Practice Test

Question 1

What are the 7 core competencies of Business Agility?

Answer 1

1. Enterprise Solution Delivery
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Customer Centricity

Question 2

What are the 4 agile configurations that provide the right solution for each enterprise?

Answer 2

1. Full
2. Large Solution
3. Portfolio
4. Essential

Question 3

What is the key concept behind Agile?

Answer 3

Value and quality driven

Question 4

What are the 4 pillars to the house of lean?

Answer 4

1. Respect for people and culture
2. Flow
3. Innovation
4. Relentless Improvement

Question 5

What pillar most aligns with the “Gemba” method?

Answer 5

Innovation

Question 6

What dose Gemba mean?

Answer 6

The place where value is created

Question 7

What are the top and bottom pieces for the house of lean?

Answer 7

Value and Leadership

Question 8

What is the benefit of having smaller batch sizes?

Answer 8

To ensure a higher throughput with lower variability

Question 9

What is one benefit of normalized story point estimating?

Answer 9

It provides the economic basis for estimating within and across programs

Question 10

What are 3 elements that make up a program board?

Answer 10

Features
Milestones
Dependencies

Question 11

How should user stories be written?

Answer 11

As a…I want… so that…

Question 12

The product owner is involved in which activity?

Answer 12

ART sync (Agile Release Train Sync up)

Question 13

In SAFe, which two items belong in the Team Backlog?

Answer 13

Stories

Features

Question 14

When is the System Demo conducted during Program Execution?

Answer 14

At the end of every Iteration

Question 15

Which backlog contains user stories a team may be working on?

Answer 15

Team Backlog

Question 16

What do burn-up charts show in the iteration progress?

Answer 16

Planned vs Actual

Question 17

What practice provides the basis for Technical Agility?

Answer 17

Quality

Question 18

What are the 3 roles of the Agile Team?

Answer 18

1. Agile Team
2. Scrum Master
3. Product Owner

Question 19

T/F - The Scrum Master creates and refines User Stories and acceptance criteria

Answer 19

FALSE. The Agile Team does this.

Question 20

What role on the Agile team acts as the customer for any developer questions?

Answer 20

Product Owner

Question 21

What does ART stand for?

Answer 21

Agile Release Train

Question 22

Who owns, defines and prioritizes the Program Backlog?

Answer 22

Product Management

Question 23

What does NFR stand for?

Answer 23

Nonfunctional requirements

Question 24

What is the difference between features and stories?

Answer 24

Features are services that fulfill a users needs and are aligned to the program backlog where Stories are a subset of a feature and are aligned to the team backlogs. Stories also have a benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria.

Question 25

What are the elements of writing a good story? (INVEST)

Answer 25

I - Independent
N - Negotiable
V - Valuable
E - Estimable
S- Small
T - Testable

Question 26

For planning, who defines the ‘what,’ ‘how’ and ‘how much’

Answer 26

‘What’ is defined by with Product Owner

‘How’ and How Much is defined by the Team

Question 27

What 3 purposes do iteration goals provide?

Answer 27

Provide clarity, commitment and management information

Question 28

T/F - WIP limits improve the flow of work

Answer 28

True!

Question 29

What is required for high, sustainable development velocity?

Answer 29

Technical Agility

Question 30

What are CFD’s, and what can you learn about them?

Answer 30

CDF = Cumulative Flow Diagram

You can learn about the duration of WIP, Lead Time and Done status within a story