Writers Den

1) A well trained agile project manager can help put in place the right people, right process and tools in a Scrum project to make the project work most efficiently and will help the team blend the right level of traditional project management with agile principles and practices into their process and roles.
Select one:
a. True
b. False 2) According to Cobb, good agile project managers will accomplish all the following but one. Which one is not a benefit from a good agile project manager?
Select one:
a. Higher quality of work packages
b. Increased focus on business outcomes
c. Higher productivity and lower costs
d. Reduced time to market
3) According to Cobb, the analogy that agile project management needs project managers that work more like chefs than cooks is best explained by which one of the following?
Select one:
a. Sometimes there are too many cooks in the kitchen
b. Agile project management needs less managers and more team members
c. A good cook can create good meals but a chef has a far greater ability to prepare a much broader range of more sophisticated dishes
d. Chefs are much better at following a prescribed course of action than cooks 4) According to Cobb, the following are all reasons but one as to some of the stereotypes and misconceptions about project management
Select one:
a. Project managers are best at building people relationships
b. Project managers are just not adaptive and cannot adapt to an agile environment
c. Project managers are very command­and­control oriented d. Project managers are rigid and inflexible and only know how to manage by the waterfall methodology
5) Agile project management tools are more important than processes in the agile environment.
Select one:
a. False
b. True 6) All of the following are general characteristics of agile tools except for one. Which one is not a
feature of most Agile tools?
Select one:
a. Network diagrams
b. User story lists
c. Prioritize the product backlog
d. Burndown charts 7) All of the following are general characteristics of agile tools except for one. Which one is not a
feature of most Agile tools?
Select one:
a. Methods to capture a risk register
b. Methods to capture story points
c. Task boards
d. Digital means of collecting story cards with acceptance criteria
8) All of the following are reasons why a hybrid (Agile and traditional) might be a good approach.
Which one is not a reason?
Select one:
a. Show traceability over requirements and sufficient control over testing and release
processes to ensure that the overall process complies with regulatory control requirements.
b. As projects tend to become smaller, more control and overhead is required c. Contracting scenario requires a commitment to some kind of cost and delivery schedule yet some flexibility in defining requirements
d. As projects are scaled to larger, more compliex enterprise­level projects, there is also a need for a significant amount of project management.
9) All the following but one are reasons why project managers sometimes find it difficult to transition to an agile project manager.
Select one:
a. Prior emphasis on documentation rather than value
b. Prior emphasis on control rather than providing value
c. Prior emphasis on empowerment and not self­organizing
d. Prior emphasis on flexibility rather than rigidity 10) An agile project manager in a hybrid scrum approach would ensure all of the following items as related to quality, except one. Which one is not the responsibility of an agile project manager relative to quality?
Select one:
a. Ensure that the work packages provided to the ScrumMaster are complete.
b. Ensure that Quality testing is done concurrently with development
c. Ensure that quality testing is the responsibility of the entire team who produces the
product
d. Ensure that acceptance testing is done incrementally at the end of each sprint on the items produced in that sprint
11) An agile project manager in a hybrid scrum approach would ensure all of the following items as related to scope, except one. Which one is not the responsibility of an agile project manager relative to scope?
Select one:
a. Ensure that the team does not consider work­in­progress during an agile implementation
b. Ensure that a more rolling­wave planning approach is used
c. Ensure that the approach to scope is expected to evolve as the project progresses d. Ensure that there is more emphasis on providing higher level direction to self­
organized teams.
12) if a project manager enjoyed people and building relationships with people but was also good a following a process, which one of the following Scrum roles would the project manager be best at?
Select one:
a. ScrumMaster
b. Project Manager
c. Development Team
d. Product Owner
13) If a project manager has a good business background, which one of the following Scrum Roles would the project manager be best at?
Select one:
a. Product Owner
b. ScrumMaster
c. Project Manager
d. Development Team 14) If a project manager was good at accepting responsibility for the overall success of the project
and for planning and prioritizing the requirements of the project, which of the following Scrum Roles would they be best at?
Select one:
a. ScrumMaster
b. Project Manager
c. Product Owner
d. Development Team
15) The agile project manager will provide a real emphasis on maximizing control rather than providing value
Select one: a. False
b. True
16) The certification process (Certified ScrumMaster) from Scrum Alliance requires no experience.
Select one:
a. False
b. True
17) The certification process (PMI­ACP) from Scrum Alliance requires no experience.
Select one:
a. True
b. False
18) The most common certification process for ScrumMaster is from Scrum Alliance.
Select one:
a. True
b. False Next 19) The PMI­ACP certification exam tests you more than just on the Scrum part of Agile.
Select one:
a. False
b. True
20) The PMI­ACP certification process uses the Agile Project Management Body of Knowledge as the primary reference
Select one:
a. False
b. True
21) Which one of the following is not a domain to be tested on for the new 2015 PMI­ACP exam?
Select one: a. Stakeholder Engagement
b. Value­Driven Delivery
c. Cross team collaboration
d. Agile Principles and Mindset
22) Which one of the following is not a domain to be tested on for the new 2015 PMI­ACP exam?
Select one:
a. Adaptive Planning
b. Value­Based Product Backlog
c. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People)
d. Team Performance
23) Which one of the following statements is true relative to keeping and renewing your certification?
Select one:
a. The PMI­ACP requires PDUs to keep current and the CSM from Scrum Alliance requires PDUs to keep current
b. The PMI­ACP requires PDUs to keep current and but the CSM from Scrum Alliance does not require PDUs to keep current
c. The PMI­ACP does not require PDUs to keep current and neither does the CSM from Scrum Alliance require PDUs to keep current
d. The PMI­ACP does not require PDUs to keep current but the CSM from Scrum Alliance requires PDUs to keep current
24) Which one of the following statements is true?
Select one:
a. The PMI­ACP test has 100 questions and the CSM test from Scrum Alliance has 35 questions
b. The PMI­ACP test has 120 questions and the CSM test from Scrum Alliance has 35 questions
c. The PMI­ACP test has 35 questions and the CSM test from Scrum Alliance has 100 questions d. The PMI­ACP test has 35 questions and the CSM test from Scrum Alliance has 120 questions