PMI-ACP Practice Test

PMI-ACP Practice Test practice questions, page 18 of 20, with answer review and explanations.

Question 86

An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the scrum master do?

  1. Dismiss the team member
  2. Discuss the situation with the functional manager
  3. Report the functional manager to the project sponsor
  4. Demand that the functional manager respect the project charter

Question 87

During a mature agile team's planning meeting, a team member proposes a new framework that would considerably reduce implementation time. However, the team lacks the confidence to try the new framework. To help the team gain confidence, what should the agile practitioner suggest?

  1. Develop a spike
  2. Create an Ishikawa diagram
  3. Perform a pre-mortem analysis
  4. Complete a variance and trend analysis

Question 88

The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope. Unless this change is accepted, there is no value to the customers during this iteration. What must the agile practitioner do?

  1. Add the new change request as a new user story in the product backlog for the upcoming iteration
  2. Evaluate the impact of the change request and let the team and product owner decide and re-prioritize based on value
  3. Recommend cancelling the current iteration and plan the change request into the next iteration
  4. Recommend that the product owner add this change request as a user story to the backlog for the current iteration

Question 89

During a review session, an agile team presented done requirements to a group of stakeholders. Stakeholder feedback indicated that the done requirements failed to meet most pressing needs and provide value. What should the team have done to prevent this?

  1. Reprioritized requirements prior to committing to iteration work
  2. Ensured that requirements remained stable during the iteration cycle
  3. Had stakeholders focus on items created after the product backlog was initially built
  4. Worked on features rather than a set of components

Question 90

A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work and to rely on outside specialists is impacting team velocity. What should the agile team lead do?

  1. Send the member to training
  2. Ask the outside specialists if database administration is required from the team
  3. Send one member to training only after asking the team if there is an issue with the current work flow
  4. Wait until all members of the team can attend training