Passing the PMI-ACP certification exam
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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