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Leadership

Leadership on the PMI-ACP exam covers how an agile leader serves the team: facilitating decisions, coaching self-organization, removing impediments, and managing conflict and stakeholder pressure. Questions are scenario-based, asking you to pick the response that best empowers the team rather than directing it, and to distinguish servant leadership from command-and-control management.

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What this domain covers

What to know about Leadership

You must be able to choose the servant-leader response in team and stakeholder scenarios. The single most important thing: protect the team's self-organization and the sprint goal, and let the product owner own backlog change decisions.

Servant leadership behaviors: coaching, facilitating, removing impediments, and shielding the team from disruption

Facilitation techniques such as brainstorming, dot voting, fist of five, and retrospectives to counter groupthink

Conflict resolution approaches: collaboration, root-cause analysis, and addressing interpersonal friction in ceremonies

Stakeholder engagement and backlog change handling, including product owner authority and sprint goal protection

Watch out for

Common Leadership exam traps

  • ▸Choosing a directive 'command-and-control' answer that tells the team what to do instead of facilitating their own decision
  • ▸Taking over a conflict or technical decision personally rather than coaching the team to resolve it collaboratively
  • ▸Accepting mid-sprint scope changes directly from a stakeholder instead of routing them through the product owner and backlog

Question index

All Leadership questions (57)

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1

Which THREE activities help a leader facilitate better team collaboration? (Choose THREE)

Medium
2

Your team is constantly arguing about how to handle technical debt. How do you facilitate?

Medium
3

An agile team has become complacent and is no longer looking for ways to improve during retrospectives. How do you intervene?

Hard
4

A stakeholder is consistently demanding 'quick fixes' that bypass the team's quality process. How do you address this?

Hard
5

You are leading an agile team that includes a member who is highly skilled but frequently dominates discussions and dismisses others' ideas. Other team members have become quiet during meetings, and you notice a decline in collaborative problem-solving. What is the most effective action for you to take as the agile leader?

Hard
6

How can you best support a newly formed agile team in developing trust?

Medium
7

Which THREE strategies help a leader support a team in managing technical debt? (Choose THREE)

Hard
8

A new team member is hesitant to speak during meetings. How do you coach them?

Easy
9

The team is consistently underestimating their tasks, leading to unfinished work at the end of sprints. How do you coach them?

Hard
10

A team is struggling with the transition to a new agile tool. How do you help?

Medium
11

A team member is constantly checking their phone during meetings. What should you do?

Easy
12

Which TWO approaches help a leader coach a team through change? (Choose TWO)

Medium
13

Which THREE actions demonstrate effective stakeholder engagement? (Choose THREE)

Hard
14

An agile team has been consistently delivering high-quality work and meeting its sprint goals. The team members are now asking for more autonomy in deciding how they organize their work and interact with stakeholders. As the agile leader, what should you do?

Easy
15

A team is consistently missing their sprint goals. What is the most effective way to empower the team to improve?

Easy
16

You are the agile leader for a team that recently transitioned from a predictive environment. During the third sprint, you notice that team members consistently wait for your approval before making decisions about task assignments and process adjustments. How should you best respond to foster self-organization?

Medium
17

Which THREE traits of a leader are essential for coaching an agile team? (Choose THREE)

Easy
18

Which TWO actions support a team in becoming more self-organizing? (Choose TWO)

Medium
19

Your team is failing to complete tasks due to frequent context switching. What is your role in resolving this?

Medium
20

The team's velocity is highly inconsistent, causing frustration for the Product Owner. How should you address this as a coach?

Hard
21

How can a leader best promote self-organization within an agile team?

Medium
22

Which TWO actions should an agile leader take to foster a collaborative culture? (Choose TWO)

Easy
23

Which TWO methods can a leader use to improve stakeholder engagement? (Choose TWO)

Easy
24

An agile team you lead has consistently met its sprint commitments but has stopped challenging itself and avoids stretch goals. Which TWO actions best demonstrate servant leadership to foster a growth mindset? (Choose two.)

Hard
25

Which TWO factors are critical for an agile leader when resolving team conflicts? (Choose TWO)

Medium
26

A team is struggling to maintain focus due to 'firefighting' requests from the business. How do you coach them?

Hard
27

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

Medium
28

You are coaching a team that is moving from a traditional command-and-control environment to agile. A stakeholder keeps bypassing the Product Owner to assign tasks directly to developers. What is your best course of action?

Medium
29

A stakeholder is unhappy with the product's progress. How do you address this?

Easy
30

Which TWO techniques help a leader address 'groupthink' in a team? (Choose TWO)

Hard
31

A team member is consistently late to the daily stand-up, disrupting the meeting. How do you handle this?

Medium
32

Your team has high technical skill but lacks collaboration, with members working in silos. Which technique is most effective to foster a collaborative culture?

Hard
33

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

Medium
34

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?

Hard
35

A team member is consistently negative during meetings. As a leader, what is your first step?

Easy
36

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

Easy
37

During a retrospective, two senior team members disagree on the technical architecture for a new feature, leading to a standstill. How should you facilitate this?

Hard
38

A team is struggling with 'groupthink' during planning. How can you facilitate better decision-making?

Hard
39

Which TWO strategies can a leader use to promote psychological safety? (Choose TWO)

Easy
40

A stakeholder asks you to prioritize a feature for the next release. What is your response?

Easy
41

A team is having difficulty with the 'Definition of Done'. How do you facilitate?

Hard
42

A distributed agile team has been missing sprint goals for three consecutive sprints. During a retrospective, the team identifies that they lack a shared understanding of the definition of done and that handoffs between two sub-teams are causing delays. As the agile leader, what is the most effective action to take?

Hard
43

Which THREE characteristics of a servant leader are most effective for an agile coach? (Choose THREE)

Medium
44

You are the agile leader of a distributed team. During Sprint Review, a key stakeholder loudly challenges the team's estimates, causing a junior developer to stop contributing for the rest of the meeting. What is your best action?

Medium
45

A stakeholder requests a major change to the sprint backlog mid-sprint. How do you respond as an agile leader?

Medium
46

Which TWO leadership actions help resolve a conflict regarding technical architecture? (Choose TWO)

Hard
47

A team is struggling with frequent interpersonal conflict during daily stand-ups. As an agile leader, what is your primary role in facilitating this?

Easy
48

A stakeholder is providing feedback directly to the developers, bypassing the PO. What should you do?

Easy
49

Which THREE strategies can a leader use to empower a self-organizing team? (Choose THREE)

Hard
50

What is the best way to handle a team member who is not adhering to the agile values?

Easy
51

The team is feeling burned out. What is your role as a leader?

Hard
52

An agile leader is coaching a team that has strong technical skills but consistently avoids raising impediments during daily stand-ups. The leader suspects that fear of blame is suppressing transparency. Which TWO actions best demonstrate servant leadership in this situation? (Choose two.)

Medium
53

Your team has a high level of dependency on an external vendor. How should you facilitate this relationship?

Medium
54

A team is struggling to understand the Product Owner's vision. What should you do?

Easy
55

A team member frequently arrives late to daily stand-up and seems disengaged. As the agile leader, what is the most appropriate first step?

Easy
56

A team member is consistently distracting others during pair programming. What is the most appropriate action?

Easy
57

An agile team is having trouble getting feedback from a remote stakeholder. What should you do?

Easy

Frequently asked questions

What does the Leadership domain cover on the PMI-ACP exam?
You must be able to choose the servant-leader response in team and stakeholder scenarios. The single most important thing: protect the team's self-organization and the sprint goal, and let the product owner own backlog change decisions.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 57 Leadership 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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