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PMI PMI-ACP PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam Practice Test

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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Questions and Answers

Question 1

During the retrospective meeting, it is revealed that an external dependency is causing a reoccurring impact. The impact is that an external team is not providing a fix or a stable testing environment. The scrum master has been unable to resolve this after escalating the situation to upper management several times.

What should the scrum master do now?

Options:

A.

Guide the development team to accept and adapt to the existing situation by finding sustainable workarounds.

B.

Assure that the development team plans the scope of work with this risk absorbed in the estimation.

C.

Establish a communications channel with the external team and monitor the implementation of the external task.

D.

Collect empirical data and influence upper management to be accountable for end-to-end. cross-team delivery.

Question 2

Some members of an agile project team work remotely, so it is difficult to have regular face-to-face backlog grooming sessions. How should the agile practitioner ensure that the team is able to reduce miscommunication and rework in this environment?

Options:

A.

Understand the physical and virtual communication needs of the team and plan agile events based on the majority of the team members' needs.

B.

Escalate with senior management and ensure that everyone on the project team is physically colocated for all planned agile events.

C.

Invest in technology-collaboration tools to enable effective communication and ensure a common understanding of the scope, issues, and solutions.

D.

Recognize the different communication styles of the stakeholders and take a vote on the best approach that will work for the team.

Question 3

A technical problem arises that will likely impact the stories planned for delivery in the current sprint What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Consider adding a story to the next sprint to seek resolution

B.

Immediately solve the problem on behalf of the team

C.

Ask the team to collaboratively work out a solution.

D.

Engage a technical manager to assist with finding a solution

Question 4

After seeing the planned features (or an upcoming release, a customer notes that a vitally important and complex one is missing. The team estimates that this feature significantly exceeds its average velocity. How can this issue be resolved?

Options:

A.

Break down the feature into smaller parts, and commit to completing the minimum viable product.

B.

Complete the iteration to which they have already committed, and include the feature in the next release.

C.

Change the planned features lo include only the vitally important one.

D.

Extend the iteration to complete the feature.

Question 5

An agile team's client has been asked to expedite the delivery of the next release. By delivering one month early, the company can generate USS40.000 more than expected for the quarter. What should the agile team do?

Options:

A.

Adhere to the new deadline and immediately advise the client that the schedule has been expedited.

B.

Advise the client that it is best to continue as planned rather than introduce unforeseen risks by expediting the schedule.

C.

Submit a change request to the client with a 50% increase in charges due to the new potential profit.

D.

Request additional resources to meet the expedited deadline and obtain training for the new resources.

Question 6

A scrum master wants to encourage better collaboration within a collocated team and is coming up with a visualization method for the project. How could the scrum master promote transparency?

Options:

A.

Consolidate the team's updates in presentation slides and email them to the team regularly.

B.

Radiate key information such as the team's work, progress, and velocity at the team's common area.

C.

Share team progress individually with each top performer every week.

D.

Attach sticky notes for each assignment to the wall in the team's area.

Question 7

A large, corporate organization is forced to hire new team members in a geographically remote location from the current team. The manager of the department is concerned about the team not being colocated.

What behavior would indicate the team is not working well together?

Options:

A.

Team members are sending more emails to the team.

B.

The duration of feedback cycles has increased.

C.

The velocity has increased by having the new team work on items.

D.

New team members requested to move meetings due to time differences.

Question 8

During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Ask the lead developer to identify a solution, and then share the details with the team

B.

Ask a technical manager or architect to determine a solution to the problem

C.

Work with the product owner to add a spike to the next sprint to identify a solution

D.

Create a collaborative team environment so that the team can explore a solution together

Question 9

Several new stakeholders are concerned about being asked to review a product demo before it is complete. How should the agile coach explain to the stakeholders the value of working this way?

Options:

A.

The product owner may act as the stakeholders' proxy at the demo and that the stakeholders do not need to be directly involved with the team.

B.

The demo will show whether or not the team understands the level of effort required to complete the project.

C.

The stakeholders will learn whether or not the implementation has worked by getting immediate feedback so they can correct their assumptions for the next sprint.

D.

The stakeholders will be better positioned to evaluate whether or not the resources expended by the organization are worthwhile.

Question 10

The product owner working on an agile software development project has brought all the Scrum team members together for the first sprint planning meeting. The team has read the user stories and has provided estimates to complete these user stories. The product owner plans to empower the team to get the work done.

What is this an example of?

Options:

A.

Emotional intelligence

B.

Two-way communication

C.

Bipartisan agreement

D.

Reciprocal communication

Question 11

A team working with a new technology faces a significant amount of uncertainty about its ability to deliver stories due to technical issues. What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Capture risks and make them visible, and use a burn down chart to focus on reducing risks early in the project.

B.

Ask the scrum master to extend the sprint's duration to allow more time to work through technical issues.

C.

Place the impacted stories on the story board, and use daily stand ups to make the product owner aware of the technical issues.

D.

Seek guidance from the development manager

Question 12

Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled.

What should the team have done to avoid this?

Options:

A.

Escalated the issue to management

B.

Ensured the early engagement of key stakeholders

C.

Provided feedback to the architecture team to change the enterprise architecture standards

D.

Raised an exception for non-adherence to the enterprise architecture standards for this product

Question 13

The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning lo gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint. What should the agile project manager do?

Options:

A.

Since the team has extra lime, notify the product owner and secure approval for the extra work on this feature.

B.

Encourage the team to document the improvement and prioritize it for the upcoming iteration, instead of building it now.

C.

Instruct the Scrum Master to have the team use the extra time to complete the extra feature work in the current iteration.

D.

Notify the product owner and have the product owner verify the backlog priority, then encourage team to continue working on the backlog.

Question 14

During a review session, an agile team presented done requirements to a group of stakeholders Stakeholder feedback indicated that the done requirements failed to meet the most pressing needs and provide value.

What should the team have done to prevent this?

Options:

A.

Reprioritized requirements prior to committing to iteration work

B.

Ensured that requirements remained stable during the iteration cycle

C.

Had stakeholders focus on items created after the product backlog was initially built

D.

Worked on features rather than a set of components

Question 15

The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status and a demo of all the stories to the business. What should the product owner have done differently?

Options:

A.

Demonstrated only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback

B.

Presented the budget situation and review the cost variance

C.

Reviewed the test results to gam confidence from the stakeholders

D.

Presented a demo of all the stones including the work in progress stories

Question 16

A team retrospective was going well until the team lead introduced the "define the next experiment" topic; then the discussion became an argument. A new team member feels strongly that the approach used on their previous team would improve this team's efficiency and effectiveness. The team lead is adamant that they remain with the current approach and the discussion dissolves into a circular argument.

Options:

A.

Remind the group that all input is welcome but dissension is not productive and suggest the group move on to another task more agreeable to everyone.

B.

Restate both stances, ask for details of both approaches, and create a chart of similarities and differences.

C.

Construct an Ishikawa diagram for each approach, and use the 5 Whys technique to determine the effectiveness of each approach.

D.

Interject and request this experiment be postponed for 2 months, so the new team member has time to observe the current approach.

Question 17

An agile coach is assigned to help a project team that was recently co-located close to a very popular business Many team members visit this business during working hours which affects team performance.

What should the agile coach do to mitigate this issue?

Options:

A.

Speak with the functional managers and come to an agreement that will resolve the issue

B.

Explain to functional managers that too much control will inversely Impact team morale

C.

Meet with the team to discuss the issue and identify specific actions to reduce or eliminate the issue

D.

Inform the team there will be penalties to anyone who visits that business during working hours

Question 18

A software development team is working in an environment in which increased competition, demanding customer expectations, and new technological developments pose significant challenges. How should the team plan improvements to their product?

Options:

A.

Follow the project schedule created at the start of the project.

B.

Hold regular retrospectives and have team members commit to specific actions.

C.

Allow team members to choose improvement items and trust their judgment.

D.

Encourage team members to write code that is tightly coupled together.

Question 19

An agile practitioner notices that a project is increasing open defect counts after every subsequent iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Create an issue on the backlog to investigate the root cause and assign a team resource to resolve the issue immediately.

B.

Request increased velocity from the development team to clear off some defects and stay on track with the current iteration's work.

C.

Ask the team to determine how to adapt to this increase in the next retrospective.

D.

Stop work on in-progress user stories to clear defects from the product owner and increase velocity on defect resolution.

Question 20

A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to compete in the marketplace

What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?

Options:

A.

Risk management

B.

Variance and trend

C.

Kano model

D.

Fishbone diagram

Question 21

How can a scrum team obtain more feedback from a minimally responsive outside stakeholder?

Options:

A.

Keep sprints short.

B.

Invite the stakeholder to the daily stand ups.

C.

Ask the stakeholder for estimates for each user story.

D.

Schedule more demos during each sprint.

Question 22

An e-commerce company acquired a tool to customize subject line generation for marketing campaigns. In sprint planning, the team discussed integrating this tool with the customer relationship management system.

Which mitigation strategy is most appropriate to ensure the final product meets the business objectives? (Refer to the Risk Register Exhibit)

Options:

A.

Conduct thorough requirements analysis and validation.

B.

Allocate experienced developers and perform code reviews.

C.

Plan for sufficient support resources post-deployment.

D.

Develop comprehensive testing involving the quality assurance team.

Question 23

A project team for a local government is transitioning from a predictive development life cycle to an iterative development life cycle. The project sponsor has informed the team lead that the subject matter expert (SME) for the financial functions of the solution is overallocated, so the team needs to convert the previously gathered requirements into user stories.

What should the agile lead do?

Options:

A.

Explain that the testable acceptance criteria are included in each story and it is necessary for the expert to collaborate with the developers, testers, and product owner for common understanding of the solution.

B.

Agree, and ask the developers to explain to the testers how the solution should perform for quality assurance. The testers will demonstrate to the stakeholders how the system should perform to gain acceptance.

C.

Agree, because the developers can copy and paste the requirements and include the technical specifications and performance criteria while writing the stories to save time.

D.

Explain to the project sponsor that the user stories should be assigned to the analysts, because they helped write the requirements and better understand them.

Question 24

During a daily stand up, the tester engages the developer in a discussion about what will be tested during unit testing versus regression testing. What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Ask the tester and developer to discuss it after the meeting, since it is not a part of the daily stand up.

B.

Encourage the discussion to resolve impediments.

C.

After the meeting, escalate this issue to the tester's supervisor to ensure that this does not reoccur.

D.

Ask more questions about the testing techniques to obtain clarification on team efforts for quality improvements.

Question 25

A development team is working on the implementation of a human resources (HR) solution. The team has decided to work together with different business units to deliver value early and often.

Which agile values are being practiced in this scenario?

Options:

A.

The importance of customer-centric product development practices over product-centric approaches.

B.

Deliver working software often with a preference for shorter timescales and changing requirements

C.

The belief that contributions and interactions are more important to success than processes and tools.

D.

The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

Question 26

A backlog for a project has been prioritized and a sprint has begun. A security issue has been revealed that needs to be addressed or large security vulnerabilities will be exposed.

How should the project manager proceed?

Options:

A.

Consult with the product owner to prioritize the new work at a higher level.

B.

Consult with the project sponsor and project team to resolve the issue.

C.

Consult with the project team to rework the existing estimates.

D.

Consult with the product owner and project team.

Question 27

What should a product owner do when a new stakeholder is complaining that they are not receiving the relevant financial data regarding the project.

Options:

A.

Work with the scrum master to give the stakeholder access to the related information radiator

B.

Invite the stakeholder to the next sprint planning session so they can ask questions of the team

C.

Ask the team to prepare the requested data in the next iteration

D.

Direct the stakeholder to the project team so they can provide more data

Question 28

A scrum team is working together virtually. One of the team members sends a daily email to the other team members listing impediments that they find. During retrospective meetings, the team member complains that their colleagues fail to take actions on the impediments.

How should the team address this issue?

Options:

A.

The team member that is complaining should talk individually with the scrum master to remove impediments.

B.

They should ask for more details about the impediments and then resolve them when the team has more time to investigate.

C.

The team member that is complaining should address the impediments in daily scrum, communicating them directly.

D.

Team members should state that they need to prioritize their work instead of responding to daily emails about impediments.

Question 29

During an interview for an agile team lead for a global company, a candidate is asked: "How do you ensure your project is aligned with the stakeholders' priorities?"

How should the candidate respond?

Options:

A.

Engage the change management team to determine prioritization of the backlog.

B.

Allow the stakeholders to decide on the priority and build the backlog.

C.

The entire team should discuss and prioritize the backlog factoring in stakeholder input.

D.

Only the agile team lead and team need to decide how to prioritize the project deliverables.

Question 30

A food company seeks additional business-to-business (B2B) revenues from some customers by

implementing purchase order (PO) functionality. To achieve this, the agile project team is exploring PO integration options (see item #3 in Exhibit A), as the product increment (PI) planning process is underway.

What should the project team do next?

Options:

A.

Use agile estimation techniques like planning poker or relative sizing for collaborative assessment.

B.

Break down the feature into smaller tasks or user stories for better assessment and incremental delivery.

C.

Analyze current system requirements and dependencies, including integration levels and regulatory compliance.

D.

Refer to past performance and historical data from similar projects to identity potential risks and challenges.

Question 31

An agile team is working on a new product and is behind with their deliverables for the quarterly release. The team discovers new issues during each iteration. They start working on the critical issues and sometimes forget to update the backlog. This leads to confusion, delays, and occasional rework.

How should the agile practitioner improve the team’s productivity?

Options:

A.

Work with the team to ensure that both the product and iteration backlogs are up to date.

B.

Work with the team to ensure that the release backlog is in sync with the product backlog.

C.

Work with the team to ensure that the iteration and release backlogs are kept up to date.

D.

Work with the team to ensure that the product backlog is always kept up to date.

Question 32

During a retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives All will have a positive impact and improve team performance What should the agile coach do next?

Options:

A.

Positively acknowledge the list and share it with management

B.

Immediately have the team implement the initiatives

C.

Help the team choose one or two initiatives for immediate implementation

D.

Ask the team to choose and implement the most complex initiative

Question 33

An organization wants to execute a corporate website redesign project using Scrum. There is an experienced pool of agile team members from a previous project, as well as a pool of available internal team members with some Scrum background.

What should be considered when selecting the team?

Options:

A.

Review any reports of conflict between each of the team members over the last two years, and select only those with a track record of working well together.

B.

Ensure there is a balanced mix of people who are experts and members with broad experience based on the work to be performed and determine training needs.

C.

Ensure that none of the team members are geographically dispersed so that all team members can be colocated.

D.

Review each team member's contributions to the velocity of their previous projects and select the highest performers.

Question 34

During the fourth sprint retrospective for an IT project, the team members develop a series of actions to improve problem solving in the next sprint. However, many team members are concerned that these actions will not be implemented, since there was no follow-up from the last retrospective meeting.

What should the scrum master do to improve team commitment to the recommendations from the retrospective meeting?

Options:

A.

Lead the team and help them to constantly improve the processes in the project.

B.

Be aggressive when working with the team to identity the root cause of the problems.

C.

Ensure each team member follows through all the improvement actions.

D.

Perform as a servant leader and let the team resolve the impediments of the project themselves.

Question 35

During sprint planning, team members have differing opinions on a feature that delivers business value but fails to provide a long-term solution for the customer How should the team resolve this?

Options:

A.

Refer to the values of the agile framework and the team

B.

Review the signed customer contract

C.

Check the sprint priority list

D.

Submit the problem to the product owner

Question 36

During backlog refinement, a team routinely creates tests to demonstrate to the customer that each acceptance criterion has been met. Most acceptance tests results are observable or demonstrable, but testing for one requirement is providing a challenge to the team. The requirement states that the home button should be recognizable and the team is unsure how to test this.

What should the team lead do?

Options:

A.

Determine if the home button is present and if it is shaped like a house, it is recognizable.

B.

Record the product owner's opinion on how they will know if the button is recognizable.

C.

Skip creating a specific test for Ibis particular requirement because it is too abstract

D.

Consult the design team as subject matter experts (SMEs) for criteria on what makes a button recognizable.

Question 37

A project team held a working session with a finance team to understand the procurement process. After the meeting, while the agile lead was facilitating the value stream mapping exercise, one of the team members asked: "When calculating the cycle time, which factors should be considered?"

How should the agile lead respond?

Options:

A.

Total time and average process time

B.

Critical path and queue lengths

C.

Delays and bottlenecks in the process

D.

End date/time and start date/time

Question 38

Midway through a project the product owner learns from the sponsor that a major component, which is already 20 percent complete, is unimportant to users. The component was part of the approved scope and a key selling point for the project

What should the product owner do next?

Options:

A.

Obtain approval from the change control board to discontinue the component

B.

Ask the team to continue developing the component

C.

Ask the team to discontinue developing the component

D.

Request the sponsor's formal approval to discontinue the component

Question 39

A product owner worked with the customer to define the success criteria for the launch of a new product in the manufacturing industry. The project team responsible for development is seeking guidance on what to develop first.

Which two actions should the product owner take? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Work with the team to establish goals for the product at the beginning of each scheduled iteration.

B.

Send the team the latest version of the release plan so they can provide feedback.

C.

Invite the customer to the sprint planning meeting to explain what is deemed most critical to their business.

D.

Ensure all iteration goals are fully developed at the beginning of the project.

E.

Refine the product backlog and identify the Minimum Viable Product

Question 40

After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Prioritize the backlog, and remove low-priority stories from the release plan to ensure a positive ROI

B.

Replace some team members to reduce the release costs and minimize a negative ROI

C.

Perform a root-cause analysis to remove waste from the delivery process and increase the ROI.

D.

Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan

Question 41

The executive leadership wants to understand ways to better deliver on time and on budget. What can the project team do to assist in achieving the organizational goal?

Options:

A.

Maintain and review a lessons learned repository to improve delivery of future projects.

B.

Ask each team member to post corrective action to the backlog.

C.

Engage the project management office (PMO) to take responsibility identifying lessons learned on projects.

D.

Perform a root cause analysis to identify alternative approaches for performing the next project.

Question 42

An agile lead is working on a project to build a new product that will bring substantial business value to a company. Company executives want to present the first release at an important industry fair the following month. The agile lead started the project the previous month, and the team planned the release to take 8 iterations. For the past 4 iterations, work has been performed as planned and on time. In the current iteration, however, one team member will be out for the remainder of the project. Without this team member, velocity would drop 30%.

What should the agile lead do to ensure the release will be on time for the fair?

Options:

A.

Reduce the scope of the release to meet the deadline.

B.

Deliver as many features as possible based on the new velocity.

C.

Extend the project timeline to accommodate the missing team member.

D.

Hire a new team member to replace the missing one.

Question 43

The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog. What should the Scrum Master do next?

Options:

A.

Ask the project manager to work with the product owner to help generate clearer stories in the future.

B.

Develop guidelines to prevent future occurrences.

C.

During the retrospective, discuss the issue and create an action plan to avoid it in the future.

D.

Allow the team to devise a corrective action without external intervention.

Question 44

During backlog refinement meeting, the new developer on the team asks the product owner to discuss a new performance threshold requirement and how it impacts the stories in the backlog. What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Add this threshold requirement request as acceptance criteria in all impacted stories

B.

Create a spike story to analyze the impact of the threshold requirement on current stories

C.

Conduct design planning session to review the performance threshold requirement

D.

Identify the tasks for the new performance threshold requirement

Question 45

A product owner feels that the last sprint failed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to their organization's overall project goals. What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?

Options:

A.

Solutions to project problems that were built into the last sprint

B.

Problems that arose

C.

Solutions that saved the organization the most time and money

D.

Problems that were solved

Question 46

An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project What should the practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Post and discuss rises in the burn down chart

B.

Adjust story points to account for technical debt

C.

Log technical debt as an impediment

D.

Add refactoring tasks to all stories

Question 47

Project stakeholders are finding it difficult to know the real-time status of who has been assigned to various stories and the status of each work item. Which of the following should the agile project manager do?

Options:

A.

Use an information radiator to help increase the transparency of work for key stakeholders.

B.

Send status updates whenever the stakeholders request them.

C.

Hold Scrum meetings more frequently to ensure stakeholders are well informed.

D.

Instruct the team to focus on their own assignments rather than the work of others.

Question 48

A mobile application project is halfway through development. The team reaches a stabilized velocity after 8 iterations. The sprint duration is two weeks and requirements assigned by the product owner are not changing frequently.

What is the estimated time remaining for the project?

Options:

A.

Eight months

B.

Two months

C.

Four months

D.

Six months

Question 49

A scrum team has eight developers, but only two are database engineers. During the last few retrospectives, the team identified that most sprint stories are dependent upon database engineers. This has created a bottleneck in completing stories.

What should be proposed to the team?

Options:

A.

Have other team developers attend training to learn database skills.

B.

Monitor the retrospectives of two additional sprints before taking action.

C.

Plan fewer stories for the sprint to reduce the database engineers' workload.

D.

Ask the scrum master to work with the product owner to remove backlog stories that have database dependency.

Question 50

During sprints, the development team members are frequently invited to various meetings to provide technical opinions, consuming the team's working time and causing compliance issues. Which action should the scrum master take to address this situation?

Options:

A.

Request additional resources to prevent compliance issues while still fostering a collaborative workplace.

B.

Escalate the concern to the product owner and request that they prioritize the development work.

C.

Designate a single team member to attend the meetings and establish a capacity buffer for each sprint.

D.

Reject all external meetings for the development team so they can fully focus on their sprint tasks.

Question 51

How should an agile project leader interact with the product owner?

Options:

A.

Conduct regular one-on-one meetings to review development features and trace them back to the product roadmap.

B.

Ensure that they attend regular sprint meetings to provide product-feature feedback

C.

Share any new versions of the project plan with them including updated statuses for tasks and project milestones

D.

Schedule meetings where they can provide team direction regarding new-feature priorities and upcoming sprints

Question 52

An agile team is struggling with an issue. A team member mentions that another team had a similar issue that was resolved, but lessons learned documents are unavailable.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Suggest that all agile teams share weekly reports on their projects.

B.

Encourage the team to independently find a solution.

C.

Work with the team to create a solution for disseminating team knowledge throughout the company.

D.

Recommend hiring an external expert to advise on the best methods for sharing knowledge among teams.

Question 53

During planning sessions an agile practitioner notices that some team members do not share common ideas What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Ask the team if they would like to adopt alternative techniques

B.

Create a team norms document to set participation guidelines

C.

Ask the scrum master to resolve the issue at the stand up meeting

D.

Capture feedback during lessons learned at the end of the iteration

Question 54

A project team's standups often run over the allotted time as members attempt to resolve issues. With a large team, this is leading to productivity impacts and bringing complaints from some members that the meetings are wasting their time when they are not directly involved in an issue’s resolution.

How can the project leader help to manage the team's time?

Options:

A.

Set up individual status meetings and find ways to make sure issues are resolved in advance so that time is not wasted for all team members during the standups

B.

Add time to the standups to accommodate issue-resolution discussions so that everyone is up to date on the decisions made

C.

Change the standups to weekly status meetings with a longer duration to allow team members to resolve issues collaboratively

D.

Ask team members to raise issues during standups and then discuss resolution options with specific members in separate conversations

Question 55

An agile team is working well together, but productivity has been flat. What can the project leader do to help them improve performance?

Options:

A.

Review the burndown chart to identify ways to increase efficiency.

B.

Chair a weekly team retrospective focusing on identifying areas for continuous improvement.

C.

Ask a senior manager to initiate a root-cause analysis.

D.

Identify team key performance indicators (KPIs) and create positive incentives when targets are achieved.

Question 56

A scrum master is working with a team on a complex software project that is scheduled to run for 2 years with a series of product releases. The scrum master is responsible for planning the project for the next 6 months and has advised planning the project up front.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Add the releases into a roadmap with milestones and activities.

B.

Identity dedicated tasks and activities with regular feedback loops.

C.

Deliver in small and continuous iterative releases.

D.

Identify the requirements' schedule within set time scales.

Question 57

During a retrospective the agile practitioner discovers that a team member's process improvement idea has worsened the outcome What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Commend the team on trying the idea, then encourage discussion regarding alternatives.

B.

Ask a manager to direct the team on fixing the process

C.

Encourage the team to continue executing the idea to see if it improves

D.

Privately speak with the team member to convey that their idea worsened the outcome

Question 58

A project team realizes that an important task on the iteration backlog will take more time than originally estimated What should the project team do?

Options:

A.

Continue working on the task until it is completed

B.

Remove the task owner from the project team

C.

Add resources to reduce time to task completion

D.

Stop working on the task and include it in the next iteration

Question 59

In a planning meeting, the client does not have a clear understanding of the most beneficial features of a project, because there are too many stakeholders with different requirements. How should the project manager approach this project?

Options:

A.

Define all requirements so value can be added by delivering a high-level plan at the initiation phase.

B.

Suggest the product owner prioritize the work items by feature to maximize value.

C.

Ask the customer to define the requirements of all stakeholders and select the most valuable features.

D.

Ensure the client has a clear idea about the features and end product before the project starts.

Question 60

Midway through a sprint, a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement that may change the initial scope. What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Work on requirements that the product owner may have overlooked

B.

Record the scope creep in the change management log

C.

Add the new requirement to the product backlog

D.

Ask the scrum master to secure additional time and resources

Question 61

A newly formed scrum team wants to foster an environment of transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future Over time what will be the result of this approach?

Options:

A.

Kaizen

B.

Specific measurable, assignable, realistic and time-based (SMART) goals

C.

Key performance indicators (KPIs)

D.

Muda

Question 62

During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good. What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

A.

Require the team to try only those ideas that will ensure success.

B.

Allow the team to try ideas, but remind them that results will be reviewed by high-ranking executives.

C.

Associate idea successes and failures with the team's incentive plan to ensure accountability.

D.

Encourage the team to try the ideas, even if failure may be the outcome.

Question 63

Based on the backlog metrics in the chart what can explain the jump in points at the end of iteration 4?

Options:

A.

The team neglected to account for support and maintenance costs associated with other supported products

B.

The team discovered that previously accepted work could be greatly improved and added story points associated with thatwork.

C.

The team realized that some stories were underestimated relative to other stories and reestimated as needed

D.

The team learned that the product owner needed to increase the output in the next release

Question 64

A scrum master is overseeing the launch of a chatbot for the service desk. Complaints come up post-release about edge case responses to queries. After analyzing the issues, the business decision was made to take the chatbot offline, resulting in workflow disruptions and risking the reputation.

How could this situation have been avoided? (Refer to Testing Protocol Table)

Options:

A.

Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure the chatbot meets stakeholder needs and expectations.

B.

Perform integration testing to minimize any bugs between the chatbot components.

C.

Perform functional testing to verify the chatbot performs the reguired functions.

D.

Conduct regression testing to ensure all previously functioning chatbot features continue to work after updates.

Question 65

A project manager is leading a large agile project with multiple deliverables at each phase of completion. The project team has informed the project manager that the deliverables are completed per the team agreement.

Which agile practice should the project manager advise their team use to ensure deliverables are completed and ready for release?

Options:

A.

Requirements backlog and ready for release

B.

Acceptance criteria and release

C.

Definition of ready (DoR) and review

D.

Definition of done (DoD) and demonstrate

Question 66

In several recent agile team status meetings, there have been discussions about increases in costly bugs and late product deliveries, resulting in lower quality and higher costs. Team members feel they spend too much time in planning and process meetings, then feel rushed to complete their work.

How should the agile lead implement an effective and efficient solution?

Options:

A.

Review the quality assurance and control processes with the team to ensure that even new team members understand the service level agreement (SLA) made with the customer.

B.

Suggest the team commit to a 2-month trial using Kanban. Focus on delivering value to the customer using pull criteria before advancing work. The team will have planning meetings as needed with no special meetings about the process.

C.

Hire a consultant team to perform a root cause analysis, which will determine the fundamental issues from both perspectives, then meet with the team to determine the best method to get the project back on track.

D.

Work with the team to create a spike story for the next iteration to investigate the issue. Create a plan to get the project back on track and present it at the next status meeting to gain stakeholder acceptance.

Question 67

A scrum master is part of a project team using technologies overseen by the IT department. The IT director oversees several company initiatives and is unfamiliar with the details of each one. As an active project stakeholder, to which meeting should the IT director be invited?

Options:

A.

Planning

B.

Daily scrum

C.

Sprint demo

D.

Retrospective

Question 68

Why is stakeholder engagement important for project success?

Options:

A.

To participate in establishing a shared vision as a member of the team

B.

To provide the acceptance criteria for the delivered items

C.

To propose implementation methods to the development team

D.

To evaluate the performance of the development team

Question 69

During the project initiation stage, a team has estimated story points for all user stories. When the project team explained the minimum marketable feature (MMF), however, they were not confident that the solution would actually work.

What can the team do to better manage this situation?

Options:

A.

Deliver the minimum marketable feature (MMF) to customers for feedback.

B.

Write acceptance criteria for each business requirement to conduct proper testing.

C.

Develop test cases based on user stories.

D.

Ask the customer to provide acceptance criteria before developing the user stories.

Question 70

Several team members have complained to senior management about their scrum master's processes. What should the scrum master do to address the team's process concerns?

Options:

A.

Include senior management in the process decisions.

B.

Communicate the processes and expectations to the team.

C.

Conduct retrospectives at the end of every sprint.

D.

Include process feedback in the next sprint planning session.

Question 71

An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release.

What should the agile coach do?

Options:

A.

Meet with the agile team lead to discuss ways to improve team velocity and get back on track

B.

Use this as a learning opportunity and allow the team to handle the situation when the marketing campaign begins

C.

In the upcoming retrospective, discuss ways to improve sharing project status information

D.

Meet with the marketing stakeholders to explain that the team will miss the planned release date

Question 72

An agile lead is working with a team to deliver a new product. During a sprint, a junior team member has been taking too long to deliver a story. During daily coordination meetings, the junior team member does not mention any impediments they might be facing. Senior team members realize the delay but remain quiet. During a one-to-one conversation, the agile lead discovers the junior team member is struggling with a technical issue but feels too intimidated to ask for help.

What should the agile lead do?

An agile lead is working with a team to deliver a new product. During a sprint, a junior team member has been taking too long to deliver a story. During daily coordination meetings, thejunior team member does not mention any impediments they might be facing. Senior team members realize the delay but remain quiet. During a one-to-one conversation, the agile lead discovers the junior team member is struggling with a technical issue but feels too intimidated to ask for help.

What should the agile lead do?

Options:

A.

Escalate the issue to the functional manager and request another team member with more experience.

B.

Ask the team to refer to the team charter on how to resolve this kind of impediment and help the team member.

C.

Coach the team by reminding them that a self-managed team requires everyone to be able to remove their impediments.

D.

Remind them that self-managed teams require everyone to be honest and supportive of one another to resolve impediments.

Question 73

An agile lead is experienced with predictive and agile approaches. The agile lead was recently invited by human resources (HR) to be part of a learning team. During roundtable discussions with the project management team, the agile lead states: "I foster a safe environment for disagreement so my team feels empowered to move forward without obstacles."

What is the agile lead attempting to highlight?

Options:

A.

Ownership, because team members will be in charge of whatever happens during the project life cycle.

B.

Conflict is not productive and team members should resolve issues by themselves.

C.

Better decision-making, because the team is encouraged to join in constructive conflict.

D.

Leaders should incentivize conflict because it is inevitable in the workplace.

Question 74

A Kanban team is struggling to prioritize and determine which tasks to handle first according to value. What should the team do to improve this situation?

Options:

A.

Involve their product owner.

B.

Review their work in progress (WIP) limits.

C.

Use class of service.

D.

Measure their lead time.

Question 75

While attending a conference, an agile practitioner learns of a new user interface (Ul) framework that could benefit the team. What should the agile practitioner do next?

Options:

A.

Identify a team member to do a proof of concept using this framework.

B.

Email the team directing them to immediately begin using this new framework.

C.

Obtain feedback from team members on the new framework, and then suggest that the product owner create a backlog item to do a spike on it.

D.

Discuss this option at the next retrospective.

Question 76

A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features.

What should the product owner do?

Options:

A.

Determine the required tasks for implementing the high-level features

B.

Identify the detailed design for the high-level features

C.

Prioritize the product backlog for the upcoming release.

D.

Estimate the user stories in the iteration backlog

Question 77

A mature agile team welcomes a new member Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate.

What should the agile project leader do?

Options:

A.

Bring up the new member's impediments at the next meeting to demonstrate team support of input

B.

Assure the new member that inputs on impediments are valued and demonstrate this at the next meeting

C.

Have a senior lead work with the new member to avoid a negative impact on team productivity

D.

Privately work with the new member to address any impediments

Question 78

One of the overseas stakeholders on an agile project has not been actively involved in the project's development. What would be the first step to reengage the stakeholder?

Options:

A.

Increase the frequency of emails and/or try to call the stakeholder.

B.

Remind the stakeholder of their obligation to engage in the project.

C.

Talk to the stakeholder's superior so they can offer coaching and guidance on project involvement.

D.

Set up a meeting with the stakeholder to modify the working agreement and ensure future engagement.

Question 79

Based on the chart, what is the current status of the iteration when comparing story points planned versus completed?

Options:

A.

The iteration is in jeopardy.

B.

The team has removed scope.

C.

The iteration is ahead of schedule.

D.

The team's velocity is constant.

Question 80

An agile team is optimizing the workflow by investing in initiatives to identify and reduce unnecessary handovers and delays. What should the team do in this situation?

Options:

A.

Create a value stream map.

B.

Draw a risk burndown chart.

C.

Use a kanban board.

D.

Make a cumulative flow diagram.

Question 81

HOTSPOT

Organizations that implement agile project management focus on upgrading existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings, or quality enhancements for existing customers (i.e., operational agility). Organizations need to realize that the major financial gains from agile project management will result from the practice of what? (Select answer from dropdown)

Options:

Question 82

A key stakeholder feels they do not understand the project at a comprehensive level. What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Send daily status emails to let stakeholders know what progress is being made.

B.

Invite stakeholders to attend daily Scrum meetings to get feedback.

C.

Share information via interactive methods such as a brainstorming session.

D.

Build the feature backlog and then solicit stakeholder feedback.

Question 83

During an agile team retrospective, some junior team members discussed an approach that could improve the overall team performance. How should the agile practitioner handle the recommendation?

Options:

A.

Record the suggestion to be considered for future projects.

B.

Invite the team to evaluate the suggestion and measure the effectiveness of the implementation.

C.

Let the product owner consider the proposal and decide whether to adopt the suggested practice.

D.

Let the team's senior members decide whether to adopt the suggested practice.

Question 84

A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint What should they do?

Options:

A.

Request direction from the technical manager

B.

Encourage the product owner to reallocate the features to another sprint

C.

determine who is best qualified to address the challenges

D.

Ask the product owner to assign the tasks to the most appropriately skilled resources

Question 85

A senior manager has asked an agile team to ensure that the data for the burndown charts are updated in real-time. However, the team is not comfortable with this approach as they think this is not productive.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Ask the product owner to manage and share the metrics with appropriate stakeholders.

B.

Meet with requestors to agree and align on reporting requirements.

C.

Deny the request and explain the team's stance to the stakeholders.

D.

Work with the team to create the metrics requested by the stakeholders.

Question 86

During a six-week iteration, an issue is identified by a team member. After analysis, the team member determines that it will take at least two weeks to resolve. What should the team member do?

Options:

A.

Notify the product owner and begin resolution.

B.

Communicate the issue to the team in the next stand up meeting.

C.

Immediately begin resolution, and communicate it to the team during the retrospective.

D.

Work on the next activity, and communicate it to the team during the retrospective.

Question 87

A project was delivered in a foreign country for a big customer, but there are a lot of complaints about the way the functionality was implemented. Now there is a new project to fix the defects of the first one.

What strategy should be used to deliver it successfully?

Options:

A.

Talk with the old project manager to learn about the problems they encountered and the lessons learned.

B.

Suggest organizing a meeting in order to analyze the situation and work to find a strategy.

C.

Analyze all defects and change requests carefully to understand their root causes and act accordingly.

D.

Suggest an iterative approach including timely engagement of all key stakeholders and hold regular review meetings.

Question 88

When working on a new product, what should an agile team do to ensure alignment with external stakeholders?

Options:

A.

Hold a kick-off meeting to assign roles.

B.

Review the project vision statement.

C.

Ask the product owner for a detailed product-specification document.

D.

Work with the scrum master to ensure that agile principles are followed.

Question 89

After three iterations, it is identified that a project's underlying security structure architecture is unstable. While there is a technical solution, all work to date is flawed. This will impact several future business service offerings.

What should the product owner do to resolve this?

Options:

A.

Ask the development team to address the issue since it is in their domain.

B.

Review the project's risk matrix, and follow the steps outlined in the risk mitigation plan.

C.

Meet with the team and stakeholders to address rework and rewrite stories as needed.

D.

Cancel the current sprint, and meet with stakeholders to reassess the project's validity.

Question 90

An agile leader notices that a team member is becoming very quiet and disengaged in meetings. What should the agile leader do to identify team members' personalities and motivators?

Options:

A.

Use the DISC framework with each team member.

B.

Use MoSCoW ratings to keep people engaged.

C.

Hire a SAFe coach to provide encouragement.0 Employ BDUF to help with providing structure to meetings

Question 91

During the review session, the product owner discovers that the user interface has a response time of 10 seconds. The non-functional requirements state that it should respond in less than two seconds. The team complains that this requirement was not communicated to them.

What should have been done to avoid this?

Options:

A.

A comprehensive user story with all non-functional requirements should have been created

B.

Non-functional requirements should have been added to the acceptance criteria

C.

Non-functional requirements should have been added to the definition of done

D.

A team review of the scope of work should have been conducted

Question 92

A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful. The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than a long-term solution.

What should the project leader do?

Options:

A.

Assign the spike to another resource to continue research for the long-term solution

B.

Re-establish the spike; encourage experimentation and collaborate with the team

C.

Stop experimentation and negotiate the short-term solution with the customer

D.

Schedule a root-cause analysis with the development team on the main issues with the spike

Question 93

A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules How should the team lead address this?

Options:

A.

Inform management and suggest that additional resources may be required

B.

Discuss the issue with the team in the daily stand up meetings

C.

Meet personally with the stressed team member to brainstorm ways to better manage their time

D.

Begin tracking the stressed team member's tasks in a separate backlog for additional analysis and reporting

Question 94

A new CIO advocates an agile framework for new IT projects, but the team has reservations. How should the CIO ensure that the team will be aligned with this?

Options:

A.

Obtain executive team buy-in by conducting a meeting to present the advantages of agile principles and processes.

B.

Issue a memo of understanding that agile principles should be implemented for all new projects.

C.

Introduce agile principles and processes, then make the change an experiment to obtain buy-in.

D.

Require all staff and management to attend agile training and adhere to its principles.

Question 95

An agile lead has been assigned to a project to develop an innovative digital device for a consumer products company. The company asked the agile lead to use a Scrum approach to product development. The product owner has worked on Scrum projects before and is excited about the value Scrum will bring to the company.

What should the scrum master do first?

Options:

A.

Build a product roadmapthat shows the features and releases.B Request an existing cross-functional team be dedicated to the project

B.

Obtain specific product requirements from a customer focus group.

C.

Develop a project budget based on the project charter.

Question 96

The agile practitioner has determined that two different team members are working on addressing the same major issue on the project. How should the agile practitioner address this?

Options:

A.

Implement a burnup chart and add the issue resolution as a task to the product backlog for the customer to prioritize.

B.

Add the issue to the kanban board and assign the it to the team member who has made the most progress on resolving it.

C.

Conduct a root-cause analysis on the issue and identify related risks and risk response owners at the next retrospective.

D.

Document all project issues in a common space and ask the team members to decide on task allocation principles.

Question 97

During planning for the next iteration an agile team identifies most of the story points that are expected to be delivered How should an agile practitioner work with the team to help identify the iteration's remaining scope?

Options:

A.

Convince the team to stop planning and keep the size small

B.

Identify the technically minimal and achievable tasks

C.

Refer to the remaining prioritized backlog items

D.

Select some of the smallest items from the backlog

Question 98

In a project, the customer asks for a requirement that clearly deviates from the contract terms. How should the contractor react?

Options:

A.

Proceed with the work only after the contract is amended.

B.

Discuss the value of the change for the project with the customer.

C.

Evaluate effort and impact and ask for steering committee and shareholder approval.

D.

Stick with the contract terms and agree to review the requirement if time allows.

Question 99

A software team is developing a product in an environment with increased uncertainty. Although there is a clear vision of the goals to be achieved, the product owner is not fully certain about how some of the product features should work.

How should the product owner address this situation?

Options:

A.

Improve the product testing and quality assurance skills among the team

B.

Facilitate more product planning sessions with the software team.

C.

Consider moving to a more predictive product development approach.

D.

Develop a prototype of the product to obtain feedback from users.

Question 100

During project inception, an agile practitioner engages the stakeholder to ensure alignment on the project's strategy and vision. The stakeholder asks for detailed requirements, design and delivery plans.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Provide all information requested by the stakeholder

B.

Set expectations regarding the appropriate level of details requested during this stage

C.

Inform the stakeholder that no detailed documents are provided using agile practices

D.

Ask the team to supply the information to the stakeholder

Question 101

During planning, a project team and sponsor created a visual representation of the high-level specifications of the features and user stories to be implemented in a product. Consensus was achieved on this high-level depiction of the product characteristics, but the sponsor is having difficulty understanding what to develop and when.

How should the project manager explain this to the customer and save time in the meeting?

Options:

A.

Team performance and velocity can be determined only after the project has started

B.

Point out the Walking Skeleton and highlight the basic features that provide value.

C.

Create a kanban board for visualizing the work in process (WIP) and future development.

D.

High-level release planning is part of iteration 0 and works as a proof of concept

Question 102

The systems integrator for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) project has been onboarded. During an iteration planning session, the team determines that the next highest priority item will take longer than expected to complete in the current sprint.

What should the agile practitioner do next?

Options:

A.

Schedule a meeting with the product owner to review the sprint priorities.

B.

Put the high-priority item back into the product backlog.

C.

Extend the sprint end date to accommodate the high-priority item.

D.

Ask the project sponsor to add more resources to ensure timely completion.

Question 103

A team member does not understand what the project risks are or the impact that they could have. How should an agile leader communicate risks in a way that the team will understand?

Options:

A.

Create a RAG chart (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed) that identifies who is accountable for each risk.

B.

Create a Gantt chart that includes slack to accommodate for unknowns.

C.

Create a communications management plan that details who is responsible for communicating risks.

D.

Create a risk burndown chart showing the reduction of risks overtime.

Question 104

An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects. What should the project manager do to share this project's knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?

Options:

A.

Invite people from across the organization to attend daily stand ups

B.

Invite people from across the organization to attend retrospectives

C.

Invite people from across the organization to attend the release meeting and project retrospectives.

D.

Regularly meet with people across the organization to share the project's lessons learned and best practices

Question 105

Daily coordination meeting attendance has been declining recently. Those who attend have little to contribute outside of what they are currently working on. The project manager met with the team to remind them of the importance of regular, face-to-face communication. The project team feels the daily coordination meetings are not adding value.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.

Keep the meetings because some find them valuable and assume that those not attending are working steadily and have no blockers.

B.

Change the meeting to the end of the day ensure it lasts only 15 minutes and require all team members to attend.

C.

Work with team members to create a wiki where they can record their current accomplishments.

D.

Reduce the occurrence of meetings because team members regularly communicate with the another and the customer

Question 106

While working on a sprint for a software development project, the team is unsure of how the feature should be designed. The project sponsor recommends developing a prototype of the user interface to discover more about this feature.

Why is the project sponsor making this suggestion?

Options:

A.

The information gathered will help the team improve the allocation of resources in developing the most important features.

B.

The project sponsor believes that the agile team is not adding in the most important features during this sprint.

C.

The users can help the team understand if the feature adds value, avoiding the risk of building the wrong product.

D.

The users will start using the software sooner, and the team can start working on the next iteration.

Question 107

An agile coach advised a project manager to continuously improve their ability to support their team and remove any obstacles in the project's way. What role is the agile coach advising to the project manager to take on?

Options:

A.

Scrum master

B.

People manager

C.

Servant leader

D.

Squad leader

Question 108

A high-profile project team is struggling to meet planned velocity. During a retrospective, the team agreed that their lack of experience in the technology resulted in an excess of rework.

What should be done to resolve this challenge?

Options:

A.

Increase the duration of iterations to minimize the frequency of priority changes that are distracting the team.

B.

Reduce the duration of iterations so that the product owner can reprioritize work to ensure business value alignment.

C.

Increase the level of effort in testing to ensure that all defects are identified and properly documented so they can be resolved before the end of the iteration.

D.

Implement a spike lo enhance creativity by experimenting with new techniques and process ideas in order to discover more efficient and effective ways of working

Question 109

During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture How should this technical debt be captured?

Options:

A.

Include it in the product backlog and use a new indicator to annotate that it is technical debt

B.

Include it in the product backlog as a low-priority issue

C.

Since it is not a part of agile methodologies, it should not be tracked

D.

Have team members maintain personal lists of issues and consolidate the lists during review

Question 110

A project manager was assigned to lead the development of a new application for a company. The application will be widely used by all company employees around the world. During the firstmeeting with key project stakeholders, the project manager was asked to find a way to determinate all possible types of users who may interact with the application that is going to be developed.

What should the project manager do next?

Options:

A.

Push it back due to the number of users and socialize the idea of developing a standard application and training session for all users.

B.

Identity and create personas that can help the team better understand the needs of the target user base.

C.

Build a minimum viable product (MVP), a standard application for all users, and release the new version (per users/areas).

D.

'Engage the human resources (HR) team to identify the key users and interview all of them accordingly.

Question 111

An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team. After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Coach team members to improve functional specialties and increase overall velocity.

B.

Identify where team processes misalign with accepted Scrum practices.

C.

Facilitate the identification of problems or issues and help the team resolve them.

D.

Review the backlog to ensure that it is prioritized, refined, and properly tasked.

Question 112

The product owner of an agile project is frustrated because the team is unable to deliver as many features as expected. The product owner asks the team to reduce test-automation levels, since the quality assurance team will test the product at project completion. The product owner expects that more features will be delivered in each iteration using this approach.

What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Ask the opinion of key stakeholders and the client to ensure the correct approach is being used.

B.

Work with the team to use this approach and request a quality assurance iteration after every three iterations

C.

Propose to completely eliminate test automation, since this is a quality assurance function.

D.

Suggest merging the quality assurance and delivery teams to enhance each iteration's test-automation levels and reduce redundancy

Question 113

What do the principles of Extreme Programming (XP) include?

Options:

A.

Communication, respect, and courage

B.

Communication, process flow, and authoritarian structure

C.

Value people over processes, communication, respect disagreement, and strive for consensus

D.

Rapid feedback, assume simplicity, incremental change, embrace change, and quality work

Question 114

A team member has made a mistake on a project. How should the scrum master address the mistake?

Options:

A.

Encourage all team members to follow existing processes.

B.

Require team members to complete a peer review of work and deliverables.

C.

Facilitate a retrospective to identity areas of improvement.

D.

Reward those who have the lowest occurrences of mistakes.

Question 115

A large project team of 20 people from different functional areas has just been formed and the project starts next week. The team will be working on a regulated and strictly controlled pharmaceutical product but does not have subject matter expertise.

Which two actions should the scrum master take as priorities? (Choose two.)

A large project team of 20 people from different functional areas has just been formed and the project starts next week. The team will be working on a regulated and strictly controlled pharmaceutical product but does not have subject matter expertise.

Which two actions should the scrum master take as priorities? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Schedule a meeting to engage stakeholders to prepare for kickoff

B.

Schedule a meeting to agree to the goals for all future iterations.

C.

Guide the team to work collaboratively and share learnings.

D.

Organize a sprint planning meeting to define actions.

E.

Organize a meeting to outline roles and responsibilities.

Question 116

A development team is calculating the number of story points they have completed at the end of an iteration. Although quality assurance (QA) passed and successfully demonstrated one feature, it is not being included in the release package.

Should the team add the feature's story points to their burndown chart?

Options:

A.

Yes because the story has been tested and accepted by the business as per the definition of done (Do

B.

Yes, because the development work is complete and quality assurance (QA) and release are external dependencies.

C.

No. any work that is not released cannot be considered complete as per the definition of done (Do

D.

No, because the product owner has not reviewed the release implementation checklist for potential issues.

Question 117

An agile coach is guiding a team across multiple locations. They need a united communication approach that involves task-oriented communications and discussion boards with effectiveness.

Which method of communication would be most effective?

Options:

A.

Interactive communication

B.

Pull communication

C.

Interpersonal communication

D.

Push communication

Question 118

Midway through a sprint, the scrum master identifies that reassigning a certain task could help the team meet its sprint goals What should the scrum master do next?

Options:

A.

Alert the team that sprint goals might not be met and create an alternative plan

B.

Obtain team buy-in to perform modifications to the sprint backlog.

C.

Have the sprint proceed as planned

D.

Ask the team to decide if the task should be reassigned

Question 119

How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?

Options:

A.

Collect stakeholder requirements

B.

Conduct an iteration planning meeting

C.

Communicate product backlog items to the stakeholders

D.

Facilitate a product development roadmap workshop

Question 120

An agile team often fails to deliver its sprint goal. At a sprint retrospective, the more experienced team members complain that the less experienced team members are working too slowly. This creates tension in the team.

What should the scrum master do to remove this tension?

Options:

A.

Ask human resources for a training budget so the less experienced team members can increase their skill level and work more efficiently.

B.

Have an individual meeting with the experienced team members and ask them to be more empathic when the less experienced members tail to deliver.

C Remind the team that they are jointly responsible for their deliverables and should consider the different competency levels when agreeing to sprint goals

C.

Initiate a meeting with the team and ask them to decompose the product backlog items further so they become clearer and easier to deliver on time.

Question 121

An agile team is working on the first sprint, and have already planned the second and third sprints. However, market conditions now require a change to the features. What should the product owner do?

Options:

A.

Communicate the importance of the business need to the team and refine the product backlog.

B.

Ask the team to discuss the changes to the features with the customer.

C.

Meet with the agile team lead to prioritize the requirements.

D.

Discuss and prioritize the requirements with the team.

Question 122

An agile project manager notices that the product owner manages team members' day-to-day tasks in a way that distracts them from their core responsibilities. In addition, the team believes that their questions on product backlog prioritization are not being answered on time.

What should the agile project manager do?

Options:

A.

Discuss and address this in the iteration retrospective.

B.

Let the product owner know it is the project manager's responsibility to drive a team's tasks.

C.

Discuss the roles and responsibilities of the project team with the product owner

D.

Ask the product owner to work extra hours to answer the team's questions

Question 123

Team A is working on the second sprint of a product release Team B which is an interdependent team located on the same floor, requires extensive and frequent information to complete its sprint goal.

What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

A.

Create a central repository for information, and provide access to team B

B.

Use an information board that will be visible to all passing through the workspace

C.

Email all stakeholders with status updates

D.

Provide team B with the information on an "as needed" basis

Question 124

What can an agile team use to prioritize stories?

Options:

A.

Planning poker technique

B.

Weighted average calculation

C.

Risk-value quadrant

D.

INVEST scale

Question 125

A company president is concerned about the impact of a natural disaster on the company. How should management identify areas to apply its resources and mitigate potential impacts?

Options:

A.

Establish and keep an active risk register that includes mitigation strategies and a cost-benefit analysis.

B.

Establish and keep an active risk register based on qualitative risk analysis and expected losses.

C.

Have each development team post the highest risk development items on the information radiator.

D.

Avoid risk by splitting development teams into two locations to ensure knowledge continuity.

Question 126

Several potential risks have been identified for a new project that started last month. The project manager is worried that the team is not fully aware of these potential threats.

What should the project manager do?

Options:

A.

Mention the risks during the daily standups and ensure all agreed-upon response actions are discussed by the team.

B.

Remind the learn daily about the threats and request a response regarding which risks have been identified and resolved

C.

Arrange weekly meetings and invite the project sponsor to discuss the importance of the project with the team.

D.

Create a space on the board to prioritize the threats, along with an update on the actions that are in progress and what still needs to be done.

Question 127

The product owner is present at the sprint review meeting and states that an estimation for the end of the project must be shared with the company’s steering committee. The scrum master declares that the team reached an average velocity of 40 story points per sprint, considering a biweekly iteration. The team members predict that there are 240 story points remaining.

What is the estimated project conclusion?

Options:

A.

Twelve months

B.

Three months

C.

Six months

D.

Two months

Question 128

A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only from a generic user's perspective. This may lead the team to miss stories for non-generic users.

What agile tools can help the team address these issues?

Options:

A.

Information radiators and wireframes

B.

Information radiators and story maps

C.

Process flows and personas

D.

Personas and extreme characters

Question 129

A member of a cross-functional project team is not able to attend regular status meetings and provide progress updates, which is impacting the productivity of the entire team. What should the product owner do to improve productivity?

Options:

A.

Discuss the issue to reduce the backlog based on decreased productivity of the team.

B.

Collect updates from each team member before the meeting and share them with all members.

C.

Ask the team member to update daily progress on the information radiators.

D.

Change the team velocity to show positive progress in shared information radiators.

Question 130

A scrum master is observing the daily coordination meeting of an agile development team. The scrum master realizes that one of the developers is confused about a business rule for the solution they are building.

How should the scrum master address this issue?

Options:

A.

Take a few minutes to speak with the developer after the daily coordination meeting and provide clarification.

B.

Follow the appropriate channels by contacting the product owner and asking them to address the issue with the team.

C.

Wait until the sprint review to explain how the product increment needs to be changed to be acceptable.

D.

Speak up immediately during the daily coordination meeting and clarity the issue to avoid any further confusion.

Question 131

A scrum team is working on an important project with a short deadline. To save time and reduce overhead, the product owner proposes that the regular sprint reviews should be cancelled and replaced with a review of each release according to the release plan.

What should the scrum master do?

Options:

A.

Review the release plan with the product owner and invite the stakeholders to a series of release reviews.

B.

Review the metrics and the process to determine where the overhead could be further reduced to speed up delivery.

C.

Explain to the product owner why the sprint reviews are now replaced by release reviews as inspect and adapt is a key principle in Scrum.

D.

Explain to the product owner that getting feedback early and often from stakeholders is important so necessary changes can be made quickly.

Question 132

A product owner is working on a special agile project for the automobile industry. The project team is responsible for all of the issues related to vehicle electronic control units. The team hasobserved a significant backlog of items in the “In progress' column (Refer to the kanban board). This accumulation is causing delays in task completion and impacting overall project timelines. The team operates in a dynamic environment where requirements frequently change, and stakeholders demand quick turnarounds.

What should the project team adopt to address this issue and improve task flow, considering all the demands?

Options:

A.

Increase the number of items allowed in the 'In progress" column to accommodate the high volume of tasks and provide flexibility.

B.

Limit the work in progress (WIP) and implement strict policies to encourage team members to focus on completing existing tasks before starting new ones, ensuring a balanced workload.

C.

Move tasks to the 'Done" column regardless of their completion status to give the appearance of progress and alleviate the pressure of the backlog.

D.

Add more team members with varying levels of expertise to handle the increased workload, aiming to accelerate task completion and reduce the backlog in the 'In progress" column.

Question 133

Following an upgrade, a software support team is overwhelmed by the number of tickets being submitted by end users. The team's manager is pushing the team to "work smart" by focusing on activities that deliver the most value in the least amount of time.

What should the team do?

Options:

A.

Work longer hours to complete more of the support backlog.

B.

Work support tickets in the order in which they were received.

C.

Place tickets on hold until the team completes an analysis of the backlog to identify and resolve systemic issues.

D.

Add members to the support team.

Question 134

During the high-level estimation for a project, the team contacted the product owner about the client’s requirements. The team is seeking guidance as their estimate is too big and there is a risk of not finishing the project in time.

What should the product owner do to help the team?

Options:

A.

Work with the client to ensure that the requirements are clear enough to allow a correct estimation and refine the backlog if needed.

B.

Assist the team with schedule planning to mitigate risks, including the possibility of crashing if needed.

C.

Implement clear measurements to control any deviation and therefore ensure the project's success per client requirements

D.

Recommend that the team skip requirements that are too complex and estimate them later through progressive elaboration.

Question 135

An organization is shifting to an agile delivery methodology. An agile project manager has been assigned to the transformation project.

What should the agile project manager do to ensure a high level of adoption?

Options:

A.

Focus on not just the "what," but also the "how" of delivering projects.

B.

Ensure that there is buy-in from senior management to adopt agile.

C.

Identify strong product owners to ensure project teams are delivering value.

D.

Train the team on the fundamentals of the agile mindset and principles.

Question 136

The team is aware that they will need to integrate a new component to their solution in the next few weeks. The team does not have any experience with this component.

What should the team do next?

Options:

A.

Ask for a team extension so that an engineer with the needed experience can be added to the team.

B.

Suggest that the product owner perform the initial investigation and present the outcome to the team.C Request thai the product owner include a spike in the next iteration's backlog so they can perform an initial investigation

C.

Propose alternative components with which the team has experience.

Question 137

An organization highly values security. However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features.

What should the team member do?

Options:

A.

Influence the customer

B.

Mention the idea at the next retrospective

C.

Show the customer how much time and money would be saved

D.

Present the idea at the next ceremony attended by stakeholders to obtain their input

Question 138

On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stones fit into the overall product. How should this be addressed?

Options:

A.

Review the iteration goals and have the team each describe the work to create shared understanding

B.

Create a story map for the minimal viable product (MVP) functionality

C.

Capture this as a task in the retrospective and ensure there is more detail provided at the next planning session

D.

Have the product owner explain the product vision and review the release plan with the team

Question 139

During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and still meet the product launch date.

What should the project leader do?

Options:

A.

Finalize the feedback in the form of a change request

B.

Limit the scope of the feedback to only those changes that the team can feasibly accommodate

C.

Encourage all feedback then work with the customer to prioritize work for future sprints

D.

Allow the team to decide what feedback to incorporate

Question 140

A scrum team is experiencing lengthy discussions leading to no concrete actions during their scrum events. The scrum master determines that these inefficient meetings are producing waste.

What should the scrum master do to make the meetings more efficient?

Options:

A.

Issue fixed agendas and a decision log for all scrum events to ensure that only relevant agenda points are discussed and decisions are appropriately captured.

B.

Remind the team of the purpose of each scrum event, and implement a policy that long conversations deviating from the scope of each event will be stopped.

C.

Ask the product owner to conduct these discussions in individual meetings with the team members.

D.

Remind the team that staying on topic during meetings is part of being a self-managing team.

Question 141

Halfway through the execution of an agile project, a retrospective meeting is held. One of the team members believes that the actual time and cost to complete the work has consistently been greater than what was originally estimated.

Which of the following activities should be performed next?

Options:

A.

The product owner should reduce the scope of the project so that the items delivering the highest business value can be completed.

B.

The team should perform a spike to conduct research on their technical solutions and prove their viability.

C.

The team should consolidate small stories into larger ones so that there are less work items to be estimated.

D.

The team should reevaluate time and cost estimates to reflect the latest understanding of the work effort.

Question 142

During a daily stand up meeting, a developer expresses concerns that the selected technology limits the number of concurrent users. What should the agile team lead do?

Options:

A.

Ask the team to conduct research to find a viable solution.

B.

Select a better technology for team implementation.

C.

Obtain customer input on their technology requirements.

D.

Consult the product owner about their non-functional requirements.

Question 143

The team is refining user stones during the backlog grooming session and confused on the acceptance criteria and level of details What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Complete the test cases before creating the story in the backlog

B.

Define the detailed business requirements so that the team can continue with development

C.

Define the user stones with just enough details so the team can collaborate continuously

D.

Ensure the acceptance criteria includes testing scenarios, so the team can do thorough testing

Question 144

An agile team provides feedback that user stories include insufficient details to understand the requirements. What should the agile practitioner do?

Options:

A.

Coach the product owner to update only the acceptance criteria.

B.

Instruct the agile team to fix the user stories during the next retrospective.

C.

Facilitate a user story workshop with the agile team.

D.

Inform the product owner's manager that the work items provide insufficient detail.

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