after the meeting is over.

• Question 14:

  Who is responsible for maximizing the value of the product?

  A. Senior Executives
  B. The Product Owner
  C. The Scrum Master
  D. The Development Team
  B. The Product Owner

• Question 15:

  Who is responsible for prioritizing the stories that will be included in the iteration?

  A. ScrumMaster
  B. Developer
  C. Product Owner
  D. Team
  C. Product Owner

• Question 16:

  During planning sessions, an agile practitioner notices that some members do not share common ideas. What should the agile practitioner do?

  A. Ask the team if they would like to adopt alternative techniques
  B. Create a team norms document to set participation guidelines
  C. Ask the scrum master to resolve the issue at the stand up meeting
  D. Capture feedback during lessons learned at the end of the iteration
  A. Ask the team if they would like to adopt alternative techniques

• Question 17:

  During iteration planning, the team is discussing the design for a user story. A team member states that a design document should be started since the system is complex in nature. Another team member responds that in Agile there is no documentation. How should the ScrumMaster respond?

  A. Agree that documentation should be avoided, since it slows the progress of the team.
  B. Explain that interactions are valued over documentation, but documentation is not forbidden.
  C. Ask the manager if the technical processes mandate that designs be documented.
  D. Ask the Product Owner if it is acceptable for the resources to spend time on documentation.
  B. Explain that interactions are valued over documentation, but documentation is not forbidden.

• Question 18:

  While reviewing the sprint burn down during a stand up, the scrum team identifies that they have fallen behind. Upon further discussion, they discover that some quality assurance (QA) team members were unable to use the new automation framework, which caused a bottleneck. What should the scrum team do?

  A. For upcoming sprints, have QA team members ensure that their respective skill sets are considered accepting stories
  B. Have QA team members with the appropriate skills sets spend extra time to help the team succeed
  C. Ensure that QA team members who lack the appropriate skill sets sign up for training within the next few weeks
  D. Ask QA team members experienced with the new automation framework to cross-train the other QA members
  A. For upcoming sprints, have QA team members ensure that their respective skill sets are considered accepting stories

• Question 19:

  Empirical process control constitutes a continuous cycle of inspecting the process for correct operation and results and adapting the process as needed. What characteristics does this apply to in Scrum?

  A. Self-organization, Collaboration and Time-boxing
  B. Quality, Cost and Scope
  C. Scrums, Sprint and Releases
  D. Transparency, Inspection and Adaption
  D. Transparency, Inspection and Adaption

• Question 20:

  At the retrospective, the burndown chart shows that the project is slightly behind schedule. The project team identifies an inexperienced software engineer as the source of reduced velocity. How should the project team address this issue?

  A. Suggest pair programming during the retrospective.
  B. Ask the product owner to re-prioritize the user stories at the next retrospective.
  C. Re-estimate the story points with team members at the next iteration planning meeting.
  D. Assign less complex user stories to the inexperienced software engineer at the next iteration planning meeting.
  A. Suggest pair programming during the retrospective.