PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 801:

  The Japanese terms for an Agile developmental mastery model is:

  A. Kaizen
  B. Muda
  C. Sashimi
  D. Shu-Ha-Ri
  D. Shu-Ha-Ri

• Question 802:

  During project inception, an agile practitioner engages the stakeholder to ensure alignment on the project's strategy and vision. The stakeholder asks for detailed requirements, design, and delivery plans. What should the agile practitioner do?

  A. Provide all information requested by the stakeholder
  B. Set expectations regarding the appropriate level of details requested during this stage
  C. Inform the stakeholder that no detailed documents are provided using agile practices
  D. Ask the team to supply the information to the stakeholder
  A. Provide all information requested by the stakeholder

• Question 803:

  There is a database feature requiring three members of a seven person team. A meeting is scheduled at the beginning of the sprint to go over technical needs to complete the story. Who should the Scrum Master invite to the meeting?

  A. The core team and the customer
  B. The product owner and key stakeholders
  C. The customer and the sponsor
  D. The core team and the product owner
  D. The core team and the product owner

• Question 804:

  A member of the development team is working on a prioritized non-functional requirement involving integrating with a 3rd party system. This integration has not been done before on the project. What should the project leader suggest?

  A. Develop and document a detailed architectural design, peer review with the development team, and implement/test
  B. Develop the functional requirements of the solution first before any non-functional requirement, as they provide more customer value
  C. Discuss the integration requirement with the product owner and negotiate it to be lower on the backlog to focus on the minimal marketable feature
  D. Develop and test the implementation approach and demonstrate it at the next sprint review to collect feedback
  D. Develop and test the implementation approach and demonstrate it at the next sprint review to collect feedback

• Question 805:

  Which of the following is the hierarchy of User Story creation?

  A. Task, User, Story, Feature, Theme
  B. Theme, Epic, User Story, Task
  C. User Story, Epic, Theme, Feature
  D. Goal, Epic, Activity, User Story
  B. Theme, Epic, User Story, Task

• Question 806:

  During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good. What should the agile team lead do?

  A. Require the team to try only those ideas that will ensure success.
  B. Allow the team to try ideas, but remind them that results will be reviewed by high-ranking executives.
  C. Associate idea successes and failures with the team's incentive plan to ensure accountability.
  D. Encourage the team to try the ideas, even if failure may be the outcome.
  D. Encourage the team to try the ideas, even if failure may be the outcome.

• Question 807:

  A project manager is managing a large complex project with cross-functional teams using an adaptive approach. Frequent communication among the team leads of these cross-functional teams is crucial for the project to stay on track and deliver value according to the project plan. Which agile communication practice should the project manager implement to ensure the cross-functional teams interact frequently?

  A. Empower each cross-functional team lead to manage their team's issues and impediments.
  B. Post the daily coordination meetings and discuss impediments raised by the teams.
  C. Ask the project management o ce (PMO) to work on the communications management plan for the cross-functional teams.
  D. Set up additional meetings to handle additional communications if necessary.
  A. Empower each cross-functional team lead to manage their team's issues and impediments.

• Question 808:

  The executive leadership wants to understand ways to better deliver on time and on budget. What can the project team do to assist in achieving the organizational goal?

  A. Maintain and review a lessons learned repository to improve delivery of future projects.
  B. Ask each team member to post corrective action to the backlog.
  C. Engage the project management office (PMO) to take responsibility identifying lessons learned on projects.
  D. Perform a root cause analysis to identify alternative approaches for performing the next project.
  A. Maintain and review a lessons learned repository to improve delivery of future projects.

• Question 809:

  What is the disadvantage of using velocity as a measure of team efficiency in agile approaches?

  A. Capacity planning will not be accurate.
  B. Inaccurate pressure on customers.
  C. Quality increases while output decreases.
  D. Delivery speed increases while morale decreases.
  A. Capacity planning will not be accurate.

• Question 810:

  A development team and product owner disagree on a user story in the product backlog. What should the agile practitioner do?

  A. Have the development team follow the product owner's direction
  B. Openly challenge the product owner in an effort to poke holes in their approach
  C. Facilitate a conversation about the user story between the development team and the product owner
  D. Serve as a nonpartisan evaluator of each option, and provide direction to the development team and product owner
  C. Facilitate a conversation about the user story between the development team and the product owner