ASM Online Practice Questions and Answers

Your company has discovered that it takes more than high quality, low cost, and differentiation to excel. It

also takes speed and flexibility. This calls for a different approach:

you are aware that the current process is not delivering acceptable results.

What would be the next activity after becoming aware?

A. Ability to succeed with Scrum

B. Desire to adopt Scrum as a way to address current problems

C. Promotion of Scrum through sharing experiences so that we remember and others can see our successes

D. Transfer of the implications of using Scrum throughout the company

A Scrum Team has agreed on the following definition of Potentially Shippable:

Potentially Shippable increments must be tested and must meet the Conditions of Satisfaction provided by

the Product Owner.

Why is it important to include `tested' in the definition of what is Potentially Shippable?

A. Increments are not `Done' without testing for bugs.

B. Increments that have passed these tests will be sent out.

C. Testing shows how well the increments are integrated.

D. The increments must be tested to be cohesive.

The Product Owner informs the team that the release will be date-driven.

What kind of buffer for uncertainty is most important to use in this type of release?

A. Budget buffer

B. Feature buffer

C. Padding buffer

D. Schedule buffer

Your team uses Story Points to estimate User stories.

Halfway through a Sprint, you are not seeing the progress you expected. The Team feels some Stories are

not estimated correctly, when compared to other Stories.

How should you address this?

A. Complete incomplete Stories

B. Increase or re-estimate Velocity

C. Re-estimate all small Stories

D. Switch to using Ideal days

Your company wants to be highly responsive to bug reports or feature requests from your customers. For your customers it is more important to have confidence in the date by which you promise to have a fix than an occasional quick fix.

What part of Scrum allows you to have this predictability?

A. Agile planning

B. The Velocity of the Team

C. Working in strict timeboxes

How can pair programming help with adopting Agile?

A. It helps recognizing who wrote which code

B. It is beneficial to knowledge transfer

C. It makes development faster and cheaper

What is the main reason to limit Scrum Teams to 9 team members?

A. Feeding more than 9 team members pizza is unpractical.

B. Smaller teams are generally more productive.

C. There is a maximum of 9 functions in development.

After the creation of the Release Plan, the Product Owner says:

Over the next four months with eights two-week Sprints we will complete exactly 240 Story Points of work.

The Scrum Master argues that the end date of the release can be positively or negatively impacted by

three factors. Completed work is the first factor.

What are the other two factors?

A. Changed requirements and estimation mode

B. Changed requirements and revised estimates

C. Fixed requirements and estimation mode

D. Fixed requirements and revised estimates

During a Sprint Planning, a team has picked three User Stories: Story 1 -5 Story Points Story 2 -8 Story Points

Story 3 -3 Story Points

At the end of the Sprint, the team has completed Story 1 and Story 3 and the Product Owner accepts

these.

The team has almost completed Story 2 but there are a few bugs identified in acceptance tests.

What is the Velocity of this team?

A. 8 points

B. 16 points

C. 12 points

D. Insufficient information given ?it depends on % completion of Story 2

Company ABC always works in the following way: The business chooses a set of requirements that it believes will add business value. It communicates the requirements to the IT organization. The IT organization responds back with a plan and estimates of cost and schedule. The business agrees to that plan. The IT organization executes the plan and delivers a product to the business.

What type of framework is company ABC following?

A. DevOps

B. DSDM

C. Lean

D. Waterfall