Day6

Question 1

The definition of an Epic can be written using the acronym CURB. What does CURB stand for:

A. Create/Update/Replace/Big
B. Compound/Unknown/Risky/Basic
C. Complicated/Unusual/Really/Big
D. Complex/Unknown/Risky/Big

Answer 1

Complex/Unknown/Risky/Big

Question 2

Pick the THREE statements that are true about Agile Analysis. (Choose three.)

A. It is a highly evolutionary and collaborative process
B. It occurs at the beginning and end of a project
C. It only includes the project team
D. It is communication rich
E. It explores the problem statement

Answer 2

A D & E

Question 3

Which of the following is an Agile improvement technique to address issues continuously, e.g. after daily stand-up?

A. Retrospectives
B. Verification Sessions
C. Intraspectives
D. Futurespectives

Answer 3

Introspective

Question 4

On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stories fit into the overall product.
How should this be addressed?

A. Review the iteration goals and have the team each describe the work to create shared understanding
B. Create a story map for the minimal viable product (MVP) functionality
C. Capture this as a task in the retrospective and ensure there is more detail provided at the next planning session
D. Have the product owner explain the product vision and review the release plan with the team

Answer 4

D

Question 5

During a review session, a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work. However, the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete.
What should be done with this story?

A. Mark it as incomplete and prioritize it for the next sprint
B. Mark it as complete, since the product owner has the final say
C. Discard it and create a new story for the remaining scope of work
D. Mark it as complete, since the team completed the scope of work

Answer 5

A

Question 6

During a team meeting, members who are subject matter experts (SMEs) mention that they are continuously working on repetitive tasks, which has lowered motivation.
What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Organize a team-building activity to improve team morale
B. Have team members work in pairs to learn from each other and develop new skills
C. Ask team members to perform a value stream analysis of their activities
D. Add more resources to the team to help with the tasks

Answer 6

C

Question 7

An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope, the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprints.
What should the agile coach do in this situation?

A. Ensure that the spikes identify the risks early in the project to increase the chances of success
B. Ensure that the business sponsor accepts the proposal and agrees to fund the additional spike sprints
C. Recommend that, in the first sprint, user stories with higher priority be executed in addition to the spike
D. Support the decision, because release planning will be improved, and the product backlog can be better groomed after all spikes are executed

Answer 7

C

Question 8

During a planning session, four out five team members vote to include eight story points in a particular story, while the fifth member votes for five story points.
How should this be handled?

A. The story should be assigned eight story points as per the majority vote
B. The story should be added to the backlog and reassessed later
C. The story should be assigned points after a discussion with the fifth team member to see if a consensus can be reached
D. The decision for the number of story points should be made by the customer

Answer 8

A

Question 9

When a team member encounters an issue in an agile environment, what should they do?

A. Limit communication between the team members and the customer to prevent unnecessary anxiety
B. Manage communication between all team members and the customer to promote effective and transparent collaboration
C. Manage communication between a few team members and the customer so that they may convey information to other team members
D. Facilitate one-on-one communication between team members to reduce conflict and inefficiencies

Answer 9

D

Question 10

An agile project leader notices that the team’s velocity has decreased. In examining data provided by team members, the project leader discovers that one team member has been slow to enter story statuses.
What can happen as a result?

A. The team will be unable to understand the iteration’s status
B. The team will be unable to judge the project design’s validity
C. The team cannot give accurate updates to management
D. Team collaboration cannot be measured effectively

Answer 10

A

Question 11

Why should a project team reduce the work in progress?

A. It indicates poor project quality
B. It represents team members’ utilization
C. It represents unrealized value
D. It shows that the project is behind schedule

Answer 11

C

Question 12

What role should a servant leader perform to reduce team distractions and improve progress toward project goals?

A. Managing: To ensure compliance with the project plan
B. Mentoring: To share their knowledge with the team
C. Controlling: To ensure compliance with the scope, budget, and schedule
D. Auditing: To ensure adherence to organizational compliance policies

Answer 12

B

Question 13

Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release.
What should the team do?

A. Conduct frequent demos and obtain feedback from users throughout the development of the next release
B. Inform senior management that since the product was successfully released, the project is considered delivered and should be closed
C. Request additional budget to implement a Scrum of Scrums approach to scale the teams and add capacity
D. Implement a better definition of done to ensure that continuous integration processes are managed effectively

Answer 13

A

Question 14

An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project.
What should the practitioner do?

A. Post and discuss rises in the burn down chart
B. Adjust story points to account for technical debt
C. Log technical debt as an impediment
D. Add refactoring tasks to all stories

Answer 14

D

Question 15

A member of a project’s development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.
What should the agile team lead do?

A. Send the member to training
B. Ask the outside specialists if database administration is required from the team
C. Send one member to training only after asking the team if there is an issue with the current work flow
D. Wait until all members of the team can attend training

Answer 15

A

Question 16

A project team meets to estimate user stories for a sprint. While an important non-functional requirement must be delivered in the sprint, the estimate exceeds sprint capacity.
What should the team do?

A. Estimate only functional requirements that will impact product quality
B. Add team resources
C. Refer the issue to the product owner
D. Break non-functional requirements into those that can be delivered in the given sprint

Answer 16

D

Question 17

A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team. Many team members have worked together on this product for several years. During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are completed on time.
What type of behavior does this describe?

A. Synchronous
B. Collaborative
C. Passive-aggressive
D. Random

Answer 17

A

Question 18

During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds. The non-functional requirements state that it should respond in less than two seconds. The team complains that this requirement was not communicated to them.
What should have been done to avoid this?

A. A comprehensive user story with all non-functional requirements should have been created
B. Non-functional requirements should have been added to the acceptance criteria
C. Non-functional requirements should have been added to the definition of done
D. A team review of the scope of work should have been conducted

Answer 18

D

Question 19

Early in a project, stakeholder analysis is performed; however, an organizational restructure redefines key roles.
What should the project team do?

A. Note the changes to the restructure and roles that affect team activities
B. Use direct engagement and two-way conversation to update the stakeholder analysis for any new stakeholder requirements
C. Email a copy of the project vision to those redefined for key roles and ask if they need to be involved in the project
D. Obtain a copy of the redefined key roles to update the stakeholder analysis

Answer 19

D

Question 20

A company has decided to combine two similar products consisting of multiple teams into one product. Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at re-organizing its teams.
What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?

A. All the teams from both products should be simultaneously called together and allowed to completely self-manage
B. Teams that worked on similar components in the separate products should be combined to minimize disruption and capitalize on synergies
C. After grouping individuals by role, multi-discipline teams should be created that are comprised of one member from each role
D. Features should be prioritized and then teams should be organized around those priorities

Answer 20

C

Question 21

When introducing agile processes to a company, a quality assurance (QA) manager resists and believes that the switch to agile will remove quality controls and documents.
How should the agile practitioner address this concern?

A. Educate the QA manager that in agile, quality is integrated from the beginning to end of the project
B. Write backlog items that include QA as part of the description
C. Ask for the current QA documents and incorporate them into the technical debt backlog
D. Ask the product owner to write tests and QA controls into the acceptance criteria

Answer 21

C

Question 22

An organization highly values security. However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features.
What should the team member do?

A. Influence the customer
B. Mention the idea at the next retrospective
C. Show the customer how much time and money would be saved
D. Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input

Answer 22

D

Question 23

A mature agile team welcomes a new member. Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate.
What should the agile project leader do?

A. Bring up the new member’s impediments at the next meeting to demonstrate team support of input
B. Assure the new member that inputs on impediments are valued, and demonstrate this at the next meeting
C. Have a senior lead work with the new member to avoid a negative impact on team productivity
D. Privately work with the new member to address any impediments

Answer 23

B

Question 24

Midway through an iteration, an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations.
As a high-performance team, what should the team do?

A. Raise an impediment that resource tasks will be blocked, and notify the product owner
B. Ask the delivery manager for a temporary resource
C. Ask the scrum master to assign that team member’s tasks to the next available resource
D. Assume the team member’s tasks to meet iteration goals, and notify the product owner

Answer 24

C

Question 25

Senior management is frustrated at the lack of a detailed implementation plan that shows exactly when the project will end and when all requirements will be met.
The team has been using a rolling wave planning approach so far on the project.
How should the agile practitioner explain to senior management the benefits of this approach?

A. It ensures a consistent level of details is available in the project schedule
B. It prevents a wasteful buildup of requirements inventory that may never be processed
C. It provides a concrete definition of project scope, cost and duration
D. It allows the team to lock down the stories to be included in a release

Answer 25

B

Question 26

A product owner, new to the role, is very enthusiastic about an agile project with an energetic team.
What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?
A. Hold a meeting with the team and the product owner to develop the team charter, working agreement guiding principles, and product vision
B. Ask the product owner to create the project vision and charter, and then discuss the guiding principles with the team
C. Hold a meeting during which the team can present the project charter, high-level project plan, and team values to the product owner
D. Send the product owner to formal product-owner training where the product owner can learn how to create a product vision

Answer 26

A

Question 27

Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, is estimated at 8 points. After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took much longer than story C.
What should the agile practitioner do?

A. Assign story B more than 8 story points so to provide a better estimate
B. Add points to story B’s iteration to account for the error but keep story B at 3 points
C. Assign more resources to story B to bring it in line with the estimate
D. Reestimate all stories including values for A, B and C

Answer 27

C