Agile MCQ With Answers
Agile MCQ With Answers
Agile MCQ With Answers
33. A Scrum Team can identify the improvements only during Sprint Retro:
- False
34. A Development Team is often interrupted in the Sprint midway and
assigned to work on “other” high priority items. Frequently, such
interruptions lead to not meeting the Sprint Goal. The most likely caused
could be:
- The Product Owner authority is ineffective or influenced by another
authority
35. Only the Product Owner can come up with items that can be considered
for Product Backlog. Other cannot provide input, recommendations?
- False
36. The Scrum Team gathers for Sprint Planning meeting. The Product
Owner has some Product Backlog items but the Development Team
finds that they do not have enough information to understand the work
involved and to make forecast. What is the next best thing to do?
- The Development Team makes it transparent that they cannot make
a forecast with insufficient information, and negotiates with Product
Owner on refining the Product Backlog items to ready state.
37. The Work left against time is shown by:
- Burn-down graph
38. What is a key inspect and adapt meeting for the Development Team?
- Daily Scrum
39. For a Scrum Team that develops software, what provides the shared
understanding of standards that software should meet in order to be
accepted as complete by Product Owner?
- Definition of “Done”
40. The Product Owner provides the transparency of their product plan to
the stakeholders and the Scrum Team through
- Product Backlog
41. A short expression of the purpose of a sprint which is often a business
need – is called as:
- Sprint Goal
42. An organization decides to have a very small development teams of size
fewer than three. The likely result could be:
- The team may have decreased interaction
- The team may have low productivity gains
- The team may have skills shortage
43. What is the role of Scrum Master during Daily Scrum?
- Facilitate discussions of the Development Team
- Teach the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15
minute time box
44. What is the correct statement?
- The technical design continuously evolves over the sprint. Hence the
team should have some basic guidelines to start with, but try to
emerge the design through the Sprints.
45. Definition of “Done” is:
- Initially defined per product by Scrum Team, but may change
throughout the product Development duration
46. To effectively track the Sprint progress, Scrum mandates:
- Increasing the transparency by frequently updating the remaining
work.
47. During a Sprint Review, the Scrum Master notices that Product Owner
does not use the Product burn-down graph to explain the status to
stakeholder. The Scrum Master:
- Do nothing.
48. One of the Scrum Teams chose to have a Development Team member
also playing the role of Scrum Master. A Development Team member
also cannot also play Scrum Master’s role:
- False
49. When a Sprint is cancelled, the Scrum Team discards all the work and
refines a new Product Backlog:
- False
50. Sprint Planning is the only occasion where the Development Team
estimates the Product Backlog items
- False, estimation of Product Backlog Items is a continuous even
throughout.
51. A Product Owner cannot send a representative (delegate) to the Sprint
Review
- True
52. To deliver a single product, three different Development Teams are
formed. How many Product Owners are needed?
- One.
53. What is an Increment?
- The sum of the value of all increments from previous iterations
integrated with the Product Backlog Items “done” in latest sprint
54. What is true about Sprint Retrospective?
- It focuses on development process and Sprint review focused on
Sprint.
55. The estimation method recommended by Scrum is: None of the below
- Yesterday’s weather
- Planning Poker
- T-shirt Sizing
56. What are true Statements?
- Only the Product Owner should cancel the Sprint. Others can
influence the decision to cancel.
- Only the Development Team should be responsible for estimates of
Product backlog Item.
57. The Scrum Team, based on the learning from previous Sprints, decides
to revisit the length of the Sprint. What is the appropriate Scrum event
to discuss and agree on the change?
- Sprint Retrospective
58. Which of the following statements are true?
- After Sprint Planning, a Sprint cannot proceed without Sprint Goal
- After Sprint Planning, a Sprint can proceed without a complete Sprint
Backlog
59. Burn-up and Burn-down charts show evolution of progress over time. In
Particular,
- Burn-up shows increase in completion, while Burn-down shows
remaining effort
60. Which of the following statements are true?
- The coherence between Product Backlog items is made transparent
by Sprint Goal. Lack of coherence will lead to Development Team
members working individually
- Scrum Team is responsible for formulating a Sprint Goal
61. A Development Team has created the Sprint Backlog in the form of as
task board. What is your inference as Scrum Master?
- The Team can choose to represent it any form that makes sense.
62. In empiricism, the decisions are based on:
- Observation, experience and experimentation
63. What is not a Product Backlog Management activity in Scrum?
- Using formal change control to manage Product Backlog when
market provides feedback from Product Usage.
64. What is required during the Sprint Review?
- Inspection and Adaptation activities
- Stakeholders active participation
65. A Development Team is self-organized and empowered. It is also the
authority on deciding what business needs are required to be
developed.
- False
66. When more Scrum Teams are added to a project on one single product,
the productivity of the original Scrum Teams will increase
- False
67. The teams has not completed anything by Sprint end. What is the next
step?
- End the Sprint with a retrospective, since scrum favors time boxing
68. What should participate of the Sprint Retrospective meeting?
- Product Owner
- Development Team
- Scrum Master
69. Which Scrum events facilitate inspection and adaptation?
- Analysis
70. In the middle of the Sprint, the Development Team finds that it has
more capacity to take work. What is the next best thing to do?
- Make it transparent to Product Owner immediately, and collaborate
to add additional work.
71. It is mandatory that the definition of “Done” includes “Release to
Production”.
- False
72. What does Scrum Manager manage?
- Scrum Framework
73. A Development Team decides to have an exclusive Sprint to evolve the
technical architecture. The sole outcome of this Sprint is a finalized
architecture design.
- It is not the Scrum approach, since every Sprint must produce one
releasable functionality
74. Select all that apply. In Sprint Planning, a Scrum Team Spends lot of time
in discussing and estimation Product Backlog items. It also ensures that
all work associated with each Product Backlog item are identified and
sufficiently decomposed. The Sprint Planning meetings are always going
beyond the time boxing. What could be the possible causes?
- The Development Team is trying to get perfect and detailed Sprint
Plan before starting any work.
- The team didn’t invest enough in Backlog Refinement
75. During a Sprint Review, the stakeholder notice that the product
development progress is not very clearly visible and lacked transparency.
Moreover, they are not able to understand the next steps. Who is
responsible for this?
- Product Owner
76. Sprint Planning helps in: none of the below
- Building entire technical architecture
- Release plan
- Testing Strategy
- Staffing plan
77. A Scrum Team has five members. Each one works on a different
product. What could we infer about them?
- The potential of team work and benefit of Scrum is less
78. A Scrum decides that the frequency of Daily Scrum should be reduced
to once per week. Is this consideration correct?
- No, self-organization is about how to get the Sprint work done but
subject to following Scrum. So, Scrum Master should strive to coach
the team on the essentials of Daily Scrum.
79. Does the application of Scrum guarantees the success of software
projects?
- Scrum is a framework to solve complex problems using team work. It
does not guarantee anything
- Scrum increases the opportunity to control risk and optimizes the
predictability of progress.
80. Who starts the Daily Scrum?
- Whoever the Development Teams decides should start.