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1. The Teams in your organization are structured in the following way: The Design team, The UX Team, The front-end team, The back-end team, The database team, the QA team. You were hired as Manager to lead the Agile transformation.

What would you consider when moving away from these teams towards feature teams?

These teams already look like Feature Teams.

The productivity will improve in the initial stages.

The productivity will be reduced in the initial stages.

The Feature teams should have an equal number of team members.

2. You are a manager at an organization that develops and provides products and services for customers. A Scrum Master has approached you asking for your help. Over the course of several Sprints, his Scrum Team is been distracted by unplanned support requests from other teams causing the team to regularly fail in meeting their Sprint Goals and not delivering Increments.

As a manager, What would you do?

Allocate additional people to the team to compensate for the interruptions.

Work with the Scrum Team and the other teams to find ways to re-assign the interrupting work to people outside of the Scrum Team.

Have the team be more flexible with the Sprint Goals and include a buffer in their Sprint Backlogs for support tickets.

Add additional Sprints to the project to compensate for the interruptions.

Extend the Sprint time-box to compensate for the interruptions.

3. Which of the following options will you choose to help with the communication of a distributed Agile Team?

Schedule initial face-to-face meetings for everyone to meet each other.

Establish a common language for all communications.

Kindly ask the team members if they can share photos of themselves and upload a profile picture to their accounts.

Define common working hours.

4. You are the Agile Coach of an Agile Team, what would be your highest expectation of the team?

Team members will come to you as soon as they encounter a problem.

Each team member solves the problems independently.

Team members report all their problems in the daily meeting.

The team solves most of the problems on its own.

5. Which of the following KVMs helps gauge employee engagement, energy, and enthusiasm?

Change Failure Rate

Customer Satisfaction

Time-to-Learn

Customer Usage Index

Employee Satisfaction

Ability to Innovate

6. What is the commitment for the Sprint Backlog?

Product Goal

Sprint Goal

Definition of Done

None

Sprint Vision

Product Vision

7. Delivering on time and budget is the primary benefit of an Agile approach.

FALSE

TRUE

8. During a management meeting, a Manager reports that he is having issues getting one of his teams to take ownership of the project. The team always escalates decisions to him and asks him for directions.

What would you advise him to do?

At Sprint Planning, assign a different person each sprint as the decision-maker to get them all comfortable in the role.

Meet the team members and work with the team to understand their expectations and impediments to take decisions. Coach them about becoming self-managing.

Explain to them that they must be self-directed and they must take ownership and decisions.

Congratulate team members that take decisions and report the lack of participation to the functional managers.

9. SportsTech is a company that has offices and employees around the world. Because they need to build teams with Developers from multiple locations, they cannot implement Scrum as Scrum recommends that all Developers should be co-located.

TRUE

FALSE

10. The Strategic Goal is usually focused on achieving a highly desirable but unrealized outcome

TRUE

FALSE

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11. You are a manager at an organization that develops software for customers. The head of product delivery has asked you to provide a plan and schedule for what will be delivered for the upcoming 2

years.

As a manager, what is the best way to proceed?

Provide a plan based on your current knowledge and ask the Scrum Teams to implement it.

Work with the Product Owners to analyze current goals and delivery capabilities of the teams and create a forecast based on the data to illustrate what might be achievable.

Work with the technical architect and technical leads to estimate the plan using a Gantt chart.

Ask the Developers to estimate the work for that timeframe in Story Points.

12. Which of the following shows you that a Scrum Team's implementation of Scrum looks good?

The Scrum Team is meeting the Sprint Goals.

The Scrum Team is increasing its velocity.

They can release every Sprint.

The Scrum Team members are so committed that they work over the weekends.

The team is working according to the Project plan.

13. Which questions will help organizations to continually re-evaluate for Time-to-Market (T2M)? Select three answers

How fast can you adapt based on the information?

How fast can you test new ideas with customers?

How happy are your employees today with the delivery time?

How happy are your investors and other stakeholders today with the delivery time?

How fast can the organization learn from new experiments and information?

What prevents the organization from delivering new value?

14. Which topics for this Sprint are addressed during the Sprint Planning? Select all answers that apply

What can be done?

How will the chosen work get done?

Why is this Sprint valuable?

What is the Velocity of this Sprint?

Which process improvements can be done?

What is the Project Goal?

15. Who defines the Sprint Goal?

The Product Owner

The Scrum Master

Developers

The Scrum Team

Stakeholders

Project Manager

16. The first step in the journey toward a Strategic Goal is understanding your Current State.

TRUE

FALSE

17. What is the Product Owner accountable for? Select two answers

Maximizing the value

Effective Product Backlog management

Organizing the work of the Scrum Team

Maximizing the productivity of the Scrum Team.

Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Roadmap

18. If Customer Satisfaction is used to measure the Current Value, when should it be measured?

At least Every Sprint Review.

Every Release.

When new issues arrive.

Every Month.

Frequently.

Every Day.

19. What is a hypothesis?

A test that is designed to prove or reject something

A proven explanation that needs to be implemented

A test for a feature that provides value

A test to measure the value of something

A proposed explanation for some observation that has not yet been proven

20. Which of the following KVMs helps gauge customer engagement and happiness with the product?

Time-to-Learn

Customer Satisfaction

Customer or User Satisfaction Gap

Ability to Innovate

Employee Satisfaction

Customer Usage Index

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21. You are a Scrum Master and you assess that recent market changes make the product your team is working on is no longer viable.

What should you do?

Change the Product Owner.

Cancel the project.

Share the information with the Product Owner and ask for their opinion on viability.

Work with the team member to assign them to new projects.

Tell the Product Owner how to re-prioritize backlog to fit market trends.

22. Which traditional development practices can make it challenging for an organization to adopt an agile culture?

A culture of specialists.

Imposing technical standards and processes across the organization.

Measuring and recognizing individual performance.

All the answers.

Committing to fixed scope and schedule.

Maximizing utilization of team members.

23. The Product Backlog items added to the Sprint Backlog to meet the Sprint Goal cannot be changed during the Sprint

TRUE

FALSE

24. What is the goal of looking at the Ability to Innovate?

Understand the skills of the team members to innovate

Maximize the organization’s ability to deliver new capabilities

Create innovation teams

Understand how ofter to run a hackathon

25. How can the value of a feature be tested?

Calculate its value before building it

Make these hypotheses explicit, build the feature, and test the value of the features and requirements

Calculate revenue and determine the exact value

Build the feature and measure the rating

26. Due to the request of employees to be more agile, a company has decided to initiate a transition from waterfall to Scrum. The plan is to change the organization's current terminology to Scrum for the first 4 months. Once everyone is comfortable and familiar with the terminology, they will work on the proper understanding and support of Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide.

What will be the result of this approach?

The vocabulary in Scrum is defined specifically to implement Scrum. Not many benefits will be seen.

All of the answers.

Updating the terminology will not provide any of the benefits of Scrum.

This can lead to confusion and chaos by mixing different methods, frameworks, and terminology.

27. A new Developer who is used to working with waterfall joined the team and asked what are the differences between Scrum and waterfall.

What would you answer?

Scrum is self-managing instead of control and command.

Scrum is iterative instead of sequential, it organizes work in smaller steps.

Scrum is concentrated on gathering continuous feedback instead of gathering in stages.

Scrum is empirical instead of predictive. The decisions are taken based on experience and observation.

Scrum focuses on value and variable scope rather than a deadline with a fixed scope.

All of the answers.

28. Which of the following statements are true about Technical Debt? Select two answers.

Only the Developers need to be concerned with Technical debt.

A team that continuously incurs technical debt will increase the velocity in the short term. Changes and development will seem easy and fast.

The amount of technical debt is described as quality standards in the Definition of Done.

Technical debt can be handled after delivery with refactoring sprints.

Technical debt is a threat to the long-term viability and maintainability of a product.

29. What does the Customer Usage Index measure? Select two answers.

Whether actual usage meets expectations on how long users should be taking with a feature.

The difference between a customer or user’s desired experience and their current experience.

Usage, by feature, to help infer the degree to which customers find the product useful

The experience that the customer would like to have.

Sentiment analysis to help gauge customer engagement and happiness with the product

30. What should you avoid as an Agile Team leader?

Prioritizing team goals over individual goals.

Collaborate in setting the Product Goals.

Finding out what motivates the team members individually.

Rewarding individual goals at the expense of project goals.

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31. For Product Owners to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions.

TRUE

FALSE

32. At least one representative of the Agile Managers should attend the Scrum Events of the Scrum Teams to make sure they are going as expected.

FALSE

TRUE

33. When using an Agile approach, it is expected and beneficial to change the plan frequently based on the feedback received from customers or stakeholders.

TRUE

FALSE

34. What is lead time?

The average amount of time it takes from when an error is detected and when it is fixed.

The time spent correcting product problems between the point the developers say it is ready to release and the point where it is actually released to customers.

The amount of time from when an idea is proposed, or a hypothesis is formed until a customer can benefit from that idea.

The amount of time to go from code-committed to code successfully running in production.

The amount of time from when work starts on a release until the point where it is actually released.

35. You are an Agile Manager and you have a new Product idea to develop, but you don't have a Scrum Team for it. It is your responsibility to use some unassigned professionals within the company and hire new team members for the new Scrum Teams that will build from the new Product. You have a lot of experience in assigning team members and hiring.

How would you decide which member will be on which team?

You must assign team members into teams. Each team will work on different layers of the Product.

Work with the Product Owner and available members together, discuss the vision and goals for the product, let the group self-organize and divide itself into teams.

Allocate the team members into teams based on the features they are going to develop.

You must distribute team members into groups according to individual performance and skills.

You must assign team members into functional teams.

36. Your organization has 5 Scrum Teams with 10 members each. Three teams are doing very well developing an average velocity of 45-50 user story points per Sprint. The other two teams are achieving just 15 and 25 points on average per Sprint respectively.

Management is concerned and asks you to help them improve, what would be your response?

Assign Developers from high-performing teams to low-performing teams to compensate and stabilize the average velocity of the company.

Story sizing can vary from one team to another. Velocity depends upon the way stories are sized. Velocity should not be compared between teams.

If a Team is working on more complex tasks, we should expect a lower velocity.

We should look at the performance of individual Developers and work to improve the skills of the ones that are delaying the team.

Some of these teams may be new, after some Sprint they should also do 45-50 points per Sprint.

37. Anyone in the Scrum Team with a new idea must add it proactively to the Product Backlog

TRUE

FALSE

38. What makes adaptation easier? Select two answers

Empowerment

Self-managing

Adaptability training

Leadership

Decision taker

39. Which of the following would you use to describe how the Product Owner stances? Select all the answers that apply.

Customer Representative.

Visionary.

Decision Maker.

None of the answers.

Collaborator.

40. Which of the following will help three Scrum Teams working on the same Product deliver an Increment at the end of the Sprint? Select three answers.

Synchronizing release schedules across all the Teams.

Product Backlog Refinement.

Having one Product Backlog for each Scrum Team

Reducing dependencies between teams.

Automating the integration and delivery process.

Having a different Product Owner for each team.

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41. What are the characteristics of the Sprint Goal? Select three answers

It is a commitment by the Developers

It provides flexibility in terms of the exact work needed to achieve the Sprint Goal

Creates coherence and focus

Allows the team member to work alone

Reduces the need for daily interaction

42. Which of the following can the Scrum Master do to ensure communication between the Product Owner and the Developers?

Ask the Developers to copy the Scrum Master on all important emails or tickets.

Coach the Product Owner with technical terminology to be able to speak with Developers.

Facilitate discussions as needed and during meetings.

Coach the Developers and the Product Owner to do all communication with each other through the Scrum Master.

Ask the Developers to copy the Product Owner on all the emails or tickets about development.

43. A Scrum Team has remote team members, after the 15 minute daily Scrum, Developers spend an additional 15-30 minutes every day discussing architectural designs, code designs, code reviews, high priorities bugs, and concerns.

As a Scrum Master, how should you handle this situation?

Tell the Developers that they cannot add events or meetings that are not part of the Scrum Framework.

Ask the Scrum Team to discuss everything needed in the Daily meetings within 15 minutes. Meetings outside the Scrum Events are not allowed. They are a waste of time.

Facilitate such meetings so Developers only spend 15 minutes on the Daily Scrum.

Allow the Scrum Team to self-manage and decide for themselves.

If needed, inform the Management about such meetings. Try to reduce such meetings as much as possible so the Developers can get more time to develop.

44. What would be the results of not operating the Scrum events as prescribed?

Lost opportunities to inspect and adapt

Longer Sprints

Adaptability

removes the need for meetings not defined in Scrum.

45. The Sprint Review is the only time during the Sprint that Stakeholders can meet with the Scrum Team.

TRUE

FALSE

46. Which of the following practices might help to improve the product’s time to market?

Commit team members to only one team.

Automate frequently performed tasks.

All the answers.

Reduce the number of features in each release.

Improve cross-functional team skills.

47. The Scrum Master can never order the Product Backlog items

TRUE

FALSE

48. Which of the following will most help an Agile Team to focus more?

Getting the good answers.

Understanding their tasks.

Working on many things at the same time to maximize utilization.

Defining their tasks.

Measuring their performance.

49. Which questions will help organizations to continually re-evaluate for Ability to Innovate (A2I)? Select two answers

What prevents the organization from delivering new value?

What prevents customers or users from benefiting from that innovation?

How fast can the organization learn from new experiments and information?

How fast can you test new ideas with customers?

How happy are your investors with the innovation rate?

How fast can you adapt based on the information?

50. How can a Scrum Team demonstrate its value to the organization?

By providing value reports to stakeholders.

By reporting the work completed during the daily Scrum.

By consistently delivering quality products at the end of each Sprint and progressing towards the Product Goal.

By reducing technical debt and improving efficiency.

By increasing the velocity each Sprint.

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51. A product with very high CV and low UV may not have much room for investment.

TRUE

FALSE

52. An Organization will start an ambitious Project with 8 Scrum Teams working on the same product. As a Scrum Master, what would you suggest to make it work? Select two answers.

There is only one Product Owner across all the teams.

There is only one Product Backlog for all Teams.

There is only one Sprint Backlog for all Teams.

Each Team has its own unique Product Owner.

53. The Product Owner is the only one responsible for all product-related activities from stakeholder collaboration, verification, maintenance, operation, experimentation, research and development, and anything else that might be required.

TRUE

FALSE

54. Which of the following statement is true about Agile?

A good Agile Leader always gets all the work done on time.

If an Agile Project is not predictable, it’s because it was not planned well.

Agile Projects have a certain level of unpredictability. Agile Teams accept that unexpected things can occur, they learn and adapt.

Agile Leaders understand the value of the Product more than anyone else.

55. Who can cancel a Sprint?

The Product Owner

The Scrum Master

Developers

The Scrum Team

Stakeholders

nobody

56. Who does the Scrum Master serve? Select three answers

Scrum Team

Product Owner

Organization

Management

Stakeholders

CEO

57. Ali is an Agile Leader managing five Scrum Teams. Ali delegates responsibilities depending on the maturity level of each team and team members. Is it a good idea to delegate responsibilities according to the maturity of the team even if it takes longer?

YES

58. A company adopted Agile 20 years ago. Since then, its teams have learned to master and implement Scrum to perfection. They are high-performance teams with a high level of agile maturity. Because they are so good with Scrum and because of the self-managed nature of Scrum Teams, the company no longer needs managers.

TRUE

FALSE

59. Keeping team members together in a Scrum Team is a good strategy for increasing utilization rates.

FALSE

TRUE

60. Andrew is a Senior Sales Manager for your product. Andrew would like to present the Product you’re building at a conference with thousands of potential new customers in one month.

As a Product Owner, what do you tell him? Select two answers.

We will review the velocity and let you know if we need more Developers

The Product is ready when it’s ready.

We always have a usable increment for a Demo, therefore you will have something to show.

We need to work on other Stakeholders' requests too.

Tell me which features you would like to present and we will see how we can include them in the next Sprints.

It depends on your budget.

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61. Which actions could help to improve the Time-to-Market? Select two answers Increasing the number of features in a product release

Removing non value-added activities from the product development and delivery process(Correct)

Working overtime

Longer Sprints

Reducing the number of features in a product release(Correct)

62. The Developers think that it will take 40 hours of effort to implement an API for online payments for the Product they are working on.

How many hours of effort should they quote for that task?

40 hours

45 hours (40 hours + 5 hours as a buffer for distractions, availability issues, and testing).

They must not estimate in hours.

35 hours since teams tend to overestimate.

40 to 45 hours

63. When is the Product Backlog refined?

During the Sprint

During the Product Backlog Refinement event

During the Daily Meeting

During the Sprint Planning

During the Sprint Review

64. You are a manager of an area at an Agile organization. A team member of one of your teams comes to you with questions regarding some of his work.

How should you handle this situation?

Tell the employee to consult with someone else from the team.

Answer the questions that make sense from your position and work with the employee to find the answers to their questions from the Product Owner, Developers, Scrum Master, or anyone else.

Tell the employee to read the job description of his position.

It is not the manager's responsibility to address questions about the work of self-organizing teams.

Let the employee know that you expect them to be self-managing and it is the employee's responsibility to find the answers themselves.

65. Who manages the progress of pending and completed work during a Sprint?

The Product Manager.

All of the answers.

The Product Owner.

The Scrum Master

The Developers

The Business Analyst

66. What are some Key Value Measures (KVMs) defined by EBM? Select all answers that apply

Market Share

Employee Satisfaction

Customer or User Satisfaction Gap

Revenue per Employee

None

Product Cost Ratio

67. Which of the following sentences are related to Adaptation?

The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work.

The Scrum artifacts and the progress toward agreed goals must be inspected frequently and diligently to detect potentially undesirable variances or problems.

If any aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits or if the resulting product is unacceptable, the process being applied, or the materials being produced must be adjusted.

68. Improving the Ability to innovate helps an organization become more effective in ensuring that the work that it does improves the value that its products or services deliver to customers or users.

TRUE

FALSE

69. The Release dates of a company's most important Product are always delayed by several months. The team discovers many bugs during the final months of the Release and this forces them to postpone the release.

Which of the following practices would you suggest to improve product time to market? Select four answers.

Co-locate team members.

Work overtime to release on time.

Reduce the number of features to build per iteration.

Team members must be part of only one team, at a time.

Create more testing tasks.

Consider releasing more often and using shorter iterations.

70. You are a manager in an Agile organization. You need a way to measure how much business value each Scrum Team is producing.

How do you go about measuring the value produced by each team?

Consult with the Scrum Master of each Scrum Team.

The velocity of each team across time would show how much value they produced and will produce in the future.

Consult with the Product Owner of the teams. They work with the most with the Developers.

Consult with the Product Owner of the teams. The Product Owners are responsible for maximizing the value of the Product. The increment produced each sprint is a good reflection of the value produced as well.

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71. How organizations enable themselves to better understand where they are and where they need to go? Select four answers

Being aware of their effectiveness to innovate

Knowing the current value

Knowing how fast they can respond to change

Knowing the potential value that could be achieved

Having a detailed plan

With Goal GPS Framework

72. Delivering more value per Sprint may require higher costs.

TRUE

FALSE

73. What is the difference between leadership and management in agile?

Leadership replaces all aspects of management.

Management and leadership are used together.

Leadership is subsidiary to management.

Management and leadership are incompatible.

74. You are an Agile manager at an organization that develops software for external customers. One of the Stakeholders who attends all the Sprint Reviews tells you that the Scrum Team, developing his product, totally lacks the domain expertise he expects and he is convinced this team will not be able to meet his expectations.

What do you do?

Involve the Scrum Master to discuss the concerns with the Stakeholder and leave the final actions to the Scrum Team. Support the team's decision.

Invite domain experts to all Sprint Plannings and Sprint Reviews

Work with other Scrum Teams to learn more about the domain.

Dedicate one or more Sprint to improve the domain knowledge.

Hire or reassign more domain experts to the Scrum Team.