PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
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What conclusions can you draw from this |h %5coutput%5ct14%5cmisc%5cp125.html burn up chart?
A. All planned work is complete
B. The project will be complete when the red line meets the blue line
C. New features have been added
D. The first user story was completed in week 3
Aaron’s organization has restructured, causing him to lose a couple key people on his team and has new project sponsor. He is hosting a project workshop to refocus on how the project work will be completed. What should Aaron do?
A. Include the new project sponsor
B. Use the free-for-all approach
C. Have only the project team involved
D. Have one person present the current project status and define tasks to be completed
A long-term project has a fluctuating scope and changing requirements. You want the flexibility to modify the scope or vary the workloads. Which contract type would be best in this scenario?
A. Scope-boxed
B. Cost targeted
C. Capped time and materials
D. Fixed-price
During a sprint retrospective, the team notices there was time spent in unnecessary meetings. Which Scrum event should you focus on to improvement the communications?
A. The sprint
B. The sprint review
C. Sprint planning
D. The daily Scrum
You have a strong-willed individual on your Agile team. He likes control and wants to be the solution to every issue. He is opinionated and confrontational. What can help?
A. Agile discovery
B. Timeboxing
C. Emotional intelligence
D. Learning cycle
When is the best time to establish continuous integration architecture?
A. Iteration Spike
B. Post mortem
C. Retrospective
D. Iteration Zero
You’ve formed working agreements with key stakeholders, and held periodic reviews to ensure your team is building the right product. What else is crucial to stakeholder engagement?
A. Share information early and often
B. Involve them in strategic initiatives
C. Prioritize cost effectiveness
D. Taking charge and making decisions
The development team experimented with a different approach but failed. What is one of the roles of a Scrum Master to help “fix” the situation?
A. Observe and support the team
B. Determine priority of the failed task
C. Create a new work request
D. Reveal necessary adjustments
The last iteration was not complete. There continues to be major issues with the team’s cycle time and velocity. The project is significantly behind. What’s the best tool to help you identify the cause and effect?
A. Five whys
B. MoSCoW
C. Ishikawa diagram
D. Kano analysis
Which approach to reviewing user stories considers if stories are negotiable?
A. T-shirt sizing
B. The 3 Cs
C. Daily standups
D. INVEST
Adam is in a meeting where management and the project team is included. They want to review the successes and failures over the last 6 months. What type of meeting does this represent?
A. Post-mortem
B. Retrospective
C. Pre-mortem
D. Intraspective
In drafting a project charter, you’ve identified the stakeholders, the goal of the project, start and end dates, the location, and the project methodology. What is missing?
A. Why are you doing this project?
B. How will you get the project done?
C. What are priorities of the work to be done?
D. Who will be on the project team?
Mark has set the goals for the product roadmap. He’s been communicating and align the high-level strategy. He’s considered the available resources and constraints. What other aspects should he focus on when planning for the product roadmap?
A. Create a task board
B. Check-in with end users
C. Define ideal time
D. Create a burn down chart
Sprint planning is a collaborative effort involving several stakeholders, including the ScrumMaster, the product owner, and the scrum team. In a sprint review meeting, a customer has been invited to attend. Why would this be important?
A. Facilitate and set the agenda
B. Confirm and enhance business value
C. Track project progress and resources
D. Demonstrate project work and progress
What is Kaizen?
A. Change for the better
B. Control chart
C. Risk probability
D. PDCA cycle
You are considering different brainstorm techniques and want to maximize the number of ideas and encourage spontaneity. Which brainstorming technique is best for this scenario?
A. Collaboration games
B. Free-for-all
C. Quiet writing
D. Round-robin
The Satir Model define who change impacts the organization. How does Agile Principles and mindset support this model?
A. Educate the organization and influence processes, behaviors, and people
B. Plan at multiple levels creating appropriate detail
C. Contribute to self-organizing work by empowering others
D. Reduce distractions in order to establish a predictable outcome
During a sprint review, a customer identifies a small new feature that would be useful. Both the product owner and customer believe the value of this new feature outweighs the effort in developing it, significantly. What should be done?
A. Add it to the next release of the product
B. Add it to the current iteration
C. Add it to the prioritized backlog
D. Do not add the feature
Which method allows the team to decide on priority of requirements by multivoting?
A. Spending with Monopoly money
B. MoSCoW
C. Voting with dots
D. Kano analysis
Which option is the best example of a user story with functional requirements?
A. I need to buy the sheet music I am currently looking at to see the chords
B. As a user, I want the search online to be secure
C. As manager, I need to see the performance of my team so that I can identify needed training
D. As gamer, I need to write out the rules, the process, and the character stories
You have 200 points left in the backlog. The first 3 iterations had a velocity of 10, 15, 14 points. Based on this velocity, how many iterations would it take to complete the project?
A. 13
B. 15
C. 12
D. 14
A couple of your team members are out on sick leave. Even though your team have run through the standard automated tests, the rest of your team doesn’t have time to test everything in the system. You want to be sure any critical bugs are identified and fixed. Which type of testing would be most appropriate in this scenario?
A. Usability testing
B. Load testing
C. Exploratory testing
D. Regression testing
You’re close to the end of a project and you are reviewing the risk burn down chart. You continue to communicate the status of threats and issues. One stakeholder questions the why the risk contingency reserve are still at the same levels the start of the project. What is the most common cause?
A. All the risks were transferred
B. Risk-adjusted items in the backlog were not updated
C. ScrumMaster didn’t hold enough meetings
D. Inappropriate risks were logged
Dave is a ScrumMaster and aims to provide transparency regarding work status by communicating team progress, work quality, impediments, and risks in order to help the primary stakeholders make informed decisions. He wants to keep the stakeholders aware of how the increased scope has impacted the goals of the project. Which information radiator should be used?
A. Burn down chart
B. Burn up chart
C. Story maps
D. Project charter
What helps determine of the right product is being built in an Agile project?
A. Viability
B. Valuation
C. Validation
D. Verification
Which of the following is NOT a hybrid framework?
A. ScrumBan
B. SAFe
C. MoSCoW
D. LeSS
Project A has an investment of $330,000 and generates an IRR of 20%. Project B has an investment of $100,000 and generates an IRR of 40%. Project C has an investment of $200,000 and generates an IRR of 30%. Which project would you choose?
A. Project A
B. Project C
C. None
D. Project B
What is a principle of Lean?
A. Task switching
B. Visualization
C. Relearning
D. Defer commitments
If project A costs $500,000 but is expected to save $50,000 each year. Project B costs $1,200,000 but will make $100,000 each year. Project C costs $200,000 but will make $30,000 each year. Project D costs $50,000 and will make $10,000 each year. Which project is a better investment based on the payback period method?
A. Project D
B. Project C
C. Project B
D. Project A
What is the most useful aspect of a project charter?
A. Communication plan
B. Story maps
C. Success criteria
D. WIP limits
Your team starts a project 4 weeks after the request from a customer. Your team takes 3 weeks to design and prototype a new photo app, 2 weeks to create process documentation for the team, and another 3 weeks to develop, test, and release it. What is process cycle efficiency (PCE)?
A. 0.33
B. 0.66
C. 0.75
D. 0.25
Joel’s Agile team is making little progress. They seem to be using the same approach but seeing no improvements. The ScrumMaster seems to control the outcomes of the team. The team seems to have lost sight of the end goal and have little interest in solving problems or improving their work. What should Joel do?
A. Introduce frequent retrospectives
B. Identify KPIs
C. Use groupthink
D. Use Kano analysis
You just hired a remote member from a different country to join your Agile team. You want to continue daily collaborative communication. What’s the best type of communication channel you should encourage?
A. Video conferencing
B. Written documentation
C. Workshops
D. Telephone calls
What are acceptance criteria in Agile project management?
A. Performance scope of the product
B. Defect detection rate
C. Conditions that a product must satisfy
D. Product backlog at completion
Niles lead an Agile team. They worked on a highly complex project which derailed at the last minute. They are in a Sprint retrospective and individuals are blaming others. The stakeholders were not kept informed. What approach should Niles take to maximize value to the customer, on a similar size project next time around?
A. Release less frequently
B. Increase the increment size
C. Maximize resource utilization
D. Periodic retrospectives
What is a common dysfunction in an Agile team?
A. Prioritizes motivation
B. Team makes their own decisions
C. Prioritizes quality
D. Inattention to results
You are noticing feature creep where new features are added without analyzing the relevance or need. They seem to be losing focus on delivering the most valuable work first. What would be the best approach?
A. Estimate work left to be done
B. Define the time period during which designated work is completed
C. Review the velocity of the team
D. Add small chunks of functionality that should take one to two days to finish
Bob is a senior project manager at a large organization with traditional beliefs of functional departments and a structured hierarchy. Scrum, Kanban, and XP are used. He is looking to scale Agile throughout the organization. Which framework would be most useful in this scenario?
A. MMF
B. SAFe
C. SoS
D. LeSS
You are estimating the work effort with a range of variance, in an Agile project. Your team is using experiments and innovation to close the cone of uncertainty. You explain and show key stakeholders the planning results in order to increase commitment level and reduce uncertainty. Which term best describes this activity?
A. Timeboxing
B. Regulatory compliance
C. Agile discovery
D. WIP limits
You’re reviewing procurement process for an Agile project, what happens after the bidder conference?
A. SOW update
B. Statement of work
C. Review and negotiation
D. Contract
What’s one reason you’d choose a quantitative analysis over qualitative analysis?
A. Quantitative analysis helps increase WIP
B. Quantitative analysis takes more time
C. Quantitative analysis is more reliable
D. Quantitative analysis prevents secondary risks
You’ve been listening and serving your project team. When there are opportunities, you coach and help them grow. You’ve been promoting the energy and intelligence of others in creativity and collaboration. What are other aspects should you consider in a servant leadership role?
A. Promoting self-awareness, safety, respect, and trust
B. Defining the processes in the project
C. Directing the flow of communication
D. Creating a structured environment
You’re a project manager on an Agile team, reviewing a feature anticipated to be implemented in the next release. However, the customer indicated it did not meet the acceptance criteria during a sprint review. What approach should you take?
A. Replace the feature in the upcoming release
B. Move the feature into a future release
C. Remove the feature from all releases
D. Keep the feature in the upcoming release
The stakeholder is looking for the trends of the current risks of the project. They want to see the exposure of the risk, its impact and response. They also want to see how the team is doing in controlling the risk. What should you suggest?
A. Create a risk census
B. Review the risk burn down chart
C. Review the risk prioritization
D. Review the risk board
What is a benefit of a common team space?
A. Team diversity
B. Controlled collaboration
C. Quiet writing
D. Tacit knowledge
What is most useful when approaching value-based decomposition?
A. Technical debt
B. Coarse-grained requirements
C. Backlog
D. Ideal time
You’re prioritizing requirements in the product backlog, and evaluating potential products features that would excite the customer and create value. You prioritize them according to several categories. |w What model are you use?
A. Kano Analysis
B. MoSCoW
C. Value stream mapping
D. Kaizen
Who authorizes the project and signs the project charter in an Agile project?
A. The project sponsor
B. The product owner
C. The project manager
D. The Agile team
As a project manager, what can help you foster innovation, collaboration, and creativity on team?
A. Create a red zone
B. Focus on listening
C. Be self-aware
D. Create a green zone
In your current Scrum project, the product owner finished working on the product backlog. What should happen next?
A. A sprint retrospective to identify what worked and what didn’t
B. A sprint meeting to decide how much work to take on
C. A daily Scrum to share progress updates
D. A sprint review to demonstrate the results
Joe is managing a small Agile project team. In the initial stages, Joe has identified 3 risk events in the |h %5coutput%5ct22%5cmisc%5cp160.html table. He’s been asked to suggest the contingency reserve. Which value would you recommend?
A. $100,000
B. $22,500
C. $36,250
D. $13,750
An Agile team just finished a new version of the software. The team is monitoring the system for errors. They look at changes in user data and traffic volume. They review the results with the customer. What are they trying to accomplish?
A. Osmotic communication
B. Define WIP limits
C. Monitor performance
D. Seek feedback
Bill is managing a team in an organization that is highly defined processes and procedures. He wants to have a common vision and be able to work together. What should Bill to do help ensure team effectiveness in the established organizational guidelines and norms?
A. Continuous improvement
B. Process tailoring
C. Team motivation
D. Manage with KPIs
You are reviewing the financial metrics of a potential project. You consider the percent of the benefit of the investment to the money invested. Which metric does this represent?
A. Future value (FV)
B. Net present value (NPV)
C. Return on investment (ROI)
D. Internal rate of return (IRR)
What is characteristic of a high-performing Agile team?
A. Leadership role is fluid
B. Highly specialized skills
C. Focus on processes
D. Conflict is avoided
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