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Which of the following is most likely to be an MVP?

A chair that has no back

As the team's agile coach, you measure small amounts of variance in task durations. What should you do?

Accept some variance as inevitable.

In software development, the process of frequently integrating new and changed code into the project code repository is known as:

Continuous integration

Your team seems to unproductively debate even trivial decisions. To help them make collective decisions, you could try using:

Fist-of-five voting

Tuckman's stages of team formation and development follow what sequence?

Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

"Fast failure" means:

Finding a fatal design flaw early in a project

Your team is averaging 40 story points per two-week iteration. They have 200 points' worth of functionality left in the user story backlog. How many weeks can we expect it will take until development is completed?

10

What are the primary criteria used for prioritizing the stories in the backlog?

Business value and risk reduction

Agile modeling aims to:

Capture the intent of the design in a barely sufficient way

Your team commited to delivering 10 story points this iteration, but it looks like you will only complete 8. You should:

Complete 8 points, and put 2 back in the backlog.

What is velocity NOT used for?

Defining feature requirements

Your are a full-time Scrum Master on an agile team. A team member becomes ill partway throug an iteration in which the team committed to deliver 25 story points. Which action is most appropiate?

Deliver what you can within the sprint.

The Kanban pull system means that:

Each time a work item is completed, the next work item is "pulled" into that stage of the process.

Process tailoring is best undertaken on agile projects when:

Experienced practitioners want to address an issue.

Which of the following is a valid requirements hierarchy progressing from large to small?

Feature, user story, tasks

The core values of XP include:

Feedback, simplicity, communication

Agile team members are more effective at solving problems when they:

Feel they have permission to make mistakes

In the first part of a retrospective, a team has identified a number of problems. What sequence of steps should they follow to explore and solve those problems?

Gather data, generate insights, decide what to do

The primary reason for doing a project pre-mortem is to:

Identify potential risks so that we can mitigate them.

The three questions that are answered in daily stand-up meetings aim to:

Identify problems and describe accomplishments.

Your are leading a team with an average velocity of 50 points per iteration. Another team of the same size in your organization is working on a project with similar complexity. The other team's velocity is averaging 75 points per month. Your team should:

Ignore the difference.

Which of the following benefits would an agile team most likely gain from performing a self-assessment?

Improve the team's practices.

In the agile manifesto, what is valued more than processes and tools?

Individuals and interactions

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of limiting work in progress?

It maximizes resource utilizations to make processes work more efficiently.

Which of the following is not a form of frequent verification and validation?

Iteration Planning

The relationship between leadership and management in agile methods is:

Management and leadership are used together.

Another agile team leader in your organization comes to you for advice. She's having trouble getting her team to take ownership of the project and get comfortable selecting the work to be done. She keeps finding herself making the decisions and directing their work. What do yo advise her to do?

Meet them halfway and work with their functional managers to align each team member's goals with the project goals.

When generating insights in a retrospective, we ask "why" five times to:

Move beyond our automatic, habitual answers and get to the root cause of an issue.

The INVEST mnemonic reminds us that user stories should be:

Negotiable, estimatable, small

What are three of the seven lean core concepts?

Optimize the whole, defer decisions, amplify learning

Which of the following statements correctly describes agile planning?

Plan at multiple levels, and have team members create iteration plans.

On a typical agile team, who has the best insight into task execution?

Team members

MoSCoW and dot voting are forms of:

Priorization

Your sponsor has asked for clarification on when releases of your product will ship and what those releases will contain. Which agile deliverable would best address this need?

Product roadmap

Project X has an IRR of 12 percent, and projectd Y has an IRR of 10 percent. Which project represents the better rate of return?

Project X

The most common user story format includes which of the following elements?

Role, functionality, benefit

The agile triangle of constraints is said to be inverted from the traditional triangle because it allows:

Scope to vary while time and cost are fixed

You have been assigned to lead a distributed agile team. To help them communicate, the best option would be to:

Set up some initial face to-face meetings for everyone to meet each other.

The four primary roles of a servant leader include:

Shielding team members from interruptions

At what team formation and development phase is conflict likely to be highest?

Storming

Which stage of team development calls for the Coaching style of leadership, which involves a high degree of both supportive and directing behavior from the leader?

Storming

Cockburn's Shu-Ha-Ri model tells us why:

Teams new to agile should follow a method that has already been tested by others.

In the lean approach, which of the following WOULDN`T be considered an example of one of the seven forms of waste?

Testing the code

When conducting an iteration-planning meeting using a Scrum-based approach, which of the following statements is NOT true?

The Scrum Master selects the topics items off the backlog.

You have been asked to outline the basics of agile contracting for your steering committee. Which of the folloing statements best describes the recommended approach to contracting on agile projects?

The contract is worded to allow for reprioritization of scope, and acceptance is based on item being fit for business purpose.

When using story points to estimate a project, which of the following statements is most accurate?

The team owns the definition of what constitutes a story point.

On agile projects, the term "cycle time" usually refers to:

The time required for the team to complete a work item, from start to finish

When should agile teams collect lessons learned?

Throughout the project

What is the primary benefit of involving business representatives in the prioritization of work?

To better understand the business needs for the project

The three pillars of Scrum are:

Transparency, Inspection, Adaption

Your sponsor is asking about tailoring the company's newly adopted agile methodology. Your advice should be:

We should try it first, then consider tailoring it.

What is one of the three questions that are addressed in the daily scrum?

What have I done since the last daily scrum?

The XP core practices include:

Whole team, planning games, small releases

When agile teams use the term "timeboxed", what do they mean?

Work can take no more than a maximum amount of time.

Which of the following Agile Manifesto values deals most closely with WIP?

Working software over comprehensive documentation

You are working on a software development team that follows a test-driven development process. The sequence of activities you would undertake is:

Write test, write code, refactor