[Q173-Q188] PMI-ACP Certification – The Ultimate Guide [Updated 2026]

QUESTION 173
A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful. The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than a long-term solution.
What should the project leader do?

QUESTION 174
At a strategic level, what is the most appropriate way for an Agile team to estimate a project?

QUESTION 175
Suppose the current release will be complete after 6 two-week iterations. A team member is insisting that the Product Owner write the acceptance test cases for the entire release. How should the Scrum Master respond?

QUESTION 176
Estimating costs for an Agile project starts with which of the following types of meetings?

QUESTION 177
A product owner concludes that the majority of a project’s value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog.
What should the product owner do next?

QUESTION 178
A product owner concludes that the majority of a project’s value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog. What should the product owner do next?

QUESTION 179
What is a Japanese term used in Lean software development is an activity that is wasteful, unproductive, and doesn’t add value?

QUESTION 180
Midway through a sprint. a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement Dial may change the initial scope What should the team do?

QUESTION 181
A new team member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan What should be the proper response?

QUESTION 182
A newly formed Scrum team wants to foster an environment of transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments. Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future. Over time, what will be the result of this approach?

QUESTION 183
What is the disadvantage of using velocity as a measure of team efficiency in agile approaches?

QUESTION 184
An organization strives hard to accelerate value delivery by improving product design, development, and transition activities. What ways of working should the organization discontinue to become an effective player?

QUESTION 185
Based on the following figure, during Iteration 5, there was an increase in story point value (shown on the graph); however, the team completed all of the work it promised to deliver in the iteration and existing estimates were not changed. From this information, one can inferthat:

QUESTION 186
During a project’s last few sprints, an agile practitioner notices an increase in defects. A root-cause analysis indicates that a poor understanding of the requirements was caused by the inability of the product owner to communicate clearly.
What should the agile practitioner do?

QUESTION 187
The trend of work remaining across time in a Sprint, a release, or a product, with work remaining tracked on the vertical axis and the time periods tracked on the horizontal axis is called a ____________.

QUESTION 188
Who is NOT part of the Scrum Team?