Lessons learned shared by Sadananda Patil, CBAP, PMI-ACP, PMP
Hello All,
I passed PMI-ACP exam today morning with Proficient grade. Thanking you all for valuable inputs and tips !
My Study materials included: ( Sorted by Priority )
1) ACP Exam Prep Plus Desk Reference by GR8PM.com
2) “Agile Planning & Estimation” by Mike Cohn
3) Scrum Dan’s Study Guide
4) Agileexams.com ( Few Short exams and Couple of Full Exams ) - Questions are much easier in the real exam !
5) Practice Exams 1 & 2 at the end of the book # 1 above
I did receive questions from the following topics in the exam that I was able to complete in 2 hours.
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Acceptance Criteria
Affinity estimating
Planning Poker
Agile Manifesto
Agile Principles
Burn-down chart
Burn-up chart
Coach, Scrum Master Role
Colocated & Distributed teams
Continuous Integration
Cumulative flow diagram ( CFD)
Daily Scrum
Deferring Commitment
Definition of Done
Scrum of Scrums
Earned value
Epic
Spike
Spike Solutions
(XP) Extreme Programming ( Roles, Core Practices, Quality )
- Small Releases
- Refactoring
- Pair Programming
Face 2 Face conversation
Velocity, Velocity estimate methods
Story, Story Points
Fractional Assignment
Information Radiator
Kanban
Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF)
Product Backlog, Roadmap
Risk Audit
Risk based spike
Release Planning ( Inputs, Output )
Retrospective
Self-Organized team
Servant Leadership
Splitting User Stories
Visual Control
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Difference between Coordination and Collaboration
Empirical Process Control
Pareto Principle ( 80/20 rule )
Extreme Personas
Use Cases
