ASM Online Practice Questions and Answers

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.

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. 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.

B. Pair programming is only possible in an open environment.

C. Self-organization is only possible in an open space environment.

D. With people involved, there will always be people issues. Open work spaces allow the Scrum Master to detect people issues and resolve them.

Sprint planning should result in a commitment on what will be delivered at the end of the Sprint. Who makes this commitment?

A. The Product Owner

B. The Scrum Master

C. The team

What is one of the risks if the Scrum Master is also a programmer on the team?

A. The Scrum Master does not have the required people skills.

B. The Scrum Master cannot stay away from critical path activities.

C. The Scrum Master tries to push through changes to the process.

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.

"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

Which information Radiator can the team use best during the Sprint to track the work?

A. Gantt chart

B. Product Backlog

C. Release Burn Up

D. Task board

What is the main reason to limit Scrum Teams to 9 team members?

A. Feeding more than 9 team members pizza is unpractical.

B. Smaller teams are generally more productive.

C. There is a maximum of 9 functions in development.

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.

Kevin is a Product Owner for a retail organization. The Product Backlog for his immense marketing tool project has 200 Product Backlog Items.

Into what should he group the smaller Stories together?

A. Epics

B. Themes

C. User Stories

D. Views