Certified Agile Service Manager Agile Estimation and Planning

Question 1

What is the primary purpose of story points in Agile estimation?

Accepted Answer

To represent the relative effort, complexity, and risk of a user story

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To measure the exact number of hours a task will take

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To assign monetary cost to each backlog item

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To determine the number of developers needed for a sprint

Question 2

Which Agile estimation technique uses sequential rounds where team members simultaneously reveal their estimates?

Accepted Answer

Planning Poker

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T-shirt sizing

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Dot voting

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Affinity estimation

Question 3

In Scrum, what does team velocity represent?

Accepted Answer

The average number of story points completed per sprint over recent sprints

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The maximum number of user stories allowed in a sprint

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The speed at which developers write code per hour

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The number of bugs resolved in a single release

Question 4

What is the main goal of Sprint Planning in Scrum?

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To define what can be delivered in the sprint and how the work will be achieved

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To review completed work with stakeholders

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To retrospectively analyze what went wrong in the last sprint

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To update the product roadmap for the next quarter

Question 5

What does 'Definition of Done' (DoD) establish in an Agile team?

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A shared checklist of quality standards that must be met for work to be considered complete

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The acceptance criteria unique to each individual user story

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The sprint backlog items selected for the current iteration

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The minimum features required for a product release

Question 6

Which estimation technique groups backlog items into broad size categories such as Small, Medium, Large, and Extra-Large?

Accepted Answer

T-shirt sizing

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Planning Poker

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Bucket system

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Fibonacci estimation

Question 7

What is capacity planning in the context of Scrum Sprint Planning?

Accepted Answer

Assessing the available working hours or effort team members can contribute in a sprint

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Determining the total budget available for a project

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Calculating the number of story points completed in all previous sprints

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Estimating the number of user stories that can fit into a product release