CAPM Certification Additional Exam Questions
1. What is the standard timebox for the Daily Scrum?
Two minutes per person
30 minutes
15 minutes for a 4 week sprint, 10 minutes for a 2 week sprint
15 minutes only
D. Scrums specifies the duration of the daily stand-up or scrum meeting to 15
minutes. This ensures it is focused on dealing with project specific updates.
2. The stakeholder engagement assessment matrix is part of ...?
An output of Stakeholder Engagement – where stakeholders are identified as
unaware, resistant, neutral, supportive or leading.
An output of Plan Communications
Part of the stakeholder register
Part of Performance Reporting
A – It is part of Plan Stakeholder Engagement, tools and techniques. PMBOK®
Guide, 6th edition, p. 521
3. How many roles are specified in Scrum?
Three
Six plus or minus two
Six plus or minus three
Three
A. Scrum specifies three roles: Scrum Master, Product Owner and Team
4. The Agile Manifesto States “Individuals and Interactions over… ?
Comprehensive documentation
Top down management and tooling
Processes and tools
Contract negotiation
C. The Manifesto states Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools.
Remember the Manifesto states that while there is value to the items on the right
of the statement, Agile emphasizes the items on the left.
5. Which of the following is not true about the Wide Band Delphi
technique?
Individuals participating must know each other for the Wide Band Delphi
technique to be successful.
Wide Band Delphi technique is used to obtain expert opinion on a subject
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, In Wide Band Delphi technique participants are generally anonymous.
Wide Band Delphi is particularly effective when the project team does not
have much familiarity with estimating a domain area.
A. Experts participating in the Delphi technique are anonymous to provide an
objective basis for the evaluating the estimates.
6. Who is typically responsible for approving project charter :
Project Sponsor
Senior Management
Project Manager
Project stake-holders
A. The project sponsor is typically responsible for approving the charter.
7. At what point is an iteration completed?
When all user stories assigned to the iteration are complete.
When the Product Owner agrees that the goals of the iteration are met.
When the iteration’s timebox is complete.
When all tasks in the iteration have met the definition of done.
C. The iteration’s completion is determined by its timeboxed length. Once the
duration of the timebox is complete the iteration is also complete. This allows the
team to determine its velocity.
8. The conflict resolution technique that will yield the longest term
solution is:
Smoothing
Problem Solving
Compromising
Forcing
B. Problem-solving is the best solution for resolving conflicts and leads to long-
lasting conflict resolution.
9. You are the Project Manager for a commercial real estate project
in Japan. The area you are building in is an earthquake-prone
area. To take care of this you buy insurance for earthquakes. This
is an example of
Risk mitigation
Transfer of risk
Risk contingency planning
Risk sharing.
B. Insurance is an example of transferring risk.
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1. What is the standard timebox for the Daily Scrum?
Two minutes per person
30 minutes
15 minutes for a 4 week sprint, 10 minutes for a 2 week sprint
15 minutes only
D. Scrums specifies the duration of the daily stand-up or scrum meeting to 15
minutes. This ensures it is focused on dealing with project specific updates.
2. The stakeholder engagement assessment matrix is part of ...?
An output of Stakeholder Engagement – where stakeholders are identified as
unaware, resistant, neutral, supportive or leading.
An output of Plan Communications
Part of the stakeholder register
Part of Performance Reporting
A – It is part of Plan Stakeholder Engagement, tools and techniques. PMBOK®
Guide, 6th edition, p. 521
3. How many roles are specified in Scrum?
Three
Six plus or minus two
Six plus or minus three
Three
A. Scrum specifies three roles: Scrum Master, Product Owner and Team
4. The Agile Manifesto States “Individuals and Interactions over… ?
Comprehensive documentation
Top down management and tooling
Processes and tools
Contract negotiation
C. The Manifesto states Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools.
Remember the Manifesto states that while there is value to the items on the right
of the statement, Agile emphasizes the items on the left.
5. Which of the following is not true about the Wide Band Delphi
technique?
Individuals participating must know each other for the Wide Band Delphi
technique to be successful.
Wide Band Delphi technique is used to obtain expert opinion on a subject
CAPM Practice Exam Additional Questions Page 1
, In Wide Band Delphi technique participants are generally anonymous.
Wide Band Delphi is particularly effective when the project team does not
have much familiarity with estimating a domain area.
A. Experts participating in the Delphi technique are anonymous to provide an
objective basis for the evaluating the estimates.
6. Who is typically responsible for approving project charter :
Project Sponsor
Senior Management
Project Manager
Project stake-holders
A. The project sponsor is typically responsible for approving the charter.
7. At what point is an iteration completed?
When all user stories assigned to the iteration are complete.
When the Product Owner agrees that the goals of the iteration are met.
When the iteration’s timebox is complete.
When all tasks in the iteration have met the definition of done.
C. The iteration’s completion is determined by its timeboxed length. Once the
duration of the timebox is complete the iteration is also complete. This allows the
team to determine its velocity.
8. The conflict resolution technique that will yield the longest term
solution is:
Smoothing
Problem Solving
Compromising
Forcing
B. Problem-solving is the best solution for resolving conflicts and leads to long-
lasting conflict resolution.
9. You are the Project Manager for a commercial real estate project
in Japan. The area you are building in is an earthquake-prone
area. To take care of this you buy insurance for earthquakes. This
is an example of
Risk mitigation
Transfer of risk
Risk contingency planning
Risk sharing.
B. Insurance is an example of transferring risk.
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