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181. What estimation technique is an agile team using when collectively estimating the relative size of its stories using story points?. A. Parametric. B. One-to-one comparison. C. Affinity. D. Planning poker.

182. 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?. A. Kaizen. B. Specific measurable, assignable, realistic and time-based (SMART) goals. C. Key performance indicators (KPIs). D. Muda.

183. What should the agile practitioner know about tracking velocity?. A. A team with an average velocity of 50 is twice as efficient as a team with an average velocity of 25. B. A team with an average velocity of 50 is equally as efficient as a team with an average velocity of 25. C. A team that consistently meets its planned velocity is more efficient than a team that consistently exceeds its planned velocity. D. A team that consistently meets its planned velocity is less efficient than a team that constantly exceeds its planned velocity.

184. A product owner concludes that the majority of a project's value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog. What should the product owner do next?. A. Remove the second half of the backlog, and communicate their decision in the next backlog grooming meeting. B. Reprioritize backlog items to future iterations. C. Work with the team to deploy the first half of the backlog to ensure that value is realized. D. Meet with project stakeholders to review the backlog and determine if the scope should be adjusted.

185. The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six months. What should the scrum master do?. A. Commit to a specific feature set for delivery. B. Explain that a commitment will be provided after planning. C. Have the team estimate in story points to commit to a specific set of features. D. Use the team's historical velocity to calculate a range of features that can be delivered.

186. An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprintsWhat should the agile coach do in this situation?. A. Ensure that the spikes identify the risks early in the project to increase the chances of success. B. Ensure that the business sponsor accepts the proposal and agrees to fund the additional spike sprints. C. Recommend that, in the first sprint, user stories with higher priority be executed in addition to the spike. D. Support the decision because release planning will be improved, and the product backlog can be better groomed after all spikes are executed.

187. The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six monthsWhat should the scrum master do?. A. Commit to a specific feature set for delivery. B. Explain that a commitment will be provided after planning. C. Have the team estimate in story points to commit to a specific set of features. D. Use the team's historical velocity to calculate a range of features that can be delivered.

188. While struggling to take ownership of delivery an agile team fails to keep up with its sprint commitments What should the agile coach do?. A. Work with the sponsor to develop team expectations. B. Provide the customer with a list of deliverables and obtain agreement. C. Encourage the team to more frequently interact with all stakeholders. D. Work on finishing upfront product design rather than comprehensive documentation.

189. The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product. How can the team members support this?. A. Add new security features to the backlog and prioritize. B. Execute a spike to research security features for the project. C. Ask questions to determine where and how the product owner wants to use the product. D. Ask questions to determine if the product owner can define the desired level of security.

190. An executive requests information regarding a sprint status. What action should the product owner take?. A. Invite the executive to the standup. B. Direct the executive to the information radiator. C. Personally meet with the executive. D. Email the requested information to the executive.

191. A project is starting and the type of work is complex and suitable for agile in assessing the team members, it appears that co-location would be a challenge. What should the agile practitioner do?. A. Select and implement collaboration tools to augment team interactions. B. Provide each geographical area with their own product owner and divide the work between the teams. C. Increase the number of requirements documents and ensure they are clearly communicated. D. After several sprints, calculate velocity based on primary team location and use secondary team as reserve.

192. A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team do?. A. Advise the product owner that the story will have to wait until the next sprint. B. Work extra hours to complete the story and satisfy the customer's requirements. C. Break down the story into smaller increments and negotiate other stories on the sprint backlog. D. Increase the length of the sprint to accommodate the story.

193. An agile team is planning the next iteration for a product release that has accumulated technical debtWhat should the team do?. A. Add code cleanup activities to the product backlog and request prioritization by the product owner. B. Add code cleanup activities to the next iteration and request clarification from the product owner. C. Add code cleanup activities to the next iteration and ask the product owner to end the current iteration. D. Add code cleanup activities to the next release backlog and request documentation from the product owner.

194. A new team member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan What should be the proper response?. A. Competitors joined forces with the team. B. The customer changed requirements. C. Project team members obtained additional certifications. D. Technology which did not interfere with the final product.

195. A team's technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks. What should the scrum master do?. A. Tell the technical lead to do the testing. B. Facilitate an open and focused team discussion that reinforces team agreements. C. Ask the team manager to advise the technical lead that all tasks are important. D. Encourage the team to take ownership of the delivery.

196. 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?. 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.

197. What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?. A. Invite the team to iteration review meetings. B. Obtain agreement from the product owner on business requirements. C. Request that regular reports are sent to stakeholders. D. Confirm managers and stakeholders are invited to product review meetings.

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

199. Based on the burndown chart, what is the iteration's status?. A. It trended ahead of schedule and completed everything on time. B. It took more time than expected and had to be lengthened. C. It trended behind schedule and did not complete everything on time. D. It took less time than expected and had to be shortened.

200. An agile learn has only one database administrator with the necessary knowledge of database-related tasks. The project manager identifies the risk that if this person leaves, team velocity will significantly decrease. What should the agile coach do?. A. Start the hiring process for a new, equally skilled database administrator as a replacement. B. Move this database administrator to another team so that team members learn database-related tasks. C. Add another database administrator to balance the workload and aid with knowledge retention. D. Obtain agreement from the team that, on upcoming sprints, the database administrator will act only in an advisory capacity.

201. After a successful product deployment, a key stakeholder informs an agile team member that an implemented feature is failing to deliver its expected business value. The team member replies that the requirement was provided by the customer, and that the scope was clearly met. If the problem were an issue of requirement elicitation rather than delivery, what should have been done to avoid this situation?. A. Stakeholders should have regularly been engaged to obtain feedback and reduce the functionality risk. B. The team should have used the lean principle of delay, so that actual facts could be considered rather than assumptions and predictions. C. Interdependent teams should have been engaged using a collaborative approach to identify and leverage the best support. D. An owner should have been identified to obtain timely stakeholder feedback.

202. When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?. A. High-risk and high-value. B. High-risk and low-value. C. Low-risk and low-value. D. Low-risk and high-value.

203. Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner do?. A. Ask the agile practitioner to help write the user stories. B. Ask the agile team to facilitate a story-writing workshop. C. Ask subject matter experts (SMEs) to help write the user stories. D. Ask the agile practitioner to facilitate a story-writing workshop.

204. 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?. 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.

205. A development team, new to scrum, questions the need to collect metrics on team performance. While learn members understand velocity and burn down, they feel that once velocity becomes settled it is needless to keep track. What should the agile coach tell the team?. A. Continuing to track velocity allows functional managers to assess whether or not the team is performing at the desired rate. B. The trends will show how the team performs against other scrum teams in the organization. C. Tracking velocity will provide a baseline for the team to see how their continuous improvement efforts are working. D. Tracking velocity will document and communicate team health to the stakeholders.

206. 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?. 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.

207. There is a database feature requiring three members of a seven person team. A meeting is scheduled at the beginning of the sprint to go over technical needs to complete the story. Who should the ScrumMaster invite to the meeting?. A. The core team and the customer. B. The product owner and key stakeholders. C. The customer and the sponsor. D. The core team and the product owner.

208. A globally distributed project team is using email and phone calls as the only way to share information.Delays in resolving issues often occur due to misinterpreted communications, leading to a lower team velocity. What steps should the project leader take to improve knowledge sharing?. A. Meet individually with each team member to identify the issues and relay information to the remaining members through status reports. B. Establish a live video feed between the dispersed teams to enable spontaneous engagement and collaboration on issues. C. Request that the customer co-locate the team to overcome the communication issues, as this is the only method to ensure agility. D. Inform the customer of the challenges and lower velocity of the project to accommodate for the slower delivery pace.

209. Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release. What should the team do?. A. Conduct frequent demos and obtain feedback from users throughout the development of the next release. B. Inform senior management that since the product was successfully released, the project is considered delivered and should be closed. C. Request additional budget to implement a Scrum of Scrums approach to scale the teams and add capacity. D. Implement a better definition of done to ensure that continuous integration processes are managed effectively.

210. A team is creating a highly marketed, time-sensitive product. The agile coach is concerned that anything other than exceptional quality will result in bad publicity for the company. What should the agile coach ensure that developers do?. A. Establish pair programming partners, and regularly perform peer reviews. B. Perform demos at the end of each iteration. C. Send coding to the quality assurance (QA) team upon completion. D. Demonstrate each feature to the client as soon as coding is complete.

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

212. An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team How should the team's coach react?. A. Document the problem, escalate to the project manager and develop a solution for the team. B. Add the problem to the backlog and assign resolution to a future iteration. C. Instruct the team to try to solve the problem within the team. D. Perform root cause analysis and report the problem to the product owner.

213. An agile project has three more iterations before the release. There is a lot of report functionality to be created and defects to be cleared. During a daily scrum, a team member suggests a timebox spike to find a more efficient way to deliver reports. What should the project leader do?. A. Encourage the team to self-organize and determine how to best complete their existing work and this spike. B. Encourage the team to complete their just existing work since the team velocity indicates they are already struggling to meet the release goal. C. Direct the team to defer the spike until the next release and add the action on the backlog for prioritization. D. Direct the team to work on the spike immediately given the importance of reporting functionality to complete the iteration.

214. A scrum team has conducted regular retrospectives to discuss immediate concerns and the implementation of improvement actions. Despite this, after a few iterations, the same concerns resurface. What should the team have done to improve retrospective outcomes?. A. Invited subject matter experts (SMEs). B. Conducted problem detection to determine root causes. C. Measured and reported the outcome of improvement actions to the team. D. Kept track of all current issues in a log. and then reviewed their progress at the end of every iteration.

215. Why should a project team reduce the work in progress?. A. It indicates poor project quality. B. It represents team members' utilization. C. It represents unrealized value. D. It shows that the project is behind schedule.