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PMI-ACP® practice questions: Product
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These 5 questions come from the Product section of our PMI-ACP® bank (31 questions on this area, which carries 19% of the real exam). Every question is original, with the correct answer explained and linked to the source it is drawn from.
1/5 · Product
On a Kanban team, several cards in the 'Ready' column have vague titles and no clear scope, so the team frequently interrupts the customer proxy mid-task to ask clarifying questions. Which practice would most directly address this problem?
AHold regular backlog refinement sessions to detail, estimate, and clarify items before they enter the ready queue.
BReduce the WIP limit on the 'In Progress' column so fewer cards are worked at once.
CAssign one team member to interpret all vague cards during daily standup.
DEliminate the 'Ready' column and pull work directly from the backlog into 'In Progress.'
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2/5 · Product
A story reads: 'As a registered user, I want to reset my password via email so that I can regain access to my account.' A teammate objects that this story cannot be started until two other stories, owned by unrelated system components, are completed first. Which INVEST criterion is being violated?
AValuable — the story does not deliver value to the end user.
BIndependent — the story should be able to be developed without a fixed sequencing dependency on unrelated work.
CTestable — the story lacks clear acceptance criteria to verify.
DSmall — the story is too large to fit within one iteration.
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3/5 · Product · hard
A team reports it shipped 45 story points and 12 features this quarter, but stakeholders note that customer retention has declined over the same period. What is the most important lesson for the product owner to draw from this situation?
AOutput metrics (points, features shipped) do not equal outcome metrics (retention, satisfaction, business value); the product owner should track outcome-based measures to know whether delivered work actually created value.
BVelocity should be compared across teams to identify which team is underperforming on value delivery.
CStory points and feature counts are the correct measures of value; the retention decline is an unrelated marketing issue.
DThe team should increase velocity further, since higher output naturally correlates with better business outcomes.
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4/5 · Product · easy
An agile team lead explains to a new stakeholder why the team plans to release working software every two weeks instead of waiting until the end of a twelve-month contract to deliver everything at once. Which statement best captures the rationale behind this practice?
AReleasing early shifts acceptance testing from the team to the customer, reducing the team's own quality obligations.
BDelivering working, valuable increments early lets the customer realize benefit sooner and gives the team empirical feedback to guide further prioritization.
CFrequent releases let the team recover story points lost to scope creep before the contract deadline.
DFrequent releases exist mainly so the project manager can invoice the customer more often during the contract.
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B is correct. Value-driven delivery favors small, frequent increments of working, tested functionality so the customer begins realizing benefit early and the team gains real feedback to reprioritize remaining work. This directly supports early and continuous delivery of valuable software and responding to change over following a rigid plan. Cadence is about value realization and learning, not billing convenience or shifting quality accountability.
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5/5 · Product
Two agile teams report velocities of 60 and 35 story points per iteration respectively. A manager concludes that the first team is delivering more value to the customer. Which statement best challenges this conclusion?
AThe lower-velocity team must be understaffed, and simply adding more members will proportionally raise both its velocity and the value it delivers.
BVelocity reflects a team's own relative sizing habits and cannot be used as a proxy for the customer value delivered, since it says nothing about which features were completed or their business impact.
CVelocity is a normalized, cross-team unit, so comparing 60 points to 35 points is a valid way to rank which team creates more customer value.
DValue cannot be assessed at all until the project is entirely complete, so no comparison between the teams is possible mid-project.
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B is correct. Velocity is a team-specific, relative measure of how much work a team completes per iteration based on its own historical estimates; it is not comparable across teams and says nothing about the business value or customer outcomes of the work completed. A manager equating higher velocity with higher value is making a common but unsupported inference. Assessing value requires looking at outcomes delivered and stakeholder feedback, not raw point totals.
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