PMI-ACP Practice Test

PMI-ACP Practice Test practice questions, page 8 of 20, with answer review and explanations.

Question 36

A team using Kanban identifies that their cycle time has significant variation. After brainstorming, the team determines that the root cause is the stories' varying sizes and risks. What should the team do?

  1. Reduce work in progress (WIP) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories
  2. Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stories
  3. Set a policy to break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP
  4. Create a dedicated overflow swim lane on the Kanban board for stories that are too large

Question 37

Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, estimated at 8 points. After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took much longer than story C. What should the agile practitioner do?

  1. Assign story B more than 8 story points so to provide a better estimate
  2. Add points to story B's iteration to account for the error but keep story B at 3 points
  3. Assign more resources to story B to bring it in line with the estimate
  4. Re-estimate all stories including values for A, B and C

Question 38

The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status, and a demo of all the stories to the business. What should the product owner have done differently?

  1. Demonstrated only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback
  2. Presented the budget situation and review the cost variance
  3. Reviewed the test results to gain confidence from the stakeholders
  4. Presented a demo of all the stories including the work in progress stories

Question 39

The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this. What should the team do next?

  1. Add risk mitigation tasks to the backlog, then prioritize in current and upcoming sprints
  2. Add risk mitigation time to each requirement
  3. Apply the 80/20 rule, reserving 20 percent of each sprint's capacity for risk mitigation
  4. Hold all risks until they become issues, then add issue resolution tasks to the product backlog

Question 40

What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?

  1. Begin working on an item in the backlog
  2. Ask the scrum master to select an item from the backlog on which to work
  3. Ask the product owner to select an item from the backlog on which to work
  4. Jointly decide with the scrum master on an item from the backlog on which to work