PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
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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
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
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’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
You’ve created a cohesive team with open communication. The team feels comfortable identifying risk and analyzing each risk to determine severity. What should be the next step in an effective risk management strategy?
A. Create a risk response plan
B. Continuous monitoring
C. Create a risk burn down chart
D. Prioritizing the identified risks based on severity
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
What is the most useful aspect of a project charter?
A. Communication plan
B. Story maps
C. Success criteria
D. WIP limits
Like every Agile project, Phil is aiming to deliver a usable product after every sprint. He wants the product to be complete in gathering and analyzing requirements, design, coding, testing, review, and documentation. What’s the best technique to help Phil adopt the desired output?
A. Planning Poker
B. Feedback methods
C. Sashimi
D. Burn down charts
The project team has reviewed the user stories and have put them in one of three categories. Small: < 1 day, Medium: < 1-2 weeks, Large: < 2 weeks. What approach to relative sizing does this represent?
A. Story points
B. T-shirt sizing
C. Time buckets
D. Timebox
What is a principle of Lean?
A. Task switching
B. Visualization
C. Relearning
D. Defer commitments
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 is another term for test-driven development?
A. Pass/fail
B. Exploratory testing
C. Red-Green-Clean
D. Red-Green-Yellow
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
Emma and Ali have had heated discussion about how to implement a feature. Emma has more experience, but Ali has worked longer on the project. Emma has left the conversation numerous times. They’ve tried to come up with alternative solutions but have yet to mutually agree. This conflict is causing delays with the sprint and will have a knock-on effect to the next iteration. What’s the best approach to resolve this conflict?
A. Withdrawal
B. Smoothing
C. Forcing or directing
D. Active listening
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
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
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
You want to display visual information to customers and project stakeholders. Ideally, you see work to be done, work-in-progress, and completed work. What tool would be best in this scenario?
A. Story maps
B. Kanban boards
C. Wireframes
D. Product roadmap
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
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
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
Which one of the following is NOT an example of task boards?
A. Kaizen board
B. Kanban board
C. Scrum board
D. Agile board
Which of the following is NOT a hybrid framework?
A. ScrumBan
B. SAFe
C. MoSCoW
D. LeSS
The project sponsor has signing authority of the project charter and authorizes the project and project manager. The project sponsor is the champion of the project. Which meeting should the project sponsor attend?
A. Daily Scrum
B. Retrospective
C. Collaboration games
D. Iteration review meeting
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
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
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
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
Why should Agile leaders continuously improve their emotional intelligence?
A. To identify future project leads
B. In order to encourage collaboration on the team
C. To stay competitive in the business environment
D. To embrace globalization
Who usually approves of iterations?
A. Project manager
B. Project team
C. Product owner
D. Product manager
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
What is a core practice of eXtreme Programming?
A. Visualization
B. Extra features
C. Test-driven development
D. Eliminate waste
What can help you integrate the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct?
A. Ensure each team member has a copy of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
B. Adhere to and model behavior based on the PMI ethical standards
C. Discuss any potentially unethical behavior you have noticed with colleagues
D. Inform stakeholders of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
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
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
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
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 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
Your team has found a defect. What should you do next to create value to the customer?
A. Use slicing or disaggregation
B. Add the issue to the current iteration
C. Add the issue to the product backlog
D. Calculate the defect rate
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
Your evolving project is consistently changing in scope and requirements. There are several uncertainties. What are the reasons adaptive planning is the best approach in this project?
A. Caters to known risks
B. Plans the future in detail
C. Creates a more consistent final product
D. Planning is an ongoing activity
You are working with the team and trying to understand each aspect of the sprint, how can Kanban help reduce bottlenecks in the process?
A. Remove feedback loops
B. Increase work-in-progress
C. Visualize the workflow
D. Increase inventory
Joe’s current project team has workspace scattered throughout the building. It’s a major year-long project so he found a new collaborative workspace on the ground floor. He explains why it’s a good idea to move the team. What is his motivation?
A. Identify and prioritize feedback factors to improve the quality of the product
B. Identify and prioritize environment factors to improve the quality of the product
C. Identify and prioritize behavioral factors to improve the quality of the product
D. Identify and prioritize emotional factors to improve the quality of the product
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
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 used in trend analysis?
A. Lagging metrics
B. Customer metrics
C. Profiting metrics
D. Leading metrics
What tool is represented in the |h %5coutput%5ct18%5cmisc%5cp143.html image?
A. Burn up chart
B. Cumulative flow diagram
C. Radar diagram
D. Burn down chart
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
Which of the following is a self-assessment tools or techniques?
A. Kaizen
B. DSDM
C. PDCA
D. Shore
Senior leaders and sponsors are considering a project that will need $120,000 to complete but will generate $50,000, $60,000, and $70,000, in the first 3 years, respectively. The target rate of return is 15%. What is the net present value (NPV)?
A. $14,873.02
B. -$36,521.17
C. $36,521.17
D. -$14,873.02
You’re forecasting the completion of a project. You have the forecasted velocity of the team. What other input is required?
A. Sum of story point estimates for all the features in the backlog
B. Approved iterations
C. Variance and trend analysis
D. Ceremonies, the number opportunities for planning
You have a UX designer on your Agile team. He’s knows that UX designs start from the end-user, but he also understands the business objectives the team is trying to meet. Has practice and experience to deliver high quality of work. What level of the Dreyfus model is represented?
A. Proficient
B. Competent
C. Advance beginner
D. Novice
You find out the team was creating a product feature that was not requested or required by the customer. After reviewing it with the customer, they are not happy. What happened, and what should you do?
A. Prioritization, use contingency reserves
B. Scope creep, request for additional financial support
C. Agile discovery, use Agile sizing and estimating
D. Gold plating, use pair programming
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
What helps determine of the right product is being built in an Agile project?
A. Viability
B. Valuation
C. Validation
D. Verification
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