PMI-ACP Practice Test 8 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A team has a high turnover rate. What should the servant leader focus on?

Accepted Answer

Investigating the team culture and working conditions.. High turnover is a systemic signal, not a recruiting problem, so a servant leader must investigate the root causes in team culture and working conditions. Servant leadership means removing impediments and creating an environment where people can succeed, which starts with diagnosing why people are leaving. Only after understanding the drivers — workload, conflict, lack of autonomy, poor tooling — can the leader act effectively.

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Replacing people faster.

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Lowering the performance expectations.

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Hiring more senior developers.

Question 2

A team has been consistently delivering high-quality software, but stakeholders complain that the features delivered are not the most valuable for the current market. What should the team do to align better with organizational priorities?

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Work with the Product Owner to re-evaluate the product backlog against the current business value and ROI criteria.. When stakeholders say the delivered features are not the most valuable, the team should work with the Product Owner to re-evaluate the product backlog against current business value and ROI criteria. This ensures the team is building the right thing, not just building things right. The Product Owner owns backlog prioritization, so collaboration is essential.

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Ignore stakeholder feedback and continue working on the current roadmap.

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Increase the frequency of deployments to deliver more features faster.

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Implement a new automated testing suite to improve quality.

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Request a larger budget from management to cover more features.

Question 3

A team is working on a legacy product. How should the Product Owner balance new feature requests with maintenance?

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Allocate a fixed percentage of capacity to maintenance and technical debt.. On a legacy product, the Product Owner should explicitly reserve a portion of each iteration's capacity for maintenance and technical debt so the system remains stable and evolvable while new features are delivered. This is a deliberate, transparent trade-off rather than an all-or-nothing choice. It reflects the agile principle of sustainable pace and the reality that technical debt compounds if ignored.

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Devote 100% of capacity to new features.

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Only perform maintenance during the weekends.

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Only prioritize maintenance when the system fails.

Question 4

Which THREE of the following are examples of servant leadership?

Accepted Answer

Coaching team members to reach their full potential. Servant leadership focuses on putting the needs of the team first and helping others grow, so option A is correct because coaching team members to reach their full potential is a core servant-leadership behavior that develops people rather than commanding them. Option C is correct because removing obstacles that hinder the team's progress is a classic servant-leadership practice of clearing the path so the team can succeed. Option E is correct because modeling the values and behaviors you expect from the team demonstrates servant leadership through leading by example and setting a consistent ethical standard. Option B is not correct because taking all the credit for the team's successes is self-serving and the opposite of servant leadership, which shares credit and elevates others. Option D is not correct because directing the team on exactly which tasks to do is autocratic, task-centered leadership rather than the empowering, supportive approach of servant leadership.

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Taking all the credit for the team's successes

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Directing the team on exactly which tasks to do

Question 5

What is the primary role of the 'Definition of Done' (DoD)?

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To ensure a common understanding of quality and completeness for all work items.. The Definition of Done is a shared, explicit checklist that determines when a product increment is complete and of acceptable quality. It creates a common understanding across the team, PO, and stakeholders of what 'done' means for every backlog item, preventing ambiguity about quality and completeness. Without a DoD, 'done' becomes subjective and technical debt accumulates.

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To list the team members on the project.

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To describe the user's requirements for the product.

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To define the budget limit for the project.

Question 6

A new developer is struggling to adopt the team's pairing practices. What is the most appropriate action?

Accepted Answer

Coach the developer on the benefits of knowledge sharing.. In Agile, the Scrum Master or Agile coach serves the team by removing impediments and fostering collaboration, not by escalating or coercing. Coaching the developer on the benefits of knowledge sharing addresses the root cause—resistance often stems from misunderstanding or lack of psychological safety—and aligns with the servant-leadership principle. Pairing is a voluntary, collaborative practice; the coach's role is to help the developer see its value, not to mandate it.

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Report the developer to HR.

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Force the developer to pair against their will.

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Ask them to work alone until they are more comfortable.

Question 7

Which TWO roles are fundamental to the success of an agile team?

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Scrum Master or Team Facilitator.. Option B (Scrum Master or Team Facilitator) is correct because this role is fundamental to an agile team: the Scrum Master serves the team by removing impediments, facilitating Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), coaching the team in agile practices, and shielding it from external distractions, which directly enables self-organization and continuous improvement. Option D (Product Owner) is correct because the Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by the team, owning and ordering the Product Backlog, defining and refining backlog items, and acting as the single point of contact for stakeholder requirements and priorities, which keeps the team building the right thing. Option A (External Auditor) is not a core agile team role; auditing is a governance/compliance function performed outside the team and is not required for agile team success. Option C (Marketing Manager) is a business function that may interact with the Product Owner as a stakeholder but is not a fundamental agile team role. Option E (Chief Financial Officer) is an executive finance role concerned with budgeting and financial control, not a role defined within an agile team's structure.

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External Auditor.

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Marketing Manager.

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Chief Financial Officer.

Question 8

A user story lacks specific acceptance criteria. What is the risk to the development team?

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The team will not know when the story meets requirements.. Acceptance criteria define the conditions a story must satisfy to be considered done, so without them the team has no objective way to know when the work is complete or whether it meets the user's needs. This ambiguity leads to rework, scope disputes, and stories that pass code review but fail acceptance because 'done' was never defined.

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The sprint will end earlier than expected.

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The velocity will artificially increase.

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The story will be too small to estimate.

Question 9

An agile team is coordinating tasks across multiple cross-functional teams. Which meeting is most effective for synchronizing dependencies?

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Scrum of Scrums.. The Scrum of Scrums is a scaled-agile ceremony where representatives (usually one per team) from multiple Scrum teams meet regularly to coordinate cross-team dependencies, integration points, and impediments. It is specifically designed to synchronize work across teams that share a product or delivery goal. Daily Stand-ups synchronize work within a single team, not across teams.

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Sprint Retrospective.

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Daily Stand-up.

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Sprint Planning.

Question 10

Which THREE behaviors signal that a team is becoming self-organized? (Choose THREE)

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The team feels comfortable asking for help when they are stuck.. Option A is correct because self-organizing teams exhibit psychological safety, where members openly admit impediments and ask peers for help rather than hiding problems or escalating everything to a manager. Option B is correct because self-organization includes owning and evolving the team's working agreements; acting on retrospective findings by adjusting their own norms demonstrates autonomy over how they work. Option C is correct because proactively identifying and resolving process blockers shows the team takes initiative for its own workflow instead of waiting for external direction. Option D is not correct because routing all communication through the Scrum Master creates a bottleneck and dependency, which is the opposite of self-organization. Option E is not correct because waiting for management to assign tasks reflects a command-and-control, directed team rather than a self-managing one.

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The team only communicates through the Scrum Master.

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The team waits for management to tell them which tasks to do next.