TOPIC: PMI-ACP Question/Topic of the week : Season-4

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Question 67: In the planning workshop, the product owner prioritized and ranked the features by business value, and then presented the top features to the development team. What is the team's next logical step?

A ) Set up a customer review meeting to capture more details
B ) Start planning and estimating
C ) Decompose the features into stories
D ) Start development work

Correct Answer to Q#67: C

Decompose the features into stories is the best choice. The next step is for the team to continue analysis by decomposing features into stories. Such decomposition is part of adaptive planning.

Reference: The Agile PrepCast, Agile Value Stream Analysis Concepts, Value Based Decomposition; see also Mike Griffiths, PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Second Edition, 2015

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Question 68: All of the following are considered Agile Methods except?

A ) Adaptive Software Development
B ) Feature Driven Development
C ) Lean Software Development
D ) Test Driven Development

Correct Answer to Q#68: D

Adaptive Software Development, Feature Driven Development and Lean Software Development are all consider Agile methods. Test Driven Development is considered an Agile tool.

Reference: Test-Driven Development by Example, Kent Beck, 2003.

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Question 69: In terms of the decomposition of requirements on an Agile project, the artifact that contains release plans as its first level of decomposition is referred to as a?

A ) Product Backlog
B ) Release Backlog
C ) Product Roadmap
D ) Release Roadmap

Correct Answer to Q#69: C

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Question 70: On an agile project, the team completed the creation of a potentially shippable product increment. Of the following, which represents the length of time that it took to create this product increment?

A. Estimated time
B. Cycle time
C. Lead time
D. Ideal time

Correct Answer to Q#70: B

Cycle time is the amount of time something takes to go from the start of the process to the end of that process.

Exam Reference: Agile Practice Guide, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017, Page(s) 61, 64-66; see also Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business, David J. Anderson, 2010

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Question 71: At the sprint retrospective meeting, the agile team members drew a fishbone diagram, wrote a problem at the fish’s head, and labeled the bones of the fish with categories. What should the team do next?

A. Decide what to do about the categories
B. Brainstorm factors within each category
C. Look for items appearing in more than one category
D. Label the fish's tail with a category for the solution

Correct Answer to Q#71: B

After the problem is written at the fish’s head and the bones of the fish are labeled with categories, the next step is to brainstorm factors within each category.

Reference: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, 2006, Activity: Fishbone

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Question 72: Osmotic Communication relies on which of the following in order to be most effectively practiced?

A ) Distributed teams
B ) Caves and common area
C ) Pair programming
D ) Co-located teams

Correct Answer to Q#72: D

Distributed teams cannot experience osmotic communication since not all team members are located in the same physical space. Although caves and common area, as well as pair programming, assume co-location, the definition of osmotic communication dictates that teams be co-located. Being located near each other and in the same physical environment enables knowledge to be shared and absorbed more easily as though through osmosis.

Reference: Big AGILE Toolkit, Martin Leonard, 2011

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Question 73: What happens to user stories that are not accepted by the customer at the end of a sprint?

A ) They are automatically placed into the backlog of the next sprint.
B ) They are deleted from the product backlog and dropped from the project.
C ) They are placed in the product backlog to be reprioritized.
D ) They are rewritten to address the reasons why they were not accepted.

Correct Answer to Q#73: C

User stories that are not accepted by the customer at the end of a sprint are placed in the product backlog to be reprioritized by the customer and/or the product owner.

Reference: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Jim Highsmith, 2004

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Question 74: For their new project to develop a point-of-sale system, the team creates an agile model in the form of a sample screen design of the system's user interface. What would an agile practitioner say is the primary benefit of this model?

A. Achieving a highly polished design
B. Discussing aspects of potential features
C. Increasing the level of detail
D. Creating a very accurate representation

Correct Answer to Q#74: B

The primary value of an agile model is in the discussion and creation of the model, rather than the actual model. As a result, an agile model is barely sufficient rather than highly detailed.

Exam Reference: agilemodeling.com/essays/introductionToAM.htm , Agile Modeling; see also Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process, Scott Ambler, 2002; see also PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Second Edition, 2015, Mike Griffiths; see also The Agile PrepCast, Agile Analysis and Design Concepts, www.agileprepcast.com/t_index

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Question 75: When an Agile project team member is not 100% dedicated to one project, they are referred to as?

A ) Practically Assigned
B ) Minimally Assigned
C ) Partially Assigned
D ) Fractionally Assigned

Correct Answer to Q#75: D

If the time an Agile project team member has available is not 100% fully dedicated to one project, then the team member is said to be fractionally assigned. Fractional Assignment is particularly common in organizations where an individual is assigned to one or more projects simultaneously. This makes it extremely difficult for the individual to focus and achieve their maximum productivity on either project, and is not considered an Agile Project Management best practice.

Reference: The Art of Agile Development, James Shore, 2007

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Question 76: An agile team used planning poker to estimate user stories. After all team members read a user story, the facilitator asks everyone to choose a card with an estimated number of ideal days to complete a user story and then reveal the card. If estimates were widely different, the facilitator would immediately ask for re-estimates until all the estimates converge. What did the facilitator do wrong?

A ) Participants used ideal days as the unit for the estimates.
B ) Participants re-estimated immediately after everyone revealed their cards.
C ) Cards were revealed when the process should have been anonymous.
D ) The facilitator did nothing wrong and played by the rules.

Correct Answer to Q#76: B

By immediately re-estimating, the team misses out on the benefit of discussing the estimates and why they chose those estimates.

Reference: Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn, 2005, Planning Poker

are all these real exam questions?

Hi Jess,

These are practice/mock questions that simulate the actual certification exam and are designed to allow you to test your understanding of the core concepts relating to PMI-ACP exam.