The PMI-ACP® doesn't grade your process. It grades your readiness.

You don't decide
when you're ready.

The PMI-ACP® exam costs $435 for PMI members — seven domains, 120 questions. ACP Dojo runs the full qualification round before any of that is on the table.

Most ACP candidates have read about Agile. I've run it.

Takt time. Pull planning. Adaptive control. Flow. On an active nine-story job site.

The exam finally has a name for it. I built the engine to verify you know it too.

Know When You're Ready See the seven domains →
PlatformACP DOJO
EngineUTOS Adaptive · Online
DomainsSeven · All must clear threshold
Exam Fee$435 PMI member · $495 non-member
Format120 questions · 3 hours · Closed book
AffiliationIndependent · Not PMI®
VerdictQualified — or Return to the Sprint
PlatformACP DOJO
EngineUTOS Adaptive · Online
DomainsSeven · All must clear threshold
Exam Fee$435 PMI member · $495 non-member
Format120 questions · 3 hours · Closed book
AffiliationIndependent · Not PMI®
VerdictQualified — or Return to the Sprint
The Seven Domains

Every domain must clear the threshold.

The PMI-ACP® tests seven domains independently. A strong score in one does not compensate for a gap in another. The engine evaluates all seven — no averaging, no hiding.

Domain 1
Agile Principles & Mindset

The philosophical foundation. Agile Manifesto. Twelve principles. The why before the how. The domain that separates practitioners from people who memorized frameworks.

Foundation
Domain 2
Value-Driven Delivery

Prioritizing and delivering value continuously. MVP. MMP. Release strategies. The discipline of deciding what ships first — and why.

Must Pass
Domain 3
Stakeholder Engagement

Collaboration, communication, and facilitation techniques. The People domain. Active listening, conflict resolution, servant leadership.

Domain 4
Team Performance

Building, growing, and protecting high-performance Agile teams. The domain a superintendent lives in every day. Takt zones are teams. Trade sequencing is team performance.

Must Pass
Domain 5
Adaptive Planning

Planning in iterations. Rolling wave. Release planning. Exactly what Takt Planning is — a rhythm-based adaptive plan that responds to what the work reveals. Not a fixed CPM schedule. A living system.

Must Pass
Domain 6
Problem Detection & Resolution

Identifying and removing impediments. Blockers, bottlenecks, risk. The Law of Bottlenecks. In Takt, throughput is controlled by the slowest trade. In Agile, velocity is controlled by the biggest blocker. Same principle.

Domain 7
Continuous Improvement

Retrospectives. Kaizen. Process improvement cycles. The Culture of Kaizen. The same PDCA cycle that drives Lean Construction drives Agile iterations. The founder holds certifications in both — because they are the same discipline in different languages.

Foundation
The Takt Connection

I didn't study Agile theory.
I ran Agile principles on a nine-story hotel with $80M at stake.

Takt Planning and Integrated Control is Agile applied to construction. Not metaphorically. Structurally. The same principles — in a different language — executed on a live job site with 200 trade workers and real consequences.

When the PMI codified the Agile Certified Practitioner credential, they gave names to methods that construction superintendents had been running for years. Pull planning is Kanban. Takt time is sprint cadence. Zone-by-zone iterative delivery is incremental release. Last Planner System is retrospective and commitment tracking.

I implemented all of it on the Marriott hotel projects — TETRA and AC Hotel — before I knew the PMI had an exam for it. I didn't read about adaptive planning. I ran it on a nine-story structure while managing concrete pours, steel erection, MEP coordination, and 17 active trade crews simultaneously.

The PMI-ACP® tests whether you understand these principles. I built the engine to verify you know them as well as someone who has lived them.

Agile Principle
Sprint Cadence
Takt Equivalent
Takt Time — the beat frequency of the project. Every trade flows at the same pace.
Agile Principle
Kanban / Pull System
Takt Equivalent
Pull Planning — downstream operations signal upstream. Work enters only when the next zone is ready.
Agile Principle
Incremental Delivery
Takt Equivalent
Zone-by-zone completion — each floor delivered as a working unit before the next begins.
Agile Principle
WIP Limits
Takt Equivalent
Takt Control — controlling Work In Progress to eliminate stacking, congestion, and defects.
Agile Principle
Retrospective
Takt Equivalent
Last Planner System® — weekly work plan review. What was planned. What was completed. Why the gap.
Agile Principle
Continuous Improvement
Takt Equivalent
Kaizen — Culture of Kaizen. A3 Problem Management. Value Stream Mapping. The same cycle. Every sprint.
The Verdict

Not a score. A qualification round.

MRI™—Mastery Resonance Imaging™

Any practice tool gives you a score across seven domains and tells you to study more. ACP Dojo reads the pattern beneath your answers and tells you something no practice test ever could: not what you got wrong, but why your mind got it wrong. A full qualification round — domain by domain.

When every domain clears
Qualified.

Every PMI-ACP® domain cleared. Every threshold held. The MRI™ scanned all five mastery signatures — every one confirmed. The qualification round is complete.

Conceptual ClarityYour Agile mental models are structurally correct. No inverted principles. You understand why Agile works — not just that it does. Principles before frameworks.
Applied MasteryYou execute knowledge under real scenario conditions. Situational questions — the PMI-ACP® specialty — matched conceptual performance. Your knowledge is operational.
Precision CalibrationYour recall of specific Agile tools and ceremonies is exact. Velocity, burndown, cumulative flow, planning poker — not approximate. Precise.
Domain IntegrityAll seven domains stand independently. No single domain is hiding a weakness. Each one cleared its threshold separately.
Confidence-Accuracy AlignmentWhere you are certain, you are correct. Fastest answers most accurate. The qualification round is complete.

Qualified. Book the seat.

When a domain doesn't
Return to the Sprint.

In Agile, returning to the sprint is not failure. It is the system working. The engine has identified exactly which failure signature is blocking your qualification. Address it. Return. The threshold does not move.

Conceptual InversionYou don't have a knowledge gap. You have a false belief you are certain of. You believe the wrong version of an Agile principle — and you believe it fast.
Application BlindnessYou can define the Agile framework. You cannot apply it to a real scenario. The PMI-ACP® is almost entirely situational. This is the most common failure signature on this exam.
Threshold BlindnessYou are approximating specific values. Sprint velocity calculations. Burndown math. Planning poker consensus rules. The exam requires exact answers.
Domain MaskingYour strong domains are hiding a fault line. Principles and Planning look fine. Stakeholder Engagement fails. The engine sees through the average.
Confidence-Accuracy DivergenceYou are answering fast and wrong. False certainty on situational questions costs you the exam. Slow down. The sprint is not over.

Returning to the sprint is the Agile way. The engine tells you exactly which story card to work on next.

What Is The MRI™?

MRI™ — Mastery Resonance Imaging™.
Not a score. A qualification round.

A sprint retrospective doesn't just measure velocity — it reads the pattern of what was committed and what was delivered, and asks why the gap exists. The UTOS MRI™ does the same for your knowledge: it reads the invisible pattern in your answers — the sequence, the clustering, the confidence — to reveal not what you got wrong, but why your mind got it wrong.

01 — What It Is
A qualification round. Not a practice test.

Every other tool gives you practice questions. UTOS gives you a verdict. Built by a Lean Certified Practitioner who implemented Takt Planning on live hotel projects — and knows exactly what the PMI-ACP® is actually testing.

02 — What It Finds
Five failure signatures. Named precisely.

Conceptual Inversion. Application Blindness. Threshold Blindness. Domain Masking. Confidence-Accuracy Divergence. Not weaknesses — diagnoses. The PMI-ACP® is 80% situational questions. Application Blindness is the most common killer.

03 — What It Delivers
A sprint backlog. Not a topic list.

Every study action is keyed to the specific failure signature causing it. Not "study stakeholder engagement more." Exactly what is structurally wrong with how you understand it right now — and exactly what to do next sprint.

ALVERITAS™ · MRI™ · Mastery Resonance Imaging™ · Plain Language Report
MRI DIAGNOSTIC PROFILE
WHAT THE SCAN FOUND  ·  EXPLAINED SIMPLY  ·  5 FAILURE SIGNATURES
MRI Scan
Finding · A·01
⬤ Active
You studied the wrong answer — and you don't know it's wrong.
Conceptual Inversion
Like memorizing that 2+2=5 and believing it. You write it on the exam with full confidence. The mistake isn't laziness. The wrong answer is locked in as the truth.
Severity
Finding · A·02
⬤ Active
You know it at home. You blank on it in the room.
Application Blindness
Like knowing exactly where your keys are — until the moment you actually need them. Your brain has the answer. It just won't open the door when the stakes are real.
Severity
Finding · A·03
⬤ Active
You don't know what you're missing. That's the problem.
Threshold Blindness
You feel ready because everything feels covered. But there's a gap you can't see — because it's in your blind spot. You can't study what you don't know you don't know.
Severity
Finding · A·04
⬤ Active
Your best subject is hiding your worst one.
Domain Masking
You're so strong in one area that your score looks okay overall. But underneath, there's a failing zone. The exam doesn't let your best subject cover for your worst. It finds both.
Severity
Finding · A·05
⬤ Active
You feel ready. Your score says you're not.
Confidence–Accuracy Div.
This is the most dangerous one. You walk in confident. Results come back and you don't understand what happened. Feeling ready and being ready are two completely different things.
Severity
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5 failure signatures · plain language · 1 verdict
SAMPLE
MRI™—Mastery Resonance Imaging™· Results Report
Not Qualified.
Return to the Sprint.
PMI-ACP® · 7 Domains · Sarah Chen · March 23, 2026
2 Failure Signatures Detected1 Domain Below Threshold3 Study Actions Prescribed
2 Signatures
Qualification Round Report
The engine has completed the round. This is what it found.

This is not a list of what you missed. It is a precise diagnosis of how your mind is currently failing the PMI-ACP® standard — specifically in the Stakeholder Engagement domain.

Domain Scan · PMI-ACP® · 7 Domains · 70% Threshold EachEach domain scored independently — no averaging
Agile Principles & Mindset
Cleared ✓
87%
Value-Driven Delivery
Cleared ✓Must Pass
81%
Stakeholder Engagement
Must Pass
70%
54%
Team Performance
Cleared ✓Must Pass
78%
Adaptive Planning
Cleared ✓Must Pass
84%
Problem Detection & Resolution
Cleared ✓
76%
Continuous Improvement
Cleared ✓
91%
Failure Signature Scan · 5 Categories Scanned · 2 Detected
Sprint backlog — 2 items found in Stakeholder Engagement.

Not what you missed — what your mind is doing wrong with stakeholder facilitation and conflict resolution scenarios.

Application Blindness
Detected

You can define every stakeholder facilitation technique in the PMBOK. You cannot apply the right one to a real scenario under exam conditions. The engine identified consistent failure on situational stakeholder questions while definitional questions in the same domain passed with high scores.

Engine Evidence

Stakeholder situational questions: 7 of 12 missed. Stakeholder definition questions: 5 of 6 correct. You know the tools. You cannot select the right tool for the situation. That is the signature — and it is the most common failure mode on the PMI-ACP®.

Conceptual Inversion
Detected

In conflict resolution scenarios, the engine detected a structural inversion. You are defaulting to directive resolution when the Agile standard requires facilitated resolution. You believe the leader's role in conflict is to decide. The PMI-ACP® answer is always to facilitate — not decide.

Engine Evidence

Conflict resolution questions: 4 of 5 missed — all in the same direction. Not random errors. A consistent inversion of the servant leadership principle in conflict scenarios.

Threshold Blindness
Clear
Domain Masking
Clear
Confidence-Accuracy Divergence
Clear
Sprint Backlog — Next Actions
3 items. This sprint only. Close these first.

Keyed to the failure signatures identified. Address in order. Return when the sprint is complete.

01
Application Blindness
Practice situational stakeholder scenarios exclusively — no definition questions this sprint.
You already know the definitions. Rereading them reinforces the same gap. Scenario-only practice forces the operational translation your mind currently cannot make automatically under exam pressure.
02
Conceptual Inversion
Rebuild the Agile conflict resolution model from scratch — write it from first principles, not from memory.
Your existing model inverts servant leadership in conflict. The answer on the PMI-ACP® is always: the Agile leader facilitates, never directs. Write that decision logic from scratch and verify against the Agile Practice Guide.
03
Application Blindness
For each stakeholder facilitation technique — map it to exactly one scenario type before moving on.
Collaborative games, active listening, conflict resolution, negotiation — each one has a scenario fingerprint. You cannot choose the right tool without recognizing the scenario. Build the pattern library first.
When the sprint is complete
Return for the next qualification round. Qualified will be waiting.
Begin Next Sprint
Sample report · Actual results are unique to each candidate · Every MRI™ sees something different
How It Works

Learn. Sprint. Deliver.

学
Learn · Baseline
The engine establishes your starting position across all seven PMI-ACP® domains. Strengths confirmed. Gaps identified. Your sprint backlog is built before a single targeted question is delivered.
稽
Sprint · Adaptive
The engine hunts gaps in real time. When a weakness surfaces, it stops and drills it — inject, test, retest — until the concept is anchored. Then continues. In Agile terms: the engine runs micro-sprints on your weakest stories until they close.
段
Deliver · Verdict
Every domain must clear its threshold. When all seven conditions are met — Qualified. You don't decide when you're ready. The PMI standard does. The engine enforces it exactly before you spend $495 finding out you're not.
The Takt Built the Dojo

The PMI-ACP® has a name for what I implemented on the TETRA Hotel. I built it first. Now I test for it.

ACP Dojo was not built by a trainer who studied Agile. It was built by a Senior Superintendent who implemented Takt Planning and Integrated Control — the Lean Construction production system that IS Agile — on a nine-story Marriott hotel project in the Bay Area.

Takt time is sprint cadence. Pull planning is Kanban. Zone-by-zone iterative delivery is incremental release. Last Planner System is the retrospective. The Law of Bottlenecks is the WIP limit. I ran all of it — before the PMI had an exam for it.

I also hold certifications in Lean Expert, Lean Specialist, Lean A3 Process Management, Just-In-Time, Value Stream Mapping, Culture of Kaizen, and Construction Management Introduction to Lean Construction. The Lean body of knowledge and the Agile body of knowledge are the same river flowing in the same direction. I have been in that river for ten years.

I built this engine for the candidate who is serious. The one who wants a verdict — not a percentage. The one who wants to know they are qualified before they book the seat.

Takt Implementation
Takt Planning and Integrated Control — TETRA Hotel by Marriott + AC Hotel by Marriott · Nine-story high-rise · Bay Area · $80M dual project
Lean Certifications
Lean Expert · Lean Specialist · A3 Process Management · Just-In-Time · Value Stream Mapping · Stay Lean with Kanban · Culture of Kaizen · Complete Lean Practitioner
AIGPE™ Credentials
Lean Specialist Certification · AIGPE™ · Blockchain verified · Part of 44-credential Quality Champion Level 5 stack
Construction Management
Introduction to Lean Construction · Be a Lean Construction Leader (UC Berkeley) · 30 years construction · 10+ years Senior Superintendent
PMI-ACP® Exam Prep
Cert Prep PMI Agile Certified Practitioner PMIACP — completed · The credential prep that closed the loop between field practice and exam standard
Pricing

$95 against a $495 PMI-ACP® exam.
One sprint. One verdict.

Qualification Round
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Full UTOS adaptive engine for the PMI-ACP® — all seven domains, full qualification round.
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One-time · Unlimited sprint sessions
  • Adaptive baseline across all 7 domains
  • Situational scenario depth — the PMI-ACP® specialty
  • Must-pass domain gates enforced
  • MRI™ failure signature diagnosis
  • Qualified verdict when you clear all 7
  • Sprint backlog — exact study actions prescribed
Know When You're Ready
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Know When You're Ready
The credential
PMI-ACP®
SAMPLE

READINESS VERIFIED

This verifies that

Carlos Ochoa

has met the readiness standard for the

PMI-ACP® Agile Certified Practitioner Examination

STANDARDS MET

Verified March 23, 2026

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ACP DOJO

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When you earn Readiness Verified, your certificate is available immediately — your name, the date the standard was met, the certification level it covers. Download as PDF.

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What the certificate says
A Standard Met

Readiness Verified is a standard, not a score. The certificate records that a defined PMI® standard was applied, evaluated, and met — on a specific date, for a specific certification level.

Available after verification
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Before the Exam

Qualified.
Know before you book the seat.

The PMI-ACP® costs $495 — 120 situational questions across seven domains. No other tool tells you not just what you got wrong, but why your mind got it wrong. The MRI™ sees the pattern beneath your answers. The sprint backlog tells you exactly what to work on next. Return when complete. Qualified will be waiting.

Know When You're Ready
About

One qualification round. Seven domains. No averaging. No vague encouragement.

ACP Dojo runs on UTOS — the Universal Testing Operating System. A subject-agnostic readiness engine that verifies candidates are genuinely qualified before they sit for a certification exam. Not a question bank. Not a practice score. A verdict — with a sprint backlog for what comes next.

The PMI-ACP® is 80% situational questions. ACP Dojo is built specifically to diagnose why a candidate fails situational questions — not just which ones they miss. That is what the engine was built to do.

An ALVERITAS product →
7
Domains. Every one must clear independently. No averaging. No hiding weakness behind strength. The same philosophy as Takt — every zone must complete before the next begins.
80%
Of PMI-ACP® questions are situational. Not definitional. This is the most common failure mode — and the exact failure signature Application Blindness is designed to detect.
$495
Non-member exam fee. $435 for PMI members. Every retake the same. The qualification round costs $95. Run the sprint before you book the seat.
Who it serves
Axis 1 — Candidate Preparing
Am I actually ready — or do I just feel ready?

A verdict. Not a score. The engine runs the PMI-ACP® standard across all seven domains and returns a binary answer with a specific reason. Either every threshold is met or it is not.

Axis 2 — Candidate Competing
Every other Agile practitioner says they’re ready. You can prove it.

A dated, verifiable ALVERITAS credential number. Walk into the Scrum Master interview, the Agile Coach conversation, the promotion review. Tell them to look it up at alveritas.com/verify. Ten seconds. No login.

Axis 3 — Employer Hiring
The PMI-ACP® tells you they passed. The ACR tells you if they’re ready now.

A certification is a historical record. The ALVERITAS Credentialing Registry is a live institutional lookup. Hiring managers and program directors can verify current Agile readiness in ten seconds — not just prior passage.

Axis 4 — Enterprise & Transformation
Training spend without readiness verification is a receipt, not a result.

Organizations running Agile transformations can verify that their certified practitioners meet the readiness standard today — not just that they attended training. A rate. A record. Evidence the investment produced results.

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