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- Agile Manifesto has … Values and … Principles

 4, 10
 6, 12
 4, 12
 4, 4
 3, 5

2. - Munnabhi knows the four values of Agile Manifesto by heart. However, he was confused when
a customer spoke with him highlighting Agile characteristics of short software development cycles
or iterations. He could not recollect anything about short iterations in Agile Manifesto. What did
he miss to learn about?

 Agile Principles
 Agile Guidelines
 Agile Methods
 Agile Phases

3. - Which of the following statements BEST describe why Agile is winning?

1. Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other
approach
2. Agile increases the chances of delivering value to the market and quickly incorporate the
feedback from market usage
3. Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs
4. Products are expensive when compared with products by other approaches, but are the
top quality

4. - Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software development, are
correct?

 In traditional way of software development , once the requirements are based lined,
further changes should undergo heavy change control process
 Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further change should
be rejected
 In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are bade lined, further
changes can be easily accepted with light process
 Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing conditions to stay relevant in business

5. - Which on these is a benefit of Agile?

1. Reduced Risk
2. Faster time to market
3. Ability to respond to changing requirements
4. Improved collaboration between business and technical team
5. All of these

6. - A good Agile team should exhibit the following qualities …

  All in team must have the same level of technical expertise
 The team is self-organizing
 The team should only take up assigned by Product Owner
 The team must be hierarchical with a strict chain of command
 The team is cross-functional

7. - Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the Sprint length in Scrum

1. Sprint must be 30 days always

2. Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of Sprint
3. Sprints must be two weeks always
4. The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business need and
technical team’s ability; subject to a maximum of one month
5. There is no rule on Sprint duration

8. - Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective

1. Scrum Master and Development team

2. Product Owner and Development team
3. Scrum Master and Product Owner
4. Scrum Team

9. - What is the porpoise of Sprint Review?

1. Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to release
the work to the production
2. To assess the team’s productivity and possibly record the assessment score against the
performance goals
3. To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights from the
feedback to next Sprint
4. So that the Scrum Team can recognize for the next Sprint
5. Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next Spint

10. - Only the last day of the Sprint, a Scrum Team named AlmostDone is ready to show their work
but requires just 2 days to complete the testing what should the Scrum Master recommend?

1. Extend the Sprint by two days so that the team can complete the work
2. Close the sprint on time

11. - ………….. improves the flow of business idea through its development and release to users.

1. Good Requirements Management Tool

2. Waterfall method
3. DevOps practices
4. Beta release
5. Change Control Board (CCB)

12. - Design Thinking is another name for Agile Manifesto

 1. True
2. False

13. - A Scrum Tram works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After few Sprint, the team finds that they spend
more effort on unit testing, as the code base size has increased. What can be the BEST
recommended for this team?

1. Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing
2. Adopt practices like test automation from another frameworks like XP
3. Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks
4. Add two more temporary testers
5. From a separate Testing team

14. - What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?

1. It is used to measure utilization of the development team

2. It is used to measure defects introduced during Sprint goal
3. It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
4. It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the queries

15. - Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?

1. Test Driven Development

2. Extreme Reviews
3. Pair Programming
4. Continuous Integration
5. Refactoring

16. - Ron has just started as a Scrum Master for an Agile team. He has acquired knowledge by
reading multiple sources. After practicing Scrum for a while on the job, he is looking for a
certification to benchmark. What can be recommended for him?

1. Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)

2. SAFe Agilist (SA)
3. Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

17. - Charles is very knowledgeable on Scrum. He joined a Scrum Team where the Scrum Master is
Magneto. Contrary to his expectation of Scrum Master as a coach, he finds that Magneto acts like
a traditional manager. Magneto controls the team heavily by individually assigning tasks and
leading the Daily Scrum meetings to collect the percentage of task completion. What is
recommended for Charles?

1. Be prepared to face such anti patterns and work together with the team to continuously
improve and eliminate anti-patterns
2. Correct his understanding of Scrum and accept that Scrum Master is the Team’s manager
3. Protest about this at the earliest possible team meeting and let others know he is more
knowledgeable about Scrum

18. - Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of “0-4-2”?
  Agile Ready Partnership
 All get Agile Certified
 Agile Ready Workforce
 Top-to-bottom Enterprise Agile Company ourselves
 Agile Ready Workplace

19. - TCS Agile vision ‘100% Agile by 2020’ means

 TCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as 100% right partner/advisor for
Agile Transformations
 Every project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming
 100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 competency
 TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile Company
 There should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits

20. - Eric has been working for a customer who has been following Agile for quite some time now.
He is quite hands-on with Scrum and acquired PSM I certification already. The customer may soon
move to a large scale Agile. Which other certification may be beneficial for Eric so he can be
prepared to help the customer?

1. SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

2. Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
3. Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)

21. - Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning?

 Planning is a continuous activity done jointly by Scrum Master and Product Owner
 Detailed planning is done upfront and not revisited
 Whole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by continuous planning
throughout the project
 Only planning in Scrum is the Sprint Planning
 Daily Scrum is one of the planning events

22. - What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto?

 Processes and tools over individuals and interactions

 Working software over comprehensive documentation
 Responding to change over following a plan
 Contract negotiation over customer collaboration

23. - What do all Agile framework have in common?

 A prescribed, fixed iteration length

 Lightweight approach that allows the self-organized teams to be better to business
requirements
 Iterative and Incremental development
 A clear step-by-step process for software development
 A prescribed format for backlog items
24. - The Agile way is:

1. To produce working software of high business value and of the right quality, early and
incrementally
2. To produce working software only after requirements documentation has been signed off
by the Product Owner
3. To produce simple prototypes early, and release all only at the end of the project.
4. Each Developer to sit with business every day, code as the mutually discuss, and move to
production when the business seems satisfied

25. - The Product Owner in a Scrum project …

 Has no control over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items

 Has the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items
 Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items, but the
developers have the final say
 Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items, but Product
Owner has the final say
 Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business Analyst

26. - In Daily Scrum, team members share yesterday’s progress and the plan for next 24 hrs with
…………

1. Scrum Master
2. Product Owner
3. Fellow team members
4. Management representative

27. - The time box for a Daily Scrum is …

1. Two minutes per person

2. 15 minutes
3. 2 hrs
4. No time box
5. 30 minutes

28. - Scrum defines ……. Roles, …….. events and …….. artifacts

1. 3-5-3
2. 5-3-3
3. 3-3-5
4. 5-5-3

29. - What BEST describe a Scrum Team?

 Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment

 Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work
 Team members must be specialist
 Cross Functional
  Reports to Product Owner

30. - The Scrum team is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What
CANNOT be inferred from the board?

1. Number of items to be worked on by the team

2. Percentage completion
3. Tasks move from left to right
4. Limit work in progress

31. - Which one is a popular tool used in Agile software development

1. Rexx
2. Jenkins
3. MS PowerPoint
4. Tally

32. - What is Kanban board?

1. A list of activities banned by the team

2. The set of Can Have requirements
3. A visible chart depicting the work to be don, work in progress and work done
4. Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose

33. - ‘Agile for Beginners’ course is intended towards motivating you to learn more about Agile so
that you can become

1. Project Leader
2. Agile Practitioner
3. Project Manager
4. Certified Manager
5. None of the above

34. - Agile principles can be only used for software development

1. True
2. False

35. - Kris in an experienced Project Manager with a customer project where he commands the
teams and micro manages the team members at task level. How can he help the TCS Agile vision?

1. Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles

2. No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager
3. Wait till his current customer adopts Agile

36. - Juaraz is a TCS Delivery Partner of customer ABC, having an Agile Team in one location. He
plans to expand this Agile Team. He arrives at a plan to set up the expanded team in another
location. For an effective distributed agile between different locations, what is recommended?

1. Agile between distributed locations will not work. Drop the plan.
 2. Leverage the guidelines from the TCS Point of View on distributed agile (Location
Independent Agile)
3. Copy a working distributed agile model from another customer and simply reuse that model

37. - There are two Product Development Teams, Team ToyZon and Team Zon. Team ToyZon follows
traditional way and Team Zon follows Agile way of working. Which team has the higher chance to
provide early benefits to the customer?

1. Team ToyZon
2. Team Zon

38. - Why were the practitioners of ‘alternative software development methods’ not satisfied with
the traditional waterfall method?

 Waterfall is not a lightweight process

 The practitioners did not like the work in a formal system and hence did not like any
‘methodology’ at all
 Waterfall experience did not add value to their resume
 Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly towards changing
business and priorities

39. - Sprint itself is an event in Scrum

1. True
2. False

40. - Who manages the team’s work during a Sprint?

1. The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
2. The team manages the work by self-organization
3. The Product Owner manages the work
4. The Delivery Manager manages the work

41. - What is the MOST likely to happen if the Product Owner is not available during a Sprint?

1. The team self-organizes itself to create value

2. The Business Analyst helps the team until the Product Owner returns
3. The Sprint deliverables may not be desired value
4. The Scrum Master plays the role of Product Owner
5. Scrum Master terminates the Sprint and waits for the Product Owner to return

42. - Noor’s Scrum Team had a great Sprint Review of a new feature with their Product Owner.
Product Owner was happy with new feature, and wanted to release the feature to user. But, the
Scrum Team cannot do it themselves because production environment is owned by company’s IT
operations team. Scrum Team was directed to create a ticket with IT operations for production
release, and wait a week for an Ops engineer to manually work on the ticket. What is missing in this
environment?

1. Feedback
2. Flow
 3. Continuous Improvement

43. - Providing additional feature without clear understanding of the business need – What is the
category of waste?

1. Inventory
2. We do it all the time. It is not a waste
3. Over Production
4. Defects
5. Over Processing

44. - Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded software. The
team is adopting 2-week sprint. Lee notices that the project must produce an outcome that will be
highly adopted by the user to become successful. After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner
keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory statements about user needs. What can
be suggested for this environment?

1. Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring Agile later
2. More practices from Extreme Programming
3. Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off the requirements

45. - Jerald is a leaderof a TCS Customer Account. He learnt that the company’s aspiration on Agile is
to become 100% Agile by 2020. He gathered his Agile Experts within the account and asked them for
a plan to transition from current way of working to 100% Agile way of working as defined in the text
book. Jerald correctly understood TCS aspiration.

1. True
2. False