Jira Jira Boards and Agile 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What does velocity measure in Jira Scrum?
- The speed of the Jira server
- The average amount of story points completed per sprint (Correct answer)
- The number of bugs fixed per day
- The time taken to deploy a release
Correct answer: The average amount of story points completed per sprint
Velocity tracks how many story points a team completes on average per sprint, used for future sprint planning.
Question 2: In a Jira Scrum project, who is typically responsible for managing the backlog?
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner (Correct answer)
- Development Team
- Jira Administrator
Correct answer: Product Owner
The Product Owner is responsible for prioritizing and maintaining the backlog to ensure the team works on the highest-value items.
Question 3: What is the Cumulative Flow Diagram in Jira used for?
- Tracking individual developer performance
- Visualizing the flow of issues through workflow statuses over time (Correct answer)
- Reporting sprint completion percentages
- Displaying team member availability
Correct answer: Visualizing the flow of issues through workflow statuses over time
The CFD shows how issues accumulate and move through statuses, helping identify bottlenecks and flow stability.
Question 4: Which feature in a Jira board allows you to group issues by a custom field or label?
- Quick Filters
- Swimlanes (Correct answer)
- Epics Panel
- Sprint Reports
Correct answer: Swimlanes
Swimlanes allow you to group board cards horizontally by criteria such as assignee, epic, or custom label.
Question 5: What is an Epic in Jira?
- A single bug report
- A large body of work that can be broken down into smaller stories or tasks (Correct answer)
- A sprint that spans multiple teams
- A special type of workflow
Correct answer: A large body of work that can be broken down into smaller stories or tasks
An Epic is a high-level issue type that groups related stories, tasks, and bugs under a common theme or goal.
Question 6: In Jira, what does the Epic Link field on a story indicate?
- A hyperlink to an external epic document
- The epic that the story belongs to (Correct answer)
- A shortcut to the story's parent project
- An automation rule linked to the story
Correct answer: The epic that the story belongs to
The Epic Link field associates a story or task with a parent epic, providing context for the larger goal.
Jira Jira Boards and Agile 2
What does velocity measure in Jira Scrum?