Model Question Paper–1

Questions

Question 1. In traditional methods, the project success is measured in terms of meeting time, budget and specifications. So, as a project manager following the traditional methods, a project meeting these criteria may be considered a success, but may still be perceived as failure because:

  1. The users of the system are not comfortable with the product
  2. The end product does not satisfy customer needs
  3. The business process does not get much value add from the project
  4. Project management success and business success are two different things and should not be mixed

Question 2. While executing agile projects there are lot of constraints which limits the options of applying agile practices effectively. Which of the following constraints won’t stop you in applying agile practices effectively?

  1. Key team members working on multiple projects simultaneously
  2. Distributed teams and junior team members
  3. Commitments of Management and customer to Agile
  4. Customer is not available to the project team

Question 3. While writing a program finding today’s date, finding next working day, finding next day, finding day of the week, finding month of the date and all closely related concepts are written together. This design concept is called as:

  1. Cohesive
  2. Decoupling
  3. DRY
  4. Coding as design

Question 4. The characteristics of a good pilot project.

  1. A project you can complete within 2 weeks
  2. A project you can complete in 2 to 8 weeks
  3. A project you can complete in 10 weeks
  4. A project you can complete in 3 months

Question 5. During the retrospective meeting of a Scrum team, few members highlighted the issue they faced with the Product Owner they have. Which of the following is not a Valid problem with the Product owner?

  1. He was not ensuring that the team has a common vision for the project
  2. He was not available during the planning poker session to clarify questions
  3. He was not able to make decisions that provide a better ROI from the project
  4. He was not providing enough funds for the project

Question 6. Commitment to delivery and prioritization in Agile projects are usually part of:

  1. Daily stand-up meetings
  2. Frequent demos
  3. Iterative planning
  4. Retrospective meeting

Question 7. This concept gives the whole team more opportunities to notice what is working well and what is not

  1. Root cause analysis
  2. Informative work space
  3. Pair programming
  4. Retrospective

Question 8. Thumbing vote is a quick way to check for consensus. Holding thumb downside indicates:

  1. I agree
  2. I disagree
  3. I disagree and want to explain why
  4. I don’t want to take part in vote

Question 9. In Agile projects the requirement are captured in the form of User Stories. Which of the following is correct about user stories?

  1. The contractual agreement between customers and developers is written in form of User Stories
  2. The functional specifications or features which should be part of the product for providing value to the customer are captured as User Stories
  3. User stories document what the users want to see in the system in detail
  4. They are promises to converse rather than detailed specifications, have value to users, are independent, are testable and are appropriately sized

Question 10. There are less important stories that team can set aside by deleting half written codes, if they need more time and it is called as

  1. Silver stories
  2. Gold stories
  3. Zero stories
  4. Set aside stories

Question 11. Last year 2 Organizations of the same nature started implementing Agile. But now, after a year, the first organization has reaped lot of benefit from Agile whereas the second one failed miserably. All of the following can be possible explanation of this situation, EXCEPT:

  1. Customers and management may not have the buy-in. Agile is initiated at the developer level.
  2. The organization understood the concept of Agile and rolled out to all stakeholders in planned manner
  3. The management wanted to drive Agile, but the teams are not ready for the mind set change
  4. There was an expectation mismatch as Agile was initiated to fix the complex issues quickly

Question 12. Which agile concepts enables programmers to improve code quality without changing its behavior

  1. Customer Test
  2. TDD
  3. Refactoring
  4. Spike Solutions

Question 13. How many operations should complete in a given period of time in a story is called as:

  1. Customer Test
  2. Responsiveness
  3. Latency
  4. Throughput

Question 14. All of the following are the activities done in iteration 0, except

  1. Establishing development environments
  2. Finalizing contracts with third parties
  3. Assembling the project team
  4. Coding

Question 15. An essential user case is closer to

  1. User stories
  2. Future card
  3. Functional specification
  4. Functional point

Question 16. If you don’t have a diverse team, your Agile process can lead to

  1. Team think
  2. Agile think
  3. Diverse think
  4. Group think

Question 17. There are three legs that hold up every implementation of empirical process control, they are:

  1. Visibility, inspection and adaptation
  2. Visibility, value and quality
  3. Value, quality and risk
  4. Visiblity, quality and risk

Question 18. While you are calculating the ideal days, following are the assumptions except:

  1. The story being estimated in the only thing you will work on
  2. Everything you need will be on hand when you start
  3. There will be no interruptions
  4. Bug fixing is also part of this

Question 19. Pejorative meaning of excess time which is arbitrarily added to an estimate is called:

  1. Padding
  2. Buffer
  3. Extra time
  4. Over time

Question 20. Tasks such as establishing development environments, finalizing contracts with third parties and assembling the project are usually part of

  1. Iteration 0
  2. Iteration 1
  3. Scrum planning
  4. Release planning

Question 21. Agile coaching interventions have strongest effect in

  1. In the beginning of the project only
  2. At the end of the project only
  3. In the middle of the project
  4. Both in the beginning and end of the project

Question 22. Following are the principles of foundation for successfully moving to Agile, except:

  1. Embrace change
  2. Use human-centric method
  3. Achieve technical excellence
  4. Freeze the requirement

Question 23. A secondary definition of Agile could be

  1. Continuous risk management
  2. Continuous cost management
  3. Continuous schedule management
  4. Continuous quality management

Question 24. QWAN in Agile project stands for

  1. Quality with a name
  2. Quality without a name
  3. Query with a non-functional item
  4. Quality with a non-functional item

Question 25. Following are the weakness of XP, except

  1. Scalability
  2. Dependency on testing
  3. Need for team maturity
  4. Quality via frequent testing

Question 26. Agile practice which calls for all stakeholders to be involved with the planning process is called as:

  1. Collaborative planning
  2. Progressive planning
  3. Team planning
  4. Agile planning

Question 27. Which curve illustrates how change initiatives cause organizational go through period of resistance

  1. The vergina satir change curve
  2. Delphi Change Curve
  3. Burn-down chart curve
  4. Cumulative chart curve

Question 28. All of the following ensures that you address the customer’s needs in an Agile project, except

  1. Clearly define the customer(s)
  2. Develop a relationship with the customer
  3. Be an advocate for the customer at all times
  4. Strictly follow the plan laid in the beginning

Question 29. In Agile methods, who should create the user stories?

  1. The customer because the business language used in the user stories help in prioritizing those for inclusion into iterations
  2. The developers as the technical details and the codes and test cases needs to be included in it
  3. The entire team, which includes the Product Owner and the Development team, because they understand the project needs best
  4. The product manager who sponsors the project because the acceptance test criteria comes from this person

Question 30. All of the following are examples of medium priority projects, except:

  1. Adding the ability to book hotels on an existing travel site
  2. Delivering a maintenance release onto an existing platform
  3. Adding customizable stock quotes to a portal page
  4. A project to ensure regulatory compliance

Question 31. An average feasibility analysis begins with

  1. 1 or 2 hours meeting
  2. 4 hours meeting
  3. 1 day meeting
  4. 1 or 2 days meeting

Question 32. A reason for team members cynicism relate to the following, except

  1. Misunderstanding of Agile principles
  2. A belief that the current process works fine
  3. Attitude problem
  4. Lack of detail in the Agile process

Question 33. All of the following are benefits of feature card, except:

  1. Customer focus
  2. Identifying risks early
  3. Common understanding
  4. Identifying quality early

Question 34. The first objective of kick-off meeting in Agile project is

  1. To bring stakeholders and sponsors up to speed
  2. To bring support groups up to speed
  3. To understand the scope of the project
  4. To understand the timeline of the project

Question 35. The second objective of kick-off meeting in Agile project is

  1. To bring stakeholders and sponsors upto speed
  2. To bring support groups up to speed
  3. To understand the scope of the project
  4. To understand the timeline of the project

Question 36. By measuring __________ you can find out whether people are intimidated by their managers.

  1. Manager buy-in
  2. Developer buy-in
  3. Power distance
  4. Management style

Question 37. When we create feature cards we record acceptance test too.

  1. True
  2. False

Question 38. Choose the right one

  1. Effective project leaders focus on people, product and process—in that order
  2. Effective project leaders focus on product, people and process—in that order
  3. Effective project leaders focus on product, process and people—in that order
  4. There is no order and all are of same focus

Question 39. All of the following are the tools related with agile project support, except:

  1. Time tracking
  2. Status tracking
  3. Wiki tools
  4. Defect tracking

Question 40. Everybody pays attention to the process and practices of development and this is called as

  1. Velocity
  2. Mindfulness
  3. TOC
  4. Iterations

Question 41. A Scrum master who takes teams beyond getting Agile practices up and running into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance is a(an):

  1. Agile coach
  2. Product owner
  3. Project manager
  4. Project sponsor

Question 42. A higher than expected velocity means the total number of iteration will

  1. Increase
  2. Reduce
  3. Constant
  4. Increase and reduce

Question 43. Who dives into the Scrum depths and brings tools and techniques from many disciplines to help the team:

  1. Agile coach
  2. Product owner
  3. Project manager
  4. Scrum master

Question 44. Someone who can help the management at all levels of the organization to understand the benefits of working Agile

  1. Agile coach
  2. Product owner
  3. Project manager
  4. Project team

Question 45. What is the effect of having large visible burn-down chart on a wall?

  1. It distracts the onlookers and is a risk
  2. It clearly communicates progress to the team and other stakeholders
  3. It is dangerous for the team as the management gets full visibility into the project
  4. It is useless, as it does not provide any information to the team

Question 46. All of the following are the forms taken by the Agile coach, except:

  1. Facilitator
  2. Mentor
  3. Problem solver
  4. Delivery manager

Question 47. Choose the common characteristics prevailing across coach

  1. They risk being wrong
  2. They don’t believe disequilibrium is essential
  3. They don’t cultivate curiosity
  4. They care about products more than people

Question 48. Which style comes when the team has fully internalized the practices, values and principles of Agile and radiates good health:

  1. Teaching
  2. Coaching
  3. Advising
  4. Directing

Question 49. If the team have the basic practices working well and producing new insights that let them improve each sprint, they are in which stage?

  1. Shu
  2. Ha
  3. Ri
  4. All three stages

Question 50. Horizontal software is developed for

  1. Many organizations
  2. Many industries
  3. Across wide range of industries
  4. Across wide range of organizations

Question 51. The most important thing you may learn from the coding standard is

  1. How to disagree constructively
  2. How to agree constructively
  3. Quick coding
  4. Fast tracking

Question 52. Coaching product owners falls into three broad categories, except

  1. Running their own business
  2. Being a product owner for the team
  3. Getting good at the product owner’s role
  4. Being a Scrum master for the team

Question 53. In an Agile project, the coach at the start focuses the team on task orientation rather than on relationship orientation.

  1. True
  2. False

Question 54. Following are the activities which helps in team building in Agile projects, except

  1. Journey lines
  2. Market of skills
  3. Constellation
  4. Individual appraisals

Question 55. Language is open and fact based is at what level of conflict:

  1. Level 1
  2. Level 5
  3. Level 3
  4. Level 4

Question 56. The contract which allows for built in checkpoints to provide the customer visibility and go/no-go decision along the way is referred as

  1. Visibility contract
  2. Staged contract
  3. Decision base contract
  4. Checkpoint contract

Question 57. The term FIT in acceptance testing stands for

  1. Famous integration testing
  2. Framework for integration testing
  3. Framework for iteration testing
  4. Framework for intelligent testing

Question 58. The length of the iteration is determined by

  1. Control needs of the customer
  2. Limitation of the team
  3. Project manager
  4. Team lead

Question 59. Which of the following is not an assumption for Agile EVM

  1. Measure progress at the release level, not the iteration or product level
  2. Measure progress at the iteration level if actual iteration velocity and actual iteration cost is known
  3. Functionality is done at the end of each iteration
  4. Functionality is does at the end of each release

Question 60. Quality is not

  1. Planned
  2. Designed
  3. Built in
  4. Inspected in

Question 61. The iteration review meeting is usually a low ceremony with minimal preparation.

  1. True
  2. False

Question 62. Enumeration of complexity in software development is limited to the three most significant dimensions, they are

  1. Requirements, designing and testing
  2. People, process and procedure
  3. Quality, risks and procurement
  4. Requirements, technology and people

Question 63. Agile project deliver reliable results by

  1. Engaging customers in frequent interactions and shared ownership.
  2. Recognizing that individuals are the ultimate source of value and creating an environment where they can make a difference.
  3. Making continuous flow of value our focus.
  4. Group accountability for results and shared responsibility for team effectiveness.

Question 64. As per the report from the standish group, what percentage of the features in a product are never used?

  1. 10%
  2. 45%
  3. 25%
  4. 60%

Question 65. An Agile manager never does the following:

  1. Helps the development team to track the true status
  2. Acts as a buffer for outside interruptions and limits team distractions
  3. Helps the team to break their work into small chunks that can be delivered quickly
  4. Documents the requirements and tests a feature

Question 66. Agile projects have the ability to always be on time and within budget if _________ is flexible

  1. Team
  2. Scope
  3. Risk
  4. Product

Question 67. Which of the following ceremony in Agile project by default is open to every stakeholders of the project?

  1. Demo
  2. Retrospective
  3. Planning
  4. Review

Question 68. Stories are ________ centric, describing the results in terms of __________.

  1. Programmer, business results
  2. Project manager, business results
  3. Customer, business results
  4. Developer, $ value

Question 69. Risk evade is similar to

  1. Risk mitigation
  2. Risk acceptance
  3. Risk avoid
  4. Risk contain

Question 70. Who is responsible for figuring out how to turn product backlog into an increment of functionality within an iteration?

  1. Project manager
  2. The team
  3. The Scrum master
  4. Product owner

Question 71. There is a metric imposed by concentrating knowledge in just a few people’s heads; it is called as

  1. Bus number
  2. Knowledge number
  3. Knowledge hub
  4. Truck number

Question 72. In Agile projects, who can change the sprint backlog?

  1. Project manager
  2. The team
  3. The Scrum master
  4. Product owner

Question 73. Which of the following is not a valid reason for updating the product backlog?

  1. Findings from the previous sprints
  2. Change in market condition which added/deleted some features (stories)
  3. Technical constraints or findings
  4. Features that development team want to add for helping the users

Question 74. In Agile projects the plan is progressively elaborated - the strategic planning focuses on the long term goals and the tactical planning focuses on the short term tasks for achieving the goal gradually. Which one of the following planning type combinations implement this strategic and tactical planning approach in a project?

  1. Iteration planning, agile planning
  2. Release planning, iteration planning
  3. Detailed planning, test first planning
  4. Release planning, portfolio planning

Question 75. Fractional assignment is common in what kind of structure?

  1. Projectized structure
  2. Functional structure
  3. Matrix managed structure
  4. Flat structure

Question 76. XP emphasizes on

  1. Face-to-face collaboration
  2. E-mail collaboration
  3. Document collaboration
  4. Wiki collaboration

Question 77. Customer tests help ensures

  1. Programmers’ intent matches customers’ expectations
  2. Testers’ intent matches programmers’ expectations
  3. Testers’ intent matches customers’ expectations
  4. Customers’ intent matches programmers’ expectations

Question 78. An organization which expects employees to work extensive overtime week after week, is called as

  1. Live march organization
  2. Death march organization
  3. Live week organization
  4. Death week organization

Question 79. Who is the worst possible choice to act as a proxy user?

  1. Sales persons
  2. Domain experts
  3. Development managers
  4. Customers

Question 80. In XP project, onsite customers’ most important activity is

  1. Release planning
  2. Sprint planning
  3. Customer test
  4. Customer integration

Question 81. Following are the characteristics of better user stories, except:

  1. Writing closed stories
  2. Writing open stories
  3. Written in active voice
  4. Slice the cake principle

Question 82. Which of the following is essential for the team to thrive?

  1. Trust
  2. Sitting together
  3. Ubiquitous language
  4. Coding standards

Question 83. Which of the following keeps the team efforts aligned with stakeholder goals?

  1. Trust
  2. Sitting together
  3. Iteration demos
  4. Coding standards

Question 84. In Agile projects, the vision might be vague at first, perhaps stated in market terms rather than system terms.

  1. True
  2. False

Question 85. In XP project who is the backup when the product manager travels

  1. Scrum master
  2. Domain expert
  3. Team lead
  4. Onsite customer

Question 86. Which of the following ensures that the completed work is ready to release?

  1. Done done
  2. Version control
  3. Continuous integration
  4. Collective code ownership

Question 87. If a Gantt report includes only ________, and not ________, it is merely a graphical representation of the product backlog.

  1. Requirements, tasks
  2. Tasks, requirements
  3. Tasks, duration
  4. Duration, tasks

Question 88. In XP projet, we need to keep the build under ___________ minutes

  1. 5 minutes
  2. 1 minutes
  3. 10 minutes
  4. 20 minutes

Question 89. What is second adopter system?

  1. First team is often successful; second wave XP projects struggle
  2. First team often struggles; second wave XP project passes
  3. Every second projects succeeds
  4. Every second projects struggles to execute XP

Question 90. A properly conducted _________ can be a very rapid way to write a great number of stories

  1. Questionnaire
  2. Interview
  3. Observation
  4. Story-writing workshop

Question 91. Little pockets of code which only few people know is called as

  1. Knowledge silos
  2. Pocket silos
  3. People silos
  4. Code silos

Question 92. Inferring high level design from a brief review of the code is:

  1. Green belt design
  2. White belt design
  3. Black belt design
  4. Red belt design

Question 93. Which of the following will reduce the impact of the risk?

  1. Mitigation activities
  2. Contingency activities
  3. Transition indicators
  4. Risk exposure

Question 94. Collectively, the developers have a sequence in which they would like to implement the stories, as well the customer. When there is a disagreement to the sequence, who wins?

  1. The developers
  2. Third party
  3. Customers
  4. Nobody wins

Question 95. When a story is too large it is sometimes referred to as a(n)

  1. Epic
  2. Features
  3. Big story
  4. User story

Question 96. A Scrum team is half-way through their third 2-week iteration. Due to changes in the marketing strategy, the clients have started requesting many changes throughout the day. Because of this the team is losing focus of their current deliverable and the productivity in the current sprint is going down. How you will manage the situation so that the team can be shielded from all these disturbances but you still can produce valuable output for the customer.

  1. Push all the requests that come in for discussion until the next iteration planning
  2. Cancel the current iteration half-way and work on a new iteration incorporating the requested changes
  3. Accept those changes that are high priority and work it in along with your current iteration, volatile requirement is normal in Agile
  4. Change the iteration length from 2 weeks to a 2-day iteration for incorporating changes

Question 97. Past studies indicates that less than

___________ percentage of time is spent on coding

  1. 90%
  2. 80%
  3. 50%
  4. 20%

Question 98. Which of the following is not true about user stories?

  1. User stories emphasize written rather than verbal communication.
  2. User stories are comprehensible by both you and the developers.
  3. User stories are the right size for planning.
  4. User stories work for iterative development.

Question 99. The accumulation of problems caused by poor quality practices in Agile is called as

  1. Problem debt
  2. Technical debt
  3. Quality debt
  4. Accumulation debt

Question 100. In XP project, brief experiment to learn about an area of the application is called as

  1. Spike
  2. Technical debt
  3. Technical stories
  4. Experiment

Question 101. Agile business objective which is to support business growth and profitability

  1. Continuous innovation
  2. Product adaptability
  3. People and process adaptability
  4. Reliable results

Question 102. The danger in using a _________ as a user proxy is that it does not lead to a comprehensive view of the product to be built.

  1. Sales persons
  2. Domain experts
  3. Development managers
  4. Customers

Question 103. During a 4-week iteration, an Agile team delivered 6 stories estimated at 5 story point each and 4 stories estimated at 3 story point each. What is the velocity of this team?

  1. 42
  2. 10.5
  3. 30
  4. 1 2

Question 104. Scope creep does not exist in Agile projects because

  1. There is no change in scope
  2. Scope is expected to change
  3. Tracking of the scope is not happening
  4. Scope is not planned in Agile projects

Question 105. Agile development focuses on all of the following except

  1. Speed
  2. Mobility
  3. Quality
  4. Project plan

Question 106. An Agile project manager is planning the seating arrangement for the team and he is making sure that all the team members are visible to each other. Why is he planning this way?

  1. The project manager wants authority
  2. He has space crunch
  3. The team will be able to chat easily
  4. This helps in easy communication flow

Question 107. There is no upfront design phase, Agile processes are characterized by frequent short bursts of design.

  1. True
  2. False

Question 108. User stories originated as part of

  1. Scrum
  2. DSDM
  3. Extreme programming
  4. Kanban

Question 109. Agile project unleash creativity and innovation by

  1. Engaging customers in frequent interactions and shared ownership.
  2. Recognizing that individuals are the ultimate source of value and creating an environment where they can make a difference.
  3. Making continuous flow of value our focus.
  4. Group accountability for results and shared responsibility for team effectiveness.

Question 110. You are starting an Agile project and the team has come to you for a clarification regarding the design process to be followed. As an Agile practitioner which of the following statement regarding Agile design process you will recommend for the team:

  1. Iterative, emergent design and frequent feedback
  2. Robust design at the beginning and little change afterwards
  3. Direct coding as designing will waste much time
  4. Ask the customer for design and start from coding

Question 111. Idea that the right set of simple rules, applied within a group of highly interactive individuals, generates complex behaviours such as innovation and creativity is called:

  1. Simple intelligence
  2. Idea intelligence
  3. Swarm intelligence
  4. Interactive intelligence

Question 112. Daily stand-ups, daily interactions with the team and stakeholder coordination are ways of:

  1. Getting work done by team
  2. Enhancing collaboration and coordination
  3. Project tracking
  4. Team building

Question 113. A persona is an imaginary representation of a user role. We attach as much details with the persona as possible for the purpose:

  1. Understand the users of the product better
  2. Make the users feel that their needs are captured
  3. Write the acceptance test cases better
  4. Help the project team to build rapport with the customer

Question 114. Shared space has two requirements

  1. Value and visualization
  2. Visualization and commonality
  3. Quality and value
  4. Value and commonality

Question 115. An Agile project team wants to display the current impediments to all the stakeholders in an easy to understand way. What is the best place to put this information?

  1. On an information radiator
  2. In an e-mail
  3. Tell the project manager
  4. Call a team meeting

Question 116. Acronym DEEP is referred in preparing for spring planning stage stands for:

  1. Detailed appropriately, estimated, emergent and prioritized
  2. Detailed, estimated, emergent and planned
  3. Disagreement, expectation, evolution and prioritized
  4. Developed, elaborated, explorated and productized

Question 117. Following are the examples of management reports except:

  1. Status e-mail
  2. Productivity report
  3. Throughput report
  4. Time usage

Question 118. All of the following are Mayer’s five things for Agile projects, except:

  1. Empiricism
  2. Rhythm
  3. Collaboration
  4. Daily planning

Question 119. Adaptive project management (APM) is

  1. Execution-biased model
  2. Planning-biased model
  3. Control-biased model
  4. Monitoring-biased model

Question 120. Which of the following is not true about collaboration?

  1. Decision-making is the heart and soul of collaboration.
  2. Collaboration means working together to jointly build a feature, create a design or write a product’s documentation.
  3. How a team makes those decisions determines whether the team is a truly collaborative one.
  4. In collaboration, some teams are driven to quick decisions by a senior technical individual, while others are driven by those with the loudest voice.

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