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Question #1
The best description of a Sprint backlog is:
A. Daily progress for a Sprint over the Sprint’s length
B. A prioritized list of tasks to be completed during the project
C. A prioritized list of requirements to be completed during the Sprint
D. A prioritized list of requirements to be completed for a release
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Correct Answer: C

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Question #2
What is a Japanese term used in Lean software development is an activity that is wasteful, unproductive, and doesn’t add value?
A. Sashimi
B. Kanban
C. Muda
D. Kairoshi
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Correct Answer: C
Question #3
The best reason for extreme character personas in writing user stories is to:
A. Identify errors in product design and testing
B. Help identify user stories that would otherwise be missed
C. Provide precision to support vague user concepts
D. Provide value to the Sprint planning session
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Correct Answer: C
Question #4
Another name for an Ishikawa diagram is:
A. cause and effect diagram
B. control chart
C. flowchart
D. histogram
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Correct Answer: D
Question #5
The Scrum Master is a participant in the Sprint Retrospective.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: B
Question #6
When is the ideal time to hold a retrospective?
A. Right after iteration planning
B. Just before iteration planning
C. At the start of the next release
D. During the iteration review/demo
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Correct Answer: B
Question #7
How does the Scrum Master provide the most value to the Team?
A. By facilitating discussions between the Product Owner and the Development Team
B. Ensuring time-boxes are kept
C. Removing impediments to the Development Team
D. Scheduling Scrum events
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Correct Answer: C
Question #8
During which meeting do team members synchronize their work and progress and report any impediments to the Scrum Master for removal?
A. Sprint Planning meeting
B. Daily Scrum
C. Sprint Retrospective
D. Weekly Status meeting
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Correct Answer: B
Question #9
Which of the following is critical for the success of distributed Agile teams?
A. Cost containment
B. High volume of communication
C. Shared knowledge
D. Culture of collaboration
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Correct Answer: D
Question #10
What are the three components of an Agile Project Charter? (Choose three.)
A. Success Criteria
B. Vision
C. Objectives
D. Scope
E. Mission
F. Risks
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Correct Answer: ABE
Question #11
Which of the following is NOT a metric that measures the performance of DevOps in Agile?
A. Release date adherence percentage
B. Defects attributable to platform/support requirements
C. Percentage of NFRs met
D. Business value realized per release
E. Percentage increase in the number of releases
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Correct Answer: D
Question #12
The trend of work remaining across time in a Sprint, a release, or a product, with work remaining tracked on the vertical axis and the time periods tracked on the horizontal axis is called a ____________.
A. Burndown Chart
B. Burnup Chart
C. Progress Chart
D. Parking Lot Chart
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Correct Answer: A
Question #13
Which type of managers do composite organizations involve?
A. Functional managers and manager of project managers
B. Functional managers only
C. Project managers only
D. Technical managers and project managers
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Correct Answer: C
Question #14
An input to the Estimate Activity Resources process is:
A. Activity resource requirements
B. Published estimating data
C. Resource calendars
D. Resource breakdown structure (RBS)
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Correct Answer: D
Question #15
A newly formed scrum team wants 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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #16
At minimum, all Kanban boards should have the following columns:
A. To-Do, Doing, Done
B. Analysis, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy
C. Backlog, Design, Develop, Unit Test, Acceptance Test, Ready-to-ship
D. The Kanban columns are determined by the team
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Correct Answer: C
Question #17
What can be described as “one or two written sentences; a series of conversations about the desired functionality.”
A. User Story
B. Story point
C. Epic
D. Product roadmap
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Correct Answer: A
Question #18
During the daily standup meeting, a team member states that an issue has been encountered. This leads to the team members getting into a problem-solving discussion. How should the ScrumMaster respond?
A. Ask the team members to table the discussion until after the meeting is over
B. If the item is really important, allow the discussion to expedite resolution of the issue
C. Abruptly end the daily standup meeting and schedule another meeting to discuss the issue
D. Ask the team how they would like to use the daily standup meeting for that day
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Correct Answer: A
Question #19
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 sessions with the client to obtain product acceptance
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Correct Answer: D
Question #20
How long is the time-box for the daily Scrum?
A. It depends
B. 5 minutes per person on the Development Team
C. 15 minutes
D. Whatever the Team decides
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Correct Answer: C
Question #21
Which stakeholder approves a project's result?
A. Customer
B. Sponsor
C. Seller
D. Functional manager
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Correct Answer: A
Question #22
Product Backlog Items (PBI) described as emergent, are expected to:
A. Become new technology requirements
B. Grow and change over time as users' stories are completed
C. Become the highest priority items
D. Be the most recent stories added to the backlog
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Correct Answer: B
Question #23
Which activity may occur at project or phase closure?
A. Acceptance of deliverables
B. Change requests
C. Project management plan updates
D. Benchmarking
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Correct Answer: C
Question #24
Which of the following would be most likely to assist when a customer has difficulty prioritizing stories?
A. Split the stories into smaller ones to allow the customer to choose the pieces that they want
B. Have the team provide guidance into where their priorities lie to the customer
C. Provide additional technical details to give the customer insight into technical challenges
D. Have the team rewrite the stories with additional details to clarify requirements
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Correct Answer: A
Question #25
Which is an input to the Verify Scope process?
A. Performance report
B. Work breakdown structure (WBS)
C. Requested changes
D. Project management plan
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Correct Answer: A
Question #26
When moving to Agile project management, a key factor for the project manager’s success will be:
A. shifting from a controlling mindset to a facilitating mindset
B. directing the work in a more incremental fashion
C. only assigning tasks for the nextiteration
D. giving up control and rotating management through the team
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Correct Answer: B
Question #27
A team member on a 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 issue 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 member
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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #28
Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?
A. Cost variance (CV)
B. Cost performance index (CPI)
C. Budget at completion (BAC)
D. Variance at completion (VAC)
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Correct Answer: A
Question #29
Which of the following is a tool and technique used to monitor risk?
A. Technical performance measurement
B. Cost performance baseline
C. Benchmarking
D. Cost of quality
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Correct Answer: A
Question #30
User stories are temporary artifacts. They are considered relevant until the:
A. Team completes them
B. End of the project
C. Release is complete
D. End of the sprint
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Correct Answer: C
Question #31
In Agile projects, how are planning outputs shared with stakeholders?
A. Using the most highly visible method possible
B. On a need-to-know basis depending on role
C. According to the project communications plan
D. Through a series of stakeholder meetings
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Correct Answer: B
Question #32
The optimum size of the Scrum Team is:
A. 7
B. Between 3 and 9
C. 5
D. It depends
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Correct Answer: B
Question #33
Which of the following best describes a core belief of Agile?
A. The best customer feedback comes near the end of the project when there is working software to review
B. Project status can be gauged by frequently reviewing completed milestones as reflected in the plan
C. Working solutions are the most accurate way of seeing the progress of the effort
D. Unique skill sets are harnessed when team members play different roles on a project
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Correct Answer: C
Question #34
Which of the following is a list of valid Agile project planning practices?
A. Release planning, Iteration planning, and Estimation
B. Estimation, Spike Solutions, and Iteration planning
C. Iteration planning, Continuous Integration, and Estimation
D. Vision, Release planning, and Performance Optimization
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Correct Answer: A
Question #35
In Agile projects, the technique in which planning is done at three distinct horizons is known as:
A. Monte Carlo Analysis
B. Portfolio Management
C. DelphiTechnique
D. Progressive Elaboration
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Correct Answer: B
Question #36
How does Empirical Process Control support Agile methodologies?
A. Testing, requirements, and adaptation
B. Testing, requirements, and change
C. Visibility, review, and testing
D. Visibility, inspection, and adaptation
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Correct Answer: D
Question #37
Retrospectives provide an opportunity for the team to:
A. Reflect at the end of every iteration and identify improvements that will increase the quality of the product
B. Participate in a mandatory meeting to share status updates across the team and to ensure that everyone is on track
C. Understand from the management if the project is achieving the Scope, Quality, Cost, and Schedule goals
D. Set goals at the beginning of the iteration and identify requirements that can be delivered in that iteration
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Correct Answer: A
Question #38
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
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Correct Answer: D
Question #39
Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:
A. Earned value management
B. Enterprise environmental factors
C. Organizational process assets
D. Work performance information
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Correct Answer: B
Question #40
The most powerful capability of Scrum teams is that they:
A. Work in timeboxed sprints
B. Are self-organized and empowered
C. Work from a prioritized backlog
D. Value individuals and interactions
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Correct Answer: B
Question #41
The Agile artifact that describes the incremental nature of how a product will be built and delivered over time, along with the important factors that drive each individual release is called:
A. Product Vision Statement
B. Product Wirframe
C. Product Roadmap
D. Product Theme
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Correct Answer: C
Question #42
Information transmission is greatest amongst team members who are working on:
A. Individual tasks in the same work area
B. The same task through pair programming
C. The same group of tasks individually
D. Different tasks on the same project
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Correct Answer: B
Question #43
Non-functional requirements should be written as user stories whenever possible.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: B
Question #44
Which technique is used by a project team to estimate the amount of work that can be done per iteration?
A. Velocity measurement
B. Relative prioritization
C. Planning Poker
D. Release planning
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Correct Answer: A
Question #45
The Scrum Master is a management role?
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: A
Question #46
A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:
A. Product analysis
B. Variance analysis
C. Document analysis,
D. Decomposition
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Correct Answer: B
Question #47
The purpose of "setting the stage'' in a project retrospective is to:
A. Restate the goal of the meeting and create an open atmosphere
B. Review the scope statement and summarize project results
C. Elevate the team's morale and ensure that everyone participates
D. Describe the next Iteration and discuss lessons learned
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Correct Answer: A
Question #48
Based upon this Burndown chart, is this project ahead of schedule or behind schedule?
A. Ahead of schedule
B. Behind schedule
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Correct Answer: B
Question #49
What Scrum event or artifact supports daily inspection and adaptation?
A. Product Backlog
B. Sprint Backlog
C. Sprint
D. Scrum
E. Working Product Increment
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Correct Answer: A
Question #50
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics. What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
A. Agree on requirements with all stakeholders
B. Begin planning every four iterations
C. Consider previous sprint demo feedback when planning the next sprint
D. Include the reasons for the project in the contract
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Correct Answer: A
Question #51
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 a 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
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Correct Answer: D
Question #52
The following is a picture of which of the following Information Radiators?
A. Burndown Chart
B. Kanban Tracking System
C. Cumulative Flow Diagram
D. Burnup Chart
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Correct Answer: C
Question #53
What is the ideal approach for an Agile project manager to take when considering fractional assignments?
A. Do nothing, as fractional assignments will not impact project performance
B. Allow resources to be assigned to no more than two projects at a time
C. Only allow nonessential resources to be fractionally assigned
D. Avoid them and have resources assigned to only one project at a time
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Correct Answer: B
Question #54
Process Tailoring is the iterative approach implementing your SDLC process.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: A
Question #55
Which chart shows the total number of story points completed through the end of each iteration?
A. Iteration Burndown chart
B. Cumulative story point Burndown chart
C. Daily Burndown chart
D. Burnup chart
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Correct Answer: B
Question #56
Tools and techniques used for Plan Communications include the communication:
A. requirements analysis, communication technology, communication models, and communication methods
B. methods, stakeholder register, communication technology, and communication models
C. requirements, communication technology, communication requirements analysis, and communication methods
D. management plan, communication technology, communication models, and communication requirements analysis
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Correct Answer: D
Question #57
What is a high-level representation of the features or themes that are to be delivered in each release?
A. Release plan
B. Product roadmap
C. Iteration plan
D. Product Backlog
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Correct Answer: B
Question #58
What Agile development approach is being used when the whole team works towards solving a complex problem?
A. Swarming
B. Norming
C. Performing
D. Collaborating
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Correct Answer: A
Question #59
Wireframe models help Agile teams:
A. Test designs
B. Confirm designs
C. Configure reports
D. Track velocity
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Correct Answer: B
Question #60
Collaboration can be defined as working together to jointly produce a deliverable or make a decision, whereas coordination is:
A. Agreeing on a due date
B. Sharing information
C. Agreeing on the design
D. Pair programming
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Correct Answer: B
Question #61
The Product Owner and Scrum Master are never part of the Development Team.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: B
Question #62
The technique used to analyze the flow of information and materials through a system to eliminate waste is:
A. Fishbone diagramming
B. Flow charting
C. Value stream mapping
D. Pareto analysis
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Correct Answer: C
Question #63
An input to the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
A. expert judgment
B. seller proposals
C. the project charter
D. the project management plan
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Correct Answer: B
Question #64
A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful. The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than a 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 negotiate the short-term solution with the customer
D. Schedule a root-cause analysis with the development team on the main issues with the spike
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Correct Answer: B
Question #65
Collaboration can be defined as working together to jointly produce a deliverable or make a decision, whereas coordination is:
A. Agreeing on a due date
B. Sharing information
C. Agreeing on the design
D. Pair programming
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Correct Answer: B
Question #66
The best description of the purpose of the daily standup in Agile projects is to:
A. Resolve the key issues and risks that are likely to hinder project progress
B. Provide insight and reassurance to the Product Owner to strengthen that relationship
C. Inform the project lead of project status for reporting to stakeholders
D. Raise the visibility of each person’s work and to ensure the work is integrated
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Correct Answer: D
Question #67
The development team should have a lead developer to ensure the work is properly executed.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: B
Question #68
A common estimation unit for Agile projects is:
A. Lines of code
B. Function points
C. Story points
D. Use-case points
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Correct Answer: C
Question #69
Who is responsible for determining the business value of each feature?
A. Product Owner
B. Steering committee
C. ScrumMaster
D. Team
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Correct Answer: A
Question #70
Net present value (NPV) is a ratio that compares the value of a dollar today to the value of that same dollar in the future. An NPV that is negative suggests what?
A. The project should be rejected
B. I don’t have enough information
C. The project should be deferred
D. The project should be put on hold until the value is 0
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Correct Answer: A
Question #71
What are the primary outputs of a release planning session?
A. Release vision, assumptions, action items, and iteration goals
B. Prioritized Product Backlog, risks, action items, and release goals
C. Estimated iteration velocities, risks, action items, and Release Backlog
D. Risks, action items, dependencies, and Release Backlog
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Correct Answer: B
Question #72
In reference to Scrum, each sprint should produce:
A. An increment of potentially shippable product functionality
B. A set of documented product requirements and specifications
C. A release with testable and measurable functionality
D. An increment of potentially testable product functionality
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Correct Answer: A
Question #73
The velocity chart, storyboard, burndown chart, and impediment list are often communicated using:
A. Status reports
B. Information radiators
C. Portfolio presentations
D. Project data packages
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Correct Answer: A
Question #74
What are the three components of an Agile Project Charter? (Choose three.)
A. Success Criteria
B. Vision
C. Objectives
D. Scope
E. Mission
F. Risks
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Correct Answer: ABE
Question #75
An Agile team expects a velocity of 8. During sprint planning, the stories were estimatedand prioritized in the following order: Story A_4Story Points Story B_2Story Points Story C_3 Story Points Story D_2Story Points Which stories should the team include in Sprint 1, without splitting the stories?
A. Stories A, C, and D
B. Stories A, B, and C
C. Stories A, B, and D
D. Stories B, C, and D
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Correct Answer: A
Question #76
Your team is running three-week Sprints. How much time should you schedule for Sprint Review sessions?
A. 1 hour, 15 minutes
B. 45 minutes
C. 3 hours
D. 6 hours
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Correct Answer: B
Question #77
A “Scrum of Scrums” meeting is:
A. Another name for the daily standup project meeting in a Scrum team
B. Amechanism that coordinates multiple teams working on a single project
C. Aproject meeting that happens twice every day across the Scrum teams
D. An occasional leadership meeting that provides direction to multiple Scrum teams
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Correct Answer: A
Question #78
Non-functional requirements should be written as user stories whenever possible.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: B
Question #79
eXtreme Programming (XP) teams strive to avoid:
A. Incremental design and architecture
B. Pair programming
C. Manual regression testing
D. Test-Driven Development (TDD)
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Correct Answer: B
Question #80
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements describes management of which of the following?
A. Project
B. Scope
C. Contract
D. Program
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Correct Answer: B
Question #81
Which type of story would be used when an estimate is not available due to lack of knowledge of the technology required to implement the story?
A. Defect
B. Slack
C. Spike
D. Nonfunctional
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Correct Answer: D
Question #82
Since the last iteration, the team has grown from six members to 14 members. As a result, in the current iteration, the team room is crowded and uncomfortable during the team's daily standup. It takes the team longer than the ideal amount of time to complete their standup, which creates problems for the team's current schedule. Based on this information, the project manager should:
A. Move the standup to a conference call format so space is not a problem
B. Increase the standup duration and update the team's calendars
C. Assign each team member a maximum speaking time for future standups
D. Split the team into sub teams and have them schedule separate standups
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Correct Answer: D
Question #83
In a vision meeting, the vision for the project is defined and presented by the:
A. management
B. project manager
C. customer
D. project team
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Correct Answer: C
Question #84
An Agile team expects a velocity of 8. During sprint planning, the stories were estimatedand prioritized in the following order: Story A_4Story Points Story B_2Story Points Story C_3 Story Points Story D_2Story Points Which stories should the team include in Sprint 1, without splitting the stories?
A. Stories A, C, and D
B. Stories A, B, and C
C. Stories A, B, and D
D. Stories B, C, and D
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Correct Answer: C
Question #85
According to the Agile Manifesto, which of the following describes the more valued items?
A. Customer collaboration, following a plan, working software, and individual interactions
B. Working software, individual interactions, responding to change, and comprehensive documentation
C. Individual interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change
D. Responding to change, individual interactions, processes and tools, and customercollaboration
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Correct Answer: C
Question #86
Which of these statements is NOT correct about Ideal time and Calendar time?
A. Ideal time is the time that is actually required to complete the work
B. Both of them convey the same meaning
C. Calendar time is the amount of time that passes on clock (calendar days)
D. Normally calendar days are not equal to ideal days
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Correct Answer: B
Question #87
Scrum is NOT:
A. A set of software project management principles
B. Founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism
C. A process framework used to manage the development of products
D. Designed for static requirements
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Correct Answer: D
Question #88
Which Perform Quality Assurance tool or technique is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventative actions?
A. Inspection
B. Quality audits
C. Design of experiments
D. Root cause analysis
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Correct Answer: D
Question #89
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. Provided 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
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Correct Answer: D
Question #90
Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the Verify Scope process?
A. Inspection
B. Variance analysis
C. Expert judgment
D. Decomposition
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Correct Answer: D
Question #91
In Plan Risk Management, which of the management plans determines who will be available to share information on various risks and responses at different times and locations?
A. Schedule
B. Quality
C. Communications
D. Cost
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Correct Answer: D
Question #92
In the Lean process, the focus is on:
A. Managing team efficiency
B. Optimizing completed work across the process stream
C. Using the optimal resources
D. Cross training the team to eliminate bottlenecks
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Correct Answer: B
Question #93
Which of the following is the hierarchy of User Story creation?
A. Task, User, Story, Feature, Theme
B. Theme, Epic, User Story, Task
C. User Story, Epic, Theme, Feature
D. Goal, Epic, Activity, User Story
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Correct Answer: B
Question #94
The technique used to analyze the flow of information and materials through a system to eliminate waste is:
A. Fishbone diagramming
B. Flow charting
C. Value stream mapping
D. Pareto analysis
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Correct Answer: C
Question #95
While developing a story during the iteration, team discovered new tasks that were not identified earlier. A newly discovered task is such that the User Story cannot be completed during the iterations. What are the most appropriate actions for the team to perform?
A. Let the Product Owner decide if there is still a way to meet the iteration goals
B. Discuss the situation with the Scrum Master and see if there is still a way to meet the iteration goals
C. Drop the User Story and inform the Product Owner that it will be delivered in the next iteration
D. Modify the scope of other User Stories to allow completion of the Sprint backlog
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Correct Answer: A
Question #96
The Project Leader’s primary responsibilities are to “move boulders and carry water”. What is this an example of?
A. Servant leadership
B. Leadership by example
C. Command and control leadership
D. The leadership metaphor
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Correct Answer: A
Question #97
Which of the following is an example of an information radiator?
A. An email of a status report
B. A text of a quick question to the Product Owner
C. A whiteboard showing the state of work
D. A face-to-face conversation
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Correct Answer: C
Question #98
Early in a project, stakeholder analysis is performed; however, an organizational restructure redefines 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
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Correct Answer: D
Question #99
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
A. Keep satisfied
B. Keep informed
C. Manage closely
D. Monitor
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Correct Answer: A
Question #100
Which answer best describes Wide Band Delphi (e.
G. Planning Poker) estimating?
A. Team members provide story estimates individually and discuss their reasoning until a consensus on the estimate is reached
B. Team performance on prior projects is analyzed, and actual hours and durations are used to determine estimates for similar user stories
C. Team members apply relative sizing to each task, and story points are triangulated based on the other stories in the Sprint Backlog
D. Team members assign a realistic and a pessimistic estimate to each story, and points are assigned based on the calculated average
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Correct Answer: A
Question #101
Agile Analysis is a phase in the lifecycle of an Agile project.
A. False
B. True
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Correct Answer: A
Question #102
What is the best definition of “Done”?
A. Whatever will please the Product Owner
B. It is determined by the Scrum Master
C. The prodct has passed QA and has all of the required release documentation
D. The definition of “Done” is one that would allow the development work to be ready for a release
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Correct Answer: D
Question #103
For a "caves and commonroom arrangement, the most appropriate prerequisite is that the people in the room must be working on:
A. Whatever they choose
B. Individual projects
C. The same set of multiple projects,
D. The same project
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Correct Answer: A
Question #104
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 can 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 validity
C. The team cannot give accurate updates to management
D. Team collaboration cannot be measured effectively
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Correct Answer: A
Question #105
A servant leadership role includes:
A. Shielding team members from interruptions
B. Making commitments to stakeholders
C. Determining which features to include in an iteration
D. Assigning tasks to save time
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Correct Answer: A
Question #106
After three iterations, the problems impeding an Agile team appear to be similar in nature to problems faced in earlier iterations. Inspection of the retrospectives for past iterations reveals information organized into columns entitled “What worked for us” and “What did not work for us. ” Based on this information, one can infer that the team did not capture:
A. user stories
B. milestones
C. action items
D. requirements
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Correct Answer: C
Question #107
The purpose of a project burndown chart is to:
A. Identify and communicate upcoming milestones
B. Display the level of effort and resources utilized
C. Identify dependencies between sprints or iterations
D. Display the remaining work across time
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Correct Answer: D
Question #108
Who typically has the best insight into task execution?
A. Project managers
B. Team members
C. Scrum Masters
D. Agile coaches
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Correct Answer: B
Question #109
The team estimation game method mainly consists of a:
A. Pile of cards with user, capability, and value to be prioritized by the project team
B. Spreadsheet with backlog issues to be prioritized and each to be given a prioritizationnumber
C. White board session where iterations are estimated and related to the project road map
D. Brainstorm session where resources are related to prioritized work packages
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Correct Answer: B
Question #110
This management approach is based on knowing well defined goals but not the means for a solution.
A. Traditional Project Management
B. Emertxe Project Management
C. Extreme Project Management
D. Agile Project Management
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Correct Answer: B
Question #111
The primary purpose of a Sprint retrospective is for the team to:
A. Review stories planned for the next sprint and provide estimates,
B. Demonstrate completed user stories to the Product Owner
C. Discuss what went well, what didn't, and ways to improve
D. Individually provide status updates on user stories in progress
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Correct Answer: C
Question #112
At a strategic level, what is the most appropriate way for an Agile team to estimate a project?
A. Creating a strategic plan by estimating hours and days required
B. Using an abstract measurement to estimate Product Backlog items
C. Estimating source lines of code needed to implement the features
D. Taking an initial set of estimates and adding an appropriate risk factor
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Correct Answer: B
Question #113
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
A. defect repair
B. work repair
C. corrective action
D. preventive action
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Correct Answer: C
Question #114
A value stream map is a tool used to identify the:
A. Waste across the entire process
B. Highest value product features
C. Most valuable team interactions
D. Most likely flow of project risks
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Correct Answer: A
Question #115
There are four critical actions that should be embraced by an adaptive leader: improving speed-to-value, having a passion for quality, doing less, and ________________.
A. Inspiring staff
B. Managing conflict
C. Facilitating meetings
D. Ensuring effective communication
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Correct Answer: ABC
Question #116
A “Scrum of Scrums” meeting is:
A. Another name for the daily standup project meeting in a Scrum team
B. Amechanism that coordinates multiple teams working on a single project
C. Aproject meeting that happens twice every day across the Scrum teams
D. An occasional leadership meeting that provides direction to multiple Scrum teams
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Correct Answer: B
Question #117
What is the role in an eXtreme Programming (XP) project that ensures the right project processes are applied?
A. Domain Expert
B. Product Owner
C. ScrumMaster
D. Coach
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Correct Answer: A
Question #118
A key stakeholder cannot attend the project vision statement development workshop. The stakeholder has emailed their requirements to the agile team lead, and believes that the vision statement is not critical. How should the agile team lead respond?
A. Emphasize to the stakeholder that a common, detailed vision will better ensure team understanding of the project
B. Personally meet with the stakeholder to understand their requirements, and then share the vision with the team
C. Work with the team to create a vision from the stakeholder's supplied requirements
D. Explain to the team that creating a vision is not critical in agile projects, as requirements may change over time
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Correct Answer: C
Question #119
At completion of iteration planning, the team has finished identifying the tasks they will commit to for the next iteration. Which of the following tools best provides transparency into the progress throughout the iteration?
A. Burndown chart
B. Gantt chart
C. Hours expended chart
D. Management baseline chart
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Correct Answer: C
Question #120
The Scrum Master is a management role?
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: A
Question #121
Which of the following is most appropriate to always participate in Planning Poker?
A. Product Owner
B. Stakeholders
C. Team members
D. Project manager
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Correct Answer: A
Question #122
Which of the following is NOT one of the 12 core practices of XP:
A. Simple Design
B. Continuous Testing
C. Vertical Slicing
D. Refactoring
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Correct Answer: C
Question #123
The most appropriate model for a geographically distributed project team is one in which the team is distributed across:
A. relatively few locations, with each location team comprised of a complete development group developing decoupled subsystems
B. locations in the same time zone, working on the same systems while leveraging rich communication channels
C. relatively few locations, and tasks are divided along functional lines with design in one location, coding in another, and testing in another
D. many locations, with relatively few people at each location developing and testing decoupled subsystems
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Correct Answer: A
Question #124
Which of the following consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associatedWBSand WBS dictionary?
A. Scope plan
B. Product scope
C. Scope management plan
D. Scope baseline
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Correct Answer: C
Question #125
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a rapid cycle of:
A. Requirements, coding, and testing
B. Testing, coding, and refactoring
C. Testing, refactoring, and validation
D. Requirements, coding, and refactoring
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Correct Answer: C
Question #126
Which is NOT a principle of Lean?
A. Eliminate waste
B. Time-box events
C. Deliver fast
D. Delay commitment
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Correct Answer: B
Question #127
In a vision meeting, the vision for the project is defined and presented by the:
A. management
B. project manager
C. customer
D. project team
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Correct Answer: D
Question #128
An Agile team expects a velocity of 8. During sprint planning, the stories were estimated and prioritized in the following order: Story A_4Story Points Story B_2Story Points Story C_3 Story Points Story D_2Story Points Which stories should the team include in Sprint 1, without splitting the stories?
A. Stories A, C, and D
B. Stories A, B, and C
C. Stories A, B, and D
D. Stories B, C, and D
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Correct Answer: C
Question #129
In a vision meeting, the vision for the project is defined and presented by the:
A. management
B. project manager
C. customer
D. project team
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Correct Answer: C
Question #130
A development team has finished identifying the tasks they will be accountable for during the next sprint. Which of the following tools best provides transparency into the progress throughout the sprint?
A. Burndown chart
B. Gantt chart
C. Hours expended chart
D. Management baseline chart
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Correct Answer: A
Question #131
Which of the following best describes a core belief of Agile?
A. The best customer feedback comes near the end of the project when there is workingsoftware to review
B. Project status can be gauged by frequently reviewing completed milestones as reflected in the plan
C. Working solutions are the most accurate way of seeing the progress of the effort
D. Unique skill sets are harnessed when team members play different roles on a project
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Correct Answer: C
Question #132
Which of the following can be used as an input for Define Scope?
A. Product analysis
B. Project charter
C. Scope baseline
D. Project scope statement
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Correct Answer: D
Question #133
Which of the following does NOT describe Scrum?
A. Simple to understand
B. A lightweight framework
C. Difficult to master
D. A process or a technique for building products
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Correct Answer: A
Question #134
Wideband Delphi is used by an Agile Project manager to support what activity?
A. Prioritization
B. Scheduling
C. Estimation
D. Risk Management
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Correct Answer: BCEF
Question #135
What is a high-level representation of the features or themes that are to be delivered in each release?
A. Release plan
B. Product roadmap
C. Iteration plan
D. Product Backlog
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Correct Answer: B
Question #136
The three questions asked at every Daily Scrum should be: “What have you accomplished since the last Daily Scrum?”;”What are you planning to accomplish between now and the next Daily Scrum?”; and:
A. What is preventing you from completing your work effectively?
B. What is yourcurrent performance velocity?
C. Are you on track to complete assigned story points?
D. How many story pointswill you complete this sprint?
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Correct Answer: A
Question #137
At a strategic level, what is the most appropriate way for an Agile team to estimate a project?
A. Creating a strategic plan by estimating hours and days required
B. Using an abstract measurement to estimate Product Backlog items
C. Estimating source lines of code needed to implement the features
D. Taking an initial set of estimates and adding an appropriate risk factor
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Correct Answer: B
Question #138
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 that 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
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Correct Answer: B
Question #139
There are four critical actions that should be embraced by an adaptive leader: improving speed-to-value, having a passion for quality, doing less, and ________________.
A. Inspiring staff
B. Managing conflict
C. Facilitating meetings
D. Ensuring effective communication
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Correct Answer: A
Question #140
In the Kano Model of customer satisfaction, this type of feature makes a product unique from its competitors and contributes 100% to positive customer satisfaction:
A. Excitement
B. Performance
C. Must-have
D. Threshold
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Correct Answer: A
Question #141
Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?
A. Project
B. Functional
C. Program
D. Portfolio
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Correct Answer: B
Question #142
Which document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment?
A. Cost baseline
B. Service level agreement
C. Memorandum of understanding
D. Business case
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Correct Answer: C
Question #143
How long is the Sprint Planning meeting?
A. 4 hours
B. 8 hours
C. Depends on the length of the Sprint
D. 3 hours
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Correct Answer: C
Question #144
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #145
Retrospectives provide an opportunity for the team to:
A. Reflect at the end of every iteration and identify improvements that will increase the quality of the product
B. Participate in a mandatory meeting to share status updates across the team and to ensure that everyone is on track
C. Understand from the management if the project is achieving the Scope, Quality, Cost, and Schedule goals
D. Set goals at the beginning of the iteration and identify requirements that can be delivered in that iteration
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Correct Answer: A
Question #146
A value stream map is a tool used to identify the:
A. Waste across the entire process
B. Highest value product features
C. Most valuable team interactions
D. Most likely flow of project risks
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Correct Answer: A
Question #147
If the Development Team doesn’t like the time of the daily Scrum, what should the Scrum Master do?
A. Find a time that is open on everyone’s calendar
B. Let the Development Team come up with a new time
C. Ask the Team to try the existing time for one Sprint
D. Tell them that Scrum is immutable and that they need to stick to it
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Correct Answer: B
Question #148
Who is responsible for prioritizing the stories that will be included in the iteration?
A. ScrumMaster
B. Developer
C. Product Owner
D. Team
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Correct Answer: B
Question #149
What are three processes used to begin an Agile project?
A. Iterations, Product Road map Planning, and Number of Sprint Iterations
B. Visioning, Product Roadmap Planning, and Product Backlog Definition
C. Visioning, Product Backlog Definition, and Project Charter Creation
D. Burndown chart, Product Roadmap, and sprints’length
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Correct Answer: C
Question #150
A “Scrum of Scrums” meeting is:
A. Another name for the daily standup project meeting in a Scrum team
B. Amechanism that coordinates multiple teams working on a single project
C. Aproject meeting that happens twice every day across the Scrum teams
D. An occasional leadership meeting that provides direction to multiple Scrum teams
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Correct Answer: B
Question #151
What Scrum event or artifact supports daily inspection and adaptation?
A. Product Backlog
B. Sprint Backlog
C. Sprint
D. Scrum
E. Working Product Increment
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Correct Answer: D
Question #152
“Fail Sooner” is a benefit of Incremental Development.
A. True
B. False
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Correct Answer: A
Question #153
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is called risk:
A. appetite
B. tolerance
C. threshold
D. management
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Correct Answer: C
Question #154
Which of the following best describes a core belief of Agile?
A. The best customer feedback comes near the end of the project when there is workingsoftware to review
B. Project status can be gauged by frequently reviewing completed milestones as reflected in the plan
C. Working solutions are the most accurate way of seeing the progress of the effort
D. Unique skill sets are harnessed when team members play different roles on a project
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Correct Answer: C
Question #155
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
A. Critical path method
B. Rolling wave planning
C. Precedence diagramming method
D. Parametric estimating
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Correct Answer: A
Question #156
Which input provides suppliers with a clear set of goals, requirements, and outcomes?
A. Procurement statement of work
B. Purchase order
C. Source selection criteria
D. Bidder conference
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Correct Answer: A
Question #157
A technique showing Kanban work stages by comparing counted features over a time interval is called a/an:
A. Earned value system
B. Fully integrated backlog
C. Cumulative flow diagram
D. Progressive elaboration
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Correct Answer: A
Question #158
Which Agile method goes through the following stages:
A. Rational Unified Process (RUP)
B. Feature Driven Development (FDD)
C. Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
D. Lean Software Development
E. Scrum
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Correct Answer: B
Question #159
What of the following is not a step in the Value Stream Mapping process?
A. Define the current state
B. Collect data
C. Amplify Learning
D. Depict the future state
E. Develop an implementation plan
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Correct Answer: C
Question #160
Which answer best describes Wide Band Delphi (e.
G. Planning Poker) estimating?
A. Team members provide story estimates individually and discuss their reasoning until a consensus on the estimate is reached
B. Team performance on prior projects is analyzed, and actual hours and durations are used to determine estimates for similar user stories
C. Team members apply relative sizing to each task, and story points are triangulated based on the other stories in the Sprint Backlog
D. Team members assign a realistic and a pessimistic estimate to each story, and points are assigned based on the calculated average
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Correct Answer: A
Question #161
Which best describes the attributes of the IN VEST criteria in a user story?
A. Incremental, Net, Variation, Exceed, Scope, and Training
B. Interdependent, Nonfunctional, Value, Exploratory, Sprint, and Timebox
C. Innovation, Nested, Vision, Estimating, Scalable, and Team
D. Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable
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Correct Answer: D
Question #162
What of the following is not a step in the Value Stream Mapping process?
A. Define the current state
B. Collect data
C. Amplify Learning
D. Depict the future state
E. Develop an implementation plan
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Correct Answer: C
Question #163
What are the primary outputs of a release planning session?
A. Release vision, assumptions, action items, and iteration goals
B. Prioritized Product Backlog, risks, action items, and release goals
C. Estimated iteration velocities, risks, action items, and Release Backlog
D. Risks, action items, dependencies, and Release Backlog
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Correct Answer: D
Question #164
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
A. Estimate Costs
B. Control Costs
C. Plan Cost Management
D. Determine Budget
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Correct Answer: D
Question #165
Projects are undertaken by an organization to support the:
A. Product performance
B. Budget process
C. Collective capabilities
D. Organizational strategy
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Correct Answer: B
Question #166
Based upon this Burndown chart, is this project ahead of schedule or behind schedule?
A. Ahead of schedule
B. Behind schedule
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Correct Answer: A
Question #167
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 can 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 validity
C. The team cannot give accurate updates to management
D. Team collaboration cannot be measured effectively
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Correct Answer: B
Question #168
During Sprint Planning, the architect is constanly estimating higher than everyone else, and team members are increasing their estimates to accommodate her. This is an example of:
A. Dominating
B. Influencing
C. Dictating
D. Anchoring
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Correct Answer: D
Question #169
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
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Correct Answer: A
Question #170
What key benefits might stakeholders realize from an Agile approach?
A. The ability to bypass the change-management process, inserting new requirements and changes directly into the team as they meet daily
B. The early and continuous delivery of valuable software, providing increased visibility and the opportunity for more frequent adjustments
C. Increased access to the project and less reliance on formal reports and status meetings to better understand the current work and the risks the team is accepting
D. The team's flexibility to make changes mid-iteration as business needs or priorities change, increasing the ability of the team to meet project commitments
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Correct Answer: C
Question #171
In which Project Management Process Group is the project charter developed?
A. Monitoring and Controlling
B. Executing
C. Initiating
D. Planning
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Correct Answer: B
Question #172
What are the primary outputs of a release planning session?
A. Release vision, assumptions, action items, and iteration goals
B. Prioritized Product Backlog, risks, action items, and release goals
C. Estimated iteration velocities, risks, action items, and Release Backlog
D. Risks, action items, dependencies, and Release Backlog
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Correct Answer: A
Question #173
The velocity chart, storyboard, burndown chart, and impediment list are often communicated using:
A. Status reports
B. Information radiators
C. Portfolio presentations
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Correct Answer: B
Question #174
A 4-hour Sprint Planning meeting is typical for a Sprint or Iteration that is how long?
A. Four weeks
B. Two weeks
C. One week
D. Four days
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Correct Answer: B

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