The Latest Guide To PMI-ACP Simulations

NEW QUESTION 1
A company is starting to introduce Agile practices, and the project manager has been asked to identify how to introduce the new process. The project manager’s initial plan should be to:

• A. Institute daily standup meetings immediately.
• B. Communicate the Agile Manifesto to the team.
• C. Balance teaching principles with Agile practices.
• D. Rate the team’s progress in learning new methods.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
The purpose of a project burndown chart is to:

• A. Identify and communicate upcoming milestones.
• B. Display the level of effort and resources utilized.
• C. Identify dependencies between sprints or iterations.
• D. Display the remaining work across time.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 3
Which layer of the product planning structure defines details at the capability or feature level?

• A. Iteration
• B. Roadmap
• C. Release
• D. Wave

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 4
In an Agile approach, at which meeting does a team examine the effectiveness of risk responses by conducting a risk audit?

• A. Release planning
• B. Sprint planning
• C. Sprint Retrospective
• D. Daily Scrum

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 5
Which type of story would be used when an estimate is not available due to lack of knowledge of the technology required to implement the story?

• A. Defect
• B. Slack
• C. Spike
• D. Nonfunctional

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
A ScrumMaster:

• A. prioritizes the work for each iteration.
• B. directs the activities of the team.
• C. provides leadership, guidance, and coaching.
• D. manages the project scope and budget.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
A technique showing Kanban work stages by comparing counted features over a time interval is called a/an:

• A. Earned value system.
• B. Fully integrated backlog.
• C. Cumulative flow diagram.
• D. Progressive elaboration.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
The best description of the purpose of the daily standup in Agile projects is to:

• A. Resolve the key issues and risks that are likely to hinder project progress.
• B. Provide insight and reassurance to the Product Owner to strengthen that relationship.
• C. Inform the project lead of project status for reporting to stakeholders.
• D. Raise the visibility of each person’s work and to ensure the work is integrated.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
The best reason for extreme character personas in writing user stories is to:

• A. Identify errors in product design and testing.
• B. Help identify user stories that would otherwise be missed.
• C. Provide precision to support vague user concepts.
• D. Provide value to the Sprint planning session.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 10
What are the primary outputs of a release planning session?

• A. Release vision, assumptions, action items, and iteration goals
• B. Prioritized Product Backlog, risks, action items, and release goals
• C. Estimated iteration velocities, risks, action items, and Release Backlog
• D. Risks, action items, dependencies, and Release Backlog

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
Which answer best describes Wide Band Delphi (e. g. Planning Poker) estimating?

• A. Team members provide story estimates individually and discuss their reasoning until a consensus on the estimate is reached.
• B. Team performance on prior projects is analyzed, and actual hours and durations are used to determine estimates for similar user stories.
• C. Team members apply relative sizing to each task, and story points are triangulated based on the other stories in the Sprint Backlog.
• D. Team members assign a realistic and a pessimistic estimate to each story, and points are assigned based on the calculated average.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 12
A value stream map is a tool used to identify the:

• A. Waste across the entire process.
• B. Highest value product features.
• C. Most valuable team interactions.
• D. Most likely flow of project risks.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 13
A full cycle of design-code-verifyrelease practiced by extreme Programming (XP) teams is called:

• A. Story
• B. Timebox
• C. Iteration
• D. Burndown

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14
Which is the best option to improve project velocity?

• A. Shield programmers from interruptions
• B. Minimize customer involvement
• C. Shorten the iteration length
• D. Increase project team size

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15
Team A is producing 61 points per iteration and Team B is producing 20 points per iteration. Team A has more senior engineers. A manager demands that Team B match Team A’s points in the next iteration. Based on this information, it is reasonable to tell the manager that:

• A. it is impossible to compare two separate teams on points alone.
• B. Team B’s points will match Team A if Team B gets more senior engineers.
• C. Team B must have help self-organizing so their points match Team A.
• D. Team B’s points will increase if the Product Owner becomes more involved.

Answer: A

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