EMT Practice Test

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Question1: During a project's last few sprints, an agile practitioner notices an increase in defects. A root-cause analysis indicates that a poor understanding of the requirements was caused by the inability of the product owner to communicate clearly.
What should the agile practitioner do?

Question2: During a retrospective the agile practitioner discovers that a team member's process improvement idea has worsened the outcome What should the agile practitioner do?

Question3: A mature agile team welcomes a new member. Due to poor experiences with a previous team, the new member is reluctant to communicate.
What should the agile project leader do?

Question4: While attending a conference, an agile practitioner learns of a new user interface (Ul) framework that could benefit the team. What should the agile practitioner do next?

Question5: What role should a servant leader perform to reduce team distractions and improve progress toward project goals?

Question6: A company is moving into a new space and is determining the best configuration for offices. The management team is also considering moving to an agile process. What advice should an agilist give?

Question7: An agile coach is assigned to help a project learn that was recently co-located dose to a very popular business Many team members visit this business during working hours which affects team performance What should the agile coach do to mitigate this issue?

Question8: A learn using Kanban identifies mat their cycle time has significant variation After brainstorming, the team determines that the root cause is the stones' varying sizes and risks What should the team do?

Question9: The amount of information captured in the project's defects is varying within the development team. Team members are becoming frustrated with the defect quality inconsistencies and the frequent clarification required.
What should be done to address the issue?

Question10: An agile project manager notices that the product owner manages team members' day-to-day tasks in a way that distracts them from their core responsibilities. In addition, the team believes that their questions on product backlog prioritization are not being answered on time.
What should the agile project manager do?

Question11: Stakeholders have conflicting requirements, and the product owner is struggling to decide which user stories to write. What should the product owner do?

Question12: A scrum team has eight developers, but only two are database engineers. During the last few retrospectives, the team identified that most sprint stories are dependent upon database engineers. This has created a bottleneck in completing stories.
What should be proposed to the team?

Question13: During sprint planning the product owner wants the team to prioritize and deliver a number of features which nave the highest business value Due to technical dependencies the team does not agree with the prioritization What should the project leader do'

Question14: While struggling to take ownership of delivery, an agile team fails to keep up with its sprint commitments.
What should the agile coach do?

Question15: During a current sprint a learn member asks permission horn the scrum master lo investigate an alternative design approach What should the scum master do?

Question16: The agile practitioner has determined that two different team members are working on addressing the same major issue on the project. How should the agile practitioner address this?

Question17: A team is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach. Historically, the team has delivered work products that did not meet customer expectations. What agile practice can help the team to alleviate this?

Question18: Outing a review session a customer representative is concerned that a story fails to satisfy the scope of work.
However the product owner declares that the scope of work is complete What should be done with this story?

Question19: During its first sprint a new scrum team realizes that it has insufficient team members with test automation skills to effectively complete its stories. What should the team do?

Question20: A team member has spent 5 days on a spike and the first set of experiments has not been successful The issue is the development team member has determined a short-term rather than a long-term solution.
What should the project leader do?

Question21: A product owner complains that some of the requirements identified several Aerations ago have not been implemented. The product owner wants to know why the status of these requirements was not communicated What should the Scrum Master do?

Question22: An agile team delivered a feature in the last iteration. The product owner, who missed the planning and review meetings, was dissatisfied with the feature. The team conducted a retrospective and reviewed the user stories related it.
What should the agile team do next?

Question23: During a review session an agile team presented done requirements to a group of stakeholders Stakeholder feedback indicated that the done requirements failed to meet the most pressing needs and provide value What should the team have done to prevent this?

Question24: A company president is concerned about the impact of a natural disaster on the company. How should management identify areas to apply its resources and mitigate potential impacts?

Question25: A project manager is concerned that the team has misaligned expectations with some stakeholders, and that user stories were written only from a generic user's perspective. This may lead the team to miss stories for non-generic users.
What agile tools can help the team address these issues?

Question26: A newly formed development learn experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?

Question27: An agile practitioner wants to communicate the effect of technical debt on the project What should the practitioner do?

Question28: An agile team has been in place for five years and the customer is satisfied with the team's performance and deliverables. Now that the product is built and delivered, the customer is considering the future role of the Scrum Master.
What should the customer do?

Question29: Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this What should the agile practitioner do?

Question30: An agile team is preparing a release plan for a project. What information will the team need to complete this plan?

Question31: During a retrospective meeting, a team develops a large list of initiatives All will have a positive impact and improve team performance What should the agile coach do next?

Question32: During a mature agite team's planning meeting a team member proposes a new framework that would considerably reduce implementation lime However, the learn lacks the confidence to try the new framework To help the team gain confidence what should the agile practitioner suggest1

Question33: What should a Scrum Master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks'?

Question34: A seven-member agile team's composition vanes considerably in age, gender culture, personality type and professional background. When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?

Question35: During sprint retrospectives, some team members are very vocal and tend to dominate the conversation, while others are more reserved and less likely to participate. What should the scrum master do?

Question36: A new learn member asks what changes could accelerate a change to the project plan. What should be the proper response?

Question37: A product owner feels that the last sprint tailed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to the>r organization's overall project goals What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?

Question38: How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?

Question39: A learn member 15 stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules How should the learn lead address this?

Question40: Team A is working on the second sprint of a product release Team B. which is an interdependent team located on the same floor requires extensive and frequent information to complete its sprint goal What should the agile team lead do?

Question41: A product owner adds a 21-point. high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team do?

Question42: A client slates that a product is not being built as requested. How should the agile team address this?

Question43: During a team meeting, members who are subject matter experts (SMEs) mention that they are continuously working on repetitive tasks, which has lowered motivation. What should the agile practitioner do?

Question44: A product owner with experience in a predictive approach wants the team to develop very detailed schedules and cost estimates for the next 10 sprints. What should the Scrum Master do?

Question45: An agile team lead is assigned to a project that must ensure data security. What should the team lead do to guarantee that security, as a non-functional requirement, is managed throughout the project?

Question46: The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning to gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint.
What should the agile project manager do?

Question47: Following an upgrade, a software support team is overwhelmed by the number of tickets being submitted by end users. The team's manager is pushing the team to "work smart" by focusing on activities that deliver the most value in the least amount of time.
What should the team do?

Question48: What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?

Question49: Why should a project team reduce the work in process?

Question50: Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled.
What should the team have done to avoid this?

Question51: What should a learn do when they complete ail sprint goals earlier than expected?

Question52: Two similar stories A and B. are estimated at 3 story points Story C. is estimated a( 8 points Alter an iteration in which A and C were completed it is found that story A took much longer than story C.
What should the agile practitioner do?

Question53: During project inception an agile practitioner engages the stakeholder to ensure alignment on the project's strategy and vision The stakeholder asks for detailed requirements design, and delivery plans What should the agile practitioner do?

Question54: An agile team is working on the first sprint, and have already planned the second and third sprints. However, market conditions now require a change to the features. What should the product owner do?

Question55: On an agile project some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and use stones fit into the overall product. How should this be addressed?

Question56: Midway through a sprint. a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement Dial may change the initial scope What should the team do?

Question57: The team is in the middle of an iteration and there is an urgent request for a small change to be introduced to the committed scope Unless this change is accepted there is no value to the customers during this iteration What must the agile practitioner do?

Question58: A scrum team has conducted regular retrospectives to discuss immediate concerns and the implementation of improvement actions. Despite this, after a few iterations, the same concerns resurface.
What should the team have done to improve retrospective outcomes?

Question59: A senior team member feels underutilized. What should the agile practitioner do?

Question60: The product owner of a learn starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list planned stones with status, and a demo of all the stones to the business. What should the product owner have done differently?

Question61: The executive leadership wants to understand ways to better deliver on time and on budget. What can the project team do to assist in achieving the organizational goal?

Question62: During planning sessions, an agile practitioner notices that some team members do not share common ideas.
What should the agile practitioner do?

Question63: An agile practitioner notices that team members are disengaged. As a result, the team's velocity has decreased.
What should the agile practitioner do to get the team back on track?

Question64: What estimation technique is an agile team using when collectively estimating the relative size of its stories using story points?

Question65: Due to its complexity, a new team member struggles with developing a concise user story What advice should the agile practitioner give to assist with developing the story?

Question66: Two teams have received project requirements and completed estimates. Team A estimates 420 story points for scope and 30 story points for velocity per sprint. Team B estimates 280 story points for scope and 20 story points for velocity per sprint. Both teams have same number of team members and have an assumed sprint duration of 2 weeks.
What can an agile practitioner conclude about team A and team B's estimates?

Question67: Stakeholders ate displeased with the latest release o! a product's software While most stakeholders attended every sprint review they were otherwise largely uninvolved in the project What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction?

Question68: A new CIO advocates an agile framework for new IT projects, but the team has reservations. How should the CIO ensure that the team will be aligned with this?

Question69: During a retrospective, team members suggest process improvement ideas. The agile team lead knows that, while many of these ideas are different from standard practices, a few of them are good.
What should the agile team lead do?

Question70: A team is creating a highly marketed, time-sensitive product. The agile coach is concerned that anything other than exceptional quality will result in bad publicity for the company.
What should the agile coach ensure that developers do?

Question71: After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI. What should the team do?

Question72: The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics. What could help eliminate misunderstandings?

Question73: During a sprint, the team encounters a technical problem that becomes an impediment to completing two stories. What should the scrum master do?