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

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A new agile project leader habitually becomes involved in the work from a support perspective and uses information radiators to ensure that all actions to remove impediments are visible to the team. What is the agile project leader doing?

A.

Practicing the servant leadership style of working with an agile team

B.

Building a collaborative teamwork culture

C.

Following a participatory decision-making model

D.

Adopting the practice of receiving feedback that will facilitate team improvement

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?

A.

Reevaluate the duration of the cycles, as faster cycles may allow for earlier detection of defects.

B.

Run a sprint to clear all reported defects before taking new stories.

C.

Change the control mechanism so that items are better tested before delivery.

D.

Increase the opportunities to confirm common understanding with the client.

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?

A.

Risk management

B.

Variance and trend

C.

Kano model

D.

Fishbone diagram

After seeing the planned features (or an upcoming release, a customer notes that a vitally important and complex one is missing. The team estimates that this feature significantly exceeds its average velocity. How can this issue be resolved?

A.

Break down the feature into smaller parts, and commit to completing the minimum viable product.

B.

Complete the iteration to which they have already committed, and include the feature in the next release.

C.

Change the planned features lo include only the vitally important one.

D.

Extend the iteration to complete the feature.

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?

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.

A product owner adds user stories to the backlog on a daily basis. The stories are vague requests, and the product owner expects the details to be clarified once the team works on the prioritization list.

How should the team members address this challenge so that the prioritization meeting does not become a brainstorming session?

A.

Ask the product owners to invite a subject matter expert (SME) to the meeting so the prioritization meeting will be more effective.

B.

Ask the product owner to review their items with the product owner's teammates before adding user stories to the backlog.

C.

Ask the product owner to schedule a meeting with a subject matter expert (SME) to review items before adding user stories to the backlog.

D.

Ask the product owner to review the stories with the scrum master before the prioritization meeting takes place.

What do the principles of Extreme Programming (XP) include?

A.

Communication, respect, and courage

B.

Communication, process flow, and authoritarian structure

C.

Value people over processes, communication, respect disagreement, and strive for consensus

D.

Rapid feedback, assume simplicity, incremental change, embrace change, and quality work

During a retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives All will have a positive impact and improve team performance What should the agile coach do next?

A.

Positively acknowledge the list and share it with management

B.

Immediately have the team implement the initiatives

C.

Help the team choose one or two initiatives for immediate implementation

D.

Ask the team to choose and implement the most complex initiative

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)

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.

A Scrum team is visualizing the blockers that arise when they work on their activities on the kanban board. The team decided to analyze why the blockers occur so they can take action to minimize their occurrence and reduce lead times.

Which practices should the team use?

A.

The most important principle in Scrum is reducing work in process (WIP). The lower the number of items, the lower the risk of items getting blocked. Based on the team’s capacity, they should set the lowest WIP limits possible.

B.

The team should look at all the blockers, determine the reason behind them, group them, and determine if there is a pattern. They should then determine what and how they can make relevant changes.

C.

The team should discuss the issue with their scrum master because it is their responsibility to remove impediments, such as blockers, in cooperation with other teams.

D.

Blockers are a result of bottlenecks. The team should ask for more resources to prevent bottlenecks from arising and reduce the risk of long lead times.