Emory CS377 Scrum test

How long should sprints be?

1-4 weeks

How many scrum roles are there in a team?

3

What is considered a good scrum team size?

7+-2 (5-9)

How is the story related to sprints?

A story is a long term set of expectations while a sprint is a short-term expectation.

On which days of the week should a team ideally meet

All days

Which of the following is a benefit for test driven programming? Maintaining a blanket of tests allows the developer(s) to fearlessly modify and improve the code, It enables rapid, agile developement, Writing tests first better equips the developer to implement the code as they have a clear idea of what the code should do, None of the above, All of the above.

All of the above

What is refactoring?

Altering the internal structure of code without changing its external behavior

When should the team have retrospective meetings?

At the end of each sprint.

Which is not a scrum artifact? Burn charts, product backlog, informations radiators, attendance chart, task board?

Attendance chart

BDUF stands for:

Big Design Up Front

Which of the following is not a characteristic of agile approaches? Fail-early lifecycle, small iterative cycles, provide early milestones, adaptive empirical process, or Big design up front?

Big design up front

What does the product owner do?

Controls the priority of backlog items

Which are the formal feedback cycles?

Daily scrum, sprint review, retrospective

When practicing agile methodologies you will do all of the following except: test as you go, design the full product first before all other stages, deliver product early and often, document as you go, build cross-functional teams ?

Design the full product first before all other stages

Which is not a way of pair programming? Driver-navigator pairing, ping pong pairing, tDD pair programming, test driven development pair programming, divide and conquer pairing

Divide and conquer pairing

Which of the following is not in the micro charter?

Ethical values

Which set of numbers correlate with the rate as humans easily perceive differences and are thus useful for story point estimations?

Fibonacci

Which of the following helps indicates what is left to do, what is in progress and what is done?

Information radiators

In the Iron Triangle what does scope represent?

It involves how many stories will be included

Which is false about a story map? It is two-dimensional, It helps the team understand how stories fit together, It is always a replacement for a product backlog, A story map was used to help write the book, It indicates the priority of stories??

It is always a replacement for a product backlog

What is a benefit of the waterfall model

It is very disciplined approach

Where does the name scrum from?

It's a rugby term

What do all agile methods have in common?

Iterative methodologies

Which is not a responsibility of the product owner? Capturing the product vision, Creating initial product backlog, Judging the work done, Writing customer-centric itmes, or Helping set the direction of the product?

Judging the work done.

If a team's velocity is good and they seem to be getting all work done by deadlines what is an appropriate action?

Leave the number of points per sprint as is

Why should you stand during the morning meetings?

Makes it concise, reduce time meeting, no tangents.

Which of these is not an element of the micro-charter?

Mission statement

What shouldn't the daily scrum be? Daily, small, brief, pointed, optional

Optional

Which of the following is not a feature of agile methodologies?

Perfect the requirements before you code

Which of the following is not a stage included in the waterfall method? Requirement gathering, Periodic meetings, design, coding or testing??

Periodic meetings

Which of the following is NOT a scrum master role? Scrum expert and advisor, coach, impediment bulldozer, faciliator, prioritizes stories?

Prioritizes stories

who is responsible for changing the priority of backlog items?

Product Owner

A Scrum team consists of:

Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Team Members

Who is responsible for the product backlog?

Product owner

What are three scrum roles?

Product owner, scrum master and team member

What is the first step of the waterfall method?

Requirements gathering

what is the correct order of the waterfall method?

Requirements, design, implementation, verification, maintenance

Which of these is a role in a scrum team? Product marketer, scrum analyzer, product overviewer, scrum apprentice, scrum master?

Scrum master

Which are the two required roles in a scrum team?

Scrum master product owner

What elements are in the "iron triangle" of a project?

Speed, scope, cost

Which of the following is not a scrum ceremony?

Sprint backlog

Which of the following is not part of the scrum development cycle? Daily standup meeting, sprint review, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint refactoring?

Sprint refactoring

The daily scrum is also called

Stand-up meeting

Which are bigger tasks or stories?

Stories

A backlog item is often referred to as a

Story

Which of these are three common ways to estimate tasks for sprint planning? Task wages, task meetings, task complexity; task score, task variance, task year; task drivers, task risks, task profit; task break-even, task weeks, task subtasks; task hours, task points, task count??

Task hour task points task count

What is one difference between the Waterfall method and the Scrum methodology?

The Scrum methodology is based on breaking a project into "mini projects"

The sprint backlog is

The team's to do list for the sprint

What is the project backlog?

The upcoming projects that product owner/team will assign in the coming sprints.

Why do scrum meetings happen standing up?

To encourage brevity

What is the point of estimating story size?

To provide predictability of schedule

What is the proper name for the cads that outline a project's details?

User Story

What is not shared at the daily scrum?

What I plan to add for the next 3 scrum

What is a sprint backlog?

What the team needs to do for each sprint

A burn down chart depicts...

Work left to be done over time

What is the primary measure of progress in scrum?

Working software

In TDD pair programming what is the only move when in the red state?

Write code to make the failing tests pass

Scrum team should meet

all the business days

which of the following is not a scrum artifact?

bug history

Rank the scrum roles from most to least authority?

each role has equal rank

The product backlog includes a list of

features

A task board is an _________ radiator

information

Which of the following is not a stage of the waterfall method?requirements-gathering, design, coding, testing, marketing?

marketing

Which is not one of the agile principles?

only when problems arise the team reflects how to become more effective (its continuous regardless if problems arise)

The scrum master roles include all the following except.... Facilitator, impediment bulldozer, scrum expert and advisor, coach, prioritizes stories?

prioritizes stories

Who decides which stories to prioritize?

product owner

A negative persona?

someone who would not use the system.

Scrum indicates an iterative approach to getting work done through

sprints

Which is not a role of the scrum master? Helping understand the use of the artifacts of scrum, removing impediments for the team, facilitating scrum meetings, team coach, or team boss?

team boss