Free ACPM Practice Questions

Question 1

Halfway through a Sprint, a booking team learns that the planned seat-map component cannot support mobile users. The Sprint Goal is to let customers book a seat from a phone. Developers can deliver a simpler seat-selection list within the remaining time and meet the Definition of Done. The Product Owner still considers the goal valuable. How should the team adapt?

Accepted Answer

Negotiate the simpler flow with the Product Owner, then update the Developers' Sprint Backlog.

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Preserve the seat map and extend the Sprint to finish it.

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Cancel the Sprint and plan a new one around the simpler list.

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Finish the unaffected tasks and move mobile booking into the next Sprint.

Question 2

A supplier portal's quarterly key result is to raise unassisted first-order completion among new distributors from 45% to 65%. Its roadmap promises a searchable help center. Research shows that distributors can find the instructions but cannot select the required shipment terms. Which roadmap revision responds to the evidence without losing the objective?

Accepted Answer

Target unassisted first-order completion and test guidance where shipment terms cause difficulty.

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Build the help center and measure weekly article readership.

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Replace the help center with a complete onboarding redesign before repeating the user research.

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Ship the help center as promised and add shipment guidance to the following quarter's roadmap.

Question 3

A Product Owner uses weighted shortest job first (WSJF) to choose the next enhancement. Relative Cost of Delay and job size are, respectively: bulk export, 24 and 8; saved filters, 15 and 3; audit search, 40 and 4; usage digest, 4 and 1. Audit search cannot start until another team delivers an interface next month. The other enhancements are ready and have no dependencies or deadlines. Which enhancement should occupy the available development slot?

Accepted Answer

Saved filters, with a WSJF score of 5.

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Bulk export, with a WSJF score of 3.

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Audit search, with a WSJF score of 10.

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Usage digest, with a WSJF score of 4.

Question 4

In a pilot of a scheduling tool, representative users complete the core task without help, and engineering verifies the required reliability and response time. Participants praise the tool, but when given a choice for their actual work, most keep using their existing method. Access problems have been ruled out. Which discovery question deserves priority before the team expands development?

Accepted Answer

Does the workflow's advantage justify the effort of switching from users' established method?

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Does the service meet its required response time under the pilot's operating conditions?

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Can intended users complete the core scheduling task without help?

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Would improved visual design generate higher satisfaction ratings when participants see the next demonstration?

Question 5

A Kanban team has four started but unfinished items against a work-in-progress (WIP) limit of four, with no exception authorized. One item is blocked by an unresolved supplier decision and is eleven working days old. The Service Level Expectation is 85% of comparable items finished within eight working days; no delivery date was promised. Which response best combines flow control with an appropriate interpretation of the aging item?

Accepted Answer

Keep the item in WIP and pursue the supplier decision; its age warrants attention.

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Remove the blocked item from WIP and start another while awaiting the supplier's decision.

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Freeze new starts until management approves recovery from the missed eight-day service commitment.

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Continue waiting for the supplier because the expected 15% of slower items do not require active intervention.

Question 6

An analyst prepares backlog items, and the Scrum Master facilitates refinement. A director proposes that whoever facilitates the meeting should control both the order of work and its estimates. Under Scrum, how are these decisions assigned?

Accepted Answer

The Product Owner is accountable for ordering; Developers doing the work supply the estimates.

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The Scrum Master orders the backlog; the Product Owner supplies estimates.

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The analyst becomes accountable for ordering; Developers provide the estimates.

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The Product Owner sets backlog order and determines the estimates that Developers use when planning the Sprint.

Question 7

At the end of a Sprint, a feature passes every item-specific acceptance test. The agreed Definition of Done also requires updated recovery instructions, which have not been completed. The Product Owner is willing to accept the feature and have the instructions written later. How should the item be reported?

Accepted Answer

Report it as unfinished and return it to the Product Backlog for future consideration.

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Report it as Done and schedule the instructions for the next Sprint.

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Report it as Done once the Product Owner signs a waiver accepting responsibility for the missing instructions.

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Extend the Sprint to complete the instructions, then report the feature within the original Sprint's delivered scope.

Question 8

Customer research produces two distinct patterns. Reliable transaction history is taken for granted when present but strongly disliked when absent. Slow report generation frustrates users, while each improvement in speed increases satisfaction. Which pair of Kano classifications fits these findings?

Accepted Answer

Transaction history: must-be; report speed: performance.

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Transaction history: performance; report speed: attractive.

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Transaction history: attractive; report speed: must-be.

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Transaction history: indifferent; report speed: performance.

Question 9

A declining reporting add-on would generate $90,000 of receipts and require $130,000 of avoidable support and maintenance spending over the next twelve months. Retiring it now would instead cost $15,000 for a migration plan that satisfies all customer commitments, with no further receipts or spending. These are the only future cash flows that differ. The $240,000 previously spent developing the add-on is irrecoverable. Which recommendation has the strongest financial basis?

Accepted Answer

Retire with the migration plan; net cash flow improves by $25,000 over twelve months.

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Continue operating; keeping $90,000 of receipts is preferable to paying for migration.

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Retire with the migration plan; net cash flow improves by $40,000.

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Continue operating for another year to recover more of the $240,000 already invested in developing the add-on.

Question 10

Each software component passes its own automated tests. Developers combine their changes only at the end of an iteration, when incompatible interfaces repeatedly prevent the customer journey from working. Which XP practice most directly shortens the feedback loop responsible for these failures?

Accepted Answer

Integrate small changes frequently and automatically test interactions between the combined components.

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Increase isolated unit-test coverage within each software component.

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Adopt pair programming throughout implementation, with completed code still combined at the end of each iteration.

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Refactor the individual components before integrating the full set of changes at the end of each iteration.

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