QUESTION 81
A graphic designer on an agile team does not attend most meetings. When asked the reason for not attending, the designer told the agile practitioner that the scrum master could represent them in meetings if needed. The team is frustrated and does not agree with this approach. Which conflict resolution method would work best in this scenario?

A. Collaborating
B. Forcing
C. Avoidance
D. Accommodation

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 82
A servant leader is leading a high-visibility project to deliver a new product. The servant leader has been able to build a cross-functional team and create a team space where the team is collocated. The servant leader started receiving frequent visits from a company director, who continually asks a specific team member questions about project progress. The conversations are distracting the team from their goal.
What should the servant leader do?

A. Coach the team member on how to report progress to directors and executives.
B. Ask the director and team member to leave the room so they can have a private conversation.
C. Ask the product owner to speak to the director because their visits are delaying the project.
D. Coach the company director on agile approaches and good practices.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 83
A manufacturing shop is using Kanban to plan, visualize workflow, and limit work in process (WIP). Which productivity key performance indicator (KPI) should the team lead be monitoring on a regular basis?

A. Lead time
B. Earned value (EV)
C. Team velocity
D. Burndown rate

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 84
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. Review the burn up chart to make predictions of how many iterations left are required to complete user stories left and make required adjustments to finish earlier.
B. Work with the product owner to launch a minimum viable product (MVP) and focus on completing only this portion of work by the new deadline.
C. Review the burn down chart to make predictions of how many iterations left are required to complete user stories left and make required adjustments to finish earlier.
D. Ensure the team focus on completing the current items in the backlog and do not accept any request for changes.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 85
A scrum master and development team are reviewing concepts related to Scrum team roles, because some team members are working with this framework for the first time. The scrum master explains the responsibilities of a servant leader.
Which responsibility should be the most important for this role?

A. Align the project deliverables with stakeholders.
B. Ensuring the highest-priority needs are met to maximize value.
C. Resolve team conflicts during the sprint review.
D. Follow up and discuss the planned versus executed metrics with the team.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 86
The last status for the ongoing agile project is not well received by the project sponsor. What should the scrum master do?

A. Verify that the sponsor received the previous status report.
B. Meet with the sponsor to understand and address their concerns.
C. Analyze the metrics after the backlog refinement.
D. Analyze the information radiators to see if there are any project issues.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 87
An agile team often fails to deliver its sprint goal. At a sprint retrospective, the more experienced team members complain that the less experienced team members are working too slowly. This creates tension in the team. What should the scrum master do to remove this tension?

A. Ask human resources for a training budget so the less experienced team members can increase their skill level and work more efficiently.
B. Remind the team that they are jointly responsible for their deliverables and should consider the different competency levels when agreeing to sprint goals.
C. Initiate a meeting with the team and ask them to decompose the product backlog items further so they become clearer and easier to deliver on time.
D. Have an individual meeting with the experienced team members and ask them to be more empathic when the less experienced members fail to deliver.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 88
The initial roadmap and release dates for an agile project were set based on data from similar projects and some expert opinions. Halfway through the project, however, the team’s estimates are different. Based on the team’s velocity, two more iterations were necessary to accomplish the initial scope. How should the agile lead explain the difference to the project sponsor?

A. Explain the some features and requirements made aspects of the project unique and are not comparable to previous experiences.
B. Explain that initial estimates help measure project feasibility but the real estimates depend on how much the team learns in each sprint.
C. Explain how many scope changes were requested by the product owner and how many hours the team dedicated to unplanned tasks.
D. Explain the list of materialized risks not considered at the beginning of the project led to extra work hours and costs.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 89
A product owner wants to create a release plan given the team is working in a chaotic environment. They want to set expectations about what is likely to be developed and in what timeframe for some of the stakeholders. What should the product owner include in the release plan to achieve this?

A. The sequence of user stories to be developed in each iteration, along with their start and end timelines, dependencies, and responsible team.
B. The key objectives and a brief description of each user story to be delivered in each iteration, release timelines, and release dependencies.
C. The developer who will work on a specific feature and key DevOps engineering activities to be performed during each iteration for the code integration.
D. The objective. iterations and underlying features, iteration timelines, other pre-release activities, dependencies, and responsible team.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 90
During backlog refinement, the team uses an online planning poker tool for estimation. The junior developers change their number of story points after they see the estimations provided by the senior developers. The junior developers state that the reason for this is that they do not have enough experience and do not want to be blamed for sizing it wrong. What should the scrum master do?

A. Propose to consider the estimations of only senior developers and have the junior developers learn from them.
B. Encourage the team to keep their estimation as this will help surface different constraints and assumptions that others might have missed.
C. Ask the developers to keep their estimation so that the team is transparent with their level of understanding of work.
D. Agree with the team to keep their estimation as the final number of story points will be the average of all team members.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 91
During an interview for an agile team lead for a global company, a candidate is asked. “How do you ensure your project is aligned with the stakeholders’ priorities?” How should the candidate respond?

A. Allow the stakeholders to decide on the priority and build the backlog.
B. Only the agile team lead and team need to decide how to prioritize the project deliverables.
C. The entire team should discuss and prioritize the backlog factoring in stakeholder input.
D. Engage the change management team to determine prioritization of the backlog.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 92
What do the principles of Extreme Programming (XP) include:

A. Rapid feedback, assume simplicity, incremental change, embrace change, and quality work
B. Communication, process flow, and authoritarian structure
C. Value people over processes, communication, respect disagreement, and strive for consensus
D. Communication, respect, and courage

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 93
A scrum master is on a team delivering a large infrastructure project. One of the developers recently joined the team from another technical team. The team has been preforming well but progress has slowed significantly. There has been no absence and everyone appears to be working as expected. How should the scrum master identify what is causing the slow down in progress?

A. Ask the product owner to check with customer if there are changes in the requirements.
B. Use metrics to identify and analyze any bottlenecks and improve the flow of work.
C. Speak to the developers at the daily collaboration meeting and ask if there is anything causing issues.
D. Divide the work into smaller increments to increase throughput and flow of the team.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 94
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?

A. Request the enterprise coach to help the team through the process.
B. Discuss with the team what will change and when and establish a process to address concerns.
C. Encourage knowledge sharing and transparency among the working team.
D. Set up lunch-and-learn sessions with the team to provide overviews about the new way of working.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 95
A scrum master is part of a team that has just agreed on the project scope and deliverables for a global, multilingual manufacturing company that has many staff members moving between locations. The team consists of 20 people and the budget is US$5 million. The kickoff meeting is scheduled for the following month. What should the scrum master do as a first step?

A. Identify the key stakeholders at the earliest opportunity.
B. Invite the key stakeholders to the kickoff meeting.
C. Invite the product owner to create a stakeholder map.
D. Organize a sprint planning meeting and include stakeholders.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 96
A team member starts discussing a project roadblock during a daily coordination meeting. The team discusses details of the impediment, which takes up most of the meeting time. What should the agile facilitator do?

A. Dismiss the rest of the team from the meeting to focus on the problem reported by the team member.
B. Ask the team member to wait to discuss until the next daily coordination meeting, the team needs to review the current status.
C. Stop the team politely and suggest scheduling another meeting to discuss this specific matter.
D. Inform the team that the meeting will be extended so there is time to hear what the team member is reporting.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 97
During a coaching session, an agile project manager discussed embracing communication to keep all stakeholders aligned. The agile project manager recently had a discussion with their team and decided to display a product roadmap. What is the agile project manager trying to show?

A. The number of completed user stories.
B. Product releases and what will be included.
C. Where the team is in the project life cycle.
D. The project’s total number of story points.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 98
If an individual is working on a project team in a phase delivering an increment, according to the definition of done (DoD), who was that defined by?

A. Stakeholders and project team
B. Product owner
C. Project sponsor and project team
D. Scrum master

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 99
A stakeholder complains about the amount of changes that are being introduced to a project. What should the product owner do?

A. Agree to limit scope changes going forward to control costs
B. Coach the stakeholder on agile principles
C. Escalate the complaint to the scrum master
D. Suggest implementing a more rigorous change governance

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 100
A project manager is leading a large agile project with multiple deliverables at each phase of completion. The project team has informed the project manager that the deliverables are completed per the team agreement. Which agile practice should the project manager advise their team use to ensure deliverables are completed and ready for release?

A. Definition of ready (DoR) and review
B. Requirements backlog and ready for release
C. Acceptance criteria and release
D. Definition of done (DoD) and demonstrate

Correct Answer: D