Sample Questions for the PMI-ACP® Exam

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Sample Questions for the PMI-ACP® Exam

This document contains 15 Sample Questions for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner
(PMI-ACP)® Exam. They are specifically designed to test your understanding of various
agile concepts and methods.

The questions are copyright protected by OSP International LLC and may not be copied,
reproduced, or distributed for any purpose without prior permission.

Section 1 contains the questions.
Section 2 contains the answers with explanations.

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The Questions

Question 1: Which of the following is not a value stated in the Agile Manifesto?

A) Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
B) Working software over comprehensive documentation
C) Customer communication over contract negotiation
D) Responding to change over following a plan

Question 2: You are a Product Owner working on an agile software development project and you
have brought all the Scrum team members together for the first Sprint Planning meeting. You read
the user stories to the team, and they have provided estimates to complete these user stories.
You have promised to leave them alone during the iteration to get the work done and they have
agreed to complete the work 100% according to the definition of done. What is this an example
of?

A) Two-way communication
B) Reciprocal commitment
C) Bi-partisan agreement
D) Emotional intelligence

Question 3: Agile project management and product development uses several different types of
documents specific to each iteration, which are referred to as "artifacts". All of the following are
Agile iteration artifacts except:

A) Iteration Vision Statement
B) Iteration Backlog
C) Iteration Plan
D) Iteration Burnup Chart

Question 4: Extreme Programming (XP) defines four basic activities that are performed during the
software development process. These include designing, coding, testing and ... ?

A) Collaborating
B) Leveling
C) Communicating
D) Listening
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Question 5: When it comes to estimating the requirements on your Agile projects, there are three
different “Sizing Units” that can be used to determine the size (referring here specifically to “Level
of Effort”) of your Agile project requirements (referring here specifically to “user stories”), and the
specific tasks to meet those requirements. Which of the following is not recognized as a “unit”
that can be used for estimating the size of the requirements on your Agile project?

A) Real time
B) Relative size
C) Ideal time
D) Ideal size

Question 6: One of the major tools and techniques used in Lean Software Development is value
stream mapping. What is the primary purpose of value stream mapping?

A) To improve business processes
B) To identify and eliminate waste
C) To ensure product quality
D) To increase customer value

Question 7: When implementing Agile Project Management, risk management that occurs simply
by following Agile best practices such as iterative planning and review activities is called?

A) Inherent risk management
B) Organic risk management
C) Overt risk management
D) Intrinsic risk management

Question 8: Alistair Cockburn created the Crystal Family of Agile Methods, all of whose names
contain colors of quartz crystals taken from Geology. What two characteristics of an Agile project
are used to determine the color of the Crystal method that should be implemented?

A) Size and complexity
B) Duration and complexity
C) Size and criticality
D) Duration and criticality

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Question 9: In general, metrics can be defined as quantitative parameters or measures that can be
used to track performance or production. As “metrics” relate specifically to Agile project
management, they can only be considered “valuable” to the Agile team if they are used to
“measure” the progress of the delivered product, the efficiency of the project as a whole, and the
efficiency of the Agile project team. All of the following are metrics used in Agile except:

A) Real Time
B) Velocity
C) Escaped defects
D) Cycle time

Question 10: Which of the following is an Agile Modeling tool that can be used in conjunction
with different Agile methods?

A) Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
B) Feature Driven Development (FDD)
C) Adaptive Software Development (ASD)
D) Test Driven Development (TDD)

Question 11: All of the following are considered methods of receiving feedback from Agile project
team members except?

A) Team Evaluation
B) Prototyping
C) Individual Evaluation
D) Process Tailoring

Question 12: Agile project teams often use a collection of values, principles and practices to aid in
the Agile software development process. What is the term used to describe this collection?

A) Agile Prototyping
B) Agile Analytics
C) Agile Modeling
D) Agile Diagnostics

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Question 13: You and your Agile project team are currently demonstrating a potentially shippable
product increment to you project stakeholders. What Agile meeting are you conducting?

A) Iteration Review Meeting
B) Daily Standup Meeting
C) Iteration Retrospective Meeting
D) Deliverables Meeting

Question 14: Which of the following Agile meetings is process-oriented?

A) Iteration Planning
B) Iteration Review
C) Iteration Demonstration
D) Iteration Retrospective

Question 15: You are performing integrated testing on each of the different product increments
developed during each iteration so far to ensure that they work together as a whole. What type of
iteration is this?

A) Hybrid Iteration
B) Hardening Iteration
C) Heuristic Iteration
D) Handoff Iteration

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The Answers

Question 1: Which of the following is not a value stated in the Agile Manifesto?

A) Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
B) Working software over comprehensive documentation
C) Customer communication over contract negotiation
D) Responding to change over following a plan

C. This is a tricky question! Although each of these seems correct, one answer has been
changed a bit from the actual words used in the Agile Manifesto.
Answers "A", "B" & "D" are from the Agile Manifesto word for word. The actual words used in the
Agile Manifesto for answer "C" are Customer "collaboration" over contract negotiation, rather than
Customer "communication" over contract negotiation, and this is why "C" is the correct answer to
this question.

Question 2: You are a Product Owner working on an agile software development project and you
have brought all the Scrum team members together for the first Sprint Planning meeting. You read
the user stories to the team, and they have provided estimates to complete these user stories.
You have promised to leave them alone during the iteration to get the work done and they have
agreed to complete the work 100% according to the definition of done. What is this an example
of?

A) Two-way communication
B) Reciprocal commitment
C) Bi-partisan agreement
D) Emotional intelligence

B. This is an example of Reciprocal Commitment, where the Agile project team commits to
delivering the specified functionality 100% according the definition of done at the end of the
iteration, and the product owner, business and customer agree not to change priorities during the
iteration and leave the team alone to "do the work".

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Question 3: Agile project management and product development uses several different types of
documents specific to each iteration, which are referred to as "artifacts". All of the following are
Agile iteration artifacts except:

A) Iteration Vision Statement
B) Iteration Backlog
C) Iteration Plan
D) Iteration Burnup Chart

A. The four main artifacts used in Agile project management and product development are the
Iteration Plan, Iteration Backlog, Iteration Burndown Charts and Iteration Burnup Charts. The only
type of "vision statement" used as an artifact in Agile is the Product Vision Statement. The
"Iteration Vision Statement" is a completely fake term that we made up for this question.

Question 4: Extreme Programming (XP) defines four basic activities that are performed during the
software development process. These include designing, coding, testing and ... ?

A) Collaborating
B) Leveling
C) Communicating
D) Listening

D. The four basic activities of XP that are performed during the software development process
are:
1) Listening to the customer to determine what they want and also to your fellow development
team members.
2) Designing the code based on your team's understanding of the requirements resulting from
listening to the customer and your team.
3) Coding because the end product of the development effort is based on programming the code.
4) Testing the code that has been programmed to deliver the highest quality code as close to
bug-free as feasible.

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Question 5: When it comes to estimating the requirements on your Agile projects, there are three
different “Sizing Units” that can be used to determine the size (referring here specifically to “Level
of Effort”) of your Agile project requirements (referring here specifically to “user stories”), and the
specific tasks to meet those requirements. Which of the following is not recognized as a “unit”
that can be used for estimating the size of the requirements on your Agile project?

A) Real time
B) Relative size
C) Ideal time
D) Ideal size

D. "When it comes to estimating the effort to complete the requirements on your Agile projects,
there are three different “Sizing Units” that can be used:

Real Time, which is sometimes called Real Days or Actual Days. This refers to the actual time
during each day that the team members are available and are productively working on specific
Agile project tasks.
Ideal Time, or Ideal Days, where you make the assumption that your Agile project team members
will have no interruptions in their work, such as checking email or attending meetings, and will be
100% productive every hour of every day.
Relative Size, which is the recommended “sizing unit” to use for requirements size estimation on
your Agile project. This sizing unit allows you to estimate the “level of effort” a user story will take
to complete, relative to the other user stories you will be performing on your Agile project.
Ideal Size is not a recognized sizing unit for estimating the level effort of effort to complete an
Agile project requirement.

Question 6: One of the major tools and techniques used in Lean Software Development is value
stream mapping. What is the primary purpose of value stream mapping?

A) To improve business processes
B) To identify and eliminate waste
C) To ensure product quality
D) To increase customer value

B. The single most important goal of using Value Stream Mapping is to identify and eliminate
waste.

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Question 7: When implementing Agile Project Management, risk management that occurs simply
by following Agile best practices such as iterative planning and review activities is called?

A) Inherent risk management
B) Organic risk management
C) Overt risk management
D) Intrinsic risk management

B. On Agile projects, risk management concepts that are employed can be classified as either as
"Organic" or "Overt". Organic risk management is risk management that occurs simply by
following Agile best practices such as iterative planning and review activities
Overt risk management refers to implementing specific strategies in order to identify, assess and
mitigate the risks on your Agile project by using specific Agile Risk Management tools and
techniques. Some examples of Overt Risk Management concepts are the use of Risk-Based
Spikes, Risk-Adjusted Backlogs and Risk Burndown Charts.

Question 8: Alistair Cockburn created the Crystal Family of Agile Methods, all of whose names
contain colors of quartz crystals taken from Geology. What two characteristics of an Agile project
are used to determine the color of the Crystal method that should be implemented?

A) Size and complexity
B) Duration and complexity
C) Size and criticality
D) Duration and criticality

C. Crystal comes from Alistair Cockburn’s characterization of projects along the two dimensions
of “size” (meaning the size of the project team) and “criticality” (meaning the damage that will be
caused if the developed product or system fails).

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Question 9: In general, metrics can be defined as quantitative parameters or measures that can be
used to track performance or production. As “metrics” relate specifically to Agile project
management, they can only be considered “valuable” to the Agile team if they are used to
“measure” the progress of the delivered product, the efficiency of the project as a whole, and the
efficiency of the Agile project team. All of the following are metrics used in Agile except:

A) Real Time
B) Velocity
C) Escaped defects
D) Cycle time

A. Velocity, Escaped Defects and Cycle Time are all metrics that are used in Agile Project
Management. Real Time is an Agile estimation "sizing unit" that refers to the actual time during
each day that the team members are available and are productively working on specific Agile
project tasks.

Question 10: Which of the following is an Agile Modeling tool that can be used in conjunction
with different Agile methods?

A) Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
B) Feature Driven Development (FDD)
C) Adaptive Software Development (ASD)
D) Test Driven Development (TDD)

D. Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Feature Driven Development (FDD) and
Adaptive Software Development (ASD) are all Agile development methods. Test Driven
Development (TDD) is an Agile Modeling tool that can be used in conjunction with other Agile
methods.

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