TI F.P 100,23 Agile Exam Questions and Answers

TI F.P 100,23 Agile Exam Questions and Answers 1- What does NOT match with Agile Manifesto? Process and tools over individuals and interactions  Working software over comprehensive documentation  Responding to change over following a plan  Contract negotiation over customer collaboration

2- Which of the following statements about changing requirements in software development, are correct? In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes should undergo heavy change control process  Changes are acceptable till design but once development starts, any further changes should be rejected  In traditional way of software development, once the requirements are base lined, further changes can be easily accepted with light process  Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing market conditions to stay relevant in business

3- Which of the following statements BEST describe why Agile is winning? Products produced by an Agile approach are cheaper than those produced by any other approach  Agile increases the chances of delivering early business value to the market and quickly incorporate the feedback from the market usage  Products have faster time to market but may not meet immediate customer needs  Products are expensive when compared with products produced by other approaches, but are of top quality.

4- Why were the `practitioners of alternative software development methods` not satisfied with the traditional waterfall method? Waterfall is not a lightweight process  The practitioners did not like to work in a formal system and hence did not like any ‘methodology’ at all  Waterfall experience did not add value to their resume  Waterfall model failed to meet the demand for speed and was not friendly towards changing business needs and priorities

5- Which of the following BEST represent the Scrum approach to planning? Planning is a continuous activity done faintly by Scrum Master and Product Owner  Detailed planning is done upfront and not revisited  Whole team together does just enough upfront planning followed by continuous planning throughout the project

 Only planning in Scrum is one of the planning events 6- How should work be allocated to the team in a Scrum project? The Scrum Master must assign tasks to individuals  Team members must volunteer for tasks appropriate to their skills  The complex tasks must be allocated by the Scrum Master  Tasks must be allocated to team members by the Product Owner  While senior team members volunteer for tasks, juniors must be assigned takas by the Scrum Master

7- The time box for a Daily Scrum is…  Two minutes per person  15 minutes  2 hrs  No time box  30 minutes

8- Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place? So that the place can be named as Daily Scrum Hub  The consistency reduces complexity and overhead  The Product Owner demands it  Rooms are hard to book and this helps in advance booking  There is no such rule

9- What BEST describe a Scrum Team? Small but have enough members to create the Product Increment  Collaborate with each other to self-organize their work  Team members must be specialists  Cross Functional  Reports to Product Owner

10- The Product Owner in a Scrum project…. Has no control over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items  Has the final authority over the prioritization of Product Backlog Items  Collaborates with the developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items, but the developers have the final say  Collaborates with de developers over prioritization of Product Backlog Items but Product Owner has the final say  Creates the Product Backlog Items but leaves prioritization to Business Analyst

11- Noor´s Scrum Team Had a great Sprint Review of a new feature wih their Product Owner. Product Owner was happy new feature, and wanted to release the feature to user. But, the Scrum Team cannot do it themselves because production environment is owned the company´s IT operations team. Scrum Team was directed to create a ticket with IT operations for production release, and wait a week a week for an Ops engineer to manually work on the ticket. What is missing in this environment? Feedback  Flow  Continuous Improvement

12- Which one of these is NOT an XP practice? Test Driven Development  Extreme Reviews  Pair Programming  Continuous Integration  Refactoring

13 – What is a Kanban Board?Select the correct options(s) and click Submit  A list of activities banner by the team  The set of Can Have requirements  A visible chart depicting the work to be done, work in progress and work done  Board that captures the details of the entire project for audit purpose

14 – 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?Select the correct option(s) and click Submit. Unit testing is not fun anyway. As a self-organized team, choose to ignore the unit testing  Adopt practices like test automation form other frameworks like XP  Increase the duration of the sprint from 4 weeks to 6 weeks  Add two more temporary testers  From a separate Testing team

15 – Design Thinking is another name for Agile Manifesto.Select the correct option(s) and click Submit. True  False

16 – Mannar & Company kick started a major cross company project that involved working with multiple business unit leaders to build enterprise wide platform. Impressed by the success of small projects in Agile, company leadership enforced Agile in this transformation project. Shortly after few Sprints, teams witnessed that the Product Owner was not able to build consensus among the business unit leaders on requirements. There were several political aspects behind the collaboration. What went wrong? For large transformation projects, Design Thinking is required before Agile  Agile is based on trust and collaboration so that consensus can be arrived at quickly.This scenario did not have that atmosphere  Agile doesn’t require any pre-requisites. It works very well in all context. In this scenario, the Product Owner doesn´t seem to be competent

17- Which of these are the needed actions to realize TCS vision of “0-4-2”?Select the correct option(s) and click Submit. Agile Ready Partnership  All get Agile Certified  Agile Ready Workforce  Top-to-bottom Enterprise Agile Company ourselves  Agile Ready Workplace

18 – Jerald is a leader of a 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.Select the correct option(s) and click Submit. True  False

19- TCS Agile vision ´100% Agile by 2020`means Select the correct option(s) and click Submit. TCS to be regarded by the market and our customers as 100% right partner/advisor for Agile Transformations  Every project in TCS must follow all practices of Extreme Programming  100% of TCS associates must be at least at Agile E3 Competency  There should not be any Agile related non-compliance in the project audits