Score: 1 / 1

The software development team has completed a small module of

the accounting software. They have released it to the customers.
The module has very little features but is useful to the customers.
This module represents:

Fully functional product

Minimum viable product

Small usable product

Should not have been released

Correct answer
Minimum viable product
Feedback
Agile promotes the use of a minimal viable product. It refers to a set of
functionalities that is complete to be useful but small enough not to be an
entire project.
Score: 1 / 1
The project team has decided to implement Kanban. What should
the team be most concerned about when using the Kanban
methodology?

Limit the work in progress

Try to keep it on a computer

Ensure everyone gets the updated

Ensure only authorized updates

Correct answer
Limit the work in progress
Feedback
When using Kanban, the project team should ensure that they limit the work
in progress on the Kanban board.
Score: 1 / 1
The customer has described the layout in detail to the project team.
The project team then does a mockup of the screen and shows the
customer. The customer then expresses their concern, that the
mockup looks nothing like how they described it. What does this
scenario describe?
Reluctance of the team to listen

Team disagreements with customer

Gulf of evaluation

Progressive elaboration
Correct answer
Gulf of evaluation
Feedback
The Gulf of evaluation occurs when, what one person described is often
different from how another interpreted it.
Which of the following statements about agile projects is false?

Agile projects welcome changes

Agile projects have a very strict change management process

Agile projects prefer collocation

Agile projects depend on lots of stakeholder engagement

Correct answer
Agile projects have a very strict change management process
Feedback
Agile projects welcome changes throughout the project. A very strict change
process would suppress changes on the project.
Score: 1 / 1
Who on an agile project is responsible for prioritizing the product
backlog?

Agile project manager

Team

Product owner

Senior Management
Correct answer
Product owner
Feedback
The product owner is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog. The
product owner represents the customers.
Score: 1 / 1
The team has completed the sprint planning meeting. What will be
the output of that meeting?

Product backlog

User stories

Usable product

Sprint backlog
Correct answer
Sprint backlog
Feedback
The sprint backlog is the output of the sprint planning meeting.
Score: 0 / 1
The agile project team is considered:

Dependent on the project manager

Self-Directing

Dependent on the customer

Large
Correct answer
Self-Directing
Feedback
The team is considered self-directing on an agile project.
Score: 0 / 1
The team is currently in a meeting discussing what went wrong and
right during the sprint. What is the name of this meeting?

Sprint Review

Daily stand up meeting

Sprint

Retrospective
Correct answer
Retrospective
Feedback
The retrospective is a meeting conducted at the end of the sprint to reflect
on what the team did correctly and what they did wrong and how to improve
the next sprint.
Score: 0 / 1
What do you call multiple sprints that result in a shippable product?

Scrum

Release

Multi-Sprint

Product
Correct answer
Release
Feedback
A release is a series of sprints (aka scrum) that results in a product the
customers can start using.
What is the difference between a traditional project scope and an
agile project scope?

Traditional and agile project scopes both follow a strict change management
process.

Only a traditional project scope follows a strict change management

process.

Only an agile project scope follows a strict change management process.

Traditional and agile project scopes both allow for adding features at any
point.
Correct answer
Only a traditional project scope follows a strict change management
process.
Feedback
Only a traditional project follows a strict change management process, while
agile projects welcome changes throughout the project.
Score: 1 / 1
What does a daily stand-up meeting cover?
Only what the team did yesterday

What the team did yesterday and if they face any obstacles

Only what obstacles they currently face

What they did yesterday, any obstacles they face and what they plan to do
today
Correct answer
What they did yesterday, any obstacles they face and what they plan to do
today
Feedback
A daily stand-up meeting answers 3 questions: what they did yesterday, any
obstacles they face, and what they plan to do today.
Score: 0 / 1
When is customer review work done on an agile project?

Sprint planning meeting

Sprint review meeting

Daily stand-up meeting

Sprint Retrospective
Correct answer
Sprint review meeting
Feedback
During a sprint review meeting, the customers will review the work
completed in the sprint and give the team their feedback.
Score: 0 / 1

Score: 0 / 1
Agile projects aim to deliver value:

As late as possible

As early as possible

As soon as the project starts

As soon as the stakeholders would accept the deliverable

Correct answer
As early as possible
Feedback
Agile projects aim to deliver value early and often through incremental
releases.
Score: 1 / 1
What is critical on an agile project for it to be successful?

Being a servant leader

Stakeholder satisfaction

Very thorough change control process

Having a well-defined project management plan

Correct answer
Stakeholder satisfaction
Feedback
On an agile project, the aim is to have as much stakeholder engagement as
possible which will lead to more satisfied stakeholders.
Score: 0 / 1
One of the values of managing an agile project is to reduce waste.
Which of the following choices is not considered waste?

Defects

Extra processes

Waiting

completed work
Correct answer
completed work
Feedback
Completed work is not considered waste, as it is work that will be given to
the stakeholders to be used. All other choices are considered waste.

Score: 1 / 1
Funding on agile projects differ from traditional projects because
agile projects are:

Funded incrementally
Funded at the end

Funded at the beginning

Funded by external stakeholders

Correct answer
Funded incrementally
Feedback
Since agile projects deliver the product in increments, it is funded in
increments. Traditional projects are generally funded at the beginning.
Score: 1 / 1
Which of the following is considered anti-value?

Risk

Completed work

Opportunities

Demand
Correct answer
Risk
Feedback
Risk is considered anti-value. Risk represents threats that has the potential
to reduce the value on a project, such as having features failing.
Score: 0 / 1
While trying to engage the stakeholders on a project to prioritize
the product backlog, the agile project manager has given the
stakeholders fake money and told them to place a dollar value on
the features based on their perception of value for that feature.
What technique is this?

100-Dollar method

Money voting

Money prioritization

Monopoly money
Correct answer
Monopoly money
Feedback
Monopoly money is a prioritization technique where everyone is given equal
monopoly money that have been distributed to the features based on value.
All other choices are made-up.
What prioritization technique will have stakeholders categorize the
features based on satisfiers and dissatisfiers?

Kano analysis

Dot Voting

Simple scheme

MoSCow
Correct answer
Kano analysis
Feedback
Kano analysis will help to understand the customer’s level of satisfaction.
They will classify the features based on their level of satisfaction such as the
exciter’s, satisfiers, dissatisfiers, and indifferent.
Score: 1 / 1
The software development team has completed a small module of
the accounting software. They have released it to the customers.
The module has very little features but is useful to the customers.
This module represents:

Fully functional product

Minimum viable product

Small usable product

Should not have been released

Correct answer
Minimum viable product
Feedback
Agile promotes the use of a minimal viable product. It refers to a set of
functionalities that is complete to be useful but small enough not to be an
entire project.
Score: 1 / 1
The project team has decided to implement Kanban. What should
the team be most concerned about when using the Kanban
methodology?
Limit the work in progress

Try to keep it on a computer

Ensure everyone gets the updated

Ensure only authorized updates

Correct answer
Limit the work in progress
Feedback
When using Kanban, the project team should ensure that they limit the work
in progress on the Kanban board.
Score: 1 / 1
core: 1 / 1
The customer has described the layout in detail to the project team.
The project team then does a mockup of the screen and shows the
customer. The customer then expresses their concern, that the
mockup looks nothing like how they described it. What does this
scenario describe?

Reluctance of the team to listen

Team disagreements with customer

Gulf of evaluation

Progressive elaboration
Correct answer
Gulf of evaluation
Feedback
The Gulf of evaluation occurs when, what one person described is often
different from how another interpreted it.
Retake
Score: 1 / 1
The agile project manager has just been assigned a new project.
What should the project manager do first when trying to engage the
stakeholders?

Understand your communication preferences

Understand what communication technologies are available

Identify the stakeholders

Have a stakeholder's meeting
Correct answer
Identify the stakeholders
Feedback
The first step in managing stakeholders is to identify them. It’s only then will
the project manager be able to meet with them and understand their
communication requirements.
Score: 0 / 1
The agile project manager is trying to teach project team members
about agile methods. What is a major concern with the project
manager have about team members and agile?

Resistant to agile methods

Communicating

Engagement

Use of high-tech low touch tools

Correct answer
Resistant to agile methods
Feedback
Concerns about agile often include the project team being resistant to agile
methods.
Score: 1 / 1
Stakeholder engagement is one of the key success to an agile
project. What can the agile project manager do to keep them
engaged throughout the project?

Short iteration and releases with the most valuable features

Long iterations and releases with little features

Long iterations and releases with the most valuable features

Short iterations and releases every six months

Correct answer
Short iteration and releases with the most valuable features
Feedback
Short iterations and releases with the most valuable features will keep
stakeholders consistently involved in the project by having them in the Sprint
review meeting and the release planning.
Score: 0 / 1

What can the agile project manager use in the agile charter as a
brief way to describe the goals of the project?

Project description

Iteration description

Deliverable description

Project tweet
Correct answer
Project tweet
Feedback
The project tweet will describe the project goal in 140 characters or less.
Score: 1 / 1
During a meeting with the agile project team the project manager is
concerned that communications between the team and the
customers are causing conflicts and disagreements. What
communication method to the project manager suggest?

More frequent phone conversations

More frequent face-to-face conversations

More frequent email conversations to keep a written track of the

conversation

More frequent paper conversation to keep the track of the written

conversation
Correct answer
More frequent face-to-face conversations
Feedback
In agile face-to-face conversation is known to be more effective and
engaging.
Score: 0 / 1
The team is conducting a brainstorming session in which their paths
in a token around and who has the token can speak. What
brainstorming method is this?

Quiet writing
Round Robin

Free-for-all

Token passing
Correct answer
Round Robin
Feedback
Round Robin brainstorming is done when you pass a token around to ensure
everyone will have a chance to speak

Score: 0 / 1
Being an agile project manager requires an individual to be able to
understand how others are feeling and being able to influence them.
What critical soft skill with the project manager need to have in
order to do this?

Facilitation

Active listening

Negotiation

Emotional intelligence
Correct answer
Emotional intelligence
Feedback
Emotional intelligence is the skill to identify, assess, and influence emotions
of ourselves and others around us.
Score: 0 / 1
The negotiation between the team members and the outside
consultants have broken down and the two sides cannot come to an
agreement. Which of the following could have led to this?

There were room for give-and-take on both sides

There was no room for give-and-take on both sides

Two team members were willing to give

They allowed everyone to investigate the options and trade-offs

Correct answer
There was no room for give-and-take on both sides
Feedback
Good negotiations will allow everyone to investigate the options and trade-
offs. It’s most effective when interactions between people are positive and
there are room for give-and-take.
Score: 0 / 1
Two team members have gotten into an argument that has led to a
physical altercation between them. What is the first step that must
be done immediately?

Separate them

Understand what led to this

Have them explain your points of views

Speak to other team members to understand what happened

Correct answer
Separate them
Feedback
When managing team members that have a conflict level of five: world war,
the best first step would be to separate them so there is no more physical
harm.
Score: 1 / 1
The agile manifesto states individuals and interactions over?

Processes and tools

Processes and methods

Documentation

Following a plan
Correct answer
Processes and tools
Feedback
The agile manifesto values individuals and interactions over processes and
tools.
Score: 0 / 1
According to the cost constructive model, the people factor is how
many more times costly than tools and processes?

10
11

12

3
Correct answer
11
Feedback
The cost constructive model has the people factor score of 33 and a tools
and processes score of three. It scores people 11 times more than tools and
processes.
Score: 0 / 1
When building an agile project team is important for the project
manager to ensure the agile team is?

Self-organizing

Staffed with team members with specialized skills

Computer savvy and able to use the latest in technology

Able to communicate through the use of technology

Correct answer
Self-organizing
Feedback
The characteristics of an agile team should be self-organizing and directing
while preferring the use of low-tech high touch tools. The agile team should
also be generalizing specialists that is able to share work with each other.
Score: 1 / 1
Agile project teams should have fewer than __________ members?

10

12

14
Correct answer
12
Feedback
The agile project teams should remain small and have fewer than 12
members.
Score: 1 / 1
What should the agile project manager implement to ensure that
team members are encouraged to experiment with new processes
and methods?

A safe place for experiments

A strict change control process for experiments

A team review for experiments

There should be no experiments when a project is executed

Correct answer
A safe place for experiments
Feedback
A safe place for experiments will allow project team to try new methods and
encourage them to learn new techniques and processes.
Score: 0 / 1
Score: 0 / 1
What does the Ha mean in the Shu-Ha-Ri Model of Skill Mastery?

Obey the rules

Move away from the rules

Create your own rules

Don’t follow the rules

Correct answer
Move away from the rules
Feedback
The Ha in Shu-Ha-Ri Model of Skill Mastery means to be moving away from
the rules.
Score: 0 / 1
During what level of the Tuchman’s letter should the agile project
manager be directing the team?

Forming

Storming
Norming

Performing
Correct answer
Forming
Feedback
During the foreman stage the project manager should be directing the team
on what should be done on the project.
Score: 1 / 1
The agile project manager has noticed a lack of communication
among the team members due to the geographical boundaries that
separates the team members. What would be the best approach for
the project manager to take in order to resolve this?

Set up a co-location

Ask team members to restrict the use of telephones

Ask team members to use more virtual meetings

Required the use of Kanban

Correct answer
Set up a co-location
Feedback
One of the best methods to ensure effective communication with team
members is to set up a co-location. Although co-locations can be difficult
with geographical boundaries that could be set up virtually.
Score: 0 / 1
Two team members were having a conversation about how to fix a
particular function. One team member has overheard this
conversation and is able to fix their own function without asking for
help. What does this illustrate?

Tacit knowledge

Osmotic communication

Common communication

Low-tech communication
Correct answer
Osmotic communication
Feedback
Osmotic communication occurs when information flows among team
members during everyday conversations.
Score: 0 / 1
One of the key stakeholders on the agile project has asked to be
shown what work has been completed on the project. What agile
tool would best display this to the key stakeholder?

Burndown chart

Velocity chart

Burnup chart

Work chart
Correct answer
Burnup chart
Feedback
Burnup chart will visually display work that has been completed on the
project.