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Which option is the best example of a user story with functional requirements?
A. I need to buy the sheet music I am currently looking at to see the chords
B. As a user, I want the search online to be secure
C. As manager, I need to see the performance of my team so that I can identify needed training
D. As gamer, I need to write out the rules, the process, and the character stories
Dave is a ScrumMaster and aims to provide transparency regarding work status by communicating team progress, work quality, impediments, and risks in order to help the primary stakeholders make informed decisions. He wants to keep the stakeholders aware of how the increased scope has impacted the goals of the project. Which information radiator should be used?
A. Burn down chart
B. Burn up chart
C. Story maps
D. Project charter
The development team experimented with a different approach but failed. What is one of the roles of a Scrum Master to help “fix” the situation?
A. Observe and support the team
B. Determine priority of the failed task
C. Create a new work request
D. Reveal necessary adjustments
What is the title of the project manager in an XP development project?
A. Coach
B. Project manager
C. Product owner
D. Product manager
Which method allows the team to decide on priority of requirements by multivoting?
A. Spending with Monopoly money
B. MoSCoW
C. Voting with dots
D. Kano analysis
Which one of the following is NOT an example of task boards?
A. Kaizen board
B. Kanban board
C. Scrum board
D. Agile board
A new hire has only experience with traditional project management. You are asked to discuss the Agile values in order to develop a shared mindset across the team. What would you tell her about Agile project management?
A. Focus on highest-value items first
B. Documentation is clear and complete
C. All issues should be identified at the start of the project
D. Feedback is obtained at the end each project cycle
What is a stage of Feature-Driven Development (FDD)?
A. Demonstrate control
B. Build the features list
C. Build incrementally
D. Develop iteratively
Adam is in a meeting where management and the project team is included. They want to review the successes and failures over the last 6 months. What type of meeting does this represent?
A. Post-mortem
B. Retrospective
C. Pre-mortem
D. Intraspective
In drafting a project charter, you’ve identified the stakeholders, the goal of the project, start and end dates, the location, and the project methodology. What is missing?
A. Why are you doing this project?
B. How will you get the project done?
C. What are priorities of the work to be done?
D. Who will be on the project team?
What is a principle of DSDM?
A. Eliminate waste
B. Collective code ownership
C. Business need is the primary goal
D. Develop an overall model
The customer wants a one-click online ordering system. Your team has created a robust system and added an opportunity for the end user to review the order and enter payment details. They also suggest competitor sites if the product is discontinued or out of stock. The key focus is to make the end user happy. What is the issue in this scenario?
A. Gulf of evaluation
B. Adapting cadence
C. Participatory decision making
D. Managing with KPIs
What is Kaizen?
A. Change for the better
B. Control chart
C. Risk probability
D. PDCA cycle
The system upgrade process must roll back all related updates if the upgrade fails. What type of requirement does this represent?
A. Security
B. Scalability
C. Reliability
D. Performance
You need to provide an update to the project stakeholders. The CPI is 1.5 and the SPI is 1.0. How would you explain the status of the project to the stakeholders?
A. The project is under budget and behind schedule
B. The project is under budget and on schedule
C. The project is on budget and ahead of schedule
D. The project is over budget and behind schedule
What is a principle of Lean?
A. Task switching
B. Visualization
C. Relearning
D. Defer commitments
The stakeholder is looking for the trends of the current risks of the project. They want to see the exposure of the risk, its impact and response. They also want to see how the team is doing in controlling the risk. What should you suggest?
A. Create a risk census
B. Review the risk burn down chart
C. Review the risk prioritization
D. Review the risk board
Who usually approves of iterations?
A. Project manager
B. Project team
C. Product owner
D. Product manager
The product owner provides the backlog and the user stories are arranged horizontally on a wall. Each team member size each item relative to other items, then each item is place in relative size buckets, and data is stored. What is technique is being explained?
A. Value-based decomposition
B. KPI estimation
C. Kanban boarding
D. Affinity estimation
You are noticing feature creep where new features are added without analyzing the relevance or need. They seem to be losing focus on delivering the most valuable work first. What would be the best approach?
A. Estimate work left to be done
B. Define the time period during which designated work is completed
C. Review the velocity of the team
D. Add small chunks of functionality that should take one to two days to finish
Individuals are paired up and given instructions on how to create an origami. In round 1, the pair sit back to back and one person instructs while the other folds. In round 2, they sit facing each other to fold the origami but the folder can’t see the instructions. In round 3, they sit side by side so they can both see the instructions and the progress of the origami. What tool or technique is used in this scenario?
A. Collaboration games
B. Brainstorming
C. User stories
D. Round-robin
What is another term for test-driven development?
A. Pass/fail
B. Exploratory testing
C. Red-Green-Clean
D. Red-Green-Yellow
During a sprint retrospective, the team notices there was time spent in unnecessary meetings. Which Scrum event should you focus on to improvement the communications?
A. The sprint
B. The sprint review
C. Sprint planning
D. The daily Scrum
After the customer adds new features, you’ve completed the value-based analysis of prioritization for the next few iterations. You are estimating how long each iteration will take. What should you do next?
A. Break down the requirements in to chunks of work, estimate how long it will take
B. Identify the available resources and the required tasks, and balance the workload
C. Ask customer to define the velocity of the team
D. Anticipate roadblocks
As you’re building an online ordering system. Which one is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?
A. A landing page which showcases the offerings in the product line
B. A wireframe of the website
C. A functioning website that’s been developed and tested for six months
D. A story map of the user stories
Juan is on an Agile team that supports the decisions made by the product owner to determine the features that should go in a release. They also set expectations and inspect all aspects of quality. How can the ScrumMaster empower the team?
A. Define the velocity of the team
B. Define the length of an iteration
C. Give complete control to the team
D. Support team members to step-up
What is a core practice of eXtreme Programming?
A. Visualization
B. Extra features
C. Test-driven development
D. Eliminate waste
Which of the following is NOT an example of participatory decision models?
A. Shared collaboration
B. Convergent
C. Complex adaptive
D. Fist of Five
Mary notices an increase number of bottlenecks in the team. The developers are waiting on the testers, and the QA folks. She wants to avoid bottlenecks and create a high-functional team. What should Mary do?
A. Add another project manager
B. Include more generalists
C. Use IRR
D. Include more specialists
The project sponsor has signing authority of the project charter and authorizes the project and project manager. The project sponsor is the champion of the project. Which meeting should the project sponsor attend?
A. Daily Scrum
B. Retrospective
C. Collaboration games
D. Iteration review meeting
What is the process for stakeholder management?
A. Communicate, simplify, encourage, feedback
B. Define, engage, develop, test
C. Collaboration, create, brainstorm, host
D. Identify, plan, manage, and monitor
Sam is tracking a noticeable drop in the team’s velocity. There’s a lot of WIPs yet he sees some lag time between the tasks that are identified to complete a user story. What is the best approach to get the team on track?
A. Value stream map
B. Use customer-valued prioritization
C. Identifying the MVP
D. Testing
You just hired a remote member from a different country to join your Agile team. You want to continue daily collaborative communication. What’s the best type of communication channel you should encourage?
A. Video conferencing
B. Written documentation
C. Workshops
D. Telephone calls
The ScrumMaster wants to ensure the team is paid fairly, works to build relationships with individuals and peers, and the working conditions exceed the team’s expectation. Then she focuses on the work itself and looks for opportunities for growth and advancement. What motivation models is she using?
A. Herzberg
B. Kano
C. Amabile and Kramer
D. McClelland
What can negatively impact stakeholder engagement?
A. Adaptive leadership
B. Reviews
C. Irregular availability
D. Informal communication
You find out the team was creating a product feature that was not requested or required by the customer. After reviewing it with the customer, they are not happy. What happened, and what should you do?
A. Prioritization, use contingency reserves
B. Scope creep, request for additional financial support
C. Agile discovery, use Agile sizing and estimating
D. Gold plating, use pair programming
Which approach represents identifying and removing roadblocks, supporting experiments, and taking smart risks?
A. Architectural leadership
B. Kano analysis
C. Adaptive leadership
D. Fishbone analysis
Sprint planning is a collaborative effort involving several stakeholders, including the ScrumMaster, the product owner, and the scrum team. In a sprint review meeting, a customer has been invited to attend. Why would this be important?
A. Facilitate and set the agenda
B. Confirm and enhance business value
C. Track project progress and resources
D. Demonstrate project work and progress
What are the four types of risk response actions?
A. Communicate, disregard, embrace, review
B. Analyze, control, process, define
C. Identify, mitigate, test, accept
D. Avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept
Who authorizes the project and signs the project charter in an Agile project?
A. The project sponsor
B. The product owner
C. The project manager
D. The Agile team
You’ve been listening and serving your project team. When there are opportunities, you coach and help them grow. You’ve been promoting the energy and intelligence of others in creativity and collaboration. What are other aspects should you consider in a servant leadership role?
A. Promoting self-awareness, safety, respect, and trust
B. Defining the processes in the project
C. Directing the flow of communication
D. Creating a structured environment
What conclusions can you draw from this |h %5coutput%5ct14%5cmisc%5cp125.html burn up chart?
A. All planned work is complete
B. The project will be complete when the red line meets the blue line
C. New features have been added
D. The first user story was completed in week 3
An Agile team just finished a new version of the software. The team is monitoring the system for errors. They look at changes in user data and traffic volume. They review the results with the customer. What are they trying to accomplish?
A. Osmotic communication
B. Define WIP limits
C. Monitor performance
D. Seek feedback
Why is it important to keep the stakeholders involved in the project?
A. To monitor the product owner’s decisions
B. To intervene team issues
C. To confirm commitment to decisions
D. To identify risk
When learning a new skill, you start imitating the skills, then understand how to apply the skills, and finally have self-directed innovation to learn from one’s own experience. What developmental mastery model is represented?
A. Shu Ha Ri
B. Dreyfus
C. Tuckman
D. MoSCoW
The Satir Model define who change impacts the organization. How does Agile Principles and mindset support this model?
A. Educate the organization and influence processes, behaviors, and people
B. Plan at multiple levels creating appropriate detail
C. Contribute to self-organizing work by empowering others
D. Reduce distractions in order to establish a predictable outcome
What can you conclude with this |h %5coutput%5ct14%5cmisc%5cp126.html burn down chart?
A. The team executes a typical progress
B. The team finishes later than expected
C. Not enough information to conclude
D. The team finishes sooner than expected
What tool is represented in the |h %5coutput%5ct18%5cmisc%5cp143.html image?
A. Burn up chart
B. Cumulative flow diagram
C. Radar diagram
D. Burn down chart
What’s is another term for secondary risk?
A. Residual risk
B. Prime risk
C. Common cause risk
D. Special cause risk
Your Agile team continuously adds new features. It’s always well received by the customer. The product backlog is growing. What is happening in this scenario?
A. Goldplating
B. Theory of constraints
C. Feature-driven development
D. Crystal development
When should an Agile project management force a decision on a team?
A. To define the Definition of Done
B. After contract negotiations
C. After a brainstorming session
D. Regulatory compliance
Your team needs to estimate the effort of coding a new feature but has zero experience with the size and scope of the new feature. What should the team do?
A. Architectural spike
B. Risk-based spike
C. Release spike
D. Visioning spike
During a sprint, the team dynamics nose-dives. One person started placing blame on another for failing on their piece of the code. The conversation quickly escalates. What can help create an open and honest dialog?
A. Intraspective
B. Retrospective
C. Post-mortem
D. Pre-mortem
The last iteration was not complete. There continues to be major issues with the team’s cycle time and velocity. The project is significantly behind. What’s the best tool to help you identify the cause and effect?
A. Five whys
B. MoSCoW
C. Ishikawa diagram
D. Kano analysis
Bob is working on a large project, and most of his team will be virtual. What approach is best for Bob to take to facilitate the virtual team?
A. Co-locate the team for the planning meetings and two iterations if possible
B. Make cultural training available
C. Replace wit a cross-functional team
D. Define goals
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