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PMI-ACP Questions and Answers

Question # 6

A scrum master assumes a project that is essential to organizational growth. The project is expected to be in production for three years. What should the scrum master do first?

A.

Work with the customers to build the product backlog and identify their initial requirements.

B.

Meet with the stakeholders and enterprise architects to understand the project's vision.

C.

Plan and execute a sprint 0 to establish the project's foundational needs.

D.

Create a backlog, and execute a sprint 1 to quickly deliver value to the customers.

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Question # 7

At the retrospective, the burndown chart shows that the project is slightly behind schedule. The project team identifies an inexperienced software engineer as the source of reduced velocity. How should the project team address this issue?

A.

Suggest pair programming during the retrospective.

B.

Ask the product owner to re-prioritize the user stories at the next retrospective.

C.

Re-estimate the story points with team members at the next iteration planning meeting.

D.

Assign less complex user stories to the inexperienced software engineer at the next iteration planning meeting.

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Question # 8

During sprint planning the product owner wants the team to prioritize and deliver a number of features which have the highest business value. Due to technical dependencies, the team does not agree with the prioritization.

What should the project leader do?

A.

Encourage the product owner and team to reprioritize the features and select ones which can be delivered without any dependencies

B.

Encourage the team to continue with the current plan, do what they can. and carry forward the work not done to the next iteration

C.

Ensure the team captures the technical dependencies as issues within the backlog and prioritize based on value optimization

D.

Ensure that the required subject matter experts (SMEs) are engaged by the product owner to help with backlog prioritization

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Question # 9

A Scrum Master would like to provide information to key stakeholders on the daily resource and project activities. Which tool should the Scrum Master use to provide these updates?

A.

Shared vision statement and sprint goal

B.

Release burnup chart

C.

Velocity metrics

D.

Iteration burndown chart

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Question # 10

An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the Scrum Master do?

A.

Dismiss the team member

B.

Discuss the situation with the functional manager

C.

Report the functional manager to the project sponsor

D.

Demand that the functional manager respect the project charter

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Question # 11

A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team Many team members have worked together on this product for several years During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are completed on time

What type of behavior does this describe?

A.

Synchronous

B.

Collaborative

C.

Passive-aggressive

D.

Random

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Question # 12

A member of the development team is working on a prioritized non-functional requirement involving integrating with a 3rd party system. This integration has not been done before on the project.

What should the project leader suggest?

A.

Develop and document a detailed architectural design: peer review with the development team and implement/test

B.

Develop the functional requirements of the solution first before any non-functional requirement, as they provide more

customer value

C.

Discuss the integration requirement with the product owner and negotiate it to be lower on the backlog to focus on the minimal marketable feature

D.

Develop and test the implementation approach and demonstrate it at the next sprint review to collect feedback

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Question # 13

The agile practitioner has determined that two different team members are working on addressing the same major issue on the project. How should the agile practitioner address this?

A.

Implement a burnup chart and add the issue resolution as a task to the product backlog for the customer to prioritize.

B.

Add the issue to the kanban board and assign the it to the team member who has made the most progress on resolving it.

C.

Conduct a root-cause analysis on the issue and identify related risks and risk response owners at the next retrospective.

D.

Document all project issues in a common space and ask the team members to decide on task allocation principles.

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Question # 14

During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog. What should the team do first to define the tasks needed to implement the user stories?

A.

Self-organize

B.

Assign tasks to each team member

C.

Meet with the customer

D.

Identify the Scrum Master

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Question # 15

After three iterations, it is identified that a project's underlying security structure architecture is unstable. While there is a technical solution, all work to date is flawed. This will impact several future business service offerings.

What should the product owner do to resolve this?

A.

Ask the development team to address the issue since it is in their domain.

B.

Review the project's risk matrix, and follow the steps outlined in the risk mitigation plan.

C.

Meet with the team and stakeholders to address rework and rewrite stories as needed.

D.

Cancel the current sprint, and meet with stakeholders to reassess the project's validity.

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Question # 16

There is a database feature requiring three members of a seven person team. A meeting is scheduled at the beginning of the sprint to go over technical needs to complete the story. Who should the Scrum Master invite to the meeting?

A.

The core team and the customer

B.

The product owner and key stakeholders

C.

The customer and the sponsor

D.

The core team and the product owner

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Question # 17

On what should an agile team work to achieve predictable flow?

A.

Small user stories

B.

Simple acceptance criteria

C.

Lean features

D.

Lean backlogs

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Question # 18

A seven-member agile team's composition varies considerably in age. gender, culture, personality type, and professional background. When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?

A.

Networking

B.

Social awareness

C.

Communication

D.

Leadership

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Question # 19

A product that recently went to market is receiving a great deal of attention from upper management who expresses interest by directly emailing and calling the developer team. The team expresses frustration during a standup.

What should the Scrum Master do?

A.

Ask the product owner how upper management's comments can be redirected.

B.

Direct the developer team to ignore the phone calls and emails.

C.

Ask the product owner to enter the requests into the product backlog as high priority.

D.

Personally respond to upper management's phone calls and emails.

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Question # 20

Early in a project stakeholder analysis is performed: however, an organizational restructure redefines key roles What should the project team do?

A.

Note the changes to the restructure and roles that affect team activities

B.

Use direct engagement and two-way conversation to update the stakeholder analysis for any new stakeholder requirements.

C.

Email a copy of the project vision to those redefined for key roles and ask if they need to be involved in the project

D.

Obtain a copy of the redefined key roles to update the stakeholder analysis

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Question # 21

After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI What should the team do?

A.

Prioritize the backlog, and remove low-priority stories from the release plan to ensure a positive ROI

B.

Replace some team members to reduce the release costs and minimize a negative ROI

C.

Perform a root-cause analysis to remove waste from the delivery process and increase the ROI.

D.

Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan

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Question # 22

During project inception, an agile practitioner engages the stakeholder to ensure alignment on the project's strategy and vision. The stakeholder asks for detailed requirements, design and delivery plans.

What should the agile practitioner do?

A.

Provide all information requested by the stakeholder

B.

Set expectations regarding the appropriate level of details requested during this stage

C.

Inform the stakeholder that no detailed documents are provided using agile practices

D.

Ask the team to supply the information to the stakeholder

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Question # 23

A globally distributed project team is using email and phone calls as the only way to share information. Delays in resolving issues often occur due to misinterpreted communications, leading to a lower team velocity.

What steps should the project leader take to improve knowledge sharing?

A.

Meet individually with each team member to identify the issues and relay information to the remaining members through status reports.

B.

Establish a live video feed between the dispersed teams to enable spontaneous engagement and collaboration on issues.

C.

Request that the customer co-locate the team to overcome the communication issues, as this is the only method to ensure agility.

D.

Inform the customer of the challenges and lower velocity of the project to accommodate for the slower delivery pace.

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Question # 24

An agile team is planning the next iteration for a product release that has accumulated technical debt What should the team do?

A.

Add code cleanup activities to the product backlog and request prioritization by the product owner

B.

Add code cleanup activities to the next iteration and request clarification from the product owner

C.

Add code cleanup activities to the next iteration and ask the product owner to end the current iteration

D.

Add code cleanup activities to the next release backlog and request documentation from the product owner

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Question # 25

A project sponsor is upset that an enhancement will be unavailable until next year. What should the product owner do?

A.

Accept responsibility for the product's delay.

B.

Ensure that the project sponsor's priorities are in the product backlog.

C.

Negotiate with the project sponsor for increased funding.

D.

Empower the project sponsor to manage the product backlog.

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Question # 26

A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint. What should they do?

A.

Request direction from the technical manager.

B.

Encourage the product owner to reallocate the features to another sprint.

C.

Determine who is best qualified to address the challenges.

D.

Ask the product owner to assign the tasks to the most appropriately skilled resources.

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Question # 27

A team's technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks.

What should the scrum master do?

A.

Tell the technical lead to do the testing

B.

Facilitate an open and focused team discussion that reinforces team agreements

C.

Ask the team manager to advise the technical lead that all tasks are important

D.

Encourage the team to take ownership of the delivery

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Question # 28

Stakeholders are displeased with the latest release of a product's software While most stakeholders attended every sprint review they were otherwise largely uninvolved in the project.

What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction?

A.

Communicated early and often, as outlined in the communications matrix

B.

Ensured engagement among stakeholders and the product owner

C.

Conducted additional stakeholder reviews and demos

D.

Worked with the product owner to prioritize user stories

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Question # 29

An agile team notices that the same problems continue to occur during multiple iterations Several team members have suggestions to fix the problem.

What is the proper agile approach to handle this?

A.

Hold frequent retrospectives and share the responsibility for making changes

B.

Understand that this is the nature of innovative business and strive to work harder

C.

Collect team member feedback and discuss them privately with the product owner

D.

Conduct a team-building exercise to increase trust among the team members

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Question # 30

A key stakeholder cannot attend the project vision statement development workshop. The stakeholder has emailed their requirements to the agile team lead, and believes that the vision statement is not critical.

How should the agile team lead respond?

A.

Emphasize to the stakeholder that a common, detailed vision will better ensure team understanding of the project.

B.

Personally meet with the stakeholder to understand their requirements, and then share the vision with the team.

C.

Work with the team to create a vision from the stakeholder's supplied requirements.

D.

Explain to the team that creating a vision is not critical in agile projects, as requirements may change over time.

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Question # 31

Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint goals What should the scrum master do next?

A.

Alert the team that sprint goals might not be met and create an alternative plan

B.

Obtain team buy-in to perform modifications to the sprint backlog.

C.

Have the sprint proceed as planned

D.

Ask the team to decide if the task should be reassigned

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Question # 32

Prior to a retrospective, discussions among team members indicate conflict. An agile practitioner wants to ensure an open and safe environment during the retrospective.

What should the agile practitioner do?

A.

Review established ground rules with the team

B.

Ask team members specific questions to identify the cause

C.

Encourage the team to continue working to maintain the iteration's schedule

D.

Meet with the product owner and stakeholders to discuss the issue

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