SWE 201C: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE!
Your team is planning out the next sprint. You've chosen to fill the sprint by taking stories in priority
order from the product backlog and stopping when you reach the first story that won't fit in the
sprint.
Based on following details, which stories should the team commit to for a sprint?
Table 1: Prioritized story with estimated story points and total estimate in hrs of tasks for that story.
"Story" - "Story Points" - "Total of Tasks Estimates"
Story 1 - 5 - 16 hrs
Story 2 - 8 - 16 hrs
Story 3 - 5 - 24 hrs
Story 4 - 3 - 16 hrs
Story 5 - 13- 32 hrs
Story 6 - 8 - 26 hrs
Story 7 - 5- 8 hrs
Story 8 - 8- 15 hrs
Story 9 - 5 - 12 hrs
Table 2: Capacity of Team members for given sprint
"Name" - "# days available" - "Hours / day" - "Capacity (hrs) You compute this"
John - 3 - 4-5
Matt - 5 - 2-3
Sally - 5 - 4-5
Ram - 5 - 2-3
A. Story 1, Story 2, and Story 3
B. Story 1 and Story 2
C. Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, and Story 4
D. Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, and Story 7
A
During sprint execution, when are new tasks added to the sprint?
A. When the product owner identifies a new task.
B. When the scrum master identifies a new task.
C. Never. Sprint tasks are fixed and decided during sprint planning.
D. As soon as possible after they are identified, unless they reflect a scope change in the sprint goals.
E. When the scrum master approves them.
D
Who should attend the sprint retrospective?
,A. All team members.
B. The scrum master and some of the team members.
C. Everybody in the team, except for the product owner.
D. Everybody who is attending the sprint review, to get as much feedback as possible.
E. The product owner, team members, and their managers.
A
How long should the Daily Standup be?
A. At least an hour.
B. As long as you need.
C. Short fixed duration (most commonly 15 min).
D. Change based on how many people are attending.
C
Which of the following are discussed in a sprint retrospective? Select three.
A. What's working?
B. What's not working?
C. New action items / What can we do better?
D. Finding mistakes and achievements of individual team members.
ABC
Which of the following is true about Scrum?
A. In the daily stand-up, everybody talks about what they worked on, what they are planning to work
on, and any impediments they have.
B. In a Sprint Review, we talk about process and talk about what worked, what didn't work, and how
we can improve.
C. It is encouraged to make iteration scope changes during the sprint.
D. In a Sprint Retrospective, we talk about what we built, demo it, and get customer/client feedback.
E. Burn-down and Burn-up charts help the team track the progress of the current sprint.
AE
Which of the following is TRUE about Scrum? (Select two)
A. Scrum is an adaptive model.
B. Scrum has fixed, time-boxed development cycles called sprints.
C. The daily stand-up in scrum is mainly for the scrum master to get the status of the project.
D. Scrum is the best way to implement the agile mindset. Other Agile methods are not as effective.
AB
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?
, A. The team talks about what went well and what didn't go well in the sprint.
B. The developers/testers provide a high-level estimate for stories.
C. The product owner (or equivalent) shares the top priority stories for the sprint.
D. 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.
E. The developers/testers ask questions to understand the stories.
F. The team will select the stories to work on for next iteration (sprint).
BCDEF
You need to calculating a team member's capacity for an iteration. Which of the following activities
should be EXCLUDED from the committed capacity of the team member?
A. Time spent on defects
B. Paid time off (PTO)
C. Organizational Meetings
D. Sprint Ceremonies
E. Basic support for the product
F. Helping other team members
BCD
What should happen in the sprint review meeting?
A. Feedback is gathered from stakeholders resulting in additional items added to the product backlog.
B. Presentation slides are shown about hypothetical things.
C. A potentially shippable product increment is demonstrated live.
D. What happened during the Sprint is reported.
ACD
The CEO asks a team member to do some work outside the goals of the current sprint in progress.
What should the team member do?
A. Add it to the next sprint.
B. Add it to the current sprint while swapping out committed work of equal size.
C. Inform the product owner so he can work with the CEO and if it is still necessary to get this work
done in current sprint, it should be discussed with in the team.
D. Add it to the current sprint.
C
When is a sprint complete?
A. When all tasks are complete.
B. When all committed product backlog items meet their definition of done.
C. It depends.
UPDATE!
Your team is planning out the next sprint. You've chosen to fill the sprint by taking stories in priority
order from the product backlog and stopping when you reach the first story that won't fit in the
sprint.
Based on following details, which stories should the team commit to for a sprint?
Table 1: Prioritized story with estimated story points and total estimate in hrs of tasks for that story.
"Story" - "Story Points" - "Total of Tasks Estimates"
Story 1 - 5 - 16 hrs
Story 2 - 8 - 16 hrs
Story 3 - 5 - 24 hrs
Story 4 - 3 - 16 hrs
Story 5 - 13- 32 hrs
Story 6 - 8 - 26 hrs
Story 7 - 5- 8 hrs
Story 8 - 8- 15 hrs
Story 9 - 5 - 12 hrs
Table 2: Capacity of Team members for given sprint
"Name" - "# days available" - "Hours / day" - "Capacity (hrs) You compute this"
John - 3 - 4-5
Matt - 5 - 2-3
Sally - 5 - 4-5
Ram - 5 - 2-3
A. Story 1, Story 2, and Story 3
B. Story 1 and Story 2
C. Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, and Story 4
D. Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, and Story 7
A
During sprint execution, when are new tasks added to the sprint?
A. When the product owner identifies a new task.
B. When the scrum master identifies a new task.
C. Never. Sprint tasks are fixed and decided during sprint planning.
D. As soon as possible after they are identified, unless they reflect a scope change in the sprint goals.
E. When the scrum master approves them.
D
Who should attend the sprint retrospective?
,A. All team members.
B. The scrum master and some of the team members.
C. Everybody in the team, except for the product owner.
D. Everybody who is attending the sprint review, to get as much feedback as possible.
E. The product owner, team members, and their managers.
A
How long should the Daily Standup be?
A. At least an hour.
B. As long as you need.
C. Short fixed duration (most commonly 15 min).
D. Change based on how many people are attending.
C
Which of the following are discussed in a sprint retrospective? Select three.
A. What's working?
B. What's not working?
C. New action items / What can we do better?
D. Finding mistakes and achievements of individual team members.
ABC
Which of the following is true about Scrum?
A. In the daily stand-up, everybody talks about what they worked on, what they are planning to work
on, and any impediments they have.
B. In a Sprint Review, we talk about process and talk about what worked, what didn't work, and how
we can improve.
C. It is encouraged to make iteration scope changes during the sprint.
D. In a Sprint Retrospective, we talk about what we built, demo it, and get customer/client feedback.
E. Burn-down and Burn-up charts help the team track the progress of the current sprint.
AE
Which of the following is TRUE about Scrum? (Select two)
A. Scrum is an adaptive model.
B. Scrum has fixed, time-boxed development cycles called sprints.
C. The daily stand-up in scrum is mainly for the scrum master to get the status of the project.
D. Scrum is the best way to implement the agile mindset. Other Agile methods are not as effective.
AB
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?
, A. The team talks about what went well and what didn't go well in the sprint.
B. The developers/testers provide a high-level estimate for stories.
C. The product owner (or equivalent) shares the top priority stories for the sprint.
D. 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.
E. The developers/testers ask questions to understand the stories.
F. The team will select the stories to work on for next iteration (sprint).
BCDEF
You need to calculating a team member's capacity for an iteration. Which of the following activities
should be EXCLUDED from the committed capacity of the team member?
A. Time spent on defects
B. Paid time off (PTO)
C. Organizational Meetings
D. Sprint Ceremonies
E. Basic support for the product
F. Helping other team members
BCD
What should happen in the sprint review meeting?
A. Feedback is gathered from stakeholders resulting in additional items added to the product backlog.
B. Presentation slides are shown about hypothetical things.
C. A potentially shippable product increment is demonstrated live.
D. What happened during the Sprint is reported.
ACD
The CEO asks a team member to do some work outside the goals of the current sprint in progress.
What should the team member do?
A. Add it to the next sprint.
B. Add it to the current sprint while swapping out committed work of equal size.
C. Inform the product owner so he can work with the CEO and if it is still necessary to get this work
done in current sprint, it should be discussed with in the team.
D. Add it to the current sprint.
C
When is a sprint complete?
A. When all tasks are complete.
B. When all committed product backlog items meet their definition of done.
C. It depends.
