Tuesday 10 May 2016

Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) Questions



Are you interested in doing PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) certification? If so, here are some of the toughest ACP® questions that we have come across.

Turlon & Associates (www.turlon.com) next Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) preparation course is being held in Dublin, Ireland on 5th to 6th September 2016. Our course outline can be viewed here

Question 1
At a sprint review meeting (demo), the product owner reviewed the working software and indicated that it does not fully meet what was required in the user story. Which of the statements below is not accurate?
 

A. This should not happen because the Product Owner is expected to verify and approve working software prior to the demo
B. This may have happened because acceptance criteria for this user story were not defined in sufficient detail to avoid ambiguity
C. A possible cause is that the Product Owner was not really available to the team during the Sprint
D. There is nothing wrong with the situation if the team's definition of done does not include Product Owner verification and acceptance

Question 2
Cognitive intimacy allows teams to better understand individual perceptions, thoughts, frames of reference and general reactions. Aside from this beneficial attribute, why is it imperative that managers coach their teams to communicate through some degree of cognitive intimacy?
 

A. Cognitive intimacy not only allows team members to identify group level misunderstandings but also helps members to remedy those misunderstandings before they become serious issues
B. Team members who are cognitively intimate have the ability to better calculate potential issues with project processes before they become serious
C. Cognitive intimacy allows team members to better understand each team member's individual intentions in behaving a certain way
D. Cognitive intimacy allows managers to better understand group level mistakes at a macro-level

Question 3
An agile team is beginning a new release. Things are progressing a little slower than they initially estimated. The project manager is taking a servant leadership approach. Which of the following actions is the project manager most likely to do?
 

A. Create a high-level scope statement and estimates.   
B. Intervene in non-productive team arguments.   
C. Do administrative activities for the team.   
D. Demonstrate the system to senior executives.

Question 4
Two of your expert team members have been in a heated argument over the use of new software plug-in. Now, recently you noticed that the argument, instead of increasing creativity is bringing in conflict between the team members. All of the following statements about a conflict are false EXCEPT:
 

A. Conflict resolution should always be done by scrum master 
B. Conflict is a team issue 
C. We should not have conflict in team 
D. Conflict resolution should focus on personalities

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