PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Page4

Question No:-31

When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what should an agile team defer work?

  1. High-risk and high-value
  2. High-risk and low-value
  3. Low-risk and low-value
  4. Low-risk and high value

Question No:-32

On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stories fit into the overall product.

How should this be addressed?

  1. Review the iteration goals and have the team each describe the work to create shared understanding
  2. Create a story map for the minimal viable product (MVP) functionality
  3. Capture this as a task in the retrospective and ensure there is more details provided at the next planning session
  4. Have the product owner explain the product vision and review the release plan with the team

Question No:-33

The customer needs assistance in determining the efficiency of a set of process activities within the solution.

What should the agile team do?

  1. Discuss the efficiency at the next iteration retrospective
  2. Review the process value stream to determine potential improvements
  3. Review the value the customer receives from the user story to determine backlog priority
  4. Discuss the performance of the solution at the next sprint review

Question No:-34

A new agile project manager accepts an assignment to manage a well-established team. Many team members have worked together on this product for several years. During a meeting, the project manager notices that team members offer little vocal interaction, yet all required tasks are completed on time.

What type of behaviour does this describe?

  1. Synchronous
  2. Collaborative
  3. Passive-aggressive
  4. Random

Question No:-35

Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release.

What should the team do?

  1. Conduct frequent demos and obtain feedback from users throughout the development of the next release
  2. Inform senior management that since the product was successfully released, the project is considered delivered and should be closed
  3. Request additional budget to implement a Scrum of Scrums approach to scale the teams and add capacity
  4. Implement a better definition of done to ensure that continuous integration processes are managed effectively

Question No:-36

A team using Kanban identifies that their cycle time has significant variation. After brainstorming, the team determines that the root cause is the stories' varying sizes and risks.

What should the team do?

  1. Reduce work in progress (WIP) limits to accommodate slack for riskier stories
  2. Create a triage step on the Kanban board to pre-identify risky stories
  3. Set a policy to break down stories larger than a specified complexity, then adjust the WIP
  4. Create a dedicated overflow swim lane on the Kanban board for stories that are too large

Question No:-37

Two similar stories, A and B, are estimated at 3 story points. Story C, 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?

  1. Assign story B more than 8 story points so to provide a better estimate
  2. Add points to story B's iteration to account for the error but keep story B at 3 points
  3. Assign more resources to story B to bring it in line with the estimate
  4. Re-estimate all stories including values for A, B and C

Question No:-38

The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status, and a demo of all the stories to the business.

What should the product owner have done differently?

  1. Demonstrated only the completed stories and seek stakeholder feedback
  2. Presented the budget situation and review the cost variance
  3. Reviewed the test results to gain confidence from the stakeholders
  4. Presented a demo of all the stories including the work in progress stories

Question No:-39

The risk profile of a project has increased beyond the upper threshold of tolerance. The product owner and project leader meet to discuss an approach for dealing with this.

What should the team do next?

  1. Add risk mitigation tasks to the backlog, then prioritize in current and upcoming sprints
  2. Add risk mitigation time to each requirement
  3. Apply the 80/20 rule, reserving 20 percent of each sprint's capacity for risk mitigation
  4. Hold all risks until they become issues, then add issue resolution tasks to the product backlog

Question No:-40

What should a team do when they complete all sprint goals earlier than expected?

  1. Begin working on an item in the backlog
  2. Ask the scrum master to select an item from the backlog on which to work
  3. Ask the product owner to select an item from the backlog on which to work
  4. Jointly decide with the scrum master on an item from the backlog on which to work