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Question 51
An agile team has been in place for five years and the customer is satisfied with the team's performance and deliverables. Now that the product is built and delivered, the customer is considering the future role of the Scrum Master.
What should the customer do?
- A: Expand the Scrum Master's role to other projects, while allowing them to support the current project
- B: Release the Scrum Master, since the team is adequately skilled with agile practices
- C: Expand the product owner's role to serve as the Scrum Master, while providing additional product knowledge
- D: Increase the functional manager's role to act as the Scrum Master, while providing additional information about functional areas
Question 52
A product owner with experience in a predictive approach wants the team to develop very detailed schedules and cost estimates for the next 10 sprints.
What should the Scrum Master do?
- A: Suggest the product owner start by focusing on the next 2 sprints instead of 10
- B: Spend the first few sprints to develop detailed schedules and budgets
- C: Invite the product owner to the retrospective to explain the team's approach to schedule and budget
- D: Explain that detailed project schedules and budgets are not artefacts in agile projects
Question 53
An agile team identifies that their velocity is lower than predicted, and that their previous forecasts in the product roadmap are wrong. The team is worried that they will be unable to meet a critical release date without corrective action.
What should the team do?
- A: Collaborate with the product owner to reprioritize the product backlog, thus ensuring that more features will be completed
- B: Ask the team lead to calculate the team's target velocity according to the project plan, and assign additional resources to increase the capacity
- C: Focus on velocity and schedule concerns during the retrospective to inspect, adapt, and improve the process and plans
- D: Reestimate the backlog items from the release, ensuring that contingency is included to set stakeholder expectations
Question 54
A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint.
What should the team do?
- A: Advise the product owner that the story will have to wait until the next sprint
- B: Work extra hours to complete the story and satisfy the customer's requirements
- C: Break down the story into smaller increments and negotiate other stories on the sprint backlog
- D: Increase the length of the sprint to accommodate the story
Question 55
A senior team member feels underutilized.
What should the agile practitioner do?
- A: Transfer the senior member to another team that will more fully utilize their skill set
- B: Conduct a performance evaluation to determine whether or not this member is a team player
- C: Encourage the project team to involve the senior member in more project activities
- D: Ask the functional manager to determine the best course of action
Question 56
A product that recently went to market is receiving a great deal of attention from upper management who expresses interest by directly emailing and calling the developer team. The team expresses frustration during a standup.
What should the Scrum Master do?
- A: Ask the product owner how upper management's comments can be redirected
- B: Direct the developer team to ignore the phone calls and emails
- C: Ask the product owner to enter the requests into the product backlog as high priority
- D: Personally respond to upper management's phone calls and emails
Question 57
A client states that a product is not being built as requested.
How should the agile team address this?
- A: Conduct an internal review to validate functionality before shipping
- B: Audit the quality control process to ensure that the product adheres to requirements
- C: Lengthen iterations to ensure there is sufficient time to build functionality
- D: Hold product review sessions with the client to obtain product acceptance
Question 58
What estimation technique is an agile team using when collectively estimating the relative size of its stories using story points?
- A: Parametric
- B: One-to-one comparison
- C: Affinity
- D: Planning poker
Question 59
The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product.
How can the team members support this?
- A: Add new security features to the backlog and prioritize
- B: Execute a spike to research security features for the project
- C: Ask questions to determine where and how the product owner wants to use product
- D: Ask questions to determine if the product owner can define the desired level of security
Question 60
An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team.
After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?
- A: Coach team members to improve functional specialties and increase overall velocity
- B: Identify where team processes misalign with accepted Scrum practices
- C: Facilitate the identification of problems or issues and help the team resolve them
- D: Review the backlog to ensure that it is prioritized, refined, and properly tasked
Question 61
A key stakeholder cannot attend the project vision statement development workshop. The stakeholder has emailed their requirements to the agile team lead, and believes that the vision statement is not critical.
How should the agile team lead respond?
- A: Emphasize to the stakeholder that a common, detailed vision will better ensure team understanding of the project
- B: Personally meet with the stakeholder to understand their requirements, and then share the vision with the team
- C: Work with the team to create a vision from the stakeholder's supplied requirements
- D: Explain to the team that creating a vision is not critical in agile projects, as requirements may change over time
Question 62
During a daily stand up meeting, a developer expresses concerns that the selected technology limits the number of concurrent users.
What should the agile team do?
- A: Ask the team to conduct research to find a viable solution
- B: Select a better technology for team implementation
- C: Obtain customer input on their technology requirements
- D: Consult the product owner about their non-functional requirements
Question 63
A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only for generic user's perspective. This may lead the team to miss stories for non-generic users.
What agile tools can help the team address these issues?
- A: Information radiators and wireframes
- B: Information radiators and story maps
- C: Process flows and personas
- D: Personas and extreme characters
Question 64
Based on the chart, what is the current status of the iteration when comparing story points planned versus completed?
- A: The iteration is in jeopardy
- B: The team has removed scope
- C: The iteration is ahead of schedule
- D: The team's velocity is constant
Question 65
The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and the frequent clarification required.
What should be done to address the issue?
- A: Stop the current iteration to discuss defect quality issues and explore solutions
- B: Discuss and explore solutions in the next planning meeting and take corrective actions as required
- C: Generate insights at the next retrospective and adjust processes as decided by the team
- D: Assign corrective actions to the backlog for the team to identify the mandatory defect information
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