PMI online test – Aspro Business

1. An agile team has limited wall space to be used to indicate the project progress or status, so they are debating whether to use a software tool for which their company has an unlimited user license, or whether to use their wall space to display post-it notes or index cards that reflect what they are currently working on. What should they do?

Go with the software tool since the company has an unlimited user license. and cost is not an issue

Use the post-it notes and index cards since the low-tech/high-touch solution is always better than the high-tech/low-touch one

Follow the same practices of communicating the project status used by other agile teams in the company

Use post-it notes and index cards since this will provide the stakeholders with the real-time updates on the project status

2. An agile team is having difficulty optimizing the flow of information and materials required to complete a process. One of the team members recalled an exercise that was used to help improve the process by providing the context of the process and its importance.

Which of the following tools or techniques will allow the team to see the big picture, verify and question assumptions, as well as deliver value?

Fast flexible design

Just in time

Build quality into the product

Value stream mapping

3. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company asked an agile practitioner to explain why using agile project management methods is more beneficial than using traditional project management methods, specifically how return on investment (ROI) can be improved. Which of the following responses would be most appropriate?

Agile project management methods improve product time-to-market for the customer.

Agile project management methods eliminate all time and effort spent on documentation.

Agile project management methods develop a comprehensive set of features.

Agile project management methods involve multitasking between several different projects to maximize utilization of available resources.

4. The product owner wants to assign users stories for the next iteration. The customer tells the product owner which user stories hold the highest value, while the product owner indicates which have the highest risk level and dependencies on other user stories. By the end of the meeting; they have a prioritized list of user stories in the product backlog, the most important of which will be discussed in the next iteration planning meeting.

What process have the product owner and the customer just performed?

Backlog filtering

Kano analysis

Backlog refinement

Minimum viable product

5. As the team members learn about their new project, they realize that both the uncertainty of technology needed to develop the product as well as the uncertainty of project requirements are so high that the team doesn’t even know where to start.

What should an agile practitioner recommend?

Select an iterative and incremental approach for the project

If possible, have one of the uncertainty variables contained

Select a predictive development approach for the project

Document the risks of uncertainty in the risk register

6. An agile project manager is trying to get buy-in from his company’s senior management team to use an agile approach for some upcoming projects. He wants to use the MoSCoW prioritization scheme as an example of an agile tool to illustrate to senior management how customers can easily prioritize which features should be included in each release of the product being developed.

What does MoSCoW stand for in terms of its relationship as a prioritization scheme based on customer value?

Must have features, seldom used features, commonly used features; wanted features

Must have features, simple features, common features. won’t have features

Most features, some features, common features, work in progress features

Must have features, should have features, could have features, won’t have features

7. During iteration planning, the product owner meets with the project stakeholders to determine the criteria by which a given product backlog item will be judged as a success or failure by the project stakeholders so the product owner can effectively communicate these criteria to the development team.

What will be the output of this discussion?

Working agreements

Conditions of satisfaction

A product increment

A prioritized backlog

8. An agile team is using the acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) approach in their project. Which of the following would the team ideally be doing?

Writing the acceptance tests at the same time as developing the functionality to be tested

Writing the acceptance tests before developing the functionality to be tested

Using the user interface as a method to test the functionality

Consulting developers on how best to test the functionality

9. A company is considering removing an experienced scrum master from their current high-performing team to help other agile teams within the organization to leverage their scrum knowledge. What advice would an agile practitioner give to the company’s management?

Remove the scrum master from the team to assist other teams and assign a department manager instead

Do not remove the scrum master from the team and also allow the scrum master to assist other teams

Remove the scrum master from the team to assist other teams and allow the product owner to double as the scrum master

Do not remove the scrum master and let the other teams manage themselves as agile teams are self-organizing and self-directing

10. As an agile best practice, under what circumstances can a team re-estimate the size or level of effort it takes to complete a user story during an iteration?

Re-estimate a user story when it takes a shorter amount of time to complete than originally estimated

Re-estimate a user story when its relative size has changed

Re-estimate a user story when it takes a longer amount of time to complete than originally estimated

Re-estimate a user story if the product owner requests to do so

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