ACP PreTest 2025

1. You are leading a team transitioning to agile. Members are expressing difficulty in adapting to self-organization and have been relying heavily on you for decision-making. What strategy would best enhance their capability for self-organization?

• A. Set strict guidelines and processes for the team to follow.

• B. Conduct additional training sessions on agile principles and practices.

• C. Assign a senior member to make decisions for the team initially.

• D. Encourage team members to identify and propose solutions during meetings.

2. Your scrum team has made a decision during a sprint planning meeting that you believe might not deliver the optimal value to the customer. What should you do next?

• A. Express your disagreement during the daily coordination meeting until the team reconsiders.

• B. Skip tasks related to this decision and focus on other backlog items you find more valuable.

• C. Commit to the decision & work towards its successful implementation while gathering data for retrospective analysis.

• D. Escalate your concerns to the product owner for them to change the decision.

3. You are leading an agile team that recently expanded to include members from diverse cultural backgrounds. During retrospectives, you notice that newer team members are less vocal and rarely give input. You want to create a safe environment to encourage more participation. What is the best action you can take to promote a safe environment for this culturally diverse team?

• A. Establish stricter guidelines to ensure everyone follows the same rules.

• B. Form smaller discussion groups from different backgrounds to share ideas.

• C. Schedule one-on-one meetings to individually ask for their input.

• D. Implement anonymous feedback tools to gather team members' opinions.

4. You are the scrum master for a team that has just completed a sprint review. During the review, a stakeholder provided unexpected and critical feedback about a feature. How should you handle this feedback?

• A. Defend the team's work and explain why the feature was built in the way it was.

• B. Ask the stakeholder to wait until the next sprint planning meeting to discuss their concerns.

• C. Note the feedback, re-assess the feature, and incorporate the necessary changes to improve the product.

• D. Disregard the feedback since it was not part of the initial project requirements.

5. During a sprint retrospective, two team members, Alex and Jamie, have a heated argument over a recent project decision. One team member feels strongly that the decision was beneficial, while the other believes it was a mistake that cost the team valuable time. What is the best initial action to take to de-escalate the conflict and promote empathy between Alex and Jamie? Which action should the scrum master take?

• A. Allow the team members to voice their perspectives thoroughly, listen actively, and then

  summarize their points to ensure mutual understanding in a whole team environment.

• B. Separate the team members into different rooms to cool down and deal with the situation separately to avoid further escalation.

• C. Let the team self-organize to defuse the conflict and find a resolution to the argument.

• D. Encourage other team members to share their opinions by splitting them into groups to

  discuss the issue in detail (Or escalate to the team members' managers).

6. A team has adopted agile. During the first few sprints, the scrum master notices that team members are primarily focused on their individual tasks and not fully invested in the team's overall goals. What should the scrum master do to promote collective ownership of goals?

• A. Assign specific team goals to each individual member to ensure accountability.

• B. Implement a reward system based on individual performance to incentivize goal achievement.

• C. Facilitate a collaborative session for the team to define and align on shared goals and objectives.

• D. Increase the frequency of progress reporting to senior management to emphasize goal importance.

7. You are working as an agile coach for a software development team aiming to optimize their delivery process. During a retrospective meeting, the team identifies multiple issues that are causing delays in their workflow. As an immediate next step to prioritize waste-reduction activities, what should you recommend the team to do first?

• A. Analyze the team's cycle times and look for bottlenecks in the process.

• B. Schedule additional daily coordination meetings to discuss ongoing issues.

• C. Implement a new tool for automation without assessing current tools.

• D. Increase the length of sprint planning sessions to cover more details.

8. Your agile team is developing a product where some features are more valuable to the customer than others. The team is considering how to recognize and prioritize these high-value features over technical improvements that also need attention. What technique should be used to ensure that the highest-value features are delivered first?

• A. Apply the Pareto principle or the 80-20 rule to determine which features will add the most value.

• B. Randomly select features to maintain fairness among all backlog items.

• C. Focus solely on technical improvements since they stabilize the product architecture.

• D. Defer all feature development until after the technical debt is resolved.

9. Your agile team encounters a backlog item that is too complex to estimate accurately. The item involves multiple interconnected features. What should you do to make the item more manageable for the team?

• A. Break the item into tasks and ask team members to pick any task they are comfortable

  with.

• B. Split the item into smaller, independent user stories that each deliver value and can be

  incrementally implemented.

• C. Conduct a technical spike to explore the best way to break down the item after

  estimating it.

• D. Park the item in the backlog and wait until more information is available.

10. During an iteration review, your agile team identifies that a potential risk related to technology

compatibility might affect the next release. As the product owner, it is crucial to ensure that this risk is both monitored and controlled. What approach should you take to manage this risk to avoid it impacting the next release?

• A. Delay the release until all technology- compatibility risks are resolved.

• B. Form a dedicated sub team to handle technology risks exclusively.

• C. Include risk-mitigation tasks in the upcoming sprint backlog.

• D. Dismiss the risk now and address it in a later sprint.