Chapter 2 NGHY PEICIWIeS alld WINdSet Chapter Review ‘As explained inthe study plans atthe start ofthis boo ‘you have read through the entire book at least once. best to wait to take the chapter review quizzes until 1. Whatis most important for your agile team to continuously focus on? A. Getting the right answers B. Understanding their tasks C. Defining their tasks D. Measuring their performance 2. What wouldn't be a key focus of your agile approach? 'A. Increasing return on investment B. Expecting change and uncertainty CC. Measuring progress D. Working incrementally 3, You've been asked to recommend how a team should transition to using agile. How would you reply? A. Try out some agile practices first to see if they are helpful in your situation. B. Hire the best ScrumMaster you can afford and make that person accountable for the transition. C. Identify a successful agile team and copy what they are doing. D. Learn agile values and principles and use them to guide which prac situation. s toadopt in your 4, Ona Scrum team, whose responsibility is it to keep the priorities in the product backlog up to date as changes occur? ‘A. Product owner B, ScrumMaster C. Sponsor D. Development team 5. Asan agile leader, what would be your highest priority? A. Resolving conilicts and disagreements B. Keeping the team members well fed C. Making sure the team members understand what the project is trying to accomplish D. Controlling the team’s performance 6. What isn't something that your agile team should focus on? ‘A. Reflecting on their mistakes and how to improve B. Using feedback loops to discover the weaker performers C. Failing fast with learning D. Learning through trial and error © 2015 RMC Publications, Inc + 952.846.4484 + info@rmelscom + wwwsmels.com TEPMI-ACP® Exam Prep 76 7. Your team s tasked with developing a breakthrough medical device, and they don't know what the final product will ook like. How would you advise them to proceed? A. Try the most promising approaches in shor iterations and learn as you go. B._ Performa risk-based spike, C. Ask the customer for more detailed information about the product. D._ Follow the project charter as closely as possible. ‘8, The sponsor wants to know ifthe product you'r building will be ready to demo ata trade show. What doyoutell her? A. Itwill be ready when it’s ready. B, We'll get your top-priority functionality done by then. CC. We'lllet you know as soon as our velocity has stabilized. D. That depends on your budget. 9. AsScrumMaster, you assess that the competitive market has shifted and the product the team is building is no longer viable. What should you do? [A.. Request that the product owner immediately r-prioritie the backlog, B. Cancel the project. C. Alert the team that they can expect to be assigned to a new project soon. D. Askthe product owner if the viability ofthe project has changed, 10. Which of the following would NOT an advantage of limiting your teams work in progress? 'A.. Ttreduces the potential need to rework large collection of flawed, partially completed items. B.__Ithelps optimize throughput to make processes work more efficiently. C._Itbrings bottlenecks in the production process to the surface so they can be identified and resolved. D. Itmaximizes resource utilization to make processes work more effcienty. 11. “The relationship between leadership and management in agile methods is: ‘A. Leadership replaces all aspects of management. B. Leadership is subsidiary to management. C. Management and leadership are used together. D. Management and leadership are incompatible. 12. Onatypical agile team, who has the bes insight into task execution? ‘A. Project manager B. Team members CC. ScrumMaster D. Agile coach 13, ‘The four primary roles ofa servant leader include: ‘A. Shielding team members from interruptions B, Resolving conflicts C. Determining which stories to include in an iteration D. Assigning tasks to the team members (© 2015 RMC Publications, Inc + 952.846.4484 »[email protected] + www.emels.comChapter 1 Agile Principles and Mindset 14, In Scrum, the definition of done is created with the input of everyone except the: ‘A. Development team B. Product owner C. ScrumMaster D. Process owner 15. In the lean approach, which of the following wouldn't be considered an example of one of the seven forms of waste? ‘A. ‘The handoff between coding and testing B. Testing the code C. Code that is waiting for testing D. Assigning a developer to work on two projects at the same time 16. Which of the following is one of the planned opportunities for inspection and adaptation in the Scrum method? ‘A. Velocity review meeting B. Sprint risk meeting. C. Daily scrum D. Retrospective planning meeting 17, ‘The agile triangle of constraints is said to be inverted from the traditional triangle because it allows: ‘A. Scope and time to vary instead of cost B. Costand time to vary instead of scope C. Scope and cost to be fixed instead of time D. Scope to vary while time and cost are fixed 18. Which of the following Agile Manifesto principles reflects the agile focus on team empowerment? ‘A. Working software is the primary measure of progress. B. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. CC. Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential. D. Build projects around motivated individuals. 19, ‘The Kanban pull system means that: A. Kanban team members “pull” work from each other, p: B. Each time a work item is completed, the next work itemis “pulled” into that stage of the process. C. Iterations are “pulled” into the process as needed to keep the work organized. D. Kanban teams have shorter work queues, which means that the work takes longer to complete (as shown by Little's Law). 20. Whi of the following isn'ta core aspect of the agile mindset? ‘A. Welcome change B, Learn through discovery C._ Respect the process D. Deliver value continuously © 2015 RMC Publiations, Ine + 952.846.4484 + info@melscom + wwwsmelscom 71Chapter 1 Agile Principles and Mindset Answers 1. Answer: B Explanation: This question tests your high-Ievel understanding of knowledge work versus industrial work. Getting the right answers, defining tasks, and measuring performance are emphasized more {n industrial work than knowledge work. Knowledge workers focus instead on understanding their tasks. Although all ofthese activities are performed on an agile project, notice thatthe question asks ‘what the team should “continuously focus on” This isa clue that the question is looking atthe team’s high-level process, not specific parts of their work. 2. Answer: C Explanation: ‘The best way to approach this question is by a process of elimination. You should be able to recognize that three of the options are essential elements ofthe agile mindset: increasing return on investment, expecting change and uncertainty, and working incrementally. Once you have climinated those three options, then the remaining option (measuring performance) must be the correct answer. Although agile teams certainly measure their progress this isn’t one ofthe basic tenets of agile. 3, Answer: D Explanation: This question tests your understanding of “being” agile versus “doing” agile. We need to first understand and integrate the mindset behind agile practices before we can use them. effectively. Therefore the best way to transition to using agile is to learn agile values and principles and use them to guide which agile practices to adopt in your situation. 4. Answer: A Explanation; One of the most basic things you should understand about agile teams (whether in Scrum or any other agile methodology) is that itis the product owner/customer who prioritizes the product backlog and keeps the priorities up to date. That's because the product owner represents the business and therefore understands the value the product is expected to deliver better than the other ‘members ofthe team, who are focused on other areas, S. Answer: Explanation: Like many questions you will encounter on the PMI-ACP exam, you might find this question to be abit tricky. When faced with a tricky question, try to rule out the incorrect answers frst. “Keeping the team members wel fed” wouldart be the leader's responsibility except inan emergency situation, since one would assume that normally the team members could seek out food and feed themselves. “Resolving conflicts and disagreements” and “controlling the team’s performance” are done by an agile leader as needed, but are they really the leader's HIGHEST priority? Probably not. (Also, the term “controlling” implies a command-and-contral approach rather than servant leadership.) ‘That leaves “making sure the team members understand what the project is tryingto accomplish” Ifyou think about it, this is simply another way of stating one of the four primary duties of a servant leader, to “communicate and re-communicate the project vision” So this is the correct answer. (© 2015 RMC Publications, Ine «952.846.4484 «[email protected] + wwwsmels.com 79