PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
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A project team has been working on a new application. The application is technically challenging, because the team is using new technology unknown to the development team and business requirements are unclear. The product owner has been working closely with the stakeholders to ensure alignment with requirements and other issues. The agile lead is working with the team and product owner on the product backlog.
What is the role of the team?
A project team is currently working on sprint seven of a release that is estimated to require twelve sprints to complete. The team has reviewed the stories for this sprint and discovered that it will require rework from previous sprints.
What should the Scrum Master do?
Why should an agile coach model agile principles and behaviors, become self-aware, and be present?
A key resource is switching between projects to obtain more visibility and acclaim. However, project work has grown and become a burden.
What should the agile project leader do?
A product owner has various items in a product backlog and does not know how to prioritize them. How should the agile practitioner coach the product owner?
All blockers are caused by some Impediments, but not all impediments are blockers. Which two scenarios should be considered blockers? (Choose two.)
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)
During the retrospective meeting, it is revealed that an external dependency is causing a reoccurring impact. The impact is that an external team is not providing a fix or a stable testing environment. The scrum master has been unable to resolve this after escalating the situation to upper management several times.
What should the scrum master do now?
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?
The agile lead is told by executive leadership that the team needs to work faster because the release date has been moved up three months. The agile lead communicates the updated timeline to the team. One of the junior team members objects and feels the timeline is unrealistic.
What should the junior team member do?
In a project to develop a supply-and-demand scenario planning tool, the team aims to streamline development and rapidly deliver features. Which approach best supports quick feature delivery while maintaining quality? (Refer to An Excerpt from the Quality Management Plan)
The project lead of an international team noticed that some members were hesitant to express their opinions and thoughts during the meetings. What should the project lead do to encourage the team to express themselves?
The project lead of an international team noticed that some members were hesitant to express their opinions and thoughts during the meetings. What should the project lead do to encourage the team to express themselves?
An agile team is working on refining project requirements. Due to new dependencies uncovered in every working session, the team is unable to complete the detailed solution requirements. Instead of trying to complete requirements, what should the team do to work collaboratively to identify and prioritize the most important requirements and adapt to changes as needed?
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.)
Due to its complexity, a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story.
What advice should the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?
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?
Which of the following allows DevOps to enable and sustain a fast workflow from development into operations?
When introducing agile processes to a company, a quality assurance (QA) manager resists and believes that the switch to agile will remove quality controls and documents.
How should the agile practitioner address this concern?
The agile coach of a development team uses a servant leadership approach. The team is starting the third iteration of an upgrade to a software product, and work is going slower than initially planned.
What should the coach do to help the team?
A development team is working on the implementation of a human resources (HR) solution. The team has decided to work together with different business units to deliver value early and often.
Which agile values are being practiced in this scenario?
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?
Over the last two sprints, a number of potential problems have threatened the team's ability to hit the targeted release date.
What should the agile practitioner do?
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 its teams.
What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?
In companies where decision-making is driven by data analytics and unknown variables are addressed, what advantages does agile project execution offer over a predictive approach?
More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting.
What should the Scrum Master do?
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?
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 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)
The lead developer informed the team that they have learned of some possible integration challenges in creating customer dashboards using the architecture the team has chosen.
What should an agile practitioner do?
While struggling to take ownership of delivery, an agile team fails to keep up with its sprint commitments.
What should the agile coach do?
An organization is using a predictive approach to managing projects. The executives like to see more deliverables in a short time and require that the milestones be achieved on time.
What value can the organization gain by moving to an iterative approach?
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 remaining stories. 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?
A Kanban team is struggling to prioritize and determine which tasks to handle first according to value.
What should the team do to improve this situation?
A project team has been working on five data source integrations. They have allocated one tester for each data source. One of the testers is on emergency leave for personal reasons, so the project
deliverables could not be completed on time.
How should the project team improve during their retrospective for future implementations?
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?
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?
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 facilitator is helping a team. The team is taking too long in each daily coordination meeting, and the facilitator is beginning to view the time as unproductive.
What should the agile facilitator do to help the team?
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?
During a team meeting, members who are subject matter experts (SMEs) mention that they are continuously working on repetitive tasks which has lowered motivation.
What should the agile practitioner do?
An agile team has been given a complex project with a basic set of requirements which need further elaboration and review. How should the team iteratively build out the backlog of requirements with the stakeholders?
An agile team and a traditional development team are working together on a project. Each team exceeds expectations regarding deliverables; however, issues arise when the deliverables are integrated. What should the agile practitioner do?
While working on a sprint for a software development project, the team is unsure of how the feature should be designed. The project sponsor recommends developing a prototype of the user interface to discover more about this feature.
Why is the project sponsor making this suggestion?
An agile team is having difficulties in obtaining the participation of a true user to be a part of their team. In the absence of a true user, the development manager steps in to act as a proxy for the user.
What can the agile team do to improve value delivery in the absence of a true user?
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?
Part way through a project, several team members are in conflict over whether or not a deliverable has been properly completed.
How should the agile leader reduce this conflict?
When a team member encounters an issue in an agile environment, what should they do?
An Agile Project Manager observes that the Scrum team is falling behind on the completion of a particular sprint.
What should the Agile Project Manager 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.
Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner do?
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?
A team retrospective was going well until the team lead introduced the "define the next experiment" topic; then the discussion became an argument. A new team member feels strongly that the approach used on their previous team would improve this team's efficiency and effectiveness. The team lead is adamant that they remain with the current approach and the discussion dissolves into a circular argument.
An agile project was underway for two months and delivered the expected value to the stakeholders. However, during a sprint review, a team member complained that the product owner constantly changes requirements and the member feels that this is blocking the team’s performance.
How can the scrum master handle this situation?
When working on a new product, what should an agile team do to ensure alignment with external stakeholders?
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 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?
The vice president (VP) of an organization has been asked by the chief information officer (CIO) to have their teams to embrace an agile approach to projects. The VP, however, often insists teams use a more predictive approach to project management which allows the project managers to do what they like.
How should an agile team member coach the VP and teams be more effective?
A team member does not understand what the project risks are or the impact that they could have.
How should an Agile leader communicate risks in a way that the team will understand?
A Scrum team is refining product backlog items for the next sprint in a project. The product owner does not agree with the changes.
Can the product owner reject changes to a product backlog?
An agile team is working on a new product and is behind with their deliverables for the quarterly release. The team discovers new issues during each iteration. They start working on the critical issues and sometimes forget to update the backlog. This leads to confusion, delays, and occasional rework.
How should the agile practitioner improve the team’s productivity?
What can an agile practitioner conclude about team A and team B's estimates?
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?
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 project team meets to estimate user stories for a sprint. While an important non-functional requirement must be delivered in the sprint, the estimate exceeds sprint capacity.
What should the team do?
A project manager is leading a large agile project with multiple deliverables at each phase of completion. The project team has informed the project manager that the deliverables are completed per the team agreement.
Which agile practice should the project manager advise their team use to ensure deliverables are completed and ready for release?
During a team meeting, conflicting opinions arise regarding the best approach to complete a project task. The project manager wants to ensure that the team can effectively handle these conflicts and come to a resolution that benefits the project.
What is an effective way to handle conflicting opinions in team meetings in an agile environment?
During a team meeting, conflicting opinions arise regarding the best approach to complete a project task. The project manager wants to ensure that the team can effectively handle these conflicts and come to a resolution that benefits the project.
What is an effective way to handle conflicting opinions in team meetings in an agile environment?
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?
A project sponsor suggested a team forgo in-person demonstration meetings and just send the product owner a link to try out the latest increment of working software. The sponsor says this will give the team more time to deliver value.
How should the agile coach explain the importance of an in-person demonstration meeting with the sponsor?
If an individual is working on a project team in a phase delivering an increment, according to the definition of done (DoD), who was that defined by?
A project manager is working on a user story about migrating to a new version of a database but is unsure of the dependencies. What can the product owner request from the team to understand the risks?
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?
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 backlog refinement 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?
New stakeholders are joining a project team where the agile coach will educate them about their roles and responsibilities.
How should the stakeholders ensure their objectives are met by product delivery?
An organization wants to execute a corporate website redesign project using Scrum. There is an experienced pool of agile team members from a previous project, as well as a pool of available internal team members with some Scrum background.
What should be considered when selecting the team?
What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction?
The product owner working on an agile software development project has brought all the Scrum team members together for the first sprint planning meeting. The team has read the user stories and has provided estimates to complete these user stories. The product owner plans to empower the team to get the work done.
What is this an example of?
When preparing an analysis, what should be used to encourage stakeholders who are concerned about project failure to authorize the initial investment?
A project team's standups often run over the allotted time as members attempt to resolve issues. With a large team, this is leading to productivity impacts and bringing complaints from some members that the meetings are wasting their time when they are not directly involved in an issue’s resolution.
How can the project leader help to manage the team's time?
How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
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?
Some members of an agile project team work remotely, so it is difficult to have regular face-to-face backlog grooming sessions. How should the agile practitioner ensure that the team is able to reduce miscommunication and rework in this environment?
A software team is developing a product in an environment with increased uncertainty. Although there is a clear vision of the goals to be achieved, the product owner is not fully certain about how some of the product features should work.
How should the product owner address this situation?
A manufacturing shop is using Kanban to plan, visualize workflow, and limit work in process (WIP). Which productivity key performance indicator (KPI) should the team lead be monitoring on a regular basis?
The team is aware that they will need to integrate a new component to their solution in the next few weeks. The team does not have any experience with this component.
What should the team do next?
A customer has difficulty explaining how the highest priority feature will work. What should the agile project manager do?
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)
An agile team is optimizing the workflow by investing in initiatives to identify and reduce unnecessary handovers and delays. What should the team do in this situation?
What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?
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?
One of the overseas stakeholders on an agile project has not been actively involved in the project's development. What would be the first step to reengage the stakeholder?
What should a Scrum Master do when an agile team member is behind on their tasks?
During planning sessions, an agile practitioner notices that some team members do not share common ideas.
What should the agile practitioner do?
During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog. What should the team do first to define the tasks needed to implement the user stories?
Several team members have complained to senior management about their Scrum Master's processes. What should the Scrum Master do to address the team's process concerns?
After a successful product deployment, a key stakeholder informs an agile team member that an implemented feature is failing to deliver its expected business value. The team member replies that the requirement was provided by the customer, and that the scope was clearly met.
If the problem were an issue of requirement elicitation rather than delivery, what should have been done to avoid this situation?
An agile team consisting of eight members is in their 11th iteration of a project. In the last iteration, the team was not able to complete every scope item it had committed to before the demonstration.
Which approach should the agile lead take?
An agile team consisting of eight members is in their 11th iteration of a project. In the last iteration, the team was not able to complete every scope item it had committed to before the demonstration.
Which approach should the agile lead take?
A project was delivered in a foreign country for a big customer, but there are a lot of complaints about the way the functionality was implemented. Now there is a new project to fix the defects of the first one.
What strategy should be used to deliver it successfully?
An agile team wants to collectively determine a project's size. What will the team be doing if they use the planning poker technique to accomplish this?
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 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 a constraint 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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
An experienced product owner presents the epics and corresponding stories during a release planning session with the established team. The executive sponsor asks the team when the features will be delivered.
What should the agile team 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)
The systems integrator for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) project has been onboarded. During an iteration planning session, the team determines that the next highest priority item will take longer than expected to complete in the current sprint.
What should the agile practitioner do next?
The team is working to build a new Al model that will summarize and create presentation materials for executive leaders from external and internal content. The team believes there is value in increasing the scope of work as it will benefit the organization.
Which two actions should the product owner take first? (Choose two.)
During the advanced stages of implementing a complex design, an agile practitioner realizes that the architecture is not scalable for user requirements. The architect suggests a workaround that is minimally adequate but may cause some performance issues.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A project has several features that will deliver immediate customer value. The product owner needs to determine which features to include in the upcoming iteration.
What should the product owner have the customer review and approve?
A project team for a local government is transitioning from a predictive development life cycle to an iterative development life cycle. The project sponsor has informed the team lead that the subject matter expert (SME) for the financial functions of the solution is overallocated, so the team needs to convert the previously gathered requirements into user stories.
What should the agile lead do?
A software company is developing an accounting software system to market to customers. The team has been working on the project for six weeks and has great velocity. One of the major stakeholders approached the Scrum Master and asked for a bi-weekly status report because they feel they are not being properly updated.
How should the Scrum Master respond to this request?
An agile team lead noticed their team’s velocity was slowing down. They did not deliver a working software during the last iteration and there have been miscommunications between team members.
What should the agile team lead do at the end of this iteration?
A new stakeholder has recently joined a project. During a meeting with the Scrum Master, the new stakeholder tries to understand the status of the project and the remaining tasks for completion.
How should the Scrum Master inform the new stakeholder?
An organization is shifting to an agile delivery methodology. An agile project manager has been assigned to the transformation project.
What should the agile project manager do to ensure a high level of adoption?
A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?
The manager of the team is responsible for delivering a specific initiative within the organization. They are preparing for the monthly project review meeting, where they will present the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the initiative's current status.
Which summaries are correct and will be presented during the monthly project review? (Refer to
the email and exhibits to the Team Manager)
TESTED 14 Sep 2025
