PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam

Question No:-11

A new team member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan.

What should be the proper response?

  1. Competitors joined forces with the team
  2. The customer changed requirements
  3. Project team members obtained additional certifications
  4. Technology which did not interfere with the final product

Question No:-12

Midway through an iteration, an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations.

As a high-performance team, what should the team do?

  1. Raise an impediment that resource tasks will be blocked and notify the product owner
  2. Ask the delivery manager for a temporary resource
  3. Ask the scrum master to assign that team member's tasks to the next available resource
  4. Assume the team member's tasks to meet iteration goals, and notify the product owner

Question No:-13

An agile practitioner wants to ensure that stakeholders have current information about a project's progress.

What should the agile practitioner do?

  1. Regularly circulate an updated, detailed version of the project plan
  2. Frequently update the online project management office (PMO) repository site
  3. Invite the stakeholders to daily stand ups
  4. Post a project board in an area where all can view it

Question No:-14

A company has decided to combine two similar products consisting of multiple teams into one product. Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at re-organizing its teams.

What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?

  1. All the teams from both products should be simultaneously called together and allowed to completely self-manage
  2. Teams that worked on similar components in the separate products should be combined to minimize disruption and capitalize on synergies
  3. After grouping individuals by role, multi-discipline teams should be created that are comprised of one member from each role
  4. Features should be prioritized and then teams should be organized around those priorities

Question No:-15

A client states that a product is not being built as requested.

How should the agile team address this?

  1. Conduct an internal review to validate functionality before shipping
  2. Audit the quality control process to ensure that the product adheres to requirements
  3. Lengthen iterations to ensure there is sufficient time to build functionality
  4. Hold product review sessions with the client to obtain product acceptance

Question No:-16

A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features.

What should the product owner do?

  1. Determine the required tasks for implementing the high-level features
  2. Identify the detailed design for the high-level features
  3. Prioritize the product backlog for the upcoming release
  4. Estimate the user stories in the iteration backlog

Question No:-17

An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project.

What should the practitioner do?

  1. Post and discuss rises in the burn down chart
  2. Adjust story points to account for technical debt
  3. Log technical debt as an impediment
  4. Add refactoring tasks to all stories

Question No:-18

An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay, and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release.

What should the agile coach do?

  1. Meet with the agile team lead to discuss ways to improve the team velocity and get back on track
  2. Use this as a learning opportunity and allow the team to handle the situation when the marketing campaign begins
  3. In the upcoming retrospective, discuss ways to improve sharing project status information
  4. Meet with the marketing stakeholders to explain that the team will miss the planned release date

Question No:-19

The product owner of an agile project is frustrated because the team is unable to deliver as many features as expected. The product owner asks the team to reduce test-automation levels, since the quality assurance team will test the product at project completion. The product owner expects that more features will be delivered in each iteration using this approach.

What should the agile practitioner do?

  1. Ask the opinion of key stakeholders and the client to ensure the correct approach is being used
  2. Work with the team to use this approach, and request a quality assurance iteration after every three iterations
  3. Propose to completely eliminate test automation, since this is a quality assurance function
  4. Suggest merging the quality assurance and delivery teams to enhance each iteration's test-automation levels and redundancy

Question No:-20

How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?

  1. Collect stakeholder requirements
  2. Conduct an iteration planning meeting
  3. Communicate product backlog items to the stakeholders
  4. Facilitate a product development roadmap workshop