PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
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When learning a new skill, you start imitating the skills, then understand how to apply the skills, and finally have self-directed innovation to learn from one’s own experience. What developmental mastery model is represented?
A. Shu Ha Ri
B. Dreyfus
C. Tuckman
D. MoSCoW
During a sprint, the team dynamics nose-dives. One person started placing blame on another for failing on their piece of the code. The conversation quickly escalates. What can help create an open and honest dialog?
A. Intraspective
B. Retrospective
C. Post-mortem
D. Pre-mortem
What is the most common tool for process analysis?
A. Technical debt
B. Burn-up chart
C. FMEA
D. Radar diagram
What is a principle of DSDM?
A. Eliminate waste
B. Collective code ownership
C. Business need is the primary goal
D. Develop an overall model
You’re on assignment and tasked to manage an Agile project in a different country. You’ve been asked to align the project and the team goals by sharing the project vision to ensure the team understands how their objective fit into the overall goals. You are having difficulty with how the team operates, how they communicate, and even the punctuality of the team for the daily Scrum. You can’t tell how the team is feeling as they have neutral facial and body expressions. They are agreeable to any suggestions and refrain from offering theirs. You’re feeling hopeless. What is this an example of?
A. Culture shock
B. Stereotypes
C. Generalizations
D. Ethnocentrism
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 the most common tool for process analysis?
A. Radar diagram
B. FMEA
C. Technical debt
D. Burn-up chart
Joe’s project team works to address each user story. Several small user stories carry from one iteration to the next. There is a gap in what result is acceptable. What’s the best approach that would have helped in this scenario?
A. Defining and meeting the definition of done
B. Tuckman’s model
C. Communication management
D. Incremental delivery
What is represented in this example, “As a customer, I want to track my package until it’s delivered”?
A. User stories
B. Epics
C. Requirements
D. Themes
After the customer adds new features, you’ve completed the value-based analysis of prioritization for the next few iterations. You are estimating how long each iteration will take. What should you do next?
A. Break down the requirements in to chunks of work, estimate how long it will take
B. Identify the available resources and the required tasks, and balance the workload
C. Ask customer to define the velocity of the team
D. Anticipate roadblocks
The system upgrade process must roll back all related updates if the upgrade fails. What type of requirement does this represent?
A. Security
B. Scalability
C. Reliability
D. Performance
The customer wants a one-click online ordering system. Your team has created a robust system and added an opportunity for the end user to review the order and enter payment details. They also suggest competitor sites if the product is discontinued or out of stock. The key focus is to make the end user happy. What is the issue in this scenario?
A. Gulf of evaluation
B. Adapting cadence
C. Participatory decision making
D. Managing with KPIs
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
Initially, a customer reads a story and then the team estimates the effort. The team discusses and then the team estimates again. The process it repeated until consensus is reach. |w What estimating technique is being used?
A. Fibonacci sequence
B. Planning poker
C. Gold plating
D. Sashimi
Why is it important to keep the stakeholders involved in the project?
A. To monitor the product owner’s decisions
B. To intervene team issues
C. To confirm commitment to decisions
D. To identify risk
The product owner and development team are going through the product backlog. They identifying the priorities and a team member raises a concern about a low priority item, stating they could try a different approach. The team is already behind, what is the best course of action?
A. Explain completing the task on time is higher priority
B. Create a new task with the new approach
C. Increase the priority of the task
D. Allow the team member to try the new approach
If you were aligning to the Agile Manifesto, which aspect would you value?
A. Contract negotiation over customer collaboration
B. Processes and tools over individuals and interactions
C. Working software over comprehensive documentation
D. Following a plan over responding to change
As you’re building an online ordering system. Which one is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?
A. A landing page which showcases the offerings in the product line
B. A wireframe of the website
C. A functioning website that’s been developed and tested for six months
D. A story map of the user stories
The product owner provides the backlog and the user stories are arranged horizontally on a wall. Each team member size each item relative to other items, then each item is place in relative size buckets, and data is stored. What is technique is being explained?
A. Value-based decomposition
B. KPI estimation
C. Kanban boarding
D. Affinity estimation
You’ve noticed your project team’s throughput has fluctuated and even decreased in the last few iterations. It seems there might be issue with the process the team uses. What should you do?
A. Use frequent verification and validation
B. Review the product release plan
C. Implement a simple workflow for the team
D. Identify the issues with cycle time using a control chart
You are the lead in a project. How would you explain the difference between traditional/waterfall project management and Agile project management?
A. Traditional project management has high customer involvement, where Agile has low
B. Traditional project management focuses more on product, Agile focuses on process
C. Traditional project management has fixed scope, Agile has fixed schedule and costs
D. Traditional project management has fixed schedule and costs, Agile has fixed scope
Which approach represents identifying and removing roadblocks, supporting experiments, and taking smart risks?
A. Architectural leadership
B. Kano analysis
C. Adaptive leadership
D. Fishbone analysis
What is Kaizen?
A. Change for the better
B. Control chart
C. Risk probability
D. PDCA cycle
Your team needs to estimate the effort of coding a new feature but has zero experience with the size and scope of the new feature. What should the team do?
A. Architectural spike
B. Risk-based spike
C. Release spike
D. Visioning spike
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’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
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
When engaging the project team and stakeholders, which situation is inappropriate to communication via social media?
A. A project requiring private group input
B. When pull communication is required
C. Financial project with sensitive data
D. Public project seeking community input
There is friction on your team. There are several unidentified risks that became a reality. Your team is scrambling to work through each iteration. You had weak personnel, feature creep, and inadequate design. What could help this situation?
A. Team space and Agile tooling
B. Revised schedule impacts
C. Research-oriented development
D. Use the Silver-bullet method
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
What helps determine of the right product is being built in an Agile project?
A. Viability
B. Valuation
C. Validation
D. Verification
What is the process for stakeholder management?
A. Communicate, simplify, encourage, feedback
B. Define, engage, develop, test
C. Collaboration, create, brainstorm, host
D. Identify, plan, manage, and monitor
Sam is collaborating with the customer for feedback for the development team. The product is of lower quality than the customer expected. He knows there are long term implications. In order to reduce overall cost of incremental development, what should he do?
A. Outsource the work to ensure a timely delivery
B. Decrease the frequency of reviews
C. Prioritize and maintain internal quality
D. Increase the increment size
You are consulting the stakeholders and the product owner develops and maintains a product backlog. The stakeholders help create user stories. Which phase does this represent?
A. Development phase
B. Release planning phase
C. Review and adapt phase
D. Initiation phase
Which of the following is a self-assessment tools or techniques?
A. Kaizen
B. DSDM
C. PDCA
D. Shore
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
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
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
Your Agile team continuously adds new features. It’s always well received by the customer. The product backlog is growing. What is happening in this scenario?
A. Goldplating
B. Theory of constraints
C. Feature-driven development
D. Crystal development
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
Which estimate considers the product backlog?
A. Iteration zero
B. Ideal time
C. Project charter
D. ROI
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 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
You are working under the DSDM framework and are prioritizing requirements and business needs. Which one of these approaches should be applied?
A. Wireframes
B. MoSCoW
C. Affinity estimating
D. Ideal time
The ScrumMaster wants to ensure the team is paid fairly, works to build relationships with individuals and peers, and the working conditions exceed the team’s expectation. Then she focuses on the work itself and looks for opportunities for growth and advancement. What motivation models is she using?
A. Herzberg
B. Kano
C. Amabile and Kramer
D. McClelland
What is the title of the project manager in an XP development project?
A. Coach
B. Project manager
C. Product owner
D. Product manager
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
Bob is working on a large project, and most of his team will be virtual. What approach is best for Bob to take to facilitate the virtual team?
A. Co-locate the team for the planning meetings and two iterations if possible
B. Make cultural training available
C. Replace wit a cross-functional team
D. Define goals
A new hire has only experience with traditional project management. You are asked to discuss the Agile values in order to develop a shared mindset across the team. What would you tell her about Agile project management?
A. Focus on highest-value items first
B. Documentation is clear and complete
C. All issues should be identified at the start of the project
D. Feedback is obtained at the end each project cycle
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
Phil is on a project that has been off track. After last sprint, there were number of major issues identified. What’s should change for the next sprint planning?
A. Decrease the review frequency
B. Limit the number of sprints
C. Reduce increment size of future iterations
D. Increase the increment size of future iterations
What is another term for test-driven development?
A. Pass/fail
B. Exploratory testing
C. Red-Green-Clean
D. Red-Green-Yellow
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
Susan is working alongside another developer. She codes while her teammate watches. They work through pieces of developing the code and testing. What approach is Susan implementing?
A. Release planning
B. Pair rotation
C. Acceptance testing
D. Pair programming
Sam is tracking a noticeable drop in the team’s velocity. There’s a lot of WIPs yet he sees some lag time between the tasks that are identified to complete a user story. What is the best approach to get the team on track?
A. Value stream map
B. Use customer-valued prioritization
C. Identifying the MVP
D. Testing
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