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WorksheetsAtoha lesson 12
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 36mins
2. Which of the following is one of the planned opportunities for inspection and adaptation in the Scrum method?
A. Velocity review meeting
B. Sprint risk meeting
C. Daily scrum
D. Retrospective planning meeting
3. The agile triangle of constraints is said to be inverted from the traditional triangle because it allows:
A. Scope and time to vary instead of cost
B. Cost and time to vary instead of scope
C. Scope and cost to be fixed instead of time
D. Scope to vary while time and cost are fixed
4. The relationship between leadership and management in agile methods is:
A. Leadership replaces all aspects of management.
B. Leadership is subsidiary to management.
C. Management and leadership are used together.
D. Management and leadership are incompatible.
5. Which of the following isn't a core aspect of the agile mindset?
A. Welcome change
B. Learn through discovery
C. Respect the process
D. Deliver value continuously
6. The core values of XP include:
A. Courage, communication, input
B. Simplicity, control, respect
C. Feedback, simplicity, communication
D. Solutions, feedback, control
7. On a typical agile team, who has the best insight into task execution?
A. Project manager
B. Team members
C. ScrumMaster
D. Agile coach
8. Which of the following are tools Quality Management teams use to identify issues? (Choose two.)
A. Audit reports
B. Planning Poker
C. Design for X
D. Kano Model
9. Which tool can measure the happiness of users of the new service based on their willingness to encourage others to use your service
A. Net promoter score
B. Net value
C. AB testing
D. Planned value
10. Which conflict management approach is best suited for a situation where much is not known and currently the time to research and resolve the conflict is not available?
A. Compromise/reconcile
B. Accommodate/smooth
C. Withdraw/avoid
D. Force/direct
11. You mentor a team member on leading an estimation session. Which skill are you mentoring?
A. Servant
B. Facilitation
C. Emotional
D. Leadership
12. Where is the ideal spot for an information radiator?
A. In the manager's office.
B. In a high-traffic area.
C. In an unused conference room.
D. On the project manager's laptop.
13. How they plan to meet customer expectations and ensure the achievement of project objectives?
A. Identify key deliverables based on the business requirements
B. Develop a perfect project management plan
C. Maintain quality of the deliverables within six sigma standard deviation
D. Make sure each project risk has a response and an owner
14. The implementation of the change request requires technical knowledge that no one on the project team has. What should the project manager do to resolve this situation?
A. Bring in a qualified consultant
B. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor
C. Defer the change request
D. Document the issue in the issue log
15. A project charter has been approved, and the project manager has just completed the Identify Stakeholders process. Before project planning begins, what should the project manager do?
A. Conduct stakeholder analysis
B. Hold a project kick-off meeting
C. Inform the key stakeholders of the approved project charter
D. Perform the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process
16. What is one of the three questions that are addressed in the daily scrum?
A. What have I done since the last daily scrum?
B. Why didn't I get my work done yesterday?
C. How will I do my work today?
D. What is my plan for the week?
17. Which of the following is not a form of frequent verification and validation?
A. Pair programming
B. Unit testing
C. Iteration demos
A. Iteration planning
18. MoSCoW and dot voting are forms of:
A. Estimation
B. Risk identification
C. Prioritization
D. Reporting
19. What is the primary benefit of involving business representatives in the prioritization of work?
A. To proactively engage the business representative between acceptance testing cycles
B. To answer business-related questions about the requirements
C. To promote communication about when features will be delivered
D. To better understand the business needs for the project
20. Project X has an IRR of 12 percent, and project Y has an IRR of 10 percent. Which project represents the better rate of return?
A. It depends on the payback period.
B. Project Y
C. Project X
D. Project X or Y, depending on NPV
21. In software development, the process of frequently integrating new and changed code into the project code repository is known as:
A. Integrating daily
B. Continuous integration
C. Integration control
D. Constant feedback
22. A sponsor wants to evaluate a proposed three-year project against two proposed one-year projects. Which financial metric would be most helpful?
A. NPV
B. ROI
C. MMF
D. Velocity
23. Which of the following is most likely to be an MVP?
A. A bicycle that has no handlebars
B. A pen that has a reservoir for glow-in-the-dark ink as well as regular ink
C. An order entry system that has no user interface
D. A chair that has no back
24. The sponsor is trying to determine which project has the greatest business value-one that returns $4 million in three years or one that returns $5 million in four years. The interest rate is 5 percent for borrowing capital to develop the projects. The best approach to determine the highest-value project is:
A. Select the "$5 million in four years" project, since it returns the highest amount.
B. Select the "$4 million in three years" project, since it has the shorter payback period.
C. Calculate the NPV of the projects, and choose the project with the highest value.
D. Calculate the NPV of the projects, and choose the project with the lowest cost.
25. The purpose of continuous integration is to:
A. Always have a version of the software ready for release
B. Shorten lengthy compile times
C. Facilitate the practice of pair programming
D. Find code issues as soon as possible
26. As part of the quality control in your project, you are exploring a technique that shows the history and pattern of variation. This is a line graph that shows data points plotted in the order in which they occurred. You are most likely looking at a:
A. Pareto diagram
B. Cause-and-effect diagram
C. Control chart
D. Histogram
27. As a project manager, you are analyzing a process and looking for opportunities for improvements by identifying and analyzing non-value-added activities. This relates to which of the following tools and techniques of the Manage Quality process?
A. Quality Audits
B. Process Analysis
C. Affinity diagrams
D. Interrelationship digraphs
28. Which of the following tools and techniques are not applicable while communicating project information?
A. Information management systems
B. Communication technology
C. Communication requirements analysis
D. Communication methods
29. You are a project manager who is in charge of an important project for your company. The project includes producing widgets for your customer. The collected data helps identify the greatest causes of defects in the overall process. Which technique should you use to determine the correlation between two variables being analyzed?
A. Control chart
B. Scatter diagram
C. Statistical sampling
D. Pareto chart
30. Statistical sampling involves choosing part of a population for inspection. Appropriate sampling can often ___________the cost of quality control.
A. Reduce
B. Increase
C. Neutralize
D. Mitigate
1. The XP core practices include:
A. Whole team, planning games, small releases
B. One team, process game, big releases
C. Paired team, planning games, quick releases
D. Build team, process game, incremental releases
A project manager is developing a project management plan to submit to the project sponsor in two weeks. The project sponsor, however, wants to review the early resource estimates before the deadline. How should the project manager show this information?
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary
Statement of work (SOW)
Resource breakdown structure (RBS)
A project manager is leading a project with seven key stakeholders. What should the project manager consider as the most important part of stakeholder management?
Avoid challenging stakeholders.
Establish good working relationships with all stakeholders.
Make changes to the project schedule in real-time.
Ensure all stakeholders receive the same information.
A project manager is hired by an organization and is given a project that has a vague scope and unclear deliverable requirements. How should the project manager proceed with this project?
Submit a request to the PMO to be paired with someone familiar with the organization’s project management approach.
Escalate to the project management office (PMO) to clarify the unclear scope.
Schedule a meeting with the project team and the sponsor to clarify the scope.
Develop the project plan based on the current scope by breaking down the deliverables and requirements.
A project manager is assigned to join a mega industrial project already underway. The latest performance indices are CPI=0.42 and SPI=0.20. This project is:
Ahead of schedule and over budget
Ahead of schedule and under budget
Behind schedule and under budget
Behind schedule and over budget
After completing a project, the team meets to conduct a lessons learned session. During this meeting, the team sees that all deliverables were completed to the defined parameters. However, during the testing, there were a large number of errors identified. What should the project manager have done in this situation?
Conducted a Monte Carlo analysis which will determine potential outcomes and responses.
Planned for these errors in the risk register as something to look for in future projects.
Set up a meeting with the testing team to get more information about the testing methods to be used.
Evaluated when the mitigation strategy will be implemented to prepare for future projects.
A project manager is managing a credit card acceptance software project. During testing, it is learned that the application cannot accept foreign credit cards, making the application nearly useless. The team leader had entered a user story that said “Customer can pay using credit card”, but it was put into the backlog as too large for the sprint. As a project manager, what should have been done to prevent this issue?
Have the project team implement the user story during the next sprint.
Ensure that the team performs iterative backlog refinement.
Ensure that a detailed user story was presented to the project team.
Ensure that the team recorded detailed application functionality requirements from the stakeholders.
