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1. Which KVM is used to measure the total time needed to sketch an idea or improvement, build it, deliver it to users, and learn from their usage?

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

3. 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.

4. Which of these metrics is the strongest signal that a company is doing business with agility?

5. You are part of a Scrum Team with 10 members located in the same city. The office has many conference rooms, but most of them are designed for 5 people or less.

How can this affect your team?

6. Mario is a very proactive Product Owner and cares a lot about the Scrum Team. He writes the requirements, tests the product himself once development is complete, and validates that it conforms to the Definition of Done. Mario tells the team how much work they will need to be able to complete in the next iteration based on his vision, experience, and skills.

What would you say about Mario?

7. 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?

8. What practices in a company can make the transition from waterfall to Agile difficult?

9. A Scrum Team is self-managing, meaning internally decides who does what, when, and how. Therefore, the team has complete freedom to decide how it works.

10. In order to reward high performing teams with a bonus, an organization's head of delivery has asked managers to compare Scrum Teams to identify the best Agile Teams.

Which of the following statements is true?

11. You're a Product Owner of a product with multiple stakeholders. During a meeting with them, you observe that the stakeholders are unable to come to an agreement on the target users and the primary vision of the product.

As a Product Owner, how can you help the stakeholders to agree?

12. 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?

13. A company needs to form four Scrum Teams. Team members should be spread across the teams to maintain high utilization of resources, be able to respond quickly, and remain productive when impediments occur.

14. Which of the following may increase the effectiveness of a Scrum Team?

15. Developers in the Scrum Team heavily disagree with the acceptance criteria of a feature in the Sprint Backlog and its value for the users due to similarities with other existing functionalities in the system.

As a Scrum Master, which would be the best approach?

16. What is Agile?

17. What are the primary benefits of an Agile approach over a Waterfall approach? Select two answers.

18. You are a manager in an agile organization. Markus is a development leader of a Scrum Team and he doesn't seem very motivated lately, so you asked him to talk in a one-on-one meeting. While talking to Markus, he says that he is disappointed that the team is making decisions without consulting him.

What would you do?

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

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

21. 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?

22. A Scrum Team is building software for a robot vacuum cleaner. At the end of the 20th Sprint, some of the investors complain about the velocity of the Scrum Team. At this point, they expected many more features done from the Product Backlog, and now the team will require additional Sprints and more budget than originally forecasted in the Project roadmap.

What factors may have caused this? Select two answers.

23. 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?

24. An Agile leader delegates responsibility dependant on the maturity of the team

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

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

27. Agile maturity is a result of role maturity.

28. 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?

29. What does a trendline in a burndown chart describe?

30. What is the main direct benefit of an Agile approach?

31. You are an Agile Leader in your organization. One customer sent you an email complaining about although they request an important feature for the Product, the Product Owner decided that other features are more important for the business. You believe that the Product Owner may not have enough information to make the right decision.

As an Agile Leader, what should you do?

32. You are a leader who has just joined an agile organization. After several Sprints, you notice that your Scrum Team is distracted by unexpected support requests from other teams during Sprints. You think these requests are the cause of the team never being able to meet its Sprint Goals.

As a manager, what should you do?

33. An organization wants to implement Scrum for its 5 teams developing software. HR has hired 5 Scrum Masters to assign one Scrum Master to each team that will guide and support the implementation of Scrum. To make the transition successful, the Scrum Masters agreed to shield the Scrum Teams from change and uncertainty from those outside the team who are not familiar with Agile.

As an Agile Leader, what would you say?

34. What are the main benefits of a self-managing Scrum Team? Select four answers.

35. A manager needs a team to begin the transition to agile.

What would you recommend first?

36. 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?

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

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

39. As an Agile Leader, which of the following would be your top priority?

40. An experienced CTO suggests that for the 3 products the company is building, they should have 3 Product Owners and rotate them between Products every 4 months. The CTO says he has tried it before in his previous job and reduces the dependency that teams have on a Product Owner. Product Owners can be exchanged between Scrum Teams, without any impact on team or velocity, as the Product Owner does not do any development maximizing general domain knowledge.

Do you agree with this approach?

41. 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?

42. You are an Agile Leader in an organization. One of your Scrum Teams was formed months ago to work on new healthcare software. Members of this team previously worked on a fitness app within your organization. Members of the fitness app teams continually ask the Developers on your team for help with support and bug fixes. The Scrum Master has contacted you because he is concerned about this.

What is the best approach for the team to address unplanned work and interruptions? Select two answers.

43. External stakeholders do not have visibility into the daily progress made by the Scrum Team on a Product that they are very interested in. They are a little worried and anxious.

What is the best way to clarify the concerns to them and the progress made by the Scrum Team?

44. Which of the following are tasks of an Agile Leader? Select all answers that apply.

45. What is called the measure of the amount of time from when an idea is proposed or a hypothesis is formed until a customer can benefit from that idea?

46. 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?

47. You are an Agile Leader and you need to hire a Product Owner for a Scrum Team, what would be your ideal choice for the position?

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

49. Which of the following characteristics would you expect from a high-performance Agile Team? Select three answers.

50. A software development company that uses the waterfall software development approach realizes that the cost of development of a Project has been more than what they had initially planned. The Management believes that adopting an Agile approach will help to reduce cost. Should they adopt Agile and an approach to reduce cost?

51. The longer you wait for customer feedback, the greater the risk of delivering the wrong product to your customer.

52. A complex domain is where _________________

53. You are a manager in an agile organization. You are responsible for the success of 12 Scrum Teams in your area. The CTO asks you to measure the value that each Scrum Team produces so that you can provide the information to investors and stakeholders.

What would you do?

54. 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.

55. You are an Agile Leader. A key user has contacted you to request a new feature for a product that your company is developing for him. However, this feature is not part of the original scope.

How would you proceed?

56. You are part of a team with an average velocity of 55 points per Sprint. Another team of the same size working on the same Product has an average speed of 105 points per Sprint.

What should your team do?

57. An Agile Leader must create an environment where experiments and tests that can fail are encouraged.

58. You work in a company as a Director of Product Delivery. A Scrum Team request to meet you because they need four more Developers. They think the workload is too high and they were working overtime to meet the Sprint Goals and deadlines. The need for additional Developers seems reasonable. As a part of Product Delivery, What you should do?

59. What are the benefits of having a Cross-functional team? Select all the answers that apply.

60. In Agile the highest priority is to satisfy the customer. If a customer wants a feature, the Product Owner must ask the Scrum Team to deliver it as fast as possible.

61. A Developer notifies the Scrum Master that they will need an external specialist to help full-time with some topics for at least four Sprints.

What can be deduced from this?

62. The Developers of a Scrum Team complain that the technology and coding techniques they are using are behind the market trends and that they do not see opportunities for personal growth in this project.

Which of the following statements are true about personal development? Select three answers.

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

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

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

66. HR implemented a performance review process that rewards team members based on their individual annual performance. Therefore, some team members receive higher bonuses than others. Many team members are unhappy because they feel the bonus distribution is unfair as everyone contributes equally to the overall success of their team.

As your manager, what would be the best approach?

67. One of the teams you manage has committed to delivering 45 story points for this Sprint, but it looks like they will only complete 25. As an Agile Manager, what should you do?

68. In Agile, responding to change is preferable to following a plan.

69. In Agile Leadership, the traditional leadership responsibilities are delegated to the members of the Scrum Team.

70. After Sprint 6, Developers say they need to complete the software architecture before they can begin working on the functional requirements.

As a Scrum Master, what is the most appropriate action you can take?

71. 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?

72. You are joining a Scrum Team as a Developer. The Scrum Master tells you that the company has a policy of switching Developers from one team to another every 2 Sprint to improve knowledge share.

What outcomes would you expect from this approach? Select two answers.

73. What is the positive effect of synchronizing release schedules across multiple teams?

74. 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?

75. What is the Current Value?

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

77. You are a Developer in an Agile organization. During the sprint, you encounter a problem that seems much more difficult than expected.

What would you do?

78. Which of the following best describes the responsibilities of the product owner?

79. Who should create an environment that supports agility and also helps remove impediments to the delivery of done products?

80. Nick is the director of product success in a company. Nick needs to know how each product is doing periodically.

What would be the best approach for understanding the current status of the products?

81. An organization is new to Scrum and has hired you to implement Scrum for three Scrum Teams who will be working together on a new Product release.

What three things should you advise them first?

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

83. Two team members from the same Scrum Team have very different and strong arguments for how to build a user story.

What should be done?

84. What are the different stances that are relevant for the Scrum Master? Select all the answers that apply.

85. Several customers have reported security issues of many features of an existing Product.

What two things can the Scrum Team of this Product do next?

86. 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?

87. Peter is a new Product Owner for a Scrum Team working on a new Product. Peter made a Release plan for 6 months considering a velocity of 35 Story Points per Sprint. After the first 4 Sprints, the observed velocity is only 15 points and the developers tell the Scrum Master that it is impossible to meet the deadlines of such a Release plan.

What can the team do?