ASM Online Practice Questions and Answers

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

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 estimate it.

D. Create a User Story "As a client I want a zero defect product" and let the Product Owner prioritize it.

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 product definition is stable and will not change.

B. The scope lacks specificity and is unlikely to remain stable.

C. The user technology to be developed is understood.

D. There are almost no ambiguous requirements.

Why is a Product Owner not allowed to define the workload of the Development Team for a new Sprint?

A. This conflicts with the principle of Self-Management of the Development Team.

B. The Product Owner does not know the velocity of the Development Team.

C. The Scrum Master is responsible for the velocity of the Development Team.

D. The Scrum Master and the Product Owner must agree on the workload of the Development Team.

A Development Team consists of various different roles: analysts, programmers, UX experts, DBA and

systems architects. They are estimating Backlog Items in Ideal Days.

What is the best approach to provide estimates for the Backlog Items?

A. Each role should provide a separate estimate; the Scrum Master integrates them.

B. Ideal days' estimation is not feasible in this case; Story Points should be used.

C. The Development Team provides a single estimate for each Backlog Item.

D. The Product Owner will integrate the input on the estimates from each role.

A Scrum Team is supposed to deliver potentially snippable software at the end of each Sprint. During the last Sprint the Team did not deliver a potentially shippable increment. The correct question to ask is: "What can we do to make sure we do better in the next Sprint?"

Who is responsible for making sure this question asked?

A. The Development Team

B. The Product Owner

C. The Project Manager

D. The Scrum Master

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

A Scrum Team suggests to have a project with 3 Sprints of 2 weeks, while the customer suggests 1 Sprint of 6 weeks.

What is the greatest advantage of having 3 Sprints of 2 weeks?

A. The customer has to invest fewer time.

B. The team can inspect and adapt 2 times.

C. The team delivers more Story Points.

A large company of more than 400 people changes from the Waterfall to the Agile framework. The company uses the approach of applying Scrum to all projects in the organization using an all-in scenario. The leaders are reluctant to fully commit to Scrum and there are no experienced Scrum Masters available within the organization yet. Six months later, Scrum has failed in the company. Many different applications of Scrum have been tried with varying degrees of success. The company gives up and returns to the Waterfall approach.

What is the most likely reason that the transition did not work?

A. Scrum was not properly promoted as a best practice and the best way to solve the problems of the organization which created a big risk.

B. The change to Agile was not disruptive enough to provoke a real change and there was not enough commitment to keeping the new process.

C. The company was too large to transition easily. A successful pilot project should have been done first, to be able to copy from.

D. There was no public display of Agility and, therefore, customers kept asking for Waterfall projects. The company gave up too early.

When two companies merge, there is often a lack of communication and transparency between locations. What can best be done to reduce the risk of full-scale blow-ups between locations?

A. Establish the `connector role' within the team

B. Establish collaborating collocated teams

C. Establish deliberately collocated teams

D. Establish deliberately distributed teams

For a cross-functional team, it is important that all skills, that are necessary to go from an idea to an implemented feature, are represented within the team.

What consequence can this have when you start Agile Scrum?

A. Coaches must be hand-selected for new teams

B. Rapid improvements are no longer possible

C. The team size is slightly larger than desired

Company X-AppGo is very interested in getting the benefits of both the ITIL®Framework and the Agile principles. They want to establish a disciplined service based approach, while reducing lead team in releasing application enhancements and improvements to their customer base.

Based on the above scenario, which would be the best processes to start integrating Agile into the ITIL® Framework?

A. Service Design and Service Transition

B. Service Strategy and Service Design

C. Service Strategy and Service Operation

D. Service Transition and Service Operation

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 Product Owner

C. The Project Manager

D. The scrum Master

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. Rotating the Scrum Master role

C. Using a Product Owner team

Company ABC always works in the following way: The business chooses a set of requirements that it believes will add business value. It communicates the requirements to the IT organization. The IT organization responds back with a plan and estimates of cost and schedule. The business agrees to that plan. The IT organization executes the plan and delivers a product to the business.

What type of framework is company ABC following?

A. DevOps

B. DSDM

C. Lean

D. Waterfall