PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Page6

Question No:-51

Why should a project team reduce the work in progress?

  1. It indicates poor project quality
  2. It represents team member's utilization
  3. It represents unrealized value
  4. It shows that the project is behind schedule

Question No:-52

During a review session, a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work. However, the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete.

What should be done with this story?

  1. Mark it as incomplete and prioritize it for the next sprint
  2. Mark it as complete, since the product owner has the final say
  3. Discard it and create a new story for the remaining scope of work
  4. Mark it as complete, since the team completed the scope of work

Question No:-53

Senior management is frustrated at the lack of a detailed implementation plan that shows exactly when the project will end and when all requirements will be met.

The team has been using a rolling wave planning approach so far on the project.

How should the agile practitioner explain to senior management the benefits of this approach?

  1. It ensures a consistent level of detail is available in the project schedule
  2. It prevents a wasteful build-up of requirements inventory that may never be processes
  3. It provides a concrete definition of product scope, cost and duration
  4. It allows the team to lock down the stories to be included in a release

Question No:-54

A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules.

How should the team lead address this?

  1. Inform management, and suggest that additional resources may be required
  2. Discuss the issue with the team in the daily stand up meetings
  3. Meet personally with the stressed team member to brainstorm ways to better manage their time
  4. Begin tracking the stressed team member's tasks in a separate backlog for additional analysis and reporting

Question No:-55

A product owner for two highly visible projects spends a great deal of time meeting with and reporting to senior stakeholders. The product owner is overwhelmed because both project teams request clarification on the requirements and the overall priorities.

What should the agile project manager do?

  1. Provide both project teams with the highest priority needs
  2. Request the project team's questions in writing prior to the next meeting
  3. Facilitate a meeting with each team and the product owner to finds a solution
  4. Provide both teams with each project's documentation

Question No:-56

A seven-member agile team's composition varies considerably in age, gender, culture, personality type, and professional background.

When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?

  1. Networking
  2. Social awareness
  3. Communication
  4. Leadership

Question No:-57

Due to its complexity, a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story.

What advice should the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?

  1. Hand the story over to a more experienced team member
  2. Break the story up and focus on the most valuable parts
  3. Discuss the story at the retrospective
  4. Pick another story from the product backlog

Question No:-58

Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.

What should the agile practitioner do?

  1. Jointly meet with the team and product owner to discuss options and determine the end date
  2. Announce that the team has exceeded the predicted velocity, and that the end date will be earlier than planned
  3. Ask the product owner to include additional features in the product backlog, then re-plan subsequent iterations
  4. Ask the team to decrease velocity to meet contractual obligations and document this decision

Question No:-59

A team's technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks.

What should the scrum master do?

  1. Tell the technical lead to do the testing
  2. Facilitate an open and focused team discussion that reinforces team agreements
  3. Ask the team manager to advise the technical lead that all tasks are important
  4. Encourage the team to take ownership of the delivery

Question No:-60

Midway through a project, the product owner learns from the sponsor that a major component, which is already 20 percent complete, is unimportant to users. The component was part of the approved scope and a key selling point for the project.

What should the product owner do next?

  1. Obtain approval from the change control board to discontinue the component
  2. Ask the team to continue developing the component
  3. Ask the team to discontinue developing the component
  4. Request the sponsor's formal approval to discontinue the component