PMI-ACP Practice Test

Project managers use velocity to determine:

A.

If the team is committing to an appropriate amount of work for the iteration.

B.

How much work each team member is capable of completing during an iteration.

C.

How much work teams that are similar in size are capable of completing during an
iteration.

D.

If the Product Owner is prioritizing work appropriately in preparation for iteration
planning.

Which of the following best represents both a principle of the Agile manifesto and a Lean
method of simplicity?

A.

Maximizing the amount of work not done

B.

Delivering early and continuously

C.

Welcoming changing requirements

D.

Deciding at the last responsible moment

When interacting with team members, the Agile project manager should:

A.

Ask team members to do things by phrasing the statement as a request rather than as a
demand.

B.

Ignore team member input and emotions when important decisions have to be made.

C.

Proceed cautiously when requesting team members to do something likely to make
them unhappy.

D.

Disagree with the team based on the merit of the issue without considering how the team is feeling.

Applying the Pareto rule when prioritizing the Product Backlog means that:

A.

features that are lower priority are more likely to slip to the next iteration.

B.

the value of a feature is not realized until the feature is complete.

C.

more recent requests are usually more important to the business.

D.

a small percentage of the work will provide a large percentage of the value.

The advantage of face-to-face collaboration emphasized in eXtreme Programming (XP) is
that it:

A.

allows team members to use common language in their design and code.

B.

delays feedback much more than scheduled inspections.

C.

eliminates communication delays and misunderstandings.

D.

allows team members to correct some mistakes on the fly.