PMI-ACP Quiz3

Agile team members are concerned that Kanban method suggested by the scrum master for their upcoming project is not agile ‚enough‚ for the project‚ needs. Which of the following would support the team members‚ concern?

• Kanban relies on staff specialization in each phase

• Kanban is as adaptable as other agile methods

• Kanban focuses on delivering value

• Kanban includes reflection as part of its process

A senior software developer is demonstrating to a junior programmer how they use a Kanban on their project to pull user stories through the system. What would be the typical order of the series of phases on their Kanban board?

• In test, in development, in requirements

• In requirements, in development, in test

• In development, in test, in requirements

• In requirements, in test, in development

How should a product owner use Kano analysis to ensure the product meets customer expectations?

• Remove exciters to focus instead on dissatisfiers and indifferent features

• Eliminate indifferent features, and focus working on dissatisfiers

• Market the indifferent features as exciters, and deliver dissatisfiers in the release

• Prioritize the features in the following order: exciters, satisfiers, dissatisfiers, indifferent

Which of the following is not a best practice associated with Feature-Driven Development (FDD)?

• Configuration management

• Change control boards

• Domain object modeling

• Developing by feature

An agile leader facilitated a retrospective, where team members were quite angry with each other and blaming each other for violating work agreements. What should the agile leader do?

• Openly and directly ask team members to discuss their feelings

• Be aware of personal emotions to keep them in check

• Ignore individual emotions in the interest of the team

• Make everyone in the retrospective happy

There are three key elements that agile teams can use to analyze the product and create a backlog. Which of the following activities represents one of the key elements?

• Aggregating user stories into features

• Ensuring that user stories have interdependencies with other stories

• Identifying the roles, or personas, that exist in the customer environment

• Breaking the value stream map down into individual activities and steps

A certified professional engineer who has been leading agile teams for the past six years has just been assigned to work with a team led by experienced scrum master to develop a new type of technology. Which of the following would be considered one of the certified project engineer’s responsibilities?

• Breaking down political impediments that the project faces

• Acting as a change agent in organizational processes and methods

• Understanding customer requirements

• Providing financial support for the project

While building a working area for an agile team, which of the following approaches will ensure that the team space will be conducive to effective team collaboration and communication, where team members can work in a quite environment for a short period of times, and allow project stakeholders who are not members of the team to check project performance status on a regular basis?

• Agile modeling

• War room

• Co-location

• Cave and common

Several team members seem disinterested in the daily standup meeting and are carrying on a side conversation. What should an agile practitioner do first?

• Address the issue on the spot since it is an interruption to the rest of the team

• Ignore the issue and let the meeting continue

• Inform their functional managers after the meeting

• Let the team address the issue since they are self-managed

Which of the following planning activities is NOT part of release planning?

• Assigning resources to tasks

• Prioritizing user stories.

• Selecting an iteration length.

• Developing a milestone schedule.