TOPIC: PMI-ACP Question/Topic of the week : Season-7

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Question 112: Engaging with stakeholders involves having the emotional intelligence to understand their concerns and to work to determine what they value. In order to be effective in this role, which of the following skills are necessary?

A. Interpersonal skills
B. Adaptive leadership
C. Creating an elevator statement
D. Having a detailed planning meeting

Correct Answer to Q#112: A

Good interpersonal skills are necessary to engage stakeholders and to have the emotional intelligence to work with them on determining value. Being an adaptive leader also involves interpersonal skill sets.

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Question 113: You are a product owner, and you are working to sort various user stories by value during the current sprint. A key stakeholder comes to you in the middle of the current sprint and asks you to add a feature that was deemed unnecessary by the customer. What is the best thing to do?

A. Call a team meeting and explain that you are adding another feature to the increment in the middle of the sprint.
B. Tell the Agile project manager, and let them deliver the message to the team.
C. Explain to the stakeholder that the feature will be put at the back of the backlog for a potential future revisit, but right now the customer doesn’t see it as valuable.
D. Tell the key stakeholder that the best thing to do is bring it up at the next sprint planning meeting and discuss it then.

Correct Answer to Q#113: C

There are a couple of things going on here. First, the product owner is in charge of the backlog, and stakeholders should respect that. Next, adding a feature because the stakeholder finds it valuable may not match up with the customer’s needs. Finally, in Scrum, no new user stories are added in the middle of a sprint.

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Question 114: Which of the following best describes a team’s velocity from the first iteration on?

A. Velocity is based on the decomposition of activities and their sequence.
B. Velocity varies in the first iterations, increases, and eventually plateaus.
C. Velocity is determined by the product owner.
D. Velocity is based on approved deliverables, milestones, scope, and resource management plans.

Correct Answer to Q#114: B

Velocity in the first several iterations/sprints will vary and then increase the amount of story points that can be accomplished as the team gets further into the project. Eventually, the velocity will plateau and then the team can most effectively forecast completion.

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Question 115: Which of the following represents a user story?

A. As an end user, I want to be able to shop online.
B. As a team member, I want to be able to see my progress.
C. As an end user, I want to be able to review status reports daily so that I can track project performance.
D. As a customer, I need to be able to use the software you create.

Correct Answer to Q#115: C

The format in which user stories are written include these three variables: As __ I want/need ____ so that I can ____.

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Question 116: As a product owner, it is important to determine the priority of user stories that will be performed next. This is an example of which one of the following?

A. Backlog sorting
B. Retrospective
C. Sprint review
D. Backlog grooming

Correct Answer to Q#116: D

Backlog grooming or refinement is the act of the product owner sorting the backlog by priority. The development team may be involved in this process, and it usually is, but it is the responsibility of the product owner to do so, and everyone else will respect their decisions.

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Question 117: It is important for the Agile team to be able to see the “Big Picture” in a visual way. Which of the following would be the best tool for prioritization?

A. Epic
B. User story
C. Wireframe
D. Story map

Correct Answer to Q#117: D

A story map gives the team a visual representation of the work that they are going to do and what success looks like.

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Question 118: As an Agile project manager, you are tracking the team’s work capacity and getting a sense of how much work is going to be done in the current iteration. What are you tracking?

A. Features completed
B. Scope of work completed
C. Velocity
D. User stories completed

Correct Answer to Q#118: C

Velocity is the amount of work a team can accomplish in an iteration. It is calculated by how many story points were selected and how many were achieved during an iteration.

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Question 119: Your team has stabilized their velocity throughout five iterations and commits to 15 story points in the current iteration. Due to a risk event during the iteration, the team only completed 14 story points. What happens to the leftover point?

A. The team will work overtime to complete the work to which they have committed.
B. The team will adjust their sprint plan from 15 to 14.
C. The team will do 14 story points and put the remaining work or 1 point into the backlog for another iteration.
D. The team will do nothing; points are only estimates.

Correct Answer to Q#119: C

It happens. Not everything will always be completed in every iteration, no matter how well you plan. If there is leftover work or there are story points, they will be put back into the backlog and sorted by priority. Typically, that work would be put into the next iteration.

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Question 120: Your team is working with the customer on a brand-new project. The customer has established the primary scope of the work, but your team doesn’t quite have a process intact. You suggest to the team that they run an iteration that allows for process discovery but doesn’t yet deliver releasable value to the customer. This is otherwise known as which one of the following?

A. Iteration one
B. Initiation
C. Iteration Zero
D. Iteration discovery

Correct Answer to Q#120: C

Iteration Zero, or sprint zero, allows a team that is perhaps newer to Agile and doesn’t have a process intact yet to develop their process, or if a seasoned team determines that they need a discovery iteration to develop the best approach, they would use Iteration Zero.

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Question 121: Your team is estimating that it will take two weeks for the next sprint if there aren’t any interruptions to their work flow. Which of the following describes this estimate?

A. Likely time estimate
B. Ideal time estimate
C. Bottom up estimate
D. Expert judgment estimate

Correct Answer to Q#121: B

Ideal time is time that is spent without interruptions and isn’t an effective way to estimate.

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Question 122: You are working with a visible master list of work, and you are constantly reviewing and updating it with requirements that will be reorganized and reprioritized repeatedly. This is an example of which of the following?

A. You are the development team planning the next iteration.
B. You are a product owner and are working on grooming the backlog.
C. You are the Scrum Master working with the customer on priority.
D. You are the customer working with the product owner to keep your priorities up-to-date on the Kanban board.

Correct Answer to Q#122: B

A master list of visible work is a backlog, and it is a living document that is reviewed, reorganized, and reprioritized by the product owner while grooming or refining the backlog.

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Question 123: Your team is estimating work using planning poker. All team members agree that the work size is a 5, except for Bob. Bob thinks it should be a 10 in size. What could the reason be for this discrepancy?

A. It could be due to product uncertainty or technical uncertainty.
B. Bob is being difficult so that he can add padding to his work.
C. The team should have used T-shirt sizing to get a better result.
D. The team should talk to the Scrum Master for leadership in the matter.

Correct Answer to Q#123: A

In this case, Bob may not understand the ins and outs of the technology, and because of the lack of knowledge about the work, it may seem bigger to Bob than to his teammates. In this case, Bob is an outlier and would need to explain why he chose 10 instead of 5. The team would then discuss and vote again.

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Question 124: Your team has reached the performing phase. What types of management and leadership do they need?

A. A lot of feedback and interactions
B. Feedback, coaching, or help only when they ask for it
C. Help with conflict resolution and expectation settings
D. Helping the team get to know each other and build trust

Correct Answer to Q#124: B

If your team is performing, it is your role to be a servant leader, and if your team asks for or needs help, you provide it. Otherwise, you act as more of a facilitator.

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Question 125: The team space is key in Agile projects. What is the one thing that is recommended above all others for Agile teams?
A. Scrum boards
B. Colocation
C. Caves and common rooms
D. Information radiators

Colocation.

That's the right answer.

Correct Answer to Q#125: B

Colocation is highly recommended, if possible, for the team. Even if the team is virtual, it is recommended that they be colocated for planning and at least one if not two iterations.