Mastering PMI-ACP Exam: Practice Questions 21 to 30
Saket Bansal
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Preparing for the PMI-ACP certification can be an enriching journey that not only helps you ace the exam but also enhances your Agile skills, making you a more effective practitioner in real-world projects.
To make this journey smoother, we’ve curated a series of PMI-ACP practice questions with detailed explanations. These questions are designed to deepen your understanding of Agile principles and frameworks, and prepare you for the nuances of the exam.
Where to Start?
If you’re new to our practice series, start with the first two articles:
These articles will give you a strong foundation and prepare you for the set of questions we’re focusing on here: 21 to 30.
Exploring Questions 21 to 30
In this segment, we tackle 10 advanced PMI-ACP questions. These questions emphasize key Agile concepts like:
? Agile mindset and principles.
? Adaptive planning and iterative delivery.
? Effective stakeholder engagement and team collaboration.
? Handling real-world scenarios, including uncertainties and team challenges.
Why These Questions Matter
The PMI-ACP Exam Content Outline (ECO) expects you to not only memorize Agile practices but also apply them in practical scenarios. These questions simulate real-world challenges and teach you how to:
By practicing these questions, you’re not just preparing for the exam—you’re building skills to excel in your Agile career.
Q 21
You are an Agile practitioner leading a cross-functional team developing a new mobile app for real-time customer support. The app is an innovative solution with no existing examples in the market, and there is significant uncertainty regarding customer needs and technology feasibility. A key stakeholder insists that the first product increment should be comprehensive enough to establish clear market leadership in this emerging space.
As an Agile practitioner, what would you recommend to balance the stakeholder’s expectations and Agile principles?
A.?Collaborate with the stakeholder to build a detailed business case and conduct extensive market research, delaying development until all uncertainties are addressed.
B.?Work closely with the stakeholder to define a complete feature set and plan a comprehensive initial release aimed at creating a big impact and securing market leadership.
C.?Highlight the benefits of starting with a lightweight MVP to test assumptions, gather real-world feedback, and iteratively refine the app to meet market needs effectively.
D. Recommend stakeholder training on Agile principles and incremental delivery to align their expectations with Agile ways of working.
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Q 22
As an Agile practitioner, you are leading a team working on a product with significant uncertainty about the technology to be used. Team members express frustration about the lack of clarity regarding solutions and find it difficult to estimate project timelines. How would you address this situation?
A) Take sign-off on the requirements to ensure clarity on at least the scope, and estimate timelines based on similar industry projects.
B) Follow an iterative approach and run experimental spikes in the initial iterations to explore and gain more understanding of the technology.
C) Add a significant contingency buffer to the estimates to account for the high level of uncertainty in the project.
D) Involve technical experts, assigning them ownership of the estimates and making them accountable for ensuring their accuracy.
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Q 23
You are managing a release planning session for a product that spans 4 iterations, involving two Agile teams working on different components. The overall integration and testing are estimated to take 2 weeks. How would you recommend managing the iterations to ensure timely delivery and seamless integration?
A) Focus on developing all the features in the first 3 iterations with regular team-level demos, leaving iteration 4 for integration and testing.
B) Ensure integration happens every iteration and spread the testing and integration effort evenly across all 4 iterations.
C) Engage with key stakeholders in a planning session to determine the most feasible approach based on the readiness needs of the product during release.
D) Plan integration as a separate activity post-iteration 4, ensuring that all development work is complete before integration and testing begin.
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Q 24
During an iteration review, stakeholders express confusion about the target customer for the demonstrated features. Some stakeholders focus on young people using the application, while others focus on older people. This misalignment has led to unclear feedback and conflicting priorities. How can this problem be avoided in the future?
A) Ensure clearer definition of features by including detailed acceptance criteria to align expectations.
B) Revisit the target personas for the application and ensure all stakeholders agree on a common understanding of the target audience.
C) Increase the frequency of demos, conducting them more often than iteration reviews to catch misalignments early.
D) Ask the Product Owner and the team to collaborate on defining detailed wireframes to provide a shared visual reference for the features.
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Q 25
You are part of a team managing a website where a specific group of users, previously highly active, has recently shown a significant decline in visits. The team and stakeholders are unsure why this is happening and want to address the issue. As an Agile practitioner, how would you approach understanding the root cause of this decline?
A) Organize a workshop with the team and stakeholders to collaboratively perform empathy mapping for this user group, exploring their thoughts, feelings, and pain points.
B) Conduct stakeholder interviews to gather their opinions on what might have caused the drop in user visits, and use those insights to plan the next steps.
C) Experiment with new features designed to re-engage this user group and see which ones resonate best.
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D) Study other applications in your industry to see what strategies they are employing and replicate their approach.
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Q 26
You are leading an Agile team that has completed release planning for an upcoming product launch. The release plan includes multiple iterations with clearly defined features. During the first iteration, a stakeholder approaches the team with additional requirements to be included in the release.
As an Agile practitioner, how would you handle this situation?
A) Suggest deferring the requested change to a future release to ensure the current plan is delivered as originally committed.
B) Accept the change immediately and revise the release plan by adding more iterations to accommodate the delay.
C) Ask the stakeholder to identify which existing requirements can be removed or deprioritized to make space for the new ones without impacting the release timeline.
D) Acknowledge the stakeholder’s request and review it during a backlog refinement session with stakeholders and the team to collaboratively evaluate the impact on value, risk, and timeline.
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Q 27
You are leading an Agile team that has recently transitioned from working in an office to working remotely. Previously, daily standups were conducted in-person at the start of the day, and all team members attended consistently. Since moving to remote work, several challenges have emerged, such as time zone differences, technical issues, and difficulties in active participation during virtual meetings.
As an Agile practitioner, how would you address these challenges?
A) Reiterate the value of the current daily standup format and ask team members to adjust to virtual working by adhering to the original schedule.
B) Suggest conducting asynchronous updates via a shared document or collaboration tool instead of holding live daily standups to accommodate remote challenges.
C) Propose revisiting the team’s working agreement to collaboratively adapt the daily standup for remote work, including discussing timing, format, and tools to address the team’s needs.
D) Encourage team members to use other communication channels throughout the day to share updates, reducing reliance on the daily standup as the main discussion forum.
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Q 28
After reviewing the impact of past releases, some stakeholders express concerns about how value estimates are assigned to features. They highlight discrepancies between expected and observed outcomes, questioning the team’s ability to deliver value consistently. As an Agile practitioner, how would you address these concerns to improve confidence in future value delivery?
A) Recommend revisiting the prioritization approach to include a broader range of inputs and perspectives from stakeholders, ensuring value estimation is more inclusive.
B) Propose creating a benefits hypothesis for each feature to ensure assumptions are clearly defined, tracked, and validated against observed outcomes post-release.
C) Involve the concerned stakeholders in the prioritization process to ensure their perspectives are reflected in the decision-making for upcoming features.
D) Reassure stakeholders that value discrepancies are normal in Agile projects and suggest monitoring metrics only after the product is fully developed.
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?Q 29
You are starting a new project, and the team is eager to begin development. As an Agile practitioner, how would you ensure effective stakeholder engagement?
A) Start the first iteration with the team and work with stakeholders one-on-one during the iteration to gather feedback.
B) Announce the start of the project and invite all stakeholders to join the first iteration review meeting to provide feedback.
C) Conduct a project kickoff meeting to align all stakeholders and the team on the vision, goals, and approach before starting the iteration.
D) Ensure that stakeholders have reviewed and understood the project charter and Agile approach before starting development.
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Q 30
As an Agile practitioner, you observe that your team is fully occupied with delivering planned work during iterations and consistently meets iteration goals. Stakeholders appreciate the team’s productivity, but opportunities for learning, experimentation, and improvement are being missed. What should be your next action?
A) Allocate dedicated time during each iteration for team members to experiment with new ideas, approaches, and improvements.
B) Focus on completing planned work as the highest priority and encourage team members to explore innovations in their own time outside of work hours.
C) Identify a few team members who are more skilled in innovative work and make them responsible for driving innovation.
D) Schedule an innovation-focused iteration after every four iterations, allowing the entire team to experiment and improve without the pressure of delivering planned work.
Answer Key : 21-C, 22-B ,23-B ,24-B ,25-A ,26-D ,27-C ,28-B , 29-C, 30-A.
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