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Delivery

Delivery on the PMI-ACP exam covers how agile teams actually produce value: limiting work in progress, slicing features small, keeping flow steady, and re-aligning with organizational priorities. Questions are scenario-based, asking you to choose the first or most agile action when delivery breaks down, so you must reason about flow, feedback, and stakeholder alignment rather than recall definitions.

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What this domain covers

What to know about Delivery

You must be able to diagnose a delivery problem and pick the smallest agile corrective action: limit WIP, remove blockers, slice features smaller, and re-prioritize the backlog. The single most important thing is protecting flow and delivering value incrementally rather than adding capacity or pushing work through.

Applying Kanban WIP limits and managing blocked items without breaking the pull system

Slicing large features into smaller increments that deliver value sooner

Using flow metrics such as cycle time and throughput to expose delivery problems

Re-aligning delivered features with shifting organizational priorities through backlog refinement

Watch out for

Common Delivery exam traps

  • ▸Raising the WIP limit or pushing blocked work forward instead of addressing the blocker and restoring flow
  • ▸Choosing a big-bang release or full redesign when the agile answer is to slice smaller and deliver incrementally
  • ▸Escalating or blaming stakeholders before inspecting the backlog and re-prioritizing against current organizational goals

Question index

All Delivery questions (72)

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1

What is the purpose of a 'Daily Stand-up'?

Easy
2

Which TWO of the following are primary objectives of sprint/iteration planning?

Easy
3

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

Medium
4

A team's cycle time has significantly increased over three sprints. What is the most appropriate first step to identify the root cause?

Hard
5

A product manager wants to add a new feature that will delay the release by two weeks. What is the best way to handle this?

Hard
6

When optimizing end-to-end flow, which THREE of the following metrics help identify and mitigate waste in the delivery process?

Hard
7

The project stakeholders are unhappy because the delivered features do not align with the current organizational priorities. What should the practitioner do first?

Hard
8

An agile team is experiencing a high number of defects after release. What process should they implement?

Hard
9

Which TWO elements are essential for an effective sprint goal?

Easy
10

The team is struggling with 'decision paralysis'. What approach should the practitioner take?

Hard
11

Which artifact helps the team track progress towards the sprint goal?

Easy
12

A team is coordinating releases across three different scrum teams working on the same product. Which THREE practices should be utilized?

Hard
13

When should a team perform risk management in an agile project?

Hard
14

During sprint planning, a team discovers that their velocity has decreased by 20% over the last two iterations. What should the team do first?

Medium
15

A cross-functional team is experiencing long lead times for feature delivery. Which TWO actions would help optimize the end-to-end flow?

Medium
16

During a Retrospective, the team observes that the 'Definition of Done' is inconsistently applied, leading to technical debt. What is the most effective approach to fix this?

Medium
17

Which TWO of the following are effective ways to foster 'meaningful outcomes' rather than just 'output'?

Medium
18

Which TWO things should a practitioner consider when setting WIP limits?

Medium
19

Which THREE techniques improve communication within distributed agile teams?

Medium
20

During a multi-team project, teams are frequently blocked by infrastructure delays. What is the most effective way to address this at the organizational level?

Hard
21

What is the goal of 'Continuous Improvement' in Agile?

Easy
22

A team is experiencing frequent bottlenecks at the 'Quality Assurance' stage of their Kanban board. Which metric would provide the most insight into the nature of this bottleneck?

Medium
23

A project is experiencing significant scope creep. How should the practitioner handle this to protect the team's delivery capacity?

Medium
24

A team is struggling with frequent context switching during their sprint. Which lean technique should the practitioner implement to optimize end-to-end flow?

Medium
25

An enterprise organization is struggling to coordinate agile delivery across global time zones. What is the most effective approach?

Hard
26

How can a practitioner best support a team that is feeling overwhelmed by 'agile ceremonies'?

Hard
27

Which THREE items are typically discussed during a sprint retrospective?

Easy
28

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

Easy
29

Which TWO aspects of team culture are most important for optimizing flow?

Hard
30

A team member is consistently finishing their tasks early but other members are struggling. How should the team respond to optimize flow?

Medium
31

Which THREE artifacts are commonly used in agile delivery?

Easy
32

Which TWO techniques are effective for managing cross-team dependencies in a scaled agile environment?

Medium
33

What does the 'P' in INVEST stand for?

Easy
34

An organization is moving from project-based to product-based funding. How should the agile practitioner advise the team to measure success?

Hard
35

What does a 'Definition of Done' ensure in an agile delivery?

Easy
36

A team is struggling with high levels of 'technical debt' that slow down new feature delivery. What should the team do?

Medium
37

An agile team's burn-down chart has been flat for six iterations while the burn-up chart shows story points completing steadily. The product owner is confused because the release forecast slipped. Which action best resolves the discrepancy in the team's delivery metrics?

Medium
38

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

Medium
39

A large agile project requires coordinating work across four teams. How should the practitioner handle dependency management?

Hard
40

An agile team is struggling with unpredictable delivery because work items vary greatly in size and complexity. The practitioner wants to improve flow and predictability. Which TWO actions should the practitioner recommend? (Choose two.)

Medium
41

Which THREE practices contribute to a healthy, continuous delivery pipeline?

Medium
42

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

Easy
43

An organization is transitioning to agile but struggles with siloed teams. Which approach best optimizes the end-to-end flow of delivery?

Hard
44

A Scrum team has been delivering increments every two weeks, but stakeholders report that the features released do not solve their actual business problems. The team consistently meets its sprint commitments and passes all acceptance tests. As the agile practitioner, what should you do FIRST to address this gap?

Medium
45

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?

Medium
46

What is the primary purpose of a sprint review?

Easy
47

During a sprint, a developer tells the Scrum Master that a critical integration with a third-party API is failing intermittently, causing unpredictable delays. The team has already committed to delivering the feature this sprint. What is the MOST appropriate action for the agile practitioner?

Hard
48

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

Easy
49

A team's automated test suite passes locally but frequently fails in the continuous integration pipeline, and deployments are being delayed while developers investigate. Which action most directly improves delivery reliability?

Medium
50

During sprint planning, the team discovers they cannot complete a high-priority feature due to a technical blocker. What should the practitioner do?

Medium
51

A project is failing to deliver value because the features are too large. What is the recommended strategy?

Medium
52

A team is using a WIP (Work In Progress) limit of 3 on their 'Testing' column. A developer moves a fourth item into 'Testing' because the current items are blocked by a third party. What is the most agile way to handle this?

Hard
53

Which of the following is an effective way to prioritize a product backlog based on organizational goals?

Easy
54

Which THREE techniques help minimize context switching?

Hard
55

Which THREE metrics should a practitioner focus on to measure end-to-end delivery performance?

Hard
56

During a sprint planning session, the team realizes that the current sprint backlog contains items with significantly higher effort than the team's historical average velocity. What is the most appropriate action for the Scrum Master to facilitate?

Easy
57

Which TWO actions should a practitioner take when the team is consistently failing to meet the Definition of Done?

Hard
58

Which metric is most useful for measuring the team's ability to deliver consistent value per iteration?

Easy
59

A team is struggling to maintain a consistent cadence due to external dependencies. Which action best aligns with optimizing end-to-end flow?

Easy
60

A regulated organization requires documented evidence that each increment was independently verified before release. The team wants to keep delivering every two weeks. Which approach best satisfies the compliance requirement while preserving agile delivery?

Hard
61

Which TWO strategies are recommended for managing a product backlog that has grown too large?

Medium
62

A team is struggling with meeting their sprint goals. What is the best strategy to improve delivery reliability?

Medium
63

Midway through an iteration, a team discovers that a third-party payment gateway it depends on will not be available for integration testing until two weeks after the iteration ends. The team has already built the integration code. What should the practitioner do first?

Easy
64

The organization wants to move from monthly releases to continuous delivery. What is the most important technical requirement for this transition?

Hard
65

Which visual tool is best suited for identifying bottlenecks in a team's workflow?

Easy
66

A team is using cumulative flow diagrams to identify bottlenecks. The chart shows a widening gap between the 'In Progress' and 'Done' states. What does this indicate?

Medium
67

A stakeholder wants to change the project priority halfway through the project. What is the practitioner's role?

Medium
68

A product owner keeps adding new backlog items mid-iteration, and the team's cycle time has doubled over three iterations even though capacity is unchanged. Which two actions should the practitioner take to improve delivery flow? (Choose two.)

Hard
69

A practitioner wants to improve team engagement during the retrospective. What technique should they use?

Medium
70

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?

Hard
71

Which of the following is a key component of a good user story?

Easy
72

Which THREE factors are critical when aligning agile work with organizational priorities?

Hard

Frequently asked questions

What does the Delivery domain cover on the PMI-ACP exam?
You must be able to diagnose a delivery problem and pick the smallest agile corrective action: limit WIP, remove blockers, slice features smaller, and re-prioritize the backlog. The single most important thing is protecting flow and delivering value incrementally rather than adding capacity or pushing work through.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 72 Delivery questions in the PMI-ACP question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
What is the best way to practise this domain?
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