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Introduction to Agile
1. You have just received acceptance from the customer for the final release and
you are taking out the team to celebrate the good news. ___________ quality of
a servant leader is being demonstrated by you:
a) Removing obstacles
b) Ensuring no distractions
c) Carry food and water ✓
d) Showcasing achievements

2. You are scrum master for a project in which you are automating the rules for your
company’s NOC. The handover of the rules will be given to the operations team
who are responsible for managing the network traffic for various customers. Your
team and the operations team have had a major disagreement with some of the
rules that should be made for customer X and both teams have taken a stand
and are not proceeding. How should you handle the situation?
a) Escalate the situation to the line managers of the team members who have been
rigid and ask them to intervene.
b) Separately talk to the operations team manager explaining why the rules they are
trying to make are a wasteful effort. Agile team focuses on reducing waste.
c) Here a session with the team to understand their concerns and explain to them
how making the operations team’s life easier will overall help the organization. ✓
d) Discuss the situation with the product owner and guide him to intervene and get
the right requirements for the team to work on. Rules that are not feasible are
going to create more problems than solutions.

3. Your company was recently awarded a series of new projects from your existing
customer. Your team wants to know which relevant project life cycle to use in
which new project.
Match each of the terminologies with their correct scenario/definition.
a) Iterative Life Cycle
A project where scope will be determined early in the project life cycle, but
time and cost will be constantly modified. Team will do series of repeated
cycles until it reaches perfection.
b) Predictive Life Cycle
A project where scope, cost and time will be determined in the early phases of
life cycle.
c) Hybrid Life Cycle
Scope is constantly changing for the new deliverable, but rollout of the
deliverable would be done in a known phased approach.
d) Incremental Life cycle
A project which needs to be launched in the market as quickly as possible.

4. You are working on a very complex internal project where requirements may
change constantly, However, once the product is ready, you would like to roll it
 out based on department size. You have managed similar rollouts in the past.
What approach would you recommend?
a) Product Life Cycle
b) Iterative Life Cycle
c) Incremental Life Cycle
d) Hybrid Life Cycle ✓

5. A new product owner has been working previously with waterfall. He is

comparing both waterfall and agile planning. How is agile planning different from
that of waterfall?
a) Waterfall planning is iterative
b) Agile planning is iterative and just in time ✓
c) In agile, planning is done up front
d) In waterfall, planning is done in phases

6. In the Agile Triangle of Constraints, which among the below should be given
higher priority? Select 2 answer choices:
a) Intrinsic Quality ✓
b) Extrinsic Quality ✓
c) Scope
d) Cost
e) Time

7. Your colleague is working on a project which is I execution stage. The project is

not well defined. However, it will be developed as the team understanding of the
product increases. This project is also divided into different phases. The phases
have a dependency such that one phase cannot start until the previous one is
complete. What could be the development lifecycle and phase-to-phase
relationship on this project?
a) Predictive Life Cycle and Sequential relationship
b) Predictive Life Cycle and Overlapping relationship
c) Iterative Life Cycle and Overlapping relationship
d) Iterative Life Cycle and Sequential relationship ✓

8. You want to buy a new apartment for your family. You visit one of the newly
constructed apartment building (20 floors) where only the first-floor apartments
are ready to move in. Their goal is to launch every floor apartment every month.
By end of 20 months entire building will be fully operational. Which approach did
the construction company used?
a) Predictive Life Cycle
b) Iterative Life Cycle
c) Increment Life Cycle ✓
d) Hybrid Life Cycle

9. Your team must deliver 10 features on the project. Each feature will require
different duration. Your team starts with most important feature based upon their
 capacity and delivers it to the customer. There is no fixed schedule of product
reviews with the customer and it is done on ad-hoc basis. Which life cycle
approach is your team using?
a) Flow Based Agile Life Cycle ✓
b) Iteration Based Agile Life Cycle
c) Increment Life Cycle
d) Hybrid Life Cycle

10. As a Scrum Master, you focus on the needs of others, especially team members,
before you consider your own. You give them the support they need, involve
them in decisions where appropriate, and build a sense of community.
____________is the type of leadership you are following:
a) Democratic
b) Servant ✓
c) Laissez-faire
d) Autocratic

11. Charlie is a project manager in his organization which is slowly transitioning to an

agile environment. Recently, Charlie got a new project which is very much like
two of his past projects. Requirements are also straightforward. Which project life
cycle Charlie and his team should select?
a) Predictive Life Cycle ✓
b) Iterative Life Cycle
c) Incremental Life Cycle
d) Hybrid Life Cycle

12. A scrum master works as a servant leader and applies adaptive leadership. What
among the given qualities is not a part of servant leadership?
a) Focuses on the growth and well-being of people.
b) Assigns work to the team and ensures deliveries at the end of each sprint ✓
c) Puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly
as possible
d) Promotes team problem solving, provides resources and works towards
removing obstacles

13. Your organization is going through some strategic changes. Senior leadership
wants to adopt agile life cycle to manage the projects. However, the workforce is
not fully ready to adapt it. Leadership has left the decision on you based on the
analysis you will be conduct. What approach as per you would be best in current
scenario?
a) Product Life Cycle
b) Agile Life Cycle
c) Incremental Life Cycle
d) Hybrid Life Cycle ✓
14. Your organization is moving from Waterfall to Agile and they have chosen Scrum
as the methodology. You are an experienced Scrum Master and currently
handling a critical project and receiving very high customer satisfaction scores.
How would you handle the situation when you are asked to guide another team
which is struggling with their Scrum implementation?
a) Ask your manager if this means shifting to another team and project
b) Ask project management office to provide training to other projects Scrum
Master or provide any other scrum master as a mentor
c) Work with the other teams Scrum Master and Product Owner to assess the
current maturity level and provide guidance. ✓
d) Work with the other team members to understand the causes of the failures
and report to PMO. ✓

15. You are working as a Scrum master. For the past two iterations, in the sprint
review meeting, the team was showing the demo of in-complete user stories and
also without doing the internal testing. Product owner is highly dissatisfied with
this. As a scrum master what should be your next step?
a) Discuss with the team and product owner together write the acceptance
criteria for each story.
b) Place all User Stories as an information radiator.
c) Motivate the team to self-organise and request the team to do their own
estimation for user stories.
d) Discuss with the team and together define the Definition of Done for user
stories. ✓

16. You are part of the PMO. You are responsible for overseeing the various Agile
projects for regulatory compliance and ensuring that compliances are being
taken care of. How would you ensure compliance with the agile teams?
a) Agile teams are well protected from outside influences and disturbances. As
PMO, your responsibility is to protect so that they do not bogged down by
compliance requirements.
b) Have a discussion with the teams about compliance requirements and
associated challenges if any. Work along with team to develop a process for
the team that works both for the team and for the organization. ✓
c) Share compliance requirements with the team and then regularly audit to
ensure that teams are following the whole process.
d) None of the above

17. Organization MoreSales Ltd. Wants to transform towards Agile. They have heard
that Agile had helped some of the critical projects move smoothly and completed
within the time, while obtaining a very high customer satisfaction score.
MoreSales Ltd. Has a list of upcoming projects that are being evaluated for the
pilot run for the transition. Which would be a good project to do that?
a) A mission critical project
 b) A very large project
c) A small project with less dependencies and can be completed by a single
team ✓
d) All of Above

18. Your customer is in a panic mode as they recently came to know that their
competitor would be launching a similar product on which you are currently
working. Customer now wants you to launch their product as quickly as possible.
What life cycle would you recommend using?
a) Predictive Life Cycle
b) Iterative Life Cycle
c) Incremental life cycle ✓
d) Hybrid Life Cycle

19. You are part of the PMO of a company that is shifting to Agile. Your manager
asks you to define the processes and tools for the Agile teams that they should
follow. As a project manager what should be your next step?
a) Ask the manager of tentative timelines for the process and tools definition and
work towards it.
b) Discuss this topic with the agile teams and request them to define the right
set of processes and tools for their project. ✓
c) Explain to the PMO that the order in which various activities are to be done in
Agile depends on business and they are the best to define it.
d) Gather representatives from various teams and work with them to define
common processes and tools for all agile teams.

20. The PMO in your company has a detailed process to be followed for various
projects depending on their size. For your project size, they have listed an
exhaustive documentation to be covered. How should you handle this situation
as a scrum master?
a) Work with the PMO to develop processes for agile projects with minimal
documentation ✓
b) Work with team to identify processes through which detailed documentation
can be met.
c) Add a story to the backlog for documentation and let PO prioritize it.
d) Create minimal documentation as needed by the project.

21. Pat is managing a high-profile project for the organization. If she is not able to
complete the project before the end of this year, then the company may have to
bear heavy loses. To overcome this risk, she decides to get approval on
requirements as quickly as possible. Once all the requirements are approved
then only the team will start the development. which approach did Pat use in this
scenario?
a) Predictive Life Cycle ✓
b) Iterative Life Cycle
 c) Incremental Life Cycle
d) Hybrid Life Cycle

22. A Restaurant Chain wishes to create Smartphone Applications for its Users.
Competitors of the Company are racing to come out with Similar Applications. As
per the Product Owner’s Vision, there is a requirement for several versions of the
app such as Basic, Pro, and Premium. As a project manager what lifecycle you
would propose to the product owner?
a) Predictive
b) Iterative
c) Flow-Based
d) Incremental ✓

23. Sara has planned her project with four iterations. Each iteration is of 3 weeks.
The team picks up the most important features and deliver it to customer after
each iteration. What life cycle is Sara and her team using?
a) Predictive Life Cycle
b) Iterative Life Cycle
c) Incremental Life Cycle
d) Agile Life Cycle ✓

24. Team is working on a project where requirements are dynamic. Customer wants
to make sure that quality of the product is not compromised. So, they have
instructed you to share the prototype with them multiple times until it is perfect.
As a project manager, what will be your next step?
a) Ask the team to use predictive life cycle
b) Ask the team to use iterative life cycle ✓
c) Ask the team to use incremental life cycle
d) Ask the team to use hybrid life cycle

25. Agile teams do iterative development. As a result of this, over the period of time,
an agile plan keeps getting refined and become more accurate. This is because
a) Due to the continuous refinement and reduction in certainty
b) Due to the progressive elaboration and reduction in uncertainty ✓
c) Due to the execution of the project, the team’s velocity and performance
emerge, resulting in accuracy in planning
d) Over time, the team becomes better at estimating the low-level tasks.