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A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several iterations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these requirements was not communicated.
What should the Scrum Master do?
Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.
What should the agile practitioner do?
A project team developer has been involved in a large corporate initiative that has negatively impacted team productivity on another project to which they have been assigned. How should the developer have handled this situation?
A project team tasked with delivering a solution with extremely aggressive timelines is facing an issue with meeting their sprint velocity targets. To address this issue and bring the project back on track, what action should the team take?
During a current sprint, a team member asks permission from the scrum master to investigate an alternative design approach What should the scrum master do?
The product owner is present at the sprint review meeting and states that an estimation for the end of the project must be shared with the company’s steering committee. The scrum master declares that the team reached an average velocity of 40 story points per sprint, considering a biweekly iteration. The team members predict that there are 240 story points remaining.
What is the estimated project conclusion?
A new project is under way and the team is using the Kanban method. One of the team members raised a specific issue related to a programming language that the team member faced in previous projects.
What should the project leader do to handle the issue?
During refinement, the team tester has a question about part of the acceptance criteria for a given user story. Who should clarify the acceptance criteria?
During the implementation of a story, a scrum team notifies the scrum master of a technical challenge that is causing a delay. What should the scrum master advise the team to do?
On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stones fit into the overall product. How should this be addressed?
During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initiative, review the iteration charts to discuss changes to the iteration's functional goal.
What practice is the agile facilitator implementing?
During a retrospective, a team member claims that a specific set of documentation that is continuously updated during iterations is not being used by any stakeholder. What should the team do?
An organization is using a predictive approach to managing projects. The executives like to see more deliverables in a short time and require that the milestones be achieved on time.
What value can the organization gain by moving to an iterative approach?
A scrum master is 6 days into a 10-day iteration. A customer representative approaches the scrum master and asks whether they can access the latest update on the project.
Which action should the scrum master take?
During the advanced stages of implementing a complex design, an agile practitioner realizes that the architecture is not scalable for user requirements. The architect suggests a workaround that is minimally adequate but may cause some performance issues.
What should the agile practitioner do?
At the end of a product development phase, an agile project team confirms that all tests have passed. The product is released, but the customer complains that it is deficient. What should the project team have done prior to product release?
A development team is calculating the number of story points they have completed at the end of an iteration. Although quality assurance (QA) passed and successfully demonstrated one feature, it is not being included in the release package.
Should the team add the feature's story points to their burndown chart?
When working on a new product, what should an agile team do to ensure alignment with external stakeholders?
An agile project team has team members with varying technical skills. Due to recent events that adversely impacted customer satisfaction, management mandated that Kaizen should be given more focus to ensure the quality in product delivery.
Kaizen is a prime concept of which agile practices?
When considering impact on a project, to whom should an agile project manager give top priority on the stakeholder list?
What is a specific development practice that has been effective in implementing disciplined DevOps?
A scrum master assumes a project that is essential to organizational growth. The project is expected to be in production for three years. What should the scrum master do first?
The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope Unless this change is accepted, there is no value to the customers during this iteration.
What must the agile practitioner do?
Prior to a retrospective, discussions among team members indicate conflict. An agile practitioner wants to ensure an open and safe environment during the retrospective.
What should the agile practitioner do?
An agile team has defined their definition of done (DoD) for a sprint. However, during the demo, the product owner is not sure if a user story can be marked as done.
Select the most appropriate sequence of activities that would need to be completed to meet a well-defined, mature definition of done (DoD).
A project team member expresses frustration about the length of time it takes to make decisions for a complex project. Approvals needs to happen at many levels in the company.
What should the team lead do to improve decision quality and reduce the time required to make decisions?
An agile team is continuously interrupted by stakeholders wanting to ask product backlog questions. Distractions can have a negative impact on value delivery and quality.
Who is responsible for protecting against distractions?
During a review session, a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work However the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete.
What should be done with this story?
A development team is working on the implementation of a human resources (HR) solution. The team has decided to work together with different business units to deliver value early and often.
Which agile values are being practiced in this scenario?
During an iteration, an urgent customer request for support reaches the team. If they work on it, the team's commitments in this iteration are at risk.
What should the team do next?
A team is preparing to demonstrate new product capabilities to a leadership team. The demonstration will show working software and a listing of the projected value of the capabilities.
What should the team do to ensure the demonstration is successful?
An agile coach is facing a dilemma: On one hand, there is a requirement that is vital and will consume all capacity of the team. On the other hand, there are some chore-related tasks that will improve the team's ability to produce results. The team insists on implementing these tasks since they will increase efficiency.
What should the agile coach do?
A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?
A project manager is managing a large complex project with cross-functional teams using an adaptive approach. Frequent communication among the team leads of these cross-functional teams is crucial for the project to stay on track and deliver value according to the project plan.
Which agile communication practice should the project manager implement to ensure the cross-functional teams interact frequently?
During sprint retrospectives, some team members are very vocal and tend to dominate the conversation, while others are more reserved and less likely to participate. What should the scrum master do?
An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team. After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?
An organization is shifting to an agile delivery methodology. An agile project manager has been assigned to the transformation project.
What should the agile project manager do to ensure a high level of adoption?
An agile team has started to worry because lately they have seen an increase in the number of issues. There seems to be a large variance in the quality of the work items delivered. The team now realizes that a shared understanding of quality may not exist among team members.
What should the team do?
A team is creating a highly marketed, time-sensitive product. The agile coach is concerned that anything other than exceptional quality will result in bad publicity for the company. What should the agile coach ensure that developers do?
During a retrospective, the team agrees that they have limited competence in using a newly introduced tool. What should the team do?
An agile practitioner wants to ensure that stakeholders have current information about a project's progress What should the agile practitioner do?
Halfway through the execution of an agile project, a retrospective meeting is held. One of the team members believes that the actual time and cost to complete the work has consistently been greater than what was originally estimated.
Which of the following activities should be performed next?
During sprint planning, team members have differing opinions on a feature that delivers business value but fails to provide a long-term solution for the customer How should the team resolve this?
During planning for the next iteration an agile team identifies most of the story points that are expected to be delivered How should an agile practitioner work with the team to help identify the iteration's remaining scope?
When working with Lean approaches, which process includes the sequence of steps for delivering value and those required to carry them out?
A project team held a working session with a finance team to understand the procurement process. After the meeting, while the agile lead was facilitating the value stream mapping exercise, one of the team members asked: "When calculating the cycle time, which factors should be considered?"
How should the agile lead respond?
A product owner needs to elaborate on a product roadmap. How can the product owner collaborate with stakeholders to identify the features that offer maximum value?
A project manager noticed that a team member had been a consistently high performer until a few months ago. Recently, the team member seems distracted and is not performing well.
How should the project manager handle a review with the team member?
A seven-member agile team's composition varies considerably in age. gender, culture, personality type, and professional background. When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?
A project team for a local government is transitioning from a predictive development life cycle to an iterative development life cycle. The project sponsor has informed the team lead that the subject matter expert (SME) for the financial functions of the solution is overallocated, so the team needs to convert the previously gathered requirements into user stories.
What should the agile lead do?
The product owner is working on an application that will be built in a data lake leveraging a data
integration and transformation software application. With a budget of US$17,000 remaining, how should the product owner allocate the money? (Refer to Exhibit A)
A product owner feels that the last sprint failed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to their organization's overall project goals. What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?
How should a project leader manage stakeholder expectations in an agile project?
How can a project team effectively work toward a common goal and communicate as they scale and expand to build a new business-critical platform, given that they have been responsible for a small customer-facing product with little complexity over the past 2 years?
During the high-level estimation for a project, the team contacted the product owner about the client’s requirements. The team is seeking guidance as their estimate is too big and there is a risk of not finishing the project in time.
What should the product owner do to help the team?
A project has several features that will deliver immediate customer value. The product owner needs to determine which features to include in the upcoming iteration.
What should the product owner have the customer review and approve?
A project team's manager is responsible for delivering a specific initiative for the organization. They are preparing for a monthly meeting where the manager will present on the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the current initiative status (see Exhibit A).
At the end of which sprint will the minimum viable product (MVP) be completed?
Members of an agile team are complaining that user stories are too large, taking multiple sprints to complete them. They say this way of working is becoming difficult to handle and it has been challenging to map relationships between stories. This situation is affecting the value delivery for the product owner.
What should the scrum master do to handle this situation?
An agile practitioner is working on a project to migrate data from computer systems to another location. To accomplish this task, they need to run four activities sequentially that different teams are performing. The teams are migrating two systems per day, but the agile practitioner thinks that three systems should be done per day.
What can be done to improve process efficiency?
While planning, what prioritization factors need to be considered for a minimally marketable feature (MMF)?
During agile training, an aspiring scrum master with experience in predictive projects asks about the differences between the Kanban approach and the agile approach.
How should the agile trainer respond?
During a daily stand up, the tester engages the developer in a discussion about what will be tested during unit testing versus regression testing. What should the scrum master do?
To create the project vision, an agile team has scheduled an initial meeting with their customer representative. What should the team bring to this meeting?
An agile project leader notices that the team's velocity has decreased in examining data provided by team members, the project leader discovers that one team member has been slow to enter story statuses
What can happen as a result?
A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists, is impacting team velocity.
What should the agile team lead do?
An agile team discovers a new risk and identifies that its impact may be severe. What should an agile practitioner recommend?
Two similar stories A and B are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, is estimated at 8 points After an iteration in which A and C were completed, it is found that story A took much longer than story C.
What should the agile practitioner do?
After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI What should the team do?
A scrum team is working together virtually. One of the team members sends a daily email to the other team members listing impediments that they find. During retrospective meetings, the team member complains that their colleagues fail to take actions on the impediments.
How should the team address this issue?
A team member on a self-directed team is concerned that a feature the customer wants is outside of what the team will be able to deliver. What should the team member do next?
An agile practitioner notices that a project is increasing open defect counts after every subsequent iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?
An event management team is following an agile approach to prepare for an upcoming conference. The regional sales manager, from where the conference is to be held, contacts the team with a number of questions about the company's booth.
What should the team do?
An agile team and a traditional development team are working together on a project. Each team exceeds expectations regarding deliverables: however, issues arise when the deliverables are integrated. What should the agile practitioner do?
A project's product owner asks the scrum master to facilitate the estimation activity. The scrum master then meets with the team and the product owner to clarify the user stories. Following the meeting, the team assembles and provides individual user-story estimates.
What technique did the team use?
A product owner is working on a special agile project for the automobile industry. The project team is responsible for all of the issues related to vehicle electronic control units. The team hasobserved a significant backlog of items in the “In progress' column (Refer to the kanban board). This accumulation is causing delays in task completion and impacting overall project timelines. The team operates in a dynamic environment where requirements frequently change, and stakeholders demand quick turnarounds.
What should the project team adopt to address this issue and improve task flow, considering all the demands?
A Kanban team is struggling to prioritize and determine which tasks to handle first according to value. What should the team do to improve this situation?
A client needs to release their product to market earlier than planned. They need to start receiving the expected revenue, according to their financial forecast, which will require completing the work left on all user stories in the backlog.
What should the project lead do to accommodate this request?
A new agile team is forming to address a high-priority project. Team members are dispersed over a wide geographic area. The scrum master and the team are currently defining their working agreement.
What should be part of the working agreement for a dispersed team?
What should a learn consider when calculating the effort needed to complete a product backlog?
A project manager is working on a user story about migrating to a new version of a database but is unsure of the dependencies. What can the product owner request from the team to understand the risks?
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
During a six-week iteration, an issue is identified by a team member. After analysis, the team member determines that it will take at least two weeks to resolve. What should the team member do?
A seven-member agile team's composition vanes considerably in age. gender culture, personality type, and professional background When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?
Two team members are working together to deliver an asset management tool. The code delivered by team member A during this sprint is not aligning with the specifications written by team member B. Both team members do not seem to agree on the look and feel of some functionality.
What should the scrum master do in this situation?
An agile project manager is leading an international project involving a global team consisting of members from very different cultures, countries, and time zones. The agile project manager is aware that similar projects with distributed teams have led to serious conflicts.
What should the agile project manager do to promote trust and collaboration?
A Talk with the human resources (HR) department to select team members with similar backgrounds to eliminate conflict
B. Collocate for team building to promote collaboration to build trust and improve communication.
C. Promote a project charter with the project vision and purpose to help align the team.
D Promote a team charter with a set of norms rules and agreements to facilitate the work
In Scrum, the responsibilities of the project manager are shared among the product owner, scrum master, and development team. Why are responsibilities shared among the three roles?
A product owner is responsible for a new product. The internal customer questions using an agile approach because they need a product that works without any bugs or missing features once it is launched.
What should the product owner do?
An agile project has three more iterations before the release. There is a lot of report functionality to be created and defects to be cleared. During a daily scrum, a team member suggests a timebox spike to find a more efficient way to deliver reports.
What should the project leader do?
A mobile application project is halfway through development. The team reaches a stabilized velocity after 8 iterations. The sprint duration is two weeks and requirements assigned by the product owner are not changing frequently.
What is the estimated time remaining for the project?
A senior team member feels underutilized. What should the agile practitioner do?
A product owner obtains customer confirmation on product requirements and provides them to the team. After explaining the user stories, the product owner receives agreement for acceptance from the team. What should the team do next?
A business analyst has been assigned to optimize a process to deliver healthcare services to patients in a clinic. In creating a value stream map, what will the business analyst’s key observations include?
A scrum master is part of a project team using technologies overseen by the IT department. The IT director oversees several company initiatives and is unfamiliar with the details of each one. As an active project stakeholder, to which meeting should the IT director be invited?
A globally distributed project team is using email and phone calls as the only way to share information. Delays in resolving issues often occur due to misinterpreted communications, leading to a lower team velocity.
What steps should the project leader take to improve knowledge sharing?
A scrum master has a team of six members. The team complains they are losing time because they are attending meetings for which they see no value.
What should the scrum master do?
The team is considering committing to 44 story points for the upcoming sprint. Based on the
velocity chart, what advice should the scrum master offer the team?
A user interface (UI) developer has features for channels ready for review. During the team review, the architect is disappointed that Splunk software has not been implemented for better server and client logs. The architect insists on the implementation of Splunk software, which will impact the release date.
Which one of the following is the ideal option for the team to resolve this conflict?
A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only from a 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 new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features.
What should the product owner do?
What is the risk of using agile in a distributed team?
A Frequent integration of work produced
B. Lack of shared knowledge of user stories
C. Need for more locations to learn agile
D. Unclear team structure
Stakeholders are unhappy because they have not been consulted on a user interface (UI) for a project that will have a significant impact on end users once it is launched. How should this situation be handled?
In an adaptive environment, project managers use their skills and expertise to help the team adapt to changing circumstances and deliver to their stakeholders. While some agile practitioners may argue that the role of a project manager is not needed in self-organizing teams, pragmatic agile practitioners and organizations recognize that project managers can add benefit in many situations. The key difference is that their roles and responsibilities may look somewhat different in an adaptive environment.
What are some of the practices a project manager can bring to an adaptive environment?
A project team realizes that an important task on the iteration backlog will take more time than originally estimated What should the project team do?
A development team determined the first release of a product should focus on delivering a minimally viable version of the solution. What is the most important reason the team decided to do this?
A new stakeholder has recently joined a project. During a meeting with the scrum master, the new stakeholder tries to understand the status of the project and the remaining tasks for completion.
How should the scrum master inform the new stakeholder?
What is the first thing an agile development team should do when planning an iteration?
A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules How should the team lead address this?
The team is derailed by a demand from a senior manager unrelated to the project. How does the agile coach help the team?
As part of the organizational change, all project teams within the digital channel’s portfolio have been directed to move from 3-week iterations to 2-week iterations. The development team is frustrated as they think there will not be enough time to test. The product owner does not like this change as it will increase the number of ceremonies.
Which two actions should the scrum master take? (Choose two.)
How can the scrum master respond to a stakeholder who suggests using velocity as a metric to measure team efficiency in an agile project?
An agile team consisting of eight members is in their 11th iteration of a project. In the last iteration, the team was not able to complete every scope item it had committed to before the demonstration.
Which approach should the agile lead take?
An agile team consisting of eight members is in their 11th iteration of a project. In the last iteration, the team was not able to complete every scope item it had committed to before the demonstration.
Which approach should the agile lead take?
During the retrospective meeting, it is revealed that an external dependency is causing a reoccurring impact. The impact is that an external team is not providing a fix or a stable testing environment. The scrum master has been unable to resolve this after escalating the situation to upper management several times.
What should the scrum master do now?
A product owner adds user stories to the backlog on a daily basis. The stories are vague requests, and the product owner expects the details to be clarified once the team works on the prioritization list.
How should the team members address this challenge so that the prioritization meeting does not become a brainstorming session?
An agile coach is guiding a team across multiple locations. They need a united communication approach that involves task-oriented communications and discussion boards with effectiveness.
Which method of communication would be most effective?
An agile coach is working with a team that serves clients making product requests by phone. During a daily commitment and replanning meeting, a team member states that they were unable to resolve a client request because they lacked sufficient product knowledge.
What should the agile coach do?
A backlog for a project has been prioritized and a sprint has begun. A security issue has been revealed that needs to be addressed or large security vulnerabilities will be exposed.
How should the project manager proceed?
How can a scrum team obtain more feedback from a minimally responsive outside stakeholder?
The product owner wants to build security firewalls into the product. How can the team members support this?
A scrum team is experiencing lengthy discussions leading to no concrete actions during their scrum events. The scrum master determines that these inefficient meetings are producing waste.
What should the scrum master do to make the meetings more efficient?
The lead developer informed the team that they have learned of some possible integration challenges in creating customer dashboards using the architecture the team has chosen. What should an agile practitioner do?
A newly formed team is struggling to work together and agree on how to complete tasks in the upcoming sprint. What should the scrum master do to support the team?
One of the overseas stakeholders on an agile project has not been actively involved in the project's development. What would be the first step to reengage the stakeholder?
A project team's manager is responsible for delivering a specific initiative for the organization. They are preparing for a monthly meeting where the manager will present on the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the current initiative status (see Exhibit A).
How many sprints will be needed to complete the entire backlog?
An agile leader notices that a team member is becoming very quiet and disengaged in meetings. What should the agile leader do to identify team members' personalities and motivators?
A Scrum Master would like to provide information to key stakeholders on the daily resource and project activities. Which tool should the Scrum Master use to provide these updates?
The scrum master for a large project must provide an estimate of what can be delivered in six months What should the scrum master do?
An agile team lead is assigned to a project that must ensure data security. What should the team lead do to guarantee that security, as a non-functional requirement, is managed throughout the project?
Early in a project stakeholder analysis is performed: however, an organizational restructure redefines key roles What should the project team do?
Two agile teams from different company sites need to work and collaborate on the same project. What is the first action the agile project manager should take in order to ensure a smooth collaboration between the two teams?
A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.
What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?
The manager of the team is responsible for delivering a specific initiative within the organization. They are preparing for the monthly project review meeting, where they will present the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the initiative's current status.
Which summaries are correct and will be presented during the monthly project review? (Refer to
the email and exhibits to the Team Manager)
A project team is working with an enterprise agile center of excellence (CoE) to transition to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Many of the team members are not familiar with the new methodology and are worried that it will lead to more work and scrutiny.
What should the agile team lead do to help ensure a smooth transition?
After a successful product deployment, a key stakeholder informs an agile team member that an implemented feature is failing to deliver its expected business value. The team member replies that the requirement was provided by the customer, and that the scope was clearly met.
If the problem were an issue of requirement elicitation rather than delivery, what should have been done to avoid this situation?
While attending a conference, an agile practitioner learns of a new user interface (Ul) framework that could benefit the team. What should the agile practitioner do next?
An agile team is working on a new product. To ensure that all unknown issues are clarified before committing to the scope the team plans to work only on spike user stories for the next three sprints
What should the agile coach do in this situation?
An agile coach is assigned to help a project team that was recently co-located close to a very popular business Many team members visit this business during working hours which affects team performance.
What should the agile coach do to mitigate this issue?
Which of the following allows DevOps to enable and sustain a fast workflow from development into operations?
An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity. What should the team do?
TESTED 07 Apr 2025
Velocity = 40 story points per sprint
Remaining Work = 240 story points
Sprint Duration = 2 weeks
Unit testing ensures the code works as expected.
Meeting the acceptance criteria ensures that the business needs are met.
Business testing and functional testing confirm the product works from both the business and technical perspectives.
Code merging ensures that the feature is integrated into the main branch.
Updating documentation ensures that the product is well-documented for future reference and use.
Accessibility – color blind → 4 story points
Increase security → 21 story points
Add AI chatbot → 5 story points
The risk register mentions a reduction of 1 story point per sprint from sprints 4 through 6 due to the holiday schedule.
If we assume the team's normal velocity is 10 story points per sprint (hypothetically), it would drop to 9 story points per sprint for sprints 4-6.
The product owner manages the product backlog, ensures alignment with business goals, and defines the priorities for the team.
The scrum master facilitates the Scrum process, removes impediments, and ensures adherence to Agile principles.
The development team owns the sprint backlog and is responsible for incremental delivery toward the sprint goal.
The project is halfway through development.
The team has reached a stable velocity after 8 iterations.
Each sprint duration is two weeks.
Since the project is halfway completed, an equal amount of work remains.
If 8 iterations have been completed, 8 more iterations are required to complete the project.
Each iteration (sprint) lasts 2 weeks.
8 iterations × 2 weeks per iteration = 16 weeks.
16 weeks = 4 months.
The product owner needs to understand the impact of the security issue on the product's value and determine if it needs to be prioritized over other work in the sprint.
The project team should help evaluate the effort required to address the issue and ensure that the solution is feasible within the sprint’s capacity.
Normal sprint velocity: 5 story points per sprint
Reduced velocity for sprints 4-6: 4 story points per sprint
First 3 sprints: 5 points per sprint → 5 × 3 = 15 story points completed
Sprints 4-6: 4 points per sprint → 4 × 3 = 12 story points completed
Remaining story points after sprint 6: 72 - (15 + 12) = 45 story points
Remaining sprints needed at normal velocity (5 story points per sprint): 45 ÷ 5 = 9 sprints
Sprints 1-6: Already planned.
Additional 9 sprints needed.
Accessibility – color blind (4 story points)
Increase security (21 story points)
Add AI chatbot (5 story points)
MVP Completion: The risk register mentions a burn reduction for sprints 4-6 due to holiday schedules.
If the burn rate is consistent after sprint 6, the MVP will be completed by sprint 9.
The entire backlog is projected to complete by sprint 16 assuming no further deviations.