1. When the team is making decisions such as how much work to do, what to do in parallel,
when work should be on a specific item, this activity is called:
a. Flow management
b. Standup meeting activity
c. Team autonomy
d. Sprint planning
2. Which of the following best defines collaboration
a. Working as a team to overcome conflict
b. Working individually to achieve objectives
c. Working and communicating as a team to achieve objectives.
d. Working independently to achieve personal goals.
3. Who defines the business value of features within an Agile project?
a. Development team
b. Customer
c. Product owner
d. Sponsor
4. Your team is in a situation where they need to catch up on the project. You decide to let
them start working overtime during the next four of five sprints. What is most likely going to
happen as the overtime continues?
a. Velocity goes up and then drops below the normal non-overtime velocity.
b. There is a decrease in velocity for all overtime sprints.
c. There will be an overall increase in the team's velocity for the duration of the sprints with
the overtime.
d. There is no noticeable change in the velocity.
5. When closing an Agile project, the task(s) needed to complete the project include:
a. Gaining client approval
b. Planning and installing deliverables
c. Write final project report
d. All of the above
6. What rate should Agile team be working at during any Sprint?
a. The team should strive for a sustainable pace
b. The Scrum Master sets the rate of activity
c. The team needs to be continually increasing the pace of the development team
d. The rate of work during a Sprint is not tracked
7. Once you have established the focus and final participants for the retrospective you can
determine which exercises might help the participant to engage, think, explore, and decide
together. A typical retrospective includes all of the following except:
a. Create and mine a sprint event timeline.
b. Brainstorm insights
c. Group and vote on insights
d. Design changes for the next Sprint
8. Scrum favors:
a. Big releases
b. Smaller but less frequent releases
c. Faster feedback
d. None of the above
9. Overall, the activity of creating and refining product backlog items, estimating them and
prioritizing them is known as:
a. Grouping tasks
b. Elevating goals
c. Grooming
d. Daily planning
10. Although the sprint review is an informal activity, the scrum team has some minimal
prework to complete first, this includes:
a. Determine whom to invite
b. Schedule the review
c. Confirm that the sprint is completed
d. All of the above
11. Who defines task-level work?
a. Product owner
b. Decided by the entire team.
c. ScrumMaster
d. Team members
12. On the last day of your Sprint you have run out of tasks for the development team to
work on. As the ScrumMaster you would:
a. Re-check that all the completed tasks for complete and tested.
b. Add more tasks for the Sprint backlog.
c. Work on fixes
d. Add more tasks for the product backlog.
13. At this planning horizon, a BA will work with the delivery team to understand how to
best break
down work, how to deliver and test the value the team is creating
a. Strategy Horizon
b. Initiative Horizon
c. Geographic Horizon
d. Delivery Horizon
14. An important activity of the Planning meeting is
a. Determine the capacity of the team
b. Have the entire team together
c. Identify all the tasks
d. All of the above
15. Which of the following is a characteristic of an Agile leader?
a. Task focused
b. Disengaged
c. Supportive
d. Process oriented
16. In what planning horizon does a BA work to better understand the needs of the
stakeholders:
a. Delivery Horizon
b. Strategy Horizon
c. Initiative Horizon
d. Celestial Horizon
17. When handling team dynamics, the Agile leader should:
a. Empower the team members within appropriate limits
b. Encourage an environment of competition and personal advantage
c. Give clear directives to the team about what they should do and how
d. Expect team members to be proactive and each work to their own priorities and
objectives
18. What is the role of the Business Analyst on a Scrum team?
a. They collect and disseminate user requirements
b. They are only involved on large teams
c. Business Analysts are not involved on Scrum projects
d. The Business Analyst is invited to all Scrum projects, both big and small
19. What is correct regarding the daily stand-up meeting attendees?
a. Done in front of the dashboard
b. Done in the afternoon
c. 20 to 25 minutes long
d. Discussion on problem resolutions take place
20. The product owner works with the following stakeholders:
a. Internal stakeholders
b. External stakeholders
c. Sales
d. All the above
21. Halfway through your Sprint, who has the authority to tell the development team to
change priorities?
a. CEO of the organization
b. Product Owner
c. Customer
d. Sponsor
22. The ______________ is the circumstances that influence, are influenced by or provide an
understanding of a change.
a. Solution
b. Need
c. Context
d. Value
23. Coaching, servant leader, interference shield, change agent are all tasks that are the
accountability of the:
a. Team
b. Sponsor
c. Product owner
d. Scrum Master
24. At the end of each Sprint the development team participates in two inspect-and-adapt
activities being:
a. Demo and planning session
b. The final project status report and retrospective
c. Retrospective and demo
d. None of the answers above are correct
25. In a retrospective, a good facilitator always remembers to set the stage. What does set
the stage mean?
a. General insights
b. Creating a safe environment that is open and honest
c. Deciding what to do
d. Gathering data
26. What tasks are done to groom the product backlog?
a. Creating and refining backlog items
b. Perform tasks
c. Write all of the product backlog items
d. All of the above
27. Which of the following are required elements to ensure the success of the Scrum
methodology?
a. Sprint teams
b. Sprint artifacts
c. Sprint rituals
d. All of the above
28. During sprint execution, when are new sprint tasks added??
a. If the sprint runs out of tasks
b. At the request of the customer
c. Never
d. At the request of senior management
29. When the development team needs to determine the next task to work on, they would
choose:
a. The item the Scrum Master selects
b. The item the product owner selects
c. The next highest-priority task
d. Does not matter which task goes next in a Sprint
30. During the Sprint execution, the development team members:
a. Self-organize
b. Do not self-organize
c. Determine the best way to meet the established goals of the Sprint
d. Both A and C
31. The Sprint backlog typically lists:
a. Product backlog items
b. Product backlog tasks
c. Estimated hours
d. All of the above
32. Which of the following is not a value stated in the Agile manifesto?
a. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
b. Working software over comprehensive documentation
c. Contract negotiation over customer communication
d. Responding to change over following a plan
33. Where are the customer requirements stored?
a. A database
b. Sprint backlog
c. In the scrum product requirement specification
d. Product backlog
34. A release train is an approach in Agile that:
a. is never published
b. Is not a full list of tasks at this point
c. Ensures the team does not work too fast
d. Aligns the vision, planning and interdependencies of many teams
35. Which of the following best describes the approach for determining the iteration
length?
a. Iterations should always be 5 days
b. The team determines iteration length by dividing the total number of story points by the
average velocity of the team
c. Iterations should always be two weeks
d. The team should agree on the length of the iteration, taking size and complexity of the
project into consideration
36. Which of the following statement is true for measuring team velocity?
a. Velocity is not accurate when there are meetings that cut into development time
b. Velocity measurements are disrupted when some project resources are part-time
c. Velocity tracking does not allow for scope changes during the project
d. Velocity measurements account for work done and disruptions on the project
37. Agile is typically used on projects that are:
a. High risk
b. Prone to change
c. Plan driven
d. Both A and B
38. When would you perform a risk analysis in agile development?
a. During the retrospective
b. Mid project
c. During iteration planning
d. It is not required during the sprint
39. What is not an advantage of the Agile story board:
a. Promotes team interaction
b. Supports the team’s full commitment
c. Gives the teams velocity
d. Visibility
40. What is true about an Agile Sprint?
a. There are no changes allowed in the sprint
b. Timeboxed
c. Requirements are broken into smaller tasks
d. All of the above
42. Managers in a Scrum organization still have an important role. As per Rubin managers
are responsible for:
a. Nurturing teams
b. Aligning and adapting the environment
c. Manage the value-creation flow
d. All the above
43. On an outsourced development effort, for example, company A is contracting with
company B to build a new software solution, a representative from company A should be
the:
a. Sole decision maker
b. Product owner
c. Sponsor
d. Scrum Master
44. The sprint goal is created:
a. During the first standup meeting
b. By the product owner
c. As the first task for the team
d. In the planning meeting
45. Which is not considered an Agile process?
a. Unbranded Agile
b. PSDM
c. Scrum Control Systems
d. Crystal
47. There are a number of ways to show the progress of work within a Sprint being:
a. Burndown chart
b. Burnup chart
c. Task board
48. When using Kanban development, the acronym WIP stands for
a. Waste in process
b. Work in progress
c. Waste in progress
d. Work is progressing
49. Select the best definition of an empowered team
a. A team that relies on external leadership to show it the path forward
b. A team that is told what to do and how to do it
c. A team that takes ownership of a product and is collectively responsible for its delivery
d. A team that solves problems through the use of market research
50. What are the advantages of maintaining consistent iteration lengths throughout the
project?
a. It helps to establish a consistent pattern of delivery
b. It helps the team to objectively measure progress
c. It provides a consistent means of measuring team velocity
d. All of the above
51. Whose roles is it to be responsible to manage the flow of work during the Sprint
execution and make decisions such as what tasks are done in parallel, when work should
start and who does what?
a. Team
b. Scrum Master
c. Sponsor
d. Product owner
52. What question(s) are not discussed at the stand up?
a. Integration issues
b. What I am doing today
c. What is in my way
d. What I did yesterday
53. From the Cohn video what is considered an unconstrained lust?
a. Velocity of the sprint increases over time
b. Adding additional sprints to the project
c. Need for more and more requirements
56. What is true of the sprint review:
a. The team can only present completed work
b. The customer is an optional participant in the review
c. The team can't comment on the work
d. All of the above
57. To achieve a good balance of up-front and just-in-time planning we are guided by the
principle that we should keep important options open.
a. Until the team comes to a consensus
b. And complete them as fast as possible
c. Until the product owner gives the ok to go forward
d. Until the last responsible moment
59. When agile teams use the term timeboxed what do they mean?
a. Work must happen at a set time
b. Work shall take a minimum amount of time
c. Work can take no more than a maximum amount of time
d. Work must be done by a given time, plus or minus 20 minutes
60. Who is Mike Cohn?
a. One of the founding members of the Scrum Alliance
b. A software programmer
c. Contributor to the origin of Scrum
d. All of the above
61. The project task board is a simple but powerful way to:
a. Ensure the team completes the tasks on time
b. Create a sense of team commitment
c. Communicate sprint progress
d. Impress the product owner on the teams understanding of Agile
62. Opaqueness from the Cohn video can be removed by?
a. Using a burndown chart
b. Having a consistent velocity
c. Keeping the same team members for the duration of the project
d. Timeboxing all parts of the project
63. The definition of a Scrum is:
a. A process that only works well for software development
b. Any project management method involving stand-up meetings
c. A process for building products
d. A process framework for managing complex development projects
64. The daily Scrum is a critical, daily inspect-and-adapt activity to help the team to do all
of the items listed below other than:
a. Speed up development toward the solution
b. Be more flexible flow toward the solution
c. Give the product owner more flexibility
d. Both A and B
65. The Sprint team creates the ____________ during the planning meeting
a. Product backlog
b. Estimates for the tasks
c. Sprint backlog
d. Both B and C