A team could not agree whether the stories in a sprint were complete or not.

When can the

team decide that the stories are completed successfully?

D If it meets the definition of done

A product manager wants to start a new product-related project. She wonders whether Agile
methods would add value to this. You can say that the project would be suitable for Agile
methods if:

B The requirements are likely to change significantly during the project

A scrum master is new to the role. Which of the following is aligned with this role?

B Helping the team defend their estimates from pushy product owners

Which of the following extreme programming techniques helps the most in knowledge sharing
across the team?

C Pair programming

A project involves a lot of uncertainty. How should this be handled in timeboxed projects
where there is a firm commitment on deadlines?

D Use features buffer

Use of information radiators is important for Agile projects. Which of the following is NOT a
characteristic of a good information radiator?

A Fixed set of indicators on the walls

Jeff wanted the team to start using a new tool to improve the quality of their deliverables by
automating some key processes. Where should Jeff bring this up for discussion?

B Sprint retrospective

An Agile team received a number of suggestions on how to increase the value proposition of a
product at a trade conference. How should these suggestions be reflected in the product
backlog?

C The product owner should decide and accordingly add valuable work items to the product backlog

The product backlog for a particular product contains too many stories. A product owner came
across a product idea that is valuable but may not be worked on immediately. What should be
done about this?

C Write an epic-level story if the product owner wants to keep it on the radar

In a burndown bar chart, the bottom of the bar in a particular sprint move downwards by 50
points. What does this indicate?
D The product owner added 50 points of work to the project

A scrum master is new to an organization. She is unable to help the teams with a lot of the
blocking issues. This means team members don't always get the help that they need. What
should be done about this?

B Coach the scrum master to become more effective, or replace the scrum master

A product owner wanted to know not just the overall project status but also epic- and story-
level status. Which information radiator will help the product owner get this information?

A Parking lot chart

The team completed 5 stories in a sprint of sizes 5, 2, 13, 8, and 1. Simultaneously they
worked on stories worth 30 points which they partly completed but could not complete per the
definition of done. What is the velocity of the team?

B 29 points

A team decided to try pair programming as a practice. One of the advantages of pair
programming is that:

D It will lead to better quality and spread the knowledge around

A team's workload expanded, so they moved from one scrum team to over three scrum
teams. The product owner is stressed because of the workload from all three teams. What is
the best way forward?

C Appoint as many product owners as the number of scrum teams

An organization decided to use scrum. They knew that their existing system was broken, and
they had heard good things about scrum from other organizations. Few months later, they got
disillusioned with scrum and decided to abandon the experiment. Each team came up with a
different way of defining scrum roles and duties. None of the teams had a full time scrum
master or product owner. There was confusion and chaos. What could have been done to
make the transition successful?

C The organization should have invested in developing ability to use scrum

An Agile coach wants the organization transitioning to scrum to invest heavily in technical
practices. Which of the following is a potential challenge in introducing technical practices
early in an Agile transition?

B The team is already busy and may push back against it

An organization wonders if Agile would be a good fit for the work it does. Which of the
following characteristics of the work will make it most suitable for use of Agile methods?

D If the requirements or technology is likely to change during the project

A team felt during the retrospectives that they are not creating enough technical
documentation which is hurting them. What should the scrum master do?

C Ask the team how to include documentation in the definition of done for each work item

A team feels that speed of working and flow of work are the fundamental goals rather than
regular feedback. The best method for the team would be to use:

D Kanban

The team suggested to the product owner that they should be improving the audit trial and
error logging, as it will make it easier to maintain the product. The value proposition of the
story is to enable:

A Operational efficiency

A team regularly finds that it has to move work to the next sprint, as most of the user stories
are partly done. Which of the following is the best way to address this?

C Split the stories to make them smaller

A scrum team regularly finds that it has to rush toward the end of a three-week sprint and
work overtime in the last week. How can the scrum master coach the team to avoid this?

C Make the progress more visible to the team throughout the sprint

A team wants to decide the sprint duration. The scrum master should tell them that although
shorter sprints are better, longer sprints may be used if:

D The overheads of iteration are too high

If the team could not agree on the estimate for a story in the planning poker session, the
scrum master should advice them to:

D Take their best guess as a team

An organization was using scrum for about a year. A new CEO joined the organization and
asked them what advantages were derived from using scrum, as she was not fond of following
the scrum method. The team felt that scrum was better but could not provide any supporting
data for it. What should have been done to prevent this?

A They should have had clear objectives and tracking metrics for the scrum journey

Five teams are part of a Nexus. They regularly realign their priorities. However, they often
discover that they make wrong assumptions about what work and when the other teams will
deliver. This issue causes the sprints to fail. Which of the following is the best way to address
this?

B Identify and plan for dependencies within the Nexus sprint planning
A team which has a complex set of subsystems that needs to integrate for the product to work
should focus majority of the energy into:

C Unit testing

Which is the most appropriate forum to solve integration problems within a group of scrum
teams that are coordinating to build a large product?

B Scrum-of-scrum

There are many skeptics in an organization that is transitioning to Agile. How should the
organization deal with them?

C Give them training and data about scrum

During the retrospective, quite a few team members said that too much work was being
pushed by the product owner and they felt under pressure. What should the scrum master do?

C Speak to the product owner and figure out a way to reduce the pressure on the team

A product owner wanted to track the progress of the team and scope changes on a project.
Which of the following should the PO choose to use?

D A burndown bar chart

Project A had an NPV of $10,000 and IRR of 12%. Project B had an NPV of -$5000 and IRR
of 3%. Project C had an NPV of $15,000 and IRR of 8%. Project D has an NPV of $12,000
and IRR of 14%. Which project should be selected if the organization wants to think long-
term?

D Project D