PMI Agile Certified Practitioner v1.0

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When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what should an agile team defer work?

  • A. High-risk and high-value
  • B. High-risk and low-value
  • C. Low-risk and low-value
  • D. Low-risk and high value


Answer : C

On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stories fit into the overall product.
How should this be addressed?

  • A. Review the iteration goals and have the team each describe the work to create shared understanding
  • B. Create a story map for the minimal viable product (MVP) functionality
  • C. Capture this as a task in the retrospective and ensure there is more details provided at the next planning session
  • D. Have the product owner explain the product vision and review the release plan with the team


Answer : D

The customer needs assistance in determining the efficiency of a set of process activities within the solution.
What should the agile team do?

  • A. Discuss the efficiency at the next iteration retrospective
  • B. Review the process value stream to determine potential improvements
  • C. Review the value the customer receives from the user story to determine backlog priority
  • D. Discuss the performance of the solution at the next sprint review


Answer : A

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 behaviour does this describe?

  • A. Synchronous
  • B. Collaborative
  • C. Passive-aggressive
  • D. Random


Answer : B

Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release.
What should the team do?

  • A. Conduct frequent demos and obtain feedback from users throughout the development of the next release
  • B. Inform senior management that since the product was successfully released, the project is considered delivered and should be closed
  • C. Request additional budget to implement a Scrum of Scrums approach to scale the teams and add capacity
  • D. Implement a better definition of done to ensure that continuous integration processes are managed effectively


Answer : D

A team using Kanban identifies that their cycle time has significant variation. After brainstorming, the team determines that the root cause is the storiesג€™ varying sizes and risks.
What should the team do?

  • A. Reduce work in progress (WIP) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories
  • B. Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stories
  • C. Set a policy to break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP
  • D. Create a dedicated overflow swim lane on the Kanban board for stories that are too large


Answer : C

Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, 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 C.
What should the agile practitioner do?

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


Answer : D

The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status, and a demo of all the stories to the business.
What should the product owner have done differently?

  • A. Demonstrated only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback
  • B. Presented the budget situation and review the cost variance
  • C. Reviewed the test results to gain confidence from the stakeholders
  • D. Presented a demo of all the stories including the work in progress stories


Answer : A

The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this.
What should the team do next?

  • A. Add risk mitigation tasks to the backlog, then prioritize in current and upcoming sprints
  • B. Add risk mitigation time to each requirement
  • C. Apply the 80/20 rule, reserving 20 percent of each sprintג€™s capacity for risk mitigation
  • D. Hold all risks until they become issues, then add issue resolution tasks to the product backlog


Answer : A

What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?

  • A. Begin working on an item in the backlog
  • B. Ask the scrum master to select an item from the backlog on which to work
  • C. Ask the product owner to select an item from the backlog on which to work
  • D. Jointly decide with the scrum master on an item from the backlog on which to work


Answer : C

A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint.
What should the scrum master do?

  • A. Engage the team to determine the sprint velocity based on previous agile projects
  • B. Average the sprint velocity based on input from team members
  • C. Share the sprint velocity obtained from the sponsor with the team
  • D. Run multiple sprints before determining the sprint velocity with the team


Answer : D

A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to complete in the market place.
What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?

  • A. Risk management
  • B. Variance and trend
  • C. Kano model
  • D. Fishbone-diagram


Answer : D

Toward the end of a project, the product owner discovers that the project has a high probability of failure due to a critical feature not functioning as expected.
What should the product owner do?

  • A. Terminate the project to cut losses
  • B. Review possible options and make an informed decision to cut losses based on delivered business value
  • C. Bring in experts to increase the probability of success
  • D. Continue the project, release the product without the failing feature, and fix the feature in a subsequent release


Answer : D

An agile coach is assigned to help a project team that was recently co-located close to a very popular business. Many team members visit this business during working hours which affects team performance.
What should the agile coach do to mitigate this issue?

  • A. Speak with the functional managers and come to an agreement that will resolve the issue
  • B. Explain to functional managers that too much control will inversely impact team morale
  • C. Meet with the team to discuss the issue and identify specific actions to reduce or eliminate the issue
  • D. Inform the team there will be penalties to anyone who visits that business during working hours


Answer : C

After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI.
What should the team do?

  • A. Prioritize the backlog, and remove low-priority stories from the release plan to ensure a positive ROI
  • B. Replace some team embers to reduce the release costs and minimize a negative ROI
  • C. Perform a root-cause analysis to remove waste from the delivery process and increase the ROI
  • D. Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan


Answer : A

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