Free PMI-ACP sample questions

When developing user stories, user expectations are best captured in what form?

• Acceptance tests
• Entrance criteria
• Done criteria
• Go and no-go limits

Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, is estimated at 8 points. After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took much longer than story What should the agile practitioner do?

• Assign story B more than 8 story points so to provide a better estimate
• Add points to story B's iteration to account for the error but keep story B at 3 points
• Assign more resources to story B to bring it in line with the estimate
• Reestimate all stories including values for A, B and C

During sprint retrospectives, some team members are very vocal and tend to dominate the conversation, while others are more reserved and less likely to participate. What should the scrum master do?

• Encourage all team members to participate, and have them type their retrospective feedback into the agile lifecycle management tool.
• Ask more specific questions during the retrospectives.
• Use retrospective techniques, such as silent writing, clustering, and dot voting to field feedback prior to discussion by the team.
• Ask team members to email feedback that can be summarized in a spreadsheet for the team.

An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects. What should the project manager do to share this project’s knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?

• Invite people from across the organization to attend daily stand ups
• Invite people from across the organization to attend retrospectives
• Invite people from across the organization to attend the release meeting and project retrospectives
• Regularly meetwith people across the organization to share the project’s lessons learned and best practices

Sequence the core practices of Kanban in order of execution.

An organization highly values security. However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features. What should the team member do?

• Influence the customer
• Mention the idea at the next retrospective
• Showthe customer how much time and moneywould be saved
• Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input

ProjectX has an IRR of 12%, and ProjectY has an IRR of 10%. Which projectshould be chosen as a better investmentforthe organization?

• It depends on the payback period
• Project Y
• Project X
• Project or Y, depending on the NPV

The purpose of a Sprint retrospective is for the Scrum team to:

• Review stories planned for the next sprint and provide estimates,
• Demonstrate completed user stories to the Product Owner.
• Determine whatto stop doing, start doing, and continue doing.
• Individually provide status updates on user stories in progress.

A reminder for the developer and Product Owner to have a conversation is:

• The Sprint planning meeting
• Backlog grooming
• A User Story
• An Agile reminder

Which of thefollowing is NOT a KPI (key performance indicator) of Agile?

• Actual Stories Completed vs. Committed StoriesQuality Delivered to Customers
• Team Enthusiasm
• Team Attendance
• Team Velocity
• Technical Debt Management