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

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

Why are the practitioners of the alternate software development methods not satisfied with the
additional waterfall method?

-Waterfall is not a lightweight process

-Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly towards changing needs
and priorities

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

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

-Only planning in Scrum is one of the planning events

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

Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?

-Programmers as one Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team

-Scrum Team with 20 members

-Sprint duration of 6 weeks

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

-Iterative and Incremental development

Daily Scrum is NOT recommended for collocated teams (TRUE OR FALSE)

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

-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

Who manages the team´s work during a Sprint?

-The team manages the work by self-organization

What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?

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

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

-Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills

The time box for a daily scrum is-

-15 minutes

What is NOT match with agile Manifesto?

-Process and tools over individuals and interactions

-Contract negotiation over customer collaboration

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

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

-Organization must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in business

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

-Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly incorporate
the feedback from the market usage
Why are the practitioners of the alternate software development methods not satisfied with the
additional waterfall method?

-Waterfall is not a lightweight process

-Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly towards changing needs
and priorities

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

-Only planning in Scrum is one of the planning events

Increasing number of TCS customers are moving to the Agile way of working. This handbook
focuses on agile for software development, but many of the principles can be expanded to other
fields. This resource checks your understanding of what Agile is and characteristics that make it a
good software development tool. Why is this a true statement?

-There is a double digit increment in number of Agile projects (per IPMS) year on year for last few
years

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

OR

Both 1 and 2

Match the framework to its author in the order of listing

-Scrum, CRYSTAL, XP Takuchiand Nonaka

Munnabhai knows the four values of Agile manifesto by heart-

Agile principles

The Agile way is-

-to produce working software or high business value and of the right quality easily and incrementally

Which of these is a benefit of Agile?

- All of these

The reason for holding regular Sprint Retrospective is--Provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team
to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next sprint
A Scrum Team works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After new 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?

-Adopt practices like test automation from other frameworks like XP

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

-Percentage completion

In Daily scrum, team members share yesterday's progress nd the plan for the next 24 hours with-

-Fellow team members

OR

-Scrum Master

Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded software. The
team is adopting 2-week sprint. Lee no 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

Sprint itself is an event in Scrum (True or False)

True

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

-Over production

Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the sprint length scrum?

-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

The Agile approach to documentation is

Do just enough documentation to support the development and use of the product
Who manages the team's work during a Sprint?

The team manages the work by self-organization

What is the purpose of Sprint review?

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

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

-Agile Practitioner

Which of these are Scrum anti patterns?

Everything but Cross Functional team

OR

Everything but Cross Functional team and Scrum Master as a servant leader

Which one is a popular tool used in Agile Software development?

-Jenkins

Who owns product backlog?

-Product Owner

Ron has just started as a Scrum Master 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?

-Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)

-Safe Agilest (SA)

-Professional Scrum Master I (PS/VI I)

-Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

_ improves the flow of business idea through its development and release to users
Develops practices

Jerald is a leader of a TCS Customer Account. He learnt that the company's aspiration on Agile is to
become 100% Agile by 2020. He gathered his Agile Experts within the account and asked them for
a plan to transition from current way of working to 100% Agile way of working as defined in the
text book. Jerald correctly understood TCS aspiration?

False

Identify two correct statement-

-Design thinking is about Product development, Agile manifesto is about software

-Design thinking is finding the right things. Agile is about building the right thing

Agile teams need to comply by the Agile values and principles but have flexibility to choose
appropriate value-adding practices?

True

What BEST describes a scrum team?

small, collaborate, team members, cross, report to PO .... all options

OR

Small...,Collaborate.., Cross functional

What do all agile frameworks have in common?

-A prescribed, fixed iteration

-lightweight ..

-Iterative...

Charles is very knowledgeable on Scrum. He joined a Scrum Team where the Scrum Master is
Magneto. Contrary to his expectation of Scrum Master as a coach, he finds that Magneto acts like
a traditional manager. Magneto controls the team heavily by individually assigning tasks and
leading the Daily Scrum meetings to collect the percentage of task completion. What is
recommended for Charles?

-Be prepared to face such anti patterns and work together with the team to continuously improve
and eliminate anti-patterns
Who owns quality in a Scrum team?

-Scrum team

On the last day of the Sprint, a scrum team name Almost done is ready to show their work but
requires just 2 more days to complete the testing. What should the Scrum Master recommend?

-Close the sprint time

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

-The consistency reduces complexity and overhead

Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?

-Extreme Reviews

The Product Owner in a Scrum project ...

-Has the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog items developers

-Product Owner has the final say

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

-4.12

How could Agile knowledge help Martin in his work?

-Agile principles can help in continuously improving BPS processes

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

-Agile Ready Partnership

-Agile Ready Workforce

-Top-to-tiolloni Enterprise

-Agile Company ourselves Agile Ready Workplace

What is a Kanban board?

-A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done
TCS Agile vision '100% Agile by 2020' means

-TCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile company

short iterations in Agile Manifesto. What did he miss to learn about?

-Agile Principles

Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective

-Scrum Team

Noors Scrum Team had a sprint review of a feature with their product owner.Ops engineer to
manually Work on the ticket What is missing in this environment?

-Flow

team must perform during the meeting?

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

Scrum defines roles events and artifacts

3-5-3

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

-Scrum

team has the higher chance to provide early benefits to the customer?

-Team Zon

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

-The team self-organizes itself to create value

Which of these are Agile estimation techniques?

-Planning poker -T Shirt sizing

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

A good Agile team should exhibit the following qualities ...

-The team is self-organizing

-The team is cross-functional

should he contact for details?

-Account Leadership

Scrum; Crystal; Extreme programming

-Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn Kent