EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What can happen if the Scrum Team's Work In Progress (WIP) Limit is not honored? (choose the best answer)

Question2: True or False: The purpose of a Scrum Team's Service Level Expectation (SLE) is to allow teams to give each Product Backlog item a commitment to a due date as part of Sprint Planning.

Question3: True or False: The Scrum Framework contains elements that can be treated as explicit policies.

Question4: Who is best to decide if a Scrum Team should apply a Kanban strategy in their Scrum framework? (choose the best answer)

Question5: True or False: A team's future performance can be determined by using Little's Law. (Choose the best answer)

Question6: True or False: Cycle time is considered a lagging indicator.

Question7: True or False: If you reduce your batch size, your overall efficiency will always increase.

Question8: Which of the following is TRUE about the relationship between Sprints and Kanban for Scrum? (choose the best three answers)

Question9: True or False: The Scrum Master is responsible for setting the WIP Limits.

Question10: Which is the best description of probabilistic forecast? (choose the best answer)

Question11: What is the potential benefit of limiting Work in Progress (WIP)?
(choose the best answer)

Question12: What are the benefits of having early, frequent, and consistent feedback loops? (choose the best answer)

Question13: Which of these is NOT a good description of Cycle Time?
(choose the best answer)

Question14: Which metric makes most sense to look at during Sprint Planning?
(choose the best answer)

Question15: Kanban for Scrum Teams is built upon which Scrum Values? (choose the best three answers)

Question16: True or False: Scrum with Kanban only allows you to release at the end of the Sprint.

Question17: Which of the following are Kanban practices for Scrum?
(choose the best answer)

Question18: What might be discussed during the Sprint Retrospective if the Scrum Team is considering to use Kanban to complement their Scrum? (choose the best answer)

Question19: True or False: Cycle Time is a lagging indicator.

Question20: What might a Scrum Team visualize with Kanban?
(choose the best three answers)

Question21: How do Work in Progress (WIP) Limits relate to self-management?
(choose the best two answers)

Question22: True or False: Components of the Scrum framework needs to be adapted when Scrum Teams start using Kanban. Choose only ONE best answer.

Question23: True or False: Scrum Teams using Kanban can replace Sprint Planning with just-in-time feature planning.

Question24: What is true about the Sprint Goal if the Developers reserve capacity for unplanned work during an upcoming sprint?
(choose the best answer)

Question25: True or False: Cycle Time is a direct leading indicator for the length of the Scrum Team's feedback loop for a Product Backlog item.

Question26: Reducing batch sizes might have the following impact: (choose all that apply)

Question27: Which of the following are considered lagging indicators? (choose the best three answers)

Question28: True or False: A Scrum Team's future output can be determined with Little's Law.

Question29: Which of the indicators would be more helpful at the Daily Scrum? (choose the best answer)

Question30: True or False: The Sprint length can be thought of as the team's batch size with Scrum Teams using Kanban.

Question31: Which of the following should a Scrum Team NOT do when creating the definition of "Workflow"? (choose the best answer)

Question32: Which of the following are leading indicator metrics?
(choose the best two answers)

Question33: Which of the following is true about Scrum Teams using Kanban? (choose the best answer)

Question34: True or False: Explicit policies applied at each state/column of the workflow can replace the need for a definition of "Done".

Question35: True or False: Using a flow-based perspective can enhance the Scrum events.

Question36: True or False: The Scrum framework already contains elements that create a pull system.

Question37: The Scrum Team's Definition of Workflow includes descriptions of each state of a work item can be. True or False: The various states of a work item described in the Definition of Workflow can only encompass flow inside of the Sprint. ie limited to the state of each column on the Developers' Kanban board.

Question38: In the context of Kanban, which statement best describes flow? (choose the best answer)

Question39: Is the Scrum Master role needed for Scrum Teams using Kanban? (choose the best answer)

Question40: Work in Progress (WIP) is NOT considered a leading indicator for which of the following measures? (choose the best answer)

Question41: What qualitative information can you get from a Cycle Time Scatterplot?
(choose the best answer)

Question42: In what ways does Kanban enhance the Scrum Team's ability to deliver value? (choose the best two answers)

Question43: True or False: A positive side effect of limiting WIP is that it creates a "pull system".

Question44: True or False: In a flow-based system, the number of tasks is not necessarily limited, rather the amount of value-generating work items is limited.

Question45: Who is accountable for the Definition of Workflow for the Sprint Backlog? (Choose the best answer)

Question46: A Scrum Team's service level expectation (SLE) is an input into the various Scrum events. In which event will SLE provide the most benefit towards maintaining good flow?
(choose the best answer)

Question47: Which of the following will help a Scrum Team achieve flow optimization? (choose the best 4 answers)

Question48: A service level expectation (SLE) consists of which two items?
(choose the best two answers)

Question49: For teams practicing Scrum with Kanban, which of the following can provide the most appropriate metrics for inspecting their flow? (choose the best answer)

Question50: True or False: The primary purpose of measuring Work Item Age is to identify bottlenecks in the workflow that will need to be addressed.

Question51: A Scrum Team has a Service Level Expectations (SLE) of 85% work items completed in eight days or less.
What is the likelihood of a work item to meet the 8-day SLE cycle if it has just surpassed the 50th percentile workflow stage? (choose the best answer)

Question52: Which of the following helps Scrum Teams, that use Kanban, from exceeding their capacity limits? (choose the best answer)

Question53: A Scrum Team's Definition of Workflow must have defined points at which the Scrum Team considers work to have started and to have finished. This allows the team to track their Work in Progress (WIP). How are these points defined?
(choose the best answer)

Question54: Which of the following will a Scrum Team most likely use as an input to Sprint Planning? (choose the best answer)

Question55: True or False: Cycle Time is used as a leading indicator to determine the length of a certain Product Backlog Item's feedback loop. Choose only ONE best answer.

Question56: What is a probabilistic forecast intended to communicate?
(choose the best answer)

Question57: What does the Work Item Aging chart show? (Choose the best answer)

Question58: What might be considered during the Sprint Retrospective once a team decides to supplement their Scrum with Kanban?
(choose the best answer)

Question59: Why aren't feedback loop practices included in the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams? (choose the best answer)

Question60: Which formula best represents Little's Law? (choose the best answer)

Question61: Little's Law is extremely valuable for directly predicting the future since it gives us a measure of what happened in the past? (Choose the best answer)

Question62: True or False: The Sprint Retrospective is the only time in which the Work in Progress (WIP) Limit can change.

Question63: Which one of the following concepts does the Just-In-Time (JIT) method advocate? (choose the best answer)

Question64: True or False: Scrum events can be further enhanced by applying flow-based practices.

Question65: A Cycle Time Scatterplot can help you visualize: (choose the best answer)

Question66: True or False: Little's Law is used to forecast a Scrum Team's output.

Question67: True or False: Work in Progress (WIP) Limits should primarily apply to tasks related to an individual Product Backlog item in the Sprint Backlog.

Question68: True or False: 'On-demand' work item place holders are used in place of Sprint Goals for Scrum Teams using Kanban. Choose only ONE best answer.

Question69: True or False: A team should change their WIP limit, at the Daily Scrum, if an urgent unplanned item enters a Sprint and the team is at the maximum WIP limit.

Question70: True or False: Limiting Work in Progress (WIP) will likely reduce the amount of collaboration in the Scrum Team.

Question71: True or False: In Scrum, the Developers are required to conform to the Definition of Done. When adding Kanban to Scrum, they will also need to conform to their Definition of Workflow.