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Question 1

The velocity chart, storyboard, burndown chart, and impediment list are often communicated using:

Answer 1

Information radiators

Question 2

An organization adopts Agile practices and implements an incremental delivery strategy. If implemented correctly, the company should recognize improved:

Answer 2

project Return on Investment (ROI) by releasing individual features to market.

Question 3

The advantage of face-to-face collaboration emphasized in eXtreme Programming (XP) is that it:

Answer 3

eliminates communication delays and misunderstandings

Question 4

What is used to provide a simple medium for gathering basic information about stories, recording high-level requirements, developing work estimates, and defining acceptance tests?

Answer 4

Story card

Question 5

A high-performance Agile team:

Answer 5

is self-organizing, empowered to make decisions, and consensus-driven, with constructive disagreement.

Question 6

When using Agile Earned Value Management (EVM), progress should be measured at which level?

Answer 6

Release

Question 7

Which of the following techniques best encourages osmotic communication?

Answer 7

Seating the team members together in a work area

Question 8

The best approach to estimate the work on a project when using story points is to have:

Answer 8

The team work together to agree on estimates in a group setting

Question 9

A technique showing Kanban work stages by comparing counted features over a time interval is called a/an:

Answer 9

Cumulative flow diagram

Question 10

Information transmission is greatest amongst team members who are working on:

Answer 10

The same task through pair programming

Question 11

Which of the following is most appropriate to always participate in Planning Poker?

Answer 11

Team members

Question 12

How does Empirical Process Control support Agile methodologies?

Answer 12

Visibility, inspection, and adaptation

Question 13

The three questions asked at every Daily Scrum should be: “What have you accomplished since the last Daily Scrum?”;”What are you planning to accomplish between now and the next Daily
Scrum?”; and:

Answer 13

What is preventing you from completing your work effectively?

Question 14

In Agile projects, how are planning outputs shared with stakeholders?

Answer 14

Using the most highly visible method possible

Question 15

Which of the following is critical for the success of distributed Agile teams?

Answer 15

Culture of collaboration

Question 16

Retrospectives provide an opportunity for the team to:

Answer 16

Reflect at the end of every iteration and identify improvements that will increase the quality of the product

Question 17

Scrum practices are facilitated by the:

Answer 17

ScrumMaster.

Question 18

The process of reviewing, testing, and accepting implemented features is called:

Answer 18

Scope verification

Question 19

During which activity is the sequence of numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 often used?

Answer 19

Indicating priority of a story

Question 20

Which technique is used by a project team to estimate the amount of work that can be done per iteration?

Answer 20

Velocity measurement

Question 21

Which three criteria should be looked at when setting iteration length?

Answer 21

Timeframe in which the stories must be released, the cost to deliver the features to market, and
product team acceptance of the stories

Question 22

Team velocity is used to:

Answer 22

Predict schedules for mature teams

Question 23

An Agile team best ensures product quality through:

Answer 23

More frequent inspection after each iteration.

Question 24

The Kaizen philosophy is change

Answer 24

Forsmallgroups

Question 25

Following chart lists stories for a release of an Agile project If the team completes Story A, Story B, and 50% of Story C for the first iteration, what is the team's velocity?

Answer 25

9

Question 26

The following chart lists stories for a release of an Agile project: If the velocity of the team is 10, how many iterations will be needed to complete all of the stories?

Answer 26

4

Question 27

Since the last iteration, the team has grown from six members to 14 members. As a result, in the current iteration, the team room is crowded and uncomfortable during the team's daily standup. It takes the team longer than the ideal amount of time to complete their standup, which creates problems for the team's current schedule. Based on this information, the project manager should:

Answer 27

Increase the standup duration and update the team's calendars.

Question 28

Which type of estimate refers to estimating a story based on its relationship to one or more other stories?

Answer 28

Algorithmic

Question 29

A project team estimates that they should complete 30 story points in the current iteration. Partway through the iteration they realize that they will complete 50 story points at their current rate. The team should

Answer 29

Release members to meet the estimated velocity

Question 30

For a critical project, a new team has been formed from various departments. The project manager should start team building by:

Answer 30

Assembling the team and discussing roles and responsibilities of each member on the team.

Question 31

When are acceptance tests typically written for a user story?

Answer 31

At the start of Product Backlog prioritization planning

Question 32

Which of the seven principles of software development is best intended to solve the problem of inventories causing hidden errors in the process?

Answer 32

Eliminate Waste

Question 33

What do project reports show during the Sprint review meeting?

Answer 33

Return on investment (ROI)

Question 34

The purpose of "setting the stage'' in a project retrospective is to:

Answer 34

Restate the goal of the meeting and create an open atmosphere.

Question 35

A full cycle of design-code-verifyrelease practiced by extreme Programming (XP) teams is called:

Answer 35

Iteration

Question 36

When facilitated and managed well, the primary benefits of a project retrospective should be to:

Answer 36

Allow the team to get ahead on release planning.

Question 37

In a Lean project environment, visual controls:

Answer 37

Can be used by management for communicating specific corrective direction.

Question 38

Which term best describes an Agile project's approach to risk analysis?

Answer 38

Monte Carlo

Question 39

The primary purpose of a Sprint retrospective is for the team to:

Answer 39

Discuss what went well, what didn't, and ways to improve.

Question 40

In a Lean Software Development environment, the Project Leader strives to eliminate:

Answer 40

Defects and features with low value stream values

Question 41

During iteration planning, the team is discussing the design for a user story. A team member states that a design document should be started since the system is complex in nature. Another team member responds that in Agile there is no documentation. How should the ScrumMaster respond?

Answer 41

Explain that interactions are valued over documentation, but documentation is not forbidden

Question 42

For a "caves and commonroom arrangement, the most appropriate prerequisite is that the people in the room must be working on:

Answer 42

The same project