PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 381:

  What is the name of this facilitated process? One or more team members sequence the product backlog from smallest to largest User Story. The rest of the team validates the sequence. The whole team uses a sizing method such as T-shirt size or Fibonacci sequence to group the user stories.

  A. Relative estimation
  B. Pairwise comparison
  C. Planning Poker
  D. Affinity estimating
  D. Affinity estimating

• Question 382:

  One of the main stakeholders of a project is new to Scrum. The stakeholder asks what to expect in the sprint retrospective. How should the product owner respond?

  A. Stakeholders have the opportunity to add features to the sprint.
  B. Team members determine if there are any impediments preventing them from meeting the sprint goal.
  C. The product owner explains which product backlog items have been done and which have not.
  D. Team members identify ways to improve and make plans to implement these improvements.
  D. Team members identify ways to improve and make plans to implement these improvements.

• Question 383:

  An agile practitioner notices that a project is increasing open defect counts after every subsequent iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?

  A. Create an issue on the backlog to investigate the root cause and assign a team resource to resolve the issue immediately.
  B. Request increased velocity from the development team to clear off some defects and stay on track with the current iteration's work.
  C. Ask the team to determine how to adapt to this increase in the next retrospective.
  D. Stop work on in-progress user stories to clear defects from the product owner and increase velocity on defect resolution.
  C. Ask the team to determine how to adapt to this increase in the next retrospective.

• Question 384:

  What should a product owner do when a new stakeholder is complaining that they are not receiving the relevant financial data regarding the project.

  A. Work with the scrum master to give the stakeholder access to the related information radiator
  B. Invite the stakeholder to the next sprint planning session so they can ask questions of the team
  C. Ask the team to prepare the requested data in the next iteration
  D. Direct the stakeholder to the project team so they can provide more data
  A. Work with the scrum master to give the stakeholder access to the related information radiator

• Question 385:

  Why is stakeholder engagement important for project success?

  A. To participate in establishing a shared vision as a member of the team
  B. To provide the acceptance criteria for the delivered items
  C. To propose implementation methods to the development team
  D. To evaluate the performance of the development team
  A. To participate in establishing a shared vision as a member of the team

• Question 386:

  As a team completes their 21st sprint, new information reveals that a number of significant system integrations must be made to ensure the project scope is met. How should the project management plan be adjusted?

  A. Holistically at the project level
  B. At the end of each sprint
  C. At a sprint level after each demo
  D. Periodically, at both the release and project level
  D. Periodically, at both the release and project level

• Question 387:

  Which term best describes an Agile project's approach to risk analysis?

  A. Regression
  B. Pareto
  C. Qualitative
  D. Monte Carlo
  D. Monte Carlo

• Question 388:

  Following an upgrade, a software support team is overwhelmed by the number of tickets being submitted by end users. The team's manager is pushing the team to "work smart" by focusing on activities that deliver the most value in the least amount of time. What should the team do?

  A. Work longer hours to complete more of the support backlog.
  B. Work support tickets in the order in which they were received.
  C. Place tickets on hold until the team completes an analysis of the backlog to identify and resolve systemic issues.
  D. Add members to the support team.
  B. Work support tickets in the order in which they were received.

• Question 389:

  While attending a conference, an agile practitioner learns of a new user interface (UI) framework that could benefit the team. What should the agile practitioner do next?

  A. Identify a team member to do a proof of concept using this framework.
  B. Email the team directing them to immediately begin using this new framework.
  C. Obtain feedback from team members on the new framework, and then suggest that the product owner create a backlog item to do a spike on it.
  D. Discuss this option at the next retrospective.
  D. Discuss this option at the next retrospective.

• Question 390:

  Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled. What should the team have done to avoid this?

  A. Escalated the issue to management
  B. Ensured the early engagement of key stakeholders
  C. Provided feedback to the architecture team to change the enterprise architecture standards
  D. Raised an exception for non-adherence to the enterprise architecture standards for this product
  B. Ensured the early engagement of key stakeholders