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FALSE
Having smaller batch sizes are good practice since they ensure a higher throughput with lower variability.
TRUE
FALSE
Paavan is a good Product Owner. It's day 7 of the sprint and his team ("The A Team") tells him that they
may miss their sprint commitment. What does Paavan do?
He supports pulling a story which hasn't been started.
He agrees with adding a person from the system team to complete the work.
He supports adding an unscheduled hardening sprint directly after the current sprint.
He buys the team pizza so that they can work late and get back on track.
He asks that they skip testing and add a testing story to the next sprint.
He suggests that they rename themselves "The B Team."
This meeting occurs at the end of each team's sprint and its purpose is to identify opportunities for
continuous improvement
The Backlog Refinement Session
The Mid-Sprint Review
The Task Breakdown Meeting
The Sprint Retrospective Meeting
The Problem-Solving Workshop
The responsibilities of the Scrum Master include all of the following except::
Facilitating discussions among the team
Removing impediments that are in team's way
Ensuring that everyone on the team is doing their job
Participating in the Scrum of Scrums
Infrequent
Intuitive
Independent
I don't care
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FALSE
Someone tells Mary the manager that the Lion team has "ba." She looks in on their Sprint planning
meeting and likely sees what?
Their Scrum Master leading the planning meeting with no impediments on the risk board
The product owner refining backlog while the team is waiting
The team vigorously discussing implementation details
The testers uncomfortably signaling for Mary to come in
When estimating size, story points should take into account all of the following except:
Complexity - how hard is it?
Priority - how important is it?
Uncertainty - what's not known?
Volume - How much is there?
We want to establish a team's initial velocity using normalization. A team has 2 testers, 3 developers, 1
full time Scrum Master, and a Product Owner split between two teams. What is their normalized velocity
before calculating for time off?
40
48
50
52
65
The "3 C's" is a popular guideline for writing user stories. What do the letters stand for?
Cause, Clarify, Conform
Concept, Conversation, Confirmation
Card, Concept, Clarification
Card, Conversation, Confirmation
Concept, Conversation, Confirmation
John's Scrum team finishes coding all of their stories in the first six days of the sprint, tests them in the
following two days, and fixes bugs in the days remaining. John's team is...
Applying the practice of hardening
Which of the following examples is NOT an acceptable way of splitting user stories to fit into a sprint?
Deliver only the happy path functionality
Don't develop for scalability
Implement only a portion of the business rules
Deliver only the portion of the code which has been tested
Limit the functionality to only one step in the workflow process
SAFE supports a simplified method of prioritizing user stories at sprint boundaries. This simplified
method should take into consideration which two variables?
Risk and Size
User Value and Risk
Risk and Time Value
Size and Time Value
User Value and Size
Tito the tester is finishing the acceptance criteria for a user story during sprint planning. The number of
letters in the acceptance criteria should be...
...more than the number of letters in the user story
...about the same as the number of letters in the user story
...less than the number of letters in the user story
None of the above. Acceptance criteria should not be written during sprint planning
In SAFe, Which of the following does NOT belong in the team backlog?
User Stories
Spikes
Epics
Refactors
Technical Stories
Which of the following is typically NOT included in the definition of done for a user story?
All acceptance tests pass
All coding standards are followed
The story is accepted by the Scrum Master
The code is peer reviewed
All tasks are done
Which of the following is NOT a recommended or required output of the Sprint Planning Meeting?
A Sprint Goal in clear business language
A production deployment plan
Tasks with estimates in hours
Commitment
An updated list of dependencies and blocking issues
FALSE
The team learned about commitment in their training. On the eighth day of the sprint, they realize that
they will not complete 5 of the 13 user stories because they were waterfalling the Sprint. The product
owner says she cannot negotiate the scope of the remaining user stories any further. What is the team's
best course of action?
Have an emergency Sprint Planning Meeting
Communicate the status of the sprint to all stakeholders
Abort the sprint
Adjust the velocity of the sprint
A or C
A or D
None of the above
Alexandra the developer has been late for the past week to the daily Scrum. Of the following, which is the
Scrum Master's best course of action?
Change the time of the daily Scrum
Pull Alexandra aside and ask her why she's late
Update the working agreements to clearly state the penalty for arriving late
Escalate the issue to Alexandra's functional manager
Does the phrase "untested code" exist in the SAFe ScrumXP dictionary?
YES
NO
Dylan the developer is following SAFe code quality coding practices. How often is he checking his code
back into the baseline?
After every unit test he writes
After each "pass" he takes through a user story
After a user story is accepted by a product owner
At the end of a sprint
During the IP sprint
What type of Agile testing is business facing, critiques the product, and is often manual?
Component Testing
Functional Testing
Exploratory Testing
Unit testing
Hamid plots the first point on the team's sprint burndown chart. The y-axis unit of measure is in:
Days
Hours
Story points
Time Value
Velocity
User Value
Paul is new to agile and is trying to put together the list of people to be invited to the Sprint
Retrospective. Who should be on the list?
The developers and testers
The Scrum Master
The Product Owner
The Business Owners
The Stakeholders
All of the above
A and B
A, B, and C
C, D, and E
Some business domains don't have first degree user persona, but only have 2nd
and 3rd.
True
False
True
False