This document provides information about the requirements and exam pattern for the PMI-ACP Agile Certified Practitioner certification. The exam contains 120 multiple-choice questions that must be completed within 3 hours, with 50% of the questions focused on Agile tools and techniques and 50% on Agile knowledge and skills. Candidates must have a combination of education and professional experience in general project management, Agile project management, and the required number of contact hours and experience hours varies depending on the candidate's level of education.

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2. Exam Eligibility
Exam Pattern
Pre requisites
Content Distribution
Tools and Techniques
Domains and Tasks for Agile Certification
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3. Category Education PM education
General PM Agile PM
Experience Experience
One Bachelors
21 contact
Hours from REP
2000 hrs
1500 hrs
(Last 2 Years)
Two
High 21 contact
School Hours from REP
4000 hrs
1500 hrs
(Last 2 Years)
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4. No of Questions : 120
Duration : 3 hours
Part Percentage
Agile Tools and
Techniques
Agile Knowledge and
Skills
50%
50%
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9. Group of software development methods based on Iterative and incremental
development
Requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing,
Cross-functional teams
Promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery. Time-boxed
iterative approach
Encourages rapid and flexible response to change
It is a conceptual framework that promotes foreseen interactions throughout the
development cycle. The Agile Manifesto introduced the term in 2001.
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10. In February 2001, 17 software developers
met to discuss lightweight development
methods.
They published the Agile Manifesto for
Software Development to define the
approach now known as agile
software development
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11. Lightweight agile software development methods evolved in the mid-1990s
as a reaction against the Heavyweight waterfall-oriented methods.
1994 1995 1996 1997
RUP Scrum, DSDM Crystal Clear, XP ASD, FDD
These are now collectively referred to as agile methodologies
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12. Agile practices are gaining in popularity
Survey Respondent
26%
74%
Claim
Mature
Adoption
Forrester Study shows 74% of respondents
claim a mature adoption of agile (“How Agile is
Your Organization?, April 30,2013)
Agile provides a great way for software development organizations to deliver quality
software in a predictable fashion
Many organizations use a combination of agile and waterfall techniques depending on
goals.
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13. Give me all requirements, otherwise it will cost you!
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14. Traditional Software Development Agile Software Development
Requirements are analyzed
Architecture and Design are created
Requirements are implemented,
tested and delivered
Months (or longer) occur before usable
software for customer to evaluate
Requirements are translated into User
Stories and become the product backlog
Usable chunks (high Value Stories) of
software are developed in short periods
of time (sprints, iterations, etc.)
Customer works with the team and
reviews software regularly
Priorities may shift from iteration to iteration
Agile teams expect and embrace change
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15. Traditional Project Management Agile Project Management
Planning given importance Execution given importance than planning
Scope is fixed. Time and cost are derived Time and cost are fixed. Scope is derived
Delivering within triple constraint is a
success
Delivering business value is the success of
the project
Scope once fixed follows change control
Process and customer charged for every
change
Scope is flexible and change is
accommodative
Project manager controls the project and
Controls the team
Team controls the project and team is
self organizing to take care of the project
Documents are interim deliverables and
Final product is delivered at the end of
the phase
Incremental product is delivered to
Customer frequently
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