PMI-ACP Practice Test 6 — 10 Questions

Question 1

An organization is scaling agile across five teams working on a single product. To optimize the end-to-end delivery flow, the teams identify dependencies between them. Which approach best coordinates this cross-team delivery?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Implement a Scrum of Scrums meeting to discuss cross-team dependencies and integration blockers.. A Scrum of Scrums is the standard scaling mechanism for coordinating multiple Scrum teams working on a single product. It brings representatives from each team together to discuss cross-team dependencies, integration blockers, and alignment, optimizing end-to-end delivery flow.

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Assign a dedicated project manager to track every individual task across all teams.

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Combine all five teams into one large daily stand-up meeting.

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Mandate that all teams use the same velocity reporting tool.

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Request that teams ignore dependencies until the final integration sprint.

Question 2

A stakeholder requests a feature mid-sprint that is vital to organizational success. How should the practitioner respond?

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Direct the stakeholder to the Product Owner to discuss the trade-offs and impact.. The Product Owner is responsible for managing the product backlog and prioritizing work. When a stakeholder requests a mid-sprint change, the practitioner should direct them to the Product Owner to discuss trade-offs and impact, as the Product Owner decides whether to adjust the sprint backlog or defer the request.

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Deny the request immediately.

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Add it to the sprint immediately without removing anything.

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Ask the developers to work faster.

Question 3

How do you handle a scenario where two teams have a dependency that is slowing both of them down?

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Facilitate a joint session for the two teams to map the dependency and negotiate a timeline for resolution.. When two teams have a dependency that slows both down, the agile approach is to make the dependency visible and let the teams jointly solve it. Facilitating a joint session allows both teams to map the dependency, understand each other's constraints, and negotiate a timeline for resolution. This preserves team autonomy while removing the impediment collaboratively, which is the core of servant-leadership in agile.

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Merge the two teams into one large team.

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Assign a single manager to oversee both teams.

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Tell the teams to stop relying on each other.

Question 4

A team is having difficulty estimating task sizes. What activity should the practitioner facilitate?

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Planning Poker.. Planning Poker is a collaborative estimation technique where team members use cards (often Fibonacci numbers) to simultaneously estimate user story effort, discuss differences, and converge on a consensus estimate. It directly addresses estimation difficulty by leveraging team knowledge and reducing anchoring bias.

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Individual guessing.

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Expert estimation by the manager.

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Using historical data from different projects.

Question 5

A team has high velocity but the customer reports the product is not meeting their needs. What is the most likely cause?

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The product backlog is not prioritized based on customer value.. High velocity with poor customer satisfaction most likely indicates that the team is building the wrong things—the product backlog is not prioritized based on customer value. Velocity measures output, not outcome. If the backlog is not aligned with customer needs, the team can efficiently deliver features that miss the mark.

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The sprint duration is too short.

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The team is lacking a project manager.

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The team is not using enough automated tests.

Question 6

The Product Owner wants to prioritize items based on the 'Cost of Delay'. What does this metric measure?

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The potential revenue or value lost by delaying the delivery of a feature.. Cost of Delay (CoD) quantifies the economic impact of not delivering a feature or capability at a given time — it is the revenue, value, or opportunity lost per unit of time that delivery is postponed. It is the numerator in WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First), where CoD is divided by job duration to prioritize work. The correct answer captures this as potential revenue or value lost by delaying delivery.

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The total budget allocated to a specific feature.

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The time taken to fix defects found during UAT.

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The number of hours spent by developers waiting for requirements.

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The penalty paid to vendors for late delivery.

Question 7

Your team is failing to meet the sprint goal due to a lack of clear requirements. How should you facilitate?

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Facilitate a session between the PO and the team to clarify the requirements and improve the refinement process.. Facilitating a session between the Product Owner and the team (A) addresses the root cause — unclear requirements — by improving communication and refinement. The Scrum Master or agile leader should enable this conversation rather than solving it unilaterally. This approach also strengthens the refinement process so future sprints have clearer, better-understood backlog items.

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Write the requirements yourself.

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Ask the team to guess what the requirements are.

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Cancel the sprint.

Question 8

What is the importance of 'transparency' in Agile?

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To enable empirical process control.. Transparency in Agile enables empirical process control — the ability to inspect and adapt based on accurate, visible information. Without transparency, inspections are misleading and adaptations are ineffective, undermining the three pillars of Scrum (transparency, inspection, adaptation).

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To satisfy auditors.

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To make the team work harder.

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So everyone knows who to blame.

Question 9

The organization is pressuring the team to commit to a date for a major release that the team feels is impossible. What is your role?

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Help the team explain the trade-offs (scope, quality, or time) based on their current velocity to the stakeholders.. The Scrum Master/Agile coach's role is to help the team and stakeholders make trade-offs transparent using empirical data such as velocity and historical throughput. Rather than accepting an impossible date or hiding behind optimism, you facilitate a conversation where scope, quality, and time are explicitly balanced. This preserves transparency and lets the business make an informed decision.

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Tell management that the team will work hard to make it happen.

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Tell the team to stop providing estimates to management.

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Accept the date to avoid conflict with management.

Question 10

A team is struggling with frequent context switching. As a servant leader, what is the best first step to foster an Agile mindset regarding focus?

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Introduce WIP limits at the team level.. Introducing WIP (Work In Progress) limits at the team level is a direct Kanban/Agile practice that reduces context switching by capping the number of concurrent items. As a servant leader, the best first step is to foster this mindset through a lightweight, team-owned mechanism rather than imposing controls.

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Implement mandatory overtime to finish tasks.

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Mandate daily status reports to the PMO.

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Assign specific tasks to individuals without team input.