EMT Practice Test

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Question1: One of the Scrum Team members has the job to make sure that the customer gets the most value from the project.
How do we call this role?

Question2: According to Agile principles, what should be the pace of development?

Question3: A team decided to install a large traffic light in the team hall to indicate whether the latest build was healthy (green), failing a few tests (orange) or failing high priority tests (red).
What term can be used to describe the traffic light?

Question4: Why is planning poker an effective estimation technique?

Question5: What is a characteristic of a well-designed Agile work space?

Question6: Who is the owner of a Sprint Backlog Item during the Sprint Planning meeting?

Question7: When is a Sprint complete?

Question8: Suppose that you track the Sprint progress in a Burn-Down chart. You have added an extra line to show the planned progress. The line of the actual progress stays below the planning line.
What does this say about the progress?

Question9: Product Backlog Items must be non-technical and independent.
Why should the Product Backlog Items be independent?

Question10: Who knows most about the progress towards a business objective or a release?

Question11: Near the end of a Sprint, the team realizes that they will not be able to complete the stories they had committed to.
What is the best course of action for the team?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

Question14: The team determines that it has over-committed itself for a Sprint.
Who should be present when reviewing and adjusting the Sprint work?

Question15: Why are estimates expressed in terms of story points difficult to explain outside of the team?

Question16: 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?

Question17: Who is accountable for a task that is assigned to a single Team member?

Question18: What is the usual length of the time box for the complete Sprint Planning meeting?

Question19: What is the expected outcome of the first Sprint on a project?

Question20: What is time-boxing?

Question21: 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?

Question22: What message can you give to a customer about a key benefit of using Scrum?

Question23: Why is the "Time & means or fixed unit" contract type of contract preferred in Scrum?

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

Question25: What is a Scrum-of-Scrums?

Question26: 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?

Question27: What should the Scrum Master advise the team to give their main focus, while working in a global distributed team?

Question28: Which Scrum event is meant to look back and improve upon the finished Sprint?

Question29: 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?

Question30: How does Agile bring predictability to the Planning process?

Question31: What is the best way to split up teams on a large project which is implemented using Scrum?

Question32: From which sport is the term "Scrum" and much of the terminology derived?

Question33: An engineering organization is transforming their project management method to use Agile Scrum.
What is the best approach to the transformation?

Question34: Why does the Daily Scrum need to be held at the same location and time?

Question35: For a Sprint, progress is monitored in a burn-up chart with bars.
What makes the bar become longer?

Question36: What is the relationship between the Product Backlog, the Release Backlog and the Sprint Backlog?

Question37: 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?

Question38: 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?

Question39: 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?

Question40: What happens with the User Stories during the Sprint Planning meeting?

Question41: 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?

Question42: Collaboration is the most important parameter for the success of an Agile team.
What term best describes this type of interaction?

Question43: A team estimates a Story using the Planning Poker technique. The team decides to allocate five Story points to the Story, because the Developers estimated two points and the Testers estimated three points.
Which statement is true regarding this scenario?

Question44: What is an information radiator?

Question45: A team selects a Product Backlog Item (PBI) for the Sprint Backlog.
What must a team do to finish the Product Backlog Item it selects?

Question46: How should 'done' be defined when multiple teams are working on a single product?

Question47: 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?

Question48: What is an "escaped defect"?

Question49: 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?

Question50: Which of the following statements best expresses the role that the daily stand-up meeting plays in the monitoring of a Scrum project?