Initiate and Plan - Prep Questions Flashcards
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Team members presented the completed features to project stakeholders and ensured that everyone understood the progress toward the sprint goal. The product owner gathered suggestions from stakeholders and updated the product backlog. This agile practice is known as:
A. Product retrospective
B. Product backlog refinement
C. Release validation
D. Sprint review
D. Sprint review
A review is an opportunity to inspect and adapt the emerging product and to engage stakeholders. Team members present the completed functionality to the product owner and other stakeholders. The product owner accepts or rejects the completed items and gathers observations and suggestions from stakeholders.
You have just been assigned as project manager of a complex project adopting an agile approach.
Which of the following statements regarding business value are correct? (Choose three.)
A. You should report on realized value throughout the project
B. The team should promote opportunities for stakeholders to articulate their understanding of value
C. Product priorities should be clearly defined at the beginning of the project
D. Business value is created at the end of the project
E. The team may use surveys to determine if the business value is being delivered
A. You should report on realized value throughout the project
B. The team should promote opportunities for stakeholders to articulate their understanding of value
E. The team may use surveys to determine if the business value is being delivered
The project manager should report on realized value throughout the project (answer A). The business representative and the rest of the team should collect feedback and use that feedback to adjust the product backlog (answer B). The team may use surveys to determine if the business value is being delivered (answer E). Product priorities may be adjusted throughout the project (answer C). Partial products may be released to create business value at the end of one or more development cycles (answer D).
A global advertising company is using scrum to roll out a process-improvement initiative to other countries. The company assembled a team that will be timeboxing every scrum meeting. What is the meaning of timeboxing a meeting?
A. Meetings will always occur at the same time
B. Meetings cannot last more than the allocated amount of time
C. Meetings should not last more than the recommended amount of time
D. Meetings should last more than a certain amount of time
B. Meetings cannot last more than the allocated amount of time
Timeboxing events means that the team will stop work when the time limit is reached rather than continue until the goal is achieved.
An agile team is developing a machine learning solution using Kanban. During the early stages of the project, the team determined its workflow and established work in progress limits. Which of the
following is a good reason to limit the work in progress?
A. Because unfinished work does not add value
B. Because work must be completed within the timebox
C. Because work must be completed according to quality parameters
D. Because resources are limited
A. Because unfinished work does not add value
A work in progress limit constrains the amount of work in progress because unfinished items produce no business value.
You are managing an engine manufacturing project which is part of a larger program. The project management office requires that all projects should be authorized with a project charter. Which of
the following can approve the project charter? (Choose three.)
A. Senior management
B. Program manager
C. Project steering committee
D. Portfolio manager
E. Project manager
A. Senior management
B. Program manager
D. Portfolio manager
The project charter should be authorized by someone with enough authority to sponsor the project.
A financial institution is promoting the adoption of project management plans to improve their project management practices. Which of the following should you include in the project management plan? (Choose three.)
A. Adopted change management procedures
B. Required formal gate reviews
C. Adopted risk responses
D. Updated issue log
E. Adopted project approach
F. Updated business case
A. Adopted change management procedures
B. Required formal gate reviews
E. Adopted project approach
The risk register (answer C), issue log (answer D) and business case (answer F) are not part of the project management plan. The remaining options are part of the project management plan.
A project charter is a formal document that authorizes the beginning of the project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to project activities. A project charter establishes:
A. Business need, assumptions, constraints, assigned project manager and scope statement
B. Business need, project success criteria, summary budget and summary schedule
C. Performance baselines
D. Cost-benefit analysis
B. Business need, project success criteria, summary budget and summary schedule
The business need, project success criteria, summary budget and summary schedule can be part of the project charter.
