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

Questions 31

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?

Options:

Team B has underestimated scope compared to team A.

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

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

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

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Questions 32

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?

Options:

Commend the team on trying the idea, then encourage discussion regarding alternatives.

Ask a manager to direct the team on fixing the process

Encourage the team to continue executing the idea to see if it improves

Privately speak with the team member to convey that their idea worsened the outcome

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Questions 33

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 by the inability of the product owner to communicate clearly.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

Inform the product owner's manager so that corrective action may be taken.

Communicate this to the product owner, and offer to help facilitate discussions with the team.

Encourage a team member to raise this during the retrospective to ensure that the product owner is aware.

Escalate this issue to the sponsor so that corrective action may be taken.

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Questions 34

Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled.

What should the team have done to avoid this?

Options:

Escalated the issue to management

Ensured the early engagement of key stakeholders

Provided feedback to the architecture team to change the enterprise architecture standards

Raised an exception for non-adherence to the enterprise architecture standards for this product

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Questions 35

The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product. How can the team members support this?

Options:

Add new security features to the backlog and prioritize.

Execute a spike to research security features for the project.

Ask questions to determine where and how the product owner wants to use the product.

Ask questions to determine if the product owner can define the desired level of security.

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Questions 36

A seven-member agile team's composition vanes considerably in age. gender culture, personality type, and professional background When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?

Options:

Networking

Social awareness

Communication

Leadership

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Questions 37

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, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.

What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

Send the member to training?

Ask the outside specialists if database administration is required from the team

Send one member to training only after asking the team if there is an issue with the current work flow

Wait until all members of the team can attend training

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Questions 38

PMI-ACP Question 38

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

Options:

It trended ahead of schedule and completed everything on time

It took more time than expected and had to be lengthened.

It trended behind schedule and did not complete everything on time

It took less time than expected and had to be shortened.

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Questions 39

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 to enter story statuses

What can happen as a result?

Options:

The team will be unable to understand the iteration's status

The team will be unable to judge the project design's validity

The team cannot give accurate updates to management

Team collaboration cannot be measured effectively

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Questions 40

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 the agile practitioner do?