QUESTION 21
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. To gain competitive advantage as soon as possible
B. To reduce risk as quickly as possible
C. To maintain visibility with project stakeholders
D. To produce a fast return on investment (Rol)

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 22
An agile coach is working on a software development project. Their team is approaching the sprint deadline, but their client is requesting to include additional features that will bring added value. What should the agile coach do to address this requirement?

A. Explain to the client that the sprint deadline is approaching and the feature can be included in the next iteration.
B. Negotiate with the team to add the additional features in this sprint because they are important requirements.
C. Remind the team and the client of the importance of assessing the risks of these features before deciding to include them.
D. Ask the client for an extension of the deadline to enable delivery of this sprint with the additional features.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 23
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. Building a collaborative decision-making environment with key stakeholders, teams, and sponsors.
B. Ensuring agile values and principles are adopted by all teams involved in delivery of the project.
C. Ownership of detailed project planning, user histories, retrospectives, showcases and metrics board.
D. Developing the project charter, writing the project plan, and following the achievement of all milestones.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 24
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?

A. Ask the product owners to invite a subject matter expert (SME) to the meeting so the prioritization meeting will be more effective.
B. Ask the product owner to review the stories with the scrum master before the prioritization meeting takes place.

C. Ask the product owner to schedule a meeting with a subject matter expert (SME) to review items before adding user stories to the backlog.
D. Ask the product owner to review their items with the product owner’s teammates before adding user stories to the backlog.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 25
An employee just received an Agile certification and has been promoted to team leader. They are working on a project that is experiencing issues with late deliverables. After monitoring project progress, they notice that one impediment is continuously repeated at start of each phase, affecting team’s productivity. How should the team leader exhibit servant leadership?

A. By being a coach
B. By removing impediments
C. By being a change agent
D. By being the authority on processes

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 26
What is a specific development practice that has been effective in implementing disciplined DevOps?

A. Put the client first.
B. Practice continuous delivery.
C. Manage risk.
D. Create a safe environment.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 27
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?

A. Agree, because the developers can copy and paste the requirements and include the technical specifications and performance criteria while writing the stories to save time.
B. Explain that the testable acceptance criteria are included in each story and it is necessary for the expert to collaborate with the developers, testers, and product owner for common understanding of the solution.
C. Explain to the project sponsor that the user stories should be assigned to the analysts, because they helped write the requirements and better understand them.
D. Agree, and ask the developers to explain to the testers how the solution should perform tor quality assurance. The testers will demonstrate to the stakeholders how the system should perform to gain acceptance.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 28
In several recent agile team status meetings, there have been discussions about increases in costly bugs and late product deliveries, resulting in lower quality and higher costs. Team members feel they spend too much time in planning and process meetings, then feel rushed to complete their work. How should the agile lead implement an effective and efficient solution?

A. Suggest the team commit to a 2-month trial using Kanban. Focus on delivering value to the customer using pull criteria before advancing work. The team will have planning meetings as needed with no special meetings about the process.
B. Hire a consultant team to perform a root cause analysis, which will determine the fundamental issues from both perspectives, then meet with the team to determine the best method to get the project back on track.
C. Work with the team to create a spike story for the next iteration to investigate the issue. Create a plan to get the project back on track and present it at the next status meeting to gain stakeholder acceptance.
D. Review the quality assurance and control processes with the team to ensure that even new team members understand the service level agreement (SLA) made with the customer.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 29
An agile team is working on refining project requirements. Due to new dependencies uncovered in every working session, the team is unable to complete the detailed solution requirements. Instead of trying to complete requirements, what should the team do to work collaboratively to identity and prioritize the most important requirements and adapt to changes as needed?

A. Identify the key business stakeholders and invite them to day-long sessions until all the dependencies and outstanding issues can be closed.
B. Report this as a blocker and ask senior management to provide the right subject matter experts (SMEs) until all the outstanding issues can be closed.
C. Identify the key dependencies that need to be resolved in order of priority level so the user stories can meet the definition of ready (DoR) criteria.
D. Report this as a blocker and ensure the product owner is able to deprioritize the issues so the user stories can meet the definition of ready (DoR) criteria.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 30
As part of the organizational change, all project teams within the digital channels 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 2)

A. Document the pros and cons and review with stakeholders to determine the dependencies.
B. Proactively engage the resource managers to lead the team and provide the required support.
C. Assess the impacts of the change and brainstorm potential solutions.
D. Request the enterprise coach and human resources support the team with the transition.
E. Protect the team from disruptions and seek an exemption for status quo.

Correct Answer: CD

QUESTION 31
During backlog refinement, a project team identifies several high-risk items not being completed due to their level of complexity. Many items are labeled as high priority. What should the product owner do?

A. Prioritize these items and allow enough time to find an alternative solution in case the team encounters problems in development.
B. Delay the project until the development team can make sure they develop these items to avoid money and time losses.
C. Start product development with the easiest items to gain velocity and satisfy the users.
D. Delay these items as much as possible so the team can gain confidence and experience during the project.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 32
A product owner worked with the customer to define the success criteria for the launch of a new product in the manufacturing industry. The project team responsible for development is seeking guidance on what to develop first. Which two actions should the product owner take? (Choose 2)

A. Ensure all iteration goals are fully developed at the beginning of the project.
B. Refine the product backlog and identify the Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
C. Send the team the latest version of the release plan so they can provide feedback.
D. Invite the customer to the sprint planning meeting to explain what is deemed most critical to their business.
E. Work with the team to establish goals for the product at the beginning of each scheduled iteration.

Correct Answer: BD

QUESTION 33
A project manager is working on an agile team. A team member mentions that risks threatening the release date of the current sprint are not being addressed. What should the project manager do to make sure team members are following up on risks?

A. Ask the team to review the executed tasks and follow up on the upcoming threats.
B. Create one sprint to update and follow up on major release risks.
C. Hold one daily coordination meeting to determine the reason team members are not following up on risks.
D. Display the major risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID) log visually to highlight the risk status.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 34
A senior manager has asked an agile team to ensure that the data for the burndown charts are updated in real-time. However, the team is not comfortable with this approach as they think this is not productive. What should the scrum master do?

A. Deny the request and explain the team’s stance to the stakeholders.
B. Meet with requestors to agree and align on reporting requirements.
C. Ask the product owner to manage and share the metrics with appropriate stakeholders.
D. Work with the team to create the metrics requested by the stakeholders.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 35
The transition of a monthly news publication from paper to digital is planned to start in the next few weeks. There is a debate between the product owner and the development team about the initial features to be made available and the first five stages of implementation. What should the scrum master do to address this situation?

A. Request more clarification from the client relations team.
B. Tell the team to proceed with coding the items as currently defined.
C. Encourage open discussions to help the team reach agreement.
D. Ask the team to define the minimum marketable feature (MMF).

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 36
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. The product owner is responsible for the product and sprint backlog. The serum master follows up on progress. and the development team estimates and decomposes the backlog items into manageable pieces. This ensures each person has the roles they are best at and feel most comfortable with
B. Scrum is a collaboration frameworks that encourages the Scrum team-the product owner. Sorum master, and development team-to collaborate in a way that fosters fast value creation with respect for each learn member’s opinions and individual preferences.
C. The product owner is responsible for the product backlog and long-term plans. the scrum master is responsible for the Scrum process, and the development team is responsible for the sprint backlog and progress toward the sprint goal. This facilitates clear accountability and effective value creation.
D. “Inspect and adapt” are two of the three pillars ip Scrum. The roles in Scrum are divided among the product owner. scrum master: and development team in a way that makes it possible to inspect the efficiency and adapt the way responsibilities are shared to maximize efficiency if needed.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 37
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. All acceptance criteria are met, documentation is updated, functional testing is passed. business testing is passed, and code is peer reviewed.
B. Code is unit tested, all acceptance criteria are met, business testing is passed, functional testing is passed, code is merged, and documentation is updated.
C. Code is unit tested, all acceptance criteria are met. business testing passed, code is merged. code is peer reviewed, and documentation is updated.
D. Code is unit tested, code is peer reviewed, functional testing is passed, business testing is passed, and all acceptance criteria are met

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 38
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?

A. Pull communication
B. Interactive communication
C. Push communication
D. Interpersonal communication

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 39
An organization is undergoing an agile transformation to improve its market position. Management wants minimal overhead in connection with the agile initiative and wants the agile teams to control the work in process (WIP) and ensure that iterations do not result in waste. Which approach should be used in this scenario?

A. Feature-driven development (FDD)
B. Extreme Programming (XP)
C. Kanban
D. Scrum

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 40
A large project team of 20 people from different functional areas has just been formed and the project starts next week. The team will be working on a regulated and strictly controlled pharmaceutical product but does not have subject matter expertise.

Which two actions should the scrum master take as priorities? (Choose 2)

A. Schedule a meeting to engage stakeholders to prepare for kickoff.
B. Organize a sprint planning meeting to define actions.
C. Guide the team to work collaboratively and share learnings.
D. Organize a meeting to outline roles and responsibilities.
E. Schedule a meeting to agree to the goals for all future iterations.

Correct Answer: AD