Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification Training Course
21 Hours of Intensive Training (Live Virtual + Self-Paced) - Trainers with 20+ Years of Industry Experience led the Training
- 5 Case Studies & 2 Hands-On Projects Included in the course
- PMI-ACP Application Template & Assistance Provided
- Earn 21 PDUs & SEUs Upon Course Completion
- 650+ Exam Practice Questions with Answers
- PMI is the Certification Body for PMI-ACP
PMI ACP® Certification Training - Key Features
16 Hours of Instructor-led Live Virtual Training - 21 Hours of training (Live Virtual Training + Self-Paced)
- 20+ years highly experienced trainers
- 5 Case studies/2 hands on Projects
- Application assistance with ACP application template
16 Hours of Instructor-led Live Virtual Training - LMS Access for Self-Paced Learning content designed by Industry Experts
- 21 PDUs & SEUs offered
- Course Completion Certificate
- 650+ exam practice question and answers
- No Cost EMI Available
PMI-ACP Course Content
- 3 Cs of User Stories
- How to write User stories
- Format and syntax of User stories
- How to break down the User stories
- Why estimations
- Estimation techniques
- Story points Vs Ideal days
Scrum usually uses Value-based Prioritization as one of its fundamental principles, which drives the development and functionality of the entire Scrum framework. It supports the development of flexibility and the iterative development of products or services. Often, the following points are considered when evaluating user stories, assessing risk, and linking them to dependencies. The greater the value, risk, and dependency of a particular user story, the higher its priority. To conclude, it helps deliver customer requirements, providing the highest business value in the least time. As a part of the course with StarAgile, you will learn the following things about value-based prioritization:
- Agile Value-based Prioritization Plan.
- Time Value of Money.
- Future Value and Present Value – Formulas.
- Different prioritization techniques
- Prioritization based on Return on Investment (ROI).
- Different Levels of Planning.
- Arrange Agile Projects to Packages and Groups.
- Agile vs Predictive planning.
- Accuracy vs. Exactness.
- Determining Project Size.
- Principles of Agile planning process.
- Agile Product Roadmap.
- Iteration Plan.
Agile Monitoring is an effective method at all levels, with proactive dialogue within the team and with management. The purpose of project monitoring is to provide management with confidence. Everyone on the team and in management should be convinced that the project is well on track and feel knowledgeable about its overall status.
As the name suggests, it involves looking back on or dealing with past events or situations. Retrospective is an important part of the agile work model. It usually occurs after each sprint and before the next sprint. The duration of the retrospective may range from half an hour to 3 hours, depending on the sprint. The Scrum Master confirms that the event will take place and that each team member understands its purpose. This is the time the team reflects upon its performance and looks to improve as a team. The team as a whole tries to focus on what went well, what could be improved upon, and what did not go well.
With the PMI ACP course, one will be well-versed in the following points about Retrospective:
Why Retrospectives are conducted
Different methods or ways of conducting Retrospectives
Benefits of Retrospective
ACP follows Lean Principles, which are based on the fundamental idea of focusing on the cost of resources to achieve the vision rather than developing something that is not very useful or valuable to the customer. This approach eliminates the waste, strengthens knowledge, promotes decision-making only after we have all the facts in place, fast and frequent delivery, and looks at the bigger picture. In this course, you will learn about Lean in detail, including how to implement the Lean Mindset at the enterprise level and more.
The primary objectives of Project Risk Management are to increase the likelihood and effect of positive actions and reduce the likelihood and effect of actions adverse to the project. Risk Management is the practice of recognizing, studying, and either approving or mitigating ambiguity in speculative decision-making. In training with StarAgile on PMI ACP, you will learn to identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks that are related to the Product and Project.
It comprises more than a few iterative and incremental software development methodologies, each with its own agile framework. The most widely used agile frameworks include Scrum, Business-Driven Development Method, and Feature-Driven Development.
Since each agile model has its own distinctive features and practices, it follows a definite procedure. Still, they share a common base, i.e., the principles of iterative development and continuous integration when building an application. All of them consist of planning, testing, integration, and continuous development for the application.
Since agile is also considered lightweight, rules and protocols are given less importance than in the traditional model. In this module, you will learn the following:
- Why Agile.
- Agile Best Practices.
- Agile Evolution.
- Agile Manifesto.
- Agile Principles.
- Agile Methodologies, Frameworks, and Processes.
- Agile Leadership.
- Three Pillars of Scrum
Since Scrum has been around for many years and is practiced worldwide, it is still considered a new way of development. As mentioned above, Scrum is an agile process, focused on iterative and incremental development.
Since development projects have become so complex that delivering all requirements in a single go makes no sense and risks the actual requirements in the end, as they often keep changing. Scrum was intended to solve this problem by enabling continuous feedback and traceability throughout the development process. Scrum emphasized collaboration, flexibility, Continuous feedback, and self-organization. In this course, you will learn Scrum Framework, its roles, artifacts, events, and working.
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PMI ACP® Certification Overview
Nowadays, due to changing customer demands, IT Organizations are undergoing a transition, shifting their focus to agile methodologies to achieve customer satisfaction. Agile handles these frequent changes in demands, requirements, and priorities. PMI-ACP certification helps one learn the Agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). With this certification, you will have rich knowledge of different techniques of Agile Practices, Principles, and values. This PMI-ACP will teach you the nooks and corners of Agile, enabling you to set up your project and estimate cost and schedule based on Agile Principles.
Looking forward to a career in agile? Yes, it is the way the industry is trending, and most organizations have started embracing agile techniques. It is because of iterative processes that save time and money and eliminate errors. To feed your hunger, you need to understand the right career path. Having started working in agile, it is a good practice to get certified with a globally recognized institute.
We suggest you choose PMI ACP, an international organization. The course covers the basics of agile and walks you through a special project management role. It is highly beneficial to learn agile principles and apply them in real-time.
What is PMI ACP Course
Ignite the agile performer in you by professionally going through a certification course offered by Project Management Institute (PMI). They make you a qualified agile practitioner, and that is how they have designed their certification course. In this course content, we will explain what the course is all about, who should attend, how to attend, and how to obtain a certification.
What is PMI and ACP
They are an institute headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, offering project management certification to people across the globe. The certificate they offer has global recognition, and they have also developed a standard curriculum that allows professionals to learn project management concepts.
Agile practitioner certification is a certification course that helps people learn and master the agile way of working in projects. Since most organizations are migrating to an agile work model, this certification course will bring everyone to a common platform. The course covers all agile fundamentals, tools and methodologies embraced in agile projects.
Who can apply for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner?
Well, we understood why PMI offers ACP certification. Now, we must evaluate whether we are eligible to opt for one.
- If you are working on an agile project as a PM, team lead, or developer, you should take this training at some point to master the basics.
- Every developer can begin their agile career by learning the agile methodology from scratch.
- As a team member, you will know how to gel with your team and tune your mindset in an agile way.
- As a PM, you are expected to practice agile in your projects, and that becomes easy after attending this course. Set an example for your team.
ACP Certificate
PMI-ACP Certification and Training FAQ's
No. The exam fee is not included.
The PMI-ACP self-paced online certification learning course allows students to participate in virtual training sessions and get 21 contact hours by completing the course.
Live Virtual trainings will be delivered via video conferencing. Students have the option to take the course in person or join the live classrooms remotely from their desktop. We can see and hear the course instructor and other classmates in real time
All of the classes are conducted via live online streaming by using GOTO WEBINAR tool. They are interactive sessions that enable you to ask questions and participate in discussions during class time. We do, however, provide recordings of each session you attend for your future reference for exam preparation.
Professional Development Units (PDUs) is the term used for continuing education credit by the Project Management Institute (PMI) to renew PMI certifications. Scrum Education Units (SEUs) is the term used for continuing education units by the Scrum Alliance to earn the CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) certification.
After completing PMI-ACP training participant will be awarded with 21 PDUs and 21 SEUs
After PMI-ACP certification placeholder we suggest you go for SAFe Agilist 4.5 training as it deals with scaling Agile at Enterprise level.
Total PMI offers 3 attempts for ACP course, first attempt will cost $495 for non-member and $435 for member, second attempt will cost $395 for non-member and $335 for member, third attempt will cost for $395 non-member and $335 for member
StarAgile follows unique framework and this will help professional to clear exam in 45 days. We our course package includes pre- recorded videos, Live virtual session by highly experienced trainers, 5 Simulation exams, 2 Projects, 5 Case Studies, End of chapter quizzes.
Yes, our training is completely aligned to the latest update done to the course by PMI® for the Year 2018.
One can make Payment via Credit card; Debit card, Net banking, Cheque /Wallets/ NEFT. For more details you can get in touch with us.
The PMI-ACP® examination will consist of 100 scored items and 20 unscored (pre-test) items. The unscored items will not be identified and will be randomly distributed throughout the exam. The Duration of the PMI-ACP® exam is 3 hours.
After successful completion of the PMI-ACP training placeholder, you will be awarded the course completion certificate along with the 21 hours PDU certificate from StarAgile that makes you eligible to take up PMI-ACP examination.
Certification is valid for 3 years. Professional must renew their certificate with 30 PDUs every 3 years
For Agile Certified Practitioner certificate, professionals must take exam from Project Management institute (PMI), which is recognized globally
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Project Manager, Agile team members, Delivery Manager, Technical Project Manager, Team Lead, Project Lead, Tech Lead, Release Manager, Test Manager, Program Manager, Test Engineer, Quality Assurance, Test Analyst, Business Analyst, Software Engineer, System Engineer, Developer, Programmer, Scrum Masters, Scrum Team Members, Product Owners, Project Executives, Project Engineers etc.
The average salary for PMI-ACP certified professionals are $ 1,23,000 p.a
- Agile Principles and Mindset
- Value-Driven Delivery
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Team Performance
- Adaptive Planning
- Problem Detection and Resolution
- Continuous Improvment (Product, Process, People)
After completing PMI-ACP training participant will be awarded with 21 PDUs and 21 SEUs
ACP Certification & Exam FAQ's
The PMI ACP exam is a 3-hour exam of 120 MCQs
The three-hour PMI-ACP exam comprises 120 MCQs and is an open book exam.
The training cost for PMI ACP is 15000 INR + GST.
One can renew the certification after completion of the mandatory PDU’s and after paying the required fees for renewal
The certificate is valid for 3 years period after successfully completing the exam. One can renew the certificate after 3 years.
The PMI does not disclose the passing score of candidates nor do they confirm on the minimum passing marks. Since PMI is based on ‘sound psychometric analysis’ as mostly its computer based , the question set for each individual is different ,so the passing scores are always different. Howeverpm according to the trainers of PMI-ACP Agile Certification aspirants, most of them would estimate that the passing score is around 70%
An individual should have 2000 hours of general project management experience in the last 5 years. Agile Certified Practitioner requires the holders to have at least 1,500 hours of practicing Agile methodologies in their actual work. Also 21 contact hours must be earned in agile practices.
StarAgile offers PMI ACP training in two modes 1. Live virtual session and 2. Self paced Learning
Yes, you can pause the test in between and you are allowed to re-take the test later. Your test will resume from where you left, but the test time will be reduced by the amount of time you’ve taken in the previous attempt
The certification exam has 120 multiple-choice questions and you have 3 hours to complete it.
It is a 120-question, multiple-choice test. The exam is conducted throughout the year via Prometric testing centers and there is a specific application process you need to follow to take this exam.
It is also a paper based test but still there are prerequisite to be completed before attending the test
Following mentioned is a step-by-step guide to get your certification’s done. One has to follow the below mentioned process for the certification and also what needs to be done after you are a certified,
- Submit your application; an individual needs to complete the application within 90 days from the date of initialization.
- Application completeness review; will get a response within 10 days after submission
- Payment process; one need to make the payment before appearing for the exams
- Audit process; Once your application is selected, you have 90 days to submit your audit materials. You will be getting a feedback from PMI within 7 days
- Multiple choice examination eligibility; once your application is shortlisted you can take an exam for a maximum of 3 times within a year.
- Certification cycle; once you pass your exam you are confirmed with your certification
- Certification Maintenance; each individual has to work on PDU’s within 3 years cycle.
- Certification Renewal; one can renew the certification after completion of the mandatory PDU’s and after paying the required fees for renewal
- Certification suspension; your certificate get expired after the 3rd year anniversary if you have not applied for a renewal certificate.
- Certification expiration; occurs at the end of the suspension period, if you don’t fulfill the continuing certification requirements towards certification maintenance.
There are 2 ways to attend the exam either an online test or a paper based test. Cost for both the test varies and also the cost varies if you are a PMI member or a non-member.
So if you are attending a computer based test, the cost would be
US $435 for PMI members
US $495 for non-members
And if you are attending a paper based test, the cost would be
US $335 for PMI members
US $395 for non-members
Yes or no. If you do want to know the whole lot, you are very much advised to read and study all the recommended books, you will need to extract the parts that are needed for the exam on your own with reference to the exam syllabus. But this would require lot of time.
On the other hand, to save your time, some quality Agile project management education for the PMI-ACP exam (the 21 contact hours) can help you learn and understand all the contents for the examination without requiring you to read through the list of books. They have done the hard work of extracting the essences of each book and re-arrange them into a structure that’s in line with the PMI-ACP® examination content outline.
An individual can choose StarAgile to help you to study and pass the PMI-ACP exam as it is the most cost effective and comprehensive prep course for PMI-ACP you can find
Additional FAQ's
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner exam is the exam that assesses the agile framework. One requires to acquire a wide and broad range of knowledge in agile topics such as agile practices and real-world experience in the agile team management and agile framework. It is not that difficult if get trained and you can answer all the 120 multiple choice questions within 2 hours and revisit the questions in another hour to go. Attend PMI ACP Certification placeholder and clear exam in your first attempt.
PMI ACP is a broad and comprehensive agile framework that covers everything about agile. The CSM is part of the agile framework that covers the scrum framework. The CSM course focuses more specifically on Scrum and is an entry-level certification. Whereas, PMI-ACP covers all areas of agile methodologies as well as provides in depth training in Extreme Programming, Lean, Kanban, and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). It is better to choose PMI-ACP if you want a thorough understanding of both agile and scrum. Attend PMI ACP Training placeholder to know more about agile frameworks.
PMI ACP is offered by Project Management Institute and the course contents cover a broad and wide range of topics in agile including scrum. It covers areas in agile such as Kanban, XP, Scrum, Agile, Lean, and Test-Driven Development. The PRINCE 2 Agile is the certification offered by AXELOS, is the project management platform that covers resilience and responsiveness in agile. You can go for PMI ACP if you want to learn everything about agile and go for PRINCE 2 Agile if you want to learn the processes of agile and make the agile processes.
When you can learn all agile frameworks in one course, you will feel glad. Yes, that is what the PMI ACP course does. It covers Scrum, Lean, Kanban, TDD, and XP frameworks allowing you to learn and implement agile principles, practices, and values. It is a 16-hour online course offering 21 PDUs.
Nurture agile and scrum in day-to-day activities of the projects, including rapid response time, show good collaboration, use agile approaches, and manage complex and large projects using the agile way. Play the roles of product owner, scrum master, customers, stakeholders, team members, and business owners to use agile in adopting not only in one team but also for enterprise requirements.
The PDU’s and SEU’s are applicable in maintaining the certifications provided by Project Management Institute and Scrum Alliance respectively. These are obtained when you constantly upgrade your skills by attending seminars, reading blogs/books and taking classes.
The trainers at StarAgile are selected through a rigorous interview process. The trainers have 20+ years of industrial experience and hands-on experience in providing training in agile methodology and project management. These skills help them to impart practical knowledge to the participants helping them to get PMI ACP certification.
You need to maintain 30 PDUs to maintain my PMI-ACP Certification.
For the PMI-ACP Certification, you need to complete the 21-hour training from the authorized training provider and Complete the certification exam while fulfilling the eligibility criteria.
Yes, you can do PMI-ACP certification without PMP, but you must have at least general project management experience of 2000 hours in the last 5 years.
Yes, the PMI-ACP exam is an open book. The exam is of three-hour and consists of 120 multiple-choice questions that cover agile concepts and principles.
Yes, PMI-ACP does have an exam composed of 120 questions, which are all multiple-choice questions. To obtain this certification, individuals must pass the exam.
The retake cost of the PMI-ACP exam is 30,506 and 19,404 rupees for non-members and members, respectively.
You must provide your name, contact information, education and experience, and payment information to fill out your application and wait for the approval.
They are no direction concerning changes by the PMI for the current year.
Distinctions and Achievements
PMI ACP
Why PMI-ACP Certification Training
How to Apply for the Certification
- Check for your job experience and then make up your mind to attend a PMI agile course
- Complete the training to collect your PDU
- Fill the exam form and become a PMI member
- Pay the fees
- Schedule a date for examination and take the test
- Pass the test to get qualified for a certificate.
- Let us see how do we move forward from each step to reach the destination of becoming a PMI agile certified practitioner
PMI ACP Certification Requirements
- A minimum of 2000 hours of work experience in projects.
- Along with that, you need 1500 hours of work exp in agile projects.
- Attended a minimum of 21 hours PMI agile certified practitioner training course.
- From the above it is clear that training is mandatory as the experience you will gain as part of your career. This training is required to collect 21 PDU to apply for certification.
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PMI ACP Exam Pattern
| Domain | Number of Questions |
| Agile principles | 9 |
| Delivery – Value Driven | 14 |
| Engaging with stakeholders | 9 |
| Team performance | 9 |
| Adaptive planning | 6 |
| Detecting and resolving problems | 5 |
| Continuous improvement | 6 |
PMI ACP Cost and Renewal Process
- Your certificate is valid for 3 years from the day you passed your examination.
- You need to collect 30 PDU to renew your certification after 3 years
- Login to the PMI site with your credentials and submit your earned PDUs make payment to renew the certificate. Members need to pay USD 60 whereas nonmembers will pay USD 150 for renewal.
- There are several options to earn PDUs which is a separate topic by itself.
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