Passing the PMI-ACP certification exam

avril 21, 2018

Passing the PMI-ACP certification exam

The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your

skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers.

The PMI-ACP® is a fastest growing certification, and it’s no wonder.

Organizations that are highly agile and responsive to market dynamics complete more of their projects successfully

than their slower-moving counterparts — 75 percent versus 56 percent — as shown in 2015 Pulse of the Profession®

report.

The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and

test-driven development (TDD.) So it will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.

Understand and apply agile tools, principles and practices on basic projects.

To earn the PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification, you must meet the experience and

education requirements, and pass the PMI-ACP exam, a 120-question, multiple-choice test.

3 hour computer based multiple choice exam offered at authorized Prometric Test Centres

120 multiple choice questions (4 choices, 1 correct answer)

(100 scoring questions, 20 test questions)

Exam = 120 questions in 3 hours

100 scored

20 unscroed

The PMI-ACP certification exam covers principles,practices and tools and techniques across agile methodologies

(Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, DSDM / AgilePM, TDD, ATDD and more).

The exam specification details the following percentage breakdown of exam questions by category:

Tools and Techniques (50%)

Knowledge and Skills (50%)

Tools and Techniques (50%)

Communications

Planning, monitoring, and adapting

Agile estimation

Agile analysis and design

Product quality

Soft skills negotiation

Value-based prioritization

Risk management

Metrics

Value stream analysis

Knowledge and Skills (50%)

Level 1 : 18 skills (33%)

Level 2 : 12 skills (12%)

Level 3 : 13 skills (5%)

Level 1 : 18 skills (33%)

Active listening

Agile Manifesto values and principles

Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values

Brainstorming techniques

Building empowered teams

Coaching and mentoring within teams

Communications management Continuous improvement processes

Feedback techniques for product (e.g., prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, evaluations)

Incremental delivery

Knowledge sharing

Leadership tools and techniques

Prioritization

Problem-solving strategies, tools, and techniques

Project and quality standards for Agile projects

Stakeholder management

Time, budget, and cost estimation

Value-based decomposition and prioritization

Level 2 : 12 skills (12%)

Building high-performance teams Agile project accounting principles

Business case development

Colocation (geographic proximity) / distributed teams

Continuous improvement processes

Elements of a project charter for an Agile project

Facilitation methods

Participatory decision models (e.g., input-based, shared collaboration, command)

PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional

Self assessment

Value-based analysis

Level 3 : 13 skills (5%)

Agile contracting methods

Agile project accounting principles

Applying new Agile practices

Compliance (organization)

Control limits for Agile projects

Failure modes and alternatives

Globalization, culture, and team diversity

Innovation games

Principles of systems thinking (e.g., complex, adaptive, chaos)

Regulatory compliance

Variance and trend analysis

Variations in Agile methods and approaches

Vendor management

Broad Understanding of Agile and lean is required

Developed and independently validated by global groups of agile professionals

Intended to be industry agnostic

PMI-ACP elligibility prerequisites :

2000 hours Project
1500 hours Agile Experience (non-overlapping)
21 hours Agile Training : may be taught by anyone

Exam

It’s a Pass/Fail Exam

Exam administered by ProMetric

exam is preceded by a Tutorial

Questions 120

100 Scored

20 Pretest (unscored)

Time : 3 hours

No breaks

No materials

Followed by a Survey

Exam Results :

Proficient – Above Average level of knowledge

Moderately Proficient – At the average

Below Proficient – Below average

Exam pass percentage is NOT publicized

PMI-ACP certification

You must maintain Credential in 3 year cycles.

PMI-ACP credential holder will need to earn 30 PDUs in agile project management per three-year cycle.

PMI-ACP exam price

Member Computer: $335

Non-Member computer: $435

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