EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A project's first iteration contains item A, and its second iteration contains item B.
The first iteration is behind schedule, which will impact the second iteration. Since items A and B are similar, a team member suggests beginning the design of item B.
What should the agile practitioner do?

Question2: The product owner of a team starts the iteration review with a quick walkthrough of the iteration goal, the list of planned stories with status, and a demo of all the stories to the business.
What should the product owner have done differently?

Question3: In a vision meeting, the vision for the project is defined and presented by the:

Question4: The advantage of face-to-face collaboration emphasized in eXtreme Programming (XP) is that it:

Question5: A product owner feels that the last sprint failed to sufficiently deliver what was valuable to their organization's overall project goals.
What should the scrum master mention at the next retrospective?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: The purpose of the iteration retrospective is to:

Question9: Which layer of the product planning structure defines details at the capability or feature level?

Question10: Order the 5 focusing steps of the Theory of Constraints.

Question11: Match each Agile requirement type (on the left) to its definition (on the right).

Question12: A ScrumMaster consistently holds Daily Scrums and keeps them to 15 minutes or less. The ScrumMaster brings a list of assigned tasks and checks the status of each task with the relevant team members. The ScrumMaster then assigns new tasks for the day and ends the meeting. Is this an appropriate approach to running Daily Scrums?

Question13: A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint.
What should they do?

Question14: The Agile artifact that describes the incremental nature of how a product will be built and delivered over time, along with the important factors that drive each individual release is called:

Question15: What is the first thing an agile development team should do when planning an iteration?

Question16: Prioritize from high to low the sequence of User Story development.

Question17: A project sponsor is upset that an enhancement will be unavailable until next year. What should the product owner do?

Question18: When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?

Question19: A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed m a sprint What should the scrum master do?

Question20: On what should Agile estimates be based?

Question21: Which of the following is a list of valid Agile project planning practices?

Question22: Which of the following are 2 attributes of Exploratory testing? (Choose two.)

Question23: The cost estimation techniques used on Agile projects are:

Question24: During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initiative, review the iteration charts to discuss changes to the iteration's functional goal.
What practice is the agile facilitator implementing?

Question25: While reviewing the sprint burn down during a stand up, the scrum team identifies that they have fallen behind. Upon further discussion, they discover that some quality assurance (QA) team members were unable to use the new automation framework, which caused a bottleneck.
What should the scrum team do?

Question26: Which of the following best represents both a principle of the Agile manifesto and a Lean method of simplicity?

Question27: The purpose of Work in Progress (WIP) limits is to prevent the unintentional accumulation of work, so there isn't a bottleneck.

Question28: Which type of estimate refers to estimating a story based on its relationship to one or more other stories?

Question29: During mid-sprint changes, an agile facilitator meets with the executive and development teams. During the meeting, executive team members resolve conflicts, and on their own initiative, review the iteration charts to discuss changes to the iteration's functional goal.
What practice is the agile facilitator implementing?

Question30: What should a Scrum Master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks'?

Question31: An Artifact on an Agile project can best be described as:

Question32: Sprints lengths can vary each Sprint as long as they don't exceed a month.

Question33: During a project meeting, a team is faced with a difficult decision. After discussion and deliberation, the project leader makes the final decision and ends the discussion. This causes a team member to withdraw from future collaboration.
How could the project leader have avoided this?

Question34: What can an agile team use to prioritize stories?

Question35: Which tool allows the Product Owner to focus on providing the greatest value and Return on Investment (ROI) to the organization?

Question36: During a backlog refinement meeting, a senior team member raises a concern about an epic sizing that requires the use of a new interface for a vendor product. The product owner acknowledges this as a risk.
What should the product owner do now?

Question37: Based on the chart, what is the current status of the iteration when comparing story points planned versus completed?

Question38: Drag and Drop Question
The Agile Manifesto states we value some items over others. Match the items in the columns below so each item on the left is valued over the corresponding item on the right.

Question39: Pick the two PMLC models that are based upon the Agile Project Management (APM) approach:

Question40: Drag and Drop Question
Pick which 3 activities are the responsibilities of the Scrum Master in Scrum.

Question41: Drag and Drop Question
Sequence the core practices of Kanban in order of execution.

Question42: What is used to provide a simple medium for gathering basic information about stories, recording high-level requirements, developing work estimates, and defining acceptance tests?

Question43: How does Empirical Process Control support Agile methodologies?

Question44: 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?

Question45: Which of the following is the hierarchy of User Story creation?

Question46: The purpose of Work in Progress (WIP) limits is to prevent the unintentional accumulation of work, so there isn't a bottleneck.

Question47: Agile team A struggles to deliver committed stories due to technical dependencies with team B, which continuously fails to meet its delivery commitments.
What should the agile team lead do?

Question48: A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks tor clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features. What should the product owner do'

Question49: The term "last responsible moment" refers to the moment at which:

Question50: When implementing Agile Project Management, risk management that occurs simply by following Agile best practices such as iterative planning and review activities is called:

Question51: 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?

Question52: A project team identifies a number of technical challenges with features in the next sprint.
What should they do?

Question53: Which term best describes an Agile project's approach to risk analysis?

Question54: A high-performance Agile team:

Question55: The acronym for a good product backlog is DEEP. What does it stand for?

Question56: The Kaizen philosophy is change:

Question57: Which type of estimate refers to estimating a story based on its relationship to one or more other stories?

Question58: During product development, changes in technology and regulations require the team to reassess product architecture.
How should this technical debt be captured?

Question59: 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?

Question60: 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?

Question61: An executive sponsor of a new scrum team actively attends scrum ceremonies.
How does this benefit the team?

Question62: On a project using eXtreme Programming (XP), a customer test is a:

Question63: Estimating costs for an Agile project starts with which of the following types of meetings?

Question64: 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?

Question65: On a team new to Scrum, two team members are disrupting the daily standup with a side conversation.
The ScrumMaster should:

Question66: The measure of productivity of a Kanban team is:

Question67: A member of the development team is working on a prioritized non-functional requirement involving integrating with a 3rd party system This integration has not been done before on the project.
What should the project leader suggest?

Question68: A company is considering developing a new, complex application that will require a large initial investment. However, if successful, the profit potential is high. When preparing an analysis, what should be used to encourage stakeholders who are concerned about project failure to authorize the initial investment?

Question69: What is the best definition of "Done"?

Question70: Unable to meet a sprint's committed velocity, an agile team approaches the agile coach to define the next sprint's velocity.
What should the agile coach advise?

Question71: When managing an agile software team, engaging the business in prioritizing the backlog is an example of:

Question72: Which of the following is a STORY?

Question73: Which of the following is NOT a principle from the Agile Manifesto?

Question74: An agile practitioner becomes a Scrum Master on an established Scrum team.
After introductions, what should the agile practitioner do?

Question75: The Kaizen philosophy is change:

Question76: The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog.

Question77: Which Agile method goes through the following stages:

Question78: An agile team has only one database administrator with the necessary knowledge of database-related tasks.
The project manager identifies the risk that if this person leaves, team velocity will significantly decrease.
What should the agile coach do?

Question79: Continuous integration ensures that a product is:

Question80: What is the normal time estimate for a research story?

Question81: When are acceptance tests typically written for a user story?

Question82: An organization adopts Agile practices and implements an incremental delivery strategy. If implemented correctly, the company should recognize improved:

Question83: In the Lean process, the focus is on:

Question84: A development team has finished identifying the tasks they will be accountable for during the next sprint.
Which of the following tools best provides transparency into the progress throughout the sprint?

Question85: More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting.
What should the scrum master do?

Question86: Which statement is least accurate when providing a definition of "Done"?

Question87: What is the responsibility of an extreme Programming (XP) customer role?

Question88: An agile team member identifies a potential problem within the project team How should the team's coach react?

Question89: What is the ideal approach for an Agile project manager to take when considering fractional assignments?

Question90: Which development mastery model of skill acquisition lies in helping the teacher understand how to assist the learner in advancing to the next level?

Question91: Which is the first step in setting up Kanban?

Question92: Which of the following is NOT considered an enterprise Agile method?

Question93: Which of the following is most appropriate to always participate in Planning Poker?

Question94: 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?

Question95: What Scrum event or artifact is the set of items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal?

Question96: The advantage of face-to-face collaboration emphasized in eXtreme Programming (XP) is that it:

Question97: A client states that a product is not being built as requested. How should the agile team address this?

Question98: This artifact contains release names with expected dates and includes major features, client-side impacts, server-side applications, platform support and markets served:

Question99: How should a project leader manage stakeholder expectations in an agile project?

Question100: A member of a project's development team approaches the team lead and requests database administrator training. The team member believes that their inability to handle this work, and to rely on outside specialists is impacting team velocity.
What should the agile team lead do?

Question101: Which of the following is most appropriate to always participate in Planning Poker?

Question102: A user story says that a product must be very fast.
During the demo, the Product Owner is dissatisfied with the speed of the product.
The most likely reason that this occurred is because the user story was:

Question103: Which layer of the product planning structure defines details at the capability or feature level?

Question104: The ScrumMaster and the Product Owner disagree on the value of a Product Backlog item.
In order to resolve the disagreement, the first step the ScrumMaster should take is to ask:

Question105: What Agile concept expresses delivering value in slices rather than in layers/stages?

Question106: Which of the following best describes a core belief of Agile?

Question107: What should a learn do when they complete ail sprint goals earlier than expected?

Question108: A ScrumMaster:

Question109: There must be a release every Sprint.

Question110: During a planning session, four out five team members vote to include eight story points in a particular story, while the fifth member votes for five story points.
How should this be handled?

Question111: 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?

Question112: Which layer of the product planning structure defines details at the capability or feature level?

Question113: The team underestimated the complexity of a story, resulting in new decomposition of the work to be delivered in the current sprint and items to be returned to the backlog. What should the Scrum Master do next?

Question114: The Scrum Master is a management role?

Question115: A product owner for two highly visible projects spends a great deal of time meeting with and reporting to senior stakeholders. The product owner is overwhelmed because both project teams request clarification on the requirements and the overall priorities.
What should the agile project manager do?

Question116: When estimating initial velocity, the team should most likely:

Question117: Which of the following is an example of an information radiator?

Question118: A seven-member agile team's composition varies 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?

Question119: Which type of estimation refers to splitting a story into smaller and easier to manage pieces?

Question120: 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?

Question121: As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?

Question122: An Agile team expects a velocity of 8. During sprint planning, the stories were estimatedand prioritized in the following order:
Story A_4Story Points
Story B_2Story Points
Story C_3 Story Points
Story D_2Story Points
Which stories should the team include in Sprint 1, without splitting the stories?

Question123: Drag and Drop Question
The PM Declaration of Interdependence is a set of six management principle initially intended for project managers of Agile software development projects. Match the items below to identify the principles.

Question124: If the Sprint Backlog cannot be completed in a Sprint, who resolves the issue?

Question125: While reviewing the sprint burn down during a stand up. the scrum team identifies that they have fallen behind. Upon further discussion, they discover that some quality assurance (QA) team members were unable to use the new automation framework, which caused a bottleneck.
What should the scrum team do?

Question126: Drag and Drop Question
Order the 5 focusing steps of the Theory of Constraints.

Question127: Project managers use velocity to determine:

Question128: A technical problem arises that will likely impact the stories planned for delivery in the current sprint.
What should the scrum master do?

Question129: 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?

Question130: The key elements of a user story in Agile development are:

Question131: How can an agile practitioner ensure that all key stakeholders are properly engaged in planning?

Question132: Which is NOT a Scrum Role?

Question133: Which best describes the attributes of the IN VEST criteria in a user story?

Question134: A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to compete m the marketplace1. What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?

Question135: 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?

Question136: A common estimation unit for Agile projects is:

Question137: 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?

Question138: What is the name of this facilitated process? One or more team members sequence the product backlog from smallest to largest User Story. The rest of the team validates the sequence. The whole team uses a sizing method such as T-shirt size or Fibonacci sequence to group the user stories.

Question139: This Emertxe Project Management (MPx) approach is when neither a goal nor solution is clearly defined.

Question140: During a Kanban team's daily stand up, an agile coach observes that the team seems disinterested in the work status. While it appears that there are no issues with flow, there is a marked lack of attention to team effort. When the agile coach queries the team for reasons, members explain that work continues to be scheduled with no end in sight.
What should the agile coach do?

Question141: After completing the release plan, the team realizes that the project is very likely to have a negative ROI.
What should the team do?

Question142: Based on the following information, determine the number weeks until the next release.

Question143: A company is starting to introduce Agile practices, and the project manager has been asked to identify how to introduce the new process. The project manager's initial plan should be to:

Question144: Technical debt is the total amount of less-than perfect __________ in your project.

Question145: All of the following are metrics used in Agile except:

Question146: Who is responsible for determining the business value of each feature?

Question147: 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?

Question148: When can a plan be changed in Agile Management?

Question149: Who can change the Sprint Backlog during a Sprint?

Question150: In an Agile approach, project values are most effectively implemented when they are determined by the:

Question151: What is the first thing that a team should do to estimate user stories for a project?

Question152: How is the participatory design process characterized?

Question153: Which are some of the most important benefits of an Agile team sitting together in a co-located, open environment?

Question154: While struggling to take ownership of delivery, an agile team fails to keep up with its sprint commitments. What should the agile coach do?

Question155: What key benefits might stakeholders realize from an Agile approach?

Question156: The 80/20 rule is also known as what law?

Question157: Estimating costs for an Agile project starts with which of the following types of meetings?

Question158: During a planning session, four out five team members vote to include eight story points in a particular story, while the fifth members votes for five story points.
How should this be handled?

Question159: Scrum practices are facilitated by the:

Question160: What Agile planning artifact should be updated at minimum semi-annually?

Question161: A change made to the internal structure of software that makes it easier to understand and cheaper to modify but does not change its observable behavior is referred to as:

Question162: 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?

Question163: In the Agile Team Stages of Shu Ha Ri, what does 'Ha' stand for?

Question164: What is the first thing an agile development team should do when planning an iteration?

Question165: A projects first iteration contains item A and its second iteration contains item B.
The first iteration is behind schedule which will impact the second iteration Since items A and B are similar a team member suggests beginning the design of item B.
What should the agile practitioner do?

Question166: Sequence the steps to User Story Mapping.

Question167: Collaboration can be defined as working together to jointly produce a deliverable or make a decision, whereas coordination is:

Question168: A development team for a small company experiences long delays between product completion and release for validation and testing. The company is concerned that this will impact its ability to compete in the marketplace.
What analysis should the team use to understand the issues?

Question169: After three iterations, the problems impeding an Agile team appear to be similar in nature to problems faced in earlier iterations. Inspection of the retrospectives for past iterations reveals information organized into columns entitled "What worked for us" and "What did not work for us. " Based on this information, one can infer that the team did not capture:

Question170: The product owner should spend at least 3 hours per day with the development team?

Question171: Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete all committed features.
What should the team do?

Question172: The following chart lists stories for a release of an Agile project:
If the velocity of the team is 10, how many iterations will be needed to complete all of the stories?

Question173: After three iterations, it is identified that a project's underlying security structure architecture is unstable. While there is a technical solution, all work to date is flawed. This will impact several future business service offerings.
What should the product owner do to resolve this?

Question174: A ScrumMaster:

Question175: Business stakeholders of an agile project frequently skip the review meetings.
What should the agile practitioner do?

Question176: When is the ideal time to hold a retrospective?

Question177: A newly formed scrum team wants to foster an environment of transparency and experimentation. The team decides to use a Kanban board to record and track encountered impediments. Emphasis is placed on how issues are resolved and the strategies for preventing them in the future.
Over time, what will be the result of this approach?

Question178: The Scrum Master as a Servant Leader is in service to which of the following?

Question179: During a six-week iteration, an issue is identified by a team member. After analysis, the team member determines that it will take at least two weeks to resolve. What should the team member do?

Question180: The team estimation game method mainly consists of a:

Question181: When the Agile team works in a single location, the team is said to be ________.

Question182: The purpose of "setting the stage'' in a project retrospective is to:

Question183: 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?