QUESTION 61
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?

A. Advise the team on the correct course of action to avoid disagreements.
B. Resolve the disagreement for the team as a servant leader.
C. Encourage the team to continue trying to resolve their disagreements.
D. Remove the team members that are in disagreement to ensure unity in the team.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 62
An agile coach has been hired to improve the performance and quality of developed software. The coach performed an analysis of the software and discovered an excessive number of escaped defects, leading to external failures. How can the agile coach effectively address and correct defects in the software development process while maintaining predictability and keeping workloads within capacity?

A. Discipline the team members and institute status meetings with penalties for any future escaped defects.
B. Hire more generalized specialists because the current team members cannot keep up with the pace.
C. Work with the team to create explicit rules such as coding and quality standards and testing policies.
D. Apply work in process (WIP) limits so the developers are not pressured to release code that is problematic.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 63
A project team has been working on a new application. The application is technically challenging, because the team is using new technology unknown to the development team and business requirements are unclear. The product owner has been working closely with the stakeholders to ensure alignment with requirements and other issues. The agile lead is working with the team and product owner on the product backlog.
What is the role of the team?

A. Determine if the demand is or is not feasible.
B. Estimate and refine the work items.
C. Add features to the product backlog.

D. Assess user story quality and independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable (INVEST) criteria.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 64
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. Two months
B. Six months
C. Twelve months
D. Three months

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 65
A Scrum team is refining product backlog items for the next sprint in a project. The product owner does not agree with the changes. Can the product owner reject changes to a product backlog?

A. No, because only members of the Scrum team can reject or approve changes.
B. Yes, the product owner is part of a Scrum team and can reject any changes on the product backlog.
C. No, because this action will create disruption in the Scrum team.
D. Yes, because the product owner is the decision maker for product backlog changes.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 66
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?

A. Include the issue in the risk log.
B. Advise the team member to add the issue to the board.
C. Monitor the issue in a notation system.
D. Ask the team member to take full ownership of the issue.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 67
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. They should ask for more details about the impediments and then resolve them when the team has more time to investigate.
B. The team member that is complaining should talk individually with the scrum master to remove impediments.
C. The team member that is complaining should address the impediments in daily scrum, communicating them directly.
D. Team members should state that they need to prioritize their work instead of responding to daily emails about impediments.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 68
Scrum team is visualizing the blockers that arise when they work on their activities on the kanban board. The team decided to analyze why the blockers occur so they can take action to minimize their occurrence and reduce lead times. Which practices should the team use?

A. Blockers are a result of bottlenecks. The team should ask for more resources to prevent bottlenecks from arising and reduce the risk of long lead times.
B. The most important principle in Scrum is reducing work in process (WIP). The lower the number of items, the lower the risk of items getting blocked. Based on the team’s capacity, they should set the lowest WIP limits possible.
C. The team should discuss the issue with their scrum master because it is their responsibility to remove impediments, such as blockers, in cooperation with other in teams.
D. The team should look at all the blockers, determine the reason behind them, group them, and determine if there is a pattern. They should then determine what and how they can make relevant changes.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 69
A user experience design is team is conducting customer interviews to gain insight into market needs. What should the team include as part of the interview process?

A. Limit each question and answer to a few minutes to fully cover all survey topics.
B. Show the customer different interface options and ask which they prefer.
C. Ask open-ended questions about what is important to the customer.
D. Use a standard list of questions consistent with a scientific survey design.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 70
A project charter has been completed and is ready for approval. The project’s goal and approach have been clearly determined and a list a of generalized specialists has been set. How should the project manager introduce the team, communicate the importance of the team charter, and help develop a high-performing team?

A. Promote consensus-driven decision-making and a shared vision for team commitments and decisions.
B. Have team members introduce one another and create a hierarchy that reflects responsibilities, roles, and decision-making.
C. Analyze the list of all project participants and stakeholders, clarifying stakeholder roles and responsibilities.
D. Determine roles and responsibilities among team members and promote hierarchy, responsibility, and ownership among team members.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 71
A project manager is managing a large complex project with cross-functional leans 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?

A. Set up additional meetings to handle additional communications if necessary.
B. Empower each cross-functional team lead to manage their team’s issues and impediments.

C. Post the daily coordination meetings and discuss impediments raised by the teams.
D. Ask the project management office (PMO) to work on the communications management plan for the cross-functional teams.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 72
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?

A. Use Pareto analysis to find gaps, delays, and constraints in the current process and develop a plan to reduce or remove them.
B. Use value stream mapping to find gaps, delays, and constraints in the current process and develop a plan to reduce or remove them.
C. Use burndown charts to find gaps, delays, and constraints in the current process and develop a plan to reduce or remove them.
D. Use root cause analysis to find gaps, delays, and constraints in the current process and develop a plan to reduce or remove them.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 73
A agile team lead noticed their teams velocity was slowing down. They did not deliver a working software during the last iteration and there have been miscommunications between team members. What should the agile team lead do at the end of this iteration?

A. Emphasize business requirements and investigate the pair-programming approach.
B. Focus on performance in the retrospective, then present performance indices and validate with the team.
C. Start using feedback loops in every sprint to reevaluate project and team performance.
D. Run a spike at the end of the sprint to investigate the issue and reduce project risk.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 74
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?

A. Send the latest project report.
B. Share the information radiator.
C. Invite them to the next retrospective.
D. Email the latest release plan.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 75
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?

A. Daily standup meetings
B. Refinement meeting
C. Spike
D. Retrospective

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 76
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?

A. Work collaboration platform
B. Daily coordination meeting
C. Instant messaging tools
D. Web conferencing

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 77
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?

A. Set up test-driven development to focus on customer requirements and eliminate issues in the software as testing progresses.
B. Ask the customer to provide additional representatives to help test and evaluate the product for early and frequent feedback.
C. Apply an agile approach to write the specifications in an incremental way and develop the product once the final specifications are agreed upon.
D. Plan regular retrospectives with the development team to continuously improve processes to eliminate any potential issues with the product.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 78
A team retrospective was going well until the team lead introduced the “define the next experiment” topic; then the discussion became an argument. A new team member feels strongly that the approach used on their previous team would improve this team’s efficiency and effectiveness. The team lead is adamant that they remain with the current approach and the discussion dissolves into a circular argument.
What should the team lead do?

A. Interject and request this experiment be postponed for 2 months, so the new team member has time to observe the current approach.
B. Construct an Ishikawa diagram for each approach, and use the 5 Whys technique to determine the effectiveness of each approach.
C. Restate both stances, ask for details of both approaches, and create a chart of similarities and differences.
D. Remind the group that all input is welcome but dissension is not productive and suggest the group move on to another task more agreeable to everyone.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 79
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. Discuss performance with the team member on the project deliverables and provide constructive feedback.
B. Inform the team member that this project is complex and consider moving them to another project.

C. Extend support to the team member as this is the first project in which the team member underperformed.
D. Talk to the team member about project deliverables and how poor performance is unacceptable.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 80
An agile project lead for a company is leading a sales team who has committed to delivering new product functionality to the customer at the end of five sprints. The agile project lead performed initial planning with the team and with the team’s support has committed to the scope and deadline. Check in with the project in three stages to answer the associated questions.
How do two additional features and more story points added by the product owner impact the team’s progress and ability to complete work within the iteration, considering the burndown rate of the team has not changed? (Refer to the Case Study and End of Sprint 3 Exhibit)

A. The team did not complete the backlog items at the same velocity due to external issues.
B. The scope of the items in the backlog has been increased to reflect an increase in velocity.
C. The backlog has been increased and the velocity of the project may no longer be on track.
D. The team has committed to additional work added to the backlog and will increase velocity.

Correct Answer: C