EMT Practice Test

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Question1: You are an Agile Leader managing a few Scrum Teams and responsible for the success of their products. A sales executive needs a specific feature to be added to the product to sign a deal with one of her customers, but the Product Owner (who reports to you) analyzed the request and believes that there are more valuable items on the Product Backlog that will lead to more long-term value to the business. Disappointed, the sales executive comes to you asking you to intervene.
As the manager of the Product Owner, what would you do?

Question2: What is identified by the end of the Sprint Retrospective?

Question3: What are the characteristics of the Sprint Goal? Select three answers

Question4: At least one representative of the Agile Managers should attend the Scrum Events of the Scrum Teams to make sure they are going as expected.

Question5: Who should create an environment that supports agility and also helps remove impediments to the delivery of done products?

Question6: What is the timebox of the Sprint Retrospective?

Question7: The Product Backlog items added to the Sprint Backlog to meet the Sprint Goal cannot be changed during the Sprint

Question8: What is an experiment?

Question9: HR implemented a performance review process that rewards team members based on their individual annual performance. Therefore, some team members receive higher bonuses than others. Many team members are unhappy because they feel the bonus distribution is unfair as everyone contributes equally to the overall success of their team.
As your manager, what would be the best approach?

Question10: How would you describe Empiricism? Select two answers

Question11: Which of the following shows you that a Scrum Team's implementation of Scrum looks good?

Question12: What is Customer Cycle Time?

Question13: How EBM helps organizations to take into account the best available evidence to help them make decisions on ways to improve?

Question14: Only one increment can be created in a Sprint

Question15: Anyone in the Scrum Team with a new idea must add it proactively to the Product Backlog

Question16: As an Agile Leader, your most important responsibility is to set the product goals for the team and holding everyone to embody their responsibilities for meeting such goals.

Question17: A company needs to form four Scrum Teams. Team members should be spread across the teams to maintain high utilization of resources, be able to respond quickly, and remain productive when impediments occur.

Question18: Which of the following is not a Key Value Area of the EBM framework?

Question19: What is the difference between leadership and management in agile?

Question20: A company has 16 products and 4 Product Owners.
Which of the following is an acceptable way of forming Scrum Teams? Select two answers.

Question21: An Agile leader delegates responsibility dependant on the maturity of the team

Question22: You are an Agile Leader working with five Scrum Teams. One of the Scrum Team requires a new working environment to replicate the production environment and help the team perform security and performance testing. The strict company policies allow creating new environments only for actual production purposes and not for any testing. Security and performance testing are needed as part of the Team's Definition of Done before the completed work can be shippable.
How would you manage this situation? Select two possible answers.

Question23: When two Scrum Teams are working on the same product, there will be two Product Owners

Question24: A company adopted Agile 20 years ago. Since then, its teams have learned to master and implement Scrum to perfection. They are high-performance teams with a high level of agile maturity. Because they are so good with Scrum and because of the self-managed nature of Scrum Teams, the company no longer needs managers.

Question25: Which of the following is not a principle from the Agile Manifesto?

Question26: What should a Scrum Team do if the size of the team becomes too large?

Question27: An experienced CTO suggests that for the 3 products the company is building, they should have 3 Product Owners and rotate them between Products every 4 months. The CTO says he has tried it before in his previous job and reduces the dependency that teams have on a Product Owner. Product Owners can be exchanged between Scrum Teams, without any impact on team or velocity, as the Product Owner does not do any development maximizing general domain knowledge.
Do you agree with this approach?

Question28: You are part of a team to develop a tracking device. Your team has no idea what the final product will look like.
How would you advise them to proceed?

Question29: In Agile, responding to change is preferable to following a plan.

Question30: How would you describe Scrum?

Question31: SportsTech is a company that has offices and employees around the world. Because they need to build teams with Developers from multiple locations, they cannot implement Scrum as Scrum recommends that all Developers should be co-located.

Question32: The Product Owner is the only one responsible for all product-related activities from stakeholder collaboration, verification, maintenance, operation, experimentation, research and development, and anything else that might be required.

Question33: Which are the benefits of short Sprints? Select two answers

Question34: Measures usually fall into activities, outputs, and outcomes

Question35: You are the new Product Owner of a banking application. When you attend your first stakeholder meeting, you meet with people from 10 areas of the Bank who want different changes and many new features. They are not aligned, all areas want their characteristics as soon as possible and have different priorities.
What should you do?

Question36: The Agile Manifesto values more comprehensive documentation over working software.

Question37: Which of the following options will you choose to help with the communication of a distributed Agile Team?

Question38: You are part of a team with an average velocity of 55 points per Sprint. Another team of the same size working on the same Product has an average speed of 105 points per Sprint.
What should your team do?

Question39: What would be the results of not operating the Scrum events as prescribed?

Question40: A company will start to develop new software, they decided that they will use Scrum and they already identified 1000 features for the software. Experts say they should Invest the 1 or 2 Sprints just for planning and documenting the Product Backlog items, before beginning the development work. A thorough planning and healthy Product Backlog will help them be more organized before start and increase the chance of success.
As an Agile Leader, would you support this decision?

Question41: What are the benefits of having a Cross-functional team? Select all the answers that apply.

Question42: In order to reward high performing teams with a bonus, an organization's head of delivery has asked managers to compare Scrum Teams to identify the best Agile Teams.
Which of the following statements is true?

Question43: A Developer tells the Scrum Master that she sees a high risk of a delay in the Product release date.
What action should the Scrum Master take?

Question44: You are an Agile Leader. A key user has contacted you to request a new feature for a product that your company is developing for him. However, this feature is not part of the original scope.
How would you proceed?

Question45: The Sprint Backlog can be updated throughout the Sprint

Question46: How do organizations move from their Current State toward their Next Target Goal?

Question47: Agile maturity is a result of role maturity.

Question48: You are a manager in an agile organization. Markus is a development leader of a Scrum Team and he doesn't seem very motivated lately, so you asked him to talk in a one-on-one meeting. While talking to Markus, he says that he is disappointed that the team is making decisions without consulting him.
What would you do?

Question49: One of the teams you manage has committed to delivering 45 story points for this Sprint, but it looks like they will only complete 25. As an Agile Manager, what should you do?

Question50: You are an Agile manager at an organization that develops software for external customers. One of the Stakeholders who attends all the Sprint Reviews tells you that the Scrum Team, developing his product, totally lacks the domain expertise he expects and he is convinced this team will not be able to meet his expectations.
What do you do?

Question51: A benefit of an Agile approach is to make projects more predictable through execution in short increments.

Question52: In Agile Leadership, the traditional leadership responsibilities are delegated to the members of the Scrum Team.

Question53: Developers in the Scrum Team choose how they work in a sprint without following any policy. There are no Scrum restrictions at all.

Question54: A product could be a physical product

Question55: You're a Product Owner of a product with multiple stakeholders. During a meeting with them, you observe that the stakeholders are unable to come to an agreement on the target users and the primary vision of the product.
As a Product Owner, how can you help the stakeholders to agree?

Question56: Improving T2M helps improve the frequency at which an organization can potentially change CV.

Question57: Improving Time to Market helps an organization become more effective in ensuring that the work that it does improves the value that its products or services deliver to customers or users.

Question58: At Sprint Review, a Product Backlog item is partially completed, what action(s) should be performed with this item?

Question59: An organization wants to implement Scrum for its 5 teams developing software. HR has hired 5 Scrum Masters to assign one Scrum Master to each team that will guide and support the implementation of Scrum. To make the transition successful, the Scrum Masters agreed to shield the Scrum Teams from change and uncertainty from those outside the team who are not familiar with Agile.
As an Agile Leader, what would you say?

Question60: Which of the following sentences are related to Adaptation?

Question61: What is the timebox of the Sprint Retrospective in a 2-week Sprint?

Question62: What is Agile?

Question63: You are an Agile Leader and you need to hire a Product Owner for a Scrum Team, what would be your ideal choice for the position?

Question64: You are an Agile Manager and you have a new Product idea to develop, but you don't have a Scrum Team for it. It is your responsibility to use some unassigned professionals within the company and hire new team members for the new Scrum Teams that will build from the new Product. You have a lot of experience in assigning team members and hiring.
How would you decide which member will be on which team?

Question65: Which questions will help organizations to continually re-evaluate for unrealized value? Select three answers

Question66: Which words would you pick to describe Scrum? Select two answers

Question67: How does the Product Backlog emerge?

Question68: Today is the last day of the Sprint and a Sprint Backlog item has not been started. Who is responsible for completing all the items that were estimated for the Sprint?

Question69: Having a Product Owner and Scrum Master is mandatory in a Scrum Team. Do you agree?

Question70: A Developer notifies the Scrum Master that they will need an external specialist to help full-time with some topics for at least four Sprints.
What can be deduced from this?

Question71: Everyone inspecting the artifacts has the same basis for adaptation

Question72: Mario is a very proactive Product Owner and cares a lot about the Scrum Team. He writes the requirements, tests the product himself once development is complete, and validates that it conforms to the Definition of Done. Mario tells the team how much work they will need to be able to complete in the next iteration based on his vision, experience, and skills.
What would you say about Mario?

Question73: You are a manager in an Agile organization. You were requested to measure how much business value each Scrum Team is producing to manage stakeholder expectations.
How do you determine the value produced by each team?

Question74: During the Retrospective, the Developers of a Scrum Team complain about the changes they have to make to the features they have already developed as a result of the Sprint Review meetings. The discussions of the Sprint Review cause about 35% of re-work and the code to be rewritten.
The Scrum Master explains to Developers that changes, when they are the result of feedback provided by customers or stakeholders, are expected and beneficial. Is the Scrum Master right?

Question75: How does the Product Owner maximize the value?

Question76: The Sprint Review is the last event of the Sprint.

Question77: A software company has five software products that are released to thousands of customers. These products are coupled and their releases depend on each other.
As a Scrum Master, would you recommend making it mandatory for all Product teams to adhere to the same release schedule to ensure greater value for customers?