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

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Total 482 questions

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?

A.

Use agile estimation techniques like planning poker or relative sizing for collaborative assessment.

B.

Break down the feature into smaller tasks or user stories for better assessment and incremental delivery.

C.

Analyze current system requirements and dependencies, including integration levels and regulatory compliance.

D.

Refer to past performance and historical data from similar projects to identity potential risks and challenges.

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.

Inform the product owner's manager so that corrective action may be taken.

B.

Communicate this to the product owner, and offer to help facilitate discussions with the team.

C.

Encourage a team member to raise this during the retrospective to ensure that the product owner is aware.

D.

Escalate this issue to the sponsor so that corrective action may be taken.

A project manager was assigned to lead the development of a new application for a company. The application will be widely used by all company employees around the world. During the firstmeeting with key project stakeholders, the project manager was asked to find a way to determinate all possible types of users who may interact with the application that is going to be developed.

What should the project manager do next?

A.

Push it back due to the number of users and socialize the idea of developing a standard application and training session for all users.

B.

Identity and create personas that can help the team better understand the needs of the target user base.

C.

Build a minimum viable product (MVP), a standard application for all users, and release the new version (per users/areas).

D.

'Engage the human resources (HR) team to identify the key users and interview all of them accordingly.

An agile team provides feedback that user stories include insufficient details to understand the requirements. What should the agile practitioner do?

A.

Coach the product owner to update only the acceptance criteria.

B.

Instruct the agile team to fix the user stories during the next retrospective.

C.

Facilitate a user story workshop with the agile team.

D.

Inform the product owner's manager that the work items provide insufficient detail.

What can an agile team use to prioritize stories?

A.

Planning poker technique

B.

Weighted average calculation

C.

Risk-value quadrant

D.

INVEST scale

A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team Many team members have worked together on this product for several years During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are completed on time

What type of behavior does this describe?

A.

Synchronous

B.

Collaborative

C.

Passive-aggressive

D.

Random

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?

A.

Work with the product owner to include fewer features in the next sprint planning.

B.

Hire more team members to elevate the team's velocity to increase performance.

C.

Tell the team members that changes are natural and welcome if the project is delivering value.

D.

Schedule more meetings with the team and the product owner to refine the backlog constantly.

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)

A.

Prioritize the stakeholder feedback, considering the impact on strategic objectives and current workload, and discuss these priorities with the team in the next sprint planning meeting to collaboratively decide on the next steps.

B.

Implement the changes in the current sprint, reallocating resources and adjusting the sprint goals to accommodate the feedback immediately, regardless of the current workload and potential impact on ongoing tasks.

C.

Update the product backlog immediately without consulting the team, ensuring that the most critical feedback is addressed as soon as possible, even if it disrupts the current workflow

D.

Disregard the feedback until the next product release, focusing solely on the current sprint commitments to avoid any disruption and maintain the current workflow, even if it means delaying potentially valuable changes.

A Scrum team decided to switch to Kanban for the maintenance phase of the product. The kanban board consists of the following columns "To do," "In progress," "Ready to be tested," "Test in progress," and "Done." Since the team changed their way of working, they have noticed the work is flowing slower in the system. A large queue of "Ready to be tested" work items has been building up.

What should the team do to improve its speed of delivery?

A Scrum team decided to switch to Kanban for the maintenance phase of the product. The kanban board consists of the following columns "To do," "In progress," "Ready to be tested," "Test in progress," and "Done." Since the team changed their way of working, they have noticed the work is flowing slower in the system. A large queue of "Ready to be tested" work items has been building up.

What should the team do to improve its speed of delivery?

A.

Analyze the process efficiency, cycle time, and lead time of the entire process.

B.

Estimate in story points and pull in new work per the team's capacity

C.

Add limits to all columns and only pull work in when the queue is not full.

D.

Create a cumulative flow diagram and start looking for bottlenecks.

A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.

What should the agile team lead do?

A.

Send the member to training?

B.

Ask the outside specialists if database administration is required from the team

C.

Send one member to training only after asking the team if there is an issue with the current work flow

D.

Wait until all members of the team can attend training