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This question bank is composed of 10 questions like you'll see in a PMI-ACP® exam. Once you complete the questionnaire, you'll receive an e-mail with all the answers and comments that help you learn and also get closer to the PMI-ACP® certification.

1. Marco is attending a retrospective meeting along with his colleagues and the scrum master. During the "set the stage" phase of the meeting, Marco didn't speak much and he didn't contribute with many ideas or insights during the entire meeting. What is likely to be Marco's behaviour? *

1 point

Follower

Vacationer

Shopper

Explorer

2. Which of the following agile measures help you translate the size estimate of your backlog (number of points) into duration estimates (number of weeks)?
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1 point

Lead time

Team size

WIP limit

Velocity

3. As a servant leader in an organization, which of the following responsibilities shouldn't be on your shoulders?
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1 point

Protect the team from outside distractions

Facilitate communication

Be the contact point with the product owner

Resolve team issues

4. You are working for an organization that has established a PMO a few years ago and your project is one of the few ones adopting agile practices. Your PMO indicates that you need to provide a status report every week to them so they can consolidate their master report that they send to the executives of the company. The status report should include the detailed Gantt chart of the project comparing actual progress against the project baseline and a red-yellow-green flag for each of the main deliverables. What should you do?
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1 point

Provide the red-yellow-green flag but don't provide the Gantt chart since your project doesn't have one.

Influence the executives of the company so that the PMO oversees only the predictive projects of the organization.

Educate the PMO about Agile practices and influence them to gradually transition to Agile approaches

Send to the PMO on a weekly basis the documentation that you have about your project, including the product backlog and the kanban chart.

5. You are currently working to resolve a problem with your project and asked your team to start using a Kanban chart to monitor WIP and bottlenecks within the sprints. What is likely the problem that you are facing in your project?
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1 point

Too many change requests.

Sprints ending with too many unfinished work.

Presence of too many escaped defects.

Product backlog not prioritized properly.

6. You are a product owner overseeing a project being managed according to agile principles. You've recently mentioned to the project leader that you find that the problems raised by you are taking too much time to get fixed by the development team. What can the project leader do to improve this situation? *

1 point

Stop receiving new requests once the sprint starts so the team can focus on getting the work done without errors.

Trigger a spike when a new problem arises so the team can tackle the problems quickly and then reduce the defect cycle time.

Discuss with the team how to improve the overall process to fix problems which will lead into a reduction of the defect cycle time.

Establish a new process with you so problems identified are discussed only between sprints so the team can plan the fixes and therefore eliminate them more quickly.

7. You are one of the developers in an agile project team. After a meeting with your project sponsor, you realize that she mentions user needs that are not fully aligned with the needs that your product owner shared with your team in the last meeting with him. Your project manager believes that one agile technique can be used to better understand the full spectrum of user needs. Which technique is Yuri likely referring to?
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1 point

Stakeholder mapping

A Kanban chart

Value Stream Mapping

Personas

8. Daniel wants to discuss the velocity of his team because he doesn't seem to be happy with what he sees. He mentions that in previous projects, he used to practice velocity rates that were always above 30 and now, after the first three iterations of this project, the velocity of the team was recorded as 21, 25 and 18, respectively. What should you, as the scrum master of the current project, tell Daniel about this situation? *

1 point

The velocity of the previous project that Daniel worked on is not relevant for comparison purposes because their scale for story points may be different from the one used in the current project.

Daniel is right and this issue should be discussed in the next retrospective meeting so the team can find ways to improve the process and make the team more efficient.

It is still to early to come to a conclusion about the current team's average velocity. Normally we should discuss this once more iterations are completed.

It is normal to see unstable velocity rates in the first iterations and more stable levels should be expected from now on, eventually getting into the levels that he saw in his previous project, so there is no reason to be concerned.

9. Which of the following factors should not influence the project team's velocity? *

1 point

Items are added to the product backlog.

Two team members leave the project and are replaced by one new member.

The scrum master determines that the length of the sprint will change.

The team moves from Storming to Performing stage.

10. You are leading an agile team and at a given sprint, your team decides to decompose one of the user stories of the sprint backlog because it is too big to be managed. Since the team has decided to use the Fibonacci sequence to estimate effort in the project, which of the following alternatives correspond to a valid outcome of the exercise of breaking down this user story that had 8 points originally assigned to it? *

1 point

The team broke the item down into 3 smaller user stories, two of them with 3 story points and the third one with no story points since it represents only architectural tasks not adding value to the customer.

The team broke the item down into 2 smaller user stories, each of them with 4 story points each.

The team broke the item down into 3 smaller user stories, now estimated at 5 story points each.

The team broke the item down into 2 smaller user stories, one with 6 story points and another one with 2 story points.

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