EMT Practice Test

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Question1: True or False: The Product Owner should prepare a complete Product Backlog before the first Sprint can start?

Question2: Evidence-Based Management is ...

Question3: When the Product Owner is too busy to work with all of the teams in a multi-team product development effort, which strategy will help them? (choose the best answer)

Question4: Product A has a budget that is twice that of Product B. Both serve the same set of customers.
Does Product A create more value for the customers than Product B? (choose the best answer)

Question5: How should multiple Scrum Teams, working together on the same product, select the Product Backlog Item for their teams? (choose the best answer)

Question6: A Visionary Product Owner tends to: (choose the best answer)

Question7: As a Product Owner, you have sufficient data showing the outcome of the last release. The information shows that very few people are utilizing the new functionality and a number of features are never being used.
Which of the following actions could you take to further evaluate this unexpected result? (choose all that apply)

Question8: The benefit of the Evidence-Based Management framework is:(choose the best answer)

Question9: When should refining of the Product Backlog occur? (choose the best two answers)

Question10: True or False: In order to stay aligned with the organizational strategy, goals should be achievable within the budget cycle.

Question11: The DISC is a model that divides behavior into four personality types: -Dominance - People with the D style tend to be direct, firm or even forceful. They value taking action and getting results and generally are competitive. -Influence - People with the I style tend to be outgoing, enthusiastic and generally are optimistic in nature. Like the D style, they like to take action and are more collaborative than competitive. -Steadiness - People with the S style tend to be patient and accommodating. They enjoy stability and much like the i style tend to be collaborative and enjoy being helpful. -Conscientiousness - People with the C style are usually analytical and reserved. Similar to the S style, they prefer stability, but their priority on accuracy will cause them to challenge assumptions.
What would be the best way when approaching a stakeholder with a mostly Dominant trait? (choose the best two answers)

Question12: As an investor or shareholder, which of the following measures might give you insight about whether a product is delivering value? (Choose all that apply)

Question13: True or False: Running multiple experiments on the same product at the same time helps to reduce the cost and complexity of testing new ideas.

Question14: Which approaches could help the Product Owner reduce waste in managing Product Backlog (choose the best two answers).

Question15: Peter, a young member, has been assigned to a mature Scrum Team. He is surprised why the Product Owner keeps paying attention to the technical debt. He supposes it should be the Developers's responsibility.
What is the best explanation? (choose the best answer).

Question16: True or False: Achieving organizational goals is the accountability of the managers.

Question17: Every Scrum Team must have a Product Owner and Scrum Master (choose the best answer)

Question18: You deliver a new feature that you think will improve customer satisfaction. When you measure the results, you not only find that it had no impact on customer satisfaction, it was hardly used.
What is your next step? (choose the best answer)

Question19: You are the Product Owner at a small company with a single product. You have authority over pricing, promotion, and how much is invested in new features or capabilities.
Your product has:
* High Current Value - as indicated by high customer satisfaction.
* High Unrealized Value - as indicated by low market share.
Using those two data points, what is the first action you should take to increase the business performance of the product? (choose the best answer)

Question20: An experiment will help you to:
(choose the best answer)

Question21: The timebox for the Sprint Review is: (choose the best answer)

Question22: True or False: Measuring internal stakeholder satisfaction is a good substitute in situations where it is difficult to measure customer satisfaction.

Question23: Product A is the main driver of both revenue and profit for your company; it has very happy customers (high Current Value) and low Unrealized Value. Product B is relatively new; it has low Current Value and high Unrealized Value. Both Product Owners of the two products are requesting significant additional funding to improve their products.
What do you do? (choose the best answer)

Question24: Your organization requires all Increments to pass user acceptance testing (UAT) before it is allowed to be released to production.
Is it a good idea to postpone UAT until the end of the project to prevent the Developers from being disrupted during the Sprints? (choose the best answer)

Question25: What can a Product Owner achieve through experimentation? (choose all that apply)

Question26: The Product Owner should talk to customers? Choose the best answer

Question27: True or False: Dependencies could influence how the Product Owner orders Product Backlog Items ?

Question28: Which statement best describes the Sprint Review? (choose the best answer)

Question29: The Definition of Done is used to: (choose the best three answers)

Question30: Which of the following is the Product Owner accountable for maintaining and communicating? (choose the best answer)

Question31: In Scrum, every product needs a ___________. (choose the best answer)

Question32: A new competitor has joined the market and has quickly gained market share, which leads to a loss of sales. After investigating, you have found out that the new competitor can release to the market faster than you three times.
What is the best first response? (choose one best answer)

Question33: A Product Owner - Jame is working with the firm's stakeholders. All stakeholders confirm that their features are critical to the profit gain. They urge Jame for the release.
What should Jame do? (choose the best answer)

Question34: The Developers have the final say on when to release an increment. (choose the best answer)

Question35: Team A is an excellent Scrum Team with a high velocity. At the 4th Sprint, the Scrum Team decided to lower the frequency of the Daily Scrum. They suggest conducting the Daily Scrum twice a week.
What are the three keys concerns if there are only two Daily Scrum meetings per Sprint? (choose ALL that apply).

Question36: Which of the following is true for the Current Value - Key Value Area in Evidence Based Management from Scrum.org? Choose the best answer

Question37: Your product has several internal stakeholders. You've gathered the following feedback related product direction: -The Marketing leader tells you that there's a new market opportunity and believes that in order to reach it, the product will need a new feature. -The Developers estimate that this new feature will require high effort. -The CEO thinks the feature is too expensive and suggests to stay focused on the market you're currently serving. As the Product Owner, you have full ownership of final product decisions.
How should you proceed? (choose the best answer)

Question38: A Product Backlog is: (choose the best three answers)

Question39: True or False: Some say adding more features always generate more value.

Question40: As a Scrum Product Owner, what should be your most important activity? (choose the best answer)

Question41: You are a new Product Owner brought in to fix an existing product. The product is integral to the organization's long-term vision.
When examining the issues you were able to learn that:
-The last three releases have had no positive impact on product value.
-The costs to build and maintain a release is high compared to the revenue it generates. ie Product Cost Ratio.
-The time from which the team starts working on a release to having it shipped to users is long. ie Time-to-Market.
As the Product Owner, which strategy would you pursue? (choose the best answer)

Question42: What is an effective Product Vision? (choose the best answer)

Question43: Which of the following activities should a Product Owner never do? Choose the best answer

Question44: Dereck is a Product Owner of a scaled product development effort with multiple Scrum Teams involved. He is stretched thin and is unable to spend enough time with all of the teams.
Which of the following strategies would be the most helpful? (choose the best answer)

Question45: Which two Key Value Areas are most affected by the daily frequency a team is switching tasks or is interrupted? (choose the best two answers)

Question46: What are the attributes of a good Product Vision and Strategy? (choose all that apply)

Question47: Personas can help to: (choose the best answer)

Question48: You want to improve your team's Ability to Innovate.
Which of the following actions might help? (choose the best answer)

Question49: For the 4th Sprint, the Product Owner observes that the Developers's velocity is decreasing. She/he decided to delay to start the new Sprint after the previous Sprint.
What could be a reason? (choose the best answer)

Question50: Which statement best describes the Sprint Review? Choose the best answer

Question51: When does an individual Developers member can take full ownership of a Sprint Backlog Item? (choose the best answer)

Question52: The Evidence-Based Management framework helps you to: (choose the best answer)

Question53: True or False: Release Frequency means: The time spent correcting product problems between the point the developers say it is ready to release and the point where it is actually released to customers.

Question54: The Product Owner ensures a product's success by measuring the following: (choose the best three answers).

Question55: The Product Owner is responsible for deciding when to deliver product releases to customers. The Developers are responsible for creating an increment that is potentially shippable.
As a Product Owner, how can you help improve the release cycle? (choose all that apply)

Question56: A new market opportunity has appeared and your organization will need to react quickly. In order to capture this valuable opportunity, you must accelerate your deliveries. Some managers are proposing extending work hours, some recommend hiring more resources, the Developers suggest automating both testing and releasing efforts.
What would help guide you in solving this problem and where to focus improvements? (choose the best answer)

Question57: Which two statements are the most accurate in regards to scaling Scrum for large projects that require multiple Scrum Teams? (choose the best two answers)

Question58: Tommy, a young and talented Product Owner, decided to release continuously new features. He supposed that more frequent releases increase the quality of the value.
What could be the potential problems with his releasing strategy? (choose ALL that apply).

Question59: You are a Product Owner hired to take the lead on a new company initiative. As the one responsible for the success of the Product, you are responsible for creating, managing, and owning the Product Vision.
Which is the best approach for defining the Product Vision? (choose the best answer)

Question60: True or False: Max, a new Product Owner, is unsure about the types of requirements acceptable on a Product Backlog. He supposed that the Product Backlog should contain only a list of necessary features for a Product. The Developers should manage other types of requirements as Performing Requirement and Fixes. They are not the Product Owner's concern.

Question61: What best describes a GO product roadmap? (choose the best two answers)

Question62: Your department has several teams working on different products at the same time.
Which of the following would be the best approach if managers want to understand the status of each team? (choose the best answer)

Question63: Which of the following is a benefit of using Scrum as an agile approach? (choose the best answer)

Question64: What is the role of the Product Owner in crafting the Sprint Goal? (choose the best answer).

Question65: Organizations should reduce their investment in a product when the product's: (choose the best answer)

Question66: Over a million customers use ZARA company's product. ZARA recently implemented and released a particular feature that they believed would be widely adopted by the users.
After gathering enough data from the test, it is concluded that the feature functions as intended however the usage rate was surprisingly low.
What should ZARA do? (choose the best answer)

Question67: The "cone of uncertainty" can be used to ______ (choose the best answer)

Question68: For the last few releases, your product's sales have not improved and not met your revenue projections.
Which measure would be most helpful in understanding the problem? (choose the best answer)

Question69: True or False: A benefit of using an agile approach is decreasing non-value-added waste.

Question70: An organisation has a large number of products and is unsure about how to allocate funding across the products.
Which of the following is the best way for them to proceed?

Question71: What are the three elements of a User Story? (choose the best three answers).

Question72: Your CEO thinks your organization needs to deliver more quickly. There is no shortage of opinions about how you should go about this. Some managers think they need to hire more people, some engineers think the answer is automation. You can't pursue every idea, and some ideas may not be worth pursuing.
What could best help you understand the problem and where to improve? (choose the best answer)

Question73: What questions would an organization ask in order to evaluate Current Value? (choose all that apply)

Question74: Experimentation can help a Product Owner to: (select all that apply)

Question75: Why should there be only one Product Owner per product? (choose the best answer)

Question76: During the product's development effort, the market for which the product is being built has changed and evolved.
What should you do? (choose the best answer)

Question77: Which preferred Product Owner stance helps people to align around the product vision and get people excited to join the case? (choose the best answer)

Question78: You release your product to customers once every month, which is better than any competitor. Most of the features you deliver are simply minor changes or corrections to existing features, but customer satisfaction remains low.
What Key Value Area should be your primary focus to improve the competitiveness of your product? (choose the best two answers)