EXAM 180 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
_____ across silos is difficult - ANSWER: Communication
_____ are cross-functional, self-organizing entities that can define, build, test, and
where applicable, deploy increments of value. - ANSWER: Agile Teams
_____ are orchestrated to deliver objective progress, product, and process Metrics -
ANSWER: Program Increment (PI) System Demos
_____ can prevent cooperation - ANSWER: Political boundaries
_____ encourage geographic distribution of functions - ANSWER: Silos
_____ is inhibited by hands off and delays - ANSWER: Value delivery
_____ planning limits variability - ANSWER: Cadence-based
_____ practices provides the basis for Technical Agility - ANSWER: Quality
- Coordinates with other Product Owners, the System Team, and Shared Services in
the PI Planning meetings
-works with the above teams throughout each Iteration and PI
-Coordinates with other Scrum Masters and the Release Train Engineer in the Scrum
of Scrums
-Helps team understand and operate within its capacity
-Helps team operate under architectural and porfolio governance, system-level
integration, and System Demos
-Foster team adoption of Agile technical practices - ANSWER: The Scrum Master in
the Enterprise
- Five to eleven team members
- Create and refine Stories and acceptance criteria
-Define, build, test and develop Stories
-Build quality in to each increment of the solution.
-Develop and commit to team PI Objectives and Iteration plans - ANSWER:
Responsibilities of the Agile Team
- Get to production early - ANSWER: Continuous Deployment
-A constant sense of danger
-Optimize the whole
-Problem-solving culture
-Base improvements on facts
,-Reflect at key Milestones - ANSWER: Relentless improvement
-A virtual organization of 5 - 12 teams (50 - 125+ individuals
-Synchronized on a common cadence, a Program Increment (PI)
-Aligned to a common mission via a single Program Backlog - ANSWER: Agile Release
Trains (ARTs)
-Align strategy, funding, and execution
-Optimize operations across the portfolio
-Lightweight governance empowers decentralized decision-making - ANSWER: Lean
Portfolio Management
-Align team members to a common purpose
-Align teams to common Program Increment Objectives and management
dependencies
-Provide transparency and management information - ANSWER: purpose of iteration
goals
-Apply Lean system engineering practices to build really big systems
-Coordinate and align the full supply chain
-Continue to enhance value after release - ANSWER: Enterprise Solution Delivery
-are short descriptions of a small piece of desired functionality, written in the user's
language - ANSWER: User Stories
-Behavior is often first described in general terms, which can be ambiguous
-Specific examples of behavior provide better understanding
-The examples can directly become tests, or they can lead to specific behaviors
which then are transformed into tests - ANSWER: Behavior-driven development:
From ambiguity to precision
-Business rule variations
-Workflow steps
-Simple/coples
-Scenarios - ANSWER: Splitting techniques
-By having capacity allocation defined, the Product Owner doesn't need to prioritize
unlike things against each other
-Once the capacity allocation is set, the PO and team can prioritize like things against
each other - ANSWER: Capacity allocation for a healthy balance
-Coaches the Agile Team in self-management
-Helps the team focus on creating increments of value each iteration
-Facilitates the removal of impediments to the team's progress
-Ensures that all team events take place, are productive and kept within the timebox
- ANSWER: Scrum Master
, -Contains all the work for the team
-Created by Product Owner and the team
-Prioritized by the Product Owner
-Contains User and Enabler Stories
-Stories in the backlog are prioritized
-Stories for the next Iteration are more detailed than Stories for later Iterations
-Nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) are a constraint on the backlog - ANSWER: The
Team Backlog
-Contributes to the Vision and Roadmap
-Acts as the Customer for the team questions
-Creates, clearly communicates and accepts Stories
-Prioritizes the Team Backlog - ANSWER: Product Owner
-Create an enterprise-wide, Lean-Agile mindset
-Map and continuously improve business processes
-Respond quickly to opportunities and threats - ANSWER: Organizational Agility
-Deploy small Stories to get technical/user feedback quickly - ANSWER: In support of
feedback
-Did we meet the goal?
-Story-by-story review - ANSWER: How we did in the Iteration
-Ensure that every increment of the Solution reflects quality standards
-Is required for high, sustainable development velocity
-Agile quality practices apply to every team, whether business or technology -
ANSWER: Build quality in
-Establishes the sequence of backlog items based on program priorities, events, and
dependencies within other teams
-Operates as part of an extended Product Management Team
-Understands how the Enterprise backlog structure operates within Epics,
Capabilities, Features, and Stories
-Work with Product Management to plan Program Increments (PI)
-Uses PI Objectives and Iteration Goals to communicate with management
-Coordinates with other Product Owners, the System Team, and Shared Services in
the PI Planning meeting
-Works with other Product Owners and the Product Management team throughout
each Iteration and PI - ANSWER: The Product Owner in the Enterprise
-Estimating poker combines expert opinion, analogy, and disaggregation for quick
but reliable estimates
-All members participate - ANSWER: Apply estimating poker for fast, relative
estimating
-Every team deserves to see the bigger picture