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EXIN Agile Scrum Master Certification Sample Questions
NEW QUESTION 11
What is the difference between NPV and IRR?
- A. IRR is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in today's present value.
NPV is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will increase in value. - B. NPV is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in future value.
IRR is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will decrease in value. - C. IRR is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in future value.
NPV is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will decrease in value. - D. NPV is a measure of how much money a project can be expected to return in today's present value.
IRR is a measure of how quickly the money invested in the project will increase in value.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 12
A team's physical environment can have a big influence on how Agile a team can become. An important benefit of an open space workplace is the ease with which the layout of the area can be changed.
Why does this comply with the Agile principles?
- A. With people involved, there will always be people issues. Open work spaces allow the Scrum Master to detect people issues and resolve them.
- B. Pair programming is only possible in an open environment.
- C. It follows the inspect and adapt cycle, as the people on the team are learning how to work best with one another during the process.
- D. Self-organization is only possible in an open space environment.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 13
After the creation of the Release Plan, the Product Owner says:
Over the next four months with eights two-week Sprints we will complete exactly 240 Story Points of work.
The Scrum Master argues that the end date of the release can be positively or negatively impacted by three factors. Completed work is the first factor.
What are the other two factors?
- A. Changed requirements and revised estimates
- B. Fixed requirements and estimation mode
- C. Changed requirements and estimation mode
- D. Fixed requirements and revised estimates
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 14
Your organization found that the Product Owner is consistently under more pressure than the developments and other participants in the project.
What is common solution for that?
- A. Compiling a list with Product Owner tasks
- B. Using a Product Owner team
- C. Rotating the Scrum Master role
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 15
The Scrum-of-Scrums meeting is designed to allow clusters of Scrum Teams to discuss their work, focusing especially on areas of overlap and integration.
Who should attend the Scrum-of-Scrum meetings on behalf of your Scrum Team?
- A. The whole team
- B. The Product Owner
- C. The team can choose anyone
- D. The Scrum Master
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 16
During a Sprint Planning, a team has picked three User Stories:
Story 1 - 5 Story Points
Story 2 - 8 Story Points
Story 3 - 3 Story Points
At the end of the Sprint, the team has completed Story 1 and Story 3 and the Product Owner accepts these.
The team has almost completed Story 2 but there are a few bugs identified in acceptance tests.
What is the Velocity of this team?
- A. 16 points
- B. 12 points
- C. 8 points
- D. Insufficient information given - it depends on % completion of Story 2
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 17
A company is already using Scrum very successfully within the development department. While highly effective Scrum Teams deliver new software increments quickly, these increments are not being delivered fast enough to customers. Releases happen once every 3 months and it takes too much effort to make sure that the releases go smoothly.
What type of framework should this company try to establish?
- A. DSDM
- B. Lean
- C. DevOps
- D. Waterfall
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 18
A Scrum Master is teaching Agile estimation techniques using Story Points to a new team. A more experienced member of the team argues that:
An estimate expressed in Story Points is useful for a shorter period of time than an estimate in Ideal Days.
Is this true and what is the reason?
- A. Yes, because Ideal Days allow for a buffer and help to maintain the estimate.
- B. No, because estimating with Story Points is usually faster than with Ideal Days.
- C. Yes, because Story Points are only a relative measure and Ideal Days are not.
- D. No, because Story Points are more robust against changes in the work-environment.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 19
Your company has discovered that it takes more than high quality, low cost, and differentiation to excel. It also takes speed and flexibility. This calls for a different approach: you are aware that the current process is not delivering acceptable results.
What would be the next activity after becoming aware?
- A. Transfer of the implications of using Scrum throughout the company
- B. Promotion of Scrum through sharing experiences so that we remember and others can see our successes
- C. Ability to succeed with Scrum
- D. Desire to adopt Scrum as a way to address current problems
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 20
Inexperienced Agile teams tend to overestimate how much they will achieve in the first Sprint.
Which project management activity will be
- A. Determine the Velocity of the Team and plan accordingly
- B. Use Planning Poker to get a reliable estimate
- C. Use Stakeholder Management to manage expectations
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 21
A company is already using Scrum very successfully within the development department. While highly effective Scrum Teams deliver new software increments quickly, these increments are not being delivered fast enough to customers. Releases happen once every 3 months and it takes too much effort to make sure that the releases go smoothly.
What type of framework should this company try to establish?
- A. DSDM
- B. Lean
- C. DevOps
- D. Waterfall
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 22
A Sprint planning is created in a Sprint Planning meeting. Anyone involved in taking a raw idea and turning it into a functioning product should be present in this meeting.
Who acts as the facilitator for this meeting?
- A. An Analyst
- B. The scrum Master
- C. The Project Manager
- D. The Product Owner
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 23
"As a coach, I can manage information about swimmers on my team."
What would be a good technique to split the above User Story into smaller stories?
- A. Do not split. The User Story is small enough
- B. Splitting the User Story into Epics
- C. Splitting the User Story into separate CRUD operations
- D. Splitting the User Story into tasks
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 24
What is the recommended way of removing the resistance presented by skeptics?
- A. Move them
- B. Reiterate and reinforce the commitment
- C. Fire them
- D. Appoint a champion skeptic
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 25
Your team uses Story Points to estimate User stories.
Halfway through a Sprint, you are not seeing the progress you expected. The Team feels some Stories are not estimated correctly, when compared to other Stories.
How should you address this?
- A. Switch to using Ideal days
- B. Re-estimate all small Stories
- C. Increase or re-estimate Velocity
- D. Complete incomplete Stories
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 26
The ability for a Scrum Team to self-organize around the goals of a project is fundamental to all Agile methodologies.
Why is a Scrum Team a self-organized team?
- A. Because it helps the Scrum Team to make their own decisions in the project
- B. So that the Scrum Team commits to their work and feels responsible
- C. To ensure that decisions are made by a collective instead of an individual
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 27
How can pair programming help with adopting Agile?
- A. It helps recognizing who wrote which code
- B. It is beneficial to knowledge transfer
- C. It makes development faster and cheaper
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 28
You are a project manager for a midsize software company, which still uses the Waterfall model. Your customer wants a new software project.
When should you consider the use of Agile?
- A. The scope lacks specificity and is unlikely to remain stable.
- B. The user technology to be developed is understood.
- C. There are almost no ambiguous requirements.
- D. The product definition is stable and will not change.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 29
A team finds bugs in a feature.
What is the best action to take?
- A. Create a task "Correct bugs" and estimate it.
- B. Create a task "Correct bugs" and let the Product Owner prioritize it.
- C. Create a User Story "As a client I want a zero defect product" and let the Product Owner prioritize it.
- D. Create a User Story "As a client I want a zero defect product" and estimate it.
Answer: A
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