Which of the following is NOT an advantage of limiting work in progress?

The relationship between leadership and management in agile methods is:

The core values of XP include:

In the Agile Manifesto, what is valued more than processes and tools?

The acronym WIP stands for:

The three pillars of Scrum are:

On a typical agile team, who has the best insight into task execution?

Which of the following Agile Manifesto values deals most closely with WIP?

What in one of the three questions that are addresses in the daily scrum?

What are three of the seven lean core concepts?

The four primary roles of a servant leader include:

In Scrum, the definition of the done is created with the input of everyone except the:

In the lean approach, which of the following wouldn’t be considered an example of one of the seven forms of waste?

The XP core practices include:

Which of the following is one of the planned opportunities for inspection and adaptation in the Scrum method?

Which of the following is an Agile Manifesto value?

The agile triangle of constraints is said to be inverted from the traditional triangle because it allows:

Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles reflects the agile focus on team empowerment?

The Kanban pull system means that:

Which of the following isn’t a core aspect of the agile mindset?

Which of the following is not a form of frequent verification and validation?

Which set of tools is least likely to be used by an agile team?

A sponsor wants to evaluate a proposed three-year project against two proposed one-year projects.

The purpose of continuous integration is to:

Which of the following is NOT a recognized agile prioritization scheme?

Which of the following is true about agile contracts?

You are working on a software development team that follows a test-driven development process. The sequence of activities you would undertake is:

Which of the following is most likely to be an MVP?

The sponsor is trying to determine which project has the greatest business value – one that returns $4 million in three years or one that returns $5 million in four years. The interest rate is 5 percent for borrowing capital to develop the projects. The best approach to determine the highest-value project is:

You have been asked to outline the nasics of agile contracting for your steering committee. Which of the following statements best describes the recommended approach to contracting on agile projects?

MoSCoW and dot voting are forms of:

What is the primary benefit of involving business representatives in the prioritization of work?

Which of the following is not a valid agile KPI?

Project X has an IRR of 12 percent, and project Y has an IRR of 10 percent. Which project represents the better rate of return?

Which of the statements below best describes the agile concept of incremental delivery?

In software development, the process of frequently integrating new and changed code into the project code repository is known as:

Little’s Law demonstrates that:

How is risk related to value delivery?

The shorthand summary for the test-driven development sequence is:

What is an S-curve?

Which of the following statements best describes the role of an agile project manager?

Agile’s emphasis on two-way communication means that:

Which of the following statements about the quadrants of emotional intelligence is correct?

Which of the following is a brainstorming technique?

Agile knowledge sharing is designed to:

Which of the following pieces of information are we least likely to find in an agile charter?

Which of the circumstances outlined below would be a good fit for the use of personas?

When comparing communication media, which of the following is true?

Your project team is in turmoil, and you’re trying to diagnose the level of their conflict with another department. You notice that statements such as “Marketing has no clue again!” are becoming commonplace. What level of conflict would you say the team is experiencing?

High-visibility displays of project information are called:

Which of the following isn’t a form of agile workshop?

What isn’t part of emotional intelligence?

The concept of knowledge sharing on an agile project is best characterized as:

Wireframe models help agile teams:

The gulf of evaluation refers to what?

On an agile project, the definition of done is discussed frequently so that:

Agile modeling aims to:

Your team seems to unproductively debate even trivial decisions. To help them make collective decisions, you could try using:

Which of the circumstances outlined below would be a good fit for the use of wireframes?

Which of the following benefits isn’t part of the agile value proposition?

At what team formation and development phase is conflict likely to be highest?

Which of the following statements is true for using team velocity as progress metric?

Which of the following needs isn’t relevant to designing agile team spaces?

Self-organizing teams are best characterized by their ability to:

You have been assigned to lead a distributed agile team. To help communicate, the best opinion would be to:

The observation that an experienced driver can successfully navigate a winding mountain road while thinking about dinner is explained by which of the models we’ve discussed?

What variables does a typical burndown chart display on each axis?

What is the term for the undocumented information collectively shared by co-located teams?

Tuckman’s stages of team formation and development follow what sequence?

Agile team members are most effective at solving problems when they:

Which of the following is not a recommendation for one-on-one coaching?

Cokcburn’s Shu-Ha-Ri model tells us why:

High-performing agile teams feature which of the following sets of characteristics?

Making sure the team’s agile practices are working well and helping the team fulfill their agile roles is an example of:

Which of the following statements is false for distributed teams?

Another agile team leader in your organization comes to you for advice. She’s having trouble getting her team to take ownership of the project and get comfortable selecting the work to be done. She keeps finding herself making the decisions and directing the work. What do you advise her to do?

Which stage of team development calls for the Coaching style of leadership, which involves a high degree of both supportive and directing behavior from the leader?

Blanchard and Hersey’s situational leadership stages, in sequence, are:

The primary reason constructive disagreement is valued on high-performing agile teams is to:

Osmotic communication works best when:

Your sponsor has asked for clarification on when releases of your product will ship and what those releases will contain. Which agile deliverables would best address this need?

What is product roadmap?

Which of the following is a valid requirements hierarchy progressing from large to small?

What is velocity not used for?

The INVEST mnemonic reminds us that stories should be:

The most common user story format includes which of the following elements?

“Fast failure” means:

A short timeboxed period set aside to investigate and eliminate a risk is called a:

The three questions that are answered in daily stand-up meetings aim to:

Your team committed to delivering 10 story points this iteration, but it looks like you will only complete 8. You should:

When agile teams use the term “timeboxed”, what do they mean?

The project management office is auditing your agile project and asks to see your iteration plans. They notice that only the next couple of iterations have plans. As a result, they give the project a “red flag” for having incomplete plans. The most responsible thing to do is:

Which of the following statements correctly describes agile planning?

When conducting an iteration-planning using a Scrum-based approach, which of the following statements is not true?

You are leading a team with an average of 50 points per iteration. Another team of the same size in your organization is working on a project with similar complexity. The other team’s velocity is averaging 75 points per month. Your team should:

Estimates should be present as ranges to:

Your team is average 40 story points per two-week iteration. They have 200 points’ worth of functionality left in the user story backlog. How many weeks can we expect it will take until development is completed?

When using story points to estimate a project, which of the following statements is most accurate?

Affinity estimating allows a team to:

You are a full time Scrum Master on an agile team. A team member becomes ill partway through an iteration in which the team committed to deliver 25 story points. Which action is most appropriate?

Which of the following isn’t characteristic of the agile approach to problem solving?

We put risk mitigation stories in the backlog to:

Which scenario is an example of treating a change as coming from common causes of variation, when it actually comes from a special cause?

What are the primary criteria used for prioritizing the stories in the backlog?

As the team lead, you have been asked to explain to the business what the project team has accomplished during Iteration 0. Which of the following tools would you use for this presentation?

Which activity wouldn’t help us find issues earlier on the cost of change curve?

As the team’s agile coach, you measure small amounts of variance in task duration. What should you do?

What is not one of the success strategies identified by Cockburn?

The errors that are missed by quality assurance and quality control and make it into production are called:

What is the advantage of using risk severity instead of expected monetary value (EMV) to rank risks?

Trends are useful because they are what type of indicator?

What is one cause of technical debt?

Control limits can be described as:

On agile projects, the term “cycle time” usually refers to:

On a risk burndown graph, ideally we want to see:

What is the agile approach to problem solving?

As a team member, if you encounter a tricky problem during a development iteration, agile recommends that you:

Stories and features are prioritized in the risk-adjusted backlog based on their:

When a problem arises, what steps are needed?

What is the least likely reason why changes found later in the project are more costly to fix?

In the first part of a retrospective, a team has identified a number of problems. What sequence of steps should they follow to explore and solve those problems?

Your team spends 10 minutes waiting for people to turn up for the daily stand-up meeting, which then last 15 minutes. The stand-up meeting is then followed by another 5 minutes of the team discussing the hockey game last night, and yet another 5 minutes brainstorming issues to solve. Calculate the total cycle time of this process, assuming that the hockey discussion is not categorized as a value-added activity

When generating insights in a retrospective, we ask ”why” five times to:

Which of the following is a form of agile review?

What are some of the techniques a team can use to decide what to do about the issues they’ve identified in a retrospective?

In agile, the kaizen approach involves:

You have been asked to review an agile team’s recently enhanced methodology to assess its effectiveness. The desirable characteristics that you should be looking for include:

The characteristics of SMART goals are:

Continuous improvement is a core benefit of which agile practices?

When considering process tailoring, it is useful to keep in mind that the XP core practices are:

Which of the following is not one of the questions that we are continually asking in a product feedback loop?

The primary reason for doing a project pre-mortem is to:

You are analyzing a process and are on the lookout for the anti-patterns of poor methodologies. What characteristics should you be looking for?

On the chart used in the Timeline exercise for gathering data in a retrospective, a horizontal line can be added below the x-axis to represent:

Process tailoring is best undertaken on agile projects when:

Which of the following benefits would an agile team most likely gain from performing a self-assessment?

When undertaking process analysis, what are the success criteria that characterize a useful methodology?

When should agile teams collect lessons learned?

Your sponsor is asking about tailoring the company’s newly adopted agile methodology. Your advice should be:

Teams gain the most benefits from using an agile approach in:

While there is value in using processes and tools, the Agile Manifesto encourages us to value more:

In the Agile Manifesto, what is valued more than following a plan?

What are the three pillars of Scrum?

Which of the statements below correctly describe a ‘persona’?

The comprehensive checklist of necessary activities that ensure that only truly done features are delivered is called:

Which of the following statement best describes the role of a Product Owner:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Scrum Team

The Product backlog is: