Model Question Paper–3

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Questions

Question 1. This agile concept helps the team to understand what to build.

1. Trust
2. Sitting together
3. Real customer involvement
4. Ubiquitous language

Question 2. All of the following are the examples of progress reports except:

1. Burn-up chart
2. Status e-mail
3. Weekly demo
4. Time usage

Question 3. This helps to keep the team’s efforts aligned with stakeholder’s goals

1. Trust
2. Coding standards
3. Iteration demos
4. Reporting

Question 4. A brief statement designed to impart the intent of the project within 2 minutes:

1. Intent statement
2. Elevator statement
3. Scope statement
4. Agile statement

Question 5. This allows you to release the software without a separate testing phase

1. Continuous integration
2. Done done
3. Collective code ownership
4. No bugs

Question 6. This reveals where the project is going and why it is going there.

1. Vision
2. Release planning
3. Risk management
4. Slack

Question 7. Product breakdown structure is identified in

1. Envision phase
2. Speculate phase
3. Explore phase
4. Adapt phase

Question 8. Following are the ways to improve velocity except:

1. Improve customer involvement
2. Offload programmer duties
3. Provide needed resources
4. Increase iteration length

Question 9. A normal sized team will typically work

1. 10 to 15 stories every iteration
2. 1 to 4 stories every iteration
3. There is no such standard
4. 4 to 10 stories every iteration

Question 10. All of the following are examples of special stories, except:

1. Spike stories
2. Documentation stories
3. Non-functional stories
4. Functional stories

Question 11. Which of the following enables testers to identify gaps in the team’s thought process?

1. Customer test
2. TDD
3. Refactoring
4. Exploratory testing

Question 12. Following are the conflict response mode in Agile projects:

1. Competing, collaborating, compromising, accommodating and avoiding
2. Competing, coordinating, collaborating, avoiding and addictive
3. Attentive, avoiding, accommodating, addictive, advising
4. Competing, compromising, committing, complaining and avoiding

Question 13. The manifesto for Agile software development authored by the founding members of:

1. Agile alliance
2. Scrum alliance
3. Agile program leadership network
4. Agile project leadership network

Question 14. One particularly effective way of finding surprises, gaps and holes is:

1. Customer test
2. Exploratory testing
3. Unit testing
4. Blackbox testing

Question 15. The last phase of XP project is called:

1. Exploration phase
2. Planning phase
3. Iterations to Release phase
4. Productionizing phase

Question 16. In Agile projects the release plan is time boxed which means that the release date is defined in advance. What is NOT defined in this type of release plan?

1. Scope
2. Schedule
3. Cost
4. Quality

Question 17. Which of the following helps to understand your experiences?

1. Charters
2. Observation
3. Experience
4. Mindfulness

Question 18. All of the following are the strengths of XP, except:

1. Need for team maturity
2. Customer focused
3. High visibility
4. Quality via frequent testing

Question 19. All of the following are the characteristics of a good pilot project, except:

1. A project that hits all phases
2. Medium priority project
3. No external customer
4. External customer

Question 20. All of the following are the guidelines used to prioritize features except:

1. Features most important to the user
2. Features most important to the team
3. Features that provide value to the customer
4. Features that are high value and high risks

Question 21. The meaning of: You own up to your impact whether harm was intended and whether you think the other person should feel hurt or not:

1. Emotional intelligence
2. Emotional wake
3. Emotional quotient
4. Empiricism

Question 22. Which of the following will give the best estimating results?

1. Dis-aggregation
2. Analogy
3. Expert opinion
4. Combination of the above

Question 23. The extent to which people try to satisfy their own concerns is called

1. Assertiveness
2. Cooperativeness
3. Satisfaction
4. Celebration

Question 24. All of the following examples projects of business critical, except:

1. A project to ensure a revenue stream
2. A project with expiring funds
3. A project that supports meeting regulatory compliance
4. A project tied to a fixed bid

Question 25. Reconfirming commitment and removing impediments in Agile projects are usually part of:

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

Question 26. Software development is definitely:

1. Defined process
2. Empirical process
3. Predictable process
4. Non-empirical process

Question 27. This allows the team to reliably deliver results every iteration

1. Vision
2. Release planning
3. Risk management
4. Slack

Question 28. You have joined an Agile project where you found that few portions of the codes are familiar to only one to two members of the team and thus there is no collective ownership of the code that exists. Which XP practice you will employ to help other team members get familiar with those codes and bring in collective ownership feeling?

1. Coding Standards
2. Continuous Integration
3. Sustainable Pace
4. Pair Programming

Question 29. The more successful XP is, the more these worries grow

1. Organizational culture
2. Organizational structure
3. Organizational process
4. Organizational antibodies

Question 30. In SDLC, if we don’t know what to do next, we just look at the life cycle documentation to determine the next step. This approach is most beneficial and suitable when we have

1. Experienced people
2. Inexperienced people
3. For mixed experienced people
4. For project managers

Question 31. The characteristic that make Agile easier to adopt

1. Lack of Agile knowledge
2. Fixed bid contract work
3. Distributed development
4. Customer availability

Question 32. 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 33. Following are the career stage of an employee in an Agile project, except:

1. New employees
2. Individual contributors
3. Agile coach
4. Project manager

Question 34. A project team is creating detailed project progress charts weekly and displaying the same in the project location. Also, they are keeping those charts in their shared servers so that the onshore team and the customer can access those reports any time. This is an example of:

1. Information Technology
2. Team-space
3. Information Radiator
4. Secure documentation

Question 35. Which of the following is not true about feature cards and user stories?

1. Feature cards share the same goals as user stories
2. User stories and feature cards collect conversations with customers
3. Feature card has additional fields for dependencies
4. User stories has additional fields for dependencies

Question 36. Many Scrum team takes ________ days to complete in between iteration work

1. 1 or 2 days
2. 1 or 2 hours
3. 1 or 2 weeks
4. 1 or 2 months

Question 37. Which factor of technology is relatively new, but there are pockets of expertise to turn to—although the cost and availability of these experts might be an issue?

1. Well-known
2. Familiar
3. Leading edge
4. Bleeding edge

Question 38. It provides a way to analyse and improve the entire iterative cycle process

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

Question 39. How much delay is acceptable between starting an operation and receiving feedback about that operation?

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

Question 40. Release map is usually for the duration

1. 12 months
2. 2 years
3. 3 months
4. 2 weeks

Question 41. The declaration of interdependence was developed with _________ in mind.

1. Project managers
2. Delivery managers
3. Software developers
4. Project leaders

Question 42. ___________ act as a bridge between the wants and needs of the business and what the system does for the business users.

1. Use cases
2. Story cases
3. Capability cases
4. Requirement cases

Question 43. When dealing with non-customer facing stories. The first controversy is:

1. When to make priority decisions?
2. How to make priority decisions?
3. Who makes these priority decisions?
4. Why are we making priority decisions?

Question 44. Common characteristics of a Agile coach is called:

1. Native wiring
2. Distant wiring
3. Wireframe
4. Relative wiring

Question 45. Who creates customer tests in XP projects?

1. Customers
2. Customers and testers
3. Programmers
4. Testers

Question 46. All projects have constraints. The number one constraint is frequently

1. Scope
2. Quality
3. Cost
4. Time

Question 47. All of the following are limitations of feature cards, except:

1. Project complexity
2. Compliance and traceability
3. Identifying risks early
4. Customer is not available

Question 48. BDUF stands for

1. Broad design upfront
2. Big design upfront
3. Bid design upfront
4. Bring design upfront

Question 49. Succeed through a rapid progression of failures and drive by hindsight not foresight is called

1. Empiricism
2. Self-organization
3. Prioritization
4. Collaboration

Question 50. Due to what reason it is a good practice to add a unique story numbers to each user stories?

1. To create some work for the team
2. Product owner has instructed to do so
3. For easy estimation
4. It ensures traceability so that nothing gets missed out during implementation

Question 51. Which of the following allows programmers to be confident that their code does what they think it should?

1. Customer test
2. TDD
3. Refactoring
4. Spike solutions

Question 52. Which type of features can be ignored?

1. High risk high value
2. Low risk high value
3. High risk low value
4. Low risk low value

Question 53. Product owners need short business term goals to act as stepping stone and this is called as:

1. Microdefinitions
2. Macrodefinitions
3. Small definition
4. Short-cut definition

Question 54. If you have a large user population, then a great way to get information about how to prioritize the stories is

1. Questionnaires
2. Interview
3. Observation
4. Workshop

Question 55. Useful framework for coaching other coach to deepen their skills consists of three parts, namely,

1. Exploratory, apprentice, coach
2. Planning, execution, controlling
3. Card, conversation, condition
4. Exploratory, spike, mentoring

Question 56. After analyzing the product backlog and the project time line, if it is found that there is not enough time to develop all the requested features, then what would be the BEST action?

1. Focus on delivering only the highest priority User Stories
2. Put more members in the team to deliver all features
3. Reduce the scope of some tasks and negotiate with the client
4. Increase team velocity by introducing new best practices

Question 57. High performance team live in a world of constant constructive agreement.

1. True
2. False

Question 58. While creating the release plan for a project the team is exploring the basic minimum features of the product so that people can start using it rather than waiting for something else. What is this set of features called?

1. Minimum marketable feature
2. Product backlog
3. Sprint backlog
4. Basic feature list

Question 59. You manage a customer support organization and your current focus is to effectively manage your support activities. The support requests arrive frequently (hourly), but you want to make sure that you don’t end up having a large and unmanageable queue of pending service requests at any point of time. In this situation, what approach is the best to choose?

1. Scrum
2. Six Sigma
3. Kanban
4. Lean

Question 60. Agile coach plays___________role in the retrospective, especially for a new team

1. Mentor
2. Facilitator
3. Problem solver
4. Negotiator

Question 61. Following are the roles of the manager in an Agile project, except:

1. Value maximizer
2. Team champion
3. Boundary keeper
4. Business value driver

Question 62. While analyzing a project for Lean implementation the team found some regression works which is run for every module in parallel by different testing teams, but can be combined to be run for all the modules together with one single team. Which Lean principle is this team employing during this analysis?

1. Deliver Fast
2. Eliminate Waste
3. Build Quality In
4. Create Knowledge

Question 63. A process of splitting the repository into distance alternate histories is known as:

1. Reverting
2. Rollbacking
3. Branching
4. Merging

Question 64. A common timeframe for a release is

1. Monthly basis
2. Quarterly basis
3. Yearly basis
4. Daily basis

Question 65. Which one of the following is basically about reducing uncertainty through the systematic, proactive and early gathering of information?

1. Planning
2. Monitoring
3. Scanning
4. Sensing

Question 66. Which of the following is not an output of release planning phase?

1. Release plan
2. Risks
3. Release backlog
4. Product vision

Question 67. ___________ is empowered to make whatever decisions necessary to complete its work.

1. The team
2. The project manager
3. The team lead
4. The project lead

Question 68. In an Agile project who can be thought of as an change control board

1. The product owner
2. The team
3. The sponsor
4. The project manager

Question 69. Who owns the product roadmap?

1. The project manager
2. The team
3. The customer
4. The Scrum master

Question 70. Iteration retrospective follows the iteration review.

1. True
2. False

Question 71. Agile project managers conducting individual performance appraisal is considered healthy and adds value.

1. True
2. False

Question 72. The best form of Agile software project status is

1. Weekly status report
2. Demo of working product
3. Cost management report
4. Daily status report

Question 73. Who is responsible for representing the interests of everyone with a stake in the project and its resulting system?

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

Question 74. In Agile project, others who might be interested in the project, but they aren’t on the hook are called as:

1. Pig
2. Chicken
3. Hen
4. Goat

Question 75. The duration of sprint retrospective meeting is:

1. Three hours
2. Eight hours
3. Four hours
4. One hour

Question 76. Whose job is to protect the team from impediments during the sprint?

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

Question 77. Scrum defines___________reports for the product owner and Scrum master to create at the end of each sprint.

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

Question 78. When more than one Scrum team works simultaneously on a project, it is referred to as:

1. Multiple project
2. Multiple Scrum
3. Scaled project
4. Non-scaled project

Question 79. XP ensures___________number of people review every piece of code.

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

Question 80. XP produces working software

1. Every day
2. Every week
3. Every month
4. Every hour

Question 81. Which phase resulted in a well-articulated business or product vision?

1. The envision phase
2. The speculate phase
3. The explore phase
4. The adaptive phase

Question 82. In Agile projects the task level breakup of the user stories is done by the team. What is one of the main benefits of this being done as a team rather than individually?

1. It keeps the team busy
2. This sometimes brings out the perspectives that a single developer or tester would have missed during the actual software development.
3. This ensures that the product owner knows each team member
4. This should have been done by individuals

Question 83. XP does not require experts; it does require a habit of mindfulness.

1. True
2. False

Question 84. A mistake proof process is achievable and desirable.

1. True
2. False

Question 85. Which provides a template for seamlessly joining the teams work together?

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

Question 86. A buffer iteration is same as hardening iteration.

1. True
2. False

Question 87. Reliance on overtime indicates a systemic problem.

1. True
2. False

Question 88. One powerful way to design your application to speak the language of the domain is to create a:

1. Process
2. Document
3. Domain model
4. Domain expertise

Question 89. Who can dominate in stand-up meetings?

1. The customer
2. The team
3. The product owner
4. It is a meeting of equals

Question 90. Creating a coding standard is an exercise in building

1. Trust
2. Confidence
3. Consensus
4. Assurance

Question 91. Team inspects and adapts in which process?

1. Iteration retrospective
2. Iteration planning
3. Iteration demo
4. Iteration review

Question 92. Which of the following is true about Agile coach?

1. Coach will move towards coordinating individual contributions
2. Coach will move towards driving
3. Coach will move towards letting the team find their own way
4. Coach will move towards fixing problems

Question 93. Which of the following is a way to find unexpected bugs?

1. Unit testing
2. System testing
3. Exploratory testing
4. Integration testing

Question 94. A process of combining multiple changes and resolving any conflicts in version control is known as:

1. Reverting
2. Rollbacking
3. Branching
4. Merging

Question 95. An Agile project team started to estimate new stories by comparing the size with a group of 3 stories that have already been estimated. What this type of estimation commonly known as?

1. Three-point estimation
2. Disaggregation
3. Relative sizing
4. Guess Estimation

Question 96. Creating story for ‘get data’, ‘validate data’, ‘write to database’ is an example of

1. Vertical strips
2. Horizontal strips
3. Technical strips
4. Domain strips

Question 97. Which of the following says that in part, that every system has a single constraint that determines the overall throughput of the system?

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

Question 98. Which of the following reflects how much time or money you need to set aside to contain the risk?

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

Question 99. On a story-driven project the customers and users remain involved throughout the duration of the project.

1. True
2. False

Question 100. An epic that comprises multiple shorter stories is called as

1. Complex Story
2. Compound Story
3. Big story
4. Confused story

Question 101. Which of the following is the better word to describe requirement collection in terms of user stories?

1. Collecting
2. Elicitation
3. Trawling
4. Identification

Question 102. During a story-writing workshop the focus should be on ___________ rather than ___________ .

1. Quality, quantity
2. Quality, risk
3. Risk, quality
4. Quantity, quality

Question 103. An Agile project team is creating a release plan. They first defined the release dates but kept the decision of the specific work people will be doing pending for later. What type of release plan are they creating?

1. Time-boxed release plan
2. Scope-boxed release plan
3. Uncertain release plan
4. Adaptive release plan

Question 104. You are encouraging XP methodology in your organization for reducing the risk of dependency on the individuals so that if anyone goes for long leave, falls sick or resigns then there is not a productivity loss of the team for training the new person with all the knowledge that the other person had. Which of XP practice addresses these problems best of all, reducing them almost entirely?

1. Sustainable Pace
2. Coding Standards
3. Collective Code Ownership
4. Continuous Integration

Question 105. User scenarios have the following characteristics, except:

1. Settings
2. Actors
3. Goals
4. Relations

Question 106. Agile business objective, which is to deliver on future customer requirements?

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

Question 107. In which phase the team hypothesizes about the specifications of the product and builds a release plan?

1. The envision phase
2. The speculate phase
3. The explore phase
4. The adaptive phase

Question 108. The top goal of a project team is:

1. Deliver value to customers
2. Deliver products as per the schedule
3. Deliver products as per the cost estimated
4. Delivery high quality products

Question 109. While analyzing a burn-up chart, you found that the total story point line has gone up on the 5th day of the iteration. Which might be the reason for this?

1. The graph was plotted wrongly
2. New user story added to the sprint increasing the total story point of the sprint
3. Some user stories have been removed from the sprint
4. Team is working harder to achieve more tasks

Question 110. Which of the following is not one of the three particularly important issues involved in delivering customer value?

1. Focusing on innovation
2. Concentrating on execution
3. Lean thinking
4. Efficiency and optimization

Question 111. Which kind of sequence is the most popular for estimating user stories in an Agile project?

1. Non-linear
2. Fibonacci sequence
3. Linear
4. Story points

Question 112. When project leaders focus on delivery, they add___________to projects.

When they focus on planning and control, they tend to add___________

1. Quality, overhead
2. Overhead, quality
3. Value, overhead
4. Overhead, value

Question 113. The exploration factor’s technology dimension has___________categories.

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

Question 114. Choose the four categories of the exploration factor’s technology dimension

1. Bleeding edge, leading edge, familiar, well-known
2. Familiar, not familiar, known, unknown
3. Known, unknown, risk, no risk
4. Adaptive, flexible, manageable, risky

Question 115. ICS in Agile project stands for:

1. Internal customer stories
2. Internal customized stories
3. Inter-team commitment story
4. Inter-team customer story

Question 116. Kanban uses the following principle:

1. Push system
2. Interactive system
3. Pull system
4. Invert system

Question 117. The high WIP problem is addressed by:

1. Scrum
2. Kanban
3. FDD
4. TDD

Question 118. Signalling system into the scheduling process is introduced by:

1. Scrum
2. Kanban
3. FDD
4. TDD

Question 119. Increased customer involvement leads to all of the following benefits, except:

1. Quicker feedback
2. Accurate delivery
3. Rapid decisions
4. Higher ROI

Question 120. In Agile the measure of success:

1. Client getting more business value
2. Delivering project on time
3. Delivering project within budget
4. Delivering project as per customer expectation

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