PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 371:

  Wideband Delphi is used by an Agile Project manager to support what activity?

  A. Prioritization
  B. Scheduling
  C. Estimation
  D. Risk Management
  C. Estimation

• Question 372:

  An agile team identifies that their velocity is lower than predicted, and that their previous forecasts in the product roadmap are wrong. The team is worried that they will be unable to meet a critical release date without corrective action. What should the team do?

  A. Collaborate with the product owner to reprioritize the product backlog, thus ensuring that more features will be completed before the release.
  B. Ask the team lead to calculate the team's target velocity according to the project plan, and assign additional resources to increase capacity.
  C. Focus on velocity and schedule concerns during the retrospective to inspect, adapt, and improve the process and plans.
  D. Reestimate the backlog items from the release, ensuring that contingency is included to set stakeholder expectations.
  D. Reestimate the backlog items from the release, ensuring that contingency is included to set stakeholder expectations.

• Question 373:

  How can the scrum master respond to a stakeholder who suggests using velocity as a metric to measure team efficiency in an agile project?

  A. Velocity of a Scrum team will stop once it becomes stable and only then the team will become efficient with its deliverables.
  B. Velocity can only measure if a Scrum team has a stable and predictable run rate but not whether or not they are delivering better deliverables efficiently.
  C. Velocity will become more predictable only in stable teams and velocity should not be measured in Scrum teams until that occurs.
  D. Velocity is a great way of measuring the Scrum team's efficiency, and a stable velocity means the team is predictable and efficient.
  B. Velocity can only measure if a Scrum team has a stable and predictable run rate but not whether or not they are delivering better deliverables efficiently.

• Question 374:

  Emotional intelligence includes all of the following except:

  A. Self-awareness
  B. Motivation
  C. Commitment
  D. Influence
  E. Intuitiveness
  F. Conscientiousness
  C. Commitment

• Question 375:

  In Kanban, a diagram that describes the overall flow and provides a measurement for every significant step in the workflow is the:

  A. Kanban board
  B. Cumulative Flow diagram
  C. Burn Down Chart
  D. Parking Lot Chart
  B. Cumulative Flow diagram

• Question 376:

  A scrum team is working together virtually. One of the team members sends a daily email to the other team members listing impediments that they find. During retrospective meetings, the team member complains that their colleagues fail to take actions on the impediments. How should the team address this issue?

  A. The team member that is complaining should talk individually with the scrum master to remove impediments.
  B. They should ask for more details about the impediments and then resolve them when the team has more time to investigate.
  C. The team member that is complaining should address the impediments in daily scrum, communicating them directly.
  D. Team members should state that they need to prioritize their work instead of responding to daily emails about impediments.
  C. The team member that is complaining should address the impediments in daily scrum, communicating them directly.

• Question 377:

  A new agile project leader habitually becomes involved in the work from a support perspective and uses information radiators to ensure that all actions to remove impediments are visible to the team. What is the agile project leader doing?

  A. Practicing the servant leadership style of working with an agile team
  B. Building a collaborative teamwork culture
  C. Following a participatory decision-making model
  D. Adopting the practice of receiving feedback that will facilitate team improvement
  A. Practicing the servant leadership style of working with an agile team

• Question 378:

  During an executive review, a scrum master uses a burndown chart to demonstrate team deliverables through time. The scrum master declared that velocity increased from 27 to 35 over the last 3 sprints, but one of the executives asks to clarify the importance of these metrics. How should the scrum master respond?

  A. Project velocity should be stable over time.
  B. Moving velocity from 27 to 35 is a decrease in productivity.
  C. A burndown chart compares planned versus actual, not velocity.
  D. Velocity is iterative and will only be used for sprint numbers.
  A. Project velocity should be stable over time.

• Question 379:

  What is the reason to develop personas as part of User Story creation?

  A. When the conversation is centered on the high-level flow of a process
  B. When trying to better understand stakeholder demographics and general needs
  C. When trying to capture the high-level objective of a specific requirement
  D. When communicating what features will be included in the next release
  B. When trying to better understand stakeholder demographics and general needs

• Question 380:

  Team velocity is used to:

  A. Measure the percentage of features completed.
  B. Judge productivity within the iteration.
  C. Predict schedules for mature teams.
  D. Give feedback on delivered value.
  C. Predict schedules for mature teams.