[PMI-ACP] Mock Test 02

An agile team is conducting an iteration review after missing their iteration goal. One team member indicates that tactics that may have worked well for other types of projects were not effective for the current project. Of the following options, what most likely caused the team to miss their iteration goal?

• Created their team norms and working agreements
• Made local decisions regarding their work
• Executed work as directed by the scrum master
• Created emergent leaders to lead different initiatives

The team is working on an application for gathering customer feedback on the company’s top-selling products. The project is half way done when the CEO announced that a new VP of Product Development and Marketing has been hired. As far as the scrum master is aware, the executive sponsor who also acts as the product owner for the project remains unchanged. What should the scrum master do next?

• Engage the executive sponsor in conversation to understand the impact of this organizational change on the project
• Engage the VP of Product Development and Marketing by inviting them to the sprint retrospective
• Do nothing. The executive sponsor for the project remains unchanged.
• Do nothing. The project stakeholders have already been identified and the project is half way done.

Which of the following sequences lists the cost from the most expensive to the least expensive to fix with respect to when a defect is found during the product development?

• Exploratory Testing, paired programming, continuous integration
• Paired programming, continuous integration, Exploratory Testing
• Exploratory Testing, continuous integration, paired programming
• Continuous integration, Exploratory Testing, paired programming

Which of the following is considered a benefit of using iterative adaptive planning on an agile project?

• Eliminating project risk and uncertainty
• Supporting a project where the scope is fixed, and time and cost are variable
• Predicting specific project milestone dates
• Minimizes the chance that the plan will not meet the needs of the customer

An agile project manager and the business sponsor were discussing the need for an iteration zero for the new project that was to be initiated. Which of the following is an activity commonly performed during this iteration?

• Hiring new team members for the project
• Conducting a spike
• Setting up a development environment
• Developing the product

During a meeting, the agile coach proposed that the team implement a defined process for reporting defects on their online tracking tool. Since the team members were well familiar with the tool, they by consensus agreed that they did not need to waste their time discussing this matter. The agile coach opposed, arguing that it was a major risk not to have a defined process. What is the best course of action for the agile coach?

• Wait and see if the team experiences fast failure
• Document defects tracking standards
• Praise the team for their choice
• Force the team to use the tool

An agile team is engaged in a decision-making process during a team meeting, and they decide to use a technique called 'fist-of-five' voting. Which of the following is a valid reason for using the 'fist-of-five' voting technique?

• Is a slow process but has the advantage of allowing team members to indicate their level of agreement
• Has the advantage of anonymity to prevent undue influence from more senior members of the group
• Allows team members' voices that are unheard to surface and helps encourage conversation dominators
• Participants are voting from their conscience at the same time and are not being swayed by other team members' votes

An information radiator for a colocated team is most effective when it is:

• Dynamic and low-tech
• Static and high-tech
• Dynamic and high-tech
• Static and low-tech

An agile coach suggests using a wideband Delphi technique to gather estimates from the team members. How would the team use such an approach?

• The team repeats the estimation process several times and provide reasoning for their estimates between each round to reach consensus
• The team maximizes the halo effect by giving extra weight to the opinion of the senior team members.
• The team improves buy-in through collaboration after openly voting on the best estimate.
• The team must estimate the entire project without breaking it into smaller chunks.

During a meeting to make decisions about project goals and product features, it was observed that some project stakeholders did not express whether they were for or against the inclusion of particular goals for their agile project. Which of the following tools could be used to help elicit a response from all participants in order to help ensure a productive discussion?

• Convergence
• Rolling wave planning
• Story points
• Decision spectrum