SWE 201C: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE!
What is true about planning with an agile mindset? (Select any 2)
Use Adaptive Planning.
Plan just enough, just in time.
What do we mean by Velocity in agile terms?
It is calculated at the team level and represents how much work a team can get done in an iteration.
Which of the following is true about Scrum?
In the daily stand-up, everybody talks about what they worked on, what they are planning to work on,
and any impediments they have.
Burn-down and Burn-up charts help the team track the progress of the current sprint.
Which of the following is TRUE about Scrum? (Select two)
Scrum is an adaptive model.
Scrum has fixed, time-boxed development cycles called sprints.
You are a developer on a scrum team. Your scrum master invited you to attend a sprint planning
meeting. Which of following activities would you expect in that meeting?
The product owner (or equivalent) shares the top priority stories for the sprint.
The team will select the stories to work on for next iteration (sprint).
The developers/testers provide a high-level estimate for stories.
Either during the meeting or afterwards, developers create tasks to further solidify what work needs to
be done and make final a work commitment for the sprint.
The developers/testers ask questions to understand the stories.
What should happen in the sprint review meeting? (select any 3)
Feedback is gathered from stakeholders resulting in additional items added to the product backlog.
What happened during the Sprint is reported.
A potentially shippable product increment is demonstrated live.
When is a sprint complete?
, When the sprint duration ends. For example, if sprints are 2 weeks long, then the sprint is complete at
the end of those 2 weeks.
Which of the following are goals of the daily stand-up meeting?
Set team direction and synchronize the day's activities.
Share status information.
Identify impediments.
Which of following is true about Sprint Reviews?
Individual team members should be encouraged to demo the work they did.
Which of the following statements are true about the Sprint Retrospective? (select all that apply)
It is important to follow up on action items the team decided to work on.
Team members should avoid blaming (finger pointing) other team members in the retrospective.
Which of the following is the right sequence when developing software using the XP practice of Test
First Programming?
Write a test
Make sure the test fails
Write enough code so the test passes
Refactor as necessary
Which XP practice prescribes that "the code [always be] written by two programmers at one
machine"?
Pair Programming
Which of the following are primary practices prescribed by XP?
Pair Programming
Continuous Integration
Whole Team
Which of the following is the meaning of XP practice "Whole Team"?
All the skills necessary to deliver the software product should be present on the team.
If an XP team cannot provide an estimate for a story, what should they do to gain a better
understanding of the story?
Create a spike story---a new story under which the team will do some research or other work to gain a
better understanding of the original story.
UPDATE!
What is true about planning with an agile mindset? (Select any 2)
Use Adaptive Planning.
Plan just enough, just in time.
What do we mean by Velocity in agile terms?
It is calculated at the team level and represents how much work a team can get done in an iteration.
Which of the following is true about Scrum?
In the daily stand-up, everybody talks about what they worked on, what they are planning to work on,
and any impediments they have.
Burn-down and Burn-up charts help the team track the progress of the current sprint.
Which of the following is TRUE about Scrum? (Select two)
Scrum is an adaptive model.
Scrum has fixed, time-boxed development cycles called sprints.
You are a developer on a scrum team. Your scrum master invited you to attend a sprint planning
meeting. Which of following activities would you expect in that meeting?
The product owner (or equivalent) shares the top priority stories for the sprint.
The team will select the stories to work on for next iteration (sprint).
The developers/testers provide a high-level estimate for stories.
Either during the meeting or afterwards, developers create tasks to further solidify what work needs to
be done and make final a work commitment for the sprint.
The developers/testers ask questions to understand the stories.
What should happen in the sprint review meeting? (select any 3)
Feedback is gathered from stakeholders resulting in additional items added to the product backlog.
What happened during the Sprint is reported.
A potentially shippable product increment is demonstrated live.
When is a sprint complete?
, When the sprint duration ends. For example, if sprints are 2 weeks long, then the sprint is complete at
the end of those 2 weeks.
Which of the following are goals of the daily stand-up meeting?
Set team direction and synchronize the day's activities.
Share status information.
Identify impediments.
Which of following is true about Sprint Reviews?
Individual team members should be encouraged to demo the work they did.
Which of the following statements are true about the Sprint Retrospective? (select all that apply)
It is important to follow up on action items the team decided to work on.
Team members should avoid blaming (finger pointing) other team members in the retrospective.
Which of the following is the right sequence when developing software using the XP practice of Test
First Programming?
Write a test
Make sure the test fails
Write enough code so the test passes
Refactor as necessary
Which XP practice prescribes that "the code [always be] written by two programmers at one
machine"?
Pair Programming
Which of the following are primary practices prescribed by XP?
Pair Programming
Continuous Integration
Whole Team
Which of the following is the meaning of XP practice "Whole Team"?
All the skills necessary to deliver the software product should be present on the team.
If an XP team cannot provide an estimate for a story, what should they do to gain a better
understanding of the story?
Create a spike story---a new story under which the team will do some research or other work to gain a
better understanding of the original story.
