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Few Tips & Tricks on PMI-ACP Exam: -

The following notes are based on many collected notes from successful engineers who
passed the PMI-ACP Exam.

1- Study plan between 3 to 4 months. Plan is published on Agile Tips & Trick FP Group.
2- Minor updates with done with Eng. Mahmoud depend in each one free time.
3- Very important that you on last month to focus on solving questions and exam for
making sure you are ready for the exam.
4- Very important to understand the Agile mindset, most of the questions on the exam
are situational questions. Asking you as (PO, Agile Coach, etc.) what you will do in
these situations.
5- Exam usually have long situations, around 3 and even sometimes 4 written lines.
6- If you have real Agile practicing experience, it will help you a lot within the exam.
7- Usually you will not have so much time to review questions as mention exam have
long questions.
8- PMI-ACP exam doesn’t have so much calculation questions 1, 2 max 3 questions.
9- Few questions on domain tasks
10- Not much questions on burnup & burndown as usual. Specially the graphs ones.
11- PMI-ACP is not easy exam. It is between medium to hard. You will need to focus
during the exam.
12- The exam contains 20 to 25 easy and direct questions

- Example 1: While you are choosing the sprint stories, which stories will be the least to
choose – you will not chose- (High risk low value)
- Example 2: You want to calculate your team Efficiency which activity you will use, or you
can calculate your efficiency using (Value Stream)

13- The rest of questions are usually covering different areas. In next points we try to
cover them.
14- Questions with known ideas but the situation is a bit longer than normal.
15- Questions with known idea but the situation is fully new to the reader.
16- Questions with new and long situations and sometimes you would need to read the
questions two times to get what is needed.
17- Few questions with known situations, but the answers are quiet long one or two line
for each option.
18- Short questions one line but the answers are very tricky

- Example: You are selecting interpersonal skill from the following ones to use. Within your
team (Communication or Leadership). Best answer is communication as sometimes they
define Interpersonal skills as communication between two or more people.

19- Questions with similar situations but one sentence is different. Then ask you in this
case what you will do or to whom you go.

- Example: Two similar questions with a bit different words then ask you who - you will
contact PO or stakeholder (for sure the case will make it easy to solve the questions)
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- If it is potential problem or risk usually contact Product Owner.

- If it is essential or major risk, contact Stakeholder

20- Few different situations with same answers, then each time as you what you will
chose. So, it is very important to understand the situation correctly.

- Example: Two different questions with similar answers and ask you what is the was not set
correctly (definition of done or acceptance criteria).

The is disagreement on the requirement, someone say it is there and another say it is not
there and it is not meeting the requirement (definition of done)
- While you are presenting the demo, it was not accepted as it is not meeting the
requirements (acceptance Criteria)

21- Few questions come with long situation then ask you what you will do next or what
is the next step. This type of questions tests your understanding of the Agile & Scrum
Framework.
22- Questions tell you a story then ask you what you are doing now or in which meeting
you are now.
23- Questions count on your understanding of Scrum Master, PO, Agile Coach roles.
24- Questions asks you (who takes the lead in this case)
25- Questions about the team and its characteristics (Self-organized – Self-directed)
26- Questions that team found new innovative ways. So, should team implement it or
return back to PO.

- Example: Your team made an innovative way to implement the solution in a new way.
Should the team directly implement it or check it with the product owner
- One case team should directly implement it as team is self-organized and self-directed -
Another case you will need to return back to the case will clear it fully

27- If you will have the exam at home. Take care of your network and also know that your
hands movement will be controlled J.
28- Very minor direct questions on agile methodologies. Asking you if this XP or Scrum
or Kanban.
29- Few indirect questions on agile methodologies. For example, long situation and didn’t
mention anything related to agile methodologies, then ask you how to solve it. From
the case the answer would be pair programming.
30- Chart question with team behind schedule and then ask you what the reason is.
31- Make sure you read the Agile practice guide and solve questions on it
32- Sometimes for none English native speakers some words may cause confusion, but
you would understand it from the case.
33- Questions that team, Scrum Master or PO in middle of sprint and there is a problem.
Then ask they will act.
34- Questions ask you as Agile coach how you will act when there are
issues/risks/dependencies/ changes.
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