PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is the best description of the relationship between Scrum and extremeProgramming(XP)?

A. XP is a component of Scrum.

B. The principles of each are often complementary.

C. Scrum is a component of XP.

D. The principles of each are often contradictory.

What is used to provide a simple medium for gathering basic information about stories, recording high-level requirements, developing work estimates, and defining acceptance tests?

A. Story card

B. Burndown chart

C. Retrospective

D. Storyboard

Which of these statements is NOT correct about Ideal time and Calendar time?

A. Ideal time is the time that is actually required to complete the work

B. Both of them convey the same meaning

C. Calendar time is the amount of time that passes on clock (calendar days)

D. Normally calendar days are not equal to ideal days

Which of the following is an Agile practice promoted by XP that is often used on conjunction with other Agile methods?

A. Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)

B. Feature Driven Development (FDD)

C. Adaptive Software Development (ASD)

D. Test Driven Development (TDD)

The best description of a Sprint backlog is:

A. Daily progress for a Sprint over the Sprint's length

B. A prioritized list of tasks to be completed during the project

C. A prioritized list of requirements to be completed during the Sprint

D. A prioritized list of requirements to be completed for a release

Traditional project management uses requirement decomposition. This can be comparable to____________ of Agile User Stories.

A. Sashimi

B. Definition of done

C. Disaggregation

D. De-separation

A servant leadership role includes:

A. Shielding team members from interruptions

B. Making commitments to stakeholders

C. Determining which features to include in an iteration

D. Assigning tasks to save time

A new Sprint starts immediately following the previous Sprint.

A. True

B. False

No one, not even the Scrum Master, tells the development team how to build the product.

A. True

B. False

Which of the following is NOT part of the Scrum Framework?

A. Roles

B. Events

C. Characteristics

D. Artifacts

During a retrospective, a team member claims that a specific set of documentation that is continuously updated during iterations is not being used by any stakeholder. What should the team do?

A. Continue updating the documentation but initiate an analysis to identify its value and act on the findings.

B. Stop updating the documentation since no one is using it.

C. Continue updating the documentation since it is clearly required by the process.

D. Stop updating the documentation and initiate an analysis to identify its value and act on the findings.

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 story points for scope and 20 story points for velocity per sprint. Both teams have same number of team members and have an assumed sprint duration of 2 weeks.

What can an agile practitioner conclude about team A and team B's estimates?

A. Team B has underestimated scope compared to team A.

B. Team A is more confident in delivering velocity than team B.

C. Both teams need to indicate their proposed technology before the estimates can be analyzed.

D. Both teams have estimated the project to be of same size.

An agile team is working well together, but productivity has been flat.

What can the project leader do to help them improve performance?

A. Review the burndown chart to identify ways to increase efficiency.

B. Chair a weekly team retrospective focusing on identifying areas for continuous improvement.

C. Ask a senior manager to initiate a root-cause analysis.

D. Identify team key performance indicators (KPIs) and create positive incentives when targets are achieved.

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

On a complex project with a large degree of uncertainty, the team's velocity is declining. Upon testing, it is discovered that many of the work items reported as complete are not meeting the stakeholders requirements.

Which of the following could help resolve the incomplete work?

A. Conduct a spike so that the team can focus on defect repair without the distraction of new work items.

B. Create a burndown chart to ensure the team understands the variance between the current and target velocity.

C. Work with the product owner to reduce the complexity of the work so that the team can improve quality.

D. Work with the team to ensure that acceptance criteria is being properly defined and understood.