Master the PMI PMI-ACP Exam: Essential Study Tips and Strategies

Questions 11

A newly formed scrum team wants to foster an environment of transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future Over time what will be the result of this approach?

Options:

Kaizen

Specific measurable, assignable, realistic and time-based (SMART) goals

Key performance indicators (KPIs)

Muda

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Questions 12

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

Options:

Assign the tasks to one team member.

Separate the stories into tasks.

Estimate the stories' tasks.

Help establish the next sprint's goal.

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Questions 13

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. What should the agile coach ensure that developers do?

Options:

Establish pair programming partners, and regularly perform peer reviews.

Perform demos at the end of each iteration.

Send coding to the quality assurance (QA) team upon completion.

Demonstrate each feature to the client as soon as coding is complete.

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Questions 14

A product owner for two highly visible projects spends a great deal of time meeting with and reporting to senior stakeholders. The product owner is overwhelmed because both project teams request clarification on the requirements and the overall priorities.

What should the agile project manager do?

Options:

Provide both project teams with the highest priority needs.

Request the project teams' questions in writing prior to the next meeting.

Facilitate a meeting with each team and the product owner to find a solution.

Provide both teams with each project's documentation.

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Questions 15

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?

Options:

Bring up the new member's impediments at the next meeting to demonstrate team support of input

Assure the new member that inputs on impediments are valued and demonstrate this at the next meeting

Have a senior lead work with the new member to avoid a negative impact on team productivity

Privately work with the new member to address any impediments

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Questions 16

A company president is concerned about the impact of a natural disaster on the company. How should management identify areas to apply its resources and mitigate potential impacts?

Options:

Establish and keep an active risk register that includes mitigation strategies and a cost-benefit analysis.

Establish and keep an active risk register based on qualitative risk analysis and expected losses.

Have each development team post the highest risk development items on the information radiator.

Avoid risk by splitting development teams into two locations to ensure knowledge continuity.

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Questions 17

A project's first iteration contains item A and its second iteration contains item B The first iteration is behind schedule, which will impact the second iteration. Since items A and B are similar, a team member suggests beginning the design of item B.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

Defer starting the design of item B until the second iteration is being planned

Proceed with the design of item B; since it will hasten the second iteration

Escalate the issue to the customer, and obtain their approval before starting the design of item B

Log the issue in the risk register, and request change control board (CCB) approval

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Questions 18

A scrum master is part of a project team using technologies overseen by the IT department. The IT director oversees several company initiatives and is unfamiliar with the details of each one. As an active project stakeholder, to which meeting should the IT director be invited?

Options:

Planning

Daily scrum

Sprint demo

Retrospective

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Questions 19

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

Options:

Competitors joined forces with the team

The customer changed requirements

Project team members obtained additional certifications

Technology which did not interfere with the final product

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Questions 20

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 ability to compete in the marketplace

What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?