TOPIC: PMI-ACP Question/Topic of the week : Season-6

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Question 91: You are a practicing Agile project manager, and you are explaining to your new team the value of retrospectives. What will the team understand about retrospectives once you have explained it to them?

A. Retrospectives are a planned review and reflection point.
B. Retrospectives are a necessary function of all Agile methodologies.
C. Retrospectives are when the customer tests the increment.
D. Retrospectives are for helping to groom the backlog.

Correct Answer to Q#91: A

Retrospectives allow the team to review what went well and what the challenges were during the sprint. This reflection point allows for discussions of continuous improvement for the next sprint.

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Question 92: Which of the following items does your team need to produce a working, viable product or service?

A. A definition of done
B. Approval from the product owner to create user stories
C. A well-planned strategy to accomplish project goals
D. A wireframe with a breakdown of the product needs

Correct Answer to Q#92: A

Understanding what “done” is allows the team to plan around the requirements and produce a usable increment at the end of each iteration/sprint.

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Question 93: Gloria has just joined your organization as a new team member. She has heard of Agile as a concept and has a bit of Scrum experience, but she is confused about the sprint backlog and
where it came from. What is an effective way to explain to Julie what the sprint backlog is?

A. It’s a separate list of things that the development team wants to accomplish on the sprint.
B. It’s basically the product backlog with the items chosen by the development team based on what they can accomplish during the sprint rather than a totally separate list or artifact.
C. It’s the list of value to be created as well as the risk-adjusted backlog items.
D. It’s the development team’s “punch list,” and it includes the theme of the sprint.

Correct Answer to Q#93: B

The sprint backlog represents the chosen items the development team will work on during the sprint. They will select what they believe they can accomplish and what they believe will produce a usable increment at the end.

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Question 94: What would be the reasoning behind having an Iteration Zero?

A. To prove the process will work
B. To determine a process that works
C. To prove that the product should be built
D. To prove that the product will be built correctly

Correct Answer to Q#94: B

Much like the initiation phase in a Waterfall project, Iteration Zero allows the team to prepare for the iterations to come by creating a plan for the process and identifying the team roles and responsibilities and to determine officially the process that will be used.

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Question 95: You have co-located your team, and during the day the team discusses the things they have learned, what they are working on, and various solutions to issues they confront. Even though not everyone contributes to every conversation, they are picking up the information. This information can be internalized or thrown away depending on the individual’s need for that information. This is known as which one of the following?

A. Tribal knowledge
B. Osmotic communication
C. Tacit knowledge
D. Team knowledge

B

That's Correct!!

Correct Answer to Q#95: B

Osmotic communication is a way to absorb information even if you are not involved in the actual conversation. That information can be taken as important or not depending on the needs of the individual.

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Question 96: During a user story workshop, your customer says, “As a customer, I want a web page so that I can do business.” Is this considered an effective user story?

A. No, because it isn’t specific and therefore not testable.
B. No, because it doesn’t follow the structure of a user story.
C. Yes, because it follows the structure of a user story.
D. Yes, because you will work through the details later.

whats the answer fo this?

Correct Answer to Q#96: A

Even though you could say that it is written in the format of a user story, the story itself is so vague that there isn’t any way in which to direct the conversation. It’s hard to negotiate features or really understand what the customer wants.

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Question 97: Which of the following items can your team use to help visually show what a viable product or service might look like in a type of low-fidelity prototype?

A. A definition of done
B. Approval from the product owner to create user stories
C. A well-planned strategy to accomplish project goals
D. A wireframe with a breakdown of the product needs

Correct Answer to Q#97: D

Wireframes allow the team to work through a type of prototyping in an easy and low tech way by drawing or plotting out what the increment might look like.

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Question 98: You are a business analyst working to put together a business case utilizing project selection techniques. Project A has a net present value of $555,926 and Project B has a net present
value of $787,454. Based on this information alone, which would you choose as the project to charter?

A. Project A because the NPV is less than Project B.
B. No decision can be made accurately until ROI is determined.
C. Project B because the NPV is higher than project A.
D. No decision can be made until the payback period and internal rate of return are determined.

Correct Answer to Q#98: C

In this case, all things have been calculated into the NPV equation, and if a decision needs to be made strictly on NPV, you would always choose the highest number with the most ROI.

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Question 99: You are working with your customer and sketching out what their website will be like. This is an example of which one of the following?

A. Wireframe
B. User story
C. Persona
D. Tweet

Correct Answer to Q#99: A

A wireframe is a low-fidelity mock-up of what the user story represents or what success looks like.

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Question 100: You are working with a customer who is used to Waterfall frameworks and formal project charters. They ask you to explain the difference between a Waterfall project charter and an
Agile project charter. How do you explain it to them?

A. “Waterfall project charters are mandatory, and Agile charters are not.”
B. “Agile project charters are more flexible and describe who and what.”
C. “Waterfall project charters don’t get to the definition of done like Agile charters.”
D. “Agile project charters aren’t formal, and Waterfall project charters are formal.”

Correct Answer to Q#100: B

Option B is the best answer because Agile project charters are more flexible in their approach and documentation by providing the who, what, where, when, and how as you know it today.

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Question 101: You are working with your team to develop a persona, and one of your team members says that they were in the same position as your customer once and can understand where they are coming from. Your team member is expressing which of the following?

A. Emotional intelligence
B. Empathy
C. Active listening
D. Effective user story development

Correct Answer to Q#101: A

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize yourself in other people’s experiences.

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Question 102: A user story workshop is important because of which one of the following?

A. It allows for collaboration and determination of scope while engaging your stakeholders.
B. It is important since it is a large part of Agile frameworks.
C. It allows all of the user stories for the project to be created.
D. It isn’t important, as it is up to the team to decide whether or not they use them.

Correct Answer to Q#102: A

User story workshops are a way to determine the user stories over the period of the project, but they are most important to engage stakeholders in what success looks like and to gain an understanding of what the customer wants through communication and collaboration.

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Question 103: A persona is based on which one of the following?

A. Someone who had similar goals on another project
B. The organization and its culture
C. A real person or a descriptive placeholder for the customer
D. A fake placeholder of a future user and what they may or may not want

Correct Answer to Q#103: C

A persona is a way to gain valuable insight into the customer’s needs. It is sometimes developed around a fictitious character as a way to work through a similar situation and gain a better understanding of what the customer or end users want and need without yet knowing the customer very well. Or, it can be based on the customer themselves.

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Question 104: Your team disagrees on the direction a requirement should take, and it is convinced that the customer hasn’t explained it correctly. As a servant leader, what can you identify as the reason for the misunderstanding?

A. Not enough information was gathered from the customer.
B. The gulf of misunderstanding has occurred, and more information is needed to determine the correct direction.
C. You should practice good conflict resolution skills.
D. Team knowledge is limited because they are in the storming stage.

Correct Answer to Q#104: B

The gulf of misunderstanding occurs when the customer and the team misunderstand the requirements. It is often the cause of disagreement on direction and on features/functions of the increment.

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Question 105: Your team has been working together for several iterations now, and they seem to be working well together. They are making decisions as a team and determining what work they should do and when. This is an example of which of the following?

A. A storming team
B. An Agile team
C. A self-directed team
D. An adjourning team

Correct Answer to Q#105: C

Even though this could describe an Agile team, all teams go through periods of adjustment before performing as a self-directed team. The Agile project manager is much more of a servant leader than a manager when a team is self-directed and self-managed.

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Question 106: As an Agile team member, you are working with the product owner and the customer on several of the user stories and requirements the customer is requesting. You witness the product owner suggesting that the customer choose one requirement over another because it will function better with their result, and the customer agrees that it is win-win for everyone. What did the product owner do effectively?

A. Negotiation
B. Requirement gathering
C. User story development
D. Servant leadership

Correct Answer to Q#106: A

The product owner is using good negotiation techniques. It’s important to be able to give value to the customer, but occasionally it’s important to negotiate for the most important features and do away with the ones that don’t serve a purpose.

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Question 107: Your team has reached the performing phase. What types of management and leadership do they need?

A. A lot of feedback and interactions
B. Feedback, coaching, and help only when they ask for it
C. Help with conflict resolution and expectation settings
D. Helping getting to know each other and building trust

Correct Answer to Q#107: B

Since your team is in the performing phase of team development, they are working together and may only need coaching here and there, and only if they ask for it.

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Question 108: The team space is key in Agile projects. What is the one thing that is recommended above all others for Agile teams?

A. Scrum boards
B. Colocation
C. Caves and common rooms
D. Information radiators

Correct Answer to Q#108: B

Having your team be co-located is generally the best setup for team space. Even though it isn’t always possible to do so, colocation is recommended as a best practice in Agile environments.

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Question 109: On a co-located team, what is one of the major benefits of everyone sitting together in the same work space?

A. The Scrum Master can find everyone.
B. Daily stand-up meetings are easier to organize.
C. It enables improved communication.
D. It builds relationships and trust.

Correct Answer to Q#109: C

Having your team co-located in one team space improves communication and allows individuals to overhear information and choose to retain or discard it through osmotic communication. It also builds relationships and trust, but that only happens with improvement in communication.

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Question 110: For an Agile project manager, active listening is an important aspect to practicing adaptive leadership. If a stakeholder is talking to you about an issue, what should be your primary focus?

A. Solving their problem
B. Assessing their facial features
C. Thinking of what you will say next
D. Listening to what the person is saying and assessing the information

Correct Answer to Q#110: D

Active listening is a large part of effective communication and stakeholder engagement. It’s best to listen to what the stakeholder is saying rather than thinking about what you will do next or how to solve their problem.

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Question 111: During a heated exchange over what the definition of done is to the stakeholders, you have determined that there isn’t any way anyone is going to be able to collaborate on solutions. Which of the following conflict resolution strategies would work best in this situation?

A. Compromise
B. Forcing
C. Withdrawal
D. Smoothing

Correct Answer to Q#111: D

Smoothing helps everyone focus on what things they have in common and what may be necessary to work on before any collaboration can occur. When used alone, smoothing is only a short-term fix, but it may be necessary in a heated exchange situation.