EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: Who should update the work estimates during the Sprint?

Question3: What is the expected outcome of the first Sprint on a project?

Question4: 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?

Question5: Why is planning poker an effective estimation technique?

Question6: An engineering organization is transforming their project management method to use Agile Scrum.
What is the best approach to the transformation?

Question7: Who is responsible for implementing the actions agreed upon by the team during a Retrospective?

Question8: Which means of communication is the most preferable to clarify the interpretation of a requirement?

Question9: When is a Sprint complete?

Question10: 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?

Question11: 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?

Question12: Who is the owner of a Sprint Backlog Item during the Sprint Planning meeting?

Question13: Sprint planning should result in a commitment on what will be delivered at the end of the Sprint. Who makes this commitment?

Question14: 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?

Question15: 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?

Question16: According to Agile principles, what should be the pace of development?

Question17: Which of the following statements best expresses the role that the daily stand-up meeting plays in the monitoring of a Scrum project?

Question18: The team determines that it has over-committed itself for a Sprint.
Who should be present when reviewing and adjusting the Sprint work?

Question19: Which Scrum ritual is meant to look back and improve upon the finished Sprint?

Question20: 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?

Question21: What is a Scrum-of-Scrums?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: What is the usual length of the time box for the complete Sprint Planning meeting?

Question25: Which statement describes Release Planning?

Question26: 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?

Question27: 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?

Question28: What is an "escaped defect"?

Question29: Collaboration is the most important parameter for the success of an Agile team.
What term best describes this type of interaction?

Question30: 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?

Question31: What is the relationship between the Product Backlog, the Release Backlog and the Sprint Backlog?

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

Question33: In a Scrum project, when would a requirement get added to the Product backlog?

Question34: What is a Sprint?

Question35: What is time-boxing?

Question36: How does Agile bring predictability to the Planning process?

Question37: What is meant by the velocity of the team?

Question38: 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?

Question39: What is a characteristic of a well-designed Agile work space?

Question40: What should the Scrum Master advise the team to give their main focus, while working in a global distributed team?

Question41: Who knows most about the progress towards a business objective or a release?

Question42: What is an information radiator?

Question43: What is the primary responsibility of a Scrum Master in order to keep a Scrum team working at its peak level of productivity?

Question44: 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?

Question45: Which is a statement of value as described in the Agile manifesto?

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

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: What is the objective of the Scrum-of-Scrums meeting?

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

Question52: 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?

Question53: For a Sprint, progress is monitored in a burn-up chart with bars.
What makes the bar become longer?

Question54: What message can you give to a customer about a key benefit of using Scrum?

Question55: Why does the Daily Scrum need to be held at the same location and time?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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?