The Customer Needs Assistance in Determining the Efficiency of a Set Process Activities Within the Solution - Project Management Assignment Help

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1.More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting. What should the scrum master do?
a.Email the product owner requesting detailed story specifications and wait for a response
b.Gather the details from lean members before sprint planning
c.Schedule a story grooming session with the product owner before sprint planning
d.Conduct a planning poker session with the team
2.The customer needs assistance in determining the efficiency of a set process activities within the solution. What should the agile team do?
a.Discuss the efficiency at the next iteration retrospective
b.Review the process value stream to determine potential improvements
c.Review the value the customer receives from the user story to determine backlog priority
d.Discuss the performance of the solution at the next review
3.An agile coach is assigned to help a project team that was recently co-located close to very popular business. Many team members visit this during working hours which affects team performance. What should the agile coach do to mitigate this issue?
a.Speak with the functional managers and come to an agreement that will resolve the issue.
b.Explain to functional managers that too much control will inversely impact team morale.
c.Meet with the team to discuss the issue and identify specific actions to reduce or eliminate the issue.
d.Inform the team there will be penalties to anyone who visits that business during working hours.
4.An experienced product owner presents the epics and corresponding stories during a release planning session with the established team. The executive sponsor asks the team when the features will be delivered. What should the agile team do?
a.Evaluate how much can be delivered based on the Scrum Master’s estimation
b.Identify a set of user stories based on the team’s velocity
c.Initiate an estimation session
d.Consult historical data for project completion
5.Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint goals. What should the scrum master do next?
a.Alert the team that sprint goals might not be met and create an alternative plan
b.Obtain team buy-in to perform modification to the sprint backlog
c.Have the sprint proceed as planned
d.Ask the team to decide if the task should be reassigned
6.During sprint planning the product owner wants the team to prioritize and deliver a number of features which have the highest business value. Due to technical dependencies, the team does not agree with the prioritization. What should the project sponsor do?
a.Encourage the product owner and team to reprioritize the features and select ones which can be delivered without any dependencies
b. Encourage the team to continue the current plan, do what they can, and carry forward the work not done to the iteration.
c.Ensure the team captures the technical dependencies as issues within the backlog and prioritize based on value optimization
d.Ensure that the required subject matter experts (SMEs) are engaged by the product owner to help with backlog prioritization.
7.Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release. What should the team do?
a.Conduct frequent demos and obtain feedback from users throughout the development of the next release.
b.Inform senior management that since the product was successfully released, the project is considered delivered and should be closed.
c.Request additional budget to implement a Scrum of Scrums approach to scale the teams and add capacity.
d.Implement a better definition of done to ensure that continuous integration processes are managed effectively.
8.Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 points. Story C, is estimated at 8 points. After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took much longer than story C. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Assign story B more than B story points so to provide better estimate
b.Add points to story B’s iteration to account for the error but keep story B at 3 points
c.Assign more resources to story B to bring it in line with the estimate
d.Reestimate all stories including values for A, B and C
9.An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team. How should the team’s coach react?
a.Document the problem, escalate to the project manager, and develop a solution for the team
b.Add the problem to the backlog and assign resolution to a future iteration
c.Instruct the team to try to solve the problem within the team
d.Perform to cause analysis and report the problem to the product owner
10.During the iteration planning of a newly onboarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog. What should the teams do to define the tasks needed to implement the user stories?
a.Self-organize
b.Assign tasks to each team member
c.Meet with the customer
d.Identify the Scrum Master
11.A client states that a product is not being built as requested. How should the agile team address this?
a.Conduct an internal review to validate functionality before shipping
b.Audit the quality control process to ensure that the product adheres to requirements
c.Lengthen iterations to ensure there is sufficient time to build functionality
d.Hold product review session with the client to obtain product acceptance
12.An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope, the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprints. What should the agile coach do in this situation?
a.Ensure that the spike identify the risks early in the project to increase the chances of success
b.Ensure that the business sponsor accepts the proposal and agrees to fund the additional sprints
c.Recommend that, in the first sprint, user stories with higher priority be executed in addition to spike
d.Support the decision, because release planning will be improved, and the product backlog can be better after all spikes are executed.
13.Midway through a project, the product owner learns from the sponsor that a major component, which is already 20 percent completed, is unimportant to users. The component was part of the approved scope and a key selling point for the project. What should the product owner do next?
a.Obtain approval from the change control board to discontinue this component
b.Ask the team to continue developing the component
c.Ask the team to discontinue developing the component
d.Request the sponsor’s formal approval to discontinue the component
14.How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?
a.Ask the product owner to provide a detailed product specification document
b.Conduct story mapping exercises to clarify deliverables and release prioritize
c.Hold a kick-off meeting to assign roles and responsibilities
d.Work with the scrum master and stakeholder to ensure agile principles are followed
15.A project’s first iteration contains item A, and its second iterations contains item B. The first iteration is behind schedule, which will impact the second iteration. Since item A and B are similar, a team members suggest beginning the design of item B. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Defer starting the design of item b until the second iteration is being planned
b.Proceed with the design of item B, since it will hasten the second iteration
c.Escalate the issue to the customer, and obtain their approval before starting the design of item B
d.Log the issue in the risk register, and request change control board (CCB) approval
16.After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI. What should the team do?
a.Prioritize the backlog, and remove low-priority stories from the release plan to ensure a positive ROI
b.Replace some team members to reduce the release cost and minimize a negative ROI
c.Perform a root-cause analysis to remove waste from the delivery process and increase the ROI
d.Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan
17.Team A is working on the second sprint of a product release. Team B, which is interdependent team located on the same floor, requires extensive and frequent information to complete its sprint goal. What should the agile team lead do?
a.Create a central repository for information, and provide access to team B
b.Use an information board that will be visible to all passing through the workspace
c.Email all stakeholders with status updates
d.Provide team B with the information on an “as needed” basis
18.A team member on new scrum project previously provided support to another application. Due to issues with that application, the team member’s former supervisor continues assigning them tasks related to that project. The new project’s scrum master includes this use in the risk register. What should the scrum master do next?
a.Monitor the threats and risks while allowing the team member to multitask on both projects
b.Assign more resources to the sprints to compensate for the absences of the team members
c.Ensure that the threats and risks are communicated and addressed
d.Assign fewer stories to the sprints so that the team member can still meet sprint goals
19.A product owner feels that the last sprint failed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to their organization’s overall project goals. What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?
a.    Solutions to project problems that were built into the last sprint
b.Problems that arose
c.Solutions that saved the organization the most time and money
d.Problems that were solved
20.What can an agile team use to prioritize stories?
a.Planning poker technique
b.Weighted average calculation
c.Risk-value quadrant
d.INVEST scale
21.During the retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives. All will have a positive impact and improve team performance. What should the agile coach do next?
a.Positively acknowledge the list and share it with management
b.Immediately have the team implement the initiatives
c.Help the team choose one or two initiatives for immediate implementation
d.Ask the team to choose and implement the most complex initiative
22.An agile team is planning the next iteration for a product release that has accumulated technical debt. What should the team do?
a.Add code cleaned up activities to the product backlog and request prioritization by the product owner
b.Add code cleaned up activities to the next iteration and request clarification from the product owner
c.Add code cleaned up activities to the next iteration and ask the product owner to end the current iteration
d.Add code cleaned up activities to the next release backlog and request documentation from the product owner
23.A team’s technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks. What should the scrum master do?
a.Tell the technical lead to do the testing
b.Facilitate an open and focused team discussion that reinforces team agreements
c.Ask the team manager to advise the technical lead that all tasks are important
d.Encourage the team to take ownership of the delivery
24.During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration. How could the project leader have avoided this?
a.Led by example by encouraging the team to engage in consensus-driven making
b.Iterated the need for agile teams to make quick decisions, then followed up with that team member
c.Empowered a team member to facilitate decision making, then made a final decision on behalf of the team
d.Refrained from participating in the team’s decision-making process, except to document and communicate results
25.During product development, changes in technology and regulations requires the team to reassess product architecture. How should this technical debt be captured?
a.Include it in the product backlog and use a new indicator to annotate that it is technical debt
b.Include it in the product backlog as a low-priority issue
c.Since it is not a part of agile methodologies, it should not tracked
d.Have team members maintain personal lists of issues and consolidate the lists during review
26.How can agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?
a.Collect stakeholder requirements
b.Conduct an iteration planning meeting
c.Communicate product backlog items to the stakeholders
d.Facilitate a product development roadmap workshop
27.The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list planned stories with status, and a demo of all the stories to the business. What should the product owner have done differently?
a.Demonstrate only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback
b.Presented the budget situation and review the cost variance
c.Reviewed the test results to gain confidence from the stakeholders
d.Presented a demo of all the stories including the work in progress stories
28.During a team meeting, members who are subject matter experts (SMEs) mention that they are continuously working on repetitive tasks, which has lowered motivation. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Organize a team-building activity to improve team morale
b.Have team members work in pairs to learn from each other and develop new skills
c.Ask team members to perform a value stream analysis of their activities
d.Add more resources to the team to help with the tasks
29.During its first sprint, a new scrum team realizes that it has insufficient team members with test automation skills to effectively complete its stories. What should the team do?
a.Cross-train some members in the automation framework to broaden their capacity with that skill
b.Ask the product owner to add team members to boost this particular skill set
c.Send a member to automation framework training when funds are available
d.Avoid using test automation by swarming on the testing tasks and using manual testing
30.During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories. What should the scrum master do?
a.Ask the lead developer to identify a solution, and then share the details with the team
b.Ask the technical manager or architect to determine a solution to the problem
c.Work with the product owner to add a spike to the next sprint to identify a solution
d.Create a collaborative team environment so that the team can explore a solution together
31.During a current sprint, a team member asks permission from the scrum master to investigate an alternative design approach. What should the scrum master do?
a.Discourage the team member from deviating from the plan and document the request during the retrospective
b.Encourage the team member to research the issue and present the findings during the retrospective
c.Discourage the team member from using experimentation/spikes unless it is fully developed and accounts for a variety of use cases
d.Encourage the team member to use experimentation/spike for continuous improvement and help the team understand why it is important
32.A development team and product owner disagree on a user story in the product backlog. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Have the development team follow the product owner’s direction
b.Openly challenge the product owner in an effort to poke holes in their approach
c.Facilitate a conversation about the user story between the development team and the product owner
d.Serve as a nonpartisan evaluator of each option, and provide direction to the development team and product owner
33.An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project. What should the practitioner do?
a.Post and discuss rises in the burn down chart
b.Adjust story points to account for technical debt
c.Log technical debt as an impediment
d.Add refactoring tasks to all stories
34.An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of the delay, and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release. What should the agile coach do?
a.Meet with the agile team lead to discuss ways to improve team velocity and get back on track
b.Use this as a learning opportunity and allow the team to handle the situation when the marketing campaign begins
c.In the upcoming retrospective, discuss ways to improve sharing project status information
d.Meet with the marketing stakeholders to explain that the team will miss the planned released date
35.A customer and a product delivery team meet to discuss a product’s attributes, goals, expectations, hypothesis, and high-level needs. What is a benefit of this meeting?
a.The team will learn how its contribution will create product value
b.It will enable team acceptance of client priorities
c.It will enable the team to see the entire project in one glance
d.It will enable the team to ask any questions to the customer upfront
36.A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team. Many team members have worked together on this product for several years. During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are come on time. What type of behavior does this describe?
a.Synchronous
b.Collaborative
c.Passive-aggressive
d.Random
37.The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can delivered in six months. What should the scrum master do?
a.Commit to a specific feature set for delivery
b.Explain that a commitment will be provided after planning
c.Have the team estimate in story points to commit to a specific set of features
d.Use the team’s historical velocity to calculate a range of features that can be delivered
38.An agile team notice that the same problems continue to occur during multiple iterations, several team members have suggestions to fix the problem. What is the proper agile approach to handle this?
a.Hold frequent retrospectives and share the responsibility for making changes
b.Understand that this is the nature of innovative business and strive to work harder
c.Collect team feedback and discuss them privately with the product owner
d.Conduct a team-building exercise to increase trust among the team members
39.A company is moving into a new space and is determining the best configuration for offices. The management team is also moving to an agile process. What advice should an agilest give?
a.Arrange the office to allow co-location of development teams and centrally located information radiators
b.Isolate each development team to reduce all outside distractions
c.Ensure management understands the need for isolation to allow for concentration
d.Define the agile method the company will be using, and implement the office configuration based upon that method
40.Why should a project team reduce the work in progress?
a.It indicates poor project quality
b.It represents team member’s utilization
c.It represents unrealized value
d.It shows that the project is behind schedule
41.A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint. What should they do?
a.Request direction from the technical manager
b.Encourage the product owner to reallocate the features to another sprint
c.Determine who is best qualified to address the challenges
d.Ask the product owner to assign the tasks to the most appropriately skilled resources
42.During spring planning, team members have differing opinions on a feature that delivers business value but fails to provide a long term solution for the customer. How should the team resolve this?
a.Refer to the values of the agile framework and the team
b.Review the signed customer contract
c.Check the spring priority lists
d.Submit the problem to the product owner
43.A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules. How should the team lead address this?
a.Inform management, and suggest that additional resources maybe required
b.Discuss the issue with the team in daily stand up meetings
c.Meet personally with the stressed team member to brainstorm ways to better manage their time
d.Begin tracking the stressed team member’s tasks in a separate backlog for additional analysis and reporting
44.When prioritizing feature to be delivered in an iteration, on what feature should an agile team defer work?
a.High-risk and high-value
b.High-risk and low-value
c.Low-risk and low-value
d.Low-risk and high-value
45.Midway through the sprint, a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement that may change the initial scope. What should the team do?
a.Work on requirements that the product owner may have overlooked
b.Record the scope creep in the change management log
c.Add the new requirement to the product backlog
d.As the scrum master to secure additional time and resources
46.A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experimentation has not been successful. The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than long-term solution. What should the project leader do?
a.Assign the spike to another resource to continue research for the long-term solution
b.Re-establish the spike, encourage experimentation and collaborate with the team
c.Stop experimentation and negotiation the short-term solution with the customer
d.Schedule a root-cause analysis with the development team in the main issues with the spike
47.An agile project leader notices that the team’s velocity has decreased. In examining data provided by team members, the project leader discovers that one team member has been slow to enter story statuses. What could happen as a result?
a.The team will be unable to understand the iteration’s status
b.The team will be unable to judge the project design’s visibility
c.The team cannot give accurate updates to management
d.Team collaboration cannot be measured effectively
48.A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing, The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to complete in the marketplace. What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?
a.Risk management
b.Variance and trend
c.Kano model
d.Fishbone diagram
49.During planning for the next iteration, an agile team identifies most of the story points that are expected to be delivered. How should an agile practitioner work with the team to help identify the iterations remaining scope?
a.Convince the team to stop planning and keep the size small
b.Identify the technically minimal and achievable tasks
c.Refer to the remaining prioritized backlog items
d.Select some of the smallest items from the backlog
50.A mature agile team welcomes a new member. Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate. What should the agile leader do?
a.Bring the new member’s impediments at the next meeting to demonstrate team support of input
b.Assure the new member that inputs on impediments are valued, and demonstrate this at the next meeting
c.Have a senior lead work with the new member to avoid a negative impact on team productivity
d.Privately work with the new member to address any impediments
51.A product owner for two highly visible projects spends a great deal of time meeting with and reporting to senior stakeholders. The product owner is overwhelmed because both project teams request clarification on the requirements and the overall priorities. What should the agile project manager do?
a.Provide both project teams with the highest priority needs
b.Request the project teams questions in writing prior to the next meeting
c.Facilitate a meeting with each team and the product owner to find solution
d.Provide both teams with each project documentation
52.Due to its complexity, a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story. What advice the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?
a.Hand the story over to a more experienced team member
b.Break the story up and focus on the most valuable parts
c.Discuss the story at the retrospective
d.Pick another story from the product backlog
53.Based on the backlog metrics in the chart, what can explain the jump in points at the end of iteration 4?

a.The team neglect to account for support and maintenance cost with other supported products
b.The team discovered that previously accepted work could be greatly improved and added story points associated with that work
c.The team realized that some stories were underestimated relative to other stories and reestimated as needed
d.The team learned that the product owner needed to increase the output in the next release
54.A team identifies the number of threats and lists them in the order in which they were identified. After analyzing a cause-and-effect diagram, the ownership of the threats and their treatment is assigned, and a number of risk cards are placed on the Kanban board. What approach should be used to manage these threats?
a.Create a risk register detailing the threats, their causes, and their treatment strategies, and complete ownership to provide lighter risk control and a stakeholder communication tool
b.Focus on the threats during the daily stand up and ensure they are visible to the entire team and other interested parties
c.Prioritize the risks based on their criticality and timing, and track actions to closure
d.Ensure that the prioritization of the threats is complete, and that ownership actions are assigned and visible to everyone.
55.An executive sponsor of a new scrum team actively attends scrum ceremonies. How does this benefit the team?
a.It helps the team to focus on and meet sprint goals
b.It reminds the team about who sponsors the project
c.It provides high-level updates to the sponsor
d.It helps to quickly resolve issues using the sponsor’s influence
56.An agile project manager notices that the product owner manages team members day-to-day tasks in a way that distracts them from their core responsibilities. In addition, the team believes that their questions on product backlog prioritization are not being answered on time. What should the agile project manager do?
a.Discuss and address this in the iteration retrospective
b.Let the product owner know it is project manager’s responsibility to drive a team’s tasks
c.Discuss the roles and responsibilities of the project team with the product owner
d.Ask the product to work extra hours to answer the team’s questions
57.During planning sessions, an agile practitioner notices that some team members do not share common ideas. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Ask the team if they would like to adopt alternative techniques
b.Create a team norms document to set participation guidelines
c.Ask the scrum master to resolve the issue at the stand up meeting
d.Capture feedback during lessons learned at the end of the iteration
58.A newly formed team to foster an environment of transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments. Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future. Over time, what will be the result of this approach?
a.Kaizen
b.Specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, and time-based (SMART) goals
c.Key performance indicators (KPIs)
d.Muda
59.A team using Kanban identifies that their cycle time has significant variation. After brainstorming, the team determines the root cause is the stories varying sizes and risks. What should the team do?
a.Reduce work in progress (WIP) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories
b.Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stories
c.Set a policy break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP
d.Create a dedicated overflow swimlane on the Kanban board for stories that are too large
60.An agile practitioner wants to endure that stakeholders have current information about a project’s progress. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Regularly circulate an updated, detailed version of the project plan
b.Frequently update the online project management office (PMO) repository site
c.Invite the stakeholders to daily stand ups
d.Post a project board in an area where all can view it
61.Early in a project, stakeholder analysis is performed, however, an organization restructure key roles. What should the project team do?
a.Note the changes to the restructure and roles that affect team activities
b.Use direct engagement and two-way conversation to update the stakeholder analysis for any new stakeholder requirements
c.Email a copy of the project vision to those redefined for key roles and ask if they need to be involved in the project
d.Obtain a copy of the redefined key roles to update the stakeholder analysis
62.A seven-member agile team’s composition varies considerably in age, gender, culture, personality type, and professional background. When planning a team building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?
a.Networking
b.Social awareness
c.Communication
d.Leadership
63.How should an project leader interact with the product owner?
a.Conduct regular one-on-one meetings to review development features and trace them back to the product roadmap
b.Ensure that they attend sprint meetings to provide feature feedback
c.Share any new versions of the project plan with them, including uploaded statuses for tasks and project milestones
d.Schedule meetings where they can provide team direction regarding new-feature priorities and upcoming sprints
64.A new product owner shares the product version during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features. What should the product owner do?
a.Determine the required tasks for implementing the high-level features
b.Identify the detailed design for the high-level features
c.Prioritize the product backlog for the upcoming release
d.Estimate the use stories in the iteration backlog
65.What role should a servant leader perform to reduce team distractions and improve progress toward project goals?
a.Managing: To ensure compliance with the project plan
b.Mentoring: To share their knowledge with the team
c.Controlling: To ensure compliance with the scope, budget, and schedule
d.Auditing: To ensure adherence to organizational compliance policies
66.The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics. What could help eliminate misunderstanding?
a.Agree on requirement with all stakeholders
b.Begin planning every four iterations
c.Consider previous sprint demo feedback when planning the next sprint
d.Include the reason for the project in the contract
67.Prior to a retrospective, discussions among team members indicate conflict. An agile practitioner wants to ensure an open and safe environment during the retrospective. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Review established ground rules with the team
b.Ask team members specific questions to identify the cause
c.Encourage the team to continue working to maintain the iteration’s schedule
d.Meet with the product owner and stakeholders to discuss the issue
68.A project team meets to estimate user stories for a sprint. While an important non-functional requirement must be delivered in the sprint, the estimate exceeds sprint capacity. What should the team do?
a.Estimate only functional requirements that will impact product quality
b.Add team resources
c.Refer the issue to the product owner
d.Break non-functional requirements into those that can be delivered in the given sprint
69.When a team member encounters an issue in an agile environment, what should they do?
a.Limit communication between the team members and the customer to prevent unnecessary anxiety
b.Manager communication between all team members and customer to promote effective and transparent collaboration
c.Manage communication between a few  team members and the customer so that they may convey information to other team members
d.Facilitate one-on-one communication between team members to reduce conflict and inefficiencies
70.A company has decided two similar products consisting of multiple teams into one product. Engaged customers want to know how the company is looking at the re-engineering it’s team. What strategy should be employed to re-organize the teams?
a.All the teams from both products should be simultaneously called together and allowed to completely self-manage
b.Teams that worked on similar components in the separate products should be combined to minimize disruption and capitalize on synergies
c.After grouping individuals by role, multi-discipline teams should be created that are comprised of one member from each role
d.Feature should be prioritized and then teams should be organized around those priorities
71.Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization’s enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled. What should the team have done to avoid this?
a.Escalated the issue to management
b.Ensured the early engagement of key stakeholders
c.Provide feedback to the architecture team to change the enterprise architecture standards
d.Raised an exception for non-adherence to the enterprise architecture standards for this product
72.While struggling to take ownership of delivery, an agile team fails to keep up with its sprint commitments. What should the agile coach do?
a.Work with the sponsor to develop team expectations
b.Provide the customer with a list of deliverables and obtain agreement
c.Encourage the team to more frequently interact with all stakeholders
d.Work on finishing upfront product design rather than comprehensive documentation
73.A new product owner needs to manage the backlog of a high-visibility, fast-moving project that is consuming a considerate amount of time. What should the product owner do?
a.Schedule regular meetings with the scrum team to write, groom, and size user stories
b.Focus on stories based on the highest number of story points to first address those items with the highest value
c.Seek regular input from project stakeholders, and reflect this input in the backlog’s priorities
d.Schedule in-person, monthly meetings with key stakeholders to review the project’s progress
74.An agile project manager is planning the initial scope, schedule, and cost range estimates on a new project. The team will be using Kanban to control work. What metrics should the team use to measure performance?
a.Lean time, throughput, and due date performance
b.Work in progress limits, Kanban board, and time boxes
c.Work item types, sprint cadences, and defect classes
d.Burndown charts, scatter diagrams, and throughput
75.A legal department representative contacts the scrum master because, while project’s budget has been maintained, it has exceeded its original contracted time and scope. What should the scrum master do?
a.Meet with the team to gain alignment with the legal department’s need to stay within the contracted time and scope
b.Work with the customer to narrow the scope
c.Share the project’s trajectory with the legal department
d.Meet with the legal department to help them understand that the customer and the team are satisfied with the time and deliverables
76.During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds. The non-functional requirements state that it should responded in less than two seconds. The team complains that this requirement was not communicated to them. What should have been done to avoid this?
a.A comprehensive user story with all non-functional requirements should have been created
b.Non-functional requirements should have been added to the acceptance criteria
c.Non-functional requirements should have been added to the definition of done
d.A team review of the scope of work should have been conducted
77.What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?
a.Invite the team iteration review meetings
b.Obtain agreement from the product owner on business requirements
c.Request that regular reports are sent to stakeholders
d.Confirm managers and stakeholders are invited to product review meetings
78.An agile team is preparing a release plan for a project. What information will the team need to complete this plan?
a.Amount of work needed to complete a single user story
b.Amount of work that can be accomplished by each team member
c.Amount of work that can be accomplished in an iteration
d.Amount of work that can be accomplished by the entire team
79.During project inception, an agile practitioner engages the stakeholder to ensure alignment on the project’s strategy and vision. The stakeholder asks for detailed requirements, design, and delivery plans. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Provide all information requested by the stakeholder
b.Set expectation regarding the appropriate level of details requested during this stage
c.Inform the stakeholder that no detailed documents are provided using agile practices
d.Ask the team to supply the information to the stakeholder
80.The team is refining user stories during the backlog grooming session and confused on the acceptance criteria and level of details. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Complete the test case before creating the story in the backlog
b.Define the detailed business requirements so that the team can continue with development
c.Define the user stories with just enough details so the team can collaborate continuously
d.Ensure the acceptance criteria includes testing scenarios, so the team can do thorough testing
81.During a review session, a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work. However, the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete. What should be done with this story?
a.Mark it as incomplete and prioritize it for the next sprint
b.Mark it as complete, since the product owner has final say
c.Discard it and create a new story for remaining scope of work
d.Mark it as complete, since the team completed the scope of work
82.A product owner, new to the role, is very enthusiastic about an agile project with an energetic team. What should be done first to ensure successful delivery of the product?
a.Hold a meeting with the team and the product owner to develop the team charter, working agreement, guiding principles, and product vision
b.Ask the product owner to create the project vision and charter, and then discuss the guiding principles, and product vision
c.Hold a meeting during which the team can present the project charter, high-level project plan, and team values to the product owner
d.Send the product owner to formal product-owner training where the product owner can learn how to create product vision
83.A product owner concludes that the majority of a project’s value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog. What should the product owner do next?
a.Remove the second half of the backlog, and communicate their decision in the next backlog grooming meeting
b.Reprioritize backlog items to future iterations
c.Work with the team to deploy the first half of the backlog to ensure that value is realized
d.Meet with the project stakeholders to review the backlog and determine if the scope should be adjusted
84.A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several iterations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these requirements was not communicated. What should the scrum master do?
a.Point out that the team chose to work on the other requirements to speed up the project
b.Ensure that the product owner reviews the contents of the information radiator
c.Ensure that the next sprint planning meeting reviews the satisfaction histogram
d.Point out that it is responsibility of the product owner to clarify requirements
85. A member of a project’s development team approaches the team lead and requests database training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialist, is impacting the velocity. What should the agile team lead do?
a.Send the member to training
b.Ask the outside specialist of database administration is required from the team
c.Send one member to training only after asking the team if there is an issue with the current work flow
d.Wait until all members of the team can attend training
86.A new team member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan. What should be the proper response?
a.Competitors joined forces with the team
b.The customer changed requirements
c.Project team members obtained additional certifications
d.Technology which did not interfere with the final project
87.A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint. What should the scrum master do?
a.Engage the team to determine velocity based on previous agile projects
b.Average the sprint velocity based in input from team members
c.Share the sprint velocity obtained from the sponsor with the team
d.Run multiple sprints before determining the sprint velocity with the team
88.During a planning session, four out of five team members vote to include story points in a particular story, while the fifth member votes for live story points. How should this be handled?
a.The story should be assigned eight story points as per the majority vote
b.The story should be added to the backlog and reassessed later
c.The story should be assigned points after a discussion with the fifth team member to see if a consensus can be reached
d.The decision for the number of story points should be made by the customer
89.An agile team is under pressure to deliver an application. The product owner anticipates many change requests from customer once the product released. What should the agile team do?
a.Demand frequent product owner reviews by the product owner
b.Continuously work with product owner to do backlog refinement and product reviews
c.Have the product owner provide detailed requirement specifications to ensure the proper features are delivered
d.During the planning session, ensure the team is committed to deliver within the specifications
90.A project team realizes that an important task on the iteration backlog will take more time than originally estimated. What should the project team do?
a.Continue working on the task until it is completed
b.Remove the task owner from the project team
c.Add resources to reduce time to task completion
d.Stop working on the taskand include it in the next iteration
91.An organization highly values security. However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features. What should the team member do?
a.Influence the customer
b.Mention the idea at the next retrospective
c.Show the customer how much time and money would be saved
d.Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input
92.When introducing agile processes to a company, a quality assurance (QA) manager resists and believes that the switch to agile will remove quality controls and documentations. How should the agile practitioner address this concern?
a.Educate the QA manager that in agile, quality is integrated from the beginning to end of the project
b.Write backlog items that include QA as part of the description
c.Ask for the current QA documents and incorporate them into the technical debt backlog
d.Ask the product owner to write test and QA controls into the acceptance criteria
93.Stakeholders are displeased with the latest release of a product’s software. While most stakeholders evert sprint review, they were otherwise largely uninvolved in the project. What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfactions?
a.Communicated early and often, as outlined in the communication matrix
b.Ensured engagement among stakeholders and product owner
c.Conducted additional stakeholder reviews and demos
d.Worked with the product owner to prioritize user stories
94.Midway through an iteration, an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations. As a high-performance team, what should the team do?
a.Raise an impediment that resource tasks will be blocked, and notify the product owner
b.Ask the delivery manager for a temporary resource
c.Ask the scrum master to assign the team member’s tasks to the next available resource
d.Assume the team member’s tasks to meet iteration goals, and notify the product owner
95.A project is starting and the type of work is complex and suitable for agile. In assessing the team members, it appears that co-location would be a challenge. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Select and implement collaboration tools to augment team interactions
b.Provide each geographical area with their own product owner and divide the work between the team
c.Increase the number of requirements documents and ensure they are clearly communicated
d.After several sprints, calculate velocity based on primary team location and use secondary team as reserve
96.A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver the feature in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations. What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?
a.Decrease the sprint time box until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon sprint backlog in a single sprint
b.Discuss estimating techniques in the daily scrum meeting
c.Increase the size of the development team until the team is able to deliver the entire agreed-upon backlog in a single sprint
d.Begin tracking estimated effort metrics as an input to performance evaluation
97.An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignment due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the scrum master do?
a.Dismiss the team member
b.Discuss the situation with the functional manager
c.Report the functional manager to the project sponsor
d.Demand that the functional manager respect the project charter
98.Senior management is frustrated at the lack of a detailed implementation plan that shows exactly when the project will end and when all requirements will be meet. The team has been using a rolling wave planning approach so far on the project. How should the agile practitioner explain to senior management the benefits of this approach?
a.It ensures a consistent level of detail is available in the project schedule
b.It prevents a wasteful buildup of requirements inventory that may never be processed
c.It provide a concrete definition of project scope, cost and duration
d.It allows the team to lock down the stories to be included in a release
99.During a sprint review, the product owner identifies a required improvement for a feature’s user interface (UI) delivered during the sprint. What should the product owner do next?
a.Create a user story for this new improvement and put it in the product backlog prioritization and validation by the customer
b.Create a user story for this new improvement and prioritize it for the next sprint
c.Document it as a requirement creep
d.Asks the team to take in additional story points to improve the UI
100.During iteration planning, it was determined that an epic should be decomposed. What was the determining factor?
a.Size and priority
b.Minimum marketable features
c.Release plan
d.Sprint mapping
101.On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stories fit into the overall product. How should this be addressed?
a.Review the iteration goals and have the team each describe the work to create shared understanding
b.Create a story map for the minimal viable product (MVP) functionality
c.Capture this as a task in the retrospective and ensure there is more detail provided at the next planning session
d.Have the product owner explain the product vision and review the release with the team
102.Toward the end of a project, the product owner discovers that the project has a high probability of failure due to critical feature not functioning as expected. What should the product owner do?
a.Terminate the project to cut losses
b.Review possible options and make an informed decision to cut losses based on delivered business value
c.Bring in experts to increase the probability of success
d.Continue the project, release the product without the failing feature, and fic the feature in a subsequent release
103.While reviewing the sprint burn down during a stand up team identifies that they have fallen behind. Upon further discussion, they discover that some quality assurance (QA) team member were unable to use the new automation framework, which caused the bottleneck/ what should the scrum team do?
a.For coming sprint, have QA team members ensure that their respective skill-sets are considered when accepting stories
b.Have QA team members with the appropriate skill sets spend extra time to help the team succeed
c.Ensure that QA team members who lack the appropriate skill sets sign up for training within the next few weeks
d.Asks QA team member experienced with the new automation framework to cross-train the other QA members
104.A technical problem arises that will likely impact the stories planned for delivery in the current sprint. What should the scrum master do?
a.Consider adding a story to the next sprint to seek resolution
b.Immediately solve the problem on behalf of the team
c.Ask the team to collaboratively work out a solution
d.Engage a technical manager to assist with finding a solution
105.A member of a development team is working on a prioritized non-functional requirement involving integrating with a 3rd party system. This integration has not been done before on the project. What should the project leader suggest?
a.Develop and document a detailed architectural design, peer review with the development team, and implement/test.
b.Develop the functional requirements of the solution first before any non-functional requirement, as the provide more customer value
c.Discuss the integration requirement with the product owner and negotiate it to be lower on the backlog to focus on the minimal marketable feature
d.Develop and test the implementation approach and demonstrate it at the next sprint review to collect feedback
106.The product owner of an agile project is frustrated because the team is unable to deliver as many features as expected. The product owner asks the team to reduce test-automation levels, since the quality assurance team will test the product at project completion. The product owner expects that more feature will be delivered in each iteration using this approach. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Ask the opinion of the key stakeholders and the client to ensure the correct approach is being used
b.Work with the team to use this approach, and request a quality assurance iteration after every three iterations
c.Propose to completely eliminate test automation, since this is a quality assurance function
d.Suggest merging the quality assurance and delivery teams to enhance iterations test-automation levels and reduce redundancy
107.The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this. What should the team do next?
a.Add risk mitigation tasks to backlog, then prioritize in current and upcoming sprints
b.Add risk mitigation time to each requirements
c.Apply the 80/20 rule, reserving 20 percent of each sprint’s capacity for risk mitigation
d.Hold all risks until they become issues, then dd issue resolution tasks to the product backlog
108.During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and still meet the product launch date. What should the project leader do?
a.Finalize the feedback in the form of a change request
b.Limit the scope of the feedback to only these changes that the team can feasibly accommodate
c.Encourage all feedback, then work with the customer to prioritize work for future sprints
d.Allow the team to decide what feedback to incorporate
109.During a review session, an agile team presented done requirements to a group of stakeholders. Stakeholders feedback that the done requirements failed to meet the most pressing needs and provide value. What should the team have done to prevent this?
a.Reprioritized requirements prior to committing to iteration cycle
b.Ensured that requirements remained stable during the iteration cycle
c.Had stakeholders focus on items created after the product backlog was initially built
d.Worked on features rather than a set of components
110.The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope. Unless this change is accepted, there is no value to the customer during this iteration. What must the agile practitioner do?
a.Add the new change request as a new user story in the product backlog for the upcoming iteration 
b.Evaluate the impact of the change request and let the team and product owner decide and re-prioritize based on value
c.Recommend cancelling the current iteration and plan the change request into the next iteration
d.Recommend that the product owner add this change request as a user story to the backlog for current iteration
111.A company is considering developing a new, complex application that will require a large investment. However, if successful, the profit potential is high. When preparing an analysis, what should be used to encourage stakeholders who are concerned about the project failure to authorize the initial investment?
a.Calculated planned percent complete (PPC)
b.Many small minimally marketable features (MMFs)
c.Story points rather than cost estimates
d.Calculated earned value (EV)
112.A team is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach. Historically, the team has delivered work products that did not meet customer expectations. What agile practice can help the team to alleviate this?
a.Test-driven development (TDD)
b.Clear definition of done and regular demos
c.Collaborative team planning games
d.Consistent team velocity
113.Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date
b. Announce that the team has exceeded that predicted velocity, and that the end date will be earlier than planned
c.Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then replan subsequent iterations
d.Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision
114.An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects. What should the project manager do to share this project’s knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?
a.Invite people from across the organization to attend daily stand ups
b.Invite people from across the organization to attend retrospective
c.Invite people from across the organization to attend the release meeting and project retrospective
d.Regularly meet with people across the organization to share the project’s lessons learned and best practices
115.During the retrospective, the agile practitioner discover that a team member’s process improvement idea has worsened the outcome. What should the agile practitioner do?
a.Commend the team on trying the idea, then encourage discussion regarding alternatives
b.Ask a manager to direct the team on fixing the process
c.Encourage the team to continue executing the idea to see if it improves
d.Privately speck with the team member to convey that their idea worsened the outcome

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