PMI-ACP Exam Questions

During a mature agile team's planning meeting, a team member proposes a new framework that would considerably reduce implementation time. However, the team lacks the confidence to...

An agile practitioner wants to ensure that stakeholders have current information about a project's progress. What should the agile practitioner do?

A product owner, new to the role, is very enthusiastic about an agile project with an energetic team. What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?

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...

Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, is estimated at 8 points. After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took...

During a current sprint, a team member asks permission from the scrum master to investigate an alternative design approach. What should the scrum master do?

An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team. How should the team's coach react?

A customer and a product delivery team meet to discuss a product's attributes, goals, expectations, hypothesis, and high-level needs. What is a benefit of this meeting?

While reviewing the sprint burn down during a stand up, the scrum team identifies that they have fallen behind. Upon further discussion, they discover that some quality assurance (...

The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics. What could help eliminate misunderstandings?

During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This ca...

A project is starting and the type of work is complex and suitable for agile. In assessing the team members, it appears that co-location would be a challenge. What should the agile...

During a retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives. All will have a positive impact and improve team performance. What should the agile coach do next?

The team is refining user stories during the backlog grooming session and confused on the acceptance criteria and level of details. What should the agile practitioner do?

How should an agile project leader interact with the product owner?

A company is moving into a new space and is determining the best configuration for offices. The management team is also considering moving to an agile process. What advice should a...

During planning sessions, an agile practitioner notices that some team members do not share common ideas. What should the agile practitioner do?

A product owner concludes that the majority of a project's value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog. What should the product owner do nex...

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

debt. What should the team do?

How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?

A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several iterations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these require...

Team A is working on the second sprint of a product release. Team B, which is an interdependent team located on the same floor, requires extensive and frequent information to compl...

What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?

A new product owner needs to manage the backlog of a high-visibility, fast-moving project that is consuming a considerable amount of time. What should the product owner do?

Based on the backlog metrics in the chart, what can explain the jump in points at the end of iteration 4?

An agile team is preparing a release plan for a project. What information will the team need to complete this plan?

When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?

During a review session, an agile team presented done requirements to a group of stakeholders. Stakeholder feedback indicated that the done requirements failed to meet the most pre...

Toward the end of a project, the product owner discovers that the project has a high probability of failure due to a critical feature not functioning as expected. What should the p...

A company is considering developing a new, complex application that will require a large initial investment. However, if successful, the profit potential is high. When preparing an...

Midway through a sprint, a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement that may change the initial scope. What should the team do?

How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?

Midway through a project, the product owner learns from the sponsor that a major component, which is already 20 percent complete, is unimportant to users. The component was part of...

A development team and product owner disagree on a user story in the product backlog. What should the agile practitioner do?

What should a Scrum Master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks?

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...

A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its...

During sprint planning, team members have differing opinions on a feature that delivers business value but fails to provide a long-term solution for the customer. How should the te...

During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories. What should the scrum master do?

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, de...

As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?

A team is creating a highly marketed, time-sensitive product. The agile coach is concerned that anything other than exceptional quality will result in bad publicity for the company...

An agile team has only one database administrator with the necessary knowledge of database- related tasks. The project manager identifies the risk that if this person leaves, team...

During a backlog refinement meeting, a senior team member raises a concern about an epic sizing that requires the use of a new interface for a vendor product. The product owner ack...

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...

An executive requests information regarding a sprint status. What action should the product owner take?

An agile team has been given a complex project with a basic set of requirements which need further elaboration and review. How should the team iteratively build out the backlog of...

A new CIO advocates an agile framework for new IT projects, but the team has reservations. How should the CIO ensure that the team will be aligned with this?

An agile team identifies that their velocity is lower than predicted, and that their previous forecasts in the product roadmap are wrong. The team is worried that they will be unab...