PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 211:

  During initial planning, a project team investigates several approaches to building new application software, emphasizing the most valuable deliverables. The team needs to convince stakeholders and win their approval.

  A. Use a successful platform on which several object-oriented products have been developed in the past.
  B. Create a quick mock-up of the product to serve as a visual tool and adjust it until consensus is reached.
  C. Include brief exploratory iterations, proof-of-concept (РОС), to reduce project risk at the beginning of every project cycle.
  D. Deliver an iteration planning diagram, allowing a 2-week refactoring period at the end of the project.
  B. Create a quick mock-up of the product to serve as a visual tool and adjust it until consensus is reached.

• Question 212:

  A project was delivered in a foreign country for a big customer, but there are a lot of complaints about the way the functionality was implemented. Now there is a new project to fix the defects of the first one. What strategy should be used to deliver it successfully?

  A. Talk with the old project manager to learn about the problems they encountered and the lessons learned.
  B. Suggest organizing a meeting in order to analyze the situation and work to find a strategy.
  C. Analyze all defects and change requests carefully to understand their root causes and act accordingly.
  D. Suggest an iterative approach including timely engagement of all key stakeholders and hold regular review meetings.
  D. Suggest an iterative approach including timely engagement of all key stakeholders and hold regular review meetings.

• Question 213:

  What do project reports show during the Sprint review meeting?

  A. Estimates compared to the baseline
  B. Actual results to the plan
  C. Return on investment (ROI)
  D. Earned value measurement (EVM)
  C. Return on investment (ROI)

• Question 214:

  During a six-week iteration, an issue is identified by a team member. After analysis, the team member determines that it will take at least two weeks to resolve. What should the team member do?

  A. Notify the product owner and begin resolution.
  B. Communicate the issue to the team in the next stand up meeting.
  C. Immediately begin resolution, and communicate it to the team during the retrospective.
  D. Work on the next activity, and communicate it to the team during the retrospective.
  A. Notify the product owner and begin resolution.

• Question 215:

  A project team for a local government is transitioning from a predictive development life cycle to an iterative development life cycle. The project sponsor has informed the team lead that the subject matter expert (SME) for the financial functions of the solution is overallocated, so the team needs to convert the previously gathered requirements into user stories. What should the agile lead do?

  A. Explain that the testable acceptance criteria are included in each story and it is necessary for the expert to collaborate with the developers, testers, and product owner for common understanding of the solution.
  B. Agree, and ask the developers to explain to the testers how the solution should perform for quality assurance. The testers will demonstrate to the stakeholders how the system should perform to gain acceptance.
  C. Agree, because the developers can copy and paste the requirements and include the technical specifications and performance criteria while writing the stories to save time.
  D. Explain to the project sponsor that the user stories should be assigned to the analysts, because they helped write the requirements and better understand them.
  A. Explain that the testable acceptance criteria are included in each story and it is necessary for the expert to collaborate with the developers, testers, and product owner for common understanding of the solution.

• Question 216:

  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.
  A. Encourage the team to self-organize and determine how to best complete their existing work and this spike.

• Question 217:

  During an iteration review, the agile team asserts that a product is complete because development and review were finished. The product owner disagrees, since the product has not been tested. What should the agile practitioner do?

  A. Work with the agile team and product owner to agree on the definition of done
  B. Ask the project sponsor to determine whether the product is completed
  C. Plan another review after the product has been tested
  D. Add testing to the backlog, and have the product owner reprioritize
  A. Work with the agile team and product owner to agree on the definition of done

• Question 218:

  High-performing teams feature which of the following sets of characteristics?

  A. Consensus-driven, empowered, low trust
  B. Self-organizing, plan-driven, empowered
  C. Constructive disagreement, empowered, self-organizing
  D. Consensus-driven, empowered, plan-driven
  C. Constructive disagreement, empowered, self-organizing

• Question 219:

  A product owner wants to create a release plan given the team is working in a chaotic environment. They want to set expectations about what is likely to be developed and in what timeframe for some of the stakeholders. What should the product owner include in the release plan to achieve this?

  A. The objective, iterations and underlying features, iteration timelines, other pre-release activities, dependencies, and responsible team.
  B. The key objectives and a brief description of each user story to be delivered in each iteration, release timelines, and release dependencies.
  C. The developer who will work on a specific feature and key DevOps engineering activities to be performed during each iteration for the code integration.
  D. The sequence of user stories to be developed in each iteration, along with their start and end timelines, dependencies, and responsible team.
  A. The objective, iterations and underlying features, iteration timelines, other pre-release activities, dependencies, and responsible team.

• Question 220:

  An agile team is optimizing the work flow by investing in initiatives to identify and reduce unnecessary handovers and delays. What should the team do in this situation?

  A. Create a value stream map.
  B. Draw a risk burndown chart.
  C. Use a kanban board.
  D. Make a cumulative flow diagram.
  A. Create a value stream map.