Free PMI-ACP Practice Questions & Answers 2026 Part4

Question #1

When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile teamdefer work?

A. igh-risk and high-value

B. igh-risk and low-value

C. ow-risk and low-value

D. ow-risk and high-value

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Correct Answer: B

Question #2

A team is creating a highly marketed, time - sensitive product. The agile coach is concerned that anything other than exceptional quality will result in bad publicity for the company. What should the agile coach ensure that developers do?

A. Establish pair programming partners, and regularly perform peer reviews

B. Perform demos at the end of each iteration

C. Send coding to the quality assurance (QA) team upon completion

D. Demonstrate each feature to the client as soon as coding is complete

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Correct Answer: D

Question #3

During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed.What was the determining factor?

A. ize and priority

B. inimum marketable features

C. elease plan

D. print mapping

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Correct Answer: A

Question #4

The team is refining user stories during the backlog grooming session and confused on the acceptance criteria and level of details.What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Complete the test cases before creating the story in the backlog

B. Define the detailed business requirements so that the team can continue with development

C. Define the user stories with just enough details so the team can collaborate continuously

D. Ensure the acceptance criteria includes testing scenarios, so the team can do through testing

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Correct Answer: C

Question #5

A mature agile team welcomes a new member. Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate.What should be the agile project leader do?

A. Bring up the new member's impediments at the next meeting to demonstrate team support of input

B. Assure the new member that inputs on impediments are valued, and demonstrate this at the next meeting

C. Have a senior leader work with the new member to avoid a negative impact on team productivity

D. Privately work with the new member to address any impediments

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Correct Answer: B

Question #6

An agile practitioner wants to ensure that stakeholders have current information about a project's progress.What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Regularly circulate an updated, detailed version of the project plan

B. Frequently update the online project management office (PMO) repository site

C. Invite the stakeholders to daily stand ups

D. Post a project board in an area where all can view it

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Correct Answer: D

Question #7

The term ¡°last responsible moment¡± refers to the moment at which:

A. he iteration testing deadline arrives and code testing must stop

B. ailing to make a decision eliminates an important alternative

C. elease planning is complete and the first iteration planning starts

D. he implementation date is set and sponsor approval has been received

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Correct Answer: B

Question #8

A product owner for two highly visible projects spends a great deal of time meeting with and reporting to senior stakeholders. The product owner is overwhelmed because both project teams request clarification on the requirements and the overall priorities.What should the agile project manager do?

A. Provide both project teams with the highest priority needs

B. Request the project team's questions in writing prior to the next meeting

C. Facilitate a meeting with each team and the product owner to finds a solution

D. Provide both teams with each project's documentation

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Correct Answer: C

Question #9

When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what should an agile team defer work?

A. High-risk and high-value

B. High-risk and low-value

C. Low-risk and low-value

D. Low-risk and high value

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Correct Answer: C

Question #10

A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features.What should the product owner do?

A. Determine the required tasks for implementing the high-level features

B. Identify the detailed design for the high-level features

C. Prioritize the product backlog for the upcoming release

D. Estimate the user stories in the iteration backlog

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Correct Answer: C

Question #11

A project's first iteration contains item A, and its second iteration contains item B. The first iteration is behind schedule, which will impact the second iteration.Since items A and B are similar, a team member suggests beginning the design of item B.What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Defer starting the design of item B until the second iteration is being planned

B. Proceed with the design of item B, since it will hasten the second iteration

C. Escalate the issue to the customer, and obtain their approval before starting the design of item B

D. Log the issue in the risk register, and request change control board (CCB) approval

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Correct Answer: A

Question #12

In an adaptive environment, project managers use their skills and expertise to help the team adapt to changing circumstances and deliver to their stakeholders. While some agile practitioners may argue that the role of a project manager is not needed in self-organizing teams, pragmatic agile practitioners and organizations recognize that project managers can add benefit in many situations. The key difference is that their roles and responsibilities may look somewhat different in an adaptive environment. What are some of the practices a project manager can bring to an adaptive environment?

A. ABuilding a collaborative decision-making environment with key stakeholders, teams, and sponsors

B. BOwnership of detailed project planning, user histories, retrospectives, showcases and metrics board

C. CEnsuring agile values and principles are adopted by all teams involved in delivery of the project

D. DDeveloping the project charter, writing the project plan, and following the achievement of all milestones

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Correct Answer: A

Question #13

Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint's goals.What should the scrum master do next?

A. lert the team that sprint goals might not be met and create an alternative plan

B. btain team buy-in to perform modifications to the sprint backlog

C. ave the sprint proceed as planned

D. sk the team to decide if the task should be reassigned

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Correct Answer: D

Question #14

Midway through a project, the product owner learns from the sponsor that a major component, which is already 20 percent complete, is unimportant to users. The component was part of the approved scope and a key selling point for the project.What should the product owner do next?

A. Obtain approval from the change control board to discontinue the component

B. Ask the team to continue developing the component

C. Ask the team to discontinue developing the component

D. Request the sponsor's formal approval to discontinue the component

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Correct Answer: C

Question #15

A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules.How should the team lead address this?

A. Inform management, and suggest that additional resources may be required

B. Discuss the issue with the team in the daily stand up meetings

C. Meet personally with the stressed team member to brainstorm ways to better manage their time

D. Begin tracking the stressed team member's tasks in a separate backlog for additional analysis and reporting

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Correct Answer: B

Question #16

An executive sponsor of a new scrum team actively attends scrum ceremonies How does this benefitthe team?

A. t helps the team to focus on and meet sprint goals

B. t reminds the team about who sponsors the project

C. t provides high-level project updates to the sponsor

D. t helps to quickly resolve issues using the sponsor's Influence

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Correct Answer: D

Question #17

A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint.What should they do?

A. Request direction from the technical manager

B. Encourage that product owner to reallocate the features to another sprint

C. Determine who is best qualified to address the challenges

D. Ask the product owner to assign the tasks to the most appropriately skilled resources

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Correct Answer: C

Question #18

Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint's goals.What should the scrum master do next?

A. Alert the team that sprint goals might not be met and create an alternative plan

B. Obtain team buy-in to perform modifications to the sprint backlog

C. Have the sprint proceed as planned

D. Ask the team to decide if the task should be reassigned

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Correct Answer: D

Question #19

A team using Kanban identifies that their cycle time has significant variation. After brainstorming, the team determines that the root cause is the stories' varying sizes and risks.What should the team do?

A. Reduce work in progress (WIP) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories

B. Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stories

C. Set a policy to break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP

D. Create a dedicated overflow swim lane on the Kanban board for stories that are too large

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Correct Answer: C

Question #20

Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date

B. Announce that the team has exceeded the predicted velocity, and that the end date will be earlier than planned

C. Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then re-plan subsequent iterations

D. Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision

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Correct Answer: A

Question #21

Why was Feature-Driven Development created?

A. To accommodate larger teams

B. To create features that are developed

C. To incorporate many stakeholders in the process

D. To complement Scrum

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Correct Answer: A

Question #22

A project team has been working on a new application. The application is technically challenging, because the team is using new technology unknown to the development team and business requirements are unclear. The product owner has been working closely with the stakeholders to ensure alignment with requirements and other issues. The agile lead is working with the team and product owner on the product backlog.What is the role of the team?

A. stimate and define the work items

B. etermine if the demand is or is not feasible

C. ssess user story quality and independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable (INVEST) criteria

D. dd features to the product backlog

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Correct Answer: A

Question #23

When are acceptance tests typically written for a user story?

A. fter coding the story, but before user acceptance testing begins

B. fter writing the story, but before coding begins

C. t the start of Product Backlog prioritization planning

D. fter estimating the Product Backlog, but before Sprint planning begins

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Correct Answer: C

Question #24

During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed What was the determining factor?

A. print mapping

B. ize and priority

C. inimum marketable features

D. elease plan

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Correct Answer: B

Question #25

A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint.What should the scrum master do?

A. Engage the team to determine the sprint velocity based on previous agile projects

B. Average the sprint velocity based on input from team members

C. Share the sprint velocity obtained from the sponsor with the team

D. Run multiple sprints before determining the sprint velocity with the team

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Correct Answer: D

Question #26

A company has decided to combine two similar products consisting of multiple teams into oneproduct. Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at re-organizing it's teams.What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?

A. ll the teams from both products should be simultaneously called together and allowed to completely self-manage

B. eams that worked on similar components in the separate products should be combined to minimize disruption andcapitalize on synergies

C. fter grouping individuals by role multi-discipline teams should be created that are comprised of one member from eachrole

D. eatures should be prioritized and then teams should be organized around those priorities

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Correct Answer: A

Question #27

During a sprint demo, a business representative identifies missing requirements. The agile practitioner realizes that all key stakeholders were not included during requirements detailing.What should the agile practitioner have done to avoid the situation?

A. ncluded the stakeholders in the project planning meeting

B. nsured all business leaders signed off on requirements

C. ngaged key stakeholders periodically to collect requirements

D. rganized an earlier demo to solicit business feedback

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Correct Answer: C

Question #28

The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog. What should the Scrum Master do next?

A. sk the project manager to work with the product owner to help generate clearer stories in the future

B. evelop guidelines to prevent future occurrences

C. llow the team to devise a corrective action without external intervention

D. uring the retrospective, discuss the issue and create an action plan to avoid it in the future

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Correct Answer: D

Question #29

What should the agile coach do?

A. dd another database administrator to balance the workload and aid with knowledge retention

B. tart the hiring process for a new, equally skilled database administrator as a replacement

C. btain agreement from the team that, on upcoming sprints, the database administrator will act only in an advisory capacity

D. ove this database administrator to another team so that team members learn database-related tasks

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Correct Answer: A

Question #30

Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date

B. Announce that the team has exceeded the predicted velocity, and that the end date will be earlier than planned

C. Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then re-plan subsequent iterations

D. Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision

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Correct Answer: A

Question #31

A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the featuresin the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?

A. Decrease the sprint time box until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint

B. Discuss estimating techniques in the daily scrum meeting

C. Increase the size of the development team until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint

D. Begin tracking estimated effort metrics as an input to performance evaluation

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Correct Answer: D

Question #32

During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration.How could the project leader have avoided this?

A. Led by example by encouraging the team to engage in consensus-driven decision making

B. Iterated the need for agile teams to make quick decisions, then followed up with that team member

C. Empowered a team member to facilitate decision making, then made a final decision on behalf of the team

D. Refrained from participating in the team's decision-making process, except to document and communicate results

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Correct Answer: A

Question #33

Due to its complexity, a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story.What advice should the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?

A. Hand the story over to a more experienced team member

B. Break the story up and focus on the most valuable parts

C. Discuss the story at the retrospective

D. Pick another story from the product backlog

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Correct Answer: B

Question #34

Team A is producing 61 points per iteration and Team B is producing 20 points periteration.Team A has more senior engineers.A manager demands that Team B matchTeam As points in the next iteration.Based on this information, it is reasonable to tell themanager that:

A. it is impossible to compare two separate teams on points alone

B. Team B’s points will match Team A if Team B gets more senior engineers

C. Team B must have help self-organizing so their points match Team A

D. Team B’s points will increase if the Product Owner becomes more involved

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Correct Answer: A

Question #35

A team's technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks.What should the scrum master do?

A. Tell the technical lead to do the testing

B. Facilitate an open and focused team discussion that reinforces team agreements

C. Ask the team manager to advise the technical lead that all tasks are important

D. Encourage the team to take ownership of the delivery

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Correct Answer: B

Question #36

What should the Scrum Master do?

A. ncourage the discussion to resolve impediments

B. fter the meeting, escalate this issue to the tester ' s supervisor to ensure that this does not reoccur

C. sk more questions about the testing techniques to obtain clarification on team efforts for quality improvements

D. sk the tester and developer to discuss it after the meeting, since it is not a part of the daily stand-up

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Correct Answer: D

Question #37

During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed.What was the determining factor?

A. Size and priority

B. Minimum marketable features

C. Release plan

D. Sprint mapping

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Correct Answer: A

Question #38

An Agile team is under pressure to deliver an application. The product owner anticipates many change requests from customers once the product is released.What should the agile team do?

A. Demand frequent product reviews by the product owner

B. Continuously work with the product owner to do backlog refinement and product reviews

C. Have the product owner provide detailed requirement specifications to ensure the proper features are delivered

D. During the planning session, ensure the team is committed to deliver within the specifications

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Correct Answer: B

Question #39

During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and still meet the product launch date.What should the project leader do?

A. Finalize the feedback in the form of a change request

B. Limit the scope of the feedback to only those changes that the team can feasibly accommodate

C. Encourage all feedback, then work with the customer to prioritize work for future sprints

D. Allow the team to decide what feedback to incorporate

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Correct Answer: C

Question #40

During a current sprint, a team member asks permission from the scrum master to investigate analternative design approach What should the scrum master do?

A. iscourage the team member from deviating from the plan and document the request during the retrospective

B. ncourage the team member to research the issue and present the findings during the retrospective

C. iscourage the team member from using experimentation/spikes unless it is fully developed and accounts for a variety of use cases

D. ncourage the team member to use experimentation/spikes for continuous improvement and help the team understand why it is important

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Correct Answer: D

Question #41

What do project reports show during the Sprint review meeting?

A. stimates compared to the baseline

B. ctual results to the plan

C. eturn on investment (ROI)

D. arned value measurement (EVM)

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Correct Answer: C

Question #42

What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?

A. Begin working on an item in the backlog

B. Ask the scrum master to select an item from the backlog on which to work

C. Ask the product owner to select an item from the backlog on which to work

D. Jointly decide with the scrum master on an item from the backlog on which to work

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Correct Answer: C

Question #43

Which of the following best describes a team’s velocity from the first iteration on?

A. Velocity is based on the decomposition of activities and their sequence

B. Velocity varies in the first iterations, increases, and eventually plateaus

C. Velocity is determined by the product owner

D. Velocity is based on approved deliverables, milestones, scope, and resource management plans

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Correct Answer: B

Question #44

Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date

B. Announce that the team has exceeded the predicted velocity, and that the end date will be earlier than planned

C. Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then re-plan subsequent iterations

D. Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision

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Correct Answer: A

Question #45

During the project initiation stage, a team has estimated story points for all user stories. When the project team explained the minimum marketable feature (MMF), however, they were not confident that the solution would actually work. What can the team do to better manage this situation?

A. ADeliver the minimum marketable feature (MMF) to customers for feedback

B. BWrite acceptance criteria for each business requirement to conduct proper testing

C. CDevelop test cases based on user stories

D. DAsk the customer to provide acceptance criteria before developing the user stories

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Correct Answer: A

Question #46

An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects.What should the project manager do to share this project's knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?

A. Invite people from across the organization to attend daily stand ups

B. Invite people from across the organization to attend retrospectives

C. Invite people from across the organization to attend the release meeting and project retrospectives

D. Regularly meet with people across the organization to share the project's lessons learned and best practices

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Correct Answer: D

Question #47

A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?

A. ecrease the sprint time box until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint

B. iscuss estimating techniques in the daily scrum meeting

C. ncrease the size of the development team until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint

D. egin tracking estimated effort metrics as an input to performance evaluation

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Correct Answer: D

Question #48

Which type of estimate refers to estimating a story based on its relationship to one or moreother stories?

A. Algorithmic

B. Computational

C. Triangulating

D. Rules of Thumb

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Correct Answer: A

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