PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
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A client has provided their requirements and deadline to the project team. The requirements are confusing, and the team is frustrated.
What should the team's servant leader do?
Following approval of a business case, a company will introduce a new mobile app for customers to place orders. Time to market is a key concern. The product has entered into the 3rd iteration, but the team is concerned because they feel the technical designs do not meet the agreed-on definition of done (DoD). An agile coach has been hired to help validate product delivery against business requirements.
What should the agile coach do?
During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good. What should the agile team lead do?
An executive notices a kanban board in a highly visible location and expresses concerns to the project manager that too many people will see it. What should the project manager do?
Throughout the project, an agile practitioner notices that one team member is becoming an emergent leader. What should an agile practitioner do?
A team is building a product in three-week iterations. During the last retrospective, it was identified that there was a 20 percent increase from previous iterations in the number of reported defects and change requests.
Since this is causing the product's value to decrease, what should the team do?
An agile development team is working on a digital transformation project and is facing challenges in obtaining consistent feedback from stakeholders who are dispersed around the world. The product owner is under pressure as this lack of engagement has led to prolonged decision-making cycles and has adversely affected the outcomes of sprints.
How should the team improve stakeholder engagement to help ensure timely feedback and better decision-making? (Refer to Stakeholder Power/Interest Grid)
An agile practitioner wants to ensure that stakeholders have current information about a project's progress What should the agile practitioner do?
On an agile project, it is important to identify and engage business stakeholders throughout the project and to ensure the team understands the stakeholders' business needs. Which option supports this idea?
A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features.
What should the product owner do?
A food company seeks additional business-to-business (B2B) revenues from some customers by
implementing purchase order (PO) functionality. To achieve this, the agile project team is exploring PO integration options (see item #3 in Exhibit A), as the product increment (PI) planning process is underway.
What should the project team do next?
During sprints, the development team members are frequently invited to various meetings to provide technical opinions, consuming the team's working time and causing compliance issues. Which action should the scrum master take to address this situation?
A large project team is assigned to a complex technical project with many interdependent epics. The team starts to experience problems in the second sprint as the technical leads are independently unable to determine the needed solutions.
What should the project lead do to help the team?
During a Kanban team's daily stand up, an agile coach observes that the team seems disinterested in the work status. While it appears that there are no issues with flow, there is a marked lack of attention to team effort. When the agile coach queries the team for reasons, members explain that work continues to be scheduled with no end in sight.
What should the agile coach do?
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?
Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner do?
An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity. What should the team do?
A project team has a senior subject matter expert (SME) who is comfortable with data integration. The SME is not inclined to perform regression testing because the SME feels that performing regression testing is more of a junior duty.
What should the scrum master do?
During a coaching session, an agile project manager discussed embracing communication to keep all stakeholders aligned. The agile project manager recently had a discussion with their team and decided to display a product roadmap.
What is the agile project manager trying to show?
A project team developer has been involved in a large corporate initiative that has negatively impacted team productivity on another project to which they have been assigned. How should the developer have handled this situation?
An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project What should the practitioner do?
During a recent sprint review meeting with stakeholders, the product owner received detailed feedback indicating the critical changes needed for upgrading the legacy system to better align with the latest technologies and user needs. How should the product owner help ensure the product backlog is effectively managed, while helping the team remain focused? (Refer to the Product Backlog Exhibit)
An agile practitioner notices that team members are disengaged. As a result, the team's velocity has decreased. What should the agile practitioner do to get the team back on track?
An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team. After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?
A product owner needs to elaborate on a product roadmap. How can the product owner collaborate with stakeholders to identify the features that offer maximum value?
A user interface (UI) developer has features for channels ready for review. During the team review, the architect is disappointed that Splunk software has not been implemented for better server and client logs. The architect insists on the implementation of Splunk software, which will impact the release date.
Which one of the following is the ideal option for the team to resolve this conflict?
More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting What should the scrum master do?
During its first sprint, a new scrum team realizes that it has insufficient team members with test automation skills to effectively complete its stories. What should the team do?
How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
The customer asked the IT project manager to change a few specifications for the software being developed, which will affect the project budget. The financial sponsor is having difficulty approving changes to the budget that was already allocated to the project.
What should the project manager do next?
A backlog for a project has been prioritized and a sprint has begun. A security issue has been revealed that needs to be addressed or large security vulnerabilities will be exposed.
How should the project manager proceed?
During an interview for an agile team lead for a global company, a candidate is asked: "How do you ensure your project is aligned with the stakeholders' priorities?"
How should the candidate respond?
Midway through an iteration an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations. As a high-performance team, what should the team do?
A scrum master is observing the daily coordination meeting of an agile development team. The scrum master realizes that one of the developers is confused about a business rule for the solution they are building.
How should the scrum master address this issue?
DRAG DROP
All the developers on a project team are working offshore in a different time zone, resulting in many issues. Match the issues to the agile practitioner's recommendations for resolutions below. (Drag the Problems/Issues on the left to the box in the center, corresponding to the correct Recommendations for Resolution on the right)
An infrastructure team had to revamp so downstream channels could consume data from the data lake, thereby improving operational efficiency for the end customers. Which primary components should the product manager consider while plotting performance and dependencies on the product roadmap?
An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprints
What should the agile coach do in this situation?
What is the first thing an agile development team should do when planning an iteration?
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?
What should a product owner do when a new stakeholder is complaining that they are not receiving the relevant financial data regarding the project.
A member of the development team displays disrespectful behavior and continuously argues with colleagues. This is negatively impacting team morale.
Which action should the scrum master take to resolve this situation?
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO):
Customer: I am requesting a calendar feature for scheduling and reminding of upcoming releases that we can manage. We also need the calendar to indicate quarterly metrics deadlines, code freeze dates for financial close, and things like that.
PO: My understanding is that this is for tracking project deadlines. Would you need to see the project deadlines on your phone calendar?
Customer: Yes. I need to see a single snapshot on my phone. So, is it possible for me to connect my phone to this calendar app?
PO: Let me write up the requirements and get the development team on board with the deadlines. What phone do you own?
Customer: I own an Android phone, but I also need integration with the Apple phones.
Identify three minimum viable product (MVP) items. (Refer to Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO). Choose three.)
A high-profile project team is struggling to meet planned velocity. During a retrospective, the team agreed that their lack of experience in the technology resulted in an excess of rework.
What should be done to resolve this challenge?
Why should an agile coach model agile principles and behaviors, become self-aware, and be present?
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?
An agile team is working well together, but productivity has been flat. What can the project leader do to help them improve performance?
The project lead of a newly created agile project delivery team realizes that there are gaps in the knowledge of some team members. The lack of specific skills will add risk to the project delivery if the project becomes too dependent on specific resources for complete delivery.
What should the project lead do to address the gaps and develop a high-performing team?
While planning, what prioritization factors need to be considered for a minimally marketable feature (MMF)?
While struggling to take ownership of delivery an agile team fails to keep up with its sprint commitments What should the agile coach do?
A customer has given a project team several requests for new features on a product. The customer is upset that the requests have been placed in the backlog and are not currently being worked on by the team.
What should the team do next?
A team worked with a customer to estimate all user stories for the must have features. During release planning sessions, the customer indicated they prefer 3-week iterations that begin on Thursdays and end on Wednesdays. The team spent several days determining which stories should be developed for iteration 0 and understanding the customer’s priorities for the remainingstories. The project sponsor attends the Friday meeting and requests a high-level estimate of when they can invite the chief executive officer (CEO) to a demonstration of the minimum viable product (MVP).
What should the team tell the sponsor at this point in the planning process?
There is a debate within the organization on whether projects need to be agile or waterfall. Some agile terms and principles are understood differently by the key stakeholders and this delays the decision-making process.
How should the scrum master proceed?
A new project is scheduled to begin next month. The project manager has had plenty of time to review and plan all the activities and has adopted the best approach for the project and the organization.
Which action did the project manager most likely take when choosing the approach?
A product owner concludes that the majority of a project's value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog. What should the product owner do next?
After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI What should the team do?
An agile practitioner is working on a project to migrate data from computer systems to another location. To accomplish this task, they need to run four activities sequentially that different teams are performing. The teams are migrating two systems per day, but the agile practitioner thinks that three systems should be done per day.
What can be done to improve process efficiency?
A new software development team has just been formed. 5 sprints have passed and the team is now familiar with their way of working. In the 6th sprint, the scrum master notices the team members arguing about the technical design of an upcoming new feature during a backlogrefinement meeting. After the refinement meeting, the scrum master notices team members talking about the topic informally and taking sides. There is noticeable tension among the team.
How should the scrum master help the team to resolve the issue?
The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six months What should the scrum master do?
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 project is to be started with a team of nine existing and nine new members. The scrum master feels that the team is too large and wants to break it into three teams. The scrum master sets aconstraint that each team have an equal number of existing team members for knowledge sharing and experience.
What should the scrum master do to accomplish this?
Business stakeholders of an agile project frequently skip the review meetings. What should the agile practitioner do?
An agile practitioner is in the process of refining requirements. The requirements keep changing based upon with whom the agile practitioner speaks.
What should the agile practitioner do in this situation?
During a six-week iteration, an issue is identified by a team member. After analysis, the team member determines that it will take at least two weeks to resolve. What should the team member do?
A senior executive contacted an agile lead about starting an agile project to solve a problem for the human resources (HR) department of a company. The project idea is not clear and no backlog has been developed.
How should the agile lead start the project?
An agile team is building a training safety video based on current government regulations. The agile coach knows the regulations are likely to change before the release date.
How should the agile coach address this change?
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?
A Scrum Master would like to provide information to key stakeholders on the daily resource and project activities. Which tool should the Scrum Master use to provide these updates?
During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture How should this technical debt be captured?
An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the Scrum Master do?
A new project starts and team members are pooled together to execute it. The team works together and moves from the forming stage into the storming stage. However, potentially destructive conflicts are now arising.
What should the agile coach do to develop members into a high-performance team?
Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete all committed features.
What should the team do?
One of the main stakeholders of a project is new to Scrum. The stakeholder asks what to expect in the sprint retrospective.
How should the product owner respond?
Senior management is frustrated at the lack of a detailed implementation plan that shows exactly when the project will end and when all requirements will be met. The team has been using a rolling wave planning approach so far on the project.
How should the agile practitioner explain to senior management the benefits of this approach?
An agile team discovers a new risk and identifies that its impact may be severe. What should an agile practitioner recommend?
An agile team often fails to deliver its sprint goal. At a sprint retrospective, the more experienced team members complain that the less experienced team members are working too slowly. This creates tension in the team.
What should the scrum master do to remove this tension?
An agile team is continuously interrupted by stakeholders wanting to ask product backlog questions. Distractions can have a negative impact on value delivery and quality.
Who is responsible for protecting against distractions?
In several recent agile team status meetings, there have been discussions about increases in costly bugs and late product deliveries, resulting in lower quality and higher costs. Team members feel they spend too much time in planning and process meetings, then feel rushed to complete their work.
How should the agile lead implement an effective and efficient solution?
A graphic designer on an agile team does not attend most meetings. When asked the reason for not attending, the designer told the agile practitioner that the scrum master could represent them in meetings if needed. The team is frustrated and does not agree with this approach.
Which conflict resolution method would work best in this scenario?
In a planning meeting, the client does not have a clear understanding of the most beneficial features of a project, because there are too many stakeholders with different requirements. How should the project manager approach this project?
Several team members are new to agile and there is a lot of confusion. It seems everyone is coming in with different experiences and following their own agendas. The scrum master decided to hold a presentation on core agile principles and values.
What should the scrum master emphasize to the team during the presentation?
The productivity of an agile team has fallen significantly in the last sprint. The team members have not mentioned any impediments but seem to be fatigued.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A scrum master is overseeing the launch of a chatbot for the service desk. Complaints come up post-release about edge case responses to queries. After analyzing the issues, the business decision was made to take the chatbot offline, resulting in workflow disruptions and risking the reputation.
How could this situation have been avoided? (Refer to Testing Protocol Table)
A team lead reviews processes and identifies bottlenecks that prevent the teams from quickly delivering minimum viable products (MVPs). Which responsibility falls within the context of servant leadership?
Two team members are working together to deliver an asset management tool. The code delivered by team member A during this sprint is not aligning with the specifications written by team member B. Both team members do not seem to agree on the look and feel of some functionality.
What should the scrum master do in this situation?
A product's scope and acceptance criteria have been defined, and the product is planned for release at the end of the next quarter. What should the project team do next?
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?
Agile team A struggles to deliver committed stories due to technical dependencies with team B. which continuously fails to meet its delivery commitments. What should the agile team lead do?
A product owner feels that the last sprint failed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to their organization's overall project goals. What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?
What should a Scrum Master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks?
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?
Which of the following allows DevOps to enable and sustain a fast workflow from development into operations?
Business partners are attending a daily standup meeting for a project. The business partners are asking questions about the sprint backlog and delivery timing.
How should the project manager explain why this is not the forum to ask these questions?
How should the project manager introduce the team, communicate the importance of the team charter, and help develop a high-performing team?
A project charter has been completed and is ready for approval. The project's goal and approach have been clearly determined and a list of generalized specialists has been set.
How should the project manager introduce the team, communicate the importance of the team charter, and help develop a high-performing team?
An agile team is under pressure to deliver an application. The product owner anticipates many change requests from customers once the product is released.
What should the agile team do?
A product owner obtains customer confirmation on product requirements and provides them to the team. After explaining the user stories, the product owner receives agreement for acceptance from the team. What should the team do next?
A team developing application software is working in pairs. A project manager notices that important information is sometimes not shared among team members, leading to delays in the development process.
What should the project manager do to improve team performance and eliminate any communication impediments?
A For new pairs of developers based on the years of expertise and project management Knowledge
B. Use task boards so the team can keep track of the work done and future implementation planning.
C. Schedule in-person meetings at the end of each iteration, allowing team members to share knowledge and experience.
D. Seek expert judgment and a new collaboration model that will strengthen team cohesiveness.
A project team is working with an enterprise agile center of excellence (CoE) to transition to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Many of the team members are not familiar with the new methodology and are worried that it will lead to more work and scrutiny.
What should the agile team lead do to help ensure a smooth transition?
A large, corporate organization is forced to hire new team members in a geographically remote location from the current team. The manager of the department is concerned about the team not being colocated.
What behavior would indicate the team is not working well together?
HOTSPOT
Organizations that implement agile project management focus on upgrading existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings, or quality enhancements for existing customers (i.e., operational agility). Organizations need to realize that the major financial gains from agile project management will result from the practice of what? (Select answer from dropdown)
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?
An agile team is in their 2nd iteration planning session. During the session, they are debating on whether regression and integration testing should be part of every iteration or part of the hardening iteration.
What should the agile lead recommend?
During a retrospective, the team agrees that they have limited competence in using a newly introduced tool. What should the team do?
During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initiative, review the iteration charts to discuss changes to the iteration's functional goal.
What practice is the agile facilitator implementing?
A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several iterations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these requirements was not communicated.
What should the Scrum Master do?
An agile project manager is leading an international project involving a global team consisting of members from very different cultures, countries, and time zones. The agile project manager is aware that similar projects with distributed teams have led to serious conflicts.
What should the agile project manager do to promote trust and collaboration?
A Talk with the human resources (HR) department to select team members with similar backgrounds to eliminate conflict
B. Collocate for team building to promote collaboration to build trust and improve communication.
C. Promote a project charter with the project vision and purpose to help align the team.
D Promote a team charter with a set of norms rules and agreements to facilitate the work
An agile project team has team members with varying technical skills. Due to recent events that adversely impacted customer satisfaction, management mandated that Kaizen should be given more focus to ensure the quality in product delivery.
Kaizen is a prime concept of which agile practices?
During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed What was the determining factor?
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?
The team is considering committing to 44 story points for the upcoming sprint. Based on the
velocity chart, what advice should the scrum master offer the team?
A project manager is managing a large complex project with cross-functional teams using an adaptive approach. Frequent communication among the team leads of these cross-functional teams is crucial for the project to stay on track and deliver value according to the project plan.
Which agile communication practice should the project manager implement to ensure the cross-functional teams interact frequently?
Following an upgrade, a software support team is overwhelmed by the number of tickets being submitted by end users. The team's manager is pushing the team to "work smart" by focusing on activities that deliver the most value in the least amount of time.
What should the team do?
During refinement, the team tester has a question about part of the acceptance criteria for a given user story. Who should clarify the acceptance criteria?
During the fourth sprint retrospective for an IT project, the team members develop a series of actions to improve problem solving in the next sprint. However, many team members are concerned that these actions will not be implemented, since there was no follow-up from the last retrospective meeting.
What should the scrum master do to improve team commitment to the recommendations from the retrospective meeting?
The initial roadmap and release dates for an agile project were set based on data from similar projects and some expert opinions. Halfway through the project, however, the team’s estimates are different. Based on the team’s velocity, two more iterations were necessary to accomplish the initial scope.
How should the agile lead explain the difference to the project sponsor?
A product owner wants to create a release plan given the team is working in a chaotic environment. They want to set expectations about what is likely to be developed and in what timeframe for some of the stakeholders.
What should the product owner include in the release plan to achieve this?
A team member starts discussing a project roadblock during a daily coordination meeting. The team discusses details of the impediment, which takes up most of the meeting time.
What should the agile facilitator do?
A development team and product owner disagree on a user story in the product backlog What should the agile practitioner do?
An event management team is following an agile approach to prepare for an upcoming conference. The regional sales manager, from where the conference is to be held, contacts the team with a number of questions about the company's booth.
What should the team do?
A project team held a working session with a finance team to understand the procurement process. After the meeting, while the agile lead was facilitating the value stream mapping exercise, one of the team members asked: "When calculating the cycle time, which factors should be considered?"
How should the agile lead respond?
At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What should the project team have done prior to product release?
While attending a conference, an agile practitioner learns of a new user interface (Ul) framework that could benefit the team. What should the agile practitioner do next?
A product owner with experience in a predictive approach wants the team to develop very detailed schedules and cost estimates for the next 10 sprints. What should the Scrum Master do?
An agile team provides feedback that user stories include insufficient details to understand the requirements. What should the agile practitioner do?
A project team's manager is responsible for delivering a specific initiative for the organization. They are preparing for a monthly meeting where the manager will present on the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the current initiative status (see Exhibit A).
At the end of which sprint will the minimum viable product (MVP) be completed?
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?
During an agile team retrospective, some junior team members discussed an approach that could improve the overall team performance. How should the agile practitioner handle the recommendation?
A product owner new to the role is very enthusiastic about an agile project with an energetic team What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?
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)
An agile lead is working on a project to build a new product that will bring substantial business value to a company. Company executives want to present the first release at an important industry fair the following month. The agile lead started the project the previous month, and the team planned the release to take 8 iterations. For the past 4 iterations, work has been performed as planned and on time. In the current iteration, however, one team member will be out for the remainder of the project. Without this team member, velocity would drop 30%.
What should the agile lead do to ensure the release will be on time for the fair?
Project stakeholders are finding it difficult to know the real-time status of who has been assigned to various stories and the status of each work item. Which of the following should the agile project manager do?
The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product. How can the team members support this?
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?
During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories What should the scrum master do?
The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope Unless this change is accepted, there is no value to the customers during this iteration.
What must the agile practitioner do?
An employee just received an Agile certification and has been promoted to team leader. They are working on a project that is experiencing issues with late deliverables. After monitoring project progress, they notice that one impediment is continuously repeated at start of each phase, affecting team's productivity.
How should the team leader exhibit servant leadership?
During an iteration, an urgent customer request for support reaches the team. If they work on it, the team's commitments in this iteration are at risk.
What should the team do next?
TESTED 01 Nov 2025
