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Free PMI PMI-ACP Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 2

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:
A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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:
A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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:
A.

Planning

B.

Daily scrum

C.

Sprint demo

D.

Retrospective

Questions 19

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

Options:
A.

Competitors joined forces with the team

B.

The customer changed requirements

C.

Project team members obtained additional certifications

D.

Technology which did not interfere with the final product

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?

Options:
A.

Risk management

B.

Variance and trend

C.

Kano model

D.

Fishbone diagram

Questions 21

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:
A.

Provide both project teams with the highest priority needs

B.

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

C.

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

D.

Provide both teams with each project's documentation

Questions 22

Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:
A.

Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date

B.

Announce that the team has exceeded the predicted velocity and that the end date will be earlier than planned

C.

Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then replan subsequent iterations

D.

Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision

Questions 23

The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status and a demo of all the stories to the business. What should the product owner have done differently?

Options:
A.

Demonstrated only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback

B.

Presented the budget situation and review the cost variance

C.

Reviewed the test results to gam confidence from the stakeholders

D.

Presented a demo of all the stones including the work in progress stories

Questions 24

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

Options:
A.

Transfer the senior member to another team that will more fully utilize their skill set.

B.

Conduct a performance evaluation to determine whether or not this member is a team player.

C.

Encourage the project team to involve the senior member in more project activities.

D.

Ask the functional manager to determine the best course of action.

Questions 25

What estimation technique is an agile team using when collectively estimating the relative size of its stories using story points?

Options:
A.

Parametric

B.

One-to-one comparison

C.

Affinity

D.

Planning poker

Questions 26

A company has decided to combine two similar products consisting of multiple teams into one product. Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at re-organizing it's teams.

What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?

Options:
A.

All the teams from both products should be simultaneously called together and allowed to completely self-manage

B.

Teams that worked on similar components in the separate products should be combined to minimize disruption and

capitalize on synergies

C.

After grouping individuals by role multi-discipline teams should be created that are comprised of one member from each

role

D.

Features should be prioritized and then teams should be organized around those priorities

Questions 27

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 velocity. How should the project team address this issue?

Options:
A.

Suggest pair programming during the retrospective.

B.

Ask the product owner to re-prioritize the user stories at the next retrospective.

C.

Re-estimate the story points with team members at the next iteration planning meeting.

D.

Assign less complex user stories to the inexperienced software engineer at the next iteration planning meeting.

Questions 28

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 lead the team to miss stories for non-generic users.

What agile tools can help the team address these issues?

Options:
A.

Information radiators and wireframes

B.

Information radiators and story maps

C.

Process flows and personas

D.

Personas and extreme characters

Questions 29

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?

Options:
A.

Ask the tester and developer to discuss it after the meeting, since it is not a part of the daily stand up.

B.

Encourage the discussion to resolve impediments.

C.

After the meeting, escalate this issue to the tester's supervisor to ensure that this does not reoccur.

D.

Ask more questions about the testing techniques to obtain clarification on team efforts for quality improvements.

Questions 30

A team is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach Historically, the team has delivered work products that did not meet customer expectations.

What agile practice can help the team to alleviate this?

Options:
A.

Test-driven development (TDD)

B.

Clear definition of done and regular demos

C.

Collaborative team planning games

D.

Consistent team velocity