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PMI PMI-200 - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

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Total 482 questions

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?

A.

Require the team to try only those ideas that will ensure success.

B.

Allow the team to try ideas, but remind them that results will be reviewed by high-ranking executives.

C.

Associate idea successes and failures with the team's incentive plan to ensure accountability.

D.

Encourage the team to try the ideas, even if failure may be the outcome.

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?

A.

Information radiators and wireframes

B.

Information radiators and story maps

C.

Process flows and personas

D.

Personas and extreme characters

As a team completes their 21st sprint, new information reveals that a number of significant system integrations must be made to ensure the project scope is met. How should the project management plan be adjusted?

A.

Holistically at the project level

B.

At the end of each sprint

C.

At a sprint level after each demo

D.

Periodically, at both the release and project level

An agile team is struggling with an issue. A team member mentions that another team had a similar issue that was resolved, but lessons learned documents are unavailable.

What should the agile practitioner do?

A.

Suggest that all agile teams share weekly reports on their projects.

B.

Encourage the team to independently find a solution.

C.

Work with the team to create a solution for disseminating team knowledge throughout the company.

D.

Recommend hiring an external expert to advise on the best methods for sharing knowledge among teams.

A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?

A.

Escalate the complaint to the scrum master

B.

Suggest implementing a more rigorous change governance

C.

Coach the stakeholder on agile principles

D.

Agree to limit scope changes going forward to control costs

A diverse team can sometimes create misunderstandings and conflict, leading team members to isolate. How can an agile project manager promote effective communication and collaboration among team members with diverse backgrounds and perspectives?

A.

Reduce emotions by emphasizing areas of agreement rather than areas of difference.

B.

Create a shared vision for the team and use techniques to increase empathy and positive interaction.

C.

Coach the team to focus on areas of agreement and the company's profitability.

D.

Confront the team and follow the formal procedures as described in the project management plan.

During a retrospective, the team agrees that they have limited competence in using a newly introduced tool. What should the team do?

A.

Explore options for increasing knowledge in the next iteration's backlog.

B.

Experiment with the tool's usage by adding extra tasks in the current iteration.

C.

Propose alternative tools that the team is more competent using.

D.

Ask a tool expert to join the team and perform the relevant work.

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?

A.

Stakeholders have the opportunity to add features to the sprint.

B.

Team members determine if there are any impediments preventing them from meeting the sprint goal.

C.

The product owner explains which product backlog items have been done and which have not.

D.

Team members identify ways to improve and make plans to implement these improvements.

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?

A.

Worked as planned to meet the team's commitments and participated in other events as time permitted.

B.

Worked extensively on the corporate initiative in order to inform the team of that effort.

C.

Asked to be relieved of project tasks to maintain team velocity.

D.

Have not participated in any initiative that could take focus away from the team's project and goals.

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?

A.

Ask each team member to document their solutions extensively in a knowledge repository for knowledge exchange between the team.

B.

Pair team members and ensure review of technical deliverables by partners in each sprint before integration of the solution.

C.

Create an environment of continued learning by providing opportunities for team members to develop their skills as generalized specialists.

D.

Replace the team members with highly qualified individuals that have experience in the specific technologies required for completing delivery.