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Involving the team in Planning and Estimating and providing early feedback on Delivery Velocity is
BEST used to mitigate what kind of risk?
A. Schedule flaws
B. Requirements creep
C. Employee turnover
D. Poor productivity
Ans: A
A. Expert opinion
B. Analogy
C. Disaggregation
Ans:D
A. Generalized Specialists
Ans:A
4.What is the unit of measurement that is used to measure the size of a user story for an Agile project?
A. Function points
B. Story points
D. Velocity points
Ans: B
Ans: D
6.When analyzing processes, what becomes increasingly significant for managers to understand in
regards to individual skills?
A. A group understanding of processes allows teams to execute their jobs more effectively and
efficiently, hut it can never substitute skill
B. A process is more easily developed when the customer is more directly involved in its development
C. Skilled individuals are not necessarily required to be involved with analyzing processes
D. Skill sets are absolutely crucial in the planning and execution of specific processes, html not its
analysis
Ans: A
A. Unit Testing
B. Integration Testing
C. Exploratory Testing
D. Release Testing
Ans: C
8.Which of the following is NOT one of the five core risk areas common to all projects?
A. Specification Breakdown
B. Scope Creep
C. Strategic Alienation
Ans: C
9.A Persona used within an Agile user story can he thought of as:
Ans: D
10.What are the benefits of using Sidky Agile Measurement Index (SAMI) to measure agility of your
organization?
B. Avoid random selection of methodology, make sure practices work coherently and ensure practices
focus on value delivery.
Ans: B
11.If a team can complete 10 story points In an iteration then how long will it take for the team to
complete 100 story points?
A. 10 Iterations
B. 10 waves
C. 20 Iterations
D. 20 waves
Ans: A
A. Value
B. Negotiable
C. Estimatable
D. Dependant
Ans: D
A. Incremental delivery
B. Continuous Integration
C. PMO policy
D. Latest technology
Ans: A
14.For one of your product, optimal cost of change (CoC. was estimated to be 100 story points but at the
end of the iteration actual C0C was found to be 200 story points. What is the Technical debt that your
project had encountered (if any)?
A. None. Velocity the great equalizer will take care of Technical debt.
B. None. Your developers will work extended hours to pay back the Technical debt in next iteration so it
can be ignored for now.
Ans: C
15.A person who makes decision and practices Scrum to the core is performing what role?
A. Pig
B. Chicken
C. Scrum Master
D. Scrum Team
Ans: A
A. Fast
B. Flexible
C. Frequent
D. Fixed
Ans: D
17.According to Agile manifesto what carries more value?
Ans: A
18.There was an Issue In your project and your manager kept asking why? several times. What is he
doing?
A. He Is executing collaboration.
Ans: B
B. Continuous Integration
C. Unit Test
Ans: A
20.You are working on a newly formed Agile team. Your coach gathers the team and asks every one to
close their eyes and start counting one at a time, synchronously. What is the coach trying to do with this
exercise?
Ans: A
A. ScrumMaster
B. Customers
C. Agile coach
D. Developer
Ans: B
22.What do you infer from this following user story? As a sales agent, I want a client search feature so
that I can find my preferred clients quickly and easily.
Ans: B
A. High-level design
B. Detailed design
C. Empirical design
Ans: C
24.What is NOT an Agile methodology?
B. Scrum
C. Crystal Clear
D. PMBOK 3
Ans: D
C. Middleware development
D. Software development
Ans: B
26.Department manager calls you and asks you if you can present an elevator statement to an executive
who is planning to make a quick stop in your city for a town hall meeting. He also asks you how much
time he need to slot in the agenda.
Ans: C
D. Evo
Ans: B
28.According to Declaration of Interdependence (DOl), risk is an expected entity for a project. How is
risk tackled in an Agile environment according to DOl?
Ans: B
29.You are a coach facilitating retrospective meeting. What is the main purpose of this meeting that
facilitator need to ensure during the meeting?
A. Peer pressure, Fine-grain coordination, Focusing on the few, Daily commitment and Raising
impediments.
B. Know the work, Get a fresh start, Commit to shared goals and Create focus and abundance.
C. True-up, Show and tell, Get direct feedback, Offer insights and Ask for help.
D. Inspect and adapt. Look back at how, not what Do (even) better next time.
Ans: D
C. Update the Product backlog and prioritize in the next Iteration planning meeting to implement in
coming iteration.
31.You are an experienced developer working on a project following Extreme programming (XP). A
rookie developer joined your team recently and you see him copy-pasting code from one module to
another and running unit tests. What do you think he is doing?
Ans: C
Ans: B
33.Before a tester begins the process of exploratory testing, what tool should he have in place to give
him an idea of what to explore in the systems and what kinds of things to look for?
A. A Roadmap
B. A Bug List
C. A Defect Document
D. A Charter
Ans: D
34.What type of report provides a birds-eye view of the project. It may be produced when the teams
updates their release plan, and will allow them to show their progress and predict a completion date.
A. A Burn-up chart
C. An Iteration Plan
D. A Management Report
Ans: A
35.Collaboration requires that the team must take joint responsibility for their work. In order for this to
effectively take place, what must the team members build?
A. A definition of done
B. Continuous flow
C. Trust
D. An information radiator
Ans: C
36.In Agile development, when a developer estimates a story point by gauging the amount of effort
required to complete a task based on the amount of time she will have to focus exclusively on the task,
with no interruptions, what estimate unit is she using?
A. Ideal Time
B. Velocity
C. Alternative Time
D. Time box
Ans: A
37.What two things should be completed before moving on to the next iteration planning begins?
Ans: D
38.This high-level initial estimate of the requirements is maintained by the Project Owner throughout
the entire project. It is dynamic because management can constantly change it to reflect the needs of an
evolving product, and its environment.
A. A Timebox
B. A Product Backlog
C. An Iteration
D. A Sprint Backlog
Ans: B
39.The intersection of a trend line for work remaining (or backlog) and the horizontal axis indicating the
most probable completion of work at the point in time would be found in which graphical chart?
A. Burn-up chart
B. Velocity graph
C. Burndown chart
D. Execution chart
Ans: C
40.During this Team meeting everyone provides a status update to the other team members. It a 10-15
minute semi-real-time status meeting that allows participants to become aware of potential challenges
as well as coordinate efforts to resolve difficult and/or time-consuming issues.
A. Brevity Meetings
B. Collaboration Meeting
C. Brown Bag Meetings
D. Daily Stand-ups
Ans: D
41.When a Team takes the opportunity to gather for a meeting and reflect on situations they
encountered during a project, in an effort to better align their processes with their changing situations,
what Agile tool are they said to be using?
A. A contingency review
B. Brainstorming
D. A retrospective
Ans: D
42.As a Product Owner is sitting through a demonstration meeting for his product, he realizes that if
changed the release schedule of a newly identified feature he could immediately increase the business
value of the project without increasing the cost of implementation. By realizing this value and making
this last minute adjustment which of the following BEST describes what was done to the project?
Ans: D
43.Which of the following is not part of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Ans: A
44.The fifth of the twelve Principles behind the Agile Manifesto states:
Give them the ___________ and support they need. and trust them to get the job done.
A. specialized, tools
B. motivated, environment
C. technical, documentation
D. motivated, documentation
Ans: B
45.A team that focuses on delivering increments of functionality and removal of defects white making
orderly process toward completing a release with potentially shippable functionality can best be
described as?
A. incremental delivery
D. iteration planning
Ans: A
46.The following image represents what in the Net Present Value (NPV) calculation?
(1+i)-t
A. The amount by which the future net cash flow will be incremented over a release.
B. The amount by which the present net cash flow will be discounted.
C. The amount by which the future net cash flow will be discounted.
D. The sum of the current net cash flow will be discounted.
Ans: C
B. IRR is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in todays present value,
whereas NPV is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will increase in value.
C. NPV is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in future value, and IRR is
a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will decrease in value.
D. NPV is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in o todays present value,
whereas IRR is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will increase in value.
Ans: D
48.By writing features to minimize technical dependencies between them the product owner has the
greatest amount of flexibility to do what them?
A. weigh
B. constrain
C. prioritize
D. assign to developers
Ans: C
49.The product owner is leading the Team to decide which features they should include in the Sprint
Backlog first. They decide to select the most important features by identifying which features will bring
the most benefits if implemented, as well as the penalty incurred if not implemented, on a relative scale
of 1 to 9. This can best be described as:
A. Relative prioritization
C. Must-have prioritization
D. Darwinism estimation
Ans: A
50.A method of testing that involves writing an executable test before the solution is coded and typically
developed in conjunction with the Product Owner and/or customer, then evaluate to determine
whether or not a feature satisfies its acceptance criteria can BEST be described as:
Ans: C
51. Which of the following best describes the approach for determining the iteration (timebox) length?
B. The team determines iteration (timebox) length by dividing the total number of story points by the
average velocity of the team
D. The team should agree on the length of the iteration (timebox) taking the size and complexity of the
project into consideration
Ans: D
A. Task focused
B. Process oriented
C. Supportive
D. Disinterested
Ans: C
53. Who is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog?
A. Product Owner
B. Project Manager
C. Lead Developer
D. Tester
Ans: A
54. What are the advantages of maintaining consistent iteration (timebox) lengths throughout the
project?
Ans: D
55. Tracking project issues in an Agile project is the primary responsibility of the
A. Tester
B. Project Leader
C. Functional Manager
D. Developer
Ans: B
Ans: D
A. Presentation
B. Oratory
C. Facilitation
D. Lecture
Ans: C
58. Which of the following best represents the Agile approach to planning?
B. Planning should be done in detail at the outset and then not revisited
Ans: C
C. The facilitator
Ans: A
60. If a timebox (iteration) plan needs to be reprioritised in a hurry, who should re-prioritise?
A. The developers alone (they know what the customer wants by now)
B. The customer alone (the developers would only choose the easy things as top priority)
D. The whole team including customer and developers (together they can consider both business value
and practicality) Copyright DSDM Consortium 2009. All rights reserved.
Ans: D
61. What is the effect of having large visible project plan on a wall?
Ans: B
A. The Project Leader should give tasks to individuals to create challenges for them
Ans: C
63. What should the team do if the customer representative is too busy to be available?
A. Carry on with the work without customer input. It will probably be faster without customer
interference anyway
B. Send the customer an email warning that the end product will be completed on time, but will not
meet their needs
C. Allow a developer to take on the role of customer representative
D. Draw the problem to the attention of the Project Leader and ultimately the Project Sponsor
Ans: D
64. Which one of the following is a key feature that you would expect to find in an Agile project?
D. All documentation done in previous projects would be replicated for the Agile project.
Ans: C
D. Expect team members to sort out all of their own problems, and not come to the Project Leader for
help with anything
Ans: A
66. Which one of the following statements is correct regarding acceptance of any deliverables on an
Agile Project?
A. The team should allow only senior managers to sign off deliverables
B. The team should get acceptance of project deliverables from the appropriate stakeholders at least at
the end of every timebox / iteration
C. The team should get acceptance of project deliverables from the users during a UAT phase at the end
of the project
D. Acceptance of any particular deliverable on the project is gained from all stakeholders at the same
time.
Ans: B
67. Which one of the following statement is correct regarding quality of deliverables from an Agile
Project?
A. The products produced by an Agile project should be cheaper than those produced by any other
approach, but quality will suffer
B. The products will be more expensive than by any other approach but will be top quality
C. The products will be fit for purpose, but may not do what the customer wanted
D. The products will be of appropriate quality, as guided by the customer representative involved
throughout the development process
Ans: D
B. Just enough design up front gives a good foundation to start from and helps to mitigate risk, without
unnecessarily wasting time
C. No design up front is the best approach as most of the fun of a project is discovery of the unexpected
Ans: B
C. Get something business-valuable delivered as quickly as possible, consistent with the right level of
quality
D. Get something delivered once it has been fully documented and the documentation signed off as
complete and unchangeable
Ans: C
A. The team can work all night, every night if enough pizza is provided
B. The team should be expected to work overtime towards the end of the project
C. The team should strive for a sustainable pace and a normal working week
D. The team will burn out if they have to work overtime for more than two timeboxes (iterations) in a
row
Ans: C
71. Which one of the following statements is true for Agile projects?
Ans: D
72. Which one of the following is an important feature of the stand-up / wash up meeting?
C. The Project Manager must ensure it is clear to all which team members are not performing
D. No-one is allowed to leave the stand-up meeting until all problems raised have been solved
Ans: B
73. Who should attend the stand-up meetings?
Ans: D
74. One of the stages you would expect to see a team go through is:
A. Storming
B. Warming
C. Calming
D. Yawning
Ans: A
75. When estimating is done for the project, the solution developers should be:
Ans: A
Ans: A
Ans: A
Ans: C
C. Ensures that weak members of the team are thrown out of the team
Ans: B
B. Has no meetings
Ans: A
Ans: B
Ans: C
B. Many projects are evolutionary, and a better solution emerges this way
Ans: B
A. No design up front
Ans: C
86. What is the risk that an Agile leader takes in empowering the team?
A. The Agile leader might lose their job as the team is doing all the work
B. If the team fails, the Agile leader will not get a performance bonus
C. The Agile leader has less direct control over the teams work, but still has the responsibility
Ans: C
Ans: C
C. To produce simple prototypes early, but no finished product until the end of the project
Ans: A
C. Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of features, but the developers have the final
decision
D. Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of features, but the business has the final
decision
Ans: D
90. In the popular prioritization technique called MoSCoW, the M stands for:
A. May have
B. Major
C. Must Have
D. Mandatory
Ans: C
A. Collective
B. Collaborative
C. Connective
D. Contemplative
Ans: B
A. Fascinating
B. Fabulous
C. Facilitative
D. Fantastic
Ans: C
Ans: B
C. Cynicism
Ans: A
A. If the team work long hours regularly they will get used to it, and be able to sustain it
C. The team should establish a velocity which can be sustained with normal working hours
Ans: C
Ans: B
C. It allows learning which can be used to improve team performance during the project
D. It prevents deviation from the process which the team has been following
Ans: C
98. Once a project is underway, the approach to planning is:
Ans: B
Ans: B
Ans: C
D. It should never celebrate as this makes less successful teams feel bad
Ans: B
Ans: B
103. If a new requirement emerges once an Agile project is running, it should be:
C. Assessed for importance and, if important to the business, included in the project, displacing less
important requirements
D. Put onto a list for consideration by the wider group of stakeholders after the project has been
completed
Ans: C
104.Which of the following would not provide useful information in creating a Persona?
Ans: D
105.Which of the following best describes the technique that is used when there is a desire to make a
collective decision among individuals, in a non-judgmental setting, to discuss a specific agenda item with
the goal of coming up with a plan of action.
B. Charter review
C. Brainstorming
Ans: C