PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  The most appropriate model for a geographically distributed project team is one in which the team is distributed across:

  A. relatively few locations, with each location team comprised of a complete development group developing decoupled subsystems.
  B. locations in the same time zone, working on the same systems while leveraging rich communication channels.
  C. relatively few locations, and tasks are divided along functional lines with design in one location, coding in another, and testing in another.
  D. many locations, with relatively few people at each location developing and testing decoupled subsystems.
  A. relatively few locations, with each location team comprised of a complete development group developing decoupled subsystems.

• Question 22:

  An agile lead is working on a project to build a new product that will bring substantial business value to a company. Company executives want to present the first release at an important industry fair the following month. The agile lead started the project the previous month, and the team planned the release to take 8 iterations. For the past 4 iterations, work has been performed as planned and on time. In the current iteration, however, one team member will be out for the remainder of the project. Without this team member, velocity would drop 30%.

  What should the agile lead do to ensure the release will be on time for the fair?

  A. Reduce the scope of the release to meet the deadline.
  B. Deliver as many features as possible based on the new velocity.
  C. Extend the project timeline to accommodate the missing team member.
  D. Hire a new team member to replace the missing one.
  A. Reduce the scope of the release to meet the deadline.

• Question 23:

  An agile project manager is planning the initial scope, schedule, and cost range estimates on a new project. The team will be using Kanban to control work. What metrics should the team use to measure performance?

  A. Lead time, throughput, and due date performance
  B. Work in progress limits, Kanban board, and time boxes
  C. Work item types, sprint cadences, and defect classes
  D. Burndown charts, scatter diagrams, and throughput
  A. Lead time, throughput, and due date performance

• Question 24:

  A legal department representative contacts the scrum master because, while the project's budget has been maintained, it has exceeded its original contracted time and scope. What should the scrum master do?

  A. Meet with the team to gain alignment with the legal department's need to stay within the contracted time and scope
  B. Work with the customer to narrow the scope
  C. Share the project's trajectory with the legal department
  D. Meet with the legal department to help them understand that the customer and the team are satisfied with the time and deliverables
  B. Work with the customer to narrow the scope

• Question 25:

  An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects.

  What should the project manager do to share this project's knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?

  A. Invite people from across the organization to attend daily stand ups
  B. Invite people from across the organization to attend retrospectives
  C. Invite people from across the organization to attend the release meeting and project retrospectives
  D. Regularly meet with people across the organization to share the project's lessons learned and best practices
  D. Regularly meet with people across the organization to share the project's lessons learned and best practices

• Question 26:

  During team meetings, the team often struggles with making decisions about their technical approach. What should be done to improve the quality and timeliness of decisions?

  A. Work with the team to improve collaboration by fostering group decision making and conflict resolution techniques.
  B. Promote team discussion but give the product owner the ultimate decision making authority.
  C. Assign individual team members as decision owners for each key decision to avoid conflict.
  D. Identify team members that demonstrate servant leadership qualities to facilitate discussion and make decisions.
  A. Work with the team to improve collaboration by fostering group decision making and conflict resolution techniques.

• Question 27:

  A project manager is working on an agile team. A team member mentions that risks threatening the release date of the current sprint are not being addressed. What should the project manager do to make sure team members are following up on risks?

  A. Hold one daily coordination meeting to determine the reason team members are not following up on risks.
  B. Ask the team to review the executed tasks and follow up on the upcoming threats.
  C. Display the major risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID) log visually to highlight the risk status.
  D. Create one sprint to update and follow up on major release risks.
  C. Display the major risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID) log visually to highlight the risk status.

• Question 28:

  A project manager is leading a large agile project with multiple deliverables at each phase of completion. The project team has informed the project manager that the deliverables are completed per the team agreement. Which agile practice should the project manager advise their team use to ensure deliverables are completed and ready for release?

  A. Requirements backlog and ready for release
  B. Acceptance criteria and release
  C. De nition of ready (DoR) and review
  D. De nition of done (DoD) and demonstrate
  D. De nition of done (DoD) and demonstrate

• Question 29:

  Continuous attention to_____________ and good design enhances agility.

  A. Best architectures
  B. Technical excellence
  C. Robust plans
  D. Change control
  B. Technical excellence

• Question 30:

  During an agile team retrospective, some junior team members discussed an approach that could improve the overall team performance. How should the agile practitioner handle the recommendation?

  A. Record the suggestion to be considered for future projects.
  B. Invite the team to evaluate the suggestion and measure the effectiveness of the implementation.
  C. Let the product owner consider the proposal and decide whether to adopt the suggested practice.
  D. Let the team's senior members decide whether to adopt the suggested practice.
  B. Invite the team to evaluate the suggestion and measure the effectiveness of the implementation.