PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Page5

Question No:-41

A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint.

What should the scrum master do?

  1. Engage the team to determine the sprint velocity based on previous agile projects
  2. Average the sprint velocity based on input from team members
  3. Share the sprint velocity obtained from the sponsor with the team
  4. Run multiple sprints before determining the sprint velocity with the team

Question No:-42

A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to complete in the market place.

What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?

  1. Risk management
  2. Variance and trend
  3. Kano model
  4. Fishbone-diagram

Question No:-43

Toward the end of a project, the product owner discovers that the project has a high probability of failure due to a critical feature not functioning as expected.

What should the product owner do?

  1. Terminate the project to cut losses
  2. Review possible options and make an informed decision to cut losses based on delivered business value
  3. Bring in experts to increase the probability of success
  4. Continue the project, release the product without the failing feature, and fix the feature in a subsequent release

Question No:-44

An agile coach is assigned to help a project team that was recently co-located close to a very popular business. Many team members visit this business during working hours which affects team performance.

What should the agile coach do to mitigate this issue?

  1. Speak with the functional managers and come to an agreement that will resolve the issue
  2. Explain to functional managers that too much control will inversely impact team morale
  3. Meet with the team to discuss the issue and identify specific actions to reduce or eliminate the issue
  4. Inform the team there will be penalties to anyone who visits that business during working hours

Question No:-45

After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI.

What should the team do?

  1. Prioritize the backlog, and remove low-priority stories from the release plan to ensure a positive ROI
  2. Replace some team embers to reduce the release costs and minimize a negative ROI
  3. Perform a root-cause analysis to remove waste from the delivery process and increase the ROI
  4. Communicate the risk of a negative ROI to the stakeholders, and update the release plan

Question No:-46

During planning for the next iteration, an agile team identifies most of the story points that are expected to be delivered.

How should an agile practitioner work with the team to help identify the iteration's remaining scope?

  1. Convince the team to stop planning and keep the size small
  2. Identify the technically minimal and achievable tasks
  3. Refer to the remaining prioritized backlog items
  4. Select some of the smallest items from the backlog

Question No:-47

During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration.

How could the project leader have avoided this?

  1. Led by example by encouraging the team to engage in consensus-driven decision making
  2. Iterated the need for agile teams to make quick decisions, then followed up with that team member
  3. Empowered a team member to facilitate decision making, then made a final decision on behalf of the team
  4. Refrained from participating in the team's decision-making process, except to document and communicate results

Question No:-48

During sprint planning the product owner wants the team to prioritize and deliver a number of features which have the highest business value. Due to technical dependencies, the team does not agree with the prioritization.

What should the project leader do?

  1. Encourage the product owner and team to reprioritize the features and select ones which can be delivered without any dependencies
  2. Encourage the team to continue with the current plan, do what they can, and carry forward the work not done to the next iteration
  3. Ensure the team captures the technical dependencies as issues within the backlog optimization
  4. Ensure that the required subject matter experts (SMEs) are engaged by the product owner to help with backlog prioritization

Question No:-49

During a project review, the team discovers customer feedback that would add scope. The project leader is concerned that the team will be unable to incorporate this feedback and still meet the product launch date.

What should the project leader do?

  1. Finalize the feedback in the form of a change request
  2. Limit the scope of the feedback to only those changes that the team can feasibly accommodate
  3. Encourage all feedback, then work with the customer to prioritize work for future sprints
  4. Allow the team to decide what feedback to incorporate

Question No:-50

An agile team is preparing a release plan for a project.

What information will the team need to complete this plan?

  1. Amount of work needed to complete a single user story
  2. Amount of work that can be accomplished by each team member
  3. Amount of work that can be accomplished in an iteration
  4. Amount of work that can be accomplished by the entire team