-

Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective

1.
Scrum Master and Development team
2.
Product Owner and Development team
3.
Scrum Master and Product Owner
4.
Scrum Team
9.
-
What is the porpoise of Sprint Review?
1.
Product Owner can show the progress to
the stakeholders and get the approval to release
the work to the production
2.
To assess the team’s productivity and possibly record the assessment
score against the
performance goals
3.
To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the
insights from the
feedback to next Sprint
4.
So that the Scrum Team can recognize for the next Sprint
5.
Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next Spint
10.
-
Only the last day of the Sprint, a Scrum Team named AlmostDone is ready
to show their
work
but requires just 2 days to complete the testing what should the Scrum
Master recommend?
1.
Extend the Sprint by two days so that the team can complete the work
2.
Close the sprint on time
11.
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.............. improves the flow of business idea through its developm
ent and release to users.
1.
Good Requirements Management Tool
2.
Waterfall method
3.
DevOps practices
4.
Beta release
5.
Change Control Board (CCB)
12.
-
Design Thinking is another name for Agile Manifesto
1.
True
2.
False
13.
-
A Scrum Tram works on a 4 weeks Sprint.
After few Sprint, the team finds that they spend
more effort on unit testing, as the code base size has increased. What can
be the BEST
recommended for this team?
1.
Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self
-
organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing
2.
A
dopt practices like test automation from another frameworks like XP
3.
Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks
4.
Add two more temporary testers
5.
From a separate Testing team
14.
-
What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?
1.
It is used to
measure utilization of the development team
2.
It is used to measure defects introduced during Sprint goal
3.
It is used to measure
how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
4.
It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the
queries
15.
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Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?
1.
Test Driven Development
2.
Extreme Reviews
3.
Pair Programming
4.
Continuous Integration
5.
Refactoring
16.
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Ron has just started as a Scrum Master for an Agile team. He has acquired
knowledge by
reading multiple s
ources. After practicing Scrum for a while on the job, he is looking for a
certification to benchmark. What can be recommended for him?
1.
Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)
2.
SAFe Agilist (SA)
3.
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
17.
-
Charles is very
knowledgeable on Scrum. He joined a Scrum Team where the Scrum
Master is
Magneto. Contrary to his expectation of Scrum Master as a coach, he finds
that Magneto acts like
a traditional manager. Magneto controls the team heavily by individually
assigning tas
ks and
leading the Daily Scrum meetings to collect the percentage of task
completion. What is
recommended for Charles?
1.
Be prepared to face such anti patterns
and work together with the team to continuously
improve and eliminate anti
-
patterns
2.
Correct his
understanding of Scrum and accept that Scrum Master is the Team’s
manager
3.
Protest about this at the earliest possible team meeting and let others know
he is more
knowledgeable about Scrum
18.
-
Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of
“0
-
4
-
2”?

Agile Ready Partnership

All get Agile Certified

Agile Ready Workforce

Top
-
to
-
bottom Enterprise Agile Company ourselves

Agile Ready Workplace
19.
-
TCS Agile vision ‘100% Agile by 2020’ means

TCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as
100% right partner/advisor for
Agile Transformations

Every project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming

100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 competency

TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile Company

There should not
be any Agile related non
-
compliance in the project audits
20.
-
Eric has been working for a customer who has been following Agile for
quite some time now.
He is quite hands
-
on with Scrum and acquired PSM I certification already. The customer may
soon
move
to a large scale Agile. Which other certification may be beneficial for Eric so
he can be
prepared to help the customer?
1.
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
2.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
3.
Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)
21.
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Which of the following BEST rep
resent the Scrum approach to planning?

Planning is a continuous activity done jointly by Scrum Master and Product
Owner

Detailed planning is done upfront and not revisited

Whole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by
continuous plann
ing
throug
hout the project

Only planning in Scrum is the Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum is one of the planning events
22.
-
What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto?

Processes and tools over individuals and interactions

Working software over comprehensive
documentation

Responding to change over following a plan

Contract negotiation over customer collaboration
23.
-
What do all Agile framework have in common?

A prescribed, fixed iteration length

Lightweight approach that allows the self
-
organized teams to be better to business
requirements

Iterative and Incremental development

A clear step
-
by
-
step process for software development

A prescribed format for backlog items
24.
-
The Agile way is:
1.
To
produce working software of high business value and of the right quality,
early and
incrementally
2.
To produce working software only after requirements documentation has
been signed off
by the Product Owner
3.
To produce simple prototypes early, and release al
l only at the end of the project.
4.
Each Developer to sit with business every day, code as the mutually
discuss, and move to
production when the business seems satisfied
25.
-
The Product Owner in a Scrum project ...

Has no control over the prioritization of P
roduct Backlog Items

Has the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items

Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog
Items, but the
developers have the final say

Collaborates with the developers over priorit
ization of Product Backlog Items, but Product
Owner has the final say

Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business
Analyst
26.
-
In Daily Scrum, team members share yesterday’s progress and the plan for
next 24 hrs with
............
1.
Scrum
Master
2.
Product Owner
3.
Fellow team members
4.
Management representative
27.
-
The time box for a Daily Scrum is ...
1.
Two minutes per person
2.
15 minutes
3.
2 hrs
4.
No time box
5.
30 minutes
28.
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Scrum defines ....... Roles, ........ events and ........ artifacts
1.
3
-
5
-
3
2.
5
-
3
-
3
3.
3
-
3
-
5
4.
5
-
5
-
3
29.
-
What BEST describe a Scrum Team?

Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment

Collaborate with each other to self
-
organize their work

Team members must be specialist

Cross Functional

Reports to Product Owner
30.
-
The Scrum te
am is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What
CANNOT be inferred from the board?
1.
Number of items to be worked on by the team
2.
Percentage completion
3.
Tasks move from left to right
4.
Limit work in progress
31.
-
Which one is a popul
ar tool used in Agile software development
1.
Rexx
2.
Jenkins
3.
MS PowerPoint
4.
Tally
32.
-
What is Kanban board?
1.
A list of activities banned by the team
2.
The set of Can Have requirements
3.
A visible chart depicting the work to be don, work in progress and work
done
4.
Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose
33.
-
‘Agile for Beginners’ course is intended towards motivating you to learn
more about Agile so
that you can become
1.
Project Leader
2.
Agile Pra
ctitioner
3.
Project Manager
4.
Certified Mana
ger
5.
None of the above
34.
-
Agile principles can be only used for software development
1.
True
2.
False
35.
-
Kris in an experienced Project Manager with a customer project where he
commands the
teams and micro manages the team members at task level. How can he
help the TCS Agile vision?
1.
Proactively up
-
skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles
2.
No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager
3.
Wait till his current customer adopts Agile
36.
-
Juaraz is a TCS Delivery Partner of customer AB
C, having an Agile Team in one location. He
plans to expand this Agile Team. He arrives at a plan to set up the
expanded team in another
location. For an effective distributed agile between different locations, what
is recommended?
1.
Agile between
distributed locations will not work. Drop the plan.
2.
Leverage the guidelines from the TCS Point of View on distributed agile
(Location
Independent Agile)
3.
Copy a working distributed agile model from another customer and simply
reuse that model
37.
-
There ar
e two Product Development Teams, Team ToyZon and Team Zon. Team
ToyZon follows
traditional way and Team Zon follows Agile way of working. Which team
has the higher chance to
provide
early benefits to the customer?
1.
Team ToyZon
2.
Team Zon
38.
-
Why were the practitioners of ‘alternative software development methods’
not satisfied with
the traditional waterfall method?

Waterfall is not a lightweight process

The practitioners did not like the work in a formal system and hence did not
like any
‘met
hodology’ at all

Waterfall experience did not add value to their resume

Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly
towards changing
business and priorities
39.
-
Sprint itself is an event in Scrum
1.
True
2.
False
40.
-
Who manages
the team’s work during a Sprint?
1.
The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
2.
The team manages the work by self
-
organization
3.
The Product Owner manages the work
4.
The Delivery Manager manages the work
41.
-
What is the MOST likely to
happen if the Product Owner is not available during a Sprint?
1.
The team self
-
organizes itself to create value
2.
The Business Analyst helps the team until the Product Owner returns
3.
The Sprint deliverables may not be desired value
4.
The Scrum Master plays the r
ole of Product Owner
5.
Scrum Master terminates the Sprint and waits for the Product Owner to
return
42.
-
Noor’s Scrum Team had a great Sprint Review of a new feature with their
Product Owner.
Product Owner was happy with new feature, and wanted to release t
he feature to user. But, the
Scrum Team cannot do it themselves because production environment is
owned by company’s IT
operations team. Scrum Team was directed to create a ticket with IT
operations for production
release, and wait a week for an Ops engine
er to manually work on the ticket. What is missing in this
environment?
1.
Feedback
2.
Flow
3.
Continuous Improvement
43.
-
Providing additional feature without clear understanding of the business
need
–
What is the
category of waste?
1.
Inventory
2.
We do it all the
time. It is not a waste
3.
Over Production
4.
Defects
5.
Over Processing
44.
-
Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with
embedded software. The
team is adopting 2
-
week sprint. Lee notices that the project must produce an outcome that wi
ll be
highly adopted by the user to become successful. After every Sprint
Review, the Product Owner
keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory statements
about user needs. What can
be suggested for this environment?
1.
Apply design thinking fi
rst for initial phase and then bring Agile later
2.
More practices from Extreme Programming
3.
Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign
-
off the requirements
45.
-
Jerald is a
leaderof
a TCS Customer Account. He learnt that the company’s aspiration on Agile
is
to become 100% Agile by 2020. He gathered his Agile Experts within the
account and asked them for
a plan to transition from current way of working to 100% Agile way of
working as
defined in the text
book. Jerald correctly understood TCS aspiration.
1.
True
2.
False