1. A product manager wants to start a new product-related project.

She wonders
whether Agile methods would add value to this. You can say that the project would
be suitable for Agile methods if:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The design and plan can be made up front

~The requirements are likely to change significantly during the project
The organization has plenty of expertise in doing this kind of work
The project is mission critical
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2 A team could not agree whether the stories in a sprint were complete or not. When can the
team decide that the stories are completed successfully?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Based on inputs from the scrum master

If the product owner has accepted them
If customer feedback is good
--If it meets the definition of done

3
A scrum master is new to the role. Which of the following is aligned with this role?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Performing appraisals for the team members

Helping the team defend their estimates from pushy product owners
Assigning tasks to the team
Explaining the technical content of the tasks to the team

4
Which of the following extreme programming techniques helps the most in knowledge
sharing across the team?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Continuous refactoring
Continuous integration
Pair programming
Coding standards

5
A project involves a lot of uncertainty. How should this be handled in timeboxed projects
where there is a firm commitment on deadlines?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Provide for a schedule buffer to cover uncertainties

Avoid working on risky stories
Add new team members
Use features buffer

6
Use of information radiators is important for Agile projects. Which of the following is NOT
a characteristic of a good information radiator?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Fixed set of indicators on the walls

Indicators that are meaningful to the team
Indicators that are in a visible space
Indicators that are updated regularly

7
Jeff wanted the team to start using a new tool to improve the quality of their deliverables by
automating some key processes. Where should Jeff bring this up for discussion?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Sprint review
Sprint retrospective
Sprint planning
Daily standup

8
An Agile team received a number of suggestions on how to increase the value proposition
of a product at a trade conference. How should these suggestions be reflected in the product
backlog?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The team should add all the suggestions received as and when they are received
The team should perform a release planning session and then add them to the backlog
The product owner should decide and accordingly add valuable work items to the product
backlog
The suggestions are presented to the scrum master who decides what will get done

9
The product backlog for a particular product contains too many stories. A product owner
came across a product idea that is valuable but may not be worked on immediately. What
should be done about this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Analyze the requirements, and write detailed user stories for this
Do not do anything immediately unless the team is ready to work on it
Write an epic-level story if the product owner wants to keep it on the radar
Request the team to work overtime to work on this new idea
10
In a burndown bar chart, the bottom of the bar in a particular sprint move downwards by 50
points. What does this indicate?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The team completed 50 points of work

The product owner removed 50 points of work from scope
The team deferred 50 points from the current sprint to the next
The product owner added 50 points of work to the project

11
A scrum master is new to an organization. She is unable to help the teams with a lot of the
blocking issues. This means team members don't always get the help that they need. What
should be done about this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Ask somebody else to solve the team's blocking issues

Coach the scrum master to become more effective, or replace the scrum master
The team should avoid asking the scrum master for help
The product owner should step in and solve the issues

12
A product owner wanted to know not just the overall project status but also epic- and story-
level status. Which information radiator will help the product owner get this information?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Parking lot chart

Burndown chart
Burnup chart
Kanban board
13
The team completed 5 stories in a sprint of sizes 5, 2, 13, 8, and 1. Simultaneously they
worked on stories worth 30 points which they partly completed but could not complete per
the definition of done. What is the velocity of the team?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Slightly over 40 points

29 points
Slightly over 30 points
Less than 29 points

14
A team decided to try pair programming as a practice. One of the advantages of pair
programming is that:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

It will slow the team down and therefore reduce the stress
It will get more output than before
It will create stronger feelings of fraternity within the team
It will lead to better quality and spread the knowledge around

15
A team's workload expanded, so they moved from one scrum team to over three scrum
teams. The product owner is stressed because of the workload from all three teams. What is
the best way forward?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Split the backlog into three backlogs

Ask a team member to write the stories on behalf of the PO
Appoint as many product owners as the number of scrum teams
The scrum master should also take some product owner duties
16
An organization decided to use scrum. They knew that their existing system was broken,
and they had heard good things about scrum from other organizations. Few months later,
they got disillusioned with scrum and decided to abandon the experiment. Each team came
up with a different way of defining scrum roles and duties. None of the teams had a full
time scrum master or product owner. There was confusion and chaos. What could have
been done to make the transition successful?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The organization should have followed an all-in approach

The organization should have focused on technical practices first
The organization should have invested in developing ability to use scrum
The organization should have introduced scrum in stealth mode
17
An Agile coach wants the organization transitioning to scrum to invest heavily in technical
practices. Which of the following is a potential challenge in introducing technical practices
early in an Agile transition?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

It has low return on investment

The team is already busy and may push back against it
Technical practices are not really needed in the beginning
Management does not understand technical practices
18
An organization wonders if Agile would be a good fit for the work it does. Which of the
following characteristics of the work will make it most suitable for use of Agile methods?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

If it is reasonably well-defined
If it needs to be delivered quickly and at low cost
If the customer is unable to devote enough attention to the development team
If the requirements or technology is likely to change during the project
19
A team felt during the retrospectives that they are not creating enough technical
documentation which is hurting them. What should the scrum master do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Tell the team that Agile methods do not favor comprehensive documentation
Ask management to appoint a technical writer as an addition to the team
Ask the team how to include documentation in the definition of done for each work item
Tell the product owner that they need more documentation from the customer

20 Kanban

21
The team suggested to the product owner that they should be improving the audit trial and
error logging, as it will make it easier to maintain the product. The value proposition of the
story is to enable:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Operational efficiency
New revenue
Retaining revenue
Increased profits
22
A team regularly finds that it has to move work to the next sprint, as most of the user stories
are partly done. Which of the following is the best way to address this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Extend the sprint rather than spill stories over

Plan for longer sprints from the beginning
Split the stories to make them smaller
Aggregate stories into epics and themes

23
A scrum team regularly finds that it has to rush toward the end of a three-week sprint and
work overtime in the last week. How can the scrum master coach the team to avoid this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Encourage the team to take less work in the sprint

Add more team members to the team
Make the progress more visible to the team throughout the sprint
Relax the definition of done for the team

24
A team wants to decide the sprint duration. The scrum master should tell them that although
shorter sprints are better, longer sprints may be used if:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

They have a relaxed schedule

Many team members are going on vacation
The stories need to be delivered quickly
The overheads of iteration are too high
25
If the team could not agree on the estimate for a story in the planning poker session, the
scrum master should advice them to:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Park the story and take some other story in the sprint
Take a break and reconvene the next day
Ask an external consultant and take their estimate
Take their best guess as a team

26
An organization was using scrum for about a year. A new CEO joined the organization and
asked them what advantages were derived from using scrum, as she was not fond of
following the scrum method. The team felt that scrum was better but could not provide any
supporting data for it. What should have been done to prevent this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

They should have had clear objectives and tracking metrics for the scrum journey
They should not have hired a CEO who was skeptical about scrum
They should have made up some data and presented it to the CEO
The scrum master of each team should have shown their retrospective output
27
Five teams are part of a Nexus. They regularly realign their priorities. However, they often
discover that they make wrong assumptions about what work and when the other teams will
deliver. This issue causes the sprints to fail. Which of the following is the best way to
address this?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

To go back to using traditional project management methods

Identify and plan for dependencies within the Nexus sprint planning
Let the teams work independently, and integrate the work at the end of the project
Conduct a scrum-of-scrum meeting every day with all team members from all teams

28
A team which has a complex set of subsystems that needs to integrate for the product to
work should focus majority of the energy into:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Integration testing
Ad-hoc testing
Unit testing
User acceptance testing

29
Which is the most appropriate forum to solve integration problems within a group of scrum
teams that are coordinating to build a large product?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Retrospective
Scrum-of-scrum
Daily standup
Sprint planning
30
There are many skeptics in an organization that is transitioning to Agile. How should the
organization deal with them?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Reaffirm the organization's commitment to scrum

Move them out of the organization
Give them training and data about scrum
Tell them why existing methods are not adequate
31
During the retrospective, quite a few team members said that too much work was being
pushed by the product owner and they felt under pressure. What should the scrum master
do?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Let the team and the product owner figure it out

Tell the team that they need to deal with this because there is business urgency
Speak to the product owner and figure out a way to reduce the pressure on the team
Escalate this issue to the manager of the product owner

32
A product owner wanted to track the progress of the team and scope changes on a project.
Which of the following should the PO choose to use?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

A burndown chart
A parking lot chart
A Niko-Niko calendar
A burndown bar chart
33
Project A had an NPV of $10,000 and IRR of 12%. Project B had an NPV of -$5000 and
IRR of 3%. Project C had an NPV of $15,000 and IRR of 8%. Project D has an NPV of
$12,000 and IRR of 14%. Which project should be selected if the organization wants to
think long-term?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Project A
Project B
Project C
Project D
34
A team wants to use scrum, but the organization does not have any scrum expertise. What
is the best option to select the scrum master?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Get an external person to play the role of the scrum master

Ask somebody who is the most enthusiastic one on the team to be the scrum master
Temporarily let the product owner play the role of the scrum master
Wait till the organization develops some scrum expertise
35
There was a project which had team members distributed across multiple locations. The
team wanted to travel to one location for an in-person release planning meeting, for which a
budget request was raised. Finance department was very hesitant to approve it. How can
you convince the Finance department about the value of this proposal?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

The trips can act as a reward for the team, though it may not have a direct business benefit
The trips will create more team bonding and reduce the hidden cost of development
There will be less changes in the requirements, which will lead to higher RoI
According to Agile methods, release planning cannot be done virtually; it is mandatory to have
the trips

36
An organization wanted to bring in a number of improvements in the technical processes
such as DevOps and configuration management early in the Agile transformation. You
would say it would be better to bring the changes in stages rather than all in one go if:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

You don't think they would add value to the team

They are not required for bringing agility
There would be significant resistance to some of the changes
There is significant RoI in making the changes
37
A team was working on a sprint. During the sprint, the team encountered a number of
unexpected technical difficulties because of which the time estimate for a number of tasks
increased. What will the burndown chart show?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

A gap between different days

A flattening of the burndown line
A steep drop in the line
A burnup instead of burndown

38
A senior team member felt that story points are less useful than ideal time estimates
because they are specific to a team. As a scrum master, you should:
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Agree, but respectfully state that this is how Agile teams are supposed to estimate
Agree, and let the team use ideal time estimates instead
Disagree, as all types of estimates are only meant for the team to plan better
Disagree, as story points are actually standard across different teams
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39
A team follows a method which uses timeboxed iterations and projects and MoSCoW
prioritization. Which method maps closest to this description?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

DSDM
Kanban
SAFe
Nexus
40
A team practicing Kanban approaches finds that there is a lot of work to be handled and the
lead-time for the customer is increasing. Which of the following is the best way to reduce
the time to deliver work to the customer?
SELECT THE CORRECT ANSWER

Reduce the work-in-progress

Reduce the throughput
Increase the cycle time
Increase the work-in-progress