PMI-ACP Exam Questions

A new team member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan. What should be the proper response?

automation skills to effectively complete its stories. What should the team do?

A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful. The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than...

A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint. What should the scrum master do?

During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture. How should this technical debt be captured?

An agile project leader notices that the team's velocity has decreased. In examining data provided by team members, the project leader discovers that one team member has been slow...

An agile project manager notices that the product owner manages team members' day-to-day tasks in a way that distracts them from their core responsibilities. In addition, the team...

During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed. What was the determining factor?

A team member on a new scrum project previously provided support to another application. Due to issues with that application, the team member's former supervisor continues assignin...

An experienced product owner presents the epics and corresponding stories during a release planning session with the established team. The executive sponsor asks the team when the...

During a retrospective, the agile practitioner discovers that a team member's process improvement idea has worsened the outcome. What should the agile practitioner do?

Why should a project team reduce the work in progress?

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 t...

A team is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach. Historically, the team has delivered work products that did not meet customer expectations. What agile prac...

During an iteration review, the agile team asserts that a product is complete because development and review were finished. The product owner disagrees, since the product has not b...

An agile project manager is planning the initial scope, schedule, and cost range estimates on a new project. The team will be using Kanban to control work. What metrics should the...

Due to its complexity, a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story. What advice should the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?

Based on the burndown chart, what is the iteration's status?

What role should a servant leader perform to reduce team distractions and improve progress toward project goals?

A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features. What should the prod...

A team identifies the number of threats and lists them in the order in which they were identified. After analyzing a cause-and-effect diagram, the ownership of the threats and thei...

A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint b...

Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release. What should the team do?

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?

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 legal department representative contacts the scrum master because, while the project's budget has been maintained, it has exceeded its original contracted time and scope. What sh...

An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project. What should the practitioner do?

A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, a...

A project team meets to estimate user stories for a sprint. While an important non-functional requirement must be delivered in the sprint, the estimate exceeds sprint capacity. Wha...

The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this. What sh...

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...

During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and st...

A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules. How should the team lead address this?

A client states that a product is not being built as requested. How should the agile team address this?

An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay, and is planning to start the...

A technical problem arises that will likely impact the stories planned for delivery in the current sprint. What should the scrum master do?

During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds. The non-functional requirements state that it should respond in le...

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 approa...

A company has decided to combine two similar products consisting of multiple teams into one product. Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at re-organizing its...

During planning for the next iteration, an agile team identifies most of the story points that are expected to be delivered. How should an agile practitioner work with the team to...

When introducing agile processes to a company, a quality assurance (QA) manager resists and believes that the switch to agile will remove quality controls and documents. How should...

An organization highly values security. However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features. What should the team member d...

A mature agile team welcomes a new member. Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate. What should the agile project leader do?

Midway through an iteration, an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations. As a high-performance team, what should the team do?

Senior management is frustrated at the lack of a detailed implementation plan that shows exactly when the project will end and when all requirements will be met. The team has been...

More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting. What should the scrum master do?

The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six months. What should the scrum master do?

What can an agile team use to prioritize stories?

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?

The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope. Unless this change is accepted, there is no val...