PMI-ACP Online Practice Questions and Answers

On a team new to Scrum, two team members are disrupting the daily standup with a side conversation. The ScrumMaster should:

A. wait until the standup is over and then talk to the disruptive team members.

B. immediately intervene to remedy the disruptive situation.

C. record the issue and then raise the issue at the Sprint Retrospective.

D. wait for the empowered, self-organizing team to resolve the issue.

Extreme Programming (XP) includes which of the following practices? (Choose three.)

A. Simple Design

B. Coding standards

C. Mange WIP

D. Sustainable Pace

E. Eliminate Waste

In Scrum, the development team decides which events or ceremonies take place during a Sprint.

A. True

B. False

If a customer really wants a feature added to a Sprint, how should the Development Team respond?

A. Add the feature into the current Sprint backlog

B. Escalate to the Scrum Master

C. Add the item to the Product Backlog for prioritization in the next Sprint

D. Ask the Product Owner to work with the customer

The optimum size of the Scrum Team is:

A. 7

B. Between 3 and 9

C. 5

D. It depends

In Agile development, what is the term for the internal things that you choose not to do now, knowing they will impede future development if left undone?

A. Escaped defects

B. Verification and validation results

C. Technical debt

D. Intrinsic quality

There is a database feature requiring three members of a seven person team. A meeting is scheduled at the beginning of the sprint to go over technical needs to complete the story. Who should the Scrum Master invite to the meeting?

A. The core team and the customer

B. The product owner and key stakeholders

C. The customer and the sponsor

D. The core team and the product owner

A client states that a product is not being built as requested. How should the agile team address this?

A. Conduct an internal review to validate functionality before shipping

B. Audit the quality control process to ensure that the product adheres to requirements

C. Lengthen iterations to ensure there is sufficient time to build functionality

D. Hold product review sessions with the client to obtain product acceptance

A project is to be started with a team of nine existing and nine new members. The scrum master feels that the team is too large and wants to break it into three teams. The scrum master sets a constraint that each team have an equal number of existing team members for knowledge sharing and experience.

What should the scrum master do to accomplish this?

A. Ask the team members' functional managers for guidance on how to group the team members.

B. Observe which team members are comfortable working together, then assign accordingly.

C. Ensure that members begin to self-organize as small teams with efficiently distributed skills.

D. Assign team members to their respective teams based on the skills known to the scrum master.

A team member has asked a question about the responsibilities of the product manager, QA, and the team regarding quality. What should the agile project manager advise?

A. The entire team is responsible for quality and each team member is accountable for ensuring the success of every component.

B. The entire team is responsible for quality, but each team member's role may vary as stated in the definition of done (DoD).

C. The entire team is responsible for quality and QA is responsible for surprises, gaps, and other intricacies that may have been overlooked.

D. Quality is the responsibility of the entire team, and the product manager defines the functionality from end to end.