Free Practice Questions for PMI PMI-ACP Exam

To understand the needs of different user types, agile teams use personas and extreme characters to represent a range of users, including edge cases. According to the PMI Agile Practice Guide (Section 5.2: Requirements and Personas) and Mike Griffiths’ PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book (Chapter 6: Adaptive Planning), personas help teams build empathy and ensure that stories reflect actual user roles—not just generic assumptions.

Option D is correct: personas and extreme characters ensure inclusive and realistic story coverage.

Option A and B focus on communication and sequencing but not user diversity.

Option C (process flows) is more technical and doesn’t solve the misalignment with user perspectives.

The correct answer is D – Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input. Agile emphasizes transparency and collaboration with stakeholders. Since the organization values security highly, decisions that impact quality or policy must be discussed openly with stakeholders who have the authority to weigh cost-benefit trade-offs.

From the PMI Agile Practice Guide:

“Agile teams embrace customer collaboration and transparency. When decisions have business or organizational implications—such as security or compliance—stakeholders must be involved in evaluating trade-offs.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 4.2 – Stakeholder Engagement)

Mike Griffiths states:

“When teams face decisions that could impact non-functional requirements like security, these should be escalated transparently to stakeholders for evaluation.”

(Mike Griffiths, PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Chapter 3 – Value-Driven Delivery)

Incorrect options:

A and C could result in bias or lack of organizational alignment.

B is too late and internal-only for a business-critical concern.

Answer: D

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As a scrum master, the goal is to foster a collaborative and self-organizing environment. When conflicts arise, it is essential to guide the team in resolving the issue on their own rather than making unilateral decisions. The scrum master should:

Coach the team individually to understand the root causes of the conflict and ensure each team member feels heard.

Then, bring the team together in a more structured environment, such as the Sprint review, to discuss the disagreement openly and constructively. This helps the team resolve conflicts and learn how to handle similar situations in the future.

The correct answer is A – Prioritize the stakeholder feedback, considering the impact on strategic objectives and current workload, and discuss these priorities with the team in the next sprint planning meeting to collaboratively decide on the next steps.

Agile promotes adaptive planning and continuous stakeholder engagement. While feedback is highly valuable, especially from a sprint review, changes to the product backlog must be carefully prioritized and collaboratively discussed with the team. The product owner’s responsibility is to maintain and refine the backlog, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs while also preserving team focus and avoiding unnecessary disruption during an ongoing sprint.

From the PMI Agile Practice Guide:

“Product backlog refinement is an ongoing process in which the product owner and the team collaborate on the details of backlog items. This includes analyzing, estimating, and prioritizing items to reflect the latest feedback and business needs.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 5.2 – Product Backlog Refinement)

“Agile teams embrace change, especially when it delivers value. However, they also maintain sustainable pace and focus by avoiding mid-sprint scope changes unless absolutely necessary. Backlog items are reviewed and reprioritized before the next sprint begins.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 3.4 – Value-Driven Delivery)

From Mike Griffiths’ PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book:

“While agile encourages responding to change, disrupting sprint commitments can erode team trust and productivity. Sprint planning is the correct forum to reprioritize work based on new stakeholder insights.”

(Mike Griffiths, Chapter 5 – Adaptive Planning)

Why the other options are incorrect:

B introduces mid-sprint disruption and disregards agile best practices for maintaining sprint integrity and team focus.

C eliminates team collaboration and risks breakdowns in communication, violating agile’s emphasis on transparency and teamwork.

D disregards valuable feedback and delays addressing important stakeholder needs, which could compromise customer satisfaction and strategic alignment.

Answer: A

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The correct answer is A — Lead the team and help them to constantly improve the processes in the project.

The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring that retrospective action items are tracked and followed up on. While the team owns the improvement actions, the Scrum Master provides support, accountability, and facilitation to ensure that continuous improvement happens.

PMI Agile Practice Guide:

“The Scrum Master facilitates continuous improvement by helping the team reflect, identify actions, and ensure those actions are implemented.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 5.8 – Retrospectives)

Mike Griffiths:

“Retrospectives are only effective if outcomes are tracked. The Scrum Master ensures improvement ideas are not forgotten and become part of the team’s evolution.”

(PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Chapter 7 – Continuous Improvement)

Incorrect options:

B uses a confrontational tone—contrary to servant leadership.

C implies micro-management and contradicts self-organization.

D avoids responsibility for facilitating improvements.

Answer: A

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The correct answer is A – Use an information radiator to help increase the transparency of work for key stakeholders.

Information radiators (such as Kanban boards, burndown charts, and story maps) make work status visible to the entire team and stakeholders in real-time, improving communication without additional meetings or reporting overhead.

From the PMI Agile Practice Guide:

“Agile teams use information radiators to promote transparency, show progress, and increase stakeholder engagement without adding administrative burden.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 3.5 – Information Radiators)

Mike Griffiths confirms:

“Effective agile environments display work status where everyone can see it. Visual indicators allow stakeholders and team members to remain informed without direct queries.”

(Mike Griffiths, PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book, Chapter 5 – Agile Monitoring and Control)

Other options explained:

B creates unnecessary manual effort.

C may disrupt team rhythm; daily stand-ups are sufficient in Scrum.

D encourages siloed behavior and contradicts collaboration.

Answer: A

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The correct answer is B – How much money the organization will earn or save by having the MMF.

Minimally Marketable Features (MMFs) are the smallest set of functionality that deliver value and can be released to generate revenue or realize benefits. Prioritization of MMFs is typically done based on expected business value—such as cost savings, revenue potential, or customer satisfaction.

From the PMI Agile Practice Guide:

“MMFs help teams focus on delivering value early and frequently. They are prioritized based on expected value to the customer or organization, return on investment (ROI), and business impact.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 3.4 – Delivering Value Frequently)

Mike Griffiths also emphasizes:

“MMFs should be prioritized based on business value—how much benefit they bring to the customer or organization. Value-based prioritization ensures the right features are built first.”

(Mike Griffiths, PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book, Chapter 3 – Value-Driven Delivery)

Why the other options are incorrect:

A refers to risk but doesn’t address business value.

C addresses stakeholder involvement, not delivery prioritization.

D refers to development time, which is considered but secondary to value.

Answer: B

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The correct answer is D — Work with the team to analyze the market opportunity and create a tailored agile approach if needed.

Agile promotes context-based tailoring. Just because an approach works well in one project doesn’t guarantee it will fit another. The agile leader should collaborate with the team to analyze current needs and adapt or design the most suitable process accordingly.

PMI Agile Practice Guide:

“There is no one-size-fits-all approach. Agile methods should be tailored to suit the project context and objectives.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 2.1 – Tailoring Agile)

Mike Griffiths:

“Teams must evaluate project needs and customize their process accordingly. Blind reuse of past methods often fails to address unique challenges.”

(PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Chapter 1 – Agile Principles and Mindset)

Incorrect options:

A involves stakeholders, but D emphasizes team and tailoring for delivery.

B ignores the unique needs of the new project.

C undermines agility and team ownership.

Answer: D

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The best answer is D because the project lead should foster psychological safety. In agile teams, people need to feel safe to share opinions, challenge ideas, raise concerns, and provide feedback without fear of blame, embarrassment, or punishment. This is especially important in international or cross-cultural teams where communication styles may differ.

Option A may help with meeting structure, but emphasizing rules does not necessarily make people feel safe. Option B is passive and may allow silence to continue. Option C may help in some cases, but separate meetings do not solve the root issue in team discussions. Option D directly addresses the problem by improving the team environment.

PMI-ACP explicitly includes fostering psychological safety, encouraging dialogue, soliciting constructive feedback, and promoting a collaborative team environment.

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The correct answer is B — They most likely discussed the best approach for this project with the team and will adapt and tailor the approach periodically by reviewing and verifying the scope with the customer.

In Agile, tailoring and adaptiveness are key. Agile projects are not " one-size-fits-all " — teams assess the context and collaboratively select and continuously tailor the best-fit practices. Agile also emphasizes engaging stakeholders frequently and iteratively refining scope.

PMI Agile Practice Guide:

“Agile teams tailor their processes and continually adapt to changing needs. The decision to use agile practices should be based on the nature of the work and team collaboration.”

(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 2.1 – Tailoring Agile)

Mike Griffiths:

“Agile promotes adaptive planning and continuous stakeholder engagement to ensure alignment and responsiveness to change.”

(PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Chapter 1 – Agile Principles and Mindset)

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