25 Câu hỏi ôn thi và đáp án Agile & Scrum Series 4

1) Which of the following is NOT part of the Sprint?

a) A product increment may be released to customers during a Sprint if it adheres to the Definition of Done

b) The principal goal for a Sprint is to produce release-quality product increments

c) Releases usually incorporate the result of multiple Sprints

>> d) Occur at times dictated by customer and business needs

Explanation

In Scrum incremental changes are delivered frequently.

2) The most ideal time of day to hold a Scrum Daily Meeting is:

>> a) The beginning of the day

b) Immediately after lunch

c) 4:30 PM

d) 7:00 PM

Explanation

Beginning of the day is best suited to conduct the Daily Scrum meeting. This helps the team to discuss what they did yesterday and what they will be doing today.

3) If a new requirement emerges once a Scrum project is running, it should be:

a) Automatically included in the work of the project

b) Automatically excluded and left until a later project or increment

>> c) Assessed for importance and, if sufficiently important to the business, included in the project, possibly displacing less important requirements

d) Put on the backlog for consideration by the wider group of stakeholders after the project has been completed

Explanation

If a new requirement emerges in the middle of an Agile project, its business value is ascertained and depending on the importance/urgency it is added to the Product Backlog pushing back less important features.

4) In order to communicate well, the Agile project should ...

a) Keep team-size large, to avoid stakeholders feeling left out

>> b) Break the project into small, cross-functional, self-managing teams

c) Operate with one team of less than 10 people

d) Operate with separate customer, developer and test teams

Explanation

Large Agile projects should comprise of multiple scrum teams each comprising up to 10 members. This ensures good amount of collaboration within the scrum team.

5) When an Agile team succeeds ......

a) It should be encouraged to celebrate success only when the project is over

>> b) It should be encouraged to celebrate even small successes regularly

c) It should not celebrate success, as this wastes project budget

d) It should not celebrate success, as this makes less successful teams feel bad

Explanation

Celebrating small successes makes the team feel better and encourages them to perform even better.

6) Agile values the ability to respond to change. That's why a product owner can add or subtract from the product backlog or even change their priority at any time.

>> a) TRUE

b) FALSE

Explanation

Product Owner can add or remove features from Product Backlog in order to quickly respond to changes in the market conditions. Also he/she can modify the priorities of the features in Product Backlog except the ones which are committed in the ongoing sprint.

7) Who can be invited to the sprint review meeting?

a) Only the Developers.

b) The Developers, Scrum Master, and the product owner only.

c) The product owner and up to two invited guests.

>> d) The team, Scrum Master, product owner, and anyone else who's interested

Explanation

Apart from team, Scrum Master and Product Owner anyone else who is interested in the product can participate in sprint review meeting.

8) _____ can change the priority of items in the _____ backlog at any time.

a) The Team; Product

b) The Product Owner(s); Sprint

>> c) The Product Owner(s); Product

d) The Scrum Master; Sprint

Explanation

Product Owner can change the priority of items in the Product Backlog any time except the items in the ongoing sprint.

9) The Scrum Master is the manager of the Scrum team. All team members report to the Scrum Master.

a) TRUE

>> b) FALSE

Explanation

Scrum Master is not a manager with reporting structure. Rather he/she is a facilitator and serves the best interests of the team.

10) What is the major difference between Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog?

a) The Product Backlog is equal to the Sprint Backlog

b) The Product Backlog is based on the Sprint Backlog

>> c) Thce Sprint Backlog is a based on the Product Backlog

d) The Sprint Backlog is owned by the Product Owner

Explanation

A Product Backlog is an ordered list of features for the entire product where as a Sprint Backlog is the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint

11) Once a project is underway, what shall be the approach to planning?

a) Plans should never be changed

>> b) It is normal to need to plan and re-plan as the project progresses

c) Plans should only be changed with full approval of all stakeholders

d) Plans are not required as Agile is incremental

Explanation

It is normal to review the plan in an Agile project based on the latest learnings, feedback, change in priority, etc.

12) _____ are often part of the Sprint Backlog and usually take one day or less.?

a) User Stories

b) Use Cases

c) Features

>> d) Work items

Explanation

In Sprint Planning, Product Backlog items are often decomposed into smaller work items of one day or less

13) What happens when a product backlog item fails to meet the definition of "done" at the end of the sprint?

a) The team completes the product backlog item during the next sprint.

>> b) The incomplete backlog item is placed back in the product backlog.

c) The Scrum Master points out the person to blame for the item not being finished.

d) The team is given 36 hours to finish the incomplete product backlog item.

Explanation

If a sprint backlog item fails to meet the Definition of Done (DoD) then it is placed back in the Product Backlog and prioritized by the Product Owner.

14) A Sprint Burndown chart shows ......

a) The energy level and velocity of the team

>> b) The remaining work (effort, points) over time to complete before the Sprint ends

c) The number of hours worked by each team member during the Sprint

d) The rate of spending of the budget for a project

Explanation

A Sprint burndown chart shows the amount of work (effort) over time that is still pending to be completed in a sprint.

15) What is a Release Burndown?

a) A graph indicating what has been completed by the Scrum Team during the Sprint

>> b) A graph indication he remaining amount of work over time for a particular release

c) What has been completed by the Scrum Team since it started as a team

d) The work remaining to be completed by the Product Owner

Explanation

A release burndown chart helps in understanding the pending Product Backlog items in the course of a release plan, thus helping the Product Owner to decide when to release and the features to be delivered.

16) What is Scrum?

>> a) A framework within which people can address complex problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value

b) It's not an Agile Framework

c) Scrum is a complete process to develop software

d) None of the above

Explanation

Scrum is the most widely used Agile framework for complex, adaptive projects. It is both iterative and incremental approach towards product development.

17) What does the Sprint Backlog consist of?

a) User Stories, only.

b) Use Cases

>> c) Selected Product Backlog Items and work items of one day or less

d) Test cases

Explanation

Sprint Backlog consists of selected Product Backlog items which are committed by the team. They can be broken further in to work items of one day or less.

18) Which of the following is not a Scrum Master responsibility?

>> a)  Establishing priorities together with product owner for Product Backlog items

b) Preventing Senior Management from shifting team priorities

c) Empowering the team

d) Socializing scrum throughout the organization

Explanation

Prioritizing the features in a Product Backlog is the responsibility of Product Owner.

19) The responsibilities of a Product Owner will include ......

a) Communicating the Product Goal

b) Prioritizing requirements

c) Ensuring that stakeholders and Developers understand the contents of the Product Backlog

d) All of these

Explanation

The Product Owner represents the business priorities by ordering the features in the Product Backlog. Also he/she is accountable for the Return on Investment (RoI) of the product.

20) On a new Scrum Team, the Development team members tell the Scrum Master that they don't feel the need for retrospectives. Which answer is correct?

a) Discuss with product owner

b) Discuss with the managers of the team members

>> c) None of the above

Explanation

The Scrum Master should explain the benefits of doing retrospective to the team. Once consensus is reached between the team and scrum master retrospective meetings can be conducted.

21) What do all Agile approaches have in common?

a) A prescribed, fixed iteration (timeboxed) length

>> b) Iterative development and incremental delivery

c) A strict focus on on-time delivery

d) A large set of clearly defined roles

Explanation

Iterative development and incremental delivery are key aspects of any Agile approach. Thus business value is delivered frequently and incrementally to the end users.

22) How could you benefit from having Product Owner in your team

>> a) End users of a product are often not part of the team but their needs are represented by the Product Owner

b) The (Product Owner) will be solely responsible for acceptance tests within the team Developer in the team. He/She is responsible for prioritizing the requirements in the Product Backlog. Developers do the actual work

c) The (Product Owner) assures that user stories are documented properly

d) The Product Owner can decide who in the team is best equipped to implement certain requirements.

Explanation

Ideally the Product Owner is not also a

23) Who has the authority to cancel a Sprint?

a) The Scrum Master

b) The Developers

c) The Product Owner

>> d) The key stakeholders of a team.

Explanation

Only the Product Owner has the authority to cancel the Sprint.

24) Which of the following is NOT a Scrum Master responsibility?

a) Establishing priorities for Product Backlog items

b) The best architectures and designs are such that they don’t need to be changed during development.

c) Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.

>> d) Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

Explanation

An Agile principle is that “The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

25) From the events in Scrum, which is the last event in the sequence of the Scrum framework?

a) Daily scrum

>> b) Sprint retrospective

c) Sprint review

d) Sprint planning

Explanation

Sprint Retrospective happens as the latest events in a sprint after Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum and Sprint Review.