The students will have to go through seven domains and their subtopics within the PMI-ACP certification exam. They are the following:

• Value-Driven Delivery (20%)

  The second topic of the exam is divided into four sections. The first one covers defining positive value. This involves three tasks, including defining the project deliverables, refining the requirements to deliver value, and organizing the team to achieve the deliverables. The second area captures avoiding of negatives on the project and covers such tasks as planning for small and manageable increments for the team to identify their importance in delivering value, limiting increment size to identify risks early enough, and asking for customer feedback by reviewing the increments. The third section concentrates on prioritizing the most important parts of the project, maintaining the quality of the project through constant reviews, and continuously marking the factors that affect performance. The fourth part is incremental development where the stakeholders are consulted to give reviews, requirements get prioritized, non-functional requirements are tabled and prioritized, and work products are constantly reviewed.

• Stakeholder Engagement (17%)

  The third subject area is divided into three subdomains. The first one is understanding the needs of the stakeholders by engaging them through sharing information. The second module is ensuring the stakeholders’ involvement by forming work relationships with them, maintaining their involvement, and initiating and maintaining collaboration with them all through the project. The third section is managing the stakeholders’ expectations. This covers sharing a vision with them, continuously keeping them informed about the progress, transparency with them, and extending forecasts at all levels of the project.

• Problem Detection & Resolution (10%)

  The sixth area will help the test takers learn how to deal with problems in the project once they are identified. You will learn how to create an environment that encourages all the team members to report the emerging problems and communicate with the relevant persons on how to mitigate them.

• Agile Principles & Mindsets (16%)

  The first task within this domain is designed to help the candidates understand different concepts of being Agile as well as develop a common understanding across the team. The second one is to ensure that every member of the team is conversant with the Agile principles. The third task covers changes in the organization through processes, behaviors, and people to make operations more efficient. The fourth part concerns showing the metrics of Agile practices and building openness and trust among the team members. The fifth section focuses on allowing every member to make mistakes and learn from them while feeling safe at the workplace. The sixth one is about encouraging experimentation at the workplace for the team members to learn new things. The seventh subtopic is encouraging the team members to share knowledge, encouraging the growth of leaders among the team, and practicing servant leadership within the team.

• Adaptive Learning (12%)

  The fifth module discusses adaptive learning, including levels of planning, adaptation, and Agile sizing & estimation. The candidates will learn how to apply the Agile principles in planning for each step of the project and how to adapt to the changes that may be spurred by the Agile principles.

• Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, and People) (9%)

  Within the seventh topic, the learners will go into the issues pertaining to the continuous improvement of product, process, and people. It has seven tasks in which you will explore how to enhance the quality, issue of effectiveness, and product value, process, as well as the team.

• Team Performance (16%)

  The fourth objective captured by the PMI-ACP certification exam focuses on team formation, empowerment & collaboration, and commitment. In the framework of this domain, the students will learn how to collaborate with other team members to get the project completed while applying the Agile principles.

Prerequisites

The PMI-ACP exam is designed for those individuals who work in Agile teams or organizations that adopt Agile practices. Please note that the applicants must meet the following requirements before taking the test:

• Hold 12 months of working experience in the general project within the last 5 years;
• Have 8 months of working experience in the Agile project within the last 3 years.
• Have a secondary degree;
• Possess 21 hours of training in Agile practices;

Reference: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/agile-acp