AZ-400 Agile Project Management 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A product owner wants to prioritize the backlog so that the highest business value items are addressed first. Which Azure Boards feature supports this?
- Sprint assignment
- Backlog ordering via drag-and-drop (Correct answer)
- Tag filtering
- Area path grouping
Correct answer: Backlog ordering via drag-and-drop
Azure Boards allows product owners to drag and reorder backlog items to reflect priority, with items at the top representing highest priority.
Question 2: Which metric on a Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) indicates the average cycle time for work items?
- The slope of each band
- The vertical distance between bands
- The horizontal distance between bands (Correct answer)
- The total width of the diagram
Correct answer: The horizontal distance between bands
The horizontal distance between two points on the same item across different bands represents the cycle time for work passing through the system.
Question 3: In SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) integrated with Azure DevOps, what corresponds to a Program Increment (PI)?
- A single sprint
- A release branch
- A time-boxed period of 8–12 weeks containing multiple sprints (Correct answer)
- A quarterly business review
Correct answer: A time-boxed period of 8–12 weeks containing multiple sprints
A Program Increment in SAFe is an 8–12 week time box in which Agile Release Trains deliver incremental value through a series of iterations.
Question 4: A team wants to automatically move a work item to 'In Review' state when a pull request referencing it is created. How is this achieved in Azure DevOps?
- Branch policies
- Work item rules
- PR state transition rules in project settings (Correct answer)
- Azure Pipelines triggers
Correct answer: PR state transition rules in project settings
Azure DevOps project settings allow configuring automatic work item state transitions based on pull request events.
Question 5: What is the recommended approach when a high-priority bug is discovered mid-sprint in a Scrum team using Azure Boards?
- Immediately extend the sprint to accommodate the bug fix
- Add the bug to the current sprint only after negotiating scope with the Product Owner (Correct answer)
- Close the bug and open a new story for the next sprint
- Assign the bug to all developers simultaneously
Correct answer: Add the bug to the current sprint only after negotiating scope with the Product Owner
In Scrum, unplanned work mid-sprint should be negotiated with the Product Owner, who may remove equivalent work to maintain sprint scope.
Question 6: Which Azure Boards report shows the rate at which the team is burning through sprint work and predicts whether they will finish on time?
- Velocity chart
- Sprint burndown chart (Correct answer)
- Cumulative flow diagram
- Lead time chart
Correct answer: Sprint burndown chart
The Sprint Burndown chart plots remaining work against time within a sprint, showing the ideal burn rate versus actual progress.
Question 7: A DevOps team practicing Continuous Delivery wants to ensure every completed user story is deployable. Which Agile practice enforces this?
- Release planning
- Definition of Ready
- Definition of Done including deployment verification (Correct answer)
- Sprint review
Correct answer: Definition of Done including deployment verification
Including deployment verification in the Definition of Done ensures that 'done' means the feature is actually deployable, not just coded.
AZ-400 Agile Project Management 3
A product owner wants to prioritize the backlog so that the highest business value items are addressed first.
Which Azure Boards feature supports this?