PMI PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-ACP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 861:

  The primary purpose of a Sprint retrospective is for the team to:

  A. Review stories planned for the next sprint and provide estimates,
  B. Demonstrate completed user stories to the Product Owner.
  C. Discuss what went well, what didn't, and ways to improve.
  D. Individually provide status updates on user stories in progress.
  C. Discuss what went well, what didn't, and ways to improve.

• Question 862:

  Some members of an agile project team work remotely, so it is difficult to have regular face-to-face backlog grooming sessions. How should the agile practitioner ensure that the team is able to reduce miscommunication and rework in this environment?

  A. Understand the physical and virtual communication needs of the team and plan agile events based on the majority of the team members' needs.
  B. Escalate with senior management and ensure that everyone on the project team is physically colocated for all planned agile events.
  C. Invest in technology-collaboration tools to enable effective communication and ensure a common understanding of the scope, issues, and solutions.
  D. Recognize the different communication styles of the stakeholders and take a vote on the best approach that will work for the team.
  C. Invest in technology-collaboration tools to enable effective communication and ensure a common understanding of the scope, issues, and solutions.

• Question 863:

  A Scrum team is visualizing the blockers that arise when they work on their activities on the kanban board. The team decided to analyze why the blockers occur so they can take action to minimize their occurrence and reduce lead times. Which practices should the team use?

  A. The most important principle in Scrum is reducing work in process (WIP). The lower the number of items, the lower the risk of items getting blocked. Based on the team's capacity, they should set the lowest WIP limits possible.
  B. The team should look at all the blockers, determine the reason behind them, group them, and determine if there is a pattern. They should then determine what and how they can make relevant changes.
  C. The team should discuss the issue with their scrum master because it is their responsibility to remove impediments, such as blockers, in cooperation with other teams.
  D. Blockers are a result of bottlenecks. The team should ask for more resources to prevent bottlenecks from arising and reduce the risk of long lead times.
  B. The team should look at all the blockers, determine the reason behind them, group them, and determine if there is a pattern. They should then determine what and how they can make relevant changes.

• Question 864:

  After three iterations, the problems impeding an Agile team appear to be similar in nature to problems faced in earlier iterations. Inspection of the retrospectives for past iterations reveals information organized into columns entitled "What worked for us" and "What did not work for us. " Based on this information, one can infer that the team did not capture:

  A. user stories
  B. milestones
  C. action items
  D. requirements
  C. action items

• Question 865:

  The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope. Unless this change is accepted, there is no value to the customers during this iteration. What must the agile practitioner do?

  A. Add the new change request as a new story in the product backlog for the upcoming iteration
  B. Evaluate the impact of the change request and let the team and product owner decide and re-prioritize based on value
  C. Recommend cancelling the current iteration and plan the change request into the next iteration
  D. Recommend that the product owner add this change request as a user story to the backlog for the current iteration
  A. Add the new change request as a new story in the product backlog for the upcoming iteration

• Question 866:

  Who is responsible for the "definition of done"?

  A. The team
  B. The Product Owner
  C. Management
  D. Project manager
  A. The team

• Question 867:

  The product owner working on an agile software development project has brought all the Scrum team members together for the first sprint planning meeting. The team has read the user stories and has provided estimates to complete these user stories. The product owner plans to empower the team to get the work done. What is this an example of?

  A. Emotional intelligence
  B. Two-way communication
  C. Bipartisan agreement
  D. Reciprocal communication
  B. Two-way communication

• Question 868:

  A development team is working on the implementation of a human resources (HR) solution. The team has decided to work together with different business units to deliver value early and often. Which agile values are being practiced in this scenario?

  A. The importance of customer-centric product development practices over product-centric approaches.
  B. Deliver working software often with a preference for shorter timescales and changing requirements
  C. The belief that contributions and interactions are more important to success than processes and tools.
  D. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
  B. Deliver working software often with a preference for shorter timescales and changing requirements

• Question 869:

  Following approval of a business case, a company will introduce a new mobile app for customers to place orders. Time to market is a key concern. The product has entered into the 3rd iteration, but the team is concerned because they feel the technical designs do not meet the agreed- on definition of done (DoD). An agile coach has been hired to help validate product delivery against business requirements. What should the agile coach do?

  A. Incorporate quality assurance in the planning stage of product development.
  B. Schedule a dedicated meeting with the product owner to tackle this roadblock.
  C. Conduct a brainstorming exercise to get to the root of the issue and devise action plans.
  D. Conduct a retrospective meeting at the end of the current iteration to identify necessary improvements.
  C. Conduct a brainstorming exercise to get to the root of the issue and devise action plans.

• Question 870:

  Process Tailoring is the iterative approach implementing your SDLC process.

  A. True
  B. False
  A. True