Free PMI-ACP practice test

10 questions in the style of the real PMI-ACP exam. No sign-up: answer them all, check your score against an 80% target, and see the correct answers.

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• Based on the current PMI exam outline
• Real exam: 120 questions, 180 minutes, pass mark not published by PMI

1Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) focuses on practices, roles, and activities at the portfolio, program, and project levels, and organizing the enterprise around value streams that provide value to the customer. Which is NOT a principle of SAFe? (choose the best answer)

Take an economic view and apply systems thinking.Visualize and limit work in progress, reducing batch sizes.Plan carefully for a large single feature release.Build incrementally with short integrated learning cycles.

2A Scrum Master is starting a project with a new team and needs to develop an estimate of velocity. What should the Scrum Master use as a basis for velocity in the first Sprint? (choose the best answer)

Forecasted velocity.Actual velocity.Terminal velocity.Cycle velocity.

3Every project has characteristics around requirements, delivery, change and goals. Understanding the different types of life-cycle will allow you to choose the right one for the circumstances of your project. What is the correct description for an 'Iterative' project approach? (choose the best answer)

Dynamic requirements, repeated until correct, in multiple deliveries.Dynamic requirements, repeated until correct, in a single delivery.Fixed requirements, repeated until incorrect, in a single delivery.Fixed requirements, performed once for a give increment, in a single delivery.

4An agile team is estimating the level of effort necessary to complete their User Stories. They decide to make the assumption that the team members will not have any interruptions to project work and will be productive 100% of the teim. Which of the following is the team using? (choose the best answer)

Real time.Relative size.Ideal size.Ideal time.

5The iteration review or demo is an important meeting for the team to bring the iteration to a logical conclusion. Which of the following should NOT be part of this meeting? (choose the best answer)

A demonstration of the working productA detailed overview of the challenges encountered during the iteration and how they were overcomeFeedback by the participants about the productDiscussion about the potential release of the product

6You're working with your Agile team on your first iteration. A large item presented by the Product Owner is broken down into smaller User Stories by the team to be worked on. What best describes a User Story? (choose the best answer)

A piece of functionality small enough to be completed in one to three days.A description of the feature and desired benefit from a user's perspective.A story about the end-user so the team understands the feature completely.A prioritized backlog that the team can choose features from.

7An organization would like to apply an agile approach for a new project that is about to begin. Management wants to understand how the team will ensure quality, leverage the skills within the team, and minimize external dependencies. Which approach is this describing? (choose the best answer)

Servant Leadership.Sprint Planning.The daily stand-up.The whole team approach.

8You're a project manager on an Agile project that requires an external third part to develop software for one of your features. You have worked with the project team to gather the requirements and backlog of product features. You begin working with your procurement department on a contract for the vendor. What will you do next? (choose the best answer)

Request that the contract is one that accommodates changes to product scope.Go back to the business and ask them to deliver the feature.Raise a risk to the delivery of your project based on the external vendor.Find an existing 'time and materials' contract from the organization's Organizational Process Assets.

9There are various project life-cycle models you can choose from that will depend on the type of project, environment, deliverables and stakeholders. You're working on a project that requires features of an overall product to be delivered on a frequent basis. What sort of project life-cycle will you choose to work with? (choose the best answer)

Waterfall project life-cycleAgile project life-cycleIterative project life-cycleIncremental project life-cycle

10The Scrum Master tells you that an agile approach builds problem solving into its way of working in a number of ways, using transparency and events. Which of the following is NOT specifically designed to raise and solve problems? (choose the best answer)

RetrospectivesWriting User StoriesIteration reviewsRaising impediments at the Daily Scrum

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