PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Answers

Match the following roles on the right to the RASCI on the left:

Select and Place:

When is the ideal time to hold a retrospective?

A. Right after iteration planning

B. Just before iteration planning

C. At the start of the next release

D. During the iteration review/demo

What kind of User Story is written to provide an opportunity to research a solution in order to provide an estimate?

A. Sprint Story

B. Persona Story

C. Spike Story

D. Needle Story

Analyzing the current organizational processes, per project requirements, and making needed process changes is called:

A. Value Stream Mapping

B. Release Planning

C. Use Case Development

D. Process Tailoring

User Stories are:

A. Negotiable

B. Baselined and not allowed to change

C. Created by the Agile Project Manager

D. The foundation of the roadmap

A servant leadership role includes:

A. Shielding team members from interruptions

B. Making commitments to stakeholders

C. Determining which features to include in an iteration

D. Assigning tasks to save time

A scrum master is part of a project team using technologies overseen by the IT department. The IT director oversees several company initiatives and is unfamiliar with the details of each one.

As an active project stakeholder, to which meeting should the IT director be invited?

A. Planning

B. Daily scrum

C. Sprint demo

D. Retrospective

A team working with a new technology faces a significant amount of uncertainty about its ability to deliver stories due to technical issues. What should the team do?

A. Capture risks and make them visible, and use a burn down chart to focus on reducing risks early in the project.

B. Ask the scrum master to extend the sprint's duration to allow more time to work through technical issues.

C. Place the impacted stories on the story board, and use daily stand ups to make the product owner aware of the technical issues.

D. Seek guidance from the development manager.

A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team do?

A. Advise the product owner that the story will have to wait until the next sprint.

B. Work extra hours to complete the story and satisfy the customer's requirements.

C. Break down the story into smaller increments and negotiate other stories on the sprint backlog.

D. Increase the length of the sprint to accommodate the story.

Midway through a project, the product owner learns from the sponsor that a major component, which is already 20 percent complete, is unimportant to users. The component was part of the approved scope and a key selling point for the project.

What should the product owner do next?

A. Obtain approval from the change control board to discontinue the component

B. Ask the team to continue developing the component

C. Ask the team to discontinue developing the component

D. Request the sponsor's formal approval to discontinue the component