% right partner/advisor for Agile Transformations

Every project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming

100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 competency

TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile Company

There should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits

Q---YES

Kris is an experienced Project Manager with a customer project where he commands the teams and micro manages the team members at task
level. How can he help the TCS Agile vision?

Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles

No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager

Wait till his current customer adopts Agile

Q---YES

Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective

Scrum Master and Development team

Product Owner and Development team

Scrum Master and Product Owner

Scrum Team

Q---YES

Who owns the Product backlog?

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Business Analyst

Technical Lead

Q---YES

On the last day of the Sprint, a Scrum Team named AlmostDone is ready to show their work but requires just 2 more days to complete the
testing. What should the Scrum Master recommend?

Extend the Sprint by two days so that the team can complete the work

Close the sprint on time

Q--YES

Which of these is a benefit of Agile?

Reduced Risk

Faster time to market

Ability to respond to changing requirements

Improved collaboration between business and technical team

All of these

Q---YES

Product Owner and Scrum Master can be the same person

False

Q---YES

'Agile for Beginners' course is intended towards motivating you to learn more about Agile so that you can become

Project Leader

Agile Practitioner

Project Manager

Certified Manager

None of the above

Q---YES

Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded software. The team is adopting 2-week sprint. Lee notices
that the project must produce an outcome that will be highly adoptable by the users to become successful. After every Sprint Review, the
Product Owner keeps changing the Product vision and makes contradictory statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
environment?

Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later

More practices from Extreme Programming

Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirements

Q---NO

What BEST describes a Scrum Team?

Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work

Team members must be specialists

Cross Functional

Reports to Product Owner

Q---YES

Scrum defines ……… roles, ………. events and ………. artifacts

3-5-3

5-3-3

3-3-5

5-5-3

Q---YES

Which one is a popular tool used in Agile software development

Rexx

Jenkins

MS PowerPoint

Tally

Q---YES
Match the framework to its author(s) in the order of listing: Scrum; Crystal; Extreme programming

Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn; Kent Beck

Alistair Cockburn; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck

Takeuchi and Nonaka; Alistair Cockburn; Kent Beck

Q---YES

A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting. What are the activities that the team must perform during the meeting?

The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project

Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crafts a Sprint Goal.

Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product

Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan

The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand their tasks

Q---YES

Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of "0-4-2"?
Agile Ready Partnership

All get Agile Certified

Agile Ready Workforce

Top-to-bottom Enterprise

Agile Company ourselves Agile Ready Workplace

Q---yes

Which framework prescribes User Story as the format for backlog items?

Scrum 2option

FDD

Crystal

Extreme Programming

DSDM
Q---NO

A good Agile team should exhibit the following qualities …

All in team must have the same level of technical expertise

The team is self-organizing

The team should only take up tasks assigned by Product Owner

The team must be hierarchical with a strict chain of command

The team is cross-functional

Q---YES

Eric has been working for a customer who has been following Agile for quite some time now. He is quite hands-on with Scrum and acquired
PSM I certification already. The customer may soon move to a large scale Agile. Which other certification may be beneficial for Eric so he can
be prepared to help the customer?

SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)

What is a Kanban board?

A list of activities banned by the team

The set of Can Have requirements

A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done

Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose

Q---NO

What do all Agile frameworks have in common?

A prescribed, fixed iteration length

Lightweight approach that allows the self-organized teams to better respond to business requirements

Iterative and Incremental development

A clear step-by-step process for software development

A prescribed format for backlog items

The reason for holding regular Sprint Retrospective is

It allows the team to take a necessary break from work

It gives management information to use in team members’ performance reviews

Provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.
Retrospectives are optional

Provides an opportunity for stakeholders to look at what the team is building

Q---YES

Munnabhai knows the four values of Agile Manifesto by heart. However, he was confused when a customer spoke with him highlighting Agile
characteristics of short software development cycles or iterations. He could not recollect anything about short iterations in Agile Manifesto.
What did he miss to learn about?

Agile Principles

Agile Guidelines

Agile Methods

Agile Phases
Q---YES

The Scrum team is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What CANNOT be inferred from the board?

Number of items to be worked on by the team

Percentage completion

Tasks move from left to right

Limit work in progress

Q--YES

Agile and Design Thinking are same

Design Thinking is about Product Development. Agile Manifesto is about Software Development

Design Thinking is finding the right things and Agile is about building the right things

Design Thinking is building the right things and Agile is about finding the right things

Q---NO

What is the purpose of Sprint Review?

Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to release the work to the production

To assess the team's productivity and possibly record the assessment score against the performance goals

To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights from the feedback to next Sprint

So that the Scrum Team can reorganize for the next Sprint
Q----YES

Agile Manifesto has ... Values and ….. Principles

4, 10

6, 12

4,12

4,4

3,5

Q---YES

Juaraz is a TCS Delivery Partner of customer ABC, having an Agile Team in one location. He plans to expand this Agile Team. He arrives at a
plan to set up the expanded team in another location. For an effective distributed agile between different locations, what is recommended?

Agile between distributed locations will not work. Drop the plan.

Leverage the guidelines from the TCS Point of View on distributed agile (Location Independent Agile).

Copy a working distributed agile model from other customers and simply reuse that model.

Q----NO

Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software development, are correct?

In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes should undergo heavy change control process
-1

Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further change should be rejected

In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes can be easily accepted with light process. –1
Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in business
Q----NO

Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?

Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team

Scrum Master as a servant leader

Scrum Team with 20 members

Cross Functional team

Sprint duration of 6 weeks

Q----YES

What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?

It is used to measure utilization of the development team

It is used to measure defects introduced during the Sprint

It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal

It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the queries

Q---YES

Sprint itself is an event in Scrum?

True

False
Q-----NO

Which of the following statements BEST describe why Agile is winning?

Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other approach

Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly incorporate the feedback from the market usage.

Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs

Products are expensive when compared with products produced by other approaches, but are of top quality.

Q----NO

How is the Agile value "Responding to change over following a plan" addressed in Scrum?

Product Owner can change the Sprint Backlog any day

During the Sprint Planning, Development team has all the authority to choose any Product Backlog item to work on

Product Owner writes lightweight Change Requests for quick approvals

Product Owner can change the plan for next Sprint based on latest market conditions and feedback from last Sprint

Product Owner can change the Product Backlog any time

The time box for a Daily Scrum is ...

Two minutes per person.

15 minutes

2 hrs

No time box

30 minutes

Q----YES

Which of these is a benefit of Agile?

Reduced Risk

Faster time to market

Ability to respond to changing requirements

Improved collaboration between business and technical team

All of these
Q---NO

The Product Owner in a Scrum project … ?

Has no control over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items

Has the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items

Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items, but the developers have the final say

Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items, but Product Owner has the final say

Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business Analyst

Q---YES

Match the framework to its author(s) in the order of listing: Scrum; Crystal; Extreme programming ?

Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn; Kent Beck

Alistair Cockburn; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck

Takeuchi and Nonaka; Alistair Cockburn; Kent Beck

Providing additional feature without clear understanding of the business need - What is this category of waste?

Inventory

We do it all the time. It is not a waste.

Over Production

Defects

Over Processing

Q---YES

What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto?

Processes and tools over individuals and interactions

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Responding to change over following a plan

Contract negotiation over customer collaboration

The Agile approach to documentation is: ?

Do no documentation because it is a waste of time

Do just enough documentation to support the development and use of the product

Do sufficient documentation to prove you have done a good job

Do more documentation than usual, because Agile is risky

Agile Manifesto mandates zero documentation

Q---NO

How should work be allocated to the team in a Scrum project?

The Scrum Master must assign tasks to individuals

Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills

The complex tasks must be allocated by the Scrum Master

Tasks must be allocated to team members by the Product Owner

While senior team members volunteer for tasks, juniors must be assigned tasks by the Scrum Master
Q---YES

Which of these are Agile estimation techniques?

Full Upfront Estimates

Planning Poker

Work Breakdown Structure

T Shirt sizing

Random Distribution

Q---YES

Which of the following statements are correct?

Agile and Design Thinking are same

Design Thinking is about Product Development. Agile Manifesto is about Software Development

Design Thinking is finding the right things and Agile is about building the right things

Design Thinking is building the right things and Agile is about finding the right things

Q---YES

Ron has just started as a Scrum Master for an Agile team. He has acquired knowledge by reading multiple sources. After practicing Scrum for a
while on the job, he is looking for a certification to benchmark. What can be recommended for him?

Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)

SAFe Agilist (SA)

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Noor’s Scrum Team had a great Sprint Review of a new feature with their Product Owner. Product Owner was happy with new feature, and
wanted to release the feature to user. But, the Scrum Team cannot do it themselves because production environment is owned the company’s
IT operations team. Scrum Team was directed to create a ticket with IT operations for production release, and wait a week for an Ops engineer
to manually work on the ticket. What is missing in this environment?

Feedbac

Flow

Continuous Improvement

Q---YES

………………. improves the flow of business idea through its development and release to users. ?

Good Requirements Management Tool

Waterfall method

DevOps practices

Beta release

Change Control Board (CCB)

Increasing number of TCS customers are moving to the Agile way of working. Why is this a true statement?

For last few years, there is a double digit increment in number of Agile projects (per IPMS) year on year

In 90% of executive conversations, customers bring in Agile as a topic of conversation

For all new engagements, TCS mandates Agile

This is not a true statement

Both 1 and 2

Q----YES

The Scrum team is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What CANNOT be inferred from the board?

Number of items to be worked on by the team

Percentage completion

Tasks move from left to right

No Limit work in progress

Q----YES

John, a team member, has completed E0 - Agile for Beginners. He wants to contribute to TCS Agile Vision. He wants to find out what is
planned for his account. Whom should he contact for details?

Account Leadership
Q----NO

Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?

So that the place can be named as Daily Scrum Hub

The consistency reduces complexity and overhead

The Product Owner demands it

Rooms are hard to book and this helps in advance booking

There is no such rule

Q----YES

Mannar & Company kick started a major cross company project that involved working with multiple business unit leaders to build enterprise
wide platform. Impressed by the success of small projects in Agile, company leadership enforced Agile in this transformation project. Shortly
after few Sprints, teams witnessed that the Product Owner was not able to build consensus among the business unit leaders on requirements.
There were several political aspects behind the collaboration. What went wrong?

For large transformation projects, Design Thinking is required before Agile

Agile is based on trust and collaboration so that consensus can be arrived at quickly. This scenario did not have that atmosphere

Agile doesn’t require any pre-requisites. It works very well in all context. In this scenario, the Product Owner doesn't seem to be competent
Q----YES

Which one is a popular tool used in Agile software development

Rexx

Jenkins

MS PowerPoint

Tally

Q----YES

The Scrum team is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What CANNOT be inferred from the board?

Number of items to be worked on by the team

Percentage completion

Tasks move from left to right

Limit work in progre

Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?

Test Driven Development

Extreme Reviews

Pair Programming

Continuous Integration

Refactoring

Q----YES

Industry surveys show that in traditional approach, users do not use nearly 60% of the features delivered. What do you think are the probable
causes?

These features were developed based on initial assumptions about the user requirements, but assumption turned out to be wrong

By the time the features were delivered, the market and user requirements had changed.

The marketing team did not advertise the product features.

Q----YES

Juaraz is a TCS Delivery Partner of customer ABC, having an Agile Team in one location. He plans to expand this Agile Team. He arrives at a
plan to set up the expanded team in another location. For an effective distributed agile between different locations, what is recommended?

Agile between distributed locations will not work. Drop the plan.

Leverage the guidelines from the TCS Point of View on distributed agile (Location Independent Agile).

Copy a working distributed agile model from other customers and simply reuse that model.
Q----YES

A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting. What are the activities that the team must perform during the meeting?

The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project

Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crafts a Sprint Goal.

Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product

Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan

The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand their tasks
Q----YES

Daily Scrum is NOT recommended for collocated teams

True

False

Q----YES

A Scrum Team works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After few Sprints, the team finds that they spend more effort on unit testing, as the code base size
has increased. What can be BEST recommended for this team?

Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing

Adopt practices like test automation from other frameworks like XP

Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks

Add two more temporary testers

Form a separate Testing team

Q----YES

Agile principles can be only used for software development

True

False
Q----YES

What is MOST likely to happen if the Product Owner is not available during a Sprint?

The team self-organizes itself to create value

The Business Analyst helps the team until the Product Owner returns

The Sprint deliverables may not be of desired value

The Scrum Master plays the role of Product Owner Scrum Master terminates the Sprint and waits for the Product Owner to return

Q----YES

Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning

Planning is a continuous activity done jointly by Scrum Master and Product Owner

Detailed planning is done upfront and not revisited

Whole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by continuous planning throughout the project

Only planning in Scrum is the Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum is one of the planning events

The Agile way is:

To produce working software of high business value and of the right quality, early and incrementally

To produce working software only after requirements documentation has been signed off by the Product Owner

To produce simple prototypes early, and release all only at the end of the project.

Each developer to sit with business every day, code as they mutually discuss, and move to production when the business seems satisfied
Q----YES

A team is having the first Sprint Planning meeting. What are the activities that the team must perform during the meeting?

The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project

Team chooses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crafts a Sprint Goal.

Team must draw up the Release Plan for the final product

Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan

The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand their tasks

Q----YES

Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning?

Planning is a continuous activity done jointly by Scrum Master and Product Owner

Detailed planning is done upfront and not revisited

Whole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by continuous planning throughout the project

Only planning in Scrum is the Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum is one of the planning events

Q----YES

Agile Teams need to comply by the Agile Values and Principles but have flexibility to choose appropriate value-adding practices?

True

False
Q----YES

Sprint itself is an event in Scrum?

Ture

False

Q----YES

Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the Sprint length in Scrum?

Sprints must be 30 days always

Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of Sprint

Sprints must be two weeks always

The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business need and technical team's ability; subject to a maximum of one
month

There is no rule on Sprint duration