CAPM – Quiz agile questions D3 (fake)

A hybrid project combines IT integration and software development tasks. The predictive and agile teams seem to be working in silos, resulting in misaligned deliverable scheduling. Which measures would most effectively enable the teams to better synchronize their deliveries? (Select TWO. )

A medical equipment vendor is running a hybrid project which includes some custom software development by an agile team. The team progress is good, but slow customer approval causes unnecessary delays. The customer insists that approval can only be given after repeating all the test cases in the target environment. How can the project manager accelerate the approvals and build customer trust at the same time?

A dependency milestone is set at a target date for the start of a predictive phase in a hybrid project. The milestone marks completion of a product produced midway through an agile phase of the project. What should the project manager do to ensure that the agile team does not miss the target date?

A software project is running in strict adherence to the Agile Manifesto. At the end of the iteration, the project manager is updating a burn-up chart based on the following outcomes:

What amount should the project manager add to the burn-up chart?

A hybrid municipal waste management project combines many brief administrative tasks with small-scale public works. An agile track makes good progress on key objectives, but small tasks are accumulating in the backlog. Most tasks can be done in one day but are dependent on unpredictable triggering events. Which approach would be most effective to clear out these minor tasks faster?

The IT integration team has a major setback in a hybrid project. Testing has confirmed that the hardware does not support the target operating system. The agile team’s software releases must now run on a later operating system version. What should the project manager do next?

A hybrid product design project encounters a 3D printed malfunction resulting in costly losses of titanium supplies. When the production team tells the agile programming team about the problem, it becomes clear that mistranslated data sheets created problems for both teams, but the agile team resolved their problems a month before the malfunction. What could the agile team have done to prevent the malfunction?

In Agile, a Release Plan can be decomposed into:

The Project Manager receives a progress report during a demo and review meeting. The report shows that the agile project is not on track. Since all work was purposely selected and sequenced to meet higher-level objectives, the Project Manager is surprised by the report.
 
In the future, how can the Project Manager prevent this type of miscommunication in an agile project?

The Project Manager shifts to an agile approach for a project with an aggressive go-to-market timeline. The Project Manager needs to revise the stakeholder engagement plan so that it follows agile principles.
 
What should the Project Manager do to meet this need (choose two)?

During an agile iteration, Task 1 cannot be completed on time due to unexpected challenges. Another team within the project is depending on timely completion of Task 1 in order to fulfill their part of the project.
 
How should the Project Manager resolve this issue?

A team decides that an agile approach fits the needs of the next phase in their project. Unfortunately, there are team members who have not had the appropriate agile training.
 
How should the Project Manager respond to the lack of agile training?

A customer is not satisfied with the delivered product, saying that it was not what they expected. The Project Manager is surprised, because the agile development team delivered the product several iterations early.
 
What is one way that the Project Manager could have avoided this result?

Some agile approaches have recently been added to an infrastructure company’s predictive processes. The team is not completing the planned story points, and the they are becoming passive. The Project Manager is concerned and wants to improve productivity.
 
What should the Project Manager do?

A Project Manager from a traditional project management organization is assigned to an ongoing project. Recently, the organization has started to use agile methodologies in its projects. The Project Manager hears that some team members feel like key subject matter expertise is missing and there is insufficient collaboration within the team. 
 
How should the Project Manager respond to these team members’ concerns?

An agile approach meets the needs of the next phase in a team’s project. As the team discusses the phase it becomes clear that some team members have not received appropriate training in the agile model.
 
How should the Project Manager respond to this issue?

A smart phone manufacturer is re-assessing its product development methods in response to a sharp increase in user complaints. Analysis of the complaints indicates that the users try to use some features in ways that designers did not anticipate.

Given these findings, which agile practice would most effectively prevent the problem?

Six months into a strategic agile project, company exectives are closely monitoring its progress. The COO expresses his frustration that the last weekly burn-down charts show the projected completion date significantly moving back and forward several times.

How can the project manager forecast the completion date with more accuracy and stability?

A project manager experienced in predictive methods is taking on an agile project for the first time. To help in adjusting, the project manager makes a watchlist of situations that arise from inadequate action as a servant leader.

Which situations would result from a lack of servant leadership? (Choose THREE.)

A new team member, unaccustomed to agile practices, becomes nervous when an operations engineer who often criticized his previous work appears at the morning standup meeting.

What could justify the project manager’s invitation to the operations engineer?

A trend of stories uncompleted at the end of iterations has become apparent. Multiple team members worked on these stories and no blockers were identified .

What can the agile team do to resolve the situation?

The empowered agile team showed impressive progress in the first four iterations, but now the product owner has noticed low output in the latest five iterations without any apparent reason.

What could be the cause of this situation?

Several items remain in the kanban blocked column despite the team’s efforts to address them. The retrospective reveals that all the impediments can be traced back to a particular department head, one the project manager has tried to educate previously but who still shows resistance.

What should the project manager do next?

Several items remain in the kanban blocked column despite the team’s efforts to resolve the issues. The retrospective reveals that all of the impediments relate to mandatory corporate business processes which introduce wait times.

What should the project manager do next?

The quarterly results show that competitors are driving prices down. The company is losing market share and midway into a product development project, it appears the sponsoring unit is not likely to get return on their investment.

What should the project manager do adapt the project to these new conditions? (Select TWO.)

A security-classified, agile software project requires outside expertise and delivery to add a module based on machine learning. An approved supplier asks the project manager to join the daily meeting with the supplier’s agile team, but the project manager’s schedule is too full with internal meetings.

How could the two teams synchronize interactively but somewhat less frequently?

The marketing director is displeased that the agile innovation team is producing too many novelty products with too little business value.

What should the project manager do to correct the team’s approach? (Select TWO.)

An agile innovation team is highly productive. However, the Head of Operations informs the product owner the company is not getting sustainable return on investment from the team’s work.

How should the product owner address the problem?

An efficient, empowered agile innovation team do not understand why required approvals from the legal department are allowed to delay their progess. Eventually, the team confronts the product owner in a heated retrospective exchange. The product owner replies that the approvals are needed to check for existing patents which would block the team’s product from going to market.

How should such conflicts be prevented?

A new agile innovation team will be set up with a mission to place product quality above all other considerations. The initiative comes after a number of high-visibility complaints on social networks about the brand’s drop in quality.

Which method would be most effective to achieve the team’s goals?

An agile development team finds a workaround to remove a significant blocker. Their output increases dramatically over the next two iterations. At the third iteration retrospective, the product owner is horrified to learn about the workaround and asks the team to redo the work based on a better solution.

How can the project manager prevent such situations?

The agile team is composed of highly skilled product design engineers. Their reputation for quality and speed has earned them new duties in concept development for new products, but team output in this new role has dropped steeply compared to their design work.

Which measures are most effective to improve team productivity in this case? (Select TWO.)

An innovative product fails to satisfy targeted consumers despite significant investments in quality control and marketing campaigns.

Which agile practice would best prevent future failures of this nature?

At the end of an Agile project, all stories are completed on schedule and all tests passed, but the customer does not consider the product a success.

Which is the most effective way to prevent this outcome in future projects?

An agile team is struggling to solve a blocking issue with packaging design. Eventually, they find a solution, but it requires a different product format.

What should the team do before further developing the solution?

A company is losing market share to disruptive competitors with new business models. A cross-functional agile team has been formed to recommend ways to recover market share.

How can the team increase their chance of producing successful recommendations?

Members of a virtual agile team are separated by seven timezones. Daily meetings are too long and the problem is made worse by switching laptop cameras between the speaking members.

Which measures should the project manager take to achieve shorter, more efficient daily meetings? (Select TWO).

The IT department of a glassware manufacturer enthusiastically approved the agile team’s mid-project demo of quality checking software for assembly line workers. However, the final product was considered unusable because the workers’ gloves are too thick to press the software’s small buttons.

What should the project manager do to avoid this kind of failure in the future?

The Project Management Office wants to offer constant reporting across the dozens of agile projects running concurrently. They want to use information radiators to share progress status and key lessons learned.

How can this best be achieved?

Four of the five agile team members are away for a month, but the project needs to make progress. Three foreign contractors are working remotely on the stories. In their first sprint, they misinterpreted certain usability requirements, but completed five stories blocked due to algorithmic complexity.

What should the product owner do?

A Scrum innovation team is funded at varying levels by six market units. Four niche market units complain they are neglected because the team prioritizes mainstream unit goals. The CMO asks to devote a constant 40% of the team effort to the four niche units in a balanced way.

How can the product owner support this request?

An agile team is subject to frequent rotation of staff from various departments to augment the team.

How should the project manager compensate for the disruption to the non-rotating team members?

The agile team sometimes has idle periods while awaiting a product director to inform the product owner on new goals. The decisions depend on analysis of market research.

Which measure could reconcile the needs of the director and the agile team?

A governmental anti-money laundering software project needs a solution to collaborate with a remote agile team of four in another country. Spontaneous verbal communication between the teams must be supported. All the remote team’s workstations and kanban boards must be visible at all times.

Which virtual team collaboration solution is most appropriate?

A startup needs to quickly expand its product portfolio to meet market demand. Recently, staff might work on two or three agile teams, each dedicated to a different product line. Output is dropping and defect rates are rising in all teams.

How can the project manager help the agile teams improve their work? (Select TWO.)

Over the past six months, the cost per story has risen by more than 250% due to a faulty platform which is no longer supported. The agile project is projected to exceed the budget increment threshold at the next iteration.

Who should decide if the project should be cancelled?

A project manager is visiting a software supplier’s office. Some of the sights are surprising: two people per workstation, estimations based on a deck of cards, developers forcing their tests to fail, and routines with names such as “traffic_cop” and “ringleader”.

What could explain these practices?

A project manager is using a suitability assessment tool to find the right project approach for a new project. The tool ranks on the following criteria:

– Change: rate of change to requirements
– Criticality: Criticality of product, processes and impact of defects
– Buy-in: Executive support for adaptive methods
– Team size: Number of members in project team
– Team skill: Project team experience
– Access: Direct collaboration/feedback with clients/sponsors

Rate high–medium–low each of these factors that would be best suited to a fully agile project approach. [fill-in the blank with the rate: high;medium;low]

Marketing wants to be first to market to launch a senior-friendly version of a smartphone shopping application, and has asked the agile team to develop it.

What should the project manager do to begin the development process?

The atmosphere is tense in the sprint planning review. The agile team are mumbling amongst themselves, one of them kicks a chair, shouting at the product owner, “That just doesn’t make sense!”

What should the project manager do in this situation? (Choose TWO.)

A client selected a software company to develop a smartphone application. The client’s legal team required a detailed source code register for all builds, and refused the company’s counter-offer for walk-through meetings and free developer support. 60% of the project effort was spent on documentation and 15% on implementing 38 feature changes.

How many of the of the Four Values of the Agile Manifesto were upheld in this project?

User testing on the last product release revealed low user interest in certain features that required significant effort to develop.

What can the agile team do to prevent this disparity in the future?

The product owner’s schedule is very tight and he wishes to delegate some of his tasks to the experienced agile team.

Which task is suitable to delegate to the agile team?

The project manager is using the INVEST method to check the quality of three stories in the product backlog:

Story 1: As a user, I want to be able to bend the flex conduit up to 90° in any direction to orient lighting from a fixed position.
Story 2: As a user, I want to exert no more than 4 MPa to bend the flex conduit from an unsupported standing postion.
Story 3: As a assembler, I want to spray a conduit coating that will inhibit all oxidation when exposed to 50 years of tropical rain conditions.

What is the evaluation result for these stories?

An ongonig agile project is measured as follows:

What conclusions can be drawn from these figures? (Choose TWO.)

A cultural event project has distinct work packages of varying durations comprised of tasks which cannot be predictably scheduled.

What agile approach would be appropriate in this case?

An efficient agile team in a large corporation generated ideas and added innovative features to the backlog. After the additional features were tested and complete, the portfolio owner rejects all of them.

What is tbe most likely reason this situation happened?

A travel company wants to create smartphone applications for their users. Competitors are racing to do the same. The product owner’s vision describes several versions of the app: Basic, Basic Ad-free, Pro, and Premium.

Which project approach is best suited to the company’s needs?

User test results are back on the prototype release. The test users describe the kind of smoother experience they want, the many missing features they desire, and the ways the product could be more visually appealing.

What conclusions can be drawn from the user’s input?

While monitoring progress of the agile team, the project manager notices that an expert member’s output is much lower compared to junior team members. This is a surprise, as the expert works diligently on the most complex tasks and always produces defect-free results.

Which is the most likely explanation for the developer’s low output?

A financial software company serves stock markets worldwide. An experimental quality assurance project has agile teams working in three company offices: Seattle, Tokyo and London. The teams work in two shifts in each location’s timezone:
Shift 1: 8AM to 4PM
Shift 2: 4PM to midnight

Which collaboration method would ensure fastest follow-the-sun problem resolution?

As part of an organizational change program, an experienced agile project manager is hired to a company with a strong predictive culture.

What should the project manager do to start helping the company adopt agile methodologies? (Choose TWO.)

In an agile project, too many meetings have made the product owner’s schedule unworkable. The product owner wants to prioritize some meetings and decrease frequency of others.

Which meetings should be prioritized to better ensure successful product development? (Choose TWO.)

In an agile project, too many meetings have made the product owner’s schedule unworkable. The project manager was asked to prioritize some meetings and decrease frequency of others.

Which meetings should the product owner attend less frequently? (Choose TWO.)

Over the past six months, the development cost per story has risen by more than 250% due to a faulty platform which is no longer supported. The product vision highlights that unique features of the platform are a pre-requisite for the product.

What should the project manager do to determine next steps?

The product owner needs a more precise view of actual time spent on tasks in order to apply more accurate business value estimates in the product backlog.

How should the project manager propose to address the problem?

An agile project is structured without timeboxing. Tasks are grouped by high-level goal, but cannot be predictably scheduled.

How can the work be distributed for efficient execution? (Choose THREE.)

A new product development project is to be initiated in a difficult business context. Competition is driving prices down and supply costs are rising.

Why would an agile incremental project approach be the safest choice in this context?

An ongonig agile project is measured as follows:

What are the project’s metrics at this point? (Choose TWO.)

The company has hired a new Architectural Excellence board with a mission to promote new programming paradigms. The agile team continues to work on new and existing software products.

How should the project manager deal with this new development?

A frustrated agile team member approaches the project manager to complain that a senior team member is monopolizing all the “interesting” backlog items.

How should the project manager address the complaint?

An R&D executive occasionally visits the agile team’s work area to give instructions about urgent feature work. During sprint reviews, the product owner becomes upset that the team worked on the requested features.

How should the project manager address the problem?

An agile team member solved a problem that had blocked the team for several weeks. After release of the software, it appears that the solution caused a function to fail. The quality director demands an explanation.

How should the project manager react? (Choose TWO.)

The last three agile iterations showed a trend of increasingly prolonged test work.

Which activity should the project manager plan to address the root cause?

After three agile iterations showed a trend of increasingly prolonged test work, the team performed an intensive backlog refinement.

What metrics would show that the problem was effectively addressed?

A project manager wants to know if there is a good combination of T-shaped skills in the agile team.

What can the project manager measure to determine this?

The agile team will take over from another suppplier to maintain a client’s website. The team notices that recent browser changes imply that most of the website’s existing content would now require users to install a plug-in.

How should the agile team move forward?

A client stakeholder shows signs of resistance when coordinating delivery work. The agile project manager suspects that the automation in the delivered product might make the stakeholder’s role obsolete.

Which approach would be most effective to reduce resistance?

The agile team excels at solving technical problems, but when the product owner requests creative or business-related ideas, the team falls silent.

Is this a problem?

The agile team surpassed the planned number of stories in the last three agile iterations.

How can the project manager be sure all the work performed is truly complete?

The agile team is tasked with building a senior-friendly version of a smartphone shopping application. Marketing has not been able to find any volunteer test users fitting the profile.

Which option would be most effective to ensure the best product value is delivered?

A company is losing market share to disruptive competitors with new business models. The agile team is asked to restrict the number of features and release them faster to the market.

How will this request impact the planning?

The legal team informs the product owner that another company owns a patent for an innovation used in the agile team’s product, now 75% complete.

What should the product owner do to determine the appropriate way forward?

During estimating, the team is discussing an item in the backlog. It becomes clear that the item can be done in different ways but the best way is not obvious.

What should the team do to progress on this item?

Two startups have merged and now have more than 100 developers on eight agile teams working on a common portfolio.

Which agile practice can best ensure release coordination between the teams?

The startup has grown quickly and there are now four agile teams working on interrelated products. All teams have begun to experience impediments and gaps relating to work in other teams.

How should the problem be addressed?

An agile team needs to decide who should represent them in the Scrum of Scrums.

Which criteria should be used to select the best-suited team member?

An agile team needs to decide who should represent them in the Scrum of Scrums.

Which criterion should be used to select the best-suited team member?

A recently formed agile team is exhausted after working 12 hour days to fullfil their sprint commitments.

Who has not properly performed their duties in this situation?

A consultant has advised an IT director to use a DevOps approach to a migration project. The IT director wants to understand how the necessary speed can be achieved in a safe way.

Which examples could demonstrate how DevOps can reduce incidents and speed up deployment at the same time? {Choose TWO.)

During sprint planning, some new backlog items are prioritized but not estimated. The product owner requires a new set of tests to verify unique properties of the items.

What should happen before adding it to the sprint backlog?

An emergency vaccine roll-out project should deploy vaccination centers as soon as pre-vetted locations are booked. Fast-changing factors such as delayed batch shipments, safety protocols, and target age groups may block the deployment at the last minute. However, the deployment process does not vary after passing the tollgate to begin setup at a new location.

Which project approach would best support the goal to maximize the number of centers deployed?

A company is constructing recycling plants in 15 countries around the world. The Head of Project Management Office (PMO) wants more timely progress reporting and experience sharing between project managers in these geographically distant projects.

Which methods might the PMO borrow from agile to fulfill this need? (Select TWO).

A project is planned out and the contract is ready for signature to start building an eco-resort complex. The client now asks the prime contractor to suspend planned work on a parcel of land while a consumer study runs. The study results will determine what kind of structures will be built on the parcel later in the project.

What should the prime contractor do to quickly close the deal given the new client requirements?

A worldwide product launch will likely be delayed by the lengthy analysis needed to assess impact of new European Union (EU) regulations. Perishable ingredients and factory bookings would be lost. The executive committee decides to postpone the launch in the EU, but maintain launch dates in all non-EU countries.

How should the project manager re-plan the project to support both launches?

The latest software build for a virtual reality headset release did not include urgent change requests already implemented by the electronics workstream. The product owner informed the software team about the change during a daily meeting but no one recorded it.

What should the project manager to avoid this problem in the future?

The pandemic has caused delays which will make it very difficult launch the new product on time. Television ads for the launch date are already purchased, so the CEO has asked the project manager to find a way to launch the product even if some minor features are not included.

Which measure would be most effective step toward a successful and timely product launch?

A merger of two companies results in combining an agile software project and a predictive electronics project into a single hybrid project. Two months later, requirements have changed in both tracks but neither has a full picture on status or importance of the requirements.

How can the project manager best resolve the problem?

A hybrid project combines IT integration and software development tasks. The predictive and agile teams seem to be working in silos, resulting in misaligned deliverable scheduling.

Which measures would most effectively enable the teams to better synchronize their deliveries? (Select TWO.)

A new wildlife reserve project will have a staff of around 80 experts, builders, and logistics workers with exposure to various safety risks. The project manager wants a scalable approach combining flexibility and team dynamics with traditional safeguards.

Which technique could be used to tailor a hybrid project of this nature?

The project sponsor is not convinced that an agile track should be used in a new R&D project due to the need for certainty that specific features will be ready for mass production no later than a specific date.

How can agile methods ensure that the sponsor’s needs can be fulfilled in a hybrid project approach? (Select THREE.)

A medical equipment vendor is running a hybrid project which includes some custom software development by an agile team. The team progess is good, but slow customer approval causes unnecessary delays. The customer insists that approval can only be given after repeating all the test cases in the target environment.

How can the project manager accelerate the approvals and build customer trust at the same time?

The IT integration team has a major setback in a hybrid project. Testing has confirmed that the hardware does not support the target operating system. The agile team’s software releases must now run on a later operating system version.

What should the project manager do next?

A Canadian startup announces to the press its imminent launch in the European Union (EU) and Latin America. Soon afterward, the compliance team recommends delaying the launch by 6 months to avoid substantial penalties relating to a new set of EU regulations.

Which approach could the project manager take to advance the launch project while preparing the compliance measures?

A hybrid virtual reality project is running an agile software track and a predictive electronics track. Halfway into the project, delays are accumulating due to misaligned deliverable releases between the two tracks.

Which elements should the project manager combine to produce a common network diagram? (Select TWO.)

A new regulation requires consumer warnings on labels, but a company’s product package is too small to fit the added information. The regulatory specification does not provide a solution, so the agile team decides to solve the problem by displaying the information on a fold-out flap. The start of mass production of the new labels, the project’s next milestone, is scheduled to begin in five days.

What should the agile team do next?

An organizational change program has met with internal resistance, a risk which was previously identifed. A logistics manager is particularly affected due to reduction of the team size and the rate of change driven by an agile planning of the predictive implementation. The manager’s supervisor formally requests the change program to delay implementation for the logistics team.

What should the project manager do next in response to this request?

A hybrid municipal waste management project combines many brief administrative tasks with small-scale public works. An agile track makes good progress on key objectives, but small tasks are accumulating in the backlog. Most tasks can be done in one day but are dependent on unpredictable triggering events.

Which approach would be most effective to clear out these minor tasks faster?

A flurry of unforeseen impediments suddenly appear on the kanban board in a hybrid project. Every member has reported one or more different problems relating to a regulatory specification issued by the predictive track.

Which parameter is likely to be highest in the risk assessment?

An energy infrastructure vendor is delivering a complex solution proof of concept to a new strategic customer. The predictive project should complete in 10 weeks, but there is a long list of outstanding items, some dependent on external events with uncertain scheduling.

How should the project manager handle the outstanding items?

Two months into a 3-year mobile telecom roll-out, the project manager discovers that approximately 15% of the equipment is prohibited to deliver due to embargo. The procurement contract does not cover the embargo case, but severe penalities could be applied for incomplete delivery.

What is the appropriate solution for the situation?

A hybrid product design project encounters a 3D printer malfunction resulting in costly losses of titanium supplies. When the production team tells the agile programming team about the problem, it becomes clear that mistranslated data sheets created problems for both teams, but the agile team resolved their problems a month before the malfunction.

What could the agile team have done to prevent the malfunction?

A smart grid project combines predictive and agile tracks. The agile team detected a major software defect after its release, and began working on a correction. But the defective release was deployed by the predictive track and caused a field test to fail.

Which measure would be most effective to prevent similar problems in the future?

A pharmaceutical project includes an agile team of doctors who analyze human tissue scans from drug trial patients. The CEO wants to leverage Machine Learning (ML) technology, proven to be faster and more accurate than doctors in scan analysis.

How should the product owner proceed in response to the CEO’s wish?

A multi-year, hybrid pharmaceutical project adds new fixed-date activities for the team to run Machine Learning (ML) processing of medical scans. The output from the ML analysis is used by an agile team of doctors to determine next steps in a patient case.

The project manager has updated the scope statement and schedule; in which other documents should the project manager record this new process? (Select THREE.)

Agile project life cycle methodologies are characterized by which of the following? (Choose three.)

Which of the following agile methodologies describes the seven wastes?

Which of the following agile methodologies are a type of pull system? (Choose two.)

Which of the following agile methodologies relies heavily on statistical data?

Which of the following are true regarding the Agile Manifesto? (Choose two.)

According to the Agile Manifesto, which of the following should be more highly valued than contract negotiation?

You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project involves developing a website for the company to allow retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered, packaged, and mailed to the consumer directly from the grower’s site. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are using an agile methodology to manage this project and have discovered that some stakeholders do not understand their role on the project, and this is causing conflict for the team. Which of the following should you do to help reduce conflict for the stakeholders and the team?

Match the following scaling agile frameworks with their description.

You work for a small software development firm and use agile methodologies on all your projects. You learned that your company is being bought out by a larger company. The good news is that everyone on staff will retain their jobs with the new company, but your existing company will cease to exist. You are managing several projects that will be impacted by this. Which of the following are true regarding this?

You are using a burnup chart to visually provide information about project progress to the agile team. Which of the following are true regarding a burnup chart?

You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the U.S. government. Getting top-secret clearances for contractors takes quite a bit of time and waiting for clearances could jeopardize the implementation date. Your mission—should you choose to accept it—is to complete the project using internal resources. Your agile programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing when your agency appoints a new executive director. Your programmers are siphoned off this project to work on the executive director’s hot new project before they finish this project. Which of the following are true regarding this question?

When using an agile methodology to manage your project, all of the following Knowledge Areas have processes that are performed before, during, and after an iteration except for which one?

Match the following roles in the agile methodologies with their titles.

You are using an agile approach to deliver business value incrementally. What other elements of business value should you be focused on? (Choose two)

You are using an agile project management methodology to deliver business value. During each iteration, you and the team members are breaking down tasks into tangible components that have enough features and functionality to allow the customer to examine value and provide feedback to the team. Which of the following are true regarding this question when using a Scrum methodology? (Choose two.)

Match the following values from the Agile Manifesto.Table of Agile Manifesto Principles

When an agile team is communicating, several meetings occur including a daily stand-up. Which of the following options are true regarding the daily stand-up in an agile methodology? (Choose two.)

Your organization has historically performed projects using a predictive methodology. You’d like to give the agile process a try. You have a low-risk, low-priority project that is perfect for this experiment. However, the project sponsor of this project is nervous about using a new approach that’s never been tried before. Which of the following actions should you take in this scenario?

In a flow-based agile approach, which of the following questions would you ask at the daily stand-up meeting? (Choose two.)

This agile methodology focuses on frequent cycles and delivering software to the customer when the customer needs it. The core values for this methodology are communication, simplicity, feedback, courage, and respect. Which methodology does this describe?

Your project has a high degree of uncertainty about the project requirements. You decide to use an agile approach to manage the project in order to achieve which of the following?

Which of the following are three characteristics of uncertainty according to the Agile Practice Guide (PMI®, 2017)? (Choose three.)

You are the project manager for BB Tops, a nationwide toy store chain. Your new project involves creating a prototype display at several stores across the country. You are using an agile methodology to manage your project and will be hiring contract services to help with this project. It’s critical to the organization that this project succeed. You know which of the following are true?

You are considering using an agile approach to conduct your project. The organization’s culture is open to new ideas and supports honesty and transparency. They use KPI measurements to evaluate success. Which of the following statements are true?

Your team members and stakeholders are new to agile techniques. Which of the following are important steps you should take to ensure that they receive the training they need to be successful with this new methodology?

Match the following types of tests that are used on agile-based software projects to their description.

You work for Writer’s Block, a service that reviews and critiques manuscripts for aspiring writers. You were assigned to be the project manager for a new computer system that logs, tracks, and electronically scans and files all submitted manuscripts along with the editor’s notes. You hired a vendor to perform this project, and they used an agile methodology to manage the project. You are documenting how well the tailoring processes and project integration worked for this project. Which of the following information will you document regarding project integration?

Match the following agile measurements with their definitions.

Name the difference between the agile iterative approach and the agile incremental approach as discussed in the Agile Practice Guide (PMI®, 2017).

Match the following types of tests that are used on agile-based software projects to their description.

These types of meetings are associated with the agile project management methodologies. They occur at the beginning of an iteration. Team members choose items from the backlog list to work on during the iteration. What is this meeting called?

This type of leader leads the team in learning and maturing agile practices. They promote emotional intelligence and self-awareness, they are good listeners, put the needs of others first, help team members improve their skills, they coach and mentor, encourage safety, encourage respectful behaviors, build trust among the team, and promote the skills and intelligence of others. Which of the following leadership styles does this question describe and what are the three steps, in order, they use to help the team learn and mature agile processes? (Choose two.)

Which of the following contracts should you use for agile projects that will be priced based on user stories?

Name the two types of agile approaches discussed in the Agile Practice Guide (PMI®, 2017).

Shu Ha Ri is a technique used to develop an agile team. Which of the following are true about this model?

Match the following scaling agile frameworks with their description.

Directing project work on an agile project consists of several steps. Match the following steps with their descriptions.

Which of the following are a type of agile project management methodology primarily used for information technology projects? (Choose two.)

Who is responsible for performing and managing project integration when using an agile project management approach?

A project manager has been asked to manage a software development project using Scrum (Agile). How is an agile project life cycle called?

An agile software development project consists of four releases, with features incrementally added with each release. Due to an excessive number of defects found by users after the first release, the risk response plan was implemented, which involved more rigorous testing by the project team. After the second release, the client has reported two bugs. What must first be done to determine the effectiveness of the implemented risk response?

A vendor has been contracted by a buyer to develop a new device. The vendor insisted that the contract thoroughly capture the device specifications. The buyer does not have clear requirements upfront and, therefore, requested that the vendor develop the device using agile. The vendor delivers as per the contract, but the buyer is not satisfied with the outcome. Which Agile Manifesto’s value was most likely not appropriately applied?

In their first iteration, an agile team completed only half of the planned work. It turns out that before the current project began, the team members were requested to provide ongoing support for the prior release. Angry project stakeholders meet with the scrum master and complain that supporting prior releases should have never been included in the project plans. How should the scrum master respond?

A new smartphone will be developed by two teams: a hardware team that will use a predictive project management approach and a software team that will use an agile framework. Each team is co-located but resides in two different parts of the country. The teams will need to coordinate their activities very closely but bringing them together in one location is not an option. What should the project manager do to create the most collaborative environment?

A project team that is experienced in the waterfall project management approach has been assigned to their first agile project. To make the transition easier, it has been decided to keep some elements of the waterfall approach in place. During the iteration review, it was realized that a misunderstanding among the development team has led to a duplication of efforts. How might the project manager address this issue?

You are leading a hybrid project with an agile team developing the web application and a traditional engineering team to design the servers that will host the application. You want to determine what your company says about the use of social media tools to communicate and work with the stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations. What is your best course of action?

You and your project team have just completed the development of the project management plan for your agile project. You have requested one of the team members to schedule a meeting to present the finalized project management plan. The team member has asked who should be invited to the meeting How should you respond?

A member of an agile project team gathered data about the project and discovered an opportunity for improvement. The team member thinks that a change to the process used by the team to develop the product of the project would improve team performance. The team member approaches the scrum master for advice on the best way to implement the change. What advice can the scrum master give to the team member?