PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which is NOT a role on an XP team?

A. Coach

B. Customer

C. Product Owner

D. Programmer

What is a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behavior?

A. Pair Programming

B. Continuous Improvement

C. Test Driven Development

D. Refactoring

All of the following are among the seven principles of the Lean approach with the exception of:

A. Amplified learning

B. Decide as late as possible

C. Build integrity in

D. Maximize the work performed

What is the reason to develop personas as part of User Story creation?

A. When the conversation is centered on the high-level flow of a process

B. When trying to better understand stakeholder demographics and general needs

C. When trying to capture the high-level objective of a specific requirement

D. When communicating what features will be included in the next release

Pick the THREE statements that are true about Agile Analysis. (Choose three.)

A. It is a highly evolutionary and collaborative process

B. It occurs at the beginning and end of a project

C. It only includes the project team

D. It is communication rich

E. It explores the problem statement

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.

A member of a cross-functional project team is not able to attend regular status meetings and provide progress updates, which is impacting the productivity of the entire team. What should the product owner do to improve productivity?

A. Discuss the issue to reduce the backlog based on decreased productivity of the team.

B. Collect updates from each team member before the meeting and share them with all members.

C. Ask the team member to update daily progress on the information radiators.

D. Change the team velocity to show positive progress in shared information radiators.

During backlog refinement meeting, the new developer on the team asks the product owner to discuss a new performance threshold requirement and how it impacts the stories in the backlog.

What should the team do?

A. Add this threshold requirement request as acceptance criteria in all impacted stories

B. Create a spike story to analyze the impact of the threshold requirement on current stories

C. Conduct design planning session to review the performance threshold requirement

D. Identify the tasks for the new performance threshold requirement

Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete all committed features.

What should the team do?

A. Plan for overtime, and include the effort as part of the estimation.

B. Increase team velocity to deliver more story points.

C. Identify the reason for over-commitment to the sprint and create an action plan for the following sprint.

D. Add resources to assist with sprint execution.

A new agile team is forming to address a high-priority project. Team members are dispersed over a wide geographic area. The scrum master and the team are currently defining their working agreement.

What should be part of the working agreement for a dispersed team?

A. Identify support needed from external vendors to assist dispersed team members.

B. Meet face to face at regular intervals to enhance shared understanding.

C. Designate one person to communicate with all team members working at different locations.

D. Define what project work can be done by dispersed team members.