EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

---

Question1: What are the primary benefits of an Agile approach over a Waterfall approach? Select two answers.

Question2: 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?

Question3: When is the Product Backlog refined?

Question4: What practices in a company can make the transition from waterfall to Agile difficult?

Question5: A benefit of an Agile approach is to make projects more predictable through execution in short increments.

Question6: You are a manager at an organization that develops and provides products and services for customers. A Scrum Master has approached you asking for your help. Over the course of several Sprints, his Scrum Team is been distracted by unplanned support requests from other teams causing the team to regularly fail in meeting their Sprint Goals and not delivering Increments.
As a manager, What would you do?

Question7: Delivering on time and budget is the primary benefit of an Agile approach.

Question8: Several customers have reported security issues of many features of an existing Product.
What two things can the Scrum Team of this Product do next?

Question9: The Product Backlog items added to the Sprint Backlog to meet the Sprint Goal cannot be changed during the Sprint

Question10: True or False: The most important function of an Agile manager is to set goals and hold people accountable for their commitments.

Question11: What makes adaptation easier? Select two answers

Question12: You manage a development organization. The Scrum Master of one of the Scrum Teams you are responsible for requests that you only communicate with the team through her. What do you do? (choose the best answer)

Question13: What does the Customer Usage Index measure? Select two answers.

Question14: What is the primary benefit of an agile approach as compared to a traditional up-front approach? (choose the best answer)

Question15: 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?

Question16: Nick is the director of product success in a company. Nick needs to know how each product is doing periodically.
What would be the best approach for understanding the current status of the products?

Question17: What should a team build to test the value of the features and requirements?

Question18: Scrum is flexible enough to be implemented with only parts of it at the team's convenience

Question19: Which of the following statement is true about Agile?

Question20: What is Agile?

Question21: Improving T2M helps improve the frequency at which an organization can potentially change CV.

Question22: How EBM helps organizations to take into account the best available evidence to help them make decisions on ways to improve?

Question23: How do organizations move from their Current State toward their Next Target Goal?

Question24: Which of the following practices might help to improve the product's time to market?

Question25: What is the typical size of a Scrum Team?

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

Question27: Developers in the Scrum Team heavily disagree with the acceptance criteria of a feature in the Sprint Backlog and its value for the users due to similarities with other existing functionalities in the system.
As a Scrum Master, which would be the best approach?

Question28: Of the following choices, what is the most effective way a Scrum Master can keep a Scrum Team working at its highest level of productivity? (choose the best answer)

Question29: The Definition of Done of a Scrum Team requires updating the user's manual document with the new functionality as a reference for thousands of users and support technicians. The team's writer will be on vacation during the next Sprint.
What should the team do?

Question30: What is a hypothesis?

Question31: What measure does NOT provide relevant or useful information about a team's ability to deliver value to the user/customer in the future? (choose the best answer)

Question32: How can a Scrum Team demonstrate its value to the organization?

Question33: The Developers think that it will take 40 hours of effort to implement an API for online payments for the Product they are working on.
How many hours of effort should they quote for that task?

Question34: Which of the following is not a Key Value Area of the EBM framework?

Question35: Only one increment can be created in a Sprint

Question36: A manager needs a team to begin the transition to agile.
What would you recommend first?

Question37: Which of the following statements are true about Technical Debt? Select two answers.

Question38: You are a Developer in an Agile organization. During the sprint, you encounter a problem that seems much more difficult than expected.
What would you do?

Question39: Katherine works in the finance team and approves budgets. She is new to Scrum and wants to know more about how budgeting and financial forecasting is performed in Scrum.
As a Scrum Master, what would you answer? Select two answers.

Question40: When two Scrum Teams are working on the same product, there will be two Product Owners

Question41: 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?

Question42: You are a manager responsible for a product being developed by a Scrum Team. A sales representative wants a particular feature in the product. They believe that it will help close a deal. The Product Owner understands the need but believes that there are more valuable things on the Product Backlog that will lead to more long- term business. The sales representative appeals to you to intervene. How do you respond? (choose the best answer)

Question43: A member of a Scrum Team is interested in understanding the organization's ability to deliver value. She asks if he can explain what the Time to Market Key Value Area (T2M) can reveal.
What would you answer?

Question44: For Product Owners to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions.

Question45: A Scrum Team is self-managing, meaning internally decides who does what, when, and how. Therefore, the team has complete freedom to decide how it works.

Question46: 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?

Question47: You are a Scrum Master and you assess that recent market changes make the product your team is working on is no longer viable.
What should you do?

Question48: 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.

Question49: Due to the request of employees to be more agile, a company has decided to initiate a transition from waterfall to Scrum. The plan is to change the organization's current terminology to Scrum for the first 4 months. Once everyone is comfortable and familiar with the terminology, they will work on the proper understanding and support of Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide.
What will be the result of this approach?

Question50: What is a primary benefit of an agile approach? (choose the best answer)

Question51: Which actions could help to improve the Time-to-Market? Select two answers Increasing the number of features in a product release

Question52: Implementing only parts of EBM is possible

Question53: In Agile Leadership, the traditional leadership responsibilities are delegated to the members of the Scrum Team.

Question54: 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.

Question55: You manage a development organization. The organization currently rewards individual performance bonuses to only a few top-performers on a yearly basis. As a result, only one member of a team might get a bonus, while all others get nothing. Some of your teams feel that this is unfair since everyone on a team contributes to the success or failure to achieve goals. They would like to move toward team bonuses. What do you think needs to be done? (choose the best answer)

Question56: All the Product Backlog Items selected during the Sprint Planning and added to the Sprint Backlog must be done by the end of the Sprint

Question57: 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?

Question58: You manage a product group in an organization. A Scrum Master is concerned with the very low availability of the Product Owner for her team. The Product Owner has subject matter expertise that is very difficult to duplicate or replace, but he has several other important responsibilities as well. The Scrum Master has discussed her concern with the Product Owner, but the Developers are still struggling to deliver value without additional guidance from the Product Owner. The Scrum Master is asking you for some guidance. What is the best way for you to help the Scrum Master? (choose the best answer)

Question59: One of the newest and least experienced Scrum Teams in your organization has 7 members: 3 are in London (UK), 1 is in Paris (FR), and 3 are in Mumbai (IN). What outcome would you expect? (choose the best answer)

Question60: How does a Scrum Team produce value?

Question61: What is the reason for looking at Time-to-Market (T2M)?

Question62: 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?

Question63: How would you describe Empiricism? Select two answers

Question64: You are a Product Owner. The Developers are close to the end of a Sprint and ask you for 3 extra days to complete their work. They feel that if they do not get the extra time, they might look bad in front of stakeholders, who are already skeptical of using an agile approach. What should you do? (choose the best answer)

Question65: The Scrum Master can never order the Product Backlog items

Question66: 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?

Question67: How does the Product Owner maximize the value?

Question68: What would be the effect of Artifacts with low transparency?

Question69: Which are the benefits of short Sprints? Select two answers

Question70: Measures usually fall into activities, outputs, and outcomes

Question71: 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?

Question72: You are a manager of an area at an Agile organization. A team member of one of your teams comes to you with questions regarding some of his work.
How should you handle this situation?

Question73: Which of the following options will you choose to help with the communication of a distributed Agile Team?

Question74: Having a Product Owner and Scrum Master is mandatory in a Scrum Team. Do you agree?

Question75: You manage a product delivery organization. Your manager asks you to create a plan for the next fiscal year describing what will be delivered. What is the best way to proceed? (choose the best answer)

Question76: 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?

Question77: You are an Agile Leader of an organization. A Scrum Master has asked you for advice because the Product Owner does not have enough availability for the Scrum Team. The Product Owner has other responsibilities outside of the Scrum Team and cannot fulfill the accountabilities properly. The Scrum Master has discussed this issue with the Product Owner, but the team is still struggling to achieve its goals without guidance from the Product Owner.
As a manager, what would you do to help the Scrum Master?

Question78: Reaching strategic goals requires achieving many intermediate goals on the way

Question79: 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?

Question80: What is lead time?

Question81: When using an Agile approach, it is expected and beneficial to change the plan frequently based on the feedback received from customers or stakeholders.

Question82: Agile maturity is a result of role maturity.

Question83: 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?

Question84: Which of the following will NOT help a team increase its frequency of delivery? (choose the best answer)

Question85: A Scrum Team has remote team members, after the 15 minute daily Scrum, Developers spend an additional 15-30 minutes every day discussing architectural designs, code designs, code reviews, high priorities bugs, and concerns.
As a Scrum Master, how should you handle this situation?

Question86: Delivering more features should improved customer experiences

Question87: Which of the following statements is true: (choose the best answer)

Question88: The Sprint Review is the only time during the Sprint that Stakeholders can meet with the Scrum Team.

Question89: Only the Developers are accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint.

Question90: What is Customer Cycle Time?

Question91: During a management meeting, a Manager reports that he is having issues getting one of his teams to take ownership of the project. The team always escalates decisions to him and asks him for directions.
What would you advise him to do?

Question92: How does the Product Backlog emerge?

Question93: Which of the following expresses the organization's ability to quickly deliver new capabilities, services, or products?

Question94: 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?

Question95: Two team members from the same Scrum Team have very different and strong arguments for how to build a user story.
What should be done?

Question96: Which statement best describes a Product Owner's responsibilities? (choose the best answer)

Question97: The first step in the journey toward a Strategic Goal is understanding your Current State.

Question98: 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?

Question99: 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?

Question100: The Developers of a Scrum Team complain that the technology and coding techniques they are using are behind the market trends and that they do not see opportunities for personal growth in this project.
Which of the following statements are true about personal development? Select three answers.

Question101: When multiple Scrum Teams are working on the same product but each team work on different modules, they must have a different Product Goal

Question102: You are a manager in an agile organization. You are responsible for the success of 12 Scrum Teams in your area. The CTO asks you to measure the value that each Scrum Team produces so that you can provide the information to investors and stakeholders.
What would you do?

Question103: How would you describe Scrum?

Question104: What is Product Backlog refinement?

Question105: You are the Agile Coach of an Agile Team, what would be your highest expectation of the team?

Question106: You manage a product development organization. One of your employees, a subject matter expert and a stakeholder for a product being developed, expresses that he feels that a newly-formed and relatively inexperienced Scrum Team lacks critical skills they will need to be successful. To fill this gap, he recommends replacing some members of the Scrum Team with new members who have better skills in the areas of concern. Based on these conversations, what do you do? (choose the best answer)

Question107: An increment can only be delivered after the Sprint Review

Question108: An Agile Leader must create an environment where experiments and tests that can fail are encouraged.