Teresa works as an agile practitioner in an organization which executes projects using both predictive and adaptive approaches. A new joiner asked Teresa about the different processes used during the knowledge work projects and predictive/industrial projects. Which of the following is the correct statement regarding the knowledge work projects and predictive/industrial projects which Teresa should tell a new joiner?

A predominantly predictive-delivery organization has decided to transition to an agile-based delivery for all the upcoming projects. You recently joined this organization as an agile practitioner and one of your first responsibility is to oversee team transition from predictive delivery to agile delivery. Which of the following represents the right approach for agile transition?

An agile team consists of 5 developers out of which 4 are fairly junior, about 2 to 3 years of experience and 1 developer, Mike, is very senior with 12 years of experience. The team is working on novice machine learning technology. During the stand ups, the senior most developer in the team is highlighting the technical blocker frequently, to the whole team. Is this the right behavior?

You are working with an agile team on a fairly long project whose goal is to deliver mechanical parts for 4-wheeler scooters across North America and Canada. You are relatively new to this team but other members are working together for a while now. During your last discussion with the product owner you found out that the product owner was extremely happy with the development done by this team. However during the daily stand up which you attended you found that the team has moved away from the usual structure of answering 3 questions and their standup is more like a flow of information that everyone finds useful. It is quick, concise, impactful, and adapts easily to the situation the team is facing. This is an example of which of the following?

For an upcoming data science project an organization has arranged for the corporate training of the development team because the development team members don't not have any prior experience of working with the data science technology. The team has successfully completed the data science corporate training and is now working on their own way, in an effective manner and not following the training instructions “as-is”. As per “shu-ha-ri” learning model in which level the team is working?

For the last few iterations, the team and stakeholders are observing that the deliverables from the team are not as per the expected speed. This team works on developing components for the transistors. The team specifically wants to understand the delays or long running areas of work that are impacting the delivery from the team. Which of the following can be used?

A product owner looked at the velocity chart of the team for the past 7 sprints. On average, the team’s committed stories and actual developed stories gap is oscillating between 2-5 story points. For example: for sprint 7, committed story points were 50 and team finished 47 and for sprint 6, committed story points were 47 and team finished 45. What should be done in this scenario?

After the initial feasibility study of the upcoming nuclear reactor development project, it became clear that the in-house team doesn't have all the skills which are necessary to execute and deliver the project. The top leadership has given approval to take the services from external vendors in order to execute the project. An agile project manager wants to select vendor and get into a contract discussion with the vendors. During contracting, what should be the area of focus?

The Rokbottom Inc. has project team, and they are using agile methodology to develop the simulation software for their civil department, to understand multiple stress levels of the material. There are a lot of assumptions which are made by the earlier experiments done by the other team about possible development models for the software. However, the leadership team wants to make sure these assumptions to be challenged and critically examined before the development starts. Which approach would be recommended to challenge these assumptions?

Rohit is an agile practitioner and after he joined his organization, one of his first responsibilities was to set up an agile team and appropriate workspace for the agile team to succeed. Rohit has ensured that the team is co-located and uses a common workspace when doing development activities. Many of the information radiators are kept in an open workspace. He mentored the team about face-to-face communication and its importance. Which one of the following is not an advantage of face-to-face communication?

Hossein's is working on the development of an infotainment system for the commercial trucks which will be sold in the north Middle east region. The team is using scrum methodology for the development. Hossein met Rahul who is working on the sound system module and asked him where he was an hour ago as you could not find him in his usual seating place, he said he was in “caves”. What really Rahul meant by being in “caves” in an agile?

The team is using scrum. The team is completing the daily scrum within 15 minutes, but the timeslot of the daily scrum is different on each day and so is the place or location of the daily scrum. Is this team doing daily scrum correctly?

As an agile practitioner, to improve the knowledge of the team and keep them engaged in a fun way Denis arranged for a trivia game in which all the agile team members will be described a term related to agile and the team member have to identify the same. One such term was an unwritten information that is collectively known by the members of the team. Which of the following is the right answer?

The new leadership of an organization has decided to embrace the agile practices to the fullest. Mohan is an experienced agile practitioner, and the leadership asked him to work with the team to focus on enhancing the agility during the project execution. What should be in focus to enhance the agility?

The project team is working on scrum, and they are developing an automation test suite for the website. During sprint number 31 the project team found that sprint goals were considerably changed due to change in the business direction and hence they asked the PO to cancel the sprint. Is this team doing scrum implementation correctly?

Mathieu work as an agile practitioner in a company based in UAE. Since few new folks joined the team, Mathieu decided to have a brief session on agile with all the team members so that everyone gets some basic idea about the agile principles and mindset. During such session Mathieu mentioned about one of the agile principles which says teams should deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale. Which one of the following is not a benefit when the team delivers the working software more frequently?

An organization has adapted many practices for its manufacturing work from Lean-based approaches. Despite initial promise, the stakeholders are now not happy with the reduced throughput of the development team, although the team is composed of T-shaped skilled, highly motivated folks helped by the clearly defined product backlog items to work on. What could be the possible reason for a reduced throughput?

Ching-Yen Lin is an agile practitioner and attended some of the top management meetings where they talked about the upcoming product. Since Ching-Yen Lin understood the technical details of the points discussed during the meeting, it felt that the product is very complex. What should Ching-Yen Lin's project team focus on when development work starts for this project?

Below is the skill level of 4 team members who are working on washing machine subsystem development work. - John can spontaneously assess the alternatives and select the best approach without having to first analytically examine all the possible strategies. - Nick is analytical, but he can actively choose the best strategy rather than relying on the rules. - Mike follows the rules as given and makes analytical decisions based on those. - Steve decides which rules are the best for each situation. Whom amongst the above can be considered as “novice” in terms of skill acquisition level?

Website development project is using extreme programming practice of pair programming. John and Smith are the two developers who are currently paired and are working on the API integration for the website. One of the new developers joined this team and asked about the real advantage of pair programming. Which one of the following is not the advantage of pair programming?

Rupa attended the corporate training on writing correct user stories. The trainer explained some of the characteristics and acronyms such as INVEST and 3Cs that should be applied when developing user stories. Which of the following is not part of 3Cs?

Clara is working as a python developer in an agile team, along with other developers. This team wants to setup the DevOps pipeline which is different skill than writing a code. However, Clara mentioned in one of the team meetings that she can help set up this DevOps pipeline for the project. What shape of the “skills” Clara has?

The team has been working on delivering the electrical motor’s electrical components in an iterative manner for the last 3 months. The iteration duration is 4-weeks. During iteration review, all the development team, agile coaches and other stakeholders are present except the product owner. Also, right after the iteration review the team is doing a retrospective meeting. Is there anything wrong this team is doing?

An agile team is going to work on a very complex MySQL Database handling work in AWS cloud. Before the project starts, the solution architect is currently working on an agile modelling technique, named data models, in order to understand the database schema and the risks associated with the database related project work. Which of the following is the NOT characteristic of agile modelling techniques such as data models?

New project to deliver the projector to be used in conference rooms is about to start, and it will use agile. This type of project is taken for the first time by the performing organization. Naturally, there is a lot of focus on overall risk management. The project leadership is planning to conduct a risk workshop for this project. Who should be involved or participate in the risk identification?

Due to delivery pressure in the last few iterations, the team has found that technical debt for the AI-based application software is increasing. During the retrospective meeting team members said they need to refactor the code to reduce the technical debt in code. How should the refactoring work planned by the team?

The team is working on iteration-based agile delivery. For the user stories on which the team will be working during the iteration the definition of done is created and both the development team and stakeholder has the common understanding of the definition of done. However, Nour Al-Sadi, who is an agile practitioner working with this team has noticed that the definition of done is not created for the releases of the product and also the definition of done is not created for the overall project deliverables. Is this correct?

After the successful completion of the construction site development project, the agile team has created detailed Wiki pages. These wiki pages describe the quality controls which are used during the project for the successful implementation of finding defects during the early stages of construction project. This wiki page development is an example of which kind of knowledge?

An organization has an agile PMO whose goal is to shepherd the business value throughout the organization. In the past many years, the organization has delivered many successful projects using both predictive and adaptive approaches. The new project seems to have some requirements which are clear and well understood and few are unknown. What development methodology the PMO should recommend for this kind of mix requirements?

The project team is working in the healthcare domain and on a health care mobile app. The team is using agile. The project budget is very limited, and the project work has to be completed in 3 months' time. Due to the healthcare domain, there is regulatory compliance associated with this project and the team is expected to prepare the appropriate documents that describe health and safety procedures which are recommended in the app. How can the team deal with the documentation?

An agile project team is made up of motivated and skilled generalizing specialists. The goal of this team is to work on the database migration to cloud using AWS. This team needs to work with other team, daily and often, who have previously built the on-premises data center. Which of the following would be the ideal workspace and communication format for this team?

There are certain parts of the project which are identified by the team as “high risk” and the team has decided to handle this high-risk work in the early iterations of the project. Why should the team handle high risk items early in the project?

Maxence's team is working on software development project. In order to have the knowledge of the software design and development, the team has decided to embrace the collective code ownership mindset. Which one of the following is NOT a valid approach for collective code ownership?

The key deliverable of the project is high-level design for electrical components. The team just created the team charter. The agile practitioner wants to know which development stage the project team is in the current scenario as per Tuckman’s team development model. Which of the following is most likely to be the development stage of this project team?

Two vendor teams who are working on the IOT-based project have about 7 members each in their team. In recent times, you observed that during the daily scrum meeting, the team members from these 2 vendor teams are not speaking with each other. You understand this is happening due to conflict, but which level of conflict is this?

Due to the success of many projects in the organization, the top-level management decided to use agile for the new project. As the team is not experienced using agile and they wanted to start with the simplest and less prescriptive approach, they started with Kanban approach. What role in the Kanban is responsible for maximizing the value?

The user stories are all well-groomed and ready to start the development for the AWS Cloud migration work. The project is using the scrum framework. Some new user stories may be added, or existing user stories may be removed, and the bigger user stories may be sliced into smaller chunks during project execution. Which is the correct statement regarding the responsibilities of adding, removing and slicing the user stories?

The team has been working on delivering the fan’s electrical components in an iterative manner for the last 3 months, and most of the deliverables are accepted by the product owner. However, Chanchal, who is an agile practitioner, heard complaints from some of the stakeholders on the quality of the deliverables. Chanchal want to understand the real reason behind the dissatisfaction of these stakeholders. What should Chanchal do next?

Dinesh joined an agile team who has been working together for a fairly long time on a product to launch the new mobile handset. This team has kept a whiteboard in a prominent and high-traffic area, which has the below statement written on it, Speak to the whole team, not just to the scrum master or coach. This is an example of which of the following?

For an agile team to be successful, it is imperative to share both tacit and non-tacit knowledge freely between the team members. However, there has been feedback from the members of the team that there is a lack of knowledge sharing, within the team. Anand is working as an agile project manager of this team and Anand is obviously concerned about this feedback that there is a lack of knowledge sharing within the team. Which of the following options would Anand consider to improve the knowledge sharing?

Few months ago, a team consisting of cross-functional, motivated individuals was formed to deliver the nuclear reactor component work. You joined this team a few weeks ago as an agile practitioner. You found that the team members are self-policing each other, holding each other accountable for the deliverables. Which of the following adaptive leadership styles should you employ in this scenario?

An agile team named “Kage warrior” works on a legacy code developed by another team. This team is improving the quality of the code and making it more modern using systematic, small and incremental improvements in each sprint. Which of the following agile techniques is being applied here by the “Kage warrior” team?

The project team is working on a software development project to develop a set of third-party libraries. Because the nature of work involves a lot of software development practices to be used, the team has decided to use extreme programming as the method of delivery for this project. Which one of the following is NOT the valid role in XP?

Smruti is hired as an agile practitioner recently and her first assignment is to work with a UX designer team. Smruti’s project team consists of specialized UX and interaction designers whose main work involves creating graphical themes for the multiple products - furniture for offices. During the initial few interactions Smruti quickly realized that the team is not following any process to find effective options which everyone can live with. Which of the following can Smruti use to help the team?

Due to time pressure, the development team, with many team members working from remote, is not able to document their learning in project wikis or any other common folder/location in the IT-systems. Jade O Connor McGoona, who is an agile practitioner working with this team, fears that the team may not be able to freely share the knowledge and benefit from each other’s experience in the project. What should Jade O Connor McGoona do to help the team?

The team is using scrum for the development of Cloud scripts development project. The new scrum master recently joined this team. The scrum master observed that the sprint duration for sprint-22 was 4-weeks, sprint-23 was 3-weeks and sprint-24 was 1 week. Scrum master asked the team why they keep changing the duration of the sprint and it seems like the team feels changing the duration is team's decision and it is taken in the best interest of the project and as per the project's need. Is this team doing scrum implementation correctly?

Giang works as an agile practitioner and as a part of Giang's job, he has to arrange multiple meetings with multiple stakeholders and project team members where Giang act as a meeting facilitator. Many of the team members later told Giang that the last technical sync up meeting which they attended was not relevant to them. They felt it was a waste of their time and not productive or useful for the project's objectives. How can Giang avoid such a scenario for future meetings?

For backend software development project, a set of skilled backend developers are identified by the talent acquisition team. The team is still in the forming stage. Laura will be working as a servant leader for this team. Which of the following is true regarding servant leadership which Laura should be applying?

Anuja's Agile team is using the scrum Framework for the development of user stories. The project team is working on the development of a mobile application using Flutter. This team already conducts a retrospective frequently to improve their processes. Which of the following other practices Anuja's team can use to reflect on how well they are doing and look for things they can improve?

The bridge construction project has been going on for more than 2 years now. Most of the team members working on this project are associated with the project from its inception. This team has been using the team velocity during their iteration planning. Which one of the following is true about team velocity?

Julia recently joined an agile team as an agile practitioner and this team has a very complex system they need to finish in the next few months. The team is using XP practices and are co-located. Which of the following will be most helpful for Julia to interact with this team?

The project team decided to use the Kanban. The software is to be developed using Embedded C programming and the team is experienced in using it. The team wanted to ensure a continuous flow of work and wanted to place control limits, a level of threshold on each stage of project, such as development, testing, integration. Which of the following teams can use?

David is 1 of the developers on the project team. He usually joins the retrospective meeting and is eager to discover new ideas and insights, and they want to learn everything he can. How will you categorize David as per ESVP exercise in Retrospective?

The android mobile app is being built by the software development team using the latest android architecture components. The scrum framework was used, and the sprint length was 3-weeks long. At the start of the project, the mobile solution architect recommended the development team to use retrofit, which is a networking library. So, the team has added the code to use retrofit. But last week, a more modern networking library named “cosmos” was introduced to perform the efficient networking operations. So far nothing broke in the application, and it is working as expected, even with an old library. What should the development team do?

Software development project on which the team is working is suffering from a lot of security issues which are found during the testing. These security issues need to be fixed as soon as possible. However, the Christmas and new year holidays are around the corner and the team is in the iteration planning meeting. Few members of the team had a planned vacation due to Christmas and new year holidays. How should the team plan the next iteration?

One of the stakeholders who is from the legal team has asked the PO to include an updated privacy policy details on the website and asked PO to include this work in the next iteration. The PO has already decided the prioritized stories for the next iteration. But legal team member still insists on getting this updated privacy policy details into the next iteration by maybe dropping some other story from the backlog. This is an example of which of the following?

An organization received the new project to develop a mobile app for both android and iOS OS. The project team consists of skilled mobile app developers. You will be playing the role of the servant leader for this team. Which of the following should be your top job responsibility?

Madan is working as a scrum master for the team. Being in this role, Madan knows that he should be able to identify when team members are stuck, frustrated, or upset in order to help them. Emotional intelligence can help in this regard. Which one of the following is not a desired characteristic of emotional intelligence?

One of the responsibilities of the project management office is to select the projects which are to be executed by the project teams. PMO has a policy to use the financial metrics when selecting the project. Which of the following financial metric is least helpful to make a project selection decision?

Zenaida has joined as an agile practitioner for a multiple scrum team working using LeSS or large-scale scrum approach. Apart from creating a safe and open environment, Zenaida needs to focus on a few other areas to fully transform these scrum teams into fully efficient teams. Which of the following should Zenaida focus on?

You are at the coffee machine, taking a break from the work when you heard 2 PMI-ACP folks in talking about crusade and world war. Are they discussing anything related to agile?

For the new motor vehicle Tyre manufacturing work, the organization decided to use agile instead of predictive delivery. The project team is formed, and it is a good mix of skilled engineers who have successfully delivered similar projects earlier. But the team is confused about how to plan in agile and what are typical characteristics of agile planning. Which of the following represents the characteristics of agile planning?

The scrum team working on the banking system is using MoSCoW technique for prioritization. The development has identified at least 8 epics which based on the technical assessment makes the MMF or minimal marketable feature for the banking system. Which of the 8 epics will be marked as “Must have” using MoSCoW technique for prioritization?

For the upcoming AI-ML based project, scrum is chosen by your organization. The team is working on developing user stories and are deciding what characteristics each user story should possess. One of the goals of success for this project is to deliver the value early and hence the team decided to use scrum development practices and include scrum events such as daily scrum, & other scrum ceremonies. Which of the following can help teams get early realization of business value?

For the project which needs to develop mechanical parts for the 4-wheeler, your team, who is in the USA, is working with another team in Ukraine who are developing the design for these components. Both these teams only have worked on predictive, waterfall types of projects before. This is their first experience of using an agile approach for product development. They are planning to identify project risks which may exist in this mechanical project. They are familiar with risk workshops from predictive, waterfall types of projects but are unsure which of the following agile tools is useful for this purpose?

A new team, consisting of 20 people, is formed to deliver the machine learning software solution. The team members are I-shaped and are subject matter experts in the machine learning domain. You attended one of the workshops in which this team seems to be using peculiar metaphors. They have drawn pictures of boat, and rocks. There is also a discussion around anchors and winds. What is this team doing?

When Blair recently joined the development team, as an agile practitioner, Blair is observing that the software developers have their own private workspace, and after they make their change and push the code, an automated build server is running and generating a new build. This setup is configured for all the 10+ developers in the team. Which technique is used here?

In order to get a better understanding of complex or ambiguous issues and reach consensus on options and solutions, the agile team decided to play collaborative games. Which of the following collaborative games agile team should be playing for vision-setting and requirements-elicitation?

David recently joined a project team as an agile practitioner. David knows the importance of effective stakeholder engagement. Which one of the following is of least use to David to achieve his goal of effective stakeholder engagement?

It seems like developers and testers do not agree on SSO feature implementation in the website app. The SSO is one of the first features built by this team. The Team was formed just a few weeks ago and this is the first time the members of the team are working, and many differences are arising between them. Which of the following can help avoid the disagreement as mentioned in this scenario?

The e-commerce website development project which kicked off last week has a lot of high-level requirements. The web site is to be developed using Angular as the front-end technology and ExpressJS as the backend technology. The team is now working with the product owner to prioritize the product backlog items or PBIs. Which of the following factors are NOT considered when deciding the priority of the work to be included into the product backlog?

The project team is unsure which database to be selected for the project's requirement and before they make any decision the team wanted to develop a small proof-of-concept to reinforce their understanding of the database choice. Which of the following can be used by the team?

As an agile project practitioner, you probably don’t want your team to continue on an approach which will eventually fail thus wasting valuable time & resources and increasing the sunk cost. Which of the following can help an agile team to avoid or minimize the sunk cost?

An agile team who is working on Website development, both Frontend and Backend has finished the user story workshop. It was a collaborative effort, and multiple stakeholders participated in the user story workshop. All the user stories are added into a single product backlog. However, the project sponsor highlighted that there will be multiple releases, and each release will have multiple iterations in the project and asked the team to plan the work accordingly. What change should the team do to the product backlog?

Today is your 1st day as an agile practitioner of the team. This team is working in a manufacturing unit of automobile component development work and using lean and agile practices for their development work. You joined one of the meetings in which these team members are identifying their emotions in 3 categories, Mad, Sad and Glad. Which meeting this team is likely to be in?

The development work has started for the CAD design software development project. The speed at which the development is happening is satisfactory to most of the stakeholders. But in order to ensure the correctness of the deliverables the product owner still wants to make sure all the agreed upon deliverables are fully completed by the development team. Which one of the following can help product owners to ensure the correctness of the deliverables?

The designer is working on the initial design layout of a website for shoe buying. The website is to be developed using Angular as frontend technology and Nodejs as backend technology. In order for every developer who will be working on the development of this website, the team is identifying the visual tool which can help the team have the common understanding of different screens and flow. Which tool should this team use?

An agile project team is supposed to work on a national army’s confidential software development project. The full scope of the project is not fully known to the team. However, it is expected that the scope will become clearer as more information becomes available. So, the project leadership is expecting the project to use progressive elaboration. Which of the following is an example of progressive elaboration?

Wolfwarm Inc. has a scrum team working with their customer for the development of SIM card module components. The product owner of this team is working to finalize the user stories which will be taken up during the next sprint. The PO is going through the checklist for user centric requirements that has all the information which team needs to be able to begin work on it. What is PO working on?

The agile project team is working on test automation suite development for testing parts of IOT-application. Since this is a software development project, the team is using XP. You saw this team engaged in a meeting in which the facilitator is allowing people to just shout out their ideas spontaneously and later the whole team is building on each other’s suggestions through discussion. Which agile practice is used in the above scenario?

Joel's team is working on wireless headphone development for advanced gaming users. This headphone is supposed to be used by real gamers and as such the project team wants to include those features that will be novel and unexpected by the customer. They are using Kano analysis for this purpose. As per kano analysis which features should the team focus on for the above product requirement?

During the backlog refinement session, the PO is going through the multiple product backlog items. Below is the description of one of the user stories. “As a user, I want to download a video from www.myownvideos.com website in 2 minutes so that I can get the entertainment value out of the downloaded video.” Can you identify which desired characteristic is missing from the description?

The project sponsor of the project is a very busy man, and he usually is interested in the general health of the project at a very high level. Also, the project sponsor is a very data and metrics-oriented person and expects the project team to provide the details using suitable metrics which help him understand the “trends” in the project. Which of the following agile tools should be shared with the project sponsor?

An agile team is working on a firmware for a peripheral device which is first of its kind and very complex with many different scenarios and use cases. It took about 4 months for the development team to finish all the pieces of code for this feature. Now the development work is complete, and the focus is to make sure all different scenarios and use cases are tested. The team will be doing the testing at multiple levels. Which of the following testing needs a minimum documentation?

Rosibel recently joined a new organization, and this organization has never executed any of its projects using agile practices. As a result, the development team and other personnel in the organization are not familiar with agile practices. The senior management committee has recommended not to use any time-boxed based delivery model for this team. Which of the following is not an example of a "time-box" approach in Agile?

In order to maintain the transparency and show the progress of the development activities during the iteration the mechanical component development team is using burndown charts, and these charts are placed in the open space and are visible to all the stakeholders. Which of the following cannot be shown using a burndown chart?

In order to ensure value-driven delivery the team has adapted the scrum. The scrum master of the team makes sure that all the described scrum ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, daily scrum and sprint retrospective are performed by the team. How many times during the project should the team perform backlog refinement?

Due to lack of all the skills needed for the delivery of a complex data science project, the organization has decided to spread the work across distributed teams spanning multiple time zones and cultures. Which of the following is a good way to introduce difficult work to the distributed teams?

The embedded software development team is using scrum for the first time. The team is in its 2nd sprint, starting today. The team consists of cross functional developers who can work on both the front end as well as backend in an embedded system. The typical roles associated with scrum such as product owner and scrum master and the development team are all in place. When is the most suitable time for the team to conduct the backlog refinement meeting?

The borewell equipment project team is using agile for their delivery. They are working in iteration based agile delivery as the product is composed of many sub-components. It is obvious that the project work is quite complex and needs proper planning and execution. The team seems to be in the process of assessing and prioritizing the business value of work items, and then planning those items based on its priority in the iterations. This kind of planning is based on which of the following?

In order to maintain the transparency and show the progress of the development activities during the iteration the chemical component development team is using burndown charts. These charts are placed in the open space and are visible to all the stakeholders. Which of the following statements is false regarding the burndown chart?

In order to show the project progress, the team is using the information radiators. These are the visual controls which the team has kept in the high-traffic area so that stakeholders can see and access these and can get the real-time update on the status of the project. Which one of the following is NOT typically shown on the information radiators?

An agile team is fairly large in size, with close to 40 members. Most of them are spread across the globe in multiple countries and time zones. An agile practitioner is planning to set up digital tools for communication and collaboration for this geographically distributed team. Which of the following will be of least help?

An experienced agile team has been working on the complex data science project. While the work is still new to the team, they have been working on the project for the past few months and have gained good insight into technical nuances for the domain by now. This team understands that applying an analytical approach - both forward and past - is key to project success. Which analysis tools combination from below team should apply?

Seems like for the new vaccine development work, there are many unclear and unknown work items. While there is delivery pressure, yet the team doesn't want to compromise on the technical details to be left behind during the vaccine development. What kind of planning is most suitable for such a project with unclear requirements?

The project sponsor has inquired about the general health of the project and later asked the team to report their cycle time and lead time for a bar code scanner feature on which the team has worked & finished last week. The team lead reported that lead time was 8 days and cycle time was 10 days. Is anything wrong with this statement?

JustBrink Inc. is an organization who provides software development services to its customers. The project team in the organization are planning to use XP agile approach for the upcoming project. The team is also planning to use testing at multiple levels such as unit testing, user acceptance testing and exploratory testing. Which of the following is false about exploratory testing?

For a brand-new car infotainment software delivery, the project team plans to use the scrum. The scrum master is in-charge of ensuring the scrum processes are upheld by the team. The team asked to scrum master which artifacts team needs to use during scrum. Which one of the following is NOT an example of scrum artifacts?

After the initial feasibility study, the project is approved, and a development team has been formed. The project is to be executed using an agile approach. Which of the following is not a recommended estimation for the knowledge work project, delivered using agile?

After the technical evaluation of the code, the technical architect found multiple gaps in the way the code is built for the artificial intelligence software. According to his assessment, with such code, it will be difficult for the team to add new functionality to the existing code. Hence, he recommended code refactoring. Which of the following is correct regarding refactoring?

An organization has PMO whose goal is to shepherd the business value throughout the organization. Also, this organization has fully embraced an agile culture, and the project teams have successfully delivered multiple projects using agile. The PMO wants to recommend conducting project premortem practices. Which type of projects are most suited for project premortem?

The software development team working on the new prototype for the upcoming advanced digital application for controlling peripheral devices has just finished identifying user stories. These user stories are to be developed across multiple iterations. Which of the following is true regarding iterations in agile?

The PMO department in the company has recommended to choose an Agile methodology for the next project based on “team size” and “criticality”. The agile practitioner in the team knows that the Crystal methodologies offer a family of situationally specific, customized methodologies that are coded by color names. The PMO estimated the team size required is approximately 70-80 people. Which crystal methodology will the agile practitioner be likely to choose?

Andrew is one of the python developers in your agile team. This team is working on developing python scripts to perform AWS Cloud operations. When you asked him how much time it will take for him to finish his script, he said about 2 days and he said that this estimate is in “ideal time”. What did he mean by ideal time?

An organization has the project management office or PMO and the PMO is responsible for developing project charter for both agile and tradition-style projects which are to be executed by the organization. One new member joined the team, and she asked about what the fundamental difference between Agile charter & non-agile project charter is. Which of the following statements is most appropriate regarding the Agile charter & non-agile project charter?

The team is going to work on a project whose main goal is to develop a website. The team identified there are about 7 modules that need to be developed. The business requirement for 4 modules is based on an earlier website developed by the same team and those are to be developed “as-is” and for the remaining 3 modules, the business team will come up with a new set of requirements and also there is a possibility that these requirements will change later in the project. Which project development life cycle is best fit for this project?

The project team working on the power cable development work has been using many of the agile practices to build the quality into the product. The team consists of qualified developers and testers to make sure the product has the optimum quality. Which of the following agile practices can this team follow to make sure the defects in the product are caught as soon as possible during project execution?

The mobile application development team is using many of the practices recommended by extreme programming such as pair programming, coding standard and many others. In this team two programmers have been working on the problem of authentication for the last 3 days but still the authentication system is not working, and rest of team is thinking of using collective problem-solving techniques to help these two programmers. Which of the following the team can use?

The PMO department in the company has recommended to choose an Agile methodology for the next project based on “team size” and “criticality”. The agile practitioner in the team knows that the Crystal methodologies offer a family of situationally specific, customized methodologies that are coded by color names. The PMO estimated the team size required is approximately 70-80 people. What crystal methodology will the agile practitioner is likely to choose?

Gopi recently joined a new organization as an expert agile practitioner and this organization never executed any of the projects using agile practices. Due to this reason the project team and other people in the organization are not familiar with Agile practices. Still, the organization has decided to adopt Agile and wanted to start execution of projects using Agile practices. Which Agile approach should Gopi recommend for smooth adaptation of agile?

The new project involves server-side software development, and the team is using the latest backend framework to ensure the successful and timely completion of the backend software development work. The team is using XP practices. In one of the code review sessions, the technical architect asked the team to “refactor” the code. What actions does the team now need to do to complete “refactor”?

During multiple interactions with your team members, you hear them using the terms rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration frequently. A new member who is less familiar with agile was totally confused and he asked you the difference between rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration. What would you reply?

After Rakshith's orientation post joining the new team, Rakshith visited the team workspace where the construction site development team is working. This team is very popular in an organization because they have successfully finished 3 releases using agile practices. The team has adapted the co-location, face to face two-way communication and many other agile practices. Which of the following Rakshith is less likely to find in this team’s workspace?

During the retrospective meeting one of the team members raised a concern that due to time pressure, some of the development work was finished in a bit of a hurry resulting in an increase in the technical debt and the team asked the product owner to create a story to reduce this technical debt. The PO is not a technical person and he asked why the team must reduce the technical debt. What should be the team's response?

The project has already begun and completed few iterations when Arun joined as an agile practitioner. The team is very large, and they are spread all over the world. To start on the project, Arun asked his colleague to share with him a document which can give a quick, brief overview of the project. Which one of the following is least useful in the above scenario?

The project work for medical drug development started a while back. The team has finished 10 iterations now. You joined this team last week as an agile project manager. In one of the meetings, you saw this team showing 1 visual chart to project sponsor with below details in the chart, - On y-axis, there were story points - On x-axis, there were sprints completed so far - up to 10 One of the team members, Smith, told you that they are showing the team’s progress over the last few iterations using this visual chart. Which chart is he referring to?

At the beginning of the meeting, the facilitator explained that there will be multiple stages of the meeting. He told those stages as below,

• Set the stage

• Gather the data

• Generate insight

• Decide what to do and

• Close the meeting

. This meeting is held regularly by the team. Which meeting is this?

The delivery team has started the work only 2-weeks ago for one of the prestigious clients, and the delivery will be based on iterations. After a lot of brainstorming and discussions, the team has agreed to work on 1-week iteration, as against 4-week iteration suggested by the team lead from another team. What could be the disadvantage of smaller iteration?

The organization is hiring for the position of agile project practitioner. The HR department asked you to take the interviews of the candidates this week. One of the candidates is your wife’s sister & as per the interview process you are supposed to take her final round. The HR department is not aware of your relationship with this candidate. What should you do in this case?