WorksheetsPMI ACP Full Mock 3
Total questions: 120
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1.
You have recently been assigned to an ongoing Agile project. During the sprint retrospective, the project manager asked all of the team members to put sticky dots on the project timeline to show events where emotions ran high or low. What activity is this?
a)
Color Code Dots
b)
Pareto Charts
c)
Affinity diagrams
d)
Dalmatian
2.
Which of the following financial measures help us look at a cash flow stream as a single, present value amount?
a)
NPV
b)
Payback Period
c)
ROI
d)
IRR
3.
Which of the following Agile techniques would you recommend if an Agile team wants to prioritize the top issues, ideas or proposals?
a)
Planning Poker
b)
Prioritize with Dots
c)
Hoshin Kanri
d)
Ishikawa Diagram
4.
How do Agile projects manage quality?
a)
Quality review is conducted during recurring retrospectives and daily standups regularly check on the effectiveness of the quality processes.
b)
Quality control is conducted during recurring retrospectives and quality assurance is conducted at the end of the project.
c)
Quality review is conducted during daily standups and recurring retrospectives regularly check on the effectiveness of the quality processes.
d)
Quality and review steps are built in throughout the project and recurring retrospectives regularly check on the effectiveness of the quality processes.
5.
It’s easy to tell when a feature is 0% done (we haven’t started it) and it’s relatively easy to tell when we’re 100% done (all tests passed for all the product owner’s conditions of satisfaction). It is often hard to measure the progress anywhere in between. How should you report progress when faced with such a situation?
a)
Stick with 0% for work in progress and 100% complete once all conditions of satisfactions are met.
b)
Decompose stories into tasks and sub-tasks and do a bottom-up percentage of completion estimation.
c)
Mark the feature 50% complete upon completion of development and 100% complete when the conditions of satisfactions are met.
d)
Mark the feature 80% complete upon completion of development and 100% complete when the conditions of satisfactions are met.
6.
Which of the following Agile approaches is known best because of its emphasis on constraint-driven delivery?
a)
XP
b)
DSDM
c)
Lean
d)
Scrum
7.
On traditional projects, a change control board is usually established to authorize change requests. Who is responsible to authorize changes on an Agile project?
a)
Scrum master
b)
Product owner
c)
Agile team
d)
End users
8.
What is the highest priority of an Agile team?
a)
Abandon traditional project management.
b)
Whole hearted acceptance to change.
c)
Relying less on documentation.
d)
Early and continuous delivery of valuable product.
9.
You and your team are responsible for delivering an enterprise-wide automation project. Due to the complexity of the project, multiple Agile teams need to be formed. Team size is an important consideration while forming Agile teams. What is the ideal team size in Agile environments?
a)
Ten to twenty-five members
b)
Three to nine members
c)
Fifteen to fifty members
d)
Five to twenty members
10.
What is the “response time” of an item?
a)
The time required to process an item.
b)
The total time it takes to deliver including the waiting time.
c)
The time that an item waits until the work starts.
d)
Average story points per iteration.
11.
On a Scrum project, who is responsible for helping the team remove project impediments?
a)
Scrum master
b)
Project sponsor
c)
Product owner
d)
Agile coach
12.
Which of the following statements regarding Agile release planning is incorrect?
a)
Agile release planning focuses on features that will be released by the end of each project iteration.
b)
Release planning is the process of creating a very high-level plan that covers a period longer than an iteration.
c)
The product owner and the whole team decide how much must be developed and how long that will take before they have a releasable product.
d)
A typical release plan will cover perhaps three to six months and maybe three to twelve or more iterations.
13.
What does Agile MoSCoW stand for?
a)
Capital of Russia.
b)
Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, and Won’t Have.
c)
Motivational Science of Work.
d)
Materials, Supply Chain, and Work Order.
14.
Your Agile project team is currently having communication issues. You underestimated these risks earlier and did not establish clear ground rules and group norms upfront in the project. Which document typically includes these items?
a)
Sprint backlog
b)
Team charter
c)
Agile Manifesto
d)
Product backlog
15.
Which of the following Agile techniques uses polling to collect data about how people view their participation in the retrospective?
a)
Brainstorming
b)
Check-in
c)
ESVP
d)
Focus on/Focus off
16.
Agile contracting best practices require structuring milestones and payment terms on:
a)
Stage gates
b)
Fixed milestones
c)
Phase gates
d)
Value-driven deliverables.
17.
You are invited to lunch by the manager of a seller organization. Your organization does not permit receipt of gifts from vendors. You should:
a)
Insist on paying for your lunch.
b)
Avoid going out to lunch with anyone from the seller organization.
c)
Accept the offer since it has a very small value.
d)
Go out for lunch and refrain from informing your managers about the lunch.
18.
You are leading a 500 story date-driven project that should produce the final release in six months. If the expected velocity is 25 story points per three-week iteration. How many iterations will be required to complete the project?
a)
20
b)
75
c)
167
d)
9
19.
You have been hired as a consultant by a manufacturing firm. You have been asked to develop a standardized project management approach for the organization. You are currently considering the entire continuum of project management which is Agile on one end and waterfall on the other. Before you can decide which model to select, you need to conduct a/an:
a)
Impact assessment
b)
Organization culture assessment
c)
Root cause analysis
d)
Feasibility analysis
20.
The Agile Unified Process (AgileUP) performs iterative cycles across seven key disciplines and incorporates the associated feedback before formal delivery. Which of the following is NOT one of these seven disciplines?
a)
Environment
b)
Project management
c)
Scope creep
d)
Configuration management
21.
Which of the following is generally known as the best Agile estimating technique?
a)
Disaggregation
b)
Analogy
c)
Planning poker
d)
Expert opinion
22.
What is the primary benefit of incremental delivery?
a)
Reduced change requests
b)
Shorter project duration
c)
Higher ROI
d)
Lower costs
23.
You are managing an Agile team developing a high-tech gadget for the organization. The gadget will monitor and report on different aspects of the business and report performance. If you want to assume a servant-leader role, how should you respond to team conflicts?
a)
Develop a structured conflict management approach.
b)
Escalate all conflicts to higher management.
c)
Becoming an impartial bridge-builder.
d)
Withdraw from the conflicts and let the team resolve them.
24.
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 lead time of an item is the:
a)
The time an item enters the “Ready” bin till the time it exits the “Done” bin.
b)
The time an item enters the “Develop and Unit Test” bin till the time it exits the “Done” bin.
c)
The time an item enters the “Develop and Unit Test” bin till the time it enters the “Done” bin.
d)
The time an item enters the “Ready” bin till the time it enters the “Done” bin.
25.
When does an Agile team reconfirm its commitments and identify project impediments?
a)
Release planning
b)
Iteration planning
c)
Retrospectives
d)
Daily standups
26.
Most projects with multiple teams benefit from establishing a common estimating baseline at the start of the project. Which of the following approaches would you recommend for establishing a common estimating baseline?
a)
Collaboratively estimating an assortment of new user stories.
b)
Both approaches are recommended; benchmarking on user stories from the past project and collaboratively estimating new stories.
c)
Select some user stories from the past project and agree on the estimates for them.
d)
Each Agile team chooses its own estimating approach.
27.
A servant-leader gives colored sticky dots to the team and asks them to put these on a poster containing team issues. The team then starts placing their dots next to the items under consideration. What is this team doing?
a)
Conducting a root cause analysis.
b)
Developing a fishbone diagram.
c)
Identifying issues.
d)
Prioritizing issues.
28.
Traditional teams govern vendor relationships by fixed milestones or phase gates focused on intermediate artifacts, rather than a full deliverable of incremental business value. What is the challenge associated with this approach?
a)
This decreases the team’s morale.
b)
This limits the use of feedback to improve the product.
c)
This increases the size and the number of features in a product.
d)
This decreases a project team’s throughput.
29.
Before starting to plan a release, it is important to know the criteria by which the project will be evaluated as a success or a failure. This is captured in the:
a)
Scope baseline
b)
Resource utilization
c)
Conditions of satisfaction
d)
Schedule baseline
30.
You are leading a major automation project for an external client. So far over a thousand user stories have been captured by your business analyst. Due to the number and the limited functionality of each user story, the product owner is struggling to prioritize them. How should you resolve this issue?
a)
Estimate relative story points and prioritize user stories by their sizes.
b)
Merging related stories into larger epics and then prioritize the themes relative to one another.
c)
Estimate ideal days and prioritize user stories by their sizes.
d)
Combine related stories into larger themes and then prioritize the themes relative to one another.
31.
When introducing Agile methods to an organization that has historically managed all its project using predictive life cycles, which of the following approaches is more likely to succeed?
a)
Trying the new techniques on high-value projects.
b)
Trying the new techniques on completed projects.
c)
Trying the new techniques on a less risky pilot project.
d)
Trying the new techniques on ongoing projects.
32.
Which of the following is not a typical component of an Agile project charter?
a)
Feasibility Study
b)
Intended flow of work
c)
Project vision
d)
Release criteria
33.
Which of the following is not an Agile approach to project management?
a)
Front-loaded planning.
b)
Avoiding work in order to focus on high-priority items.
c)
Obtaining early feedback.
d)
Acting in a transparent manner.
34.
Which project attribute determines the right Crystal method to be selected for a project?
a)
Expected velocity
b)
Team size
c)
Number of user stories
d)
Duration of the sprint
35.
Which of the following project conditions leads to increased cycle times?
a)
Decrease in work in progress.
b)
Increase in number of features.
c)
Decrease in number of features.
d)
Increase in work in process.
36.
Traditional project management stresses the importance of project integration management and expects the project manager to be in control of the detailed product planning and integrating different aspects of project integration with each other. In an Agile setting who is primarily responsible for integration management?
a)
Servant-leader
b)
Product owner
c)
Agile coach
d)
Agile team
37.
Selection of the right project management approach is dependent on the team size in which of the following Agile approaches?
a)
XP
b)
Kanban
c)
Scrum
d)
Crystal
38.
On a burndown chart, the intersection of the work remaining trend line and the horizontal axis indicates the:
a)
Cutover date
b)
Handover date
c)
Completion deadline
d)
Most probable completion of work
39.
Why do Agile approaches recommend forming dedicated project teams?
a)
Flexibility in dealing with change.
b)
Increased focus and productivity.
c)
Reduced project cost.
d)
Out of the box thinking.
40.
You are managing a complex project. The project objectives are known but the exact scope of work cannot be defined. Which of the following provisions can allow you to withdraw from a contractual relationship halfway through the project?
a)
Early cancellation clause
b)
No-contest clause
c)
Force majeure clause
d)
Non-compete clause
41.
When a project manager assumes the role of a coach and a facilitator for the project team, in an Agile environment, this role is known as:
a)
Servant-leader
b)
Project sponsor
c)
Domain expert
d)
Product owner
42.
According to Clark and Wheelwright, an individual’s percent of time spent on value-adding tasks is maximized when the person performs:
a)
4 tasks
b)
2 tasks
c)
8 tasks
d)
6 tasks
43.
Which of the following is the management framework that emerges when teams employ Scrum as the chosen way of working and use the Kanban Method as a lens through which to view, understand, and continuously improve how they work?
a)
Scrum of Kanban
b)
WIP
c)
Task Board
d)
Scrumban
44.
Which of the following graphical tools shows a team’s progress by showing the number of story points remaining in the project?
a)
Sensitivity diagram
b)
Waterfall chart
c)
Release burndown chart
d)
Fishbone diagram
45.
Which of these techniques is used during the retrospective closing that helps generate feedback on the retrospective process and gauge the effectiveness of the session from the team members’ perspectives?
a)
ROTI
b)
IRR
c)
ROI
d)
NPV
46.
Which of the following is a technique used during retrospectives to identify team strengths and improvement opportunities?
a)
Delta
b)
Gamma
c)
Beta
d)
Alpha
47.
An Agile team is currently analyzing the project timeline. The team is marking the time when everything was going smoothly and then the energy dropped. The objective is to analyze this information for patterns of events, behaviors or feelings that cause a shift. What activity is this?
a)
Working Agreements
b)
Sensitivity Analysis
c)
Patterns and Shifts
d)
Kaizen
48.
You have recently setup a daily team stand-up. For the first few days, the stand-ups were flowing smoothly, until today when a number of issues have been reported by the team. What should be done next?
a)
Park the issues and create another meeting to solve them.
b)
Ask the team members to follow the change control process.
c)
Tell the team members that they can’t report issues during daily stand-ups.
d)
Resolve the issues and park them so that everyone can see them.
49.
You have recently taken over an Agile team that is half way through the project. You noticed that the team is developing a work breakdown structure of the project scope during the first retrospective meeting. What would you recommend to the team?
a)
Do not forget to sequence the work packages.
b)
Do not forget to include control accounts.
c)
Do not forget to develop data dictionaries.
d)
Do not develop the work breakdown structure.
50.
You have recently taken over a complex technological project and are surprised to find out each team member is 100% (of capacity) allocated to project tasks. What should be your main concern?
a)
A high level of resource utilization has been achieved and the project cannot be further fast-tracked.
b)
Resource capacities have incorrectly been calculated.
c)
Inherent variability in typical project tasks might cause bottlenecks on the project.
d)
Resources are overbooked and this is against the company’s health and safety policy.
51.
Your team is currently struggling with keeping up with the number of stories in WIP state. Which of the following tools can help in this situation?
a)
Planning poker
b)
Kanban
c)
Burndown chart
d)
Information radiator
52.
You are the servant-leader on an Agile team developing a new financial application for an insurance company. You need to identify the stories to be developed for the first iteration. Which of the following is not a recommended action at this stage?
a)
The product owner is asked to select the stories for the iteration.
b)
The Agile team estimates the size of the stories.
c)
The Agile team decides the sprint duration and expected velocity.
d)
You help the team analyze the stories and decide the priorities of the items.
53.
“Responding to change over following a plan” doesn’t imply that:
a)
Agile teams value change management.
b)
Agile teams acknowledge that change is inevitable.
c)
Agile teams highly value responding to change.
d)
Agile teams do not value planning.
54.
Your firm, a tunnel construction company, has recently won a contract to construct a network of underground tunnels for a new metro project in the city. The project site contains a network of interconnected geysers and hot springs. These network paths cannot be accurately mapped due to the complexity of the terrain and available technology. Which of the following is the best approach to be used on this project?
a)
Deliver the project in increments, one line at a time and adjust the designs as new information becomes available.
b)
Do a detailed design before commencing project work and keep the costs under budget.
c)
Given the complexities, the project needs to be abandoned.
d)
Start all lines at the same time and be prepared to tackle probable flooding of the lines.
55.
If the amount of new functionality to be developed is fixed, how should a good release plan account for the project uncertainties?
a)
By providing a date range for project completion.
b)
By keeping the project open-ended.
c)
By providing an estimate of standard deviation along with the deadline estimate.
d)
By keeping the completion estimates within the team.
56.
One of the challenges of planning a release is estimating the velocity of the team. Which of the following is NOT a valid Agile approach to estimate a team’s velocity?
a)
Making a forecast.
b)
Using historical values.
c)
Running an iteration.
d)
Conducting a sensitivity analysis.
57.
Which of the following statements regarding Agile planning is incorrect?
a)
Agile plans are changed as new knowledge becomes available.
b)
Agile plans do not cover all of a project’s planning at the outset.
c)
Agile planning is spread more or less evenly across the duration of a project.
d)
Agile planning focuses more on change rather than project objectives.
58.
Which of the following scheduling techniques is typically used on Agile projects?
a)
Critical chain method
b)
Critical path method
c)
Iterative, on-demand, or pull-based scheduling
d)
Precedence diagraming method
59.
Which of the following user stories can be best estimated?
a)
Those that are within one order of magnitude in size.
b)
Those that are part of the highest valued theme.
c)
Those that fulfil the non-functional requirements of a product.
d)
Those that involve state-of-the-art technology.
60.
You have been assigned to lead a complex project. Which of the following types of people would be your LAST choice to be included in your team?
a)
Paint-Drip
b)
Broken Comb
c)
T-shaped
d)
I-shaped
61.
A steadily declining burndown chart indicates that?
a)
The velocity is increasing.
b)
The velocity is constant.
c)
The velocity is decreasing.
d)
The velocity is zero.
62.
Which of the following Agile concepts implies “smallest possible deliverable that meets customer requirements”?
a)
User story
b)
Minimum viable product
c)
Theme
d)
Epic
63.
Agile approaches promise better user experience of project deliverables in comparison to the traditional waterfall-based approaches. This is due to:
a)
Early and continual involvement of users.
b)
Early development of an exhaustive product backlog.
c)
Relying less on documentation and more on processes.
d)
Relying less on processes and more on documentation.
64.
You have been assigned as the Agile coach for an Agile team. Which of the following is your correct role?
a)
Mentor
b)
Facilitator
c)
Problem solver
d)
Information radiator
65.
A project team is currently struggling due to frequent interruptions by various delays and impediments. During the sprint retrospective, it was agreed to adopt some form of visual management that can help with work-in-process management and improve the flow. Which of the following tools should be used to facilitate this?
a)
Formal change management process
b)
Ground rules
c)
Kanban board
d)
Silos
66.
If you are conducting an ESVP activity to set the stage of a retrospective, you need to be careful about:
a)
Converting the polling results into a frequency-based histogram.
b)
Limit the polling to the permanent team members.
c)
Non-disclosing polling results.
d)
Conducting anonymous polling.
67.
The amount of effort required to deliver a user story is known as:
a)
Sprint duration
b)
Developer-hours
c)
Story size
d)
Iteration risk
68.
What do we mean by “backlog grooming”?
a)
Adding, removing and reprioritizing items in the feature list.
b)
Estimating user stories using story points.
c)
Arranging work packages into a logical sequence.
d)
Developing Agile team and helping them perform.
69.
You just found out that a team doesn’t conduct daily stand-ups. You were able to successfully convey the advantages of daily stand-ups as these help teams to micro-commit to each other, uncover problems, and ensure the work flows smoothly through the team. What should be the ideal duration for these meetings?
a)
30 minutes
b)
45 minutes
c)
15 minutes
d)
1 hour
70.
A project team is currently building a warehouse management system. Due to the complexity of the project and ambiguous requirements, the team decided to adopt an Agile management approach. If a higher rate of management process improvement is required by the project team, which of the following can help achieve this objective?
a)
Deferring the development until all requirements have been collected.
b)
Using a Kanban board to enable visual management.
c)
Frequent retrospection and selecting improvements.
d)
Adopting XP for the development phase.
71.
If an Agile project’s SPI is greater than the project’s CPI, and the CPI is greater than 1.0, what can you infer about the project’s schedule performance?
a)
The project is behind schedule.
b)
Agile projects do not have Earned Value measurements.
c)
The project is ahead of schedule.
d)
This cannot be determined with the given data.
72.
If the size of a task cannot be reliability estimated, which of the following Agile actions is recommended?
a)
Using PERT estimates adjusted by the estimate standard deviation.
b)
Assigning a random duration estimate to the task.
c)
Using Monte Carlo analysis to simulate task duration.
d)
Adding a spike and a task placeholder with a rough duration estimate.
73.
Which of the following determines which life cycle is the best fit of any given project?
a)
Required change control
b)
Project’s inherent characteristics
c)
Complexity of requirements
d)
Speed of deliveries
74.
In Agile teams, a single person’s throughput is not relevant. Focusing on a single person’s throughput may be risky because it might:
a)
Increase the chances of scope creep.
b)
Increase the cost of the project.
c)
Increase the sprint duration.
d)
Create a bottleneck for the rest of the team.
75.
You are managing an ERP system design and development project. The business and system analysts are based in the US, while the developers and testers are based in China. Due to time zone difference you cannot conduct daily morning Scrums. What should you do?
a)
Conduct the standups during Chinese working hours and send the recording over to the US.
b)
Divide the team into smaller teams.
c)
Abolish conducting daily Scrums in this environment.
d)
Alternately schedule the daily Scrums between Chinese and American working hours.
76.
You are an Agile process analyst and are assigned to work for Anu who is leading a complex Student Services Design project for a university. Anu insists that the team create highly detailed project plans before commencing the work. What should you do?
a)
Brush up your resume and start applying for external jobs.
b)
Show Anu how you have had success in the past using Agile approaches and why they are better.
c)
Escalate the issue to the project sponsor.
d)
Put your foot down and don’t compromise on Agile values and principles.
77.
You are leading an Agile team developing an inventory management and control system for a major retailer in your country. Halfway during the iteration you discover that the predictive analytics module that is currently being developed is no longer required by the customer. What should you do?
a)
Freeze the iteration and immediately call a retrospective meeting.
b)
Continue developing the feature until a minimum viable product is developed.
c)
Delete the code and return the story to the backlog.
d)
Reprioritize the backlog and start developing the next priority item.
78.
Which of the following Agile approaches encourages sitting together and pair working?
a)
Lean
b)
XP
c)
Scrum
d)
Kanban
79.
Which of the following is NOT a considered a good planning practice during iteration planning?
a)
Looking ahead only the length of one iteration.
b)
The tasks on the iteration plan are estimated in ideal hours.
c)
Allocating stories to team members.
d)
Decomposing user stories into tasks.
80.
You are leading a complex project and are currently doing some high-level planning. You want to schedule retrospectives so that each team member’s calendar gets booked. How should you schedule these events?
a)
When more than a few weeks have passed since the previous retrospective.
b)
At the end of each release.
c)
You should not schedule these events well in advance, the project team decides when to call a retrospective.
d)
At the end of each sprint.
81.
If a team has planned 50 story points to be completed in the upcoming project sprint, this implies that the:
a)
Benchmark velocity is 50 story points.
b)
Actual velocity is 50 story points.
c)
Aspirational velocity is 50 story points.
d)
Expected velocity is 50 story points.
82.
You are leading a complex project with a huge list of features. Due to schedule and budget constraints, you might not be able to develop all of the features. Which of the following would help in developing the feature set that maximizes business value?
a)
Decision tree analysis
b)
MoSCoW analysis
c)
Analysis of variance
d)
Feasibility analysis
83.
Which of the following Agile plans is generally the most precise?
a)
Release
b)
Task
c)
Iteration
d)
Daily
84.
Your project team has recently completed the 3rd iteration on the project. So far 45 story points have been successfully delivered to the customer. For this project, the iteration size is fixed at three weeks. The team (six team members) is dedicated to working five days per week. Looking at the backlog, you have 150 story points remaining to be delivered. How many more weeks are required to complete the project?
a)
10
b)
30
c)
15
d)
1
85.
Which of the following roles is responsible for helping the management of an organization to understand the advantages of Agile practices, tools and techniques?
a)
Product owner
b)
Agile coach
c)
Scrum master
d)
Agile manager
86.
You have been hired as an Agile coach by an organization that has recently decided to transition to Agile approaches. Which of the following Agile approaches can help the in shifting a team’s focus from creating a perfect plan at the start of the project to creating a plan that is more useful in the short term?
a)
Re-planning frequently.
b)
Selecting no more than 30 story points per iteration.
c)
Creating smaller Agile teams.
d)
Replacing the project manager with a Scrum master.
87.
You are your Agile team are currently discussing the variation and the causes of variation between the expected velocity and the observed velocity. Which Agile meeting is this?
a)
Iteration planning
b)
Iteration retrospective
c)
Daily standups
d)
Release planning
88.
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 vacationers?
a)
People who enjoy the proceeding of the retrospective.
b)
People who are working part-time on the project.
c)
People who aren’t interested in the work of the retrospective.
d)
People who want to lead the project.
89.
You have just been awarded a new project. The goal of the project is to cut the indirect production cost of your manufacturing client by 15% with a focus on inventory management costs. You are confident that you can achieve this goal as you have recently helped several other organizations in the same industry to achieve a similar objective by introducing your proprietary inventory management and control framework. What is the problem with the project objective?
a)
It is not time bound.
b)
It is not measurable.
c)
It is not specific.
d)
It is not attainable.
90.
A project has dynamic requirements. Project activities are required to be performed once for a given increment but each increment is supposed to produce deliveries for the customer. Further, the focus is on the speed of deliveries. Which of the following life cycles is most suitable in this scenario?
a)
Incremental
b)
Agile
c)
Predictive
d)
Iterative
91.
When planning an iteration, don’t:
a)
Calculate estimate of expected velocity during the iteration.
b)
Plan on using 100% of every team member’s time.
c)
Include buffers when multiple teams are involved.
d)
Select stories based on their business value.
92.
You are leading a retrospective and feel that things are not progressing as planned. There is a lot of negative energy in the room due to the drop of team velocity during the previous iteration. Which of the following Agile activities can help you provide a balance?
a)
Brainstorming
b)
Backlog grooming
c)
Timeline
d)
Locate Strengths
93.
Which of the following is an organizational construct that focuses on the flow of value to customers through the delivery of specific products or services?
a)
Kano Model
b)
Business Canvas
c)
Value Stream
d)
Pareto Chart
94.
A senior programmer on your Agile team is usually keen on trying and experimenting with new technologies and ideas. As a result of some of her successful spikes, some of the business requirements were delivered earlier than planned. Which ESVP role closely relates to this type of team members?
a)
Experimenter
b)
Shopper
c)
Vacationer
d)
Explorer
95.
Agile methods and practices have both direct and indirect benefits. In Agile projects, which of the following Agile techniques also helps in managing quality of deliverables?
a)
Backlog grooming
b)
Rapid feature delivery
c)
User story sizing
d)
Team chartering
96.
In iteration-based Agile, the product owner often works with the team to prepare some stories for the upcoming iteration, during one or more sessions in the middle of the iteration. The purpose of these meetings is to groom enough stories so the team understands what the stories are and how large the stories are in relation to each other. This is also known as:
a)
Ground rules
b)
Retrospectives
c)
Backlog refinement
d)
Group norms
97.
Which of the following statements regarding a release burndown chart is incorrect?
a)
A release burndown chart shows the number of story points remaining in the project.
b)
The irregularity of the burndown chart comes from the change in team’s velocity due to inaccurate estimates.
c)
A release burndown chart can be used to accurately forecast the project completion.
d)
A team’s burndown is rarely perfectly smooth.
98.
According to the Agile principles, which of the following enhances agility?
a)
Continuous change requests.
b)
Chain of command within an Agile team.
c)
Time-boxed iterations and a fixed project scope.
d)
Continuous attention to technical excellence.
99.
An Agile team is currently playing planning poker. What does that mean?
a)
Team is scheduling tasks.
b)
Team is developing improvement strategies.
c)
Team is estimating stories.
d)
Team is on a well-earned holiday.
100.
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. Mostly fixed items such as warranties and arbitration have been recommended to be locked in the master agreement. However, other items subject to change, series rates and product descriptions, for example, should be listed in a separate:
a)
Project schedule
b)
Memorandum of Understanding
c)
Schedule of services
d)
Contract
101.
Which of the following is the correct sequence of agenda items in a typical retrospective?
a)
Gather data -> Generate insights -> Decide what to do -> Set the stage -> Close retrospective.
b)
Set the stage -> Gather data -> Generate insights -> Decide what to do -> Close retrospective.
c)
Set the stage -> Generate insights -> Gather data -> Decide what to do -> Close retrospective.
d)
Set the stage -> Generate insights -> Decide what to do -> Gather data -> Close retrospective.
102.
An Agile team is working on a complex enterprise resource management system development project. The huge product backlog was prioritized based on their relative values. During each iteration, the team develops and successfully demonstrates the completed user stories. However, due to the prioritization of the user stories, user stories selected for a particular iteration may not be related with the user stories completed during the previous iteration. Which of the following activity will be a challenge in this situation?
a)
Continuous integration.
b)
Prototyping of the completed features.
c)
User stories sizing.
d)
Backlog refinement.
103.
You have recently been hired to head the projects management office of a government organization. The projects management office is responsible for managing a wide range of improvement and transformation projects. Historically all past projects were managed using a traditional waterfall approach. You believe a hybrid of Agile and waterfall approaches is most suitable for most of the projects. How should you approach this transformation?
a)
Plan a gradual transformation.
b)
Switchover to a hybrid model immediately for all projects.
c)
Continue with the waterfall approach for ongoing projects but use the hybrid approach for all new projects.
d)
Stick to the waterfall approach as this method is best suited for governmental setups.
104.
Which of the following actions will NOT reduce the lead time of a user story?
a)
Reducing the response time by using new technology.
b)
Scheduling the story sooner than later.
c)
Including more stories in the iteration plan.
d)
Increasing the velocity by adding new team members.
105.
Which of the following is NOT considered a good Agile practice?
a)
Forming a large Agile team proportional to the project size.
b)
Restructuring large projects as multiple smaller projects.
c)
Reducing the team down to its critical core members.
d)
Trying a technology trial project first and then an implementation project.
106.
You have been assigned to automate the core processes of an organization. Due to the size and the complexity of the project you would need multiple Agile teams working concurrently to achieve the project objectives. Which of the following approach is NOT recommended in this situation?
a)
Scrum
b)
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
c)
Scrum of Scrum of Scrums
d)
Scrum of Scrums
107.
You are leading a five year long project. Your cost analyst reported that the accounting rate of return is 50% which can only be realized at the end of the project. You are not sure how meaningful that information is as the inflation rates haven’t been factored in by the cost analyst. Which of the following financial measures will produce a more reliable estimate in this situation?
a)
Discount rate
b)
Net future value
c)
Interest rate
d)
Net present value
108.
Agile teams rely on simplified cost calculations for each iteration rather than developing extensive project budgets during a planning phase at the start of the project. In Agile lexicon, this is also known as:
a)
Run rate
b)
Burn down
c)
User stories
d)
Epics
109.
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 response time (in weeks) for the 30 stories delivered during the last iteration?
a)
12
b)
2
c)
9
d)
0.5
110.
If a project costing $125,000 produces a $139,000 return at the end of a year, what is the interest rate?
a)
0.112
b)
0.106
c)
0.114
d)
0.101
111.
You have recently helped an organization transition to Agile. The new Agile teams have started to work in a cohesive and cooperative manner. You are expecting this transition to challenge some of the traditional HR policies in the company, because:
a)
Individual incentives would make less sense and managers might struggle with the performance appraisals of the self-organizing teams.
b)
Individual incentives would become more relevant and managers might conduct better performance appraisals of the self-organizing teams.
c)
Individual incentives would become more relevant and managers might struggle with the performance appraisals of the self-organizing teams.
d)
Individual incentives would make less sense and managers might conduct better performance appraisals of the self-organizing teams.
112.
You are developing a financial application for a client with complex business requirements. After a cost/benefit analysis was performed for each requirement, you found that the requirements can be sorted based on their expected business value. Further these requirements are mutually exclusive and can be developed individually. Which of the following project life cycle would result in an earlier return on investment in this scenario?
a)
Predictive life cycle; the traditional approach reduces uncertainty and results in lower costs.
b)
Incremental life cycle; the team can only provide finished deliverables.
c)
Agile life cycle; the team can deliver highest value work first.
d)
Iterative life cycle; the team can obtain feedback on partially completed on unfinished work.
113.
Which of the following is an Agile approach that was originally designed as a way to transition from Scrum to Kanban?
a)
Lean
b)
Scrumban
c)
XP
d)
Kaizan
114.
Which of the following models can be used to categorize a product features based on organizational desirability?
a)
PDCA model
b)
Business operating model
c)
Salience model
d)
Kano model
115.
Agile approaches emphasize early and frequent delivery. However, this accelerated delivery might not suit some organizations due to their ability to accommodate rapid deliveries. If an organization resists a project’s outcome, which of the following risks becomes more likely to occur?
a)
Project costs skyrocket.
b)
Scope creep becomes unmanageable.
c)
Story points get doubled for each item in the backlog.
d)
Targeted return on investment is delayed.
116.
Which of the following models can help in empowering Agile project teams?
a)
Theory X
b)
Root cause analysis
c)
Rewards and penalties
d)
Servant-leadership model
117.
Which of the following refers to excess time arbitrarily added to an estimate?
a)
Schedule buffering
b)
Padding
c)
Feature buffering
d)
Adding lags
118.
Which of the following is the correct formula for estimating the number of iterations remaining on the project?
a)
Points remaining/velocity
b)
(Total story points/number of user stories) * velocity
c)
Total story points/number of user stories
d)
Number of user stories/total story points
119.
How is the activity ROTI conducted?
a)
At the end of retrospective, ask team members how do they plan on utilizing their non-working time.
b)
At the start of retrospective, ask team members to give feedback on whether they spent their time well.
c)
At the start of retrospective, ask team members how do they plan on utilizing their non-working time.
d)
At the end of retrospective, ask team members to give feedback on whether they spent their time well.
120.
You have analyzed all the themes of your project and have assigned each one of them to one of the four quadrants of a risk-value matrix that has a risk rating (high and low) on the y-axis, and a business value rating (high and low) on the x-axis. What is the recommend approach to be taken for the themes that fell under the “High Risk” and “High Value” quadrant?
a)
Avoid
b)
Do last
c)
Do first
d)
Do second
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