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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Practice Exam

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JONATHAN LARMORE Program/Project Management| Booz Allen

DO NOT BUY THIS PMI PRODUCT. I’m preparing for the ACP exam and, because I had great success using PMI’s study materials and practice exam for the PMP, I purchased both the ACP Study Hall ($49 — excellent resource) and the ACP Practice Exam ($99 — complete disappointment).

In Study Hall, I consistently score in the 80s on all practice questions and full‑length exams. Feeling confident, I moved on to the official practice exam — and immediately regretted it.

The issues are significant:

  1. Misspellings and grammar errors throughout the exam disrupt the flow of long questions and force you to reread them just to understand what’s being asked.
  2. Any question with an associated graphic (burnup chart, burndown chart, or other visuals) fails to load, leaving you to answer blindly.
  3. Question quality is extremely poor. I’m not referring to PMI’s usual curveballs — roughly 30% of the questions and answer choices are simply worded badly, unclear, or structurally broken.

For $99, this product should be polished, reliable, and representative of the exam experience. Instead, it feels unfinished and unprofessional
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
This is a concerning experience, particularly because an official practice product should help candidates distinguish gaps in their knowledge from defects in the assessment itself.
Missing visuals, unclear wording, and editorial errors can undermine the reliability of the feedback, not merely the user experience.
If these issues have not yet been reported to PMI, it would be valuable to do so, as official certification products should meet consistently high editorial and technical standards.
The broader question is what quality assurance standards these products should meet before candidates are asked to rely on them.
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1 reply by JONATHAN LARMORE
Jul 24, 2026 10:47 AM
JONATHAN LARMORE
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Luis,
The point you raised about helping candidates identify their knowledge gaps is spot on, and it’s something I didn’t address clearly in my earlier note.

In Study Hall, the system provides a gap analysis that highlights strengths and weaknesses so candidates can focus their preparation time where it matters most. In contrast, the Certification Practice Exam only scores items as correct or incorrect and provides explanations in the comments. It does not provide any analysis of knowledge gaps — even though this is a capability PMI already uses in other products.

That inconsistency makes this product feel less actionable for learners. Adding a gap analysis view would align it with the rest of PMI’s ecosystem and significantly increase its value as a preparation tool.
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JONATHAN LARMORE Program/Project Management| Booz Allen
Jul 24, 2026 4:47 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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This is a concerning experience, particularly because an official practice product should help candidates distinguish gaps in their knowledge from defects in the assessment itself.
Missing visuals, unclear wording, and editorial errors can undermine the reliability of the feedback, not merely the user experience.
If these issues have not yet been reported to PMI, it would be valuable to do so, as official certification products should meet consistently high editorial and technical standards.
The broader question is what quality assurance standards these products should meet before candidates are asked to rely on them.
Luis,
The point you raised about helping candidates identify their knowledge gaps is spot on, and it’s something I didn’t address clearly in my earlier note.

In Study Hall, the system provides a gap analysis that highlights strengths and weaknesses so candidates can focus their preparation time where it matters most. In contrast, the Certification Practice Exam only scores items as correct or incorrect and provides explanations in the comments. It does not provide any analysis of knowledge gaps — even though this is a capability PMI already uses in other products.

That inconsistency makes this product feel less actionable for learners. Adding a gap analysis view would align it with the rest of PMI’s ecosystem and significantly increase its value as a preparation tool.

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