PMI-ACP Exam Certification Questions

PMP Certification Additional Exam Questions
1. Global teams or local teams not at the same location are:

a. Distributed teams
b. Co-located teams
c. Agile team
d. None of the above
A. Distributed teams are global or local teams not at the same location.
2. What could be used to compare quantities of some kind?

a. Metric
b. Measure
c. Proportion
d. Quantity
B. A measure is used to compare quantities of some kind.
3. Which of the following is NOT a Business Metric?

a. Running Tested Features (RTF)
b. Velocity
c. Net Present Value
d. Earned Business Value
B. Velocity is a Process Metric while the other mentioned are Business Metrics.
4. Which of the following are the activities involved in the Project

Closure?
a. Cleaning up open items
b. Finalizing documentation
c. Producing or manufacturing support material
d. Completing the software development
D. Project closing involves cleaning up open items, finalizing documentation and

producing or manufacturing support material, and preparing required end-of-
project administrative reports, release notes, and financial reports.
5. What is the process of reorganizing the working code to make it

more organized and more maintainable without changing the
functionality?
a. Refactoring
b. Regression
c. Relativity
d. Elaboration
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A. Refactoring is the process of reorganizing the working code to make it more
organized and more maintainable without changing the functionality.
6. A team is using Kanban techniques to manage its work. If

productivity is reduced at a particular step, what would be the
result?
a. Increase in the amount of work-in-progress
b. Decrease in the amount of work-in-progress
c. Frequent changes in work-in-progress limits
d. It is not possible to predict from the given data
A. If productivity is reduced at a particular step, then the amount of work-in-

progress would increase.
7. For the last three iterations, a team completed the development

tasks for the planned stories, but the testing was lagging behind.
What is the best thing you can do?
a. Add more testers to the team
b. Encourage the team to be more cross-functional
c. Reduce the developers on the team
d. Plan for testing to lag development by one iteration
B. We must make sure that the team is doing everything it can to help remove
the bottlenecks and help each other out. The team should collectively deliver the
near releasable product at the end of the release. Options A, C, and D are all
trying to mask or work around the problem, whereas the issue needs to be
addressed directly.
8. Which of the following BEST explain the terms Lead time and
Cycle time in Lean methodologies?
a. Lead time is the amount of time it takes for a unit of work to proceed from
inception to production delivery. Cycle time is from when a requirement is
picked up for development to when it is completed
b. Lead time is the waiting time between processes. Cycle time is the total time
spent in processing
c. Lead time is the amount of wait time before a process can start. Cycle time is
the total time spent in processing
d. Lead time and cycle time mean the same thing
A. Lead time is the amount of time it takes for a unit of work to proceed from
inception to production delivery. Cycle time is from when a requirement is picked
up for development to when it is completed.
9. You are starting a new project with a new Agile team. Which
would NOT be a good approach to develop an initial estimation of
the team velocity?
a. Take a GUESS

b. Run a couple of initial iterations and extrapolate the data
c. Use the management desired velocity as a starting point and go from there
d. Use historical data
C. Options A, B, and D are all legitimate ways of determining the initial velocity of
the team. The notion of management about the desired velocity of the team is a
poor starting point because it is completely un-correlated with the inherent
capabilities of the team.
10. Your organization has outsourced work to a different organization

which follows Agile methodologies. As the leader of the customer
organization, which of the following is NOT your responsibility?
a. Ensuring that the right requirements are given
b. Ensuring that the requirements are drawn from a wide spectrum of users
c. Ensuring that clarifications about requirements are given in a timely manner
d. Ensuring that the vendor follows the Agile methodology correctly
D. The performing organization and the team performing the work is probably
best positioned to come up with the right interpretation of the process to be most
effective. This is in the spirit of having a self-organized, empowered team. What
the customer is responsible for is to give the right set of requirements, provide
clarifications as needed and guidance with regard to the prioritization of
requirements.
11. Incremental delivery does NOT address _________________.

a. Prioritization of functionality
b. Planning everything up front
c. Delivering value quickly
d. The customer working with the system before the project is complete
B. Incremental delivery does not involve planning everything up front.
12. Traditional projects have _________________.

a. Teams that are managed
b. Self-organizing teams
c. Short planning cycles
d. Lots of customer involvement
A. Traditional projects have teams that are managed and heavy amounts of
planning, execution, and control.
13. The information radiator should do the following, except

_________________.
a. Be kept contained
b. Provide a dashboard view
c. Posted publicly

d. Show important information
A. The information radiator should be visible to everyone and must be opened to

be understood.
14. A Sprint is _________________.

a. A race between developers
b. An iteration on a Scrum project
c. An acronym for Agile projects
d. A telecommunication solution
B. A Sprint is an iteration on a Scrum project.
15. Something that adds value to the customer is known as a

_________________.
a. Function
b. Vision
c. Charter
d. Feature
D. Features add value to the customer.
16. The product roadmap is created by:

a. The team
b. The Product Owner
c. The Project Manager
d. The stakeholder
B. The Product Owner creates the product roadmap.
17. The customer communicated that there was an error in a software

module that was delivered. What is this?
a. An acceptance issue
b. A validation problem
c. An escaped defect
d. A verification problem
C. Escaped defects are those defects reported by the customer after the software
module being is delivered by the team.
18. Which one of the following options is false?

a. The first iteration is often called iteration zero
b. One iteration may include multiple releases
c. An iteration should deliver working software at the end
d. Iterations should continue throughout the life of the project

B. Several iterations may be combined to form a release.
19. Which statement is false about risk?

a. Risk need not be quantified to be understood
b. Risk is any uncertain event, positive, or negative
c. Value should be evaluated against risk
d. Risk may be represented on a risk-adjusted backlog
A. Risk is any uncertainty that may affect the project positively or negatively.
The risk-adjusted backlog is a primary way in which risk is managed. Value
should be evaluated against risk is a lean principle. Risk must be quantified using
Risk Score.
20. The waterfall approach is associated with the concept of

_________________.
a. Detailed Upfront Planning
b. Product Life cycle
c. Project Management
d. Deming Cycle
A. Waterfall approach is associated with Detailed Upfront Planning.

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PMP Certification Additional Exam Questions

1. Global teams or local teams not at the same location are:

2. What could be used to compare quantities of some kind?

B. A measure is used to compare quantities of some kind.

3. Which of the following is NOT a Business Metric?

4. Which of the following are the activities involved in the Project

D. Project closing involves cleaning up open items, finalizing documentation and

5. What is the process of reorganizing the working code to make it

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6. A team is using Kanban techniques to manage its work. If

A. If productivity is reduced at a particular step, then the amount of work-in-

7. For the last three iterations, a team completed the development

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10. Your organization has outsourced work to a different organization

11. Incremental delivery does NOT address _________________.

B. Incremental delivery does not involve planning everything up front.

12. Traditional projects have _________________.

13. The information radiator should do the following, except

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A. The information radiator should be visible to everyone and must be opened to

14. A Sprint is _________________.

B. A Sprint is an iteration on a Scrum project.

15. Something that adds value to the customer is known as a

D. Features add value to the customer.

16. The product roadmap is created by:

B. The Product Owner creates the product roadmap.

17. The customer communicated that there was an error in a software

18. Which one of the following options is false?

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19. Which statement is false about risk?

20. The waterfall approach is associated with the concept of

A. Waterfall approach is associated with Detailed Upfront Planning.

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