Agile Exam Questions and Answers to boost your grades
TI F.P 100,23 Agile Exam Questions and Answers
1- What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto?
Process and tools over individuals and interactions
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Responding to change over following a plan
Contract negotiation over customer collaboration
2- Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software
development, are correct?
In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined,
further changes should undergo heavy change control process
Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further changes
should be rejected
In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined,
further changes can be easily accepted with light process
Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in
business
3- Which of the following statements BEST describe why Agile is winning?
Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any
other approach
Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly
incorporate the feedback from the market usage
Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs
Products are expensive when compared with products produced by other approaches,
but are of top quality.
4- 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 to work in a formal system and hence did not like any
‘methodology’ 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 needs and priorities
5- Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning?
Planning is a continuous activity done faintly 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
planning throughout the project
Only planning in Scrum is one of the planning events
6- How should work be allocated to the team in a Scrum project?
The Scrum Master must assign tasks to individuals
Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills
The complex tasks must be allocated by the Scrum Master
Tasks must be allocated to team members by the Product Owner
While senior team members volunteer for tasks, juniors must be assigned takas by the
Scrum Master
7- The time box for a Daily Scrum is…
Two minutes per person
15 minutes
2 hrs
No time box
30 minutes
8- Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?
So that the place can be named as Daily Scrum Hub
The consistency reduces complexity and overhead
The Product Owner demands it
Rooms are hard to book and this helps in advance booking
There is no such rule
9- 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 specialists
Cross Functional
Reports to Product Owner
10- The Product Owner in a Scrum project….
Has no control over the prioritization of Product 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 de developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items but
Product Owner has the final say
Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business Analyst
11- Noor´s Scrum Team Had a great Sprint Review of a new feature wih their Product
Owner. Product Owner was happy new feature, and wanted to release the feature to
user. But, the Scrum Team cannot do it themselves because production environment
is owned the company´s IT operations team. Scrum Team was directed to create a
ticket with IT operations for production release, and wait a week a week for an Ops
engineer to manually work on the ticket. What is missing in this environment?
Feedback
Flow
Continuous Improvement
12- Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?
Test Driven Development
Extreme Reviews
Pair Programming
Continuous Integration
Refactoring
13 – What is a Kanban Board?
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A list of activities banner by the team
The set of Can Have requirements
A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done
Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose
14 – A Scrum Team works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After few Sprints, the team finds that they
spend more effort on unit testing, as the code base size has increased. What can be BEST
recommended for this team?
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Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit
testing
Adopt practices like test automation form other frameworks like XP
Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks
Add two more temporary testers
From a separate Testing team
15 – Design Thinking is another name for Agile Manifesto.
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True
False
16 – Mannar & Company kick started a major cross company project that involved working
with multiple business unit leaders to build enterprise wide platform. Impressed by the
success of small projects in Agile, company leadership enforced Agile in this transformation
project. Shortly after few Sprints, teams witnessed that the Product Owner was not able to
build consensus among the business unit leaders on requirements. There were several
political aspects behind the collaboration. What went wrong?
For large transformation projects, Design Thinking is required before Agile
Agile is based on trust and collaboration so that consensus can be arrived at quickly.
This scenario did not have that atmosphere
Agile doesn’t require any pre-requisites. It works very well in all context. In this
scenario, the Product Owner doesn´t seem to be competent
17- Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of “0-4-2”?
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Agile Ready Partnership
All get Agile Certified
Agile Ready Workforce
Top-to-bottom Enterprise Agile Company ourselves
Agile Ready Workplace
18 – Jerald is a leader of 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.
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True
False
19- TCS Agile vision ´100% Agile by 2020`means
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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
There should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits
20 - ´Agile for Beginners´ course is intended towards motivating you to learn more about
Agile so that you can become
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Project Leader
Agile Practitioner
Project Manager
Certified Manager
None of the above
21- Agile Manifesto has… Values and … principles
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4,10
6,12
4,12
4,4
3,5
22- There are 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?
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Team ToyZon
Team Zon
23 – Which of these is a benefit of Agile?
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Reduced Risk
Faster time to market
Ability to respond to changing requirements
Improved collaboration between business and technical team
All of these
24 – Match the framework to its author(s) in the order of listing:
Scrum; Crytal; Extreme programming
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Kent beck, Alistair Cockburn; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Shtherland
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, Alistair Cockburn, Kent Beck
Alistair Cockburn, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, Kent Beck
Takeuchi and Nonaka, Alistair Cockburn, Kent Beck
25 – How is the Agile value “Responding to change over following a plan” addressed in
Scrum?
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Product Owner can change the Sprint Backlog any day
During the Sprint Planning, Development team has all the authority to choose any
Product Backlog item to work on
Product Owner writes lightweight Change Requests for quick approvals
Product Owner can change the plan for next Sprint based on latest market conditions
and feedback from last Sprint
Product Owner can change the Product Backlog any time
26- A good Agile team should exhibit the following qualities …
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All in team must have the same level of technical expertise
The team is self-organizing
The team should only take up tasks assigned by Product Owner
The team must be hierarchical with a strict chain of command
The team is cross-functional
27- On the last day of the Sprint, a Scrum Team named AlmostDone is ready to show their
work but requires just 2 more days to complete the testing. What should the Scrum Master
recommend?
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Extend the Sprint by two days so that the team can complete the work
Close the sprint on time
28- Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective
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Scrum Master and Development team
Product Owner and Development team
Scrum Master and Product Owner
Scrum Team
29 – Product Owner and Scrum Master can be the same person
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True
False
30 – Which of these are Agile estimation techniques?
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Full Upfront Estimates
Planning Poker
Work Breakdown Structure
T Shirt sizing
Random Distribution
31 – Providing additional feature without clear understating of the business need – What is
this category of waste?
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Inventory
We do it all the time. It is not a waste.
Over Production
Defects
Over Processing
32 - ……………………………………. Improves the flow of business idea through its development
and release to users.
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Good Requirements Management Tool
Waterfall method
DevOps practices
Beta release
Change Control Board (CCB)
33 – John, a team member, has completed E0 0 Agile for Beginners. He wants to contribute
to TCS Agile Vision. He wants to find out what is planned for his account. Whom should he
contact for details?
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Account Leadership
Customer Leadership
HR Manager
34 – Agile principles can be only used for software development
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True
False
35 – Kris is 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?
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Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles
No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager
Wait till his current customer adopts Agile
36 – Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?
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Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team
Scrum Master as a servant leader
Scrum Team with 20 members
Cross Functional team
Sprint duration of 6 weeks
37 – What do all Agile Frameworks have in common?
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A prescribed, fixed iteration length
Lightweight approach that allows the self-organized teams to better respond to
business requirements
Iterative and Incremental development
A clear step-by-step process for software development
A prescribed format for backlog items
38 – Daily Scrum is NOT recommended for collocated teams
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True
False
39 – Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the Sprint length in
Scrum?
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Sprints must be 30 days always
Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of Sprint
Sprints must be two weeks always
The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business need
and technical team´s ability; subject to a maximum of one month
There is no rule on Sprint duration
40 – The reason for holding regular Sprint Retrospective is
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It allows the team to take a necessary break form work
It gives management information to use in team members´ performance reviews
Provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for
improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.
Retrospectives are optional
Provides an opportunity for stakeholders to look at what the team is building
41 – Who manages the team´s work during a Sprint?
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The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
The team manages the work by self-organization
The Product Owner manages the work
The Delivery Manager manages the work
42 – What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?
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It is used to measure utilization of the development team
It is used to measure defects introduced during the Sprint
It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the queries
43 – Which of the following statements are correct?
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Agile and Design Thinking are same
Design Thinking is about Product Development. Agile Manifesto is about Software
Development
Design Thinking is finding the right things and Agile is about building the right things
Design Thinking is building the right things and Agile is about finding the right things
44 – Which framework prescribes User Story as the format for backlog items?
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Scrum
FDD
Crystal
Extreme Programming
DSDM
45 – Juaraz is a TCS Delivery Partner of customer ABC, 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?
Agile between distributed locations will not work. Drop the plan
Leverage the guidelines from the TCS Point Of view on distributed agile (Location
Independent Agile)
Copy a working distributed agile model form other customers and simply reuse that
model.
46 – 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?
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SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)
47 – What is MOST likely to happen if the Product Owner is not available during a Sprint?
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The team self-organizes itself to create value
The Business Analyst helps the team until the Product Owner returns
The Sprint Deliverables may not be of desired value
The Scrum Master plays the role of Product Owner
Scrum Master terminates the Sprint and waits for the Product Owner to return
48 – In Daily Scrum, team members share yesterday´s progress and the plan for next 24 hrs
with …………………………..
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Scrum Master
Product Owner
Fellow team members
Management representative
49 – Sprint itself is an event in Scrum
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Treu
False
50 – 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 will be highly adoptable by the users 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?
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Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
More practices from Extreme Programming
Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sing-off on the requirements
51 – Increasing number of TCS customers are moving to the Agile way of working. Why is this
a true statement?
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For Last few years, there is a double digit increment in number of Agile projects (per
IPMS) year on year
In 90% of executive conversations, customers bring in Agile as a topic of conversation
For all new engagements, TCS mandates Agile
This is not a true statement
Both 1 and 2
52 – The agile way is:
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To produce working software of high business value and of the right quality, early and
incrementally
To procedure working software only after requirements documentation has been
signed off by the Product Owner
To procedure simple prototypes early, and release all only at the end of the project
Each developer to sit with business every day, code as they mutually discuss, and
move to production when the business seems satisfied
53 – Munnabhai knows the four values of Agile Manifesto by heart. However, he was
confused when a customer spoke with him highlighting Agile characteristics of short
software development cycles or iterations. He could not recollect anything about short
iterations in Agile Manifesto. What did he miss to learn about?
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Agile Principles
Agile Guidelines
Agile Methods
Agile Phases
54 – Industry surveys show that in traditional approach, users do not use nearly 60% of the
features delivered. What do you think are the probable causes?
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These features were developed based on initial assumptions about the user
requirements, but assumption turned out to be wrong
By the time the features were delivered, the market and user requirements had
changed.
The marketing team did not advertise the product features
55 – Which one is a popular tool used in Agile Software development
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Rexx
Jenkins
MS PowerPoint
Tally
56 - The Scrum team is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What
CANNOT be inferred from the board?
Number of items to be worked on by the team
Percentage completion
Tasks move from left to right
Limit work in progress
57 - Martin is from the TCS BPS team. As part of TCS Agile vision, he was recommended to
attain E0 competency in Agile. Martin was thinking that Agile was only for software. How
could Agile knowledge help Martin in his work?
Martin is right. Agile principles are not useful outside software development
XP and DevOps can help in Robotic Process Automation
Agile principles can help in continuously improving BPS processes
58 - Which of these are Agile estimation techniques?
Full Upfront Estimates
Planning Poker
Work Breakdown Structure
T-Shirt sizing
Random Distribution
59 - The Agile approach to documentation is:
Do no documentation because it is a waste of time
Do just enough documentation to support the development and use of the product
Do sufficient documentation to prove you have done a good job
Do more documentation than usual, because Agile is risky
Agile Manifesto mandates zero documentation
60 - Agile Team need to comply by the Agile Values and Principles but have flexibility to
choose appropriate value-adding practices
True
False
61 - Who owns the Product backlog?
Scrum Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Business Analyst
Technical Lead
62 - Who owns quality in a Scrum Team?
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Scrum Team
Testers
External QA Team
63 - Ron has just started as a Scrum Master for an Agile team. He has acquired knowledge by
reading multiple sources. After practicing Scrum for a while on the job, he is looking for a
certification to benchmark. What can be recommended for him?
Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)
SAFe Agilist (SA)
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
64 - Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?
Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team
Scrum Master as a servant leader
Scrum Team with 20 members
Cross Functional team
Sprint duration of 6 weeks
65 - What is the propose of Sprint Review?
Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to
release the work to the production
To access the team’s productivity and possibly record the assessment score against the
performance goals
To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights from
the feedback to next Sprint
So that the Scrum Team can reorganize for the next Sprint
Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next Sprint