Scrum Practices

Question 1

What is a prioritized list of requirements that is created and maintained by the Product Owner of a product?

Answer 1

Product Backlog

Question 2

True or False

The product backlog evolves in order to be appropriate, competitive, and useful?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Whose responsible for estimating items either in story points or hours on the Product Backlog?

Answer 3

The Development Team

Question 4

Whose responsible for selecting items based on business value for sprints on the Product Backlog?

Answer 4

The Product Owner

Question 5

A __________ item, often called a user story, is a lightweight mechanism to quickly capture requirements.

Answer 5

Product Backlog

Question 6

A ________ acts as an agreement regarding the features and the requirements that need to be developed.

Answer 6

user story

Question 7

True or False

A user story helps to shift the focus from writing about requirements to talking about them.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The acronym INVEST is used to communicate the attributes of a good user story. What does INVEST mean?

Answer 8

Independent
Negotiable
Valuable
Estimable
Small
Testable

Question 9

List the attributes a user story card answers.

Answer 9

As a …

I want …

So that …

Size:
Business value:

Question 10

True or False

the Product Backlog is a subset of the Sprint Backlog

Answer 10

False

The Sprint Backlog (tasks) is a subset of the Product Backlog (epics, user stories)

Question 11

Tasks are tracked via a _________ or __________.

Answer 11

task or Kanban board

Question 12

Who owns and maintains the task or Kanban board

Answer 12

The Development Team

Question 13

In scrum, time-boxing is critical for:

Answer 13

Continuous improvement
Determining the team’s velocity
Improving collaboration

Question 14

What Agile methodology employs peer-programming?

Answer 14

eXtreme Programing (XP)

Question 15

XP Practices used in Scrum include:

Answer 15

Test Driven Development (TDD)
Continuous Integration
User Stories
Iteration (Sprint)

Question 16

_________ is a process of restructuring existing computer code – changing the factoring without changing its external behavior.

Answer 16

Code refactoring

Question 17

Code refactoring improves the ___________ attributes of the software and _________
code, making future coding on the project much easier.

Answer 17

nonfunctional

simplifies

Question 18

______________ is a technique in which two programmers work together at a workstation.

Answer 18

XP – Pair Programming

Question 19

_______ is the task of tracking and controlling changes to the software.

Answer 19

XP – Software Configuration Management (SCM)

Question 20

SCM can determine ___________________ and __________________ and can implement an intelligent resolution.

Answer 20

what was changed

who made the change

Question 21

Explain how Test-Driven Development (TDD) in XP works.

Answer 21

Developers first write the test and then write the code; this satisfies the conditions of the test.

Question 22

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) is similar to TDD but is used to define what?

Answer 22

a user story’s acceptance criteria before and after development

Question 23

The artifact _____________ is a ________ of things that must be verified before an item or a story is marked done or complete.

Answer 23

Definition of Done

checklist

Question 24

‘Definition of Done’ can be applied to a:

Answer 24

User story
Sprint
Release
project

Question 25

Cite the maximum duration for a Sprint

Answer 25

2 to 4 weeks

Question 26

Cite the maximum duration for a Sprint Planning

Answer 26

2 hours for each week of the Sprint

Question 27

Cite the maximum duration for Daily Scrums

Answer 27

15 minutes

Question 28

Cite the maximum duration for a Sprint Reviews.

Answer 28

1 hour for each week of the Sprint

Question 29

Cite the maximum duration for a Sprint Retrospective.

Answer 29

45 minutes for each week of the Sprint.