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WorksheetsPMI ACP Full Mock 2
Total questions: 120
Worksheet time: 2hrs 0mins
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1.
A project team trying Agile methods for the first time is considering Agile reporting methods. Historically the team has been reporting on project baselines and has used earned value management for status reporting. What should be the new approach?
a)
Continue using earned value management for project reporting.
b)
Consider ways to report project’s ROI.
c)
Consider ways to report demonstrable value delivery to customers.
d)
Agile teams do not report project progress.
2.
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of collocation?
a)
Ability to utilize usual tools.
b)
Increased velocity.
c)
Increased communication.
d)
Controlled changes.
3.
During which of the following Agile approaches is project planning managed through weekly and quarterly cycles?
a)
XP
b)
Scrum
c)
Lean
d)
Kanban
4.
Which of the following Agile terms means putting requirements in order based on what customers value most?
a)
Project scoping
b)
Backlog refinement
c)
Return on investment (ROI)
d)
Iteration planning
5.
An Agile PMO is value-driven. What does that mean?
a)
All Agile projects are value-driven and as a result all Agile PMOs are value-driven.
b)
Agile projects should deliver the right value, to the right audience, at the right time. The Agile PMO’s objective is to facilitate and enable this goal.
c)
Agile PMOs deliver value to the organization by being the command and control center for all organizational projects.
d)
Agile PMOs must ensure that all organizational projects deliver organizational value. The Agile PMOs ensure that by standardizing the project management approach.
6.
Which of the following techniques requires frequent incorporation of work into the whole, no matter the product, and then retest to determine that the entire product still works as intended?
a)
Continuous integration
b)
Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
c)
Spikes
d)
Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
7.
ABCon is an ERP consulting firm. For the past 15 years ABCon has been implementing ERP systems for it clients. So far, ABCon has followed traditional project management approaches and is now considering piloting Agile on a relatively small and less complex ERP upgrade project that requires a single small team and then trying it on a more complex green-field ERP implementation project for another client that requires multiple Agile teams. If the pilot is not successful, what must ABCon do?
a)
Document lessons learned from the pilot project and try avoiding the mistakes made on the more complex project.
b)
Shelf the Agile transformation program as this is not producing the desired results for the organization.
c)
Do not try Agile on the more complex project. Instead, address the organizational impediments that prevented the pilot team from working in an Agile way.
d)
Identify the weaker team members from the team piloting Agile and have them replace with stronger candidates.
8.
For your upcoming project, you are currently looking for a balanced Agile framework that is neither too narrow in focus nor too prescriptive in detail. You are ideally looking for a process decision framework that integrates several Agile best practices into a comprehensive model. Which of the following Agile frameworks is recommended in this case?
a)
Scrum
b)
AgileUP
c)
Disciplined Agile
d)
Waterfall
9.
If the customer wants to incorporate new ideas or features not originally planned into a not-to-exceed time and materials arrangement, which of the following approaches is recommended?
a)
Converting the not-to-exceed time and material arrangement to a fixed-price arrangement.
b)
Replacing original work with new work.
c)
Issuing a new contract for the additional work.
d)
Adding new work to the scope of work.
10.
Which of the following is the best strategy for prioritizing features?
a)
Sorting the desired features based on cycle time.
b)
Sorting the desired features based on business value.
c)
Sorting the desired features based on ideal days.
d)
Sorting the desired features based on story points.
11.
You are leading an Agile project. The team has proposed using a Kanban board to manage the team’s work in progress and spot bottlenecks. Which of the following is the correct order of categories for the flow of work items on a Kanban board?
a)
Ready -> Develop and Unit Test -> Dev-Done -> System Test -> Done
b)
Ready -> Done -> Develop and Unit Test -> Dev-Done -> System Test
c)
Develop and Unit Test -> Ready -> Dev-Done -> System Test -> Done
d)
Ready -> Develop and Unit Test -> Dev-Done -> Done -> System Test
12.
A dedicated Agile team is currently working on an ERP system customization and deployment project five days a week. Each iteration is time-boxed at three weeks. A total of 500 story points were estimated at the start of the project. The team has recently completed its 4th iteration on the project and have successfully delivered 30 story points during this iteration. So far, the team has delivered a total of 120 story points on the project. If no new stories have been added to the project since initiation, what was the lead time (in weeks) for the 30 stories delivered during the last iteration?
a)
12
b)
0.5
c)
2
d)
9
13.
Which of the following contract types allows the supplier a higher hourly rate when the delivery is early but penalizes the supplier with a lower hourly rate when the delivery is late?
a)
Not-to-exceed time and materials
b)
Fixed price
c)
Cost plus
d)
Graduated time and materials
14.
Without attention to the highest value for the customer, the Agile team may create features that are not appreciated, or otherwise insufficiently valuable. Which of the following roles is primarily responsible for creating a backlog of the features that are prioritized by value?
a)
Servant-leader
b)
Product owner
c)
Agile team
d)
Customer
15.
You are currently conducting a culture assessment for an organization. As a first step, you want to identify areas where organizational emphasis is often applied. How should you start collecting this information?
a)
Through conversations with stakeholders, team members, and senior management.
b)
Through review of lessons learned from completed project.
c)
Through review of enterprise environmental factors.
d)
Through review of organizational policies and procedures.
16.
You have recently completed a project iteration and prior to the commencement of the next iteration, a few defects have been found. Rather than fixing the defects, the project team is insisting on converting these into user stories and prioritizing with the rest of the stories. What is your view?
a)
The project team is right.
b)
The project team is wrong, the next iteration cannot commence until all defects have been fixed.
c)
The project team is wrong, the defects need to be fixed immediately.
d)
The project team is always right.
17.
An Agile team estimated stories of a complex project in ideal days. During the first few iterations, it was observed that the team significantly underestimated all of the user stories. Can the team predict project completion date in this situation?
a)
Yes, but the team first needs to re-estimate the entire project.
b)
No, since the project team is incompetent in accurately estimating ideal days.
c)
Yes, if all user stories’ sizes are consistent and relatively correct.
d)
No, Agile projects cannot predict completion dates.
18.
Which of the following situations is a bad example of tailoring Agile practices?
a)
Due to geographic distribution of team members, daily scrums were held through video conferencing.
b)
Due to the project’s complexity, the team decided to have more than one product owner.
c)
Retrospectives were unpopular so the team decided to drop them.
d)
Due to the project’s complexity, the Kanban board was redesigned to include more categories.
19.
Your organization has been awarded a contract to develop and implement a new resource management system for a client based in Asia. Your development team is distributed across Europe. You are also planned to relocate the implementation team to the client location. What would be your biggest challenge in such a setup?
a)
Documenting sprint retrospectives.
b)
Controlling project costs.
c)
Efficient and effective communication.
d)
Monitoring project progress.
20.
The practice of attempting to solve problems by just using specific predefined methods, without challenging the methods in light of experience is known as:
a)
Traditional PDCA
b)
Kaizan
c)
Single loop learning
d)
Lessons learned
21.
Check-ins are an important section of an iteration retrospective as it helps people articulate what they want from the retrospective and helps them put aside other concerns and focus on the retrospective. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate question for the check-ins?
a)
What is one thing that’s on your mind?
b)
What tasks you will be completing today?
c)
What do you need for yourself from this session?
d)
In one or two words, what is happening for you right now?
22.
Most projects contain a tremendous amount of uncertainty. This uncertainty is reflected in the team estimates by the:
a)
Number of change requests.
b)
Width of the estimate ranges.
c)
Total size of the project in story points.
d)
Observed velocity.
23.
An Agile team has recently completed the project release planning stage. What is the next step in the planning cycle?
a)
Iteration plan
b)
Product roadmap
c)
Daily plan
d)
Product vision
24.
What does “Kanban” mean?
a)
Bucket
b)
Work
c)
Visual sign
d)
Placeholder
25.
An Agile project’s product backlog contains 25 user stories estimated at 10 story points each. The team estimates that 60% of the effort will be required to develop the stories, while 40% of the effort will be required to test and deliver the stories. During the first iteration, the team was able to develop five stories but was only able to complete three of them. What was the team’s velocity?
a)
12 story points
b)
42 story points
c)
18 story points
d)
30 story points
26.
How does Agile estimating and planning support the efficient exploration of new product development solution space?
a)
Converging user stories into epics and themes for the ease of the users and the product owner.
b)
Designing a fully functional prototype before starting the product development.
c)
Developing an exhaustive list of user stories and grooming these stories throughout the project.
d)
Frequently planning and progressively elaborating solution requirements.
27.
You are managing a platform migration project. You have a team of experienced engineers and analysts and you are assigning project tasks to them. Which of the following principles will help you maximizing the team’s time spent on value-adding tasks?
a)
Assigning tasks in a way that each team member has two tasks at the most to perform at any given point in time.
b)
Assigning tasks in a way that each team member has only one task to perform at any given point in time.
c)
Assigning tasks in a way that each team member has two independent tasks to perform at any given point in time.
d)
Assigning tasks in a way that each team member has multiple tasks to perform at any given point in time so that they always have something to do.
28.
Which of the following can be classified as an Agile measurement?
a)
Project’s percent of completion.
b)
Number of finished features.
c)
Earned value measurements.
d)
Project’s RAG status.
29.
Organizations usually prefer in-house Agile coaching instead of getting it from external coaches. This is due to:
a)
Internal coaches have a wider breadth of cross-industry experience.
b)
Internal coaches are more reliable.
c)
Internal coaches have stronger relationships in their organizations.
d)
Internal coaches cost less than external coaches.
30.
Agile teams, along with the product owners, generally prioritize stories based on their business value. However, there are some situations where some of the lower value stories are selected to be developed first, for example:
a)
Stories that are least expensive to develop.
b)
Stories that involve tested technology.
c)
Stories that can be developed very quickly.
d)
Stories that help in eliminating some significant risk.
31.
You need your team to generate new ideas. In the past, a couple of the team members were more vocal and dominated the entire discussion. This time, you want to ensure everybody gets a fair chance to voice their ideas and at the same time reduce the influence of dominating team members. What should you do?
a)
Remove the dominating team members from the discussion.
b)
Use “Triple Nickels”.
c)
Make it clear at the start that people who will try to dominate the group will be reported.
d)
Do not conduct a face-to-face meeting and ask the team members to email their ideas.
32.
Your project’s next iteration retrospective is coming up. The last retrospective didn’t go well and the team went off track. This time you want to help the team put aside other concerns and focus on the retrospective. What do you need to do this time?
a)
Set the stage using check-ins
b)
Keep the distractors out of the meeting.
c)
Request the product owner to lead the session.
d)
Conduct the retrospectives on a daily basis.
33.
A good planning process supports all of the following except:
a)
Risk reduction
b)
Accurate upfront estimates
c)
Communication
d)
Better decision-making
34.
Which of the following is the critical problem associated with change control policies used in traditional approaches to project management?
a)
These focus on reviewing change and associated impact in detail before approving/rejecting them.
b)
These do not help in controlling gold plating.
c)
These do not help in controlling scope creep.
d)
These constrain product changes, even highly valuable changes.
35.
All of the following are data gathering activities EXCEPT:
a)
Fishbone
b)
Mad Sad Glad
c)
Triple Nickels
d)
Timeline
36.
You want to use your project team to generate a large number of ideas and then prioritize them against a defined set of criteria. Which of the following activities can help the team generate a large list of divergent ideas?
a)
Affinity diagrams
b)
Multi-voting
c)
Pareto Analysis
d)
Brainstorming
37.
You have recently joined an Agile team. The team is new to Agile approaches and occasionally struggles with some of the Agile tools and techniques. You have noticed that during each daily standup meeting the team discusses WIP statuses with a focus on where different items are during the development cycle. You think this is a waste and the team should rather focus on the objectives of the standups. Which of the following tools can help the team in this situation?
a)
Fishbone diagram
b)
Spikes
c)
Kanban board
d)
5 Whys
38.
Agile teams complete the features usually in the form of user stories. The teams periodically demonstrate the working product to the product owner who accepts or declines the stories. In iteration-based Agile, when are these demonstrations conducted?
a)
At the end of the project.
b)
During retrospectives.
c)
At the end of the iteration.
d)
When enough features have accumulated into a set that is coherent.
39.
What is the role of the product owner in a planning poker meeting?
a)
The product owner answers any questions that the estimators have.
b)
The product owner can assume any role but the moderator of the planning poker meeting.
c)
The product owner assumes the role of chief estimator.
d)
The product owner estimates story sizes.
40.
The linear trend of a burndown chart is usually:
a)
Downward sloping
b)
Upward sloping
c)
Horizontal to the y-axis
d)
Vertical to the y-axis
41.
In an Agile team, who is responsible for resolving project bottlenecks?
a)
Project team
b)
Project manager
c)
Agile coach
d)
Servant-leader
42.
Two projects are currently being analyzed. Project A will yield a net profit of $300,000 at the end of the second year. Project B will yield a net profit of $310,000 by the end of the fourth year. Assuming a 3% interest rate, which of the following is correct?
a)
Project A has a PV that is $7,348 higher than Project B’s PV.
b)
Project B has a PV that is $7,348 higher than Project A’s PV.
c)
Project B is financially more attractive than Project A.
d)
These projects are equal in net returns.
43.
Which of the following statements regarding the Agile Manifesto is INCORRECT:
a)
Working software is valued more than comprehensive documentation.
b)
Customer collaboration is valued more than contract negotiation.
c)
Processes and tools are valued more than individuals and interactions.
d)
Responding to change is valued more than following a plan.
44.
An Agile team wishes to subcontract some of the project work. Rather than formalizing an entire contracting relationship in a single contract, the team wishes to describe different aspects of the relationship in different documents. Which of the following documents should be used to define the mostly fixed items such as warranties, arbitration, etc.?
a)
Key performance indicators
b)
Service level agreements
c)
Master agreement
d)
Schedule of services
45.
What is a team’s velocity?
a)
The rate of story points delivery.
b)
The average of story points delivered in an iteration.
c)
The median cycle time of user stories.
d)
The rate of change of story points.
46.
You are leading a workflow automation project. The project team wants to outsource some piece of work but is hesitant as they want to maintain highest Agile standards. What is your view about this?
a)
The team shouldn’t outsource as the vendor might not have dedicated teams.
b)
The team shouldn’t outsource as Agile teams value customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
c)
The team should outsource as you can never fully conform to Agile standards.
d)
The team should outsource work if that is in the best interest of the project.
47.
A resource on your project has asked for a copy of the word processing software in use at your company so that they can install it at home and complete project work from there. What do you do?
a)
Refer him to the IT group for assistance.
b)
Show him where to download a copy on the Internet.
c)
Loan him your personal copy.
d)
Burn a copy of the software on CD.
48.
Which of the following Agile tools help a team to micro-commit to each other, uncover problems, and ensure the work flows smoothly through the team on a continual basis?
a)
Team charter
b)
Backlog refinement
c)
Retrospectives
d)
Daily stand-ups
49.
Many environments with emerging requirements find that there is often a gap between the real business requirements and the business requirements that were originally stated. How do Agile method identify the right business requirements?
a)
Through user story size limits.
b)
Through work breakdown structure management.
c)
Through prototypes and feedback.
d)
Through Kanban boards and throughput.
50.
Which of following is not an Agile approach:
a)
Crystal
b)
XP
c)
ScrumBan
d)
Lean
51.
Which of the following planning techniques allows detailed planning of only the work that needs to be accomplished in the near term, while the work in the future is kept at a higher level?
a)
Rolling Wave Planning
b)
Planning Poker
c)
Hoshin Kanri
d)
Kanban Planning
52.
A team estimates that the development of a feature will take four days and the testing of the feature will take two days. In order to account for the uncertainty, the team provides a six day estimate for the development and adds a 2-day lag to the testing activity. What did the team do?
a)
The team added feeding buffers to both the development and testing tasks.
b)
The team padded the development estimate and added a feeding buffer between the two tasks.
c)
The team padded both the development and testing tasks.
d)
The team added a feeding buffer to the development task and added padding between the two tasks.
53.
The Kanban Board is a work in process management tool originated from:
a)
Toyota Production Systems
b)
Six Sigma
c)
ISO’s Quality Management System
d)
Total Quality Management
54.
An Agile team has identified a number of epics on a project. Each epic consists of one or more related features. The epics were not decomposed into stories and rather loosely estimated, prioritized and put into the release plan. Due to this approach, which of the following issues is the team most likely to face in the near future?
a)
The team is not likely to face any issues.
b)
The number of total story points will significantly change after each iteration.
c)
The team’s velocity might not be consistent between the iterations.
d)
The product themes cannot be identified.
55.
By the end of the first iteration, an Agile team has got a number of incomplete stories. A number of actions can be taken at this stage to address this issue and avoid similar future situations, EXCEPT:
a)
Re-estimating the stories if the original estimates are no longer accurate.
b)
Calculating the percentage complete of the stories and using that toward calculating the velocity.
c)
Moving the unfinished work to some future iteration.
d)
Splitting the stories into smaller stories.
56.
You are the project leader of a project executing work under a contract signed with a buyer organization. Just after the project has started, you notice that the buyer organization had made a mistake in the financial terms, and your organization stands to benefit considerably from this oversight. What should your stance be?
a)
Bring the error to the notice of the buyer organization and have an amendment made to the contract since this was in good faith.
b)
Do not take any action since a contract is a binding and legal document.
c)
Informally check with your counterpart in the buyer organization to see whether he or she noticed this error.
d)
Discuss with your management on how you could gain a bonus due to the increased revenue your company stands to gain.
57.
You are managing a complex organizational redesign project. Reviewing project’s statistics you determined that the team completes 75 story points on average per iteration. Reviewing the backlog, you determine that there are about another 750 points remaining. If each interval is time-boxed at two weeks, when do you expect to complete the project?
a)
Agile teams cannot predict project completion.
b)
In about 75 weeks from now.
c)
In about 10 weeks from now.
d)
In about 20 weeks from now.
58.
What does an Agile team achieve by prioritizing project stories and features?
a)
Stakeholder engagement
b)
Risk reduction
c)
Determine conditions of satisfactions
d)
Optimize delivery of business value
59.
You have just been assigned a new project. As an Agile project leader, which of the following should be your first focus?
a)
How to conduct retrospectives and document lessons learned.
b)
How quickly can you develop an exhaustive product backlog?
c)
How you can create a team that is cross-functional and 100% dedicated.
d)
Gather a reasonable number of high-priority user stories to kick start the project.
60.
Many activities can be conducted to set the stage for an iteration retrospective. All of the following are such activities except:
a)
Check-in
b)
ESVP
c)
Focus on/Focus off
d)
Kaizen
61.
Story points are the most widely used unit of measure for estimating Agile story sizes. How does an Agile team determine the size of a story?
a)
By comparing the size of a story with already estimated stories.
b)
By performing a bottom-up estimate.
c)
By estimating the number of person hours required.
d)
By estimating the time requirements.
62.
If all features on a project have been classified by their risk and business value, which of the following group of themes would you recommend starting at the very last?
a)
The features that have less impact on the total value and have low risk.
b)
The features that have low value, especially those that are also high risk.
c)
The features that deliver high value and eliminate the maximum risk from the project.
d)
The features that deliver high value but are less risky.
63.
A team is new to Agile approaches and is currently struggling with the new concepts, tools and techniques. How would you explain ideal time to them?
a)
How long a story will take to complete without any interruptions.
b)
The expected time required to deliver a story considering team assignments.
c)
The shortest duration required to deliver a story.
d)
The ideal time to include stories in an iteration plan.
64.
Which of the following statements is an example of feature buffering on an Agile project?
a)
Proactively removing roadblocks and facilitating feature development.
b)
There are two sets of features in a product development plan; mandatory and optional.
c)
Creating development buffers between the features to avoid schedule slippages.
d)
Loading a few features on the Kanban board and buffering the rest in a ready state.
65.
Organizations just beginning to use Agile approaches may find prototyping challenging due to the associated rework which can also be viewed negatively. Which of the following techniques should be used to address the hurdles of transitioning to the use of Agile approaches?
a)
Scrum management
b)
Change management
c)
Scope management
d)
Risk management
66.
Who determines the “Conditions of Satisfaction” for the user stories?
a)
Scrum Master
b)
Agile Team
c)
Agile Coach
d)
Product Owner
67.
You have been hired by an organization as the Agile Consultant. The organization has recently embarked upon the Agile journey. Which of the following is not a change-friendly characteristic for organizations beginning to use Agile approaches?
a)
Focus on short-term budgeting and metrics versus long-term goals.
b)
Executive management’s commitment.
c)
Existence of departmental silos.
d)
Talent management maturity and capabilities.
68.
A team is using the Five Whys technique to uncover the underlying root cause of a problem. However, after the fifth iteration the team thinks that the real root cause hasn’t been discovered. You may proceed in a number of directions from this point EXCEPT:
a)
Using the cause identified in the fourth iteration.
b)
Include some subject matter experts during the activity.
c)
Use a fishbone chart to see if other areas are also explored.
d)
Do a couple of rounds to see if the root cause is found.
69.
Geographically distributed team need virtual workspaces. Which of the following are the techniques generally considered for managing communication in a dispersed team?
a)
Fishbowl windows and remote pairing
b)
Video conference and collocation
c)
Fishbone diagrams and pair programming
d)
Kanban boards and burndown charts
70.
You are helping an organization transform to Agile practices. You are currently developing guidelines regarding forming Agile teams. All of the following would be your recommendations EXCEPT:
a)
Most or all team members should be “T-shaped”.
b)
Teams should be small.
c)
Most or all team members should be “I-shaped”.
d)
Teams should be collocated.
71.
During an ESVP activity, each participant anonymously reports his or her attitude toward the retrospective as an Explorer, Shopper, Vacationer, or Prisoner. Who are the explorers?
a)
People who want to lead the team.
b)
People who have recently successfully implemented a new idea.
c)
People who are eager to discover new ideas and insights.
d)
People who want to explore other opportunities outside of the project.
72.
Two of the senior subject matter experts have different opinions on the use of management tools on a project. The use of Kanban and Agile approaches are being proposed by these experts. In case you decide to use both of the approaches on your project, which of the following can be a valid justification for such a decision?
a)
Senior subject matter experts cannot be turned down.
b)
Project teams sometime blend various methods to achieve project objectives.
c)
Management approaches are irrelevant as long as majority of the stakeholders are happy.
d)
Kanban is a part of the Agile Manifesto; the debate was irrelevant.
73.
Which of the following is bad feature prioritization criteria?
a)
Features considered valuable by the customer.
b)
Features considered valuable by the self-organizing team.
c)
High risk features.
d)
Features considered valuable by the product owner.
74.
In projects following Scrum framework, who is responsible for maximizing the value of the product?
a)
Scrum master
b)
Development team
c)
Testing team
d)
Product owner
75.
Team members in successful Agile teams work to collaborate in various ways. Which of the following is not a valid example of these ways?
a)
Swarming
b)
Mobbing
c)
Pairing
d)
Multi-tasking
76.
Agile task estimates during iteration planning are expressed in:
a)
Story points
b)
Cycle time
c)
Spikes
d)
Ideal time
77.
Agile teams measure WIP during the beginning of the project and determine the available options for rapid product delivery. Which of the following is the recommended approach when comparing different delivery options?
a)
Deliver detailed designs at least halfway through the project.
b)
Deliver upfront designs instead of value.
c)
Deliver value instead of upfront designs.
d)
Deliver detailed designs as early as possible.
78.
You have called in key stakeholders for a brainstorming session. The main agenda item is to identify suitable project life cycles for a number of new initiatives launched by the organization. Two of the stakeholders are proposing exclusive use of predictive and Agile life cycles respectively. What should be your response?
a)
Exclusive use of Predictive life cycle is recommended as this is a tried and tested method.
b)
Exclusive use of Agile life cycle is recommended as this is new way to manage projects.
c)
Exclusive use of a life cycle on all projects is not recommended.
d)
A blended life cycle needs to be designed which can then be exclusively used on all projects.
79.
You are leading an Agile team responsible for developing an ERP system for an organization. The enterprise PMO has asked to develop a detailed schedule Gantt chart and report Red/Amber/Green status against each project task on a weekly basis. What’s your opinion about the enterprise PMO?
a)
Enterprise PMO hasn’t transitioned to Agile practices.
b)
Enterprise PMO cannot exist in an Agile organization.
c)
Enterprise PMO has the right to demand project status reports in the format they deem fit.
d)
Enterprise PMO should also focus on project risk and issues and not primarily on the project schedule.
80.
During which Agile planning event does an Agile team first consider user stories?
a)
Daily planning
b)
Demonstration planning
c)
Iteration planning
d)
Release planning
81.
When developing project timelines, which of the following adds the LEAST value to the timeline?
a)
Color coding functions
b)
Color coding feelings
c)
Color coding events
d)
Color coding user stories
82.
A team is developing an online appraisals management system using an incremental project life cycle. The customer is complaining about the number of bugs that are detected by the customer which should have been detected by the project team. Which of the following techniques encourage a mistake-proofing discipline?
a)
Cost of quality
b)
Team penalties
c)
Individual penalties
d)
Test-driven development
83.
An Agile team is working on a SCM project. At the end of the 3rd iteration, the team had successfully delivered 81 story points. The team was able to successfully address some improvement opportunities and during the 4th iteration the team was able to deliver 39 story points. What is the team’s current velocity?
a)
120 story points per iteration.
b)
39 story points per iteration.
c)
27 story points per iteration.
d)
30 story points per iteration.
84.
What is the difference between an Epic and a Theme?
a)
An epic is a large user story while a theme is a collection of user stories.
b)
A theme is a large user story while an epic is a collection of user stories.
c)
A theme is a subset of a user story while an epic is a superset of user stories.
d)
An epic is a subset of a user story while a theme is a superset of user stories.
85.
The project sponsor took over the leadership of your Agile project while you were away on a holiday. In your absence, the sponsor asked for a detailed project schedule and the team developed a detailed task-level, resource loaded Gantt chart. What should be your next step now?
a)
Revoke the detailed schedule and explain your reasons to the sponsor.
b)
Create feeding buffers and pad the schedule.
c)
Continue tracking the project against the recently developed schedule.
d)
Retain the schedule but drop the resource assignments.
86.
Many traditional plans are created with the assumption that all identified project requirements will be completed and so the work is typically prioritized and sequenced for the convenience of the project team. What is the main disadvantage with this sort of requirements prioritization?
a)
Lower value requirements might get delivered earlier than higher value requirements.
b)
Requirements might get changed during the course of the project.
c)
Once requirements have been prioritized, they become a baseline for progress measurement.
d)
Formal change control procedures influence all change requests.
87.
You are leading a project that was initiated as a result of your organization’s Blue Ocean Strategy. The product of the project will have features that have never been developed by anyone. These features are supposed to serve the unknown needs of the customers. According to the Kano model, these features are known as:
a)
Delighters
b)
Linear
c)
Must-have
d)
Threshold
88.
Which of the following attributes of an Agile team facilitate better communication and improve team dynamics?
a)
Collocation
b)
Stable work environment
c)
Cross-functional team members
d)
Dedicated people
89.
You have just been assigned as the project manager for a new project. The goal of the project is to cut the production cost of raw materials in the next six months so that the company can lower the price of goods and obtain a competitive advantage. According to the feasibility report there a couple of feasible approaches that have been analyzed that can result in reasonable cost savings. What is the problem with this objective?
a)
It is not time bound.
b)
It is not attainable.
c)
It is not specific.
d)
It is not measurable.
90.
Your project has a big number of features that you now wish to classify according to the Kano model. Which of the following approach will yield the best results?
a)
Use questionnaires and survey users to accurately classify features.
b)
The Agile team, facilitated by the servant-leader, classifies the features.
c)
Ask the product owner to classify the features.
d)
Estimate story points and categorize the features based on their sizes.
91.
You are leading a critical organizational project and want to setup a visible, physical display that provides information to the rest of the organization enabling up-to-the-minute knowledge sharing without having to disturb the team. What should you setup?
a)
Project charter
b)
Information radiator
c)
Fishbone diagram
d)
PDCA loop
92.
The practice of leading through service to the team, by focusing on understanding and addressing the needs and development of team members in order to enable the highest possible team performance, is known as:
a)
Transactional leadership
b)
Laissez-faire
c)
Servant-leadership
d)
Bureaucratic leadership
93.
You are leading an Agile project. The team has proposed using a Kanban board to manage the team’s work in progress and spot bottlenecks. The following work flow has been agreed on for the Kanban board: Ready -> Develop and Unit Test -> Dev-Done -> System Test -> Done. According to this Kanban board, the response time of an item is the:
a)
The time it enters the “Ready” bin till the time it exits the “Develop and Unit Test” bin.
b)
The time it enters the “Ready” bin till the time it enters the “Develop and Unit Test” bin.
c)
The time it enters the “Ready” bin till the time it enters the “Dev-Done” bin.
d)
The time it enters the “Ready” bin till the time it exits the “Dev-Done” bin.
94.
Which of the following events doesn’t warrant adding a burnup to a release burndown chart?
a)
New scope of work is added to project.
b)
A team realizes that the remaining work was underestimated.
c)
Product owner wants to add new features to the project.
d)
A team wishes to extend the project deadline.
95.
Which of the following activities can be used to close a retrospective?
a)
Five Whys
b)
Fishbone
c)
Brainstorming
d)
Appreciations
96.
You overhead your colleague saying that he isn’t interested in attending the upcoming retrospective but happy that he would get a break from his daily routine job. Which ESVP role closely relates to this attitude?
a)
Prisoners
b)
Vacationers
c)
Distractors
d)
Pests
97.
You are conducting a workshop on Agile methods, tools and techniques. Most of the participants have a background in traditional project management which pivots around managing project baselines. How does Agile view project baselines?
a)
Agile teams focus primarily on scope baseline and disregard cost and schedule baselines.
b)
Project baselines are promises that Agile team strive to meet.
c)
All project baselines are consolidated into a single product backlog.
d)
Baselines are often an artifact of attempted prediction.
98.
A team is planning its first iteration on a project. The team is considering using historical values to forecast the team’s velocity on this project. Which of the following is irrelevant to this consideration?
a)
Is the project charter the same?
b)
Is the working environment the same?
c)
Is the domain the same?
d)
Is the technology the same?
99.
Which of the following is a characteristic of servant-leadership?
a)
Controlling team members.
b)
Promoting self-awareness.
c)
Rewarding the best.
d)
Micromanagement.
100.
You have been recently hired in an organization as an Agile Coach. The organization has recently recognized the benefits of the Agile approach to project management and have also successfully piloted a couple of projects using the approach. You have overheard Rupesh, a project manager at the organization, claiming that an Agile project doesn’t need to be planned and the project team should always be ready to accommodate all sort of changes. What is your view about this?
a)
Rupesh is wrong, while responding to change is valued more than following a plan, that doesn’t mean Agile projects do not require any planning effort.
b)
Rupesh is always wrong, further he’s is not PMI certified.
c)
Rupesh is correct, the Agile Manifesto mandates responding to change over following a plan.
d)
Rupesh is correct; he has recently completed a couple of Agile projects.
101.
Which of the following two tasks need to be completed prior to starting the next iteration of the project?
a)
Demonstration and retrospective.
b)
Backlog grooming and iteration planning.
c)
Release planning and iteration planning.
d)
Iteration planning and retrospective.
102.
Agile teams start a project iteration with loosely defined stories and turn these into functioning software by the end of the iteration. One exception to starting with loosely defined stories rather than putting more thought into the user stories prior to the start of the iteration is:
a)
When the performing organization is rooted in traditional practices.
b)
When the project consists of multiple Agile teams.
c)
When the project duration is greater than one year.
d)
When the product owner is not fluent with Agile practices.
103.
An Agile team is halfway through the iteration when it feels that it needs detailed feedback on some of the features. What should be done?
a)
Compromise and use some other feedback gathering technique, such as questionnaires.
b)
Wait for the current iteration to be finished and then arrange a demonstration.
c)
Terminate the current iteration and arrange a demonstration.
d)
Arrange a demonstration during the iteration.
104.
Your organization has recently acquired an HR management system that cost $100,000. The system would need a major upgrade after 10 years which will cost approximately $150,000. If the organization can earn 8% interest on an investment bond, how much money does the organization need to put in the bond now to have $150,000 when the upgrade is required?
a)
100000
b)
69479
c)
833334
d)
150000
105.
You are helping an organization transition to Agile approaches, tools and techniques. You have noticed that historically the organization has followed traditional project management approaches and has highly valued the accuracy of the estimation effort. What is your view on estimating?
a)
Agile teams highly value getting the estimates right.
b)
Agile teams do not estimate or plan.
c)
Agile teams do not strive for accurate estimation.
d)
Estimation is time consuming activity, hence considered a waste.
106.
Who can provide best estimates for a given piece of work on an Agile project?
a)
Those who will do the work.
b)
Scrum master
c)
Product owner
d)
Customer
107.
Which project artifact first documents the “definition of done” for the project?
a)
Product backlog
b)
Sprint backlog
c)
Project charter
d)
Product roadmap
108.
Earned value in Agile is:
a)
Based on finished features.
b)
Similar to the traditional earned value management.
c)
Not a valid technique.
d)
A measure of project’s ROI.
109.
An Agile team can only finish one story at a time. To complete a large feature that contains several stories, the team may not complete that entire feature until several more time periods have passed. Which of the following tools can help the team show its completed value?
a)
Fishbone diagram
b)
Product backlog burnup chart
c)
Scatter chart
d)
Pareto chart
110.
One of the 12 Agile principles states that, “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation”. Which of the following Agile techniques help achieve this?
a)
Backlog preparation
b)
Backlog refinement
c)
Team composition
d)
Daily standups
111.
You are examining your project’s statistics. For the iterations one to six the team’s velocity has been 40, 50, 43, 47, 46, and 44 story points respectively. What is the most reasonable velocity estimate for the next sprint?
a)
Future velocity cannot be predicted.
b)
40 story points.
c)
50 story points.
d)
45 story points.
112.
Some organizations resist starting projects without having any idea how long those projects will take. You are not comfortable in sharing any estimates until the first few iterations are completed. What should you do?
a)
Determine the management’s risk tolerance and estimate accordingly.
b)
Forecast values based on historic data on past projects.
c)
Stress that you desire to run a few iterations to provide reliable estimates.
d)
Revert back to traditional project management approaches as the organization is not ready for Agile.
113.
You have been made responsible to quickly deploy a new supply chain management system in an organization. You have been given authority to select any organizational resources to deliver the project and you have also been promised that the selected resources will remain dedicated to the project. However, you have also been asked to deliver features in increments so that necessary changes can be made as early as possible. You have also been asked to select team members in a way that the project team can perform independently. How should you select your team?
a)
Select 3 to 9 team members.
b)
Select team members with Agile certifications.
c)
Select cross-functional team members.
d)
Select team members that can be available 100% of their time.
114.
When should an Agile team reflect on how to become more effective and tune its behavior accordingly?
a)
Daily
b)
At the start and end of the project.
c)
At regular intervals.
d)
At the end of each iteration.
115.
Like traditional teams, Agile teams also track their progress. Which of the following measures is generally used by Agile teams to monitor its progress rate?
a)
Cycle time
b)
Velocity
c)
Ideal time
d)
Story points
116.
You are leading the deployment of an inventory management system for a multinational client. The project team is geographically distributed and many time zones apart. Conducting daily standups is a major problem. How should this problem be tackled?
a)
Ask the team members to record their updates and upload on the project site.
b)
Encourage smaller group meetings (two or three people at a time) instead of whole-project daily standups.
c)
Schedule standups on a round-robin basis so that each project team member gets at least one standup during his/her working time.
d)
Schedule standups at a time that falls during the working hours of most of the team members.
117.
Which of the following arrangements allows least flexibility to the buyer to alter the contracted scope of works?
a)
Not-to-exceed time and materials arrangement.
b)
Dynamic scope option.
c)
Early cancellation option.
d)
Fixed-price arrangements.
118.
Which of the following Agile methods focus on the activities of a single, small, usually colocated, cross-functional team rather than for initiative that requires collaboration of multiple Agile teams in a program or portfolio?
a)
Disciplined Agile
b)
Scaled Agile Framework
c)
Large Scale Scrum
d)
eXtreme Programming
119.
During a planning poker meeting, the team was not able to converge on a single estimate for a particular story after the third round. What needs to be done next?
a)
Park the user story on the parking lot.
b)
Take the average of the estimates at the end of the third round.
c)
Remove the user story from the estimating process.
d)
Continue to repeat the process.
120.
Which of the following is an artefact that an Agile team must produce by the end of each retrospective?
a)
Work breakdown structure
b)
Product acceptance criteria.
c)
Risk register.
d)
List of improvement actions.
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