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Free PMI PMI-ACP Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 7

Questions 91

A company is planning to launch a new service to improve the customer checkout experience. What should the project manager do to meet the objective of reducing time to market to gain a competitive advantage in the industry?

Options:
A.

Engage the project stakeholders to assess the best practices to apply and plan the deliverables before implementation.

B.

Recommend an agile delivery approach and provide information to the stakeholders on agile values and principles.

C.

Educate the team about scrum and ensure that all members are aligned to the roles required.

D.

Consult executive leadership for the most appropriate method for delivery using existing organizational practices.

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Questions 92

What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?

Options:
A.

Invite the team to iteration review meetings

B.

Obtain agreement from the product owner on business requirements

C.

Request that regular reports are sent to stakeholders.

D.

Confirm managers and stakeholders are invited to product review meetings

Questions 93

An agile team is having a meeting with a customer to formulate the product requirements for the next iteration. The outcome of the meeting is a set of clear and detailed requirements.

What should the team do next?

Options:
A.

Run automated tests on the legacy functionality.

B.

Ask the customer to write tests that will be used to know when a story has been correctly developed.

C.

Start coding on the selected user stories to meet the requirements.

D.

Write tests that will be used to know when a story has been correctly developed.

Questions 94

During backlog refinement, the team uses an online planning poker tool for estimation. The junior developers change their number of story points after they see the estimations provided by the developers. The junior developers state that the reason for this is that they do not have enough experience and do not want to be blamed for sizing it wrong.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:
A.

Ask the developers to keep their estimation so that the team is transparent with their level of understanding of work.

B.

Agree with the team to keep their estimation as the final number of story points will be the average of all team members.

C.

Propose to consider the estimations of only senior developers and have the junior developers learn from them.

D.

Encourage the team to keep their estimation as this will help surface different constraints and assumptions that others might have missed.

Questions 95

A software project is being implemented by a small, colocated team. What should the project manager do to keep the team focused and engaged with the high level of requirements?

Options:
A.

Arrange afternoon touchpoints where the team can discuss what they have done during the day

B.

Request that the project sponsor is present during daily standugs to increase commitment from the team.

C.

Send out daily activity tasks to each member of the team, mitigating the risk of tasks being forgotten.

D.

Make use of a kanban board so that the team will have a clear view of the work in progress (WIP) for the release.

Questions 96

PMI-ACP Question 96

An e-commerce company acquired a tool to customize subject line generation for marketing campaigns. In sprint planning, the team discussed integrating this tool with the customer relationship management system.

Which mitigation strategy is most appropriate to ensure the final product meets the business objectives? (Refer to the Risk Register Exhibit)

Options:
A.

Conduct thorough requirements analysis and validation.

B.

Allocate experienced developers and perform code reviews.

C.

Plan for sufficient support resources post-deployment.

D.

Develop comprehensive testing involving the quality assurance team.

Questions 97

During initial planning, a project team investigates several approaches to building new application software, emphasizing the most valuable deliverables. The team needs to convince stakeholders and win their approval.

How can the project team achieve this?

Options:
A.

Use a successful platform on which several object-oriented products have been developed in the past.

B.

Create a quick mock-up of the product to serve as a visual tool and adjust it until consensus is reached.

C.

Include brief exploratory iterations, proof-of-concept (POC). to reduce project risk at the beginning of every project cycle.

D.

Deliver an iteration planning diagram, allowing a 2-week refactoring period at the end of the project.

Questions 98

The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog. What should the Scrum Master do next?

Options:
A.

Ask the project manager to work with the product owner to help generate clearer stories in the future.

B.

Develop guidelines to prevent future occurrences.

C.

During the retrospective, discuss the issue and create an action plan to avoid it in the future.

D.

Allow the team to devise a corrective action without external intervention.

Questions 99

An agile coach is working with a team that serves clients making product requests by phone. During a daily commitment and replanning meeting, a team member states that they were unable to resolve a client request because they lacked sufficient product knowledge.

What should the agile coach do?

Options:
A.

Facilitate a team discussion to identify knowledge gaps and determine the best way to address them.

B.

Ask the line manager to assign the team member with the required technical knowledge.

C.

Meet with the team member's line manager to discuss their development plan.

D.

Provide the team member with training in any lacking areas.

Questions 100

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

Options:
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.

Questions 101

An agile team discovers a new risk and identifies that its impact may be severe. What should an agile practitioner recommend?

Options:
A.

Add a goal to the current iteration to fully mitigate or control the risk.

B.

Balance risk reduction and value adding activities in the next iteration.

C.

Continue with the current plan to maintain team velocity.

D.

Update the risk register and seek direction from a risk specialist.

Questions 102

A Scrum team has worked hard to reach their sprint goal, but impediments have prevented them from succeeding. The team needed help from a specialist on another team, but the specialist was on a 2-week vacation.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:
A.

At the sprint retrospective, the scrum master and development team should discuss why the team did not know the specialist was unavailable during the sprint. The scrum master should then set clear rules so situations like these can be avoided in the future.

B.

It can be very distressing for a Scrum team not to reach its sprint goals. The scrum master should hold an evaluation meeting to discuss who in the team was responsible for discovering the specialist was not available, then make an improvement task for the next sprint.

C.

The scrum master, as a servant leader, should always try to remain positive about the team's work. Even when team members’ make mistakes, there should be trust that everyone is doing their best. Engaged team members work more efficiently, and a sustainable pace is important for project success.

D.

At the sprint retrospective, the Scrum team should reflect on how the past sprint has worked out. The scrum master should facilitate an open discussion to discover the root causes for the missed sprint goals and find a way to avoid similar situations in future sprints.

Questions 103

Roadmaps are defined as covering a rolling 12 months. When creating a product roadmap in an agile environment, what factor should the agile lead take into consideration?

Options:
A.

Just-in-time (JIT) refinement

B.

Stories to be released in each sprint

C.

Infrastructure updates

D.

Funding decisions

Questions 104

An agile lead is experienced with predictive and agile approaches. The agile lead was recently invited by human resources (HR) to be part of a learning team. During roundtable discussions with the project management team, the agile lead states: "I foster a safe environment for disagreement so my team feels empowered to move forward without obstacles."

What is the agile lead attempting to highlight?

Options:
A.

Ownership, because team members will be in charge of whatever happens during the project life cycle.

B.

Conflict is not productive and team members should resolve issues by themselves.

C.

Better decision-making, because the team is encouraged to join in constructive conflict.

D.

Leaders should incentivize conflict because it is inevitable in the workplace.

Questions 105

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 andcapitalize on synergies

C.

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

D.

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