PMI-ACP Exam Questions

During a six-week iteration, an issue is identified by a team member. After analysis, the team member determines that it will take at least two weeks to resolve. What should the te...

A product owner with experience in a predictive approach wants the team to develop very detailed schedules and cost estimates for the next 10 sprints. What should the Scrum Master...

While attending a conference, an agile practitioner learns of a new user interface (UI) framework that could benefit the team. What should the agile practitioner do next?

An agile team is working on the first sprint, and have already planned the second and third sprints. However, market conditions now require a change to the features. What should th...

An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team. After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?

Business stakeholders of an agile project frequently skip the review meetings. What should the agile practitioner do?

A senior team member feels underutilized. What should the agile practitioner do?

An agile team provides feedback that user stories include insufficient details to understand the requirements. What should the agile practitioner do?

Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner do?

During a daily stand up, the tester engages the developer in a discussion about what will be tested during unit testing versus regression testing. What should the scrum master do?

A scrum team has conducted regular retrospectives to discuss immediate concerns and the implementation of improvement actions. Despite this, after a few iterations, the same concer...

A team is delivering work as per the sprint plan, and team velocity is stabilized. However, at the end of the release, the customer is dissatisfied with project quality. What shoul...

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?

During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initi...

How can a scrum team obtain more feedback from a minimally responsive outside stakeholder?

A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team do?

A development team, new to scrum, questions the need to collect metrics on team performance. While team members understand velocity and burn down, they feel that once velocity beco...

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?

During an iteration planning meeting, the team suggests changes to add product value that will require extra work and impact the schedule. What should the agile project leader do?

An agile team is working well together, but productivity has been flat. What can the project leader do to help them improve performance?

An event management team is following an agile approach to prepare for an upcoming conference. The regional sales manager, from where the conference is to be held, contacts the tea...

During a project's last few sprints, an agile practitioner notices an increase in defects. A root- cause analysis indicates that a poor understanding of the requirements was caused...

During an iteration, an agile team discovers infrastructure requirements that were not initially considered. What should the team do to effectively manage this?

What should the agile practitioner know about tracking velocity?

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

Following an upgrade, a software support team is overwhelmed by the number of tickets being submitted by end users. The team's manager is pushing the team to "work smart" by focusi...

Why should an agile coach model agile principles and behaviors, become self-aware, and be present?

What should a team consider when calculating the effort needed to complete a product backlog?

At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What...

The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and...

A new project starts and team members are pooled together to execute it. The team works together and moves from the forming stage into the storming stage. However, potentially dest...

An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity. What should the team do?

Two teams have received project requirements and completed estimates. Team A estimates 420 story points for scope and 30 story points for velocity per sprint. Team B estimates 280...

What is the first thing an agile development team should do when planning an iteration?

The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning to gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint. What should the agile project manager do?

Unable to meet a sprint's committed velocity, an agile team approaches the agile coach to define the next sprint's velocity. What should the agile coach advise?

Throughout the project, an agile practitioner notices that one team member is becoming an emergent leader. What should an agile practitioner do?

A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only from a generic user's perspective. This may...

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

A team working with a new technology faces a significant amount of uncertainty about its ability to deliver stories due to technical issues. What should the team do?

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...

During the implementation of a story, a scrum team notifies the scrum master of a technical challenge that is causing a delay. What should the scrum master advise the team to do?

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 visi...

Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete...

A product owner obtains customer confirmation on product requirements and provides them to the team. After explaining the user stories, the product owner receives agreement for acc...

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. T...

An agile team and a traditional development team are working together on a project. Each team exceeds expectations regarding deliverables; however, issues arise when the deliverabl...

An agile team delivered a feature in the last iteration. The product owner, who missed the planning and review meetings, was dissatisfied with the feature. The team conducted a ret...

An agile team lead is assigned to a project that must ensure data security. What should the team lead do to guarantee that security, as a non-functional requirement, is managed thr...

An agile team has been in place for five years and the customer is satisfied with the team's performance and deliverables. Now that the product is built and delivered, the customer...