PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 451:

  An organization wants to execute a corporate website redesign project using Scrum. There is an experienced pool of agile team members from a previous project, as well as a pool of available internal team members with some Scrum background. What should be considered when selecting the team?

  A. Review any reports of conflict between each of the team members over the last two years, and select only those with a track record of working well together.
  B. Ensure there is a balanced mix of people who are experts and members with broad experience based on the work to be performed and determine training needs.
  C. Ensure that none of the team members are geographically dispersed so that all team members can be colocated.
  D. Review each team member's contributions to the velocity of their previous projects and select the highest performers.
  B. Ensure there is a balanced mix of people who are experts and members with broad experience based on the work to be performed and determine training needs.

• Question 452:

  The Scrum Master's job is to work with the Scrum Team and the organization to increase the awareness of the artifacts. Which pillar of Scrum does this represent?

  A. Transparency
  B. Inspection C. Adaption
  A. Transparency

• Question 453:

  For what is the MoSCoW method used?

  A. Estimating story size
  B. Prioritizing stories
  C. Validating a product
  D. Tracking progress
  B. Prioritizing stories

• Question 454:

  Midway through a sprint, a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement that may change the initial scope. What should the team do?

  A. Work on requirements that the product owner may have overlooked
  B. Record the scope creep in the change management log
  C. Add the new requirement to the product backlog
  D. Ask the scrum master to secure additional time and resources
  C. Add the new requirement to the product backlog

• Question 455:

  A senior manager has asked an agile team to ensure that the data for the burndown charts are updated in real-time. However, the team is not comfortable with this approach as they think this is not productive. What should the scrum master do?

  A. Ask the product owner to manage and share the metrics with appropriate stakeholders.
  B. Meet with requestors to agree and align on reporting requirements.
  C. Deny the request and explain the team's stance to the stakeholders.
  D. Work with the team to create the metrics requested by the stakeholders.
  B. Meet with requestors to agree and align on reporting requirements.

• Question 456:

  A business analyst has identified a new risk in an Agile project. What is the best first step the business analyst should take regarding this risk?

  A. Call a meeting with the project manager and senior management to determine how the risk will be managed.
  B. Email the project manager and add it to the risk register so that it is discussed during the next daily standup.
  C. Add the risk in a clearly visible location and ensure it is discussed after the next daily stand up.
  D. Call an immediate meeting with all team members to discuss the newly identified risk.
  C. Add the risk in a clearly visible location and ensure it is discussed after the next daily stand up.

• Question 457:

  An agile coach is facing a dilemma: On one hand, there is a requirement that is vital and will consume all capacity of the team. On the other hand, there are some chore-related tasks that will improve the team's ability to produce results. The team insists on implementing these tasks since they will increase efficiency. What should the agile coach do?

  A. Characterize chores as low priority since they do not add obvious value to the product
  B. Delegate chore-related tasks to another team.
  C. Escalate the issue to the shareholders/steering committee.
  D. Get the product owner and team to meet to prioritize the work.
  D. Get the product owner and team to meet to prioritize the work.

• Question 458:

  Incremental delivery means:

  A. Deliver nonfunctional increments in the iteration retrospectives.
  B. Release working software only after testing each increment.
  C. Improve and elaborate our Agile process with each increment delivered.
  D. Deploy functional increments over the course of the project.
  D. Deploy functional increments over the course of the project.

• Question 459:

  A scrum team is working on an important project with a short deadline. To save time and reduce overhead, the product owner proposes that the regular sprint reviews should be cancelled and replaced with a review of each release according to the release plan. What should the scrum master do?

  A. Review the release plan with the product owner and invite the stakeholders to a series of release reviews.
  B. Review the metrics and the process to determine where the overhead could be further reduced to speed up delivery.
  C. Explain to the product owner why the sprint reviews are now replaced by release reviews as inspect and adapt is a key principle in Scrum.
  D. Explain to the product owner that getting feedback early and often from stakeholders is important so necessary changes can be made quickly.
  D. Explain to the product owner that getting feedback early and often from stakeholders is important so necessary changes can be made quickly.

• Question 460:

  Midway through at iteration, an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations. As a high-performance team, what should the team do?

  A. Raise an impediment that resource tasks will be blocked, and notify the product owner
  B. Ask the delivery manager for a temporary resource
  C. Ask the scrum master to assign that team member's tasks to the next available resource
  D. Assume the team member's tasks to meet iteration goals, and notify the product owner
  D. Assume the team member's tasks to meet iteration goals, and notify the product owner