Selected to lead a team with members located all over the globe, Gigi pushed to use the agile method of running a team, and upper management readily agreed. Why is it feasible to run a distributed team using agile methodology?

A. Agile teams use short iterations to complete tasks and receive feedback to ensure the project is on the right track.

B. Being agile lets Gigi select two or three people in each location to work together with the project’s goals in mind.

C. Almost everyone has Internet access, which allows for immediate communication.

D. Agile teams are used to running themselves, so Gigi’s (the leader’s) involvement will be minimal.

Hunter is hesitant to use EVM (Earned Value Management) in his agile projects. Why?

C. EVM can’t tell him if the team is truly providing project value.

A. Although EVM can calculate the project’s value, it neglects time and budget.

B. EVM can’t adequately tell Hunter if the project is on time or on budget.

D. EVM is not able to track the performance of the project compared to the baseline.

Which of the following Scrum terminology would you expect to see in an Agile contract?

B. Scrum master responsibilities.

C. Detailed descriptions of the task for the team.

Which of the following statements best describes Value-Driven Delivery?

D. Emphasis on maximizing value delivery.

A. Emphasis on cost reductions.

Siya and her agile development team have just been moved to Test-Driven Development. Their focus is on two new areas in their development field. What are the two most likely areas?

A. Unit tests are created before code is written and refactoring the code once it is written.

B. Writing automated test scripts and peer testing.

C. Smoke tests of development and production.

D. Pair programming and write automated test scripts for code’s future release.

Because development has stopped due to a roadblock, your agile team leader has scheduled a problem-solving session. The agile method involves not just the business partner and project lead but the entire team. Why is this method beneficial?

C. The team together can identify, diagnose, and solve the issue, which facilitates buy-in.

A. The developers have the best theoretical solutions.

B. Having the entire team involved will keep the meeting shorter.

D. The team will introduce multiple fixes to select from.

The agile team needs to make a decision. As a team, they decide to use the thumbs up/down/sideways decision model. Assuming you know what the thumbs up and thumbs down mean, you’re not sure of the thumb sideways vote. What do thumbs sideways mean?

B. Team members with thumbs sideways have a question that needs further discussion.

A. Team members with thumbs sideways don’t have enough knowledge to vote.

C. Team members with thumbs sideways don’t care either way.

D. Team members with thumbs sideways can’t make up their minds.

By adjusting requirements as needed, regardless of when they occur, Ajay and his team ensure that Marca Corporation can compete best in their industry by regularly requesting changes. Of the following, which principle is the team primarily exhibiting?

D. Even late in development, change requirements are welcomed.

A. Frequently delivering working software.

B. Regular team reflection on how to become more effective, and then adjusting accordingly.

C. Through early and continuous software delivery, the team ensures the customer that their satisfaction is the team’s highest priority.

It comes to your attention that the agile team you are working with uses a whiteboard and writes tasks on sticky notes. Your first thought is that they’ve taken a step backward by not using an electronic project planning tool. After a while, though, you see the value in the whiteboard system. Why is this method beneficial?

A. It is visual, and the at-a-glance shows the project’s progress.

B. It’s easy to ignore a sticky note and bypass a task.

C. The multiple people who have access to the board can move notes to their advantage.

D. Sticky notes are not taken seriously.

The agile team that you are the project manager of has determined several important values to deliver to the customer. How should these tasks be tackled by the team?

D. The tasks should be prioritized, tested, and delivered in increments.

A. The tasks should be delivered according to the project plan.

B. The tasks should be delivered while in progress to gather feedback, whether they’ve been tested or not.

C. All deliverables should be presented at the end of the project.

Lorenzo is a team member on an agile project. Along with all the stakeholders, he has already gone through the value-based analysis of prioritization for the first few iterations. Now, Lorenzo must estimate how long each iteration will take. For making estimates like this, what is agile’s method of preference?

A. Break down requirements into chunks of work, estimate how long each task will take, plan the task.

B. Allowing the team leader to determine the time frame of each iteration.

C. Figure out how many tasks are in the entire project, group the tasks into specific iterations, determine how long each iteration will take.

D. Understand how many people are available, determine the number of tasks, split the tasks between the team.

Because of the difficulty in making absolute estimates regarding task completion, agile teams use which of the following methods to estimate more accurately?

A. Use comparative estimates or relative sizing.

B. Estimate how many user stories can be done in a day.

C. Base absolute estimates on hours, not days.

Kabir has made arrangements for a fixed-price work package at Island Distillery. For three separate work packages, his vendor has estimated the work at $35,000, $35,000, and $30,000. After the initial SOW, the vendor discovers that the second and third work packages are more complicated, and will likely cost an additional $10,000 each. What is Kabir’s vendor expected to do?

A. The vendor will estimate the second package at $45,000 and tentatively estimate the third at $40,000.

B. Change the cost of all three work packages to $33,333.

C. All remaining SOWs should be fully renegotiated from scratch.

D. Keep the price exactly the same.

To allow agile team members a chance to retreat for some quiet time, agile team leaders provide caves. What else can an agile team leader do or suggest to let team members' time concentrate?

A. Designating a certain period as quiet work time in collocated areas.

B. Banning cell phone usage in the work area.

C. Scheduling time for team members to go to the caves.

D. Allowing collocated team members to work remotely.

Which of the following responses is not an Agile Manifesto value or principle regarding communication?

B. Delivering working software frequently.

A. Face-to-face communication whenever possible.

C. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.

D. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

The values of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct Honesty do not state:

C. We earnestly seek to understand the wrongdoing.

A. We are truthful in our communications and in our communication.

B. We are truthful in our communications and in our conduct.

D. We provide accurate information in a timely manner.

To elicit feedback, prototypes, simulations, and demonstrations are three of several methods used in agile projects. It is important to deliver one of these methods to product users for feedback, sooner than later. Why?

D. To learn if there are differences between requirements and what is wanted.

A. It allows users to create new forms that will be required for the new system.

B. It allows users to begin training on the new functionality.

C. It allows users to eliminate certain roles in their group.

As the agile team leader, Luca has described the iteration goals at a high level and is letting the team decide how to complete the iteration. What does Luca’s action prove to the team?

C. That Luca trusts the self-organizing team and their expertise to complete the goal.

A. That Luca doesn’t know how to accomplish the iteration.

B. That Luca is not a micro-manager.

D. That Luca is busy working on his normal job.

The backlog is continuously being refined, or groomed, by the business partner. This entails adding, reprioritizing, or removing stories. What is the development team’s responsibility in this process?

B. Estimating the work so the customer can prioritize effectively.

A. Changing the business needs.

C. Deleting stories that don’t work.

D. Adding new story functionality.

Sharee really likes the continuous integration her team has just started using in their project at Natalie’s Needlepoint. What can Sharee expect the impact on her project to be?

B. As part of their build efforts, additional time was spent on the implementation of automatic testing.

A. Each time they do a release, it’ll be a large burden for the testing team.

D. There will be no impact at all for those that write test scripts.

During a sprint planning meeting, what is one item that should be accomplished?

B. The product owner shares the updated backlog, and the team discusses it to make sure everyone understands it.

A. The project scope and costs are renegotiated.

C. Each participant answers three questions: What have I accomplished?, what do I plan to accomplish? and are there any roadblocks?

D. The product owner decides if the product is done.

How can the product owner quickly assess the stakeholder value?

D. Workshop with all stakeholders.

Because of your work on several agile teams, you’ve become very familiar with user stories. You’ve been asked to describe to the new people on your team what a “user story” actually is. In just a few words, how do you explain a user story?

C. A user story is a small chunk of functionality that should take one to three days to finish.

A. A user story is the background of the user community.

B. A user story is a narrative of requirements.

D. A user story is how the user community plans to use the product.

The Agile Software Development Manifesto has an emphasis on individuals and interactions over what?

D. Comprehensive documentation.

A new stakeholder, Chanda, has recently joined your team. Her daily responsibilities are taking a lot of time, and she’s struggling with really being able to engage with the team. You’ve brought this issue to the attention of Chanda’s manager, but no solution has been proposed yet. To help alleviate the problem, what can the team itself do?

3. To free Chanda from her daily responsibilities, hire a temp or contractor to do them, so Chanda is able to work on the project.

1. Tell Chanda’s boss how this issue is creating problems for the team.

2. Assist Chanda with her daily work.

4. Overload Chanda so she can’t get to her daily responsibilities until the weekend.

Your entire team has been asked by the agile team leader to submit cycle time for the next three iterations. What does the leader mean by cycle time?

C. The time it takes to complete each iteration from start to finish.

A. The time that is between each iteration for review and feedback.

B. The time it takes to figure out what is in the iteration.

D. The time it will take to complete all three iterations.

When an agile vendor contract is effective, the customer chooses to use the same vendor throughout the project, and then opts to reprioritize the backlog, what is the vendor then expected to do?

B. If the amount of work doesn’t increase, there’s no need to charge extra for changes.

A. To include new changes, renegotiate the contract.

C. Officially break the contract.

D. Need a formal change control process with the entire team’s approval.

As the team leader, Ellen has fostered a safe environment for disagreement. Because of this, her team feels empowered to move forward without obstacles. How?

B. To make better decisions, the team is encouraged to join in constructive conflict.

A. The team leader takes responsibility for all decisions that are made.

C. There is a method to create a list of reasons why tasks can’t be completed and brought to management.

D. The team decided to avoid conflict.

As the project manager for an agile project in her organization, Becca is explaining to the team how to communicate effectively in the project. For an agile team, what’s the preferred method of communication?

B. Secured and saved e-mail so there’s a paper trail.

As a member of the PMO, you’ve been analyzing future projects and have found one in particular that you think project teams will resist. Your understanding is that this project’s purpose is to implement safety standards for an off-shore manufacturing plant. Some project teams may not understand the project's value. To get the project approved, how do you avoid a long, drawn-out process?

A. Try to make the teams understand the importance of the project.

B. Has the project been outsourced to avoid pushback?

C. Take the project off the year’s project list and try to implement it at a different time.

You are the leader of an agile team whose members are located all over the world. So that team members can put names with faces, you’ve arranged conference calls and insisted that every participant have their computer camera on. Because of travel costs, it is impossible for the team to meet face-to-face. What’s an alternate way of enabling team members to get to know each other?

D. Pair up team members to work on tasks, and rotate the pairs.

A. Have team members learn each other’s primary language.

B. Have each member compose a short biography to share with team members.

C. Have them send photos to each other.

Which of the following statements is correct about refactoring?

C. After refactoring, the software should be better organized.

A. After refactoring, the software should be completed.

B. After refactoring, the software should be more effective.

D. After refactoring, the software should be more efficient.

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30 sec • 1 pt

The agile team needs to make a decision. To save time, a team member suggests skipping discussion and using a show of hands to indicate whether each member is for or against the decision. If you are going to object to this decision-making approach, what is the most legitimate reason to do so?

A. You are concerned there will be no ideas for a better alternative to the decision.

B. You are concerned some members will simply choose the cheapest way to resolve the issue.

C. You are concerned some members will not vote for the decision you want.

D. You are concerned that some members will vote for the fastest way to resolve the issue.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following best describes the functions of an Agile coach?

A. Facilitator, interaction designer, teacher, manager.

B. Interaction designer, teacher, manager, collaboration conductor.

C. Manager, teacher, conflict navigator, problem solver.

D. Facilitator, teacher, conflict navigator, problem solver.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In Scrum, when would identification of risk always occur?

A. Daily Scrum.

B. Sprint review.

C. Sprint retrospective.

D. Sprint planning.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why is the velocity of completed iterations used to estimate the progress of the project, and duration estimates for the project’s remainder?

A. The same team members should be on each iteration.

B. The team is more capable of completing tasks after several iterations.

C. Previous iterations include all variables of development.

D. The same number of user stories are completed in each iteration.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following statements is not a difference between a waterfall and an Agile project?

A. The traditional project has focused on people, while an Agile project has focused on processes.

B. The traditional project has comprehensive documentation, while Agile only documents when needed.

C. Management in a waterfall project has focused on controlling, while Agile has focused on facilitation.

D. The traditional project uses a test at the end of the development, while Agile has iterative testing.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Shonda is an agile team leader who feels strongly about the benefits of holding retrospectives after each iteration. Why is this so important to Shonda?

A. It lets the team leader know all the details of each iteration.

B. Non-productive team members can be taken off the project.

C. It proves to the stakeholders that the team leader is taking charge of the project.

D. The results of a retrospective can offer immediate improvements.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following statements best describes the NPV decision rule?

A. A business case with a positive NPV should be rejected.

B. Business cases should not be rejected or accepted based upon NPV.

C. In the case of mutually exclusive projects, the one with the highest NPV should be selected.

D. A business case with a negative NPV should be accepted.

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PMP QUIZ-2

The agile team needs to make a decision. To save time, a team member suggests skipping discussion and using a show of hands to indicate whether each member is for or against the decision. If you are going to object to this decision-making approach, what is the most legitimate reason to do so?

Which of the following best describes the functions of an Agile coach?

In Scrum, when would identification of risk always occur?

Why is the velocity of completed iterations used to estimate the progress of the project, and duration estimates for the project’s remainder?

Which of the following statements is not a difference between a waterfall and an Agile project?

Shonda is an agile team leader who feels strongly about the benefits of holding retrospectives after each iteration. Why is this so important to Shonda?

Which of the following statements best describes the NPV decision rule?

If you are using an accounting model where you measure the number of team members and billing rate per sprint, what method would you most likely be using?

Selected to lead a team with members located all over the globe, Gigi pushed to use the agile method of running a team, and upper management readily agreed. Why is it feasible to run a distributed team using agile methodology?

Hunter is hesitant to use EVM (Earned Value Management) in his agile projects. Why?

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