EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: A team finds bugs in a feature.
What is the best action to take?

Question2: For a cross-functional team, it is important that all skills, that are necessary to go from an idea to an implemented feature, are represented within the team.
What consequence can this have when you start Agile Scrum?

Question3: What is the main reason to limit Scrum Teams to 9 team members?

Question4: A Development Team consists of various different roles: analysts, programmers, UX experts, DBA and systems architects. They are estimating Backlog Items in Ideal Days.
What is the best approach to provide estimates for the Backlog Items?

Question5: What is the recommended way of removing the resistance presented by skeptics?

Question6: When two companies merge, there is often a lack of communication and transparency between locations.
What can best be done to reduce the risk of full-scale blow-ups between locations?

Question7: A Scrum Team has agreed on the following definition of Potentially Shippable:
Potentially Shippable increments must be tested and must meet the Conditions of Satisfaction provided by the Product Owner.
Why is it important to include 'tested' in the definition of what is Potentially Shippable?

Question8: Which Scrum meeting helps an organization become engaged in continuous process improvement?

Question9: You realize that the most experienced member on your team, who is also the longest-tenured developer in the organization, is a skeptic and resisting the transition to Scrum in small, but important, ways.
What is a good way of overcoming the resistance presented by skeptics?

Question10: A Scrum Master is teaching Agile estimation techniques using Story Points to a new team. A more experienced member of the team argues that:
An estimate expressed in Story Points is useful for a shorter period of time than an estimate in Ideal Days.
Is this true and what is the reason?

Question11: During a Sprint Planning, a team has picked three User Stories:
Story 1 - 5 Story Points

Story 2 - 8 Story Points

Story 3 - 3 Story Points

At the end of the Sprint, the team has completed Story 1 and Story 3 and the Product Owner accepts these. The team has almost completed Story 2 but there are a few bugs identified in acceptance tests.
What is the Velocity of this team?

Question12: Inexperienced Agile teams tend to overestimate how much they will achieve in the first Sprint.
Which project management activity will be most important in this case?

Question13: A large company of more than 400 people changes from the Waterfall to the Agile framework. The company uses the approach of applying Scrum to all projects in the organization using an all-in scenario.
The leaders are reluctant to fully commit to Scrum and there are no experienced Scrum Masters available within the organization yet. Six months later, Scrum has failed in the company. Many different applications of Scrum have been tried with varying degrees of success. The company gives up and returns to the Waterfall approach.
What is the most likely reason that the transition did not work?

Question14: Your company wants to be highly responsive to bug reports or feature requests from your customers. For your customers it is more important to have confidence in the date by which you promise to have a fix than an occasional quick fix.
What part of Scrum allows you to have this predictability?

Question15: The ability for a Scrum Team to self-organize around the goals of a project is fundamental to all Agile methodologies.
Why is a Scrum Team a self-organized team?

Question16: A company is already using Scrum very successfully within the development department. While highly effective Scrum Teams deliver new software increments quickly, these increments are not being delivered fast enough to customers. Releases happen once every 3 months and it takes too much effort to make sure that the releases go smoothly.
What type of framework should this company try to establish?

Question17: The Scrum-of-Scrums meeting is designed to allow clusters of Scrum Teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and integration.
Who should attend the Scrum-of-Scrum meetings on behalf of your Scrum Team?

Question18: What is the difference between NPV and IRR?
A: NPV is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in future value.

IRR is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will decrease in value.

B: NPV is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in today's present value.

IRR is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will increase in value.

C: IRR is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in future value.

NPV is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will decrease in value.

D: IRR is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in today's present value.

NPV is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will increase in value.

Question19: A company changes to Scrum. This gets some people out of their comfort zone and creates resistance.
One way of finding out how to deal with this resistance is looking at the individuals resisting. Suppose that you categorize all individuals into Conservers, Pragmatists and Originators.
What are the best activities to help Pragmatists transition to Scrum?

Question20: What is one of the risks if the Scrum Master is also a programmer on the team?

Question21: As items are developed and removed from the top of the Product Backlog, the Product Backlog iceberg develops a flat spot at the top and loses its shape.
What would be a necessary measure to counter this effect?

Question22: The Product Owner informs the team that the release will be date-driven.
What kind of buffer for uncertainty is most important to use in this type of release?