1. You are new to an agile team. You have been hearing the term “agile discovery” and are not quite sure what that means. You asked your team leader and she explained it as which of the following?

2. Once an iteration is in progress, a daily standup meeting occurs. This is a very quick meeting that is timeboxed at 15 minutes or less, and the team members stand so the meeting stays focused and on track. There are only three questions that should be answered by every team member that has an active task. Which one of the following is not a question included in the daily standup meeting?

3. Who should own the process of story point sizing?

4. Your agile team is planning for the next iteration. How should this process begin?

5. One of the iterations your agile team was going to work on was deemed a “fast failure.” What does this mean?

6. Your agile team has decided to use planning poker to determine point estimates for their user stories. What happens when several members estimate a user story at three points or under and several members estimate the same story at ten points?

7. Your agile team is in the release planning phase for the next iteration. What is the most accurate tool to use to determine how much work can be done in the next release?

8. Beth is leading a new agile project and her team is uncertain of some of the concepts. The team doesn’t understand the idea of timeboxing a portion of the project. In an agile team’s environment, what is a timebox?

9. You are an agile project manager and your agile team is approaching their next iteration. There seems to be a disagreement about how the work items are prioritized since new functionality has been introduced. How can you assist the project team and the product owner when analyzing the priorities?

10. When your agile team is nearing the end of creating story point estimates, you go through a reality check by which of the following processes?

11. The business partner continuously refines, or grooms, the backlog. This includes adding new stories, reprioritizing stories, and removing stories. What is the development team responsible for in this process?

12. You have been on several agile teams, so you are very familiar with user stories. There are several new people on your team and you’ve been asked to describe what a “user story” is. How do you explain this in just a few words?

13. You are an agile project manager and your team, which is new to agile project management, is concerned about planning the project. You advise the team that adaptive planning is the most effective and efficient way to plan the course of an agile project and offer which of the following reasons?

14. Making absolute estimates on how long it will take to complete a task is very difficult, so agile teams use which of the following methods to estimate more accurately?

15. There is a tool that agile teams use that is usually timeboxed and explores an approach, investigates an issue, or reduces a project risk. What is this tool called?

16. Once all user stories are written, they are compiled to create a backlog, or master list, of all work that needs to be completed, sorted by priority. As a story is completed and delivered, it is removed from the backlog. How is this process beneficial?

17. Why is the velocity of completed iterations used to estimate the project’s progress and duration estimates for the remainder of the project?

18. Your agile team has decided to display a product roadmap. What is this roadmap used for?

19. While on an agile project team, you’ve already gone through the value-based analysis of prioritization for the first few iterations along with all stakeholders. Now you need to estimate how long each iteration will take to complete. What process does agile prefer for making such estimates?

20. When your agile team is estimating story points, it is important to include which of the following?