PMI-ACP : PMI Agile Certified Practitioner : Part 18

PMI-ACP : PMI Agile Certified Practitioner : Part 18

1. Which one is NOT a reason to perform a Spike?

   • To perform basic research to familiarize the team with a new technology or domain
   • To analyze the expected behavior of a large story so the team can split the story into estimable pieces.
   • To defer a story until a later Sprint while still showing progress to the Product Owner
   • To do some prototyping to gain confidence in a technological approach

2. Which artifact is useful for seeing total project risk increasing or decreasing over time?

   • Burndown bar chart
   • Risk Burn-Up chart
   • Risk Burndown Graph
   • Risk Map

3. On a risk map or a risk heat map, the vertical and horizontal axes represent:

   • Effort and Impact
   • Probability and Impact
   • Probability and Exposure
   • Impact and Exposure

4. The Project Leader’s primary responsibilities are to “move boulders and carry water”. What is this an example of?

   • Servant leadership
   • Leadership by example
   • Command and control leadership
   • The leadership metaphor

5. In XP, what is the practice of creating a story about a future system that everyone – customers, programmers, and managers – can tell about how the system works?

   • Extreme persona
   • Wireframe
   • System metaphor
   • Simple design

6. What Agile requirements management approach displays a roadmap using the following approach?

   The horizontal axis shows a high level overview of the system under development and the value it adds to the users.

   The vertical axis organizes detailed stories into releases according to importance, priority, etc.

   • Release Planning Matrix
   • User Story Map
   • Agile Requirements Map
   • User Story Burndown Map

7. Which XP practice promotes the restriction on overtime?

   • Sustainable Pace
   • Pair Programming
   • Servant Leadership
   • Small Releases

8. What is the Agile term for the time period when some or all of the following occur: beta testing, regression testing, product integration, integration testing, documentation, defect fixing?

   • Spike
   • Code Freeze
   • Tail
   • Lag

9. Agile development prevents technical debt.

   • True
   • False

10. In Agile development, what is the term for the internal things that you choose not to do now, knowing they will impede future development if left undone?

    • Escaped defects
    • Verification and validation results
    • Technical debt
    • Intrinsic quality

11. What is the purpose of running a test before you develop the code?

    • To complete all test cases
    • To ensure it fails
    • To ensure it passes
    • To be cross-functional

12. DRAG DROP

    Match the time box to the Scrum meeting for a one-month Sprint.

    

    

    Explanation:
    Daily Scrum – 15 min
    Sprint Review – 4 hrs
    Sprint Planning – 8 hrs
    Sprint Retrospective – 3 hrs

13. A reminder for the developer and Product Owner to have a conversation is:

    • The Sprint planning meeting
    • Backlog grooming
    • A User Story
    • An Agile reminder

14. Wideband Delphi is used by an Agile Project manager to support what activity?

    • Prioritization
    • Scheduling
    • Estimation
    • Risk Management

15. The purpose of Work in Progress (WIP) limits is to prevent the unintentional accumulation of work, so there isn’t a bottleneck.

    • True
    • False

16. Which 5 roles are defined by Extreme Programming? (Choose five.)

    • Scrum Master
    • Coach
    • Customer
    • Stakeholder
    • Programmer
    • Tracker
    • Product Owner
    • Tester

17. Simple Design, Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, Design Improvement are all practices of which Agile methodology?

    • Scrum
    • Feature Driven Development (FDD)
    • Extreme Programming (XP)
    • Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
    • Crystal Clear
    • Rational Unified Process (RUP)
    • Agile Unified Process (AgileUP)

18. Which of the following is not an Agile methodology?

    • Scrum
    • Feature Driven Development (FDD)
    • Extreme Programming (XP)
    • Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
    • Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)
    • Crystal Clear
    • Rational Unified Process (RUP)
    • Agile Unified Process (AgileUP)

19. Incremental delivery means:

    • Deliver nonfunctional increments in the iteration retrospectives.
    • Release working software only after testing each increment.
    • Improve and elaborate our Agile process with each increment delivered.
    • Deploy functional increments over the course of the project.

20. When we practice active listening, what are the levels through which our listening skills progress?

    • Global listening, Focused listening, Intuitive listening
    • Interested listening, Focused listening, Global listening
    • Self-centered listening, Focused listening, Intuitive listening
    • Internal listening, Focused listening, Global listening