EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What is the usual length of the time box for the complete Sprint Planning meeting?

Question2: Which statement describes Release Planning?

Question3: A Scrum team failed to meet the Sprint objectives. One of the key members of the team fell ill and was away for two days right at the beginning of the four week Sprint.
What is the most likely reason that the team did not meet the Sprint objectives?

Question4: Agile planning happens at multiple levels including a daily plan, an sprint plan and a strategic plan.
What term best describes the multi-level planning?

Question5: What is the primary responsibility of a Scrum Master in order to keep a Scrum team working at its peak level of productivity?

Question6: The Product Owner is going on a three-week vacation. The team should be closing the current Sprint and starting a new Sprint at the end of the first week of the Product Owner's vacation.
What is the best way to continue the Scrum rituals in this situation?

Question7: Which Scrum ritual is meant to look back and improve upon the finished Sprint?

Question8: A customer requests a report that summarizes functionality added and defects found and fixed, right at the end of a Sprint.
Who may best prepare this report?

Question9: During a Sprint Planning session, the team argues about the work estimates for a particular story.
The Product Owner estimates five days.

The Lead Architect estimates two days.

The Scrum Master estimates eight days.

The team member working on it estimates seven days.

What value (in days) should be used for planning?

Question10: A user story was estimated at five ideal hours. On a normal eight hour working day, the team gets about four hours of actual work time.
What would be the elapsed time required to complete the Story?

Question11: Why does the Daily Scrum need to be held at the same location and time?

Question12: What is the expected outcome of the first Sprint on a project?

Question13: What is an information radiator?

Question14: What is time-boxing?

Question15: What is a Sprint?

Question16: When is a Sprint complete?

Question17: How should 'done' be defined when multiple teams are working on a single product?

Question18: What message can you give to a customer about a key benefit of using Scrum?

Question19: An engineering organization is transforming their project management method to use Agile Scrum.
What is the best approach to the transformation?

Question20: During a Sprint, the team completes four stories with story points 3, 5, 8 and 2 respectively. They further complete half a story with a story point of 13.
What is the velocity of the team?

Question21: What is the relationship between the Product Backlog, the Release Backlog and the Sprint Backlog?

Question22: Which is a statement of value as described in the Agile manifesto?

Question23: What is a characteristic of a well-designed Agile work space?

Question24: Who is responsible for implementing the actions agreed upon by the team during a Retrospective?

Question25: Why are estimates expressed in terms of story points difficult to explain outside of the team?

Question26: A 200 member project team is working on a large and complex system with multiple sub-systems. They would like to start using the Agile Scrum methodology.
As a Scrum Master, what would your best advice be?

Question27: What is the objective of the Scrum-of-Scrums meeting?

Question28: What is the best way to split up teams on a large project which is implemented using Scrum?

Question29: What is a Scrum-of-Scrums?

Question30: Who knows most about the progress towards a business objective or a release?

Question31: How does Agile bring predictability to the Planning process?

Question32: Sprint planning should result in a commitment on what will be delivered at the end of the Sprint. Who makes this commitment?

Question33: Why is planning poker an effective estimation technique?

Question34: A story was estimated at eight ideal hours. A working day is eight hours. Developers can get about six hours of work done on a daily basis.
What is the elapsed time required to complete the story?

Question35: In a Scrum project, when would a requirement get added to the Product backlog?

Question36: Who is the owner of a Sprint Backlog Item during the Sprint Planning meeting?

Question37: The team determines that it has over-committed itself for a Sprint.
Who should be present when reviewing and adjusting the Sprint work?

Question38: For a Sprint, progress is monitored in a burn-up chart with bars.
What makes the bar become longer?

Question39: A large product team features six different teams having ten members each, working on a project that involves four high level features.
How many Product Backlogs should the team have?

Question40: During the release planning meeting, it is difficult to agree on priorities.
Sales want to implement some new features to catch up with the competitors.
Marketing want to work on a mobile interface that can prove to be a competitive differentiator.
Customer support want better logging and auditing capabilities to improve maintainability.
What should be done to set the priorities?

Question41: Collaboration is the most important parameter for the success of an Agile team.
What term best describes this type of interaction?

Question42: A Project Manager wants to track not just the rate of progress against tasks, but also the overall morale and happiness of the Scrum team.
What device will help track morale and happiness?

Question43: Under what circumstances would a team use Affinity Estimation Technique instead of Planning Poker?

Question44: From which sport is the term "Scrum" and much of the terminology derived?

Question45: Who should update the work estimates during the Sprint?

Question46: What is an "escaped defect"?

Question47: A team has eleven members spread over two locations across two time zones. One of the locations has six team members and the other team has five.
Where should a Scrum Master be located?

Question48: A Manager requests to attend the daily stand-up meeting so that he can be more responsive to the team by being aware of the team's progress and issues.
As the Scrum Master, what should you do?

Question49: Which means of communication is the most preferable to clarify the interpretation of a requirement?

Question50: A team is estimating story points. They estimate that the story falls between a large (13) and a medium (5) and they assign a story point of 8.
What is this technique called?

Question51: What is meant by the velocity of the team?

Question52: A team is trying to convince a customer about the value of adopting Scrum. The customer likes some of the features of the methodology like the bi-weekly demonstration, but the customer remains largely unconvinced of the value of Scrum and refuses to change the way of working, What should the team do?

Question53: Which of the following statements best expresses the role that the daily stand-up meeting plays in the monitoring of a Scrum project?