1) There has been a sharp increase in user complaints about the agile product

development methods of a smartphone company. The smartphone

manufacturer re-assessed the methods. An analysis of the complaints
revealed that the users are trying to use some features in ways that the
designers did not anticipate. How can this problem be prevented?
a) Ask some of the users to test the product before it is launched. ✓
b) Create a detailed lessons-learned document so that these issues don’t
happen in future.
c) Survey the users on how they will use the product.
d) Ask your Dev team to keep end-users in mind.

2) We are 7 months into a strategic agile project. The Company Executives are
closely monitoring its progress. The Project Director is frustrated about the
last weekly burn-down charts depicting the project completion dates
changing significantly several times. How can the project manager forecast
the project completion date with more accuracy and stability?
a) Lower the Frequency of Progress Reports shared with Senior Stakeholders.
b) Inform the Executive Committee about the flexible nature of agile planning.
c) Come up with planning variable-size iterations based on story complexity and
load.
d) Explain or elaborate on the upcoming backlog items in more detail with the
team. ✓

3) Mark is a project manager who is experienced in predictive methods. He is

taking on an Agile Project for the first time. In order to seamlessly adjust to
the shift from Predictive to Agile, Mark makes a watchlist of situations that
arise from insufficient action as a servant leader, SELECT THREE situations
that would result from a lack of Servant Leadership?

a) Team Members don’t communicate directly with other departments. ✓

b) Team members come up with impediments that they are unable to
neutralize.
c) Team Members don’t take on challenging tasks. ✓
d) Project Stakeholders express skepticism over Agile Methods. ✓
e) Team’s High Performers move to more senior positions.

Predictive = ఊహాజనిత
agile project management = చురుకైన ప్రాజెక్ట్ నిర్వహణ
seamlessly = సజావుగా
impediments = అడ్డంకులు
skepticism = సంశయవాదం

4) Jason is a new team member who is unaccustomed to Agile practices. An

Operations Engineer often criticized jason’s work. jason becomes nervous
when the Operations Engineer appears in the morning standup meeting.
Which of the following could justify the Project Manager’s invitation to the
Operations Engineer?
 unaccustomed = అలవాటు లేని
a) All team members are important and we should not ignore anyone. ✓
b) Team Member’s performance will become better.
c) The Project Manager will be able to learn more about the Operations
Engineer.
d) It will help the project to get back on track.

5) There have been several incomplete stories at the end of an iteration.

Multiple Team Members worked on these stories and there were no blockers
identified. Which of the following options can the Agile Team use to resolve
the situation?
a) Make use of the next iteration to come out with a team spike that would help
determine the feasibility of completing the planned user stories.
b) Place the stories in the blocked column and work with the Product Owner to
remove the impediments.
c) Proceed with breaking down the stories further in the backlog by working with
the Product Owner. ✓
d) Insert the stories into the product backlog and wait for a less intensive
iteration to work on them.
6) You are in charge of an Agile Team that has shown impressive progress in the
four iterations. However, in the fifth iteration the progress has slowed without
any apparent reason. What will you do as a next step?
a) Work with the team to find the root cause of the issue. ✓
b) Remove the underperforming team member who is slowing things down.
c) No action is needed as the team has moved from norming stage to storming
stage.
d) No action is needed as the team happened to work low-complexity user
stories in the first four iterations.
Storming: (of a performance, especially in sport or music) outstandingly vigorous or impressive
7) Despite your Team’s best efforts to address several blocked items on the
Kanban Board, the items remain as is. The Sprint Retrospective reveals that
all the impediments can be traced back to a particular Department Head.
Tom, the Project Manager had tried to educate the Department Head
previously, but the Head is still resistant. Which of the following options
should Tom do next?
a) Ask the Department Head for Budgetary Compensation that’s proportional to
the delays due to the lack of their cooperation.
b) Release an information Radiator that ranks the Stakeholders according to
their Active Support of the Project Goal.
c) Find other Stakeholders who can help work around the Department Head’s
barriers.
d) Make use of a Stakeholder Analysis to identify an aligned Senior Stakeholder
who could influence the Department Head. ✓
8) Despite your Team’s best efforts to address several blocked items on the
Kanban Board, the items remain as is. The Sprint Retrospective reveals that
all the impediments can be traced back to mandatory corporate business
processes that introduce wait times. Which of the following options should
the Project Manager do next?
a) Increase the story point estimates for the stories in the product backlog to
factor in the business process delays.
b) Work with the Process Owners to streamline procedures. Secure the team
that is coaching on the processes. ✓
c) Train the team on the business processes in the upcoming iteration. This
would help them work more autonomously.
d) As a Servant Leader, resolve the pending issues while the team attends a
team-building event.
9) According to the annual report, your Products’ prices are being driven down
by your competitors. This is causing your company to lose market share. Also,
midway into a product development project, it appears the sponsoring unit is
unlikely to get a return on its investment. Which of the following options
should the Project Manager do to adapt to these new conditions? (choose 2)
a) Come up with a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Deliverables to help optimize speed
and delivery cost. ✓
b) Deliver the same feature as the competitors by re-scoping the project to
match the pricing of the competitors.
c) Replace local staff by outside staff incrementally who can work at much less
hourly rates.
d) Split out an agile track to incrementally maximize value within a fixed budget.
✓
e) In order to help deliver the intended scope with less overhead costs, fast-
track the remainder of the project.
10) An agile software project is security-classified. The project requires
external expertise and delivery to add a module based on machine learning.
An approved supplier asks you to join the daily meeting with the supplier’s
Agile Team. However, your day is filled with internal meetings. Which of the
following options should be used for the two teams to synchronize
interactively but less frequently?
a) Come out with a Common Electronic Kanban.
b) Have iterations aligned with Common Retrospectives.
c) Add a Scrum Layer and execute it. ✓
d) Come up with a fishbowl window for each site.
11) You are the project manager of XYZ firm. Your firm's marketing
director is unhappy that the agile innovation team is developing too many
novelty products with very little business value. Which of the following
actions should the project manager do to rectify the team's
approach? (choose 2)
a) Increase the story sizes to incorporate more valuable features.
b) Survey end-users and rank the items in product backlog according to the
survey results (user value ranking). ✓
c) Instruct the team to undertake a training course in direct response
marketing.
d) Let the Marketing Director approve each story by adding a process.
e) Tighten the value criteria in the Definition of Ready by working with the
Product Owners. ✓

12) You are the Head of Operations of a highly productive agile team. You
have informed the Product Owner that the company is not getting solid
Return on Investment from the Team’s work. How should the Product Owner
address the problem?
a) Run a Retrospective with the Project Manager and go ahead with the Project Cancellation.
b) Come out with Minimum Marketable Features and prioritize the backlog
items. ✓
c) Lessen the number of team members as necessary to guarantee a positive ROI,
d) Review the User Stories and prioritize the relevant backlog items.
13) Every October, you are given the task of evaluating ongoing projects
and prioritizing them. Same as every year, you were given the list. However,
after reading the high-level project description, you realize that one of them
is not a project, but an operation. Which of the following tasks can be
categorized into the operation category? Select two answer choices:
a) Include a feature in the product to enable more customer usage.
b) Manage four new people as part of an employee improvement program. ✓
c) Setup a call center to resolve and user’s complaints or issues.
d) Implement the upgrade of the existing HR system.
e) Call center team creating and updating the support tickets. ✓
14) You are part of an efficient, empowered, Agile innovation Team. You
and your team don't understand why the required approvals from the legal
department are allowed to delay your team’s progress. You approach your
Product owner in this regard who replies that the approvals are needed to
check for existing patents that can block the team’s product from going to
market. Which of the following options reveal how such conflicts could be
prevented?
a) work with the senior management to make sure that the product owner
explains the team the ration behind the requirement workflow.
b) Require the team to move the story to the Blocked items in the Kanban Board
on based on their concerns about progress.
c) Mandate that supporting department stakeholders are present in the daily
progress to report progress from time to time.
d) Make sure that the Product Owner can easily be approached to help answer
the team’s concerns and queries. ✓
15) Mary is in-charge of an apparel brand. There has been an increase of
complaints on social networks about her brand's drop in quality. Mary is
determined to place product quality above all considerations, and with this
mission in mind, she helps set up a new Agile Innovation Team. Which of the
following methods would be most effective to help achieve the team's goals?
a) Eliminate human error by creating an automated testing bench.
b) Introduce User Focus group inputs in the development life cycle of the
product. ✓
c) Come up with features that help benchmark against competitor products.
d) Fund the use of better quality materials by raising the product price.
16) You are the Project Manager of an Agile Development Team. To
remove a significant blocker your Team comes out with a workaround. The
team’s output dramatically increases over the next two iterations. However,
at the third iteration, the product Owner strongly disagrees with the
workaround and asks your team to come up with a better solution to redo the
work. Which of the following is the best solution to prevent such situations?
a) Regularly engage with Product Owner and run Catch-up meetings when
necessary. ✓
b) Help the team focus by offloading all work on Improving Team Impediments.
c) Ask the Product Owner for additional funding for the re-work due to the lack
of collaboration with your team.
d) Update the team charter with the revised ground rules and correct deviations
as early as possible.
17) You are part of an Agile Team which is composed of highly skilled
Product Design Engineers. The Design Engineers have earned new duties
based on their reputation for quality and speed. However, in this role, the
team’s output has dropped steeply compared to their design work. Which of
the following measures are most effective to improve the team's productivity
in the present scenario? (choose 2)
a) Come out with a Creativity Spike in the next iteration. ✓
b) Increase the team’s motivation with a team building event.
c) Get help from the creative thinkers on your team.
d) Recruit more T-shaped profiles into the team. ✓
e) Extend the iterations to adjust for the new tasks.
18) You are a Project Manager and you have observed that the product
backlog is not groomed. The order of stories in the backlog and the ones
which get picked during release planning are not the same. As a Project
Manager, what would be your next step?
a) Coach the Product Owner to continuously groom the backlog during the
Sprint. And keep it updated before the Sprint planning. ✓
b) Explain to the product owner that the grooming of backlog should happen
just before the Sprint planning.
c) Explain the benefit of grooming the backlog once every release before
release planning.
d) Together with the Product Owner, groom the backlog during sprint planning
along with the team.
19) It's been almost 1 year since your organization transitioned to a hybrid
model. The Program Manager complains to you (the Project Manager) that
your project is not doing well as compared to other projects in the PMO. What
can you do to improve the performance before the next couple of sprints?
a) Discuss with the Product Owner in the sprint review meeting.
b) Initiate the conversation in the daily stand up meeting.
c) Find out the root cause in the sprint retrospective session. ✓
d) Use team building activities to motivate the team.

20) As an Agile project Manager, you are ensuring that all User Stories are
completed on schedule and all tests are passed. However, the Customer does
not consider the product a success. Which of the following is the most
effective way to prevent this outcome in the projects to follow?
a) Obtain customer feedback on incremental release demos and user tests. ✓
b) Make sure that the test plan incorporates non-functional requirements in the
backlog.
c) Before developing the Product Backlog, ensure that the product vision is
approved by the customer.
d) Come up with an agreement with the customer on the success criteria of the
product.
21) Competitors with new business models are causing a Company to lose
its market share. To recommend ways to recover market share, a cross
functional Agile Team has been constituted. Which of the following ways talk
about how the Team can increase their chance of coming up with successful
recommendations?
a) Understand and focus on the value consumers seek and the value
competitors offer. ✓
b) Come out with an understanding of how competitors’ business models can
reach more consumers at a lower cost.
c) Make sure a representative from the legal team is involved in these
discussions.
d) Come up with a deeper understanding of why consumers are disappointed by
the Company’s Product.
22) You're managing a hybrid project that is facing a product design issue.
The team collaboratively comes up with a solution, but it would require
significant change to the product features. Which of the following would you
recommend your team to do before going further into developing the solution
at hand?
a) Verify if the product vision is still valid.
b) Come out with a prototype and demo it to the end-user.
c) Execute a Cost/Benefit Analysis to determine its value.
d) Tell the Product Owner to review the change and provide recommendations.
✓
23) Carefully examine the following steps below.
1. ABC project has been successfully delivered.
2. John, the Project Manager is executing formal closure for ABC project.
3. _______________________________________
a) John should update the bid documents.
b) John should obtain Stakeholder acceptance. ✓
c) John should reassign the project team.
d) John should release the material and equipment resources.
24) You are the Project Manager of a virtual team that separated by a time
zones. The weekly meetings are too long, and the problem is made worse by
the speaking members switching off their cameras. Which of the following
measures should you undertake to increase the efficiency of the weekly
meetings? (Select TWO)
a) Request all team members to stick to the agenda of the meeting. ✓
b) Use a Kanban Board to discuss the Iteration Review Meeting.
c) Ask team members to raise blockers offline.
d) Limit speakers to only those members who have made progress.
e) Update the team charter with revised ground rules. ✓
25) Out of enthusiasm, the IT team department of a footwear company
approved the Agile Team’s mid-project demo of quality checking software for
 Assembly Line Workers. However, the final footwear product was considered
unusable because the workers’ gloves were too thick to press the computer
buttons for software. Which of the following options should the project
manager do to help prevent these kinds of failures in future?
a) Plan for Customers to test plan for customers to trust prototypes and
incremental releases in their target environment? ✓
b) Come up with a realistic simulation of end user conditions for developers
testing the software.
c) Contact the Customer Department that defines the product requirements directly.
d) Make sure that the software releases include adjustable accessibility features.
26) You are managing a hybrid project. One of the modules in your product
development project requires extensive training for the team members. You
reach out to the CCB and they approve the requested change. What should
be your next step?
a) Update the project documents and inform the stakeholders of the approved
change. ✓
b) Update the user story and initiate the work in the next sprint.
c) Update the change management plan and communicate to stakeholders.
d) Reach out to the finance team to release the funds for training.
27) Out of five agile teams, four are kept away for a month . However, the
project that they are involved in needs to make progress. Three foreign
contractors are working on the stories remotely. In their first print, they
misinterpreted certain usability requirements but completed five stories
blocked due to algorithmic complexity. Which of the following should the
project owner do this?
a) Find another remote team with better linguistic skills.
b) Reprioritize the product backlog to suitably match the remote team skills. ✓
c) Get all the usability stories assigned to the local team member.
d) Have an interpreter engaged to translate all requirements.

28) You are part of an Agile Team which is subject to the frequent rotation
of staff from various departments to help augment the team. Which of the
following ways should the Project Manager compensate for the disruption to
the non-rotating team members?
a) Ask rotating team members to recognize deserving non-rotating team
members.
b) Provide the non-rotating stall with higher authority to choose which tasks
they would like to work on.
c) Ask the staff leaving the project to come up with a Knowledge Sharing
Workshop. ✓
d) Provide authority to non-rotating staff members to assign tasks to the
rotating members.

29) The product director wants the team to do a market research analysis
from time to time so that new goals can be established. Because of this,
there are times when the agile team has idle periods. Which of the following
measures could help reconcile the needs of the director and the agile team?
a) Direct team to perform brainstorming sessions on new goals to be suggested
to the Director.
b) Come up with Team training events during the idle periods.
c) Nullify slack by curtailing the team size to help smooth the output curve.
d) After clearing the backlog, come out with market research spikes to keep the
Director updated. ✓
30) You are the Project Manager of a Governmental Anti-Money Laundering
Software Project that needs a solution to help collaborate with a remote Agile
Team located in a different country and composed of 5 Team Members. The
remote Agile Team’s Workstation and Kanban Board must be visible at all
times. Which of the following Collaboration Solutions will best help you to
meet up this Virtual Set-up?
a) On-Demand Video Conferencing.
b) Workstation Screen Mirroring.
c) Monitors comprising of information radiators.
d) Fishbowl windows that are always on. ✓
31) You are the Project Manager in a startup that needs to quickly expand
its product portfolio to meet increasing market demand. The staff might work
on two or three agile teams, each of which will be dedicated to different
product lines. The output continually drops and defect rates are increasing
across all teams. How can you help the Agile Teams improve the work?
(choose 2)
a) Provide coaching to the Agile Team to help improve the time and focus on
Management.
b) Offload the Agile teams by appointing dedicated Test teams.
c) Motivate the Product Owners to come up with right-sized portfolios.
d) Work with the team to reduce context-switching. ✓
e) Undertake a Root-cause Analysis in the next Retrospectives. ✓
32) In the past year, the cost per story has risen by more than 150%
because of usage of faulty platform that's no longer supported. The Agile
project is forecasted to exceed the budget threshold at the next upcoming
iteration.
Which of the following options reveal who should make the decision to cancel
the project?
a) The Project Manager
b) The Head of Business Control
c) The Product Owner ✓
d) The Procurement Manager
33) You are the Project Manager of XYZ Organization and are visiting a
Software Supplier’s Office. There are few practices that surprises you. For
example: estimations based on deck of cards, two people per workstation,
and software programs with names such as ‘’traffic cop’’ and ‘’ring leader’’.

Which of the following can help explain these practices?

a) The Supplier has adopted eXtreme Programming Methods. ✓
b) The Supplier is conducting Gamified Training Sessions.
c) The Supplier appears to be conducting a team building exercise when the
Project Manager visits them.
d) The Servant Leadership in the Supplier’s end has given a bit more freedom.

34) A hybrid team started working together on a project while

collaborating the work of the agile and predictive team, a lot of risks were
 identified that will impact the development of product to the production
environment. As a project manager how you address this?
a) Continue with the current project plan and motivate the team to do quality
work.
b) Work together with the team and identify the strategies to solve the risk. ✓
c) Use contingency reserve to address the risks.
d) Ask the Project Sponsor for additional funding to handle the risk.

35) You are the VP of a product management department in the

organization. Recently, you attended a conference on blockchain and were
impressed by the capability of this new technology. You instructed the Project
Manager to implement this technology in the organization. What should be
the Project Manager's next step?
a) Work with the stakeholders to identify the requirements.
b) Conduct a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) analysis.
c) Understand the engagement level of stakeholders and allocate the resources.
d) Initiate the work on the business case. ✓
36) Your marketing team wants to be the first to launch a senior-friendly
version of a smartphone shopping application. You have asked the Agile
Team to develop it.
Which of the following should you do to begin the development process?
a) Meet the Product Owner, Scrum Team, and SMEs to identify risks and risk
responses.
b) Meet the Product Owner, Scrum Team, and SMEs to help define the Minimal
Viable Product (MVP). ✓
c) Meet the Product Owner, Scrum Team, and SMEs to estimate the effort.
d) Meet the Product Owner, Scrum Team, and SMEs to help define the project
schedule.
37) You are part of an Agile Team’s sprint review. The situation is tense
inside your team, and you hear your team members mumbling and shouting
at the Product Owner. Which of the following should the Project Manager do
in such a situation? (choose 2)
a) Intervene and give some time to everyone present to state their case. ✓
b) Reprimand the team members and give them a warning.
c) Calm everyone and ask them to work on their emotional intelligence.
d) Facilitate by asking the team to suggest ways to help resolve the dispute. ✓
e) Remind the Team of the Product Owner’s responsibilities and authorities.
38) The Product Owner and Project Manager are currently reviewing the
backlog for the next Sprint. It is identified that several user stories are
incomplete, and the Product Owner is requesting more features to be added.
What should be the Project Manager's next step?
a) Work with the Product Owner to update the product backlog with the new
features request. ✓
b) Reprimand the team members for user stories that are incomplete.
c) Issue a change request to CCB.
d) Acquire more resources from the Functional Manager.
39) In the last product release, it was revealed that the user interest has
gone down in certain features that required significant interest to develop?
Which of the following options can the Agile Team do to prevent disparity in
the future?
a) Remove all the stories from the backlog that are not selected for Minimal
Viable Product (MVP).
b) Check with the Product Owner to ensure that all stories in the backlog
support the product vision.
c) Execute a stakeholder analysis to make sure user stories are ranked
/prioritized properly in the backlog. ✓
d) Make sure that you break down the user stories in the backlog into the
smallest possible ones.
40) Given the Product Owner’s schedule is very tight, he wishes to
delegate some of his tasks to the experienced Agile Team.
Which of the following tasks are suitable to be delegated to the Agile Team?
a) Get items added to the backlog before prioritization. ✓
b) Come up with prioritized items for the sprint backlog.
c) Make sure the prioritized items are aligned with product vision.
d) Come up with backlog refinement sessions.

41) You are working with a new client who is new to an agile way of
managing projects. The client has traditionally worked on predictive
methodology. To satisfy the client, you decide to use a hybrid methodology
instead. The client is requesting the product with minimal requirements
because of a lack of domain knowledge.
As a project manager what should be your next step to make sure the client
is happy with the final deliverable?
a) Advise the client to get an SME who has the domain knowledge.
b) Involve the client in every iteration. ✓
c) Give the final product more features so the client is satisfied.
d) Work with the procurement department to make sure the contract has all the
requirements documented.
42) You are part of a cultural event project that has distinct work packages
of varying durations. Work packages further comprise of tasks that cannot be
predictably scheduled.

What should you do next?

a) Get help from the SME to make sure a predictive life cycle is being used.
b) Reach out to sponsor and ask for more funds to resolve this issue.
c) Replace these work packages with work packages that can be predictively
scheduled.
d) As this is a common scenario, use a hybrid life cycle. ✓
43) An efficient Agile team comes out with new ideas and adds innovative
features to the product backlog. However, upon completion, the Portfolio
Owner rejected all these additional features.

Which of the following could be the most likely reason as to why the Portfolio
Owner rejected it?

a) The team would be entitled to intellectual property rights for the added
features.
b) The Portfolio Owner does not want to pay for the Team’s unplanned work.
 c) The Product Owner did not sufficiently align the Portfolio Owner with the
ideas. ✓
d) The Team did not make use of the normal quality control processes.

44) A restaurant chain wishes to create smartphone applications for their

users. Competitors of the company are racing to come out with similar
applications as per the product owner's vision. There is a requirement for
several versions of app such as Basic, Pro and Premium.

Which of the following agile approaches is best suited for the restaurant chain
in this case?
a) Predictive
b) Iterative
c) Hybrid
d) Incremental✓
45) The user test results of a product have just arrived. From the results,
it’s evident that the Test Users want a smoother experience, and state that
many features are currently missing. Also, it’s ascertained that there are
certain ways by which the Product can be made more appealing.

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the User’s inputs?

a) The tests are irrelevant because the prototype design is complete.

b) The test results are unusable because the Users failed to understand the
goals.
c) The tests were a failure because most features will need to be re-
designed.
d) The tests were a success because the inputs will ensure a more focused
backlog. ✓

46) As a Project Manager of an Agile team, you are taken aback when you
see a Senior / Expert member’s output is much lower than a junior team
member's output. As a matter of fact, the Expert team member works
diligently on most of the complex tasks and is known to produce defect-free
results.

Which of the following is the most likely explanation behind this anomaly?
a) The Expert team