PMI PMI-200 Exam Questions Free Practice Test

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Questions # 21:

During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good. What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

Require the team to try only those ideas that will ensure success.

Allow the team to try ideas, but remind them that results will be reviewed by high-ranking executives.

Associate idea successes and failures with the team's incentive plan to ensure accountability.

Encourage the team to try the ideas, even if failure may be the outcome.

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Questions # 22:

A product owner with experience in a predictive approach wants the team to develop very detailed schedules and cost estimates for the next 10 sprints. What should the Scrum Master do?

Options:

Suggest the product owner start by focusing on the next 2 sprints instead of 10

Spend the first few sprints to develop detailed schedules and budgets

Invite the product owner to the retrospective to explain the team's approach to schedule and budget

Explain that detailed project schedules and budgets are not artifacts in agile projects

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Questions # 23:

The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six months What should the scrum master do?

Options:

Commit to a specific feature set for delivery

Explain that a commitment will be provided after planning

Have the team estimate in story points to commit to a specific set of features

Use the team's historical velocity to calculate a range of features that can be delivered

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Questions # 24:

A team using Kanban identifies that their cycle time has significant variation After brainstorming the team determines that the root cause is the stones' varying sizes and risks.

What should the team do?

Options:

Reduce work in progress (WIP) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories

Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stones

Set a policy to break down stories larger than a specified complexity then adjust the WIP

Create a dedicated overflow swimlane on the Kanban board for stories that are too large

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Questions # 25:

An agile team lead noticed their team’s velocity was slowing down. They did not deliver a working software during the last iteration and there have been miscommunications between team members.

What should the agile team lead do at the end of this iteration?

Options:

Focus on performance in the retrospective, then present performance indices and validate with the team.

Start using feedback loops in every sprint to reevaluate project and team performance.C Emphasize business requirements and investigate the pair-programming approach

Run a spike at the end of the sprint to investigate the issue and reduce project risk.

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Question # 26

A project manager is working on a database migration project to cloud services (Refer to Migration Strategy to Cloud Services table). The project team has accumulated significant technical debt over several sprints due to pressure to deliver features quickly. This debt is nowimpacting their ability to deliver new features, leading to a notable decline in product performance and customer satisfaction.

Identify the actions the team should take to effectively manage technical debt while consistently delivering high-value features that align with stakeholder expectations.

Options:

Form a separate learn dedicated lo handling technical debt, allowing the current team to focus on new features to maintain a competitive advantage and stakeholder satisfaction.

Include technical debt tasks in every sprint, treating them with the same level of priority as new features, and continuously review the impact on the project's overall goals.

Ignore the technical debt foe now and focus exclusively on delivering new features so that the project can maintain a competitive advantage and stakeholder satisfaction.

Dedicate multiple consecutive sprints solely to addressing technical debt, halting new feature development temporarily to minimize the impact on the project's overall goals.

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Questions # 27:

As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?

Options:

Add more user stories.

Use sprint retrospectives.

Update current user stories.

Update new tasks in the project plan.

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Questions # 28:

A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.

What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?

Options:

Decrease the sprint time box until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint

Discuss estimating techniques in the daily scrum meeting

Increase the size of the development team until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint.

Begin tracking estimated effort metrics as an input to performance evaluation

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Questions # 29:

The first project vision statement meeting for a newly formed team did not achieve its outcome. Lack of participation combined with conflicting views of those who participated led to disagreement on how to proceed.

How can the team improve their collaboration?

Options:

Set clear expectations and allow everyone to contribute.

Prepare the project vision statement and then present it to the team.

Ask senior management to address the situation.

Seek assistance from the scrum master to mediate the conflict.

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Questions # 30:

What is the disadvantage of using velocity as a measure of team efficiency in agile approaches?

Options:

Capacity planning will not be accurate.

Inaccurate pressure on customers.

Quality increases while output decreases.

Delivery speed increases while morale decreases.

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