1. How is communication planning different in agile from the traditional method?

a) Determine all stakeholder's communication requirement

b) No documentation exists around communication
c) Communication is an integral part of agile framework, which focuses on Individual interaction, and
customer collaboration, through agile values
d) All of the above

Answer: (c) - Communication is an integral part of agile framework, which focus on Individual
interaction, and customer collaboration, through agile values.

2. Which one of the followings is the most important?

a) Individuals and interactions
b) Working software.
c) Customer collaboration
d) Responding to the change.

Answer: (d) Responding to change

3. Which one of the followings is NOT true of co-located communication?

a) Improves productivity by eliminating waste by reducing the downtime.
b) Osmotic communication.
c) It improves cooperativeness.
d) Enables face to face communication.

Answer :(c) - It improves cooperativeness

4. What is true of the relation between values, principles and practice?

a) All are abstract.
b) Values and principles are abstract. Practice is derived from values.
c) Values are abstract. Principles are application of those values. Practices are applied to a project.
d) Values, Principles, and Practices are methodologies.

Answer :(c) - Values are abstract. Principles are application of those values. Practices are applied to a
project.

5. How is the benefit of continuous risk management achieved in Agile?

a) High risk and high value feature are pushed into early iteration.
b) Demonstration of the project.
c) Continuous build integration.
d) All of the above.

Answer : (d) - All of the above.

6. What does it mean to say "maximize the work not done"?

a) Eliminate the waste.
b) Do less work
c) Eliminate the risk.
d) All of the above.
Answer : (a) - Eliminate the waste.

7. In which one of the following ways the communication happens among stakeholders?
a) During daily stand up meeting.
b) During review and demo meetings.
c) During visioning and release planning meeting.
d) All of the above.

Answer :(d) - All of the above.

8. How is scrum different from traditional project reporting and management?

a) Scrum measures requirement.
b) Scrum expects changes.
c) Scrum responds to exceptions.
d) All of the above.

Answer: (d) - All of the above.

9. What is a velocity?
a) It is a measure of a team's rate of progress.
b) It is a powerful equalizer that corrects estimation errors.
c) It is used to derive duration.
d) All of the above.

Answer :(d) - All of the above.

10. Which one of the following is NOT correct of Product backlog in scrum?
a) Product backlog contains the complete list of requirements.
b) Product backlog is used as input to all planning such as Release planning and Sprint planning.
c) Product owner continuously grooms it to make sure it is latest, appropriate, competitive and useful.
d) Product backlog existence depends on life of the Product.

Answer :(a) - Product backlog contains the complete list of requirements.

11. Who is responsible for grooming the product backlog and optimizing ROI in scrum?
a) Product Owner.
b) Product Manager.
c) Scrum Master.
d) Scrum Development team.

Answer: (a) - Product Owner.

12. What is the main reason of doing daily stand up scrum meeting in scrum?
a) For the team to update status to Scrum Master.
b) For the team to update the status to Product owner.
c) For the team to socialize and synchronize their work.
d) All of the above.
Answer :(c) - For the team to socialize and synchronize.

13. Definition of Done-Done is defined and agreed, in which Iteration?

a) During Iteration 0.
b) During Iteration planning meeting.
c) During Daily stand up meeting.
d) All of the above.

Answer: (a) - During Iteration 0

14. How is Scrum framework different from XP framework?

a) Scrum is a project management framework, and XP is a technical development methodology.
b) Both frameworks are the same.
c) Scrum and XP, values are the same.
d) None of the above

Answer: (a) - Scrum is a project management framework, and XP is a technical development

framework.

15. What is mapped in agile, to Project schedule in waterfall?

a) Release planning is one or two days event where the whole team is involved in evolving a large
picture of the project.
b) Release plan contains a set of goals, assumptions, risks, dependencies, release backlogs and
decisions that guide the team in execution of the Release, which in turn is made of Iterations.
c) Release retrospective learnings/action items, Team velocity, Product backlog, which contain
prioritized and estimated items, are inputs to the Release plan.
d) All of the above.

Answer :(d) - All of the above.

16. The management wants to have multiple Scrum teams so that 4 years project for one Scrum team
could be completed in 1 year. The management wants to start all the Scrum teams on the same date.
What's your advice?
a) The management is making a smart decision
b) Before the inset, of multiple Scrum teams on this project, a couple of sprints by a single Scrum team
should build the infrastructure, architecture, build process and coding standards which multiple teams
can implement.
c) The management should revert to traditional waterfall model due to the complexity.
d) Create hybrid model based on scrum and waterfall.

Answer :(b) - Before the inset, of multiple Scrum teams on this project, a couple of sprints by a single
Scrum team should build the infrastructure, architecture, build process and coding standards which
multiple teams can implement.

17. What is the primary measure of progress in Iteration?

a) Iteration backlog.
b) Iteration burn down chart
c) Daily stand up meetings.
 d) All of the above.

Answer :(d) - All of the above.

18. Which one of the following is true of the statement ‘Agile is a migration from plan to planning’?
a) Planning is done during Initiation process group by Product backlog, Roadmap and Iteration
planning.
b) Planning is done during Planning process group by project kick off meeting, visioning and release
road map.
c) Planning is done during monitoring and controlling process group by daily stand up meeting, reviews,
task boards and burn down charts.
d) All of the above.

Answer :(d) - All of the above.

19. Why should one time box the estimation meetings?

a) There are diminishing returns if we continue to spend time on estimation.
b) We get estimations which are fairly accurate by spending few hours.
c) None of the above.
d) A and B.

Answer: (d) - A and B.

20. In Agile, there is a defined set of practices that the organization needs to follow to be successful.
Is this true?
a) Yes, it is true.
b) It is anti-agile to say that there is a defined set of practices that the organization needs to follow.
c) For an organization to be successful in agile, they have to pick up one of the practices: scrum, XP,
kanban, crystal.
d) None of the above.

Answer: (b) - It is anti-agile to say that there is a defined set of practices that the organization needs to
follow.

21. What is the most efficient and effective method of conveying information in a team?
a) Conversation on a call
b) E-mail conversation
c) Face-to-face conversation
d) None of the above

Answer: (c) Face-to-face conversation

22. What are agile methodologies?

a) Collection of practices
b) Collection of values
c) Collection of principles
d) All of the above
Answer: (a) Collection of Practices

23. Which of the following is true about scrum?

a) It is based on empirical process control
b) It is adaptive and not perspective
c) It is one of the agile frameworks
d) All of the above

Answer: (d) All of the above

24. What is the usual duration of Sprint?

a) 8-10 weeks
b) 2-6 weeks
c) 1-2 weeks
d) 10-12 weeks

Answer: (b) 2-6 Weeks

25. How frequent is the Risk backlog tracked?

a) On a daily basis
b) At the end of each iteration
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above

Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)