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1. Which of the following g statement bEEUSEAI why
O Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other approach
O Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly incorporate
the feedback from the market usage
O Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs
O Products are expensive when compared with products produced by other approaches, but are of top
quality
Which of these is a benefit of Agile?
O Reduced Risk
O Faster time to market
O Ability to respond to changing requirements
O lmproved collaboration between business and technical team
O All of these
The Agile approach to documentation is:
O Do no documentation as it is a waste of time
O Do just enough documentation to support the development and use of the product
O Do sufficient documentation to prove you have done a good job
O Do more documentation than usual, because Agile is risky
O Agile manifestation mandates zero documentation
The Agile way is:
0 To produce working software of high business value and of the right quality, early and incrementally
O To produce working software only after requirements documentation has been signed off by the
Product Owner
O To produce simple prototypes early, and release all only at the end of the project
O Each developer to sit with business every day, code as they mutually discuss, and move to production
when the business seems satisfied
Increasing number of TCS customers are mnoving to the Agile way of working. Why is this a true statement?
O For last few years, there is a double digit Increment in number of Aglle projects (per iPMS) year on
year
O In 90% of executlve conversations, customers bring in Agile as a topic of conversation
O For all new engagements, TCS mandates Agile
O This is not a true statement
O Both 1 and 2
What is the purpose of Sprint Review?
to
O Product Owner can show the progress to the stakeholders and get the approval to release the work
the production
the performance
O To assess the Team's productivity and possibly record the assessment score against
goals
from the feedback to
O To inspect the working software with the key stakeholders and take the insights
next Sprint
O So that the Scrum Team can reorganize for the next Sprint
O Stakeholders and team discuss the Sprint Backlog for next Sprint
Who manages the Team's work during a Sprint?
O The Scrum Master manages the people so they can complete the work
O The team manages the work by self-organization
 0 The Delivery Manager manages the work
Scrum defines.. roles, .... events and ... Artifacts
O 3-5-3
O5-3-3
0 3-3-5
O 5-5-3
Who owns the Product Backlog?
O Scrum Team
O Product Owner
O Scrum Master
O Business Analyst
O Technical Lead
Which of the following statements are correct?
DAgile and Design Thinking are same
DDesign Thinking is about Product Development. Agile manifesto is about Software Development
DDesign Thinking is finding the right things and Agile is about building the right things
DDesign Thinking is building the right things and Agile is about finding the right things
s.. Improves the flow of Business idea through its development and release to users
O Good Requirements Management Tool
O Waterfall method
O DevOps practices
O Beta release

O Change Control Board (CCB)

What is Kanban Board?
O Alist of the activities banned by the team
O The set of Can Have requirements
OA visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done
O Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose
What is the purpose of Sprint burndown chart?
OIt is used to measure utilization of the development team
O It is used to measure defects introduced during the Sprint
O It is used to measure how much work is yet to be done to reach Sprint goal
O It is used to measure how fast the Product Owner turns around on the queries
Providing additional feature without clear understanding of the business need What is the category of
waste?
O Inventory
O We do it all the time. It is not a waste
O Over Production
O Defects
O Over Processing
Ron has just started as a Scrum Master for an Agile team. He has acquired knowledge by reading mutiple
sources. After practicing Scrum for a while on the job, he is looking for a certification to benchmark. What
can be recommended for him?

O Scrum Master Accredited Certificate (SMAC)

O SAFe Agilist (SA)
O Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Charles is very knowledgeable on Scrum. He joined a Scrum Team where the Scrum Master is Magneto.
Contrary to his expectation of Scrum Master as a coach, he tinds that Magneto acts like a traditional
 D4, 10
D6, 12
D4, 12
D4.4
D3, 5
Match the framework to is author(s) in the order of listing: Scrum; Crystal; Extreme Programming
O Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland
O Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck; Alistair Cockburn
O Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Alistair Cockburn; Kent Beck
O Alistair Cockburn; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; Kent Beck
0 Takeuchi and Nonaka; Alistair Cockburn; Kent Beck
Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software development, are correct?
Din traditional way of software development, once the requirements are baselined, further changes
should undergo heavy change control process
DChange are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further change should be rejected
Din traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes can
be easily accepted with light process
DOrganizations must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in business
Which one is a popular tool used in Agile software development
O Rexx
O Jenkins
O MS Powerpoint
O Taly
Noor's Scrum Team had a great Sprint Review of a new feature with their Product Owner. Product Owner was
happy with the new feature, and wanted to release the feature to user. But, the Scrum Team cannot do it
themselves because product environment is owned by the company's IT operations team. Scrum Team was
directed to create a ticket with IT operations for product release, and wait for a week for an Ops engineer to
manually work on the ticket. What is missing in this environment?
O Feedback
O Flow
O Continuous Improvement
In Daily Scrum, team member's share yesterday's progress and the plan for next 24 hrs with ....
O Scrum Master
O Product Owner
O Fellow team members
O Management representative
manager. Magneto controls the team heavily by assigning the tasks and leading the Daily Scrum meetings to
collect the percentage of task completion. What is recommended for Charles?
O Be prepared to face such anti patterns and work together with the team to continuously improve and
eliminate anti-patterns
O Correct his understanding of Scrum and accept that Scrum Master is the Team's manager
0 Protest about this at the earliest possible Team meeting and let others know he is more
knowledgeable about Scrum
Martin is from the TCS BPS team. As part of TCS Agile vision, he was recommended to attain EO competency
in Agile. Martin was thinking that Agile was only for software. How could Agile knowledge help Martin in his
work?
O Martin is right. Agile principles are not useful outside software development
O XP and DevOps can help in Robotic Process Automation
O Agile principles can help continuously improving BPS Processes
Agile manifesto has ... Values and... Principles
 DCross Functional
DReports to Product Owner
Why were the practitioners of 'alterative software development methods' not satisfied with the traditional
waterfall method?

OWaterfall is not a lightweight process

DThe practitioners did not like to work in a formal system and hence did not like any 'methodology' at all
OWaterfall experience did not add value to their resume
DWaterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly towards changing business
needs and priorities
Industry surveys show that in traditional approach, users do not use nearly 60% of the features delivered.
What do you think are the probable causes?
OThese features were developed based on initial assumptions about the user requirements, but
assumption turned out to be wrong
DBy the time the features were delivered, the market and user requirements had changed
OThe marketing team did not advertise the product features
Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning?
DPlanning is a continuous activity done jointly by Scrum Master and Product Owner
DDetailed planning is done upfront and not revisited
OWhole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by continuous planning throughout
the project
Donly planning in Scrum is the Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum is one of the planning events
'Agile for Beginners' course is intended towards motivating you to learn more about Agile, so that you can
become
O Project Leader
O Agile Practitioner
O Project Manager
O Certified Manager
O None of the above
John, a Team member has completed EO - Agile for Beginners. He wants to contribute to TCS Agile Vision. He
wants to find out what is planned for his account. Whom should he contact for details?
O Account Leadership
O Customer Leadership
O HR Manager
Ateam is having the first Sprint Planning meeting. What are the activities that the team must perform duri
the meeting?
O The team must discuss the problems encountered in the earlier project
O Team choses the Product Backlog Items to work in the Sprint and crafts a Sprint Goal
O Team must dravw up the Release Plan for the final product
O Each team member should come prepared with their version of the plan
O The team must look at the project plan prepared by the Product Owner and understand their tasks
What BEST describes a Scrum Team?
DSmall but have enough members to create the Product Increment
ICollaborate with each other to self-organize their work Which of these are the needed actionsize TCS v0slgD
of "42"
DTeam members must be specialists DAgile Ready Partnership real? to
DAll get Agile Certified
DAgile Ready Workforce
 OT Shirt sizing
ORandom Distribution
Lee joins a project team that attempts to build a consumer device with embedded software. The team is
adopting 2-week sprint. Lee notices that the project must produce an outcome that will be highly adoptable
print by the users to become successful. After every Sprint Review, the Product Owner keeps changing the
Product vision and makes contradictory statements about user needs. What can be suggested for this
environment?

O Apply design thinking first for initial phase and then bring in Agile later
O More practices from Extreme Programming
O Apply waterfall and have the Product Owner sign-off on the requirement
Which framework prescribes User Story as the format for backlog items?
O Scrum
O FDD
O Crystal
O Extreme Programming
O DSDM
Which one of these is NOT an XP practice?
O Test Driven Development
O Extreme Reviews
O Pair Programming
O Continuous Integration
ORefactoring
Which of the following BEST describes the approach for determining the Sprint length in Scrum?
O Sprints must be 30 days always
O Product Owner unilaterally decides the duration of Sprint
0 Sprints must be two weeks always
O The team must collectively agree on the length of the Sprint based on business needs and technical
team's ability, subject to a maximum of one month
O There is no rule on Sprint duration
The Product Owner in a Scrum Project...
DHas no control over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items
DHas the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items
DCollaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog items, but the developers have
the final say
DCreates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business Analyst
pi titself
Spr e
ser is an event in Scrum
p-to-bottom Enterprise Agile Company ourselves
DAgile Ready Workplace
Jerald is a leader of TCS Customer Account. He learnt that the company's aspiration on Agile is to become
100% Agile by 2020. He gathered his Agile Experts within the account and asked them for a plan to transition
from current way of working to 100% Agile way of working as defined in the text book. Jerald correctly
understood TCS aspiration
O True
O False O True techuesnig
Which is these are Agile estimationO False
DFull upfront Estimates
DPlanning Poker
IWork Breakdown Structure
 DScrum Team with 20 members
DCross Functional team
OSprint duration of6 weeks
Design Thinking is another name for Agile Manifesto
O True
O False
On the last day of the Sprint, a Scrum Team named AlmostDone is ready to show their work but requires just
2 more days to complete the testing. What should the Scrum Master recommend
O Extend the Sprint by two days so that the team can complete the work
O Close the sprint on time
The reason for holding regular Sprint Retrospective is:
Olt allows the team to take a necessary break from work
O it gives management information to use in team members performance reviews
O Provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for Improvements to be
enacted during the next Sprint
O Retrospectives are optional
O Provides an opportunity for Stakeholders to looks at what the team is building
The time box for a Daily Scrum is ....
O Two minutes per person
O 15 minutes
O 2 hrs
O No time box
O 30 minutes
What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto?
O Processes and tools over individuals and interactions
O Working software over comprehensive documentation
O Responding to change over following a plan
O Contract negotiation over customer collaboration
Agile Teams need to comply by the Agile Values and Principles but have flexibility to choose appropriate
value adding practices
O True

HowFal_e
shouldwork be allocated to the team in a Scrum project?
O The Scrum Master must assign tasks to individuals
O Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills
O The complex tasks must be allocated by the Scrum Master
O Tasks must be allocated to team members by the Product Owner
O While senior team members volunteer for tasks, juniors must be assigned tasks by the Scrum Master
Munnabhai know the four Aglle Manifesto by heart. However, he was confused when a customer spoke with
him highlighting Agile characteristics of short software development cycles of iterations. He could not
recollect anything about short iterations in Agile Manifesto. What did he miss to learn
DAgile Principles
DAgile Guidelines
Which of these are Scrum anti patterns? DAgile Methods
DProgrammers as on Scrum Team and Testers as another Scrum Team Agile Phases
DScrum Master as a servant leader
There are two Product Development Teams. Team ToyZon and Team Zon. Team ToyZon follows traditional
way and Team Zon follows Agile way of working. Which team has the higher chance to provide eartly benefits
to the Customer?
O Team ToyZon
O Team Zons
Only these people are allowed to attend Sprint Retrospective
O Scrum Master and Development Team
O Product Owner and Development Team
O Scrum Master and Product Owner
O Scrum Team

Product Owner and Scrum Master can be the same person

O True
O False
Eric has been working for a customer who has been following Agile for quite some time now. He is quite
hands-on with Scrum and acquired PSM I certification already. The customer may soon move to a large scale
Agile. Which other certification may be beneficial for Eric so he can be prepared to help the customer?
O SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
O Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
O Professional Scrum Master l (PSM I)
Agile principles can be only used for software development
0 True
O False
What do all Agile frameworks have in common?
DA prescribed, flxed length
DLightweight approach that allows the self-organized teams to better respond to business requirements
Dlterative and Incremental development
DA clear step-by-step process for software development
Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?
O So that the place can be named as Daily Scrum Hub
O The consistency reduces complexity and overhead
O The Product Owner demands it
O Rooms are hard to book and this helps in advance booking
The Scrum team is using the Kanban board to make work visually available to all. What CANNOT be inferred
from the board?
O Number of items to be worked on by the team
O Percentage completion
O Tasks move from left to right
O Limit work in progress
TCS Agile vision '100% Agile by 2020' means
DTCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as 100% right partner/advisor for Agile
Transformations
DEvery project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming
D100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 competency
DTCS to be regarded as 100% Enterprise Agile Company
he teamicroMSnda
DThere should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits
Kris is an experienced Project Manager with a customer project where he commands t
manages the team members at task level. How can he help the TCS Agile vision?
O Proactively up-skill with skills needed to work in Agile Roles
O No need to do anything as he can continue to be the Project Manager
 O Wait till his current customer adopts Agile
A Scrum Team works on a 4 weeks Sprint. After few Sprints, the team finds that they spend more effort on
unit testing, as the code base size has increased. What can be BEST recommended for this team?
O Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing
O Adopt practices like test automation from other frameworks like XP
O Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks
O Add two more temporary testers
O Form a separate Testing team
Who owns quality in a Scrum Team?
O Scrum Master
O Product Owner
O Scrum Team
O Testers
O External QA team
Juaraz is a TCS Delivery Partner of customer ABC, having an Agile Team in one location. He plans to expand
this Agile Team. He arrives at plan to setup the expanded team in another location. For an effective
distributed agile between different locations, what is recommended?
O Agile between distributed locations will not work. Drop the plan
O Leverage the guidelines from the TCS Point of View on distributed agile (Location Independent Agile)
O Copy a working distributed agile model from other customers and simply reuse that model