Agile Software Development Quiz Answer week three

 

Agile Software Development Week3 Course Answers

Sprint Planning and Tracking

1.

Question 1

In Scrum, when is the sprint backlog created?

At the beginning of the project

During the sprint planning meeting

During the backlog refinement meeting

Whenever needed

2.

Question 2

In Scrum, how is the Product Backlog arranged?

Into categories, P1, P2, P3, etc.

Most important items at the top, least important items at the bottom.

Items are randomly arranged.

Large items at the top, small items at the bottom.

3.

Question 3

In which artifact is the customer requirements stored?

In the Product Backlog

In a database

In a Scrum Product Requirement Specification

Nowhere. The Scrum Product Owner knows them

4.

Question 4

What is usually plotted on the x-axis of the Sprint Burndown Chart?

Days of the sprint

Tasks

Hours

Team member names

5.

Question 5

What is a Sprint Burndown Chart?

A sprint plan which is burned to celebrate successful completion of sprint.

A chart showing the trend of work remaining across time in a sprint.

A chart showing the trend of work accomplished across time in a sprint.

A graph to measure human burnout effect due to fast pace of sprint

6.

Question 6

Your team is planning out the next sprint. You've chosen to fill the sprint by taking stories in priority order from the product backlog and stopping when you reach the first story that won't fit in the sprint.

Based on following details, which stories should the team commit to for a sprint?

Table 1: Prioritized story with estimated story points and total estimate in hrs of tasks for that story.

Story	Story Points	Total of Tasks Estimates
Story 1	5	16 hrs
Story 2	8	16 hrs
Story 3	5	24 hrs
Story 4	3	16 hrs
Story 5	13	32 hrs
Story 6	8	26 hrs
Story 7	5	8 hrs
Story 8	8	15 hrs
Story 9	5	12 hrs

Table 2: Capacity of Team members for given sprint

Name	# days available	Hours / day	Capacity (hrs) You compute this
John	3	4-5
Matt	5	2-3
Sally	5	4-5
Ram	5	2-3

1 / 1 point

Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, and Story 7

Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, and Story 4

Story 1, Story 2, and Story 3

Story 1 and Story 2

Sprint Review, Retrospective and Execution

1.

Question 1

During sprint execution, when are new tasks added to the sprint?

When the product owner identifies a new task.

When the scrum master identifies a new task.

Never. Sprint tasks are fixed and decided during sprint planning.

As soon as possible after they are identified, unless they reflect a scope change in the sprint goals.

When the scrum master approves them.

2.

Question 2

Who should attend the sprint retrospective?

All team members.

The scrum master and some of the team members.

Everybody in the team, except for the product owner.

Everybody who is attending the sprint review, to get as much feedback as possible.

The product owner, team members, and their managers.

3.

Question 3

How long should the Daily Standup be?

At least an hour.

As long as you need.

Short fixed duration (most commonly 15 min).

Change based on how many people are attending.

4.

Question 4

Which of the following are discussed in a sprint retrospective? Select three.

What's working?

What's not working?

New action items / What can we do better?

Finding mistakes and achievements of individual team members.

Scrum

1.

Question 1

Which of the following is true about Scrum?

Burn-down and Burn-up charts help the team track the progress of the current sprint.

In the daily stand-up, everybody talks about what they worked on, what they are planning to work on, and any impediments they have.

In a Sprint Review, we talk about process and talk about what worked, what didn't work, and how we can improve.

In a Sprint Retrospective, we talk about what we built, demo it, and get customer/client feedback.

It is encouraged to make iteration scope changes during the sprint.

2.

Question 2

Which of the following is TRUE about Scrum? (Select two)

Scrum is an adaptive model.

Scrum has fixed, time-boxed development cycles called sprints.

The daily stand-up in scrum is mainly for the scrum master to get the status of the project.

Scrum is the best way to implement the agile mindset. Other Agile methods are not as effective.

3.

Question 3

You are a developer on a scrum team. Your scrum master invited you to attend a sprint planning meeting. Which of following activities would you expect in that meeting?

The developers/testers provide a high-level estimate for stories.

Either during the meeting or afterwards, developers create tasks to further solidify what work needs to be done and make final a work commitment for the sprint.

The team talks about what went well and what didn’t go well in the sprint.

The product owner (or equivalent) shares the top priority stories for the sprint.

The team will select the stories to work on for next iteration (sprint).

The developers/testers ask questions to understand the stories.

4.

Question 4

You need to calculating a team member's capacity for an iteration. Which of the following activities should be EXCLUDED from the committed capacity of the team member?

Time spent on defects

Paid time off (PTO)

Organizational Meetings

Sprint Ceremonies

Basic support for the product

Helping other team members

5.

Question 5

What should happen in the sprint review meeting?

A potentially shippable product increment is demonstrated live.

Presentation slides are shown about hypothetical things.

What happened during the Sprint is reported..

Feedback is gathered from stakeholders resulting in additional items added to the product backlog.

6.

Question 6

The CEO asks a team member to do some work outside the goals of the current sprint in progress. What should the team member do?

Add it to the next sprint.

Add it to the current sprint while swapping out committed work of equal size.

Inform the product owner so he can work with the CEO and if it is still necessary to get this work done in current sprint, it should be discussed with in the team.

Add it to the current sprint.

7.

Question 7

When is a sprint complete?

When all tasks are complete.

When all committed product backlog items meet their definition of done.

It depends.

When the sprint duration ends. For example, if sprints are 2 weeks long, then the sprint is complete at the end of those 2 weeks.

8.

Question 8

Which of the following are goals of the daily stand-up meeting?

Identify impediments.

Report progress to the manager.

Share status information.

Assign work to people.

Remove every single impediment in this meeting.

Set team direction and synchronize the day’s activities.

9.

Question 9

Which of following is true about Sprint Reviews?

Only team members attend the Sprint Review.

The Sprint Review is to show stakeholders the documentation and design. The demo should be given to customer before the sprint review.

Individual team members should be encouraged to demo the work they did.

The Sprint Review should be done every week even if your sprint duration is 3 weeks or longer.

10.

Question 10

Which of the following statements are true about the Sprint Retrospective? (select all that apply)

Team members should avoid blaming (finger pointing) other team members in the retrospective.

There is one format you should use to conduct retrospectives: What's working, what's not working, and what can we do better?

It is important to follow up on action items the team decided to work on.

Managers should be required to attend retrospectives so they know what problems team members have.

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