pmi PMI-ACP Exam Questions
Questions for the PMI-ACP were updated on : Dec 01 ,2025
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Question 1
Refer to the exhibit.
Case Study
An agile project lead for a company is leading a sales team who has committed to delivering new
product functionality to the customer at the end of five sprints. The agile project lead performed
initial planning with the team and with the team's support has committed to the scope and deadline.
Check in with the project in three stages to answer the associated questions.
How do two additional features and more story points added by the product owner impact the
team's progress and ability to complete work within the iteration, considering the burndown rate of
the team has not changed? (Refer to the Case Study and End of Sprint 3 Exhibit)
- A. The scope of the items in the backlog has been increased to reflect an increase in velocity.
- B. The backlog has been increased and the velocity of the project may no longer be on track.
- C. The team has committed to additional work added to the backlog and will increase velocity.
- D. The team did not complete the backlog items at the same velocity due to external issues
Answer:
C
Question 2
A development team has started working on a new service but is unsure if the service fits the
customer's requirements. What should the product owner do to ensure that the service will benefit
the customer?
- A. Release the minimum viable product (MVP) to a group of customers and end users for their feedback.
- B. Build a prototype and review it with the targeted customer segment for their feedback.
- C. Invite a group of customers and end users to the biweekly demos to obtain feedback.
- D. Release the prototype of the software for 6 months to a pilot group of customers for feedback.
Answer:
B
Question 3
Several team members are new to agile and there is a lot of confusion. It seems everyone is coming
in with different experiences and following their own agendas. The scrum master decided to hold a
presentation on core agile principles and values.
What should the scrum master emphasize to the team during the presentation?
- A. The value of agile ceremonies and methods
- B. Performance and chain of command
- C. Product deliverables, procedures and features
- D. Collaboration, value delivery and shared mindset
Answer:
D
Question 4
During an interview for an agile team lead for a global company, a candidate is asked: "How do you
ensure your project is aligned with the stakeholders' priorities?"
How should the candidate respond?
- A. Engage the change management team to determine prioritization of the backlog.
- B. Allow the stakeholders to decide on the priority and build the backlog.
- C. The entire team should discuss and prioritize the backlog factoring in stakeholder input.
- D. Only the agile team lead and team need to decide how to prioritize the project deliverables.
Answer:
C
Question 5
During the high-level estimation for a project, the team contacted the product owner about the
client’s requirements. The team is seeking guidance as their estimate is too big and there is a risk of
not finishing the project in time.
What should the product owner do to help the team?
- A. Work with the client to ensure that the requirements are clear enough to allow a correct estimation and refine the backlog if needed.
- B. Assist the team with schedule planning to mitigate risks, including the possibility of crashing if needed.
- C. Implement clear measurements to control any deviation and therefore ensure the project's success per client requirements
- D. Recommend that the team skip requirements that are too complex and estimate them later through progressive elaboration.
Answer:
A
Question 6
During the retrospective meeting, it is revealed that an external dependency is causing a reoccurring
impact. The impact is that an external team is not providing a fix or a stable testing environment. The
scrum master has been unable to resolve this after escalating the situation to upper management
several times.
What should the scrum master do now?
- A. Guide the development team to accept and adapt to the existing situation by finding sustainable workarounds.
- B. Assure that the development team plans the scope of work with this risk absorbed in the estimation.
- C. Establish a communications channel with the external team and monitor the implementation of the external task.
- D. Collect empirical data and influence upper management to be accountable for end-to-end. cross- team delivery.
Answer:
D
Question 7
An agile project manager has noticed their teams declining morale, mistrust, and isolation over the
last 6 months of working on a project. What should the agile project manager do to enhance
productivity and create a cohesive team culture?
- A. Develop a reward system related to position and years of experience.
- B. Clarify project goals and project contract constraints.C Promote cross-training and —entering among tea— members
- C. Introduce performance standards and evaluation methods.
Answer:
C
Question 8
During backlog refinement, a team routinely creates tests to demonstrate to the customer that each
acceptance criterion has been met. Most acceptance tests results are observable or demonstrable,
but testing for one requirement is providing a challenge to the team. The requirement states that the
home button should be recognizable and the team is unsure how to test this.
What should the team lead do?
- A. Determine if the home button is present and if it is shaped like a house, it is recognizable.
- B. Record the product owner's opinion on how they will know if the button is recognizable.
- C. Skip creating a specific test for Ibis particular requirement because it is too abstract
- D. Consult the design team as subject matter experts (SMEs) for criteria on what makes a button recognizable.
Answer:
D
Question 9
Just before a scheduled product launch, the customer declined to accept the final deliverable after
seeing the demo. What should the project manager do to prevent this in the future?
- A. Ensure the teams are working together daily throughout the product development and are keeping the team's progress up to date.
- B. Ensure there is an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing their ideas, concerns, and feedback.
- C. Ensure the customer is provided with regular project status updates and that the meeting minutes are well documented.
- D. Ensure the team is able to release new features and updates frequently so that customers can see the product and provide feedback.
Answer:
D
Question 10
A scrum master of a team that is new to Scrum wants to share the purpose of the daily coordination
meeting. What should the scrum master tell the team?
- A. The purpose of the daily coordination meeting is for the scrum master to be able to follow up on the sprint plan. The team should explain what may be impeding them from reaching the sprint goal.
- B. According to the Scrum guide, the daily coordination meeting is part of the Scrum framework. The purposes of this meeting are to enable the scrum master to verify the team is on track and to escalate impediments.
- C. The daily coordination meeting is an effective way for the development team to follow up on progress toward the sprint goal and discuss anything that may hinder their work. It is a way to actively manage risks and dependencies.
- D. The daily coordination meeting is held to verify that people are working on the right things. The whole Scrum team should be able to answer these questions: What did I do yesterday, what will I do today, and what can stop me from making progress?
Answer:
C
Question 11
A client needs to release their product to market earlier than planned. They need to start receiving
the expected revenue, according to their financial forecast, which will require completing the work
left on all user stories in the backlog.
What should the project lead do to accommodate this request?
- A. Review the burn up chart to make predictions of how many iterations left are required to complete user stories left and make required adjustments to finish earlier.
- B. Review the burn down chart to make predictions of how many iterations left are required to complete user stories left and make required adjustments to finish earlier.
- C. Ensure the team focus on completing the current items in the backlog and do not accept any request for changes.
- D. Work with the product owner to launch a minimum viable product (MVP) and focus on completing only this portion of work by the new deadline.
Answer:
D
Question 12
A mobile application project is halfway through development. The team reaches a stabilized velocity
after 8 iterations. The sprint duration is two weeks and requirements assigned by the product owner
are not changing frequently.
What is the estimated time remaining for the project?
- A. Eight months
- B. Two months
- C. Four months
- D. Six months
Answer:
C
Question 13
When working with Lean approaches, which process includes the sequence of steps for delivering
value and those required to carry them out?
- A. Value stream mapping
- B. Long-term Lean planning
- C. Business process modeling
- D. Planning poker
Answer:
A
Question 14
A scrum master wants to encourage better collaboration within a collocated team and is coming up
with a visualization method for the project. How could the scrum master promote transparency?
- A. Consolidate the team's updates in presentation slides and email them to the team regularly.
- B. Radiate key information such as the team's work, progress, and velocity at the team's common area.
- C. Share team progress individually with each top performer every week.
- D. Attach sticky notes for each assignment to the wall in the team's area.
Answer:
B
Question 15
A development team is working on the implementation of a human resources (HR) solution. The
team has decided to work together with different business units to deliver value early and often.
Which agile values are being practiced in this scenario?
- A. The importance of customer-centric product development practices over product-centric approaches.
- B. Deliver working software often with a preference for shorter timescales and changing requirements
- C. The belief that contributions and interactions are more important to success than processes and tools.
- D. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
Answer:
B