Agile for Practitioners Assessment

Question No:-1

What do you think is the most effective way to ensure that code adheres to good coding standards?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)The code should pass all the unit test cases.
  (2)The code has to be reviewed by the technical expert of the team.
  (3)The code has to pass through static code analysis without any violations.
  (4)The code has to be self-reviewed against a documented checklist.

Question No:-2

How does an agile team obtain clarity on backlog items that may be picked up in subsequent iterations?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Team discusses and clarifies doubts on backlog items in the iteration planning meeting
  (2)Product owner creates detailed user stories (Definition of ready) in the backlog before the iteration starts
  (3)Team can interact with the product owner multiple times during an iteration without waiting for the next iteration planning
  (4)Team can have backlog refinement session with the product owner during every iteration for gaining clarity on the subsequent ones

Question No:-3

After a team member writes a piece or code, how can she ensure that It works, before checking it in?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Through peer reviews
  (2)Through functional testing.
  (3)Through unit testing.
  (4)Through regression testing.

Question No:-4

When you have more than one agile team working on a single product, which one of the following should be considered?

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  (1)All teams need to have similar agile maturity
  (2)Teams must participate together in all the agile events.
  (3)Teams to have regular sync-up meets to manage and reduce the dependencies

Question No:-5

When a product owner adds a new feature/idea in the backlog and brings it upfor discussion during refinement session, how should a team respond?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)As the Product Owner has come up with the new feature, team must agree to implement it
  (2)Team should analyze the feature/ Idea based on the domain and technical knowledge and suggest improvements / altematives if any
  (3)Team must analyze only the technical feasibility before accepting the idea

Question No:-6

In the middle of the iteration, how should a team handle requirement changes from the customer? Select only one answer.

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Team should never incorporate any changes during an ongoing iteration
  (2)Team can always take up the changes and extend iteration duration, if needed.
  (3)Team may accept the changes in exchange of existing work item(s), if the Facilitator/Lead conveys the criticality of the changes
  (4)The team may re-negotiate with the Product Owner provided the changes do not endanger the iteration goal

Question No:-7

In a team that follows agile, how would a team member know what others are working on? select two that apply.

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)The team should have a daily sync-up.
  (2)They may refer to the backlog maintained in a tool (Jira, Prime, and so on)
  (3)The Product Owner and the Facilitator are responsible for maintaining work transparency.
  (4)One team member must play the role of coordinator and should share daily status for each member.

Question No:-8

What is an efficient way to ensure that the code is working as per the acceptance criteria/business requirements?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Through automated functional test
  (2)Through automated regression test
  (3)Through automated unit tests.
  (4)Through automated smoke tests.

Question No:-9

In a team, if someone gets stuck with the selected tasks for the iteration, what is the immediate next step?
Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Without wasting time, the team member has to inform the Lead/Onsite coordinator and take up another task
  (2)The team member should reach out to other team members for help.
  (3)The team member should wait for the Team Retrospective to discuss the issue
  (4)Team member must inform the Product Owner and pick up another task

Question No:-10

What happens if the offshore team members are not able to participate in the iteration demo due to time zone/infrastructure issues?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)No issues. On site members ran have the iteration demo with the Product Owner/Stakeholders – it is a single team anyway
  (2)offshore members will miss the opportunity to interact with the Product Owner/Stakeholders and get the direct feedback about the Increment they created.
  (3)No major issue. Since offshore Lead and onsite members participate In One demo with the Product Owner/Stakeholders, they can cascade the feedback back to the offshore members
  (4)It is a loss as the offshore members will not be able to contribute to ideas related to way of working.

Question No:-11

How Does An Agile Team Maintain Requirements?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Every Team Member Maintains A Personal Backlog Items They Are Working On
  (2)Facilitator/Onsite Coordinator Maintains The Requirements And Communicates The Tasks To The Team Members
  (3)Team Maintains The Requirements In A Common Place, Such As A Wiki/Jira/Whiteboard And So On
  (4)All Of These

Question No:-12

Which among the following is a recommended way to run Retrospectives?
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  (1)Team is encouraged to identify and take up Process Improvement (PI) initiatives
  (2)Team takes a stock of current velocity and forecasts the velocity for the next iteration
  (3)Team discusses the feedback received during the iteration demo, creates a roadmap in theRetrospective
  (4)Team discusses how they can improve their way of working and picks up one or two improvement areas for next iteration.

Question No:-13

Given a piece of work to be executed in agile, how would you form a team?

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  (1)Team must have all the required skills. Team size will depend on scope and budget
  (2)An agile team must have the required skills, headcount being less than 12
  (3)An agile team must have experienced people, headcount not exceeding 9
  (4)Team must have mix of experienced and freshers with right skills. Team size will depend on scope and budget.

Question No:-14

If you are asked to bring in agile way of working into the way a meeting runs, which one among the listed options will you implement?

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  (1)Meetings must be scheduled with a lead time so that the participants can plan their work better
  (2)Meetings must be run strictly according to the agenda to reduce digressions
  (3)Meetings must be facilitated and time-boxed.
  (4)Facilitator/Team Lead must facilitate discussions but he/she may close

Question No:-15

What do you think is a good way for team members to remain updated on work status at any given time?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Having a updated physical / digital kanban board
  (2)Sharing status through email with all
  (3)Sharing individual updates with the lead and the lead sharing a consolidated summary with all
  (4)Sharing and referring status reports that are shared daily

Question No:-16

How should a team have quality built into its deliverables?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)By having a separate quality assurance team for testing the quality of deliverables
  (2)By having an agreed and evolving set of Definition of Done items, which are automated wherever possible
  (3)By having a robust Definition of Ready mechanism so that the selected work items/stories are granular enough
  (4)Teams must have a strong set of quality assurance professionals to create built-in quality

Question No:-17

For any meeting (other than the agile events) that team members have among them, what are the points to consider?

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  (1)Team must keep number of such meetings minimal
  (2)Team must not allow such meetings to go beyond an hour.
  (3)Team must keep duration of such meetings short and timebox based on the agenda
  (4)Team meetings (other than agile events) need not be timeboxed.

Question No:-18

In an agile team, who is responsible for tracking the tasks?

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  (1)All team members are responsible for tracking the tasks in a common place such as a Wiki / Jira/excel/physical board/wall/ any other system
  (2)The Facilitator assigns the tasks to memebers and tracks the same
  (3)One of the team memebrs own the responsibility of tracking the tasks
  (4)The customer/Product Owner tracks the tasks

Question No:-19

What would be a standard way for anyone outside an agile team (for example, Delivery Partner of the account, Head of the Enablement Function) to get the status of the work at any point in time?

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  (1)He/she can refer the physical/digital Kanban board, which is maintained by the team
  (2)All team members need to send email updates to him/her daily
  (3)He/she can have a status review meeting whenever required.
  (4)He/she can talk to each team member daily to understand the status

Question No:-20

When a Product Owner adds a new feature/idea in the backlog and brings it up for discussion during refinement session, how should a team respond?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)As the Product Owner has come up with the new feature, team must agree to implement it
  (2)Team should analyze the feature/ Idea based on the domain and technical knowledge and suggest improvements / altematives if any
  (3)Team must analyze only the technical feasibility before accepting the idea

Question No:-21

Survey Q, Non-scoring: What role are you playing in your team?

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  (1)Product Owner/Product Specialist
  (2)Team Facilitator/Scrum Master/Release Train Engineer/Coach
  (3)Developer/Engineer/DevOps Engineer/Automation Engineer/Rel lability Engineer
  (4)Manual Tester/L1 support/L2 support
  (5)Q Visual Designer/lnteractive Designer/UI Expert
  (6)Support function

Question No:-22

How does the team know what to work upon during the iteration?

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  (1)The team participates in the iteration planning during which the Lead/Onsite coordinator/Facilitator decides who would work on what.
  (2)Based on the discussions during iteration planning, team members agree on what each would work on
  (3)The Facilitator has regular interaction with the Product Owner. He/she guides the team on the tasks to be taken up
  (4)Iteration plans are shared by Product Owner beforehand, any spill over from last iteration is taken up by default

Question No:-23

What would be a suggested way to share and sustain knowledge with members in a team?

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  (1)Sharing of best practices and lessons learnt through emails
  (2)Sharing knowledge through knowledge sharing sessions
  (3)Sharing knowledge through informal conversations e.g. during lunch breaks
  (4)Sharing best practices, lessons learnt and other topics in a central place accessible to all

Question No:-24

When multiple team members are working on a related feature, how often should they integrate their work?

Choose the correct options from below list

  (1)Do the integration midway through the iteration
  (2)After they reach a logical end of creating the functionality
  (3)In a scheduled daily (or multiple times in a day) frequency
  (4)In a scheduled weekly (or multiple times in a week) frequency