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An agile coach advised a project manager to continuously improve their ability to support their team and remove any obstacles in the project's way. What role is the agile coach advising to the project manager to take on?
During sprint retrospectives, some team members are very vocal and tend to dominate the conversation, while others are more reserved and less likely to participate. What should the scrum master do?
Business partners are attending a daily standup meeting for a project. The business partners are asking questions about the sprint backlog and delivery timing.
How should the project manager explain why this is not the forum to ask these questions?
As a team completes their 21st sprint, new information reveals that a number of significant system integrations must be made to ensure the project scope is met. How should the project management plan be adjusted?
An agile team and a traditional development team are working together on a project. Each team exceeds expectations regarding deliverables: however, issues arise when the deliverables are integrated. What should the agile practitioner do?
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?
During a project's last few sprints, an agile practitioner notices an increase in defects. A root-cause analysis indicates that a poor understanding of the requirements was caused by the inability of the product owner to communicate clearly.
What should the agile practitioner do?
An agile coach realizes that a team responsible for a major release is a few months behind schedule. The marketing department is unaware of this delay and is planning to start the marketing campaign and announce the release.
What should the agile coach do?
Several team members are new to agile and there is a lot of confusion. It seems everyone is coming in with different experiences and following their own agendas. The scrum master decided to hold a presentation on core agile principles and values.
What should the scrum master emphasize to the team during the presentation?
A diverse team can sometimes create misunderstandings and conflict, leading team members to isolate. How can an agile project manager promote effective communication and collaboration among team members with diverse backgrounds and perspectives?
An executive notices a kanban board in a highly visible location and expresses concerns to the project manager that too many people will see it. What should the project manager do?
An agile team delivered a feature in the last iteration. The product owner, who missed the planning and review meetings, was dissatisfied with the feature. The team conducted a retrospective and reviewed the user stories related it.
What should the agile team do next?
An agile team is struggling to achieve their goal during the first release due to an unstable environment beyond the authority of the product owner. Close to the end of the current sprint, the release manager resigns and a new person takes over.
What should the scrum master do?
An agile team is struggling to achieve their goal during the first release due to an unstable environment beyond the authority of the product owner. Close to the end of the current sprint, the release manager resigns and a new person takes over.
What should the scrum master do?
An agile team is under pressure to deliver an application. The product owner anticipates many change requests from customers once the product is released.
What should the agile team do?
The agile lead is told by executive leadership that the team needs to work faster because the release date has been moved up three months. The agile lead communicates the updated timeline to the team. One of the junior team members objects and feels the timeline is unrealistic.
What should the junior team member do?
The project team is ahead of schedule and beginning lo gold-plate the feature included in the current sprint. What should the agile project manager do?
An agile team is building a training safety video based on current government regulations. The agile coach knows the regulations are likely to change before the release date.
How should the agile coach address this change?
The team is derailed by a demand from a senior manager unrelated to the project. How does the agile coach help the team?
An experienced product owner presents the epics and corresponding stones during a release planning session with the established team. The executive sponsor asks the team when the features will be delivered.
What should the agile team do?
What should an agile practitioner do to ensure that the end product meets business requirements?
During a recent sprint review meeting with stakeholders, the product owner received detailed feedback indicating the critical changes needed for upgrading the legacy system to better align with the latest technologies and user needs. How should the product owner help ensure the product backlog is effectively managed, while helping the team remain focused? (Refer to the Product Backlog Exhibit)
What should a Scrum Master do when one team member falls behind in their tasks?
A product owner is working on a special agile project for the automobile industry. The project team is responsible for all of the issues related to vehicle electronic control units. The team hasobserved a significant backlog of items in the “In progress' column (Refer to the kanban board). This accumulation is causing delays in task completion and impacting overall project timelines. The team operates in a dynamic environment where requirements frequently change, and stakeholders demand quick turnarounds.
What should the project team adopt to address this issue and improve task flow, considering all the demands?
Over the last two sprints, a number of potential problems have threatened the team's ability to hit the targeted release date. What should the agile practitioner do?
The project lead of a newly created agile project delivery team realizes that there are gaps in the knowledge of some team members. The lack of specific skills will add risk to the project delivery if the project becomes too dependent on specific resources for complete delivery.
What should the project lead do to address the gaps and develop a high-performing team?
A project team's manager is responsible for delivering a specific initiative for the organization. They are preparing for a monthly meeting where the manager will present on the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the current initiative status (see Exhibit A).
At the end of which sprint will the minimum viable product (MVP) be completed?
A product owner adds a 21-point, high-priority story to a sprint backlog. The team is concerned that it cannot be completed during the current sprint. What should the team do?
A Scrum team has worked hard to reach their sprint goal, but impediments have prevented them from succeeding. The team needed help from a specialist on another team, but the specialist was on a 2-week vacation.
What should the scrum master do?
During a planning session, four out of 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?
Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO):
Customer: I am requesting a calendar feature for scheduling and reminding of upcoming releases that we can manage. We also need the calendar to indicate quarterly metrics deadlines, code freeze dates for financial close, and things like that.
PO: My understanding is that this is for tracking project deadlines. Would you need to see the project deadlines on your phone calendar?
Customer: Yes. I need to see a single snapshot on my phone. So, is it possible for me to connect my phone to this calendar app?
PO: Let me write up the requirements and get the development team on board with the deadlines. What phone do you own?
Customer: I own an Android phone, but I also need integration with the Apple phones.
Identify three minimum viable product (MVP) items. (Refer to Conversation transcript between the customer and the product owner (PO). Choose three.)
When prioritizing features to be delivered in an iteration, on what features should an agile team defer work?
An agile team is unable to complete all its planned sprint user stories, which results in a decrease of its planned sprint velocity. What should the team do?
An agile team often fails to deliver its sprint goal. At a sprint retrospective, the more experienced team members complain that the less experienced team members are working too slowly. This creates tension in the team.
What should the scrum master do to remove this tension?
A team member has asked a question about the responsibilities of the product manager, QA, and the team regarding quality. What should the agile project manager advise?
During refinement, the team tester has a question about part of the acceptance criteria for a given user story. Who should clarify the acceptance criteria?
Trend analysis shows that velocity is significantly higher than predicted and the release can be completed one month ahead of schedule. The team recommends changing the end date to reflect this.
What should the agile practitioner do?
Why should an agile coach model agile principles and behaviors, become self-aware, and be present?
How can a scrum team obtain more feedback from a minimally responsive outside stakeholder?
An organization is shifting to an agile delivery methodology. An agile project manager has been assigned to the transformation project.
What should the agile project manager do to ensure a high level of adoption?
A software company is developing an accounting software system to market to customers. The team has been working on the project for six weeks and has great velocity. One of the major stakeholders approached the scrum master and asked for a bi-weekly status report because they feel they are not being properly updated.
How should the scrum master respond to this request?
A Inform the stakeholder that all updates are provided in the sprint review sessions and encourage them to attend
B. Create and update bi-weekly project status reports for the stakeholder who requested the report.
C. Escalate this to the stakeholder's supervisor because this is an unreasonable request.
D. Ignore the stakeholder's request and continue working on the project as they have been for the past six weeks.
A product owner concludes that the majority of a project's value can be delivered by completing only the first half of the prioritized backlog. What should the product owner do next?
In several recent agile team status meetings, there have been discussions about increases in costly bugs and late product deliveries, resulting in lower quality and higher costs. Team members feel they spend too much time in planning and process meetings, then feel rushed to complete their work.
How should the agile lead implement an effective and efficient solution?
A newly formed team is struggling to work together and agree on how to complete tasks in the upcoming sprint. What should the scrum master do to support the team?
Midway through a sprint, a scrum team member advises the team of a new requirement that may change the initial scope. What should the team do?
A team's technical lead believes that manual testing tasks should be conducted by junior team members below their level. The junior team members think it is unfair and refuse the tasks.
What should the scrum master do?
One of the overseas stakeholders on an agile project has not been actively involved in the project's development. What would be the first step to reengage the stakeholder?
In companies where decision making is driven by data analytics and unknown variables are addressed, what advantages does agile project execution offer over a predictive approach?
A project team has a senior subject matter expert (SME) who is comfortable with data integration. The SME is not inclined to perform regression testing because the SME feels that performing regression testing is more of a junior duty.
What should the scrum master do?
Stakeholders are unhappy because they have not been consulted on a user interface (UI) for a project that will have a significant impact on end users once it is launched. How should this situation be handled?
Following a successful product release, senior management asks an agile team how to improve the value of the product for the next release. What should the team do?
An agile team member from a cross-functional team has been unable to complete assignments due to tasks assigned by the functional manager. What should the Scrum Master do?
During a daily stand up meeting, a developer expresses concerns that the selected technology limits the number of concurrent users. What should the agile team lead do?
A project team held a working session with a finance team to understand the procurement process. After the meeting, while the agile lead was facilitating the value stream mapping exercise, one of the team members asked: "When calculating the cycle time, which factors should be considered?"
How should the agile lead respond?
A key stakeholder feels they do not understand the project at a comprehensive level. What should the agile practitioner do?
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?
A product owner is responsible for a new product. The internal customer questions using an agile approach because they need a product that works without any bugs or missing features once it is launched.
What should the product owner do?
An agile team's client has been asked to expedite the delivery of the next release. By delivering one month early, the company can generate USS40.000 more than expected for the quarter. What should the agile team do?
What should a product owner do when a new stakeholder is complaining that they are not receiving the relevant financial data regarding the project.
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?
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?
When working with Lean approaches, which process includes the sequence of steps for delivering value and those required to carry them out?
A food company seeks additional business-to-business (B2B) revenues from some customers by
implementing purchase order (PO) functionality. To achieve this, the agile project team is exploring PO integration options (see item #3 in Exhibit A), as the product increment (PI) planning process is underway.
What should the project team do next?
On an agile project, some of the development team is struggling to understand how the tasks and user stones fit into the overall product. How should this be addressed?
A product owner asks a newly formed scrum team how many story points will be completed in a sprint. What should the scrum master do?
A project's product owner asks the scrum master to facilitate the estimation activity. The scrum master then meets with the team and the product owner to clarify the user stories. Following the meeting, the team assembles and provides individual user-story estimates.
What technique did the team use?
During agile training, an aspiring scrum master with experience in predictive projects asks about the differences between the Kanban approach and the agile approach.
How should the agile trainer respond?
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?
An agile coach has been hired to improve the performance and quality of developed software. The coach performed an analysis of the software and discovered an excessive number of escaped defects, leading to external failures.
How can the agile coach effectively address and correct defects in the software development process while maintaining predictability and keeping workloads within capacity?
A project team tasked with delivering a solution with extremely aggressive timelines is facing an issue with meeting their sprint velocity targets. To address this issue and bring the project back on track, what action should the team take?
An agile lead is working on a project to build a new product that will bring substantial business value to a company. Company executives want to present the first release at an important industry fair the following month. The agile lead started the project the previous month, and the team planned the release to take 8 iterations. For the past 4 iterations, work has been performed as planned and on time. In the current iteration, however, one team member will be out for the remainder of the project. Without this team member, velocity would drop 30%.
What should the agile lead do to ensure the release will be on time for the fair?
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?
One of the senior stakeholders on a project did not want to be engaged on a daily basis. During the iteration, the team encounters complexities but are convinced these issues can be resolved in time for the demo.
What should the agile practitioner do?
An agile team is working on the first sprint, and have already planned the second and third sprints. However, market conditions now require a change to the features. What should the product owner do?
A new CIO advocates an agile framework for new IT projects, but the team has reservations. How should the CIO ensure that the team will be aligned with this?
Business stakeholders of an agile project frequently skip the review meetings. What should the agile practitioner do?
A Scrum team decided to switch to Kanban for the maintenance phase of the product. The kanban board consists of the following columns "To do," "In progress," "Ready to be tested," "Test in progress," and "Done." Since the team changed their way of working, they have noticed the work is flowing slower in the system. A large queue of "Ready to be tested" work items has been building up.
What should the team do to improve its speed of delivery?
A Scrum team decided to switch to Kanban for the maintenance phase of the product. The kanban board consists of the following columns "To do," "In progress," "Ready to be tested," "Test in progress," and "Done." Since the team changed their way of working, they have noticed the work is flowing slower in the system. A large queue of "Ready to be tested" work items has been building up.
What should the team do to improve its speed of delivery?
During an interview for an agile team lead for a global company, a candidate is asked: "How do you ensure your project is aligned with the stakeholders' priorities?"
How should the candidate respond?
The agile team disagrees with the business stakeholders on completing some epics What could help eliminate misunderstandings?
What is the risk of using agile in a distributed team?
A Frequent integration of work produced
B. Lack of shared knowledge of user stories
C. Need for more locations to learn agile
D. Unclear team structure
A Scrum team is visualizing the blockers that arise when they work on their activities on the kanban board. The team decided to analyze why the blockers occur so they can take action to minimize their occurrence and reduce lead times.
Which practices should the team use?
More details for a story are required before the upcoming sprint planning meeting What should the scrum master do?
An agile practitioner notices that a project is increasing open defect counts after every subsequent iteration. What should the agile practitioner do?
DRAG DROP
All the developers on a project team are working offshore in a different time zone, resulting in many issues. Match the issues to the agile practitioner's recommendations for resolutions below. (Drag the Problems/Issues on the left to the box in the center, corresponding to the correct Recommendations for Resolution on the right)
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?
A mobile application project is halfway through development. The team reaches a stabilized velocity after 8 iterations. The sprint duration is two weeks and requirements assigned by the product owner are not changing frequently.
What is the estimated time remaining for the project?
An agile coach is guiding a team across multiple locations. They need a united communication approach that involves task-oriented communications and discussion boards with effectiveness.
Which method of communication would be most effective?
A scrum team is working on an important project with a short deadline. To save time and reduce overhead, the product owner proposes that the regular sprint reviews should be cancelled and replaced with a review of each release according to the release plan.
What should the scrum master do?
An agile coach is working with a team that serves clients making product requests by phone. During a daily commitment and replanning meeting, a team member states that they were unable to resolve a client request because they lacked sufficient product knowledge.
What should the agile coach do?
A customer has difficulty explaining how the highest priority feature will work. What should the agile project manager do?
An agile team is preparing a release plan for a project. What information will the team need to complete this plan?
A product's scope and acceptance criteria have been defined, and the product is planned for release at the end of the next quarter. What should the project team do next?
A large project team is assigned to a complex technical project with many interdependent epics. The team starts to experience problems in the second sprint as the technical leads are independently unable to determine the needed solutions.
What should the project lead do to help the team?
An agile team lead noticed their team’s velocity was slowing down. They did not deliver a working software during the last iteration and there have been miscommunications between team members.
What should the agile team lead do at the end of this iteration?
Midway through an iteration an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations. As a high-performance team, what should the team do?
An employee just received an Agile certification and has been promoted to team leader. They are working on a project that is experiencing issues with late deliverables. After monitoring project progress, they notice that one impediment is continuously repeated at start of each phase, affecting team's productivity.
How should the team leader exhibit servant leadership?
An agile project manager has noticed their teams declining morale, mistrust, and isolation over the last 6 months of working on a project. What should the agile project manager do to enhance productivity and create a cohesive team culture?
Roadmaps are defined as covering a rolling 12 months. When creating a product roadmap in an agile environment, what factor should the agile lead take into consideration?
A project manager is working on a database migration project to cloud services (Refer to Migration Strategy to Cloud Services table). The project team has accumulated significant technical debt over several sprints due to pressure to deliver features quickly. This debt is nowimpacting their ability to deliver new features, leading to a notable decline in product performance and customer satisfaction.
Identify the actions the team should take to effectively manage technical debt while consistently delivering high-value features that align with stakeholder expectations.
As part of the organizational change, all project teams within the digital channel’s portfolio have been directed to move from 3-week iterations to 2-week iterations. The development team is frustrated as they think there will not be enough time to test. The product owner does not like this change as it will increase the number of ceremonies.
Which two actions should the scrum master take? (Choose two.)
An agile team wants to collectively determine a project's size. What will the team be doing if they use the planning poker technique to accomplish this?
An agile team is working on a new product and is behind with their deliverables for the quarterly release. The team discovers new issues during each iteration. They start working on the critical issues and sometimes forget to update the backlog. This leads to confusion, delays, and occasional rework.
How should the agile practitioner improve the team’s productivity?
A project manager is leading a large agile project with multiple deliverables at each phase of completion. The project team has informed the project manager that the deliverables are completed per the team agreement.
Which agile practice should the project manager advise their team use to ensure deliverables are completed and ready for release?
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?
When introducing agile processes to a company, a quality assurance (QA) manager resists and believes that the switch to agile will remove quality controls and documents How should the agile practitioner address this concern?
As user stories are developed, what should be done to record and update acceptance criteria?
A development team is calculating the number of story points they have completed at the end of an iteration. Although quality assurance (QA) passed and successfully demonstrated one feature, it is not being included in the release package.
Should the team add the feature's story points to their burndown chart?
During backlog refinement, the team uses an online planning poker tool for estimation. The junior developers change their number of story points after they see the estimations provided by the developers. The junior developers state that the reason for this is that they do not have enough experience and do not want to be blamed for sizing it wrong.
What should the scrum master do?
An agile team is optimizing the workflow by investing in initiatives to identify and reduce unnecessary handovers and delays. What should the team do in this situation?
If an individual is working on a project team in a phase delivering an increment, according to the definition of done (DoD), who was that defined by?
In a project, the customer asks for a requirement that clearly deviates from the contract terms. How should the contractor react?
An organization highly values security. However, a team member on a project has found a way to save time and money with less robust security features.
What should the team member do?
The team is aware that they will need to integrate a new component to their solution in the next few weeks. The team does not have any experience with this component.
What should the team do next?
A client needs to release their product to market earlier than planned. They need to start receiving the expected revenue, according to their financial forecast, which will require completing the work left on all user stories in the backlog.
What should the project lead do to accommodate this request?
During sprints, the development team members are frequently invited to various meetings to provide technical opinions, consuming the team's working time and causing compliance issues. Which action should the scrum master take to address this situation?
When considering impact on a project, to whom should an agile project manager give top priority on the stakeholder list?
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?
An agile team is continuously interrupted by stakeholders wanting to ask product backlog questions. Distractions can have a negative impact on value delivery and quality.
Who is responsible for protecting against distractions?
A development team determined the first release of a product should focus on delivering a minimally viable version of the solution. What is the most important reason the team decided to do this?
Project stakeholders are finding it difficult to know the real-time status of who has been assigned to various stories and the status of each work item. Which of the following should the agile project manager do?
A newly formed development team experienced difficulty with accurately estimating product backlog items. As a result, the team failed to deliver all of the features in the sprint backlog for the past two iterations.
What should the team do to improve the accuracy of their estimates?
An agile team lead is assigned to a project that must ensure data security. What should the team lead do to guarantee that security, as a non-functional requirement, is managed throughout the project?
Toward the end of a project the product owner discovers that the project has a high probability of failure due to a critical feature not functioning as expected What should the product owner do?
A software project is being implemented by a small, colocated team. What should the project manager do to keep the team focused and engaged with the high level of requirements?
Several new stakeholders are concerned about being asked to review a product demo before it is complete. How should the agile coach explain to the stakeholders the value of working this way?
During sprint planning, team members have differing opinions on a feature that delivers business value but fails to provide a long-term solution for the customer How should the team resolve this?
A team working with a new technology faces a significant amount of uncertainty about its ability to deliver stories due to technical issues. What should the team do?
A key resource is switching between projects to obtain more visibility and acclaim. However, project work has grown and become a burden.
What should the agile project leader do?
A team member starts discussing a project roadblock during a daily coordination meeting. The team discusses details of the impediment, which takes up most of the meeting time.
What should the agile facilitator do?
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?
A new agile team member notices that the team's current process involves excessive documentation. What should the new team member do?
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?
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?
An agile project was underway for two months and delivered the expected value to the stakeholders. However, during a sprint review, a team member complained that the product owner constantly changes requirements and the member feels that this is blocking the team’s performance.
How can the scrum master handle this situation?
An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects. What should the project manager do to share this project's knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?
A customer and a product delivery team meet to discuss a product's attributes, goals expectations. hypothesis1 and high-level needs. What is a benefit of this meeting?
TESTED 18 Aug 2025
Accessibility – color blind → 4 story points
Increase security → 21 story points
Add AI chatbot → 5 story points
The risk register mentions a reduction of 1 story point per sprint from sprints 4 through 6 due to the holiday schedule.
If we assume the team's normal velocity is 10 story points per sprint (hypothetically), it would drop to 9 story points per sprint for sprints 4-6.
Assess dependencies and integration requirements more effectively.
Prioritize and deliver in smaller, testable increments.
Improve estimation accuracy using techniques like planning poker.
Ensure alignment with agile principles of incremental and iterative delivery.
The project is halfway through development.
The team has reached a stable velocity after 8 iterations.
Each sprint duration is two weeks.
Since the project is halfway completed, an equal amount of work remains.
If 8 iterations have been completed, 8 more iterations are required to complete the project.
Each iteration (sprint) lasts 2 weeks.
8 iterations × 2 weeks per iteration = 16 weeks.
16 weeks = 4 months.