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What is one of the risks if the Scrum Master is also a programmer on the team?

The Scrum Master does not have the required people skills.

The Scrum Master cannot stay away from critical path activities.

The Scrum Master tries to push through changes to the process.

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NPV is the Net Present Value. IRR is the Internal Rate of Return. Which of the following statements is correct about financial prioritization?

If there are two projects with the same NPV, it is better to choose the project with a smaller IRR.

IRR is the interest rate in which NPV of cash flow is equal to 0.

It is usually best to choose projects with a lower NPV.

The NPV concept means money earned in the future is worth more than money earned today.

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A team struggles to keep the Sprint Planning meeting within the time-box. They spend a lot of time on planning the work to finish their Sprint within the expected time frame. Who should make sure the meeting stays within the time-box?

A) The Organization

B) The Product Owner

C) The Scrum Master

D) The Scrum Tea

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A good Scrum Master is responsible, humble, collaborative, committed, influential, and knowledgeable. A Scrum Master leaves the Scrum Master role midway during a project. Which of the six attributes does this Scrum Master not demonstrate?

Committed

Humble

Influential

Knowledgeable

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Your company is changing to Agile Scrum working. You have been working as a project manager, but will now take on the role of Scrum Master. You will work with new co-workers in your team. What is the most successful strategy for the transition to Agile Scrum?

A) Customize Scrum to fit with formerly used ways of working, so that the transition is made gradually.

B) Do not learn too much about Agile or Scrum and keep away from other Scrum Masters until you find your way.

C) Let the Development Team decide the way of working, so that you do not introduce harmful behavior.

D) Strictly keep to the rules of Scrum, until there is more experience with Scrum and Agile working.

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The Scrum-of-Scrums meeting is designed to allow clusters of Scrum Teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and integration. Who should attend the Scrum-of-Scrums meetings on behalf of your Scrum Team?

The Product Owner

The Scrum Master

The team can choose anyone

The whole team

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The ability for a Scrum Team to self-organize around the goals of a project is fundamental to all Agile methodologies. Why is a Scrum Team a self-organized team?

Because it helps the Scrum Team to make their own decisions in the project

So that the Scrum Team commits to their work and feels responsible

To ensure that decisions are made by a collective instead of an individual

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A company composes a project team of analysts, developers, testers and architects. The company wants the team to adopt Scrum. To do so, they must make a cultural change. What is most likely the hardest change for this team?

A) Adopt a set of metrics to measure progress

B) Adopt a focus on delivering working software

C) Eliminate the throw-it-over-the-wall mentality

D) Eliminate the focus on comprehensive documentation

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Petra is an experienced Project Manager. She usually makes great decisions for the team she is managing. Now, her company adopts Scrum and replaces the role of project manager by a Scrum Master. Petra feels uncomfortable, because the Scrum Team expects a more collaborative attitude than she is used to. What would a Scrum coach most likely recommend to Petra?

A) Become a member of the Development team and act as a team coordinator

B) Integrate Scrum practices with Project Management practices and create a hybrid model

C) Keep working as a project manager alongside a newly appointed Scrum Master

D) Talk to other Scrum Masters as much as possible and learn from their experience

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You are a project manager for a midsize software company, which still uses the Waterfall model. Your customer wants new software project. When should you consider the use of Agile?

The product definition is stable and will not change.

The scope lacks specificity and is unlikely to remain stable.

The technology to be developed is understood.

There are almost no ambiguous requirements.

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One of the most important benefits of physically working in the same room is that it fosters communication. For which typical Agile method should you be in contact with your co-worker continuously?

Pair programming

Refactoring

Test-driven development

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A team finds bugs in a feature. What is the best action to take?

Create a task "Correct Bugs" and estimate it

Create a task "Correct Bugs" and let the Product Owner prioritize it

Create a User Story "As a client I want a zero defect product" and estimate it

Create a User Story "As a client I want a zero defect product" and let the Product Owner prioritize it

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Kevin is a Product Owner for a retail organization. The Product Backlog for his immense marketing tool project has 200 Product Backlog items. Into what should he group the smaller Stories together?

Epics

Themes

User Stories

Views

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Your organization starts a new project using Scrum for the first time. Six months after starting the project you review any changes in the time demand for the Product Owner. What changes are most likely?

A) Time demand for the Product Owner is decreasing

B) Time demand for the Product Owner is equal to the time demand at the start of the project

C) Time demand for the Product Owner is increasing

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You experience resistance from Skeptics. What is the best action a Scrum Master can take to overcome this?

Align incentives for all employees

Fire the persons that are skeptic

Let time prove the benefits of Scrum

Reiterate and reinforce commitment

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Three well-functioning Scrum Teams are enlisted on the same project. They need to form a single distributed Scrum Team and work on the same Product Backlog. The teams need to agree on how they do Scrum while working together. What should the Scrum Master do?

A) Create a strict rule book and have the teams follow Scrum strictly by the book during this project

B) Decide how Scrum meetings, values and artifacts should be used and applied across locations

C) Facilitate one or more sessions with the teams to agree on the parts of Scrum they must make uniform

D)Let the teams experiment with the Scrum knowledge D) they have and allow a way of working to develop spontaneously

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A Scrum Team suggests to have a project with 3 Sprints of 2 weeks, while the customer suggests 1 Sprint of 6 weeks. What is the greatest advantage of having 3 Sprints of 2 weeks?

The customer has to invest less time.

The team can inspect and adapt twice.

The team delivers more Story Points.

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A Scrum Team develops a web service app. The app must interact with a reporting app that was developed in a more traditional way. The web service app has the following Definition of Done (DoD):The potentially shippable web service app is well-written, has passed all unit tests, and all web service functions are responding. What is missing from this DoD?

A) A/B-tests for the web service app

B) Integration tests for the web service app

C) Unit tests of the reporting app

D) User acceptance tests for the reporting app

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New Scrum Masters are often put in the challenging position of coaching teams at something that they are not yet very used to themselves: being Agile. What can a new Scrum Master leave to someone else?

Get to know the business and talk to the customers

Learn as much as you can as quickly as you can

Stick as closely as possible to doing Scrum by the book

Talk to other Scrum Masters as much as possible

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An organization transitions to Scrum. They have studied several strategies for spreading Scrum across the organization. The strategy of their choice has the following benefits: You can add teams more quickly than with most other approaches, and each team has someone with Scrum experience to help guide them. Which strategy is this?

All-in transition

Grow-and-split

Internal coaching

Split-and-seed

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Who is responsible for solving issues with the Product Backlog?

A) The Product Owner

B) The Scrum Master

C) The whole tea

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As items are developed and removed from the top of the Product Backlog, the Product Backlog iceberg develops a flat spot at the top and loses its shape. What would be a necessary measure to counter this effect?

Creating a chart of the number of Product Backlog items

Grooming the Product Backlog

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

Using an improvement Backlog

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An inexperienced Scrum team uses Story Points to estimate User Stories. Halfway through a Sprint, the Story Points finished do not match the estimated Velocity of the team. The team makes less progress than expected. How should the team address this?

Increase the Velocity of the team if possible, or re-estimate the Velocity

Re-estimate all partial User Stories to match the current Velocity

Stop using Story Points to estimate and switch to using ideal Days

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As a coach, I can manage information about swimmers on my team." What would be a good technique to split the above User Story into smaller stories?

A) Do not split. The User Story is small enough

B) Splitting the User Story into Epics

C) Splitting the User Story into separate CRUD operations

D) Splitting the User Story into tasks

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A coding task was estimated at 24 Ideal Hours. A regular working day is 8 hours. Assume the estimation is correct and the developer does not stay late. What is the minimum number of regular days the developer needs to finish this task?

A) One day

B) Three days

C) Four days

D) Cannot be estimated

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Which Agile methodology aims to extend Scrum to multiple Teams working on the same product or service?

DSDM

Kanban

LeSS

SAFe

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Which two Agile methodologies focus explicitly on limiting Work-in-Progress (WiP)?

A) DSDM and Kanban

B) Kanban and SAFe

C) SAFe and XP

D) XP and DSDM

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A Sprint planning is created in a Sprint Planning meeting. Anyone involved in taking a raw idea and turning it into a functioning product should be present in this meeting. Who acts as the facilitator for this meeting?

An Analyst

The Product Owner

The Project Manager

The Scrum Master

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A Development Team consists of various different roles: analysts, programmers, UX experts, DBA and systems architects. They are estimating Backlog items in Ideal Days. What is the best approach to provide estimates for the Backlog Items ?

Each role should provide a separate estimate; the Scrum Master integrates them.

Ideal Days estimation is not feasible in this case: Story Points should be used.

The Development Team provides a single estimate for each Backlog item.

The Product Owner will integrate the input on the estimates from each role.

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The Scrum Master and Product Owner are analyzing a new Product Backlog. The Product Owner wants all the User Stories in the Product Backlog to be described in great detail. What is the best response the Scrum Master can give?

A) Agree, because a Product Backlog is Emergent

B) Agree, because a Product Backlog is Prioritized

C) Disagree, because a Product Backlog is Detailed Appropriately

D) Disagree, because a Product Backlog is Estimated

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Many teams beginning the transition to an Agile development process are faced with a large number of legacy bugs. What would be a good method to deal with these bugs?

A) The Development Team must immediately correct bugs

B) The Development Team should ignore bugs and focus on features

C) Track all bugs on a task board and show them to the Product Owner

D) Track only the critical bugs on a task board and show them to the Product Owner

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There is one thing you should always do first, whether you are already using Scrum or in a transition to Scrum. What is the very first thing to do?

A) Communicate that there is a better way

B) Decide where you are in the ADAPT sequence

C) Get the team to take Scrum for a test drive

D) Set reasonable targ

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A Product Owner is new to his task. He is struggling to understand all aspects of Scrum and feels he does not do his job well. According to Scrum, who should help the Product Owner with this uncertainty?

A) The Scrum Master

B) The Scrum Team

C) The whole organization

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How can pair programming help with adopting Agile?

It helps recognizing who wrote which code.

It is beneficial to knowledge transfer.

It makes development faster and cheaper.

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A Scrum Master wants 'team learning' to occur. Which condition must be in place before team learning can occur?

A) All knowledge Waste must be eliminated.

B) Individuals must have concrete ways of sharing knowledge.

C) The team must be a working self-organizing team

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A Scrum Master would like to facilitate the team by making a visual representation of the Sprint Backlog in the form of a task board .Which columns are minimally required to be show

A) To Do, In Process, Delivered

B) To Do, In Process, Done

C) To Do, In Process, Reviewing

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When is it a good idea to use an additional Development Team instead of the Scrum Team that is currently working on the project?

A) If the current Scrum Team does not have all of the needed competences

B) If the current Scrum Team does not work well together in the beginning

C) If the current Scrum Team has a great diversity in gender, race or culture

D) If the current Scrum Team is made up of many inexperienced people

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In distributed environments, it is more difficult to form a coherent team. The emergence of a coherent team requires trust between team members. How should the formation of subgroups around surface-level attributes be prevented?

A) Avoid interpersonal relationships to form

B) Avoid too much focus on the progress

C) Put an early focus on interpersonal relationships

D) Put an early focus on making progress

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Your organization found that the Product Owner is consistently under more pressure than the developers and other participants in the project. What is a common solution for that?

Compiling a list with Product Owner tasks

Rotating the Scrum Master role

Using a Product Owner team

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For a cross-functional team, it is important that all skills, that are necessary to go from an idea to an implemented feature, are represented within the team. What consequence can this have when you start Agile Scrum?

Coaches must be hand-selected for new teams

Rapid improvements are no longer possible

The team size is slightly larger than desired

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