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

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Total 482 questions

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?

A.

Bring a subject matter expert (SME) from the technology design team to act as a consultant for the team.

B.

Coach the team individually then the whole team during the Sprint review on how to resolve this conflict.

C.

Delegate the decision for the best feature implementation to the most senior team member.

D.

Decide on the technical implementation that best fits the purpose of the technical design.

During a mature agile team's planning meeting, a team member proposes a new framework that would considerably reduce implementation time. However, the team lacks the confidence to try the new framework.

To help the team gain confidence, what should the agile practitioner suggest?

A.

Develop a spike

B.

Create an Ishikawa diagram

C.

Perform a pre-mortem analysis.

D.

Complete a variance and trend analysis

An agile project manager is working on a project to develop a customer service website. The project manager is organizing a workshop to plan the next release: To add the feature of receiving and resolving customer complaints. Which two actions should the project manager ask the team members to take before the workshop? (Choose two.)

A.

Prepare an effort estimation for each story based on their technical expertise.

B.

Compile a list of ideas to improve the velocity of the team so they can plan more story points in the next sprint.

C.

Prepare a list of tasks required to accomplish the goal and the order in which they should be executed.

D.

Read and identify user stories from the backlog that will contribute to accomplishing the goal.

E.

Consider the possible risks of each selected user story and the value they add for the final user.

A scrum master is 6 days into a 10-day iteration. A customer representative approaches the scrum master and asks whether they can access the latest update on the project.

Which action should the scrum master take?

A.

Share the information radiator.

B.

Email the latest release plan.

C.

Invite them to the next retrospective.

D.

Send the latest project report.

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?

A.

Suggest the product owner start by focusing on the next 2 sprints instead of 10

B.

Spend the first few sprints to develop detailed schedules and budgets

C.

Invite the product owner to the retrospective to explain the team's approach to schedule and budget

D.

Explain that detailed project schedules and budgets are not artifacts in agile projects

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.

Create a new team to deliver the dependencies, and bring team B under performance management.

B.

Conduct a vision-sharing session with the teams to communicate the project's overall goals.

C.

Swap team members from both teams so that deliveries are better supported.

D.

Discuss negotiating the delivery timelines with team A.

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?

A.

Requested approval from the project sponsor

B.

Undertaken a review of all requirements

C.

Conducted an end-of-phase demonstration

D.

Performed a retrospective to validate project deliverables

A development team, new to scrum, questions the need to collect metrics on team performance. While learn members understand velocity and burn down, they feel that once velocity becomes settled it is needless to keep track.

What should the agile coach tell the team?

A.

Continuing to track velocity allows functional managers to assess whether or not the team is performing at the desired rate.

B.

The trends will show how the team performs against other scrum teams in the organization.

C.

Tracking velocity will provide a baseline for the team to see how their continuous improvement efforts are working.

D.

Tracking velocity will document and communicate team health to the stakeholders.

An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release.

What should the agile coach do?

A.

Meet with the agile team lead to discuss ways to improve team velocity and get back on track

B.

Use this as a learning opportunity and allow the team to handle the situation when the marketing campaign begins

C.

In the upcoming retrospective, discuss ways to improve sharing project status information

D.

Meet with the marketing stakeholders to explain that the team will miss the planned release date

During a project's last iteration, an agile team struggled with a feature's delivery due to the lack of a required skill. The project has already incurred a five-day delay. A further delay of at least 10 days is anticipated.

What should the agile project leader have done to avoid this situation?

A.

Provided just-in-time training of the required skill to specific team members

B.

Lowered the feature's priority until a team member acquired the skill to build it

C.

Assigned the feature to another agile team that had members with the required skills

D.

Ensured that the team was comprised of cross-functional, generalized specialists