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Which of the following is not an attribute of plan-driven project management? a) Process heavy b) Little change to scope and requirements (in fact this is discouraged) c) Low risk d) Highly adaptable

Who decides what features and functionality to build a Scrum proiect? a) Project Sponsor b) Product Owner c) Scrum Master d) Development Team member

Which is not true of Scrum estimating? a) You estimate as a team b) Estimates are not commitments c) Focused on precision a) Use relative sizes You are going to improve a process using cycle efficiency. What methodology would you use? a) Timeboxing b) Kanban c) Value Stream Mapping d) Return on investment analvsis Story points measure a) The bigness or magnitude of a PBI b) Features but they do not reflect the effort c) The percentage if the sprint bases on features and fixes d) Only the items that are prioritized as high value

During a planning poker session: a) The product owner presents and describes the tasks b) The team does not help to better apSy planning poker c) Is not used to plan tiny items d) Standard playing cards are used

What is the correct definition of a Sprint? a) A time-boxed period where developers work as fast as humanly possible to complete the project b A specified period of time where the team works at a sustainable pace to complete a project c) An unlimited period of time where a team goes into Sprint mode to get a product out the door d) A specified period of time where the team may need to work large amounts of overtime at the end of the Sprint to complete the tasks for that Sprint

An assumption is a guess, in the Scrum environment what is true about assumptions? a) Assumptions do not represent a significant risk b) The combination of iterative and incremental development along with a focus on low-cost exploration can be used to validate assumptions c Assumptions have no impact to a Scrum team unless they are provided and supported by the product owner d) Assumptions are based on the values and principles of agile development

Who can change the priorities of a Sprint: a) Product owner b) Sponsor c) Project team d) Scrum Master

As per the text what is the definition of done? a) The user story is shipped to the customer b The development team has demos the operation activity to senior management c) Is an architecture presentation to describe the results of discovery and analvsis to recommend a course of action d) Is a checklist of the types of work that the team is expected to successfully complete before it can declare its work to be potentially shippable.

A user story has to be negotiable; this means that the user story is a) Considered only loosely coupled with another requirement b Not a written contract in the form of an up-front requirements document but considered a placeholder for conversations where the detail can be negotiated c) Of values to the customer meaning the requirement has business value d) Testable and has good acceptance criteria associated with the user story

Whose roles is it to keep people away from the project team? a) Project sponsor b) Product owner c) Project manager d) Scrum Master

Scrum Sprints are time boxed to be completed within: a) One to four days b) Only one week c) One to four weeks d) Longer than four weeks

The development team needs to pick a consistent duration for its Sprint and not change it unless: a) There is a need to move from a three week Sprint to a two week Sprint b) The product owner wants to make a change to the tasks c) The customer needs the duration shortened or lengthened d) The length never changes

Of the items below, which is true of a Sprint? a Long durations b) Inconstant length c) Option for changing the goal of the Sprint once it starts d) Ends with a shippable product

Which is not one of Cynefin's framework: O a) Complex b) Complicated c) Simple d) Composite

The cone of uncertainty: a) Shows that at the end of a project there is enormous uncertainty b) Implies that estimates and project plans are extremely accurate c) Ensures project success d) Lets the team become more certain of their estimate as we learn more

Tasks are estimated during the: a) Discover period b) Product backlog creation c) Sprint Planning meeting d) Planning phase

Of the items listed below, which is an output of Sprint planning? a) Seven or more goals b) A Sprint backlog c) The option for a demo a) Identification of the project manager

The portfolio backlog is a: a) Formal part of Scrum b) Uses T-shirt sizing and the unit of choice c) Used for Sprint planning a) Is considered a very detailed list of story points

Which of the following is correct about terms product knowledge and project knowledge? a) Product knowledge is knowledge about what will be developed while project knowledge is about how the product will be created b) Project knowledge is knowledge about what will be developed while product knowledge is about how the product will be created c) Project knowledge is knowledge about what will be developed while product knowledge is about features to be developed d) Both project knowledge and product knowledge terms are used interchangeably in agile development and relate to knowledge about how the product should be developed

If it is noted that the Sprint has deviated from the goals, this would need to be brought up at the: a) Sprint planning meeting b) Daily stand up c) Retrospective d) All of the above

flaw? What agile team should do to mitigate the risks associated with intrinsic schedule a) Add Local safety in the estimate b) Add extra resources increases team productivity c) Re-evaluate the release plan at the end of each iteration d) Re-evaluate the release plan at the end of the release

The pieces of work drawn from the Sprint backlog are called: O a) User stories b) Requirements c) Tasks d) Fixes

Analogous time estimating is based on: a) A wild guess b) Information from a past project c) From a unit cost of another task d) The PERT method

Scrum is based on: O a) Asile practices b) Agile values c) The need to respond to constant change a) All of the above

Story mapping is? a) Assigning more tasks than a team member can complete in a sprint b A technique that takes a user-centric perspective for generating a set of user stories and decompose high-level user activity into a workflow. c) Used as an inspect and adapt activity at the end of an agile project d) A technique to create a process map that shows users the relationship between sprint tasks

Iterative development can be defined as: a) Design up front then build a little bit at a time over and over again b) Acknowledging that we will probably get things wrong and that we will do things poorly c) Assumes little or no variability d) Favors a strategy of keeping your options open

User stories must: a) Have enoush complexity to meet the developer's detailed needs b) NOT describe functionality c) Be valued by the user or purchaser d) Be written into a minimum of a paragraph in plain language

Quality of the final product is defined by: a) The quality team O b) Thescrum master c) Project team d) Product owner

Planning poker: Estimates are not discussed amongst the members once the cards are revealed b) Is a consensus-based technique for estimating c) Is most commonly used for Scrum and plan-driven projects d) Is not used for relative size estimating

In iteration planning, the team committed for 3 stories. The story point estimate for these stories were - 5 points, 4 points, and zero points. The team was able to successfully deliver all of these stories. The story worth 5 points took 5 ideal days. The story worth 4 points took 3 ideal days. The story worth zero points took very little effort (hardly 1-2 hours). What should be the velocity based on this data? a) 3 stories b) 8 story points c) A number between 8 and 9 story points d) 9 story points

Product backlog grooming is essential for effective sprint planning and the resulting flow of features into a sprint. If the product backlog has been detailed appropriately the items at the top of the backlog should be a Forced ranked by priority b) Testable c) Clearly described d) All of the above

Velocity: a) Will not track how much effort your team has reported b) Does not tell the team how many items it can complete c) Increases over time d) is most useful when expressed as a range

Within a single Sprint, the following sessions are mandatory: a) Planning meeting, daily standups, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospectives b) Planning meeting and daily standups c) Only daily standups d) There are no mandatory meetings

Which is not one of the three pillars of Scrum: a) Adaption b) Short duration sprints c) Transparency d) Inspection

What agile artifact outlines the project's expected rate of return? a) Task board b) Iteration backlog c) Burndown chart d) Business case

The triple constraints in scrum are: a) Time, cost, Sprint length b) Time, cost, scope c) Scope, importance, estimate d) Requirements, time, importance

a) sequential process b) An iterative approach to developing products and managing work c) Only used for software projects d) A inspect-and-adapt activity only performed at the beginning of a project

What is the best time for a product owner to groom the backlog? a) During release planning b) During iteration planning c) Exactly before iteration planning d) This can happen throughout the iteration or in a meeting a few days prior to iteration planning

What is not true regarding story points? a) The story points are not the size of the task b) The story points are a comparison between the product backlog items c) Effort = size = story points d) Is a common name for sizing stories in an Agile project

Which of the following statements comes from the Agile development manifesto? a) Individuals and interactions over processes and tools b) Contract negotiation over customer collaboration c) Following a plan over responding to change d) Documentation over working software

Of the items listed below, which is not true of the product backlog? a) Is solely owned by the product owner b) Is a prioritized list of requirements, stories, or features c) Are items that the customer wants in their terminology d) The product backlog does not have to be up to date before the planning meeting

What is NOT true for an agile sprint? a) Sprints are of the same length for each project b) Sprints have an agreed-upon definition of done c) There is no goal-altering changes d sprints are required to be timeboxed

An agile team is tracking the progress using release burn-down chart. While the chart was moving down till 5th iteration then it went up slightly and then again moved down till it touched the horizontal line. What could have been the reason for burn-down chart going down? a) In the testing of 6th iteration, there were bugs found in stories that were accepted as "done" in 5th iteration b) It was simply a plotting error. The team requires training on agile tracking tool c) There was more work added that team finished in the sixth iteration d) The team could not finish any story in the sixth iteration

Parametric time estimating is an estimating technique that: a) Is similar to PERT estimating b) Looks at the unit costs of a task c) Looks at information from past projects or historical data d) Is seldom used

The velocity of a team is determined: a) Before the first Sprint b) After one Sprint c) After two Sprints d) After three Sprints

Ideal hours is: a) The time spent exclusively on a task with no interruptions b) Is similar to real time c) Is similar to elapsed time d) Is not used as a unit for estimating

Is there a business analyst role on a Scrum team? a) Yes b) NO c) Sometimes d) On larger projects

Mike Cohn coined the acronym DEEP to summarize several important characteristics of a good product backlog. DEEP stands for: a) Dependable, Early. Estimated and Potential b) Detailed, Emergent, Estimated and Prioritized c) Detailed, Expected, Exploration and Possible d) Developing. Effort, Epics and Predictable

If the project team cannot get all of the work done within the current sprint length is this a valid reason to extend the length of a sprint to complete the work? a) yes b) No c) This is the decision of the product owner who has control over the final produce d) If the team and scrum master agree to this new length then you can extend the sprint

Why do we estimate tasks for a project? a) For better decision making b) Customer knows what they are getting c) Something to baselineagainst A potentially shippable product at the end of the Sprint means that: a) The final product is completed b) Can never be reached c) Is thought of as a state of confidence that what got built in the Sprint is actually done d) Does not happen until the final Sprin

Who decides what features and functionality to build a Scrum project? O a) Project Sponsor b) Product Owner c) Scrum Master d) Development Team member

The Sprint backlog gets items from the: a) Retrospective meeting b) Planning session c) Product backlog d) Product Owner

The velocity of a team is determined: a) Before the first Sprint b) After one Sprint c) After two Sprints d) After three Sprints

How long is the daily stand-up meeting? a) 5 minutes b) 15 minutes c) 30 minutes d) One hour

Regarding the Sprint review, all of the following are true except: a) Attended by Product Owner b Team demonstrates all vertical slices and stories, to the product owner for approval c) Failed items go back to the product backlog d) Facilitated by the product owner

Story points measure a) The bigness or magnitude of a PBI b) Features but they do not reflect the effort c) The percentage if the sprint bases on features and fixes d) Only the items that are prioritized as high value

The team needs to agree on a definition of a) The Scrum process b) Done d Risk analysis d Testing methods

Iterative development can be defined as: a) Design up front then build a little bit at a time over and over again b) Acknowledging that we will probably get things wrong and that we will do things poorly c) Assumes little or no variability d) Favors a strategy of keeping your options open

Which is true of velocity: a) Velocity is the amount of work once the project is complete b) Velocity does not include the size number of partially completed PB'S c) Velocity can be calculated after one sprint ) d) It is measured by multiplying the sizes of the PBI's that are completed by the end of a sprint

Tasks are estimated during the: a) Discover period b) Product backlog creation c) Sprint Planning meeting d) Planning phase

Which of the following is not an attribute of plan-driven project management? a) Process heavy b) Little change to scope and requirements (in fact this is discouraged) c) Low risk d) Highly adaptable

What is not true about PB estimating concepts? a) Estimate as a team b) Estimates are not commitments c) Focus on precision and not accuracy d) Use relative versus absolute sizes

All are inspect-and-adapt activities in Scrum except: a) Sprint stand up b) Sprint Retrospective c) Sprint planning. d) Lessons learned

Who grooms the product backlog? a) sponsor b) Scrum Master c) Product owner d) Development team

The pieces of work drawn from the Sprint backlog are called: a) User stories b) Requirements c) Tasks d) Fixes

The scrum team consists of all of these members except: a) Business Owner b) Scrum Master c) Development Team member d) ProductOwner What is not part of the INVEST in good user stories from the list below? a) Negotiable b) Easy c) Small d)Testable