The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) is a formal recognition of your knowledge of agile principles and expertise with agile practices, and it comes from the same folks who brought you the PMP®. The PMI-ACP covers a wide range of agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). As a result, it will boost your versatility no matter where your assignments take you.
To obtain the PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® credential, you must complete the experience and education criteria and pass the PMI-ACP exam, consisting of 120 multiple-choice questions.
Regardless of your experience or background, it would be best if you studied hard for the exam. Successful applicants often use various study methods, such as training courses, exam dumps, and study groups.
Sample exam questions are one of the essential reference materials for the PMI-ACP® exam. To put your knowledge to the test, try the 20 example questions below!
1. A project team is discussing the priorities associated with different project management methodologies. What would an agile practitioner say is the top priority?
A. Working software and lean documentation
B. Individuals and interactions and lightweight processes and tools
C. Customer satisfaction through the delivery of valuable products
D. Responding to change and progressive elaboration of plans
Hint: Which of the available options reflects one of the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto?
Correct Answer: C
According to the Agile Manifesto, this answer choice most closely resembles the highest priority according to the Agile Manifesto, which states, “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.”
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 8-9
2. A project team is discussing the priorities associated with different project management methodologies. What would an agile practitioner say is the top priority?
A. Working software and lean documentation
B. Individuals and interactions and lightweight processes and tools
C. Customer satisfaction through delivery of valuable products
D. Responding to change and progressive elaboration of plans
Hint: Which of the available options reflects one of the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer C: Correct. According to the Agile Manifesto, this answer choice most closely resembles the highest priority according to the Agile Manifesto, which states, “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.”
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 8-9
3. An agile coach suggests that a lean product development team use a value stream mapping technique in their continuous improvement efforts. What is the primary purpose of this technique?
A. Improving and applying consistent coding standards
B. Identifying and eliminating non-essential process tasks or activities to decrease cycle time
C. Ensuring only the highest value and highest quality deliverables are produced
D. Creating a visual map of a process that other teams can use to build value for their customers
Hint: Identify what answer choice(s) refer to activities that make processes more ‘lean’ or efficient.
Answer and Explanations:
Answer B: Correct. Value stream mapping is used to break down and map a multi-step process to identify those tasks or activities that cause unnecessary delay and inefficiency. The identification and elimination of these non-value-added activities decrease cycle times and improve the overall process efficiency.
Exam Reference: PMI-ACP Exam Prep, 2nd Edition: A Course in a Book for Passing the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam, Mike Griffiths, 2012, Value stream mapping
4. During a sprint review, the product owner rejects one of the product features that the development team demonstrated. What happens next to the user story according to which the abandoned feature was developed?
A. The user story is automatically placed into the sprint backlog of the next sprint
B. The user story is deleted from the product backlog and dropped from the project
C. The user story is rewritten to address the reasons why they were not accepted
D. The user story is placed in the product backlog to be reprioritized
Hint: Are rejected user stories automatically placed into the backlog, or does something else need to occur first?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer C: Correct. If a feature is rejected, it is most often due to a gap in the team’s understanding of the expectations of the business or customer. This misunderstanding can arise due to missed acceptance criteria or a poorly written user story that served as a basis for the feature. The first step is to correct or rewrite the user story. Then it can be placed into the backlog and reprioritized.
Exam Reference: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Jim Highsmith, 2004
5. To increase agile knowledge, traditional project managers have been paired with scrum masters to observe them lead their teams. One observation is that many project decisions are the responsibility of the project team and the scrum master is more facilitative than authoritative. The scrum masters seem more focused on ensuring that the team can focus on the work, have a shared vision, and determine how they will accomplish their work. What leadership approach have the scrum masters adopted?
A. Participative leadership
B. Autocratic leadership
C, Transformational leadership
D. Servant leadership
Hint: Which approach is characterized by facilitation and serving the team’s needs over ‘managing’ the team?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer D: Correct. Servant leadership is the practice of leading through service to the team, by focusing on understanding and addressing the needs and development of the team members to enable the highest possible team performance.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 33-38,154; see also Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, Lyssa Adkins, 2010
6. An agile team finished coding for the current iteration. Which of the following is a continuous process improvement ceremony that the team will now attend?
A. Release planning meeting
B. Iteration retrospective meeting
C. Product demonstration meeting
D. Iteration planning meeting
Hint: Which meeting reflects upon the past iteration to develop improvement plans?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer B: Correct. The iteration retrospective meeting is an example of a continuous process improvement ceremony on an agile project.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 50-51; see also Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, 2006
7. A development team uses an eXtreme Programming (XP) development practice that frequently incorporates new and updated code into the project code repository. What technique is the development team using?
A. Refactoring
B. Pair programming
C. Collective code ownership
D. Continuous integration
Hint: All of the techniques listed as answers are used in XP, but only one of them involves integrating the code into a constantly changing code base or repository.
Answer and Explanations:
Answer D: Correct. Continuous integration is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. When the new or altered code is checked into the code repository, automatic routines are run to ensure that all the code will work together and compile it successfully.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 56, 102, 151; Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products – 2nd Edition, Jim Highsmith, 2009, Continuous Integration
8. A scrum master is starting a project with a new team and needs to estimate velocity. What should the scrum master use as a basis for velocity in the first sprint?
A. Forecasted velocity
B. Actual velocity
C. Terminal velocity
D. Cycle velocity
Hint: The scrum master is trying to develop a velocity estimate without any history to base the estimate.
Answer and Explanations:
Answer A: Correct. Forecasted velocity is commonly used in a new agile project’s first iteration because there is no historical data available to help estimate this velocity.
Exam Reference: Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn, 2005, Estimating Velocity
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9. On an agile project, the team completed the creation of a potentially shippable product increment. Of the following, which represents the length of time that it took to create this product increment?
A. Estimated time
B. Cycle time
C. Lead time
D. Ideal time
Hint: This question is referring to a product increment but not necessarily the entire finished product.
Answer and Explanations:
Answer B: Correct. Cycle time is the amount of time something takes to go from the start to the end of that process.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 61, 64-66; see also Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business, David J. Anderson, 2010
10. An agile practitioner has developed a prioritized matrix that describes which product features will be delivered in each release over time. What has the agile practitioner created?
A. The product vision statement
B. A product wireframe
C. The product roadmap
D. A product theme
Hint: Which answer choices would contain a high-level timeline of when the product will be released?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer C: Correct. A product roadmap is a prioritized matrix that describes product features that the team will deliver in each release over time.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 52; see also Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products – 2nd Edition, Jim Highsmith, 2009, Product Roadmap
11. A team lead is currently demonstrating a potentially shippable product increment for project stakeholders. Which agile meeting is being conducted?
A. Iteration review meeting
B. Daily standup meeting
C. Iteration retrospective meeting
D. Iteration deliverables meeting
Hint: The stakeholders examine or inspect the product increment during this meeting.
Answer and Explanations:
Answer A: Correct. The iteration review meeting is a product-oriented meeting held at the end of the iteration to demonstrate product increments completed within that iteration.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 55; see also PMI-ACP Exam Prep, 2nd Edition: A Course in a Book for Passing the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Exam, Mike Griffiths, 2012, Iterations
12. An agile team has decided to create an artifact to demonstrate the product increment to gather feedback from the stakeholders. How should the project team accomplish this task?
A. Construct a wireframe
B. Build a prototype
C. Develop a persona
D. Utilize a template
Hint: Which of the answer choices might also be described as a coarse-grained model?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer B: Correct. A prototype is an original type, form, or instance of a product to explore the product’s primary size, look, and feel without simulating the detailed functionality. A prototype can demonstrate the product increment and gather feedback from the stakeholders, making this choice the best answer to the question asked.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 20-23; see also Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products – 2nd Edition, Jim Highsmith, 2009
13. An agile practitioner needs to track the team’s performance over time. How might the agile practitioner accomplish this task?
A. Report the team’s performance using real time
B. Calculate the team’s velocity
C. Capture the number of escaped defects
D. Create an estimate of the project’s CPI
Hint: Which metric represents the average number of story points completed per iteration?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer B: Correct. Velocity is perhaps the most common metric and is used to determine the team’s performance over time. It is often used to compare actual performance to estimated performance.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 61, 64; see also PMI-ACP Exam Prep, 2nd Edition: A Course in a Book for Passing the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Exam, Mike Griffiths, 2015, Page(s) 232-234
14. An agile team is estimating the level of effort necessary to complete their user stories. They decide to assume that the team members will not interruptions to project work and be productive 100% of the time. Which of the following is the team using?
A. Real time
B. Relative size
C. Ideal size
D. Ideal time
Hint: Which option can be used to estimate the time required to complete a user story when working exclusively on the user story?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer D: Correct. The ideal time is where the assumption is made that the agile project team members will have no interruptions in their work, such as checking email or attending meetings, and will be 100% productive every hour of every day.
Exam Reference: Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn, 2005
15. A product owner and the scrum team members are conducting their first sprint planning meeting. The user stories are read to the team, and the team members have provided estimates to complete these user stories. As the team develops the user stories during the sprint, what should the product owner do?
A. Add more features for the team to develop so they can deliver more value
B. Let the teamwork and answer any questions that might arise during this sprint
C. Shield the team from interruptions and facilitate discussions for the team members
D. Extend the sprint’s length if it appears the team cannot complete the work on time
Hint: Both sides are agreeing and committing to something specific.
Answer and Explanations:
Answer B: Correct. Letting the teamwork and answering any questions that might arise during the sprint reflects the developers and the product owner’s commitment.
Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 41; see alsoAgile Game Development with Scrum, Clinton Keith, 2010
16. An agile team does not think it can meet the release deadline based on their velocity midway through the release’s iterations. What should the team do?
A. Meet with the product owner to discuss a new release date
B. Add more developers to the team
C. Slice user stories so that the team can increase velocity
D. Meet with the product owner to reprioritize the backlog
Hint: Typically, on agile projects, the cost and the schedule are fixed, while the scope is flexible.
Answer and Explanations:
Answer D: Correct. Unless stated differently, the cost and the schedule are fixed on agile projects, while the scope is flexible. Therefore, meeting with the product owner to discuss the scope reduction, or in other words, to reprioritize the backlog, is the best option among the answer choices provided.
Exam Reference: Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals, 2nd Edition, Dan Rawsthorne with Doug Shimp, 2013, Reprioritization of Requirements
17. An agile team is demonstrating a recently developed product. Who determines when a product is complete?
A. The development team
B. The product owner
C. The sponsor
D. The agile coach
Hint: Who is responsible for providing requirements, specifying acceptance criteria, and consequently accepting the product?
Answer and Explanations:
Answer B: Correct. After reviewing the acceptance criteria and verifying the functionality, the product owner accepts the completed increment in the iteration review meeting.
Exam Reference: Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn, 2005, Agile Team Roles – Product Owner
18. An agile team wants to determine the root cause of a recurring issue. Which method would an agile practitioner select to determine the root cause?
A. Five Whys
B. Kano
C. MoSCoW
D. Kanban
Hint: Only one of the available choices is a tool that aims to get to the root cause of a problem. Two choices are prioritization models, and one choice is an agile method.
Correct Answer: A
The ‘Five Whys’ analysis method has its origin with Toyota and works well for agile teams performing a root cause analysis during a retrospective.
Exam Reference: Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. Trott, 2010, Value Stream Mapping – Root Cause Analysis; see also A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 292
19. An agile team lead has many years of experience and is a subject matter expert on the product that the team is building. How can the team lead best engage the team in solving a problem?
A. Steer the team towards what the team lead knows is the best option
B. Consult the team on every decision
C. Encourage the team to experiment with different potential solutions
D. Engage the team in documenting the pros and cons of different solutions
Hint: Which choice best enables the team to solve a problem?
Correct Answer: C
To engage the team in solving problems, the team lead should create an open and safe environment. The team members can experiment with different options without fear being punished for mistakes they may make during this experimentation.
Exam Reference: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, Examination Content Outline, Problem Detection, and Resolution
20. Stakeholders want to understand what progress an agile team has made in their last iteration. What should stakeholders review to determine this information?
A. The team’s velocity chart
B. The results of the spike
C. Product backlog
D. Fishbone slices
Hint: Only one of the choices is related to tracking team performance.
Correct Answer: A
A velocity chart shows the amount of value delivered in each iteration, allowing the stakeholders to understand the team’s progress during the iteration.
Exam Reference:
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Examination Content Outline, 2014, Tracking team performance
Conclusion:
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