Multiple Choice Question on Agile

1. Involving the team in Planning and Estimating and providing early feedback on Delivery Velocity is
BEST used to mitigate what kind of risk?
 Schedule flaws
 Requirements creep
 Employee turnover
 Poor productivity
2. When forming an Agile project team it is BEST to use:
 Generalized Specialists
 Top management officials
 Highly specialized developers
 All of the above
3. What is the unit of measurement that is used to measure the size of a user story for an Agile project?
 Function points
 Story points
 Work breakdown points
 Velocity points
4. How is Agile planning different from the traditional approach to planning?
 Agile planning is done only once
 Agile planning is non iterative
 Agile planning places emphasis on the plan
 Agile planning places emphasis on planning and is iterative
5. The 1OCCSS of testing Delivered or “done done” stones is known as:
 Unit Testing
 Integration Testing
 Exploratory Testing
 Release Testing
6. For one of your product, optimal cost of change (CoC. was estimated to be 100 story points but at the
end of the iteration actual C0C was found to be 200 story points. What is the Technical debt that your
project had encountered (if any)?
 None. “Velocity” the great equalizer will take care of Technical debt.
 None. Your developers will work extended hours to pay back the Technical debt in next iteration
so it can be ignored for now.
 100 Story points
 200 Story points
7. What does “Timeboxed” means in Agile terms?
 Fast
 Flexible
 Frequent
 Fixed
8. How does tools like FIT and Fitness compliment Agile?
 Automated Acceptance Tests
 Continuous Integration
 Unit Test
 Code coverage metrics
9. Which of the following is NOT one of the five core risk areas common to all projects?
 Specification Breakdown
 Scope Creep
 Strategic Alienation
 Intrinsic Schedule Flaw
10. This is one of the estimation technique. It involves splitting a story or feature into smaller, easier-to-
estimate pieces.
 Disaggregation
 Triangulation
 Planning Poker
 Velocity Driven estimation
11. Wireframes and prototypes are widely used as part of?
 High-level design
 Detailed design
 Empirical design
 None of the above
12. How are EVM metrics used in Agile?
 They are used to prioritize projects.
 They are used to monitor project performance
 They are used to analyse risk.
 They are used to measure coach’s performance.
13. If a new requirement emerges once an Agile project is running, it should be:
 Automatically included in the work of the project
 Automatically excluded and left until a later project
 Assessed for importance and, if important to the business, included in the project, displacing less
important requirements
 Put onto a list for consideration by the wider group of stakeholders after the project has been
completed
14. An Agile project …
 Should have no control over its progress
 Should be able to demonstrate control of its progress
 Is always out of control
 Is controlled by the velocity of the most junior team member
15. There was an Issue In your project and your manager kept asking “why?’ several times. Find what is
he doing?
 He Is executing collaboration
 He is executing “Five whys” a Lean tool
 He Is executing “get your attention” tool
 None of the above
16. A burn-down chart shows …
 The declining energy level of the team
 The progress of the work and features completed
 The number of hours worked after dark
 The rate of reduction of budget for a project
17. The leadership style of an Agile Leader is …
 Fascinating
 Fabulous
 Facilitative
 Fantastic
18. In the popular prioritization technique called “MoSCoW”, the “M” stands for:
 May have
 Major
 Must Have
 Mandatory
19. The Agile way is:
 To produce working product early and incrementally
 To produce working product after documentation has been signed off
 To produce simple prototypes early, but no finished product until the end of the project
 To produce products without any technical integrity
20. What is a Kan Ban?
 A list of activities that can be banned by the team
 The set of Won’t Haves for a project
 A visible chart of work for the team
 A ban on fizzy drinks within the team
21. The Agile leader …
 Should hand out tasks to the team each day
 Should expect the team to be involved in work-allocation
 Should give detailed work-plans to the team each day
 Should micro-manage the work of the team, if they are inexperienced
22. What is the risk that an Agile leader takes in empowering the team?
 The Agile leader might lose their job as the team is doing all the work
 If the team fails, the Agile leader will not get a performance bonus
 The Agile leader has less direct control over the team’s work, but still has the responsibility
 The Agile leader cannot share the glory of team success
23. During an Iteration (Sprint) the developers should be:
 Able to contact the customer to clarify aspects of the work
 Completely uninterrupted by the customer
 In twice-daily contact with the customer
 Able to work without needing to disturb the customer
24. When handling team dynamics, the Agile Leader should …
 A Work to build trust between the team members
 B. Encourage an environment of competition and personal advantage
 C. Stand for no nonsense and show who is the boss
 D. Expect team members to sort out all of their own problems, and not come to the Project Leader
for help with anything
25. Which one of the following is a key feature that you would expect to find in an Agile project?
 A large number of written progress reports
 No project documentation, as all communication is tacit information
 C Good face-to-face communication, supplemented by lean but sufficient documentation
 All documentation done in previous projects would be replicated for the Agile project.