What is used to provide a simple medium for gathering basic information about stories,
recording high-level requirements, developing work estimates, and defining acceptance
tests?

A.

Story card

B.

Burndown chart

C.

Retrospective

D.

Storyboard

Which answer best describes Wide Band Delphi (e. g. Planning Poker) estimating?

A.

Team members provide story estimates individually and discuss their reasoning until a consensus on the estimate is reached.

B.

Team performance on prior projects is analyzed, and actual hours and durations are
used to determine estimates for similar user stories.

C.

Team members apply relative sizing to each task, and story points are triangulated
based on the other stories in the Sprint Backlog.

D.

Team members assign a realistic and a pessimistic estimate to each story, and points
are assigned based on the calculated average.

User stories are temporary artifacts. They are considered relevant until the:

A.

Team completes them.

B.

End of the project.

C.

Release is complete.

D.

End of the sprint.

For a critical project, a new team has been formed from various departments. The project
manager should start team building by:

A.

Creating a project charter, documenting roles and responsibilities of each member, and
sending it to the team members.

B.

Taking the team offsite for icebreaker sessions and other activities to ensure team
members get to know each other.

C.

Assembling the team and discussing roles and responsibilities of each member on the
team.

D.

Assembling the team and asking the members to achieve a milestone in a small
iteration.

The most appropriate model for a geographically distributed project team is one in which
the team is distributed across:

A.

relatively few locations, with each location team comprised of a complete development
group developing decoupled subsystems.

B.

locations in the same time zone, working on the same systems while leveraging rich
communication channels.

C.

relatively few locations, and tasks are divided along functional lines with design in one
location, coding in another, and testing in another.

D.

many locations, with relatively few people at each location developing and testing
decoupled subsystems.

In a Lean project environment, visual controls:

A.

Can be used by management for communicating specific corrective direction.

B.

Are easy to use, reflect the team's progress, and show the team what to do next.

C.

Are helpful while the team is forming but are less important for more experienced teams.

D.

Should be kept to a minimum to avoid distracting the team from high-value activities.

Which of the following is an example of a visual aid used in Lean-Agile software
development?

A.

Business value delivered chart

B.

Product technical specifications

C.

Automated code coverage report

D.

Scrum-of-Scrum report

What is one of the main benefits that Lean portfolio management provides to a business?

A.

Maximizing work-in-progress

B.

Quality and thoughtfulness

C.

Line of sight to business needs

D.

Maximizing multitasking

On a project using eXtreme Programming (XP), a customer test is a:

A.

Technique to determine if the software is easy for customer use.

B.

Tool for a customer to verify the business requirements.

C.

Technique to determine if a customer will use a software feature.

D.

Test for determining if a customer will purchase the product.

During which activity is the sequence of numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 often used?

A.

Denoting development sequence

B.

Estimating development hours

C.

Indicating priority of a story

D.

Estimating points of a story