Hybrid Certification Exam – William George Associates

Welcome to your Hybrid Certification Exam

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The most important process and the end of each phase and the end of the project is:

a. PO accepting Sprint results

b. Calculating earned value

c. Performing of retrospectives

d. Facilitating Scrum of Scrums

Which of the following statements is true in Hybrid PM?

a. Capturing Lessons Learned leads to continuous improvement

b. The Scrum Master is responsible for customer interaction

c. The Team will decide how requirements are validated

d. The PO should generate requirements and user stories

Hybrid methods represent the Best of:

a. Waterfall and Scrum

b. Agile and Scrum methods

c. All methods of Project Management

d. All of the above

Which is true about Hybrid PM?

a. We should generate a complete plan in initial planning

b. The elasticity of scope should drive the planning methods

c. 8 hours of planning should be spent in a 4-week Release planning cycle

d. None of the above

What authority do Scrum Masters have in the Scrum cycle?

a. Managerial authority for team members

b. Scrum Process control

c. Final say in decisions

d. Creating Estimates

The integration of hardware and software disciplines

a. Cannot be accomplished in Hybrid

b. Is essential for Hybrid systems thinking

c. Should be deferred until an organization is ready for cultural change

d. Is required in Waterfall and Agile methods

The person acting as PO in Hybrid should spend a majority of their time

a. Analyzing their market

b. Developing interrelational digraphs in determining upstream and downstream dependencies

c. Documenting stated needs from the customer and exploring potential future needs

d. Developing product specifications

What is an example of a Hybrid Team Member?

a. Stakeholder

b. Source Material Expert

c. Scrum Master

d. Customer

Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of a Technical Team Member?

a. Shield to external influences

b. Executing

c. Estimating

d. Collaboration

10.

Which of the following is a responsibility of the Scrum Master?

a. Requirements

b. Product Vision

c. Accepting work

d. Tracking Velocity

11.

What is the required cadence of Daily Stand ups?

a. Daily

b. As often as the team feels like it

c. As often as required to understand project status

d. Once per week, then twice per week, then 3 times per week.

12.

Who is typically responsible for creating User Stories?

a. The team

b. Customers

c. Business Analyst

d. Product Owner

13.

A User Story can be defined as a:

a. Promise for future collaboration

b. Courtesy to the customer

c. Mandate from Management

d. A way to describe the product

14.

Agile Design Reviews require the following:

a. Informing management the process is working

b. Present the vision before discussing specifications

c. Senior management attendance

d. Functional manager attendance

15.

Describe the reporting relationship among Scrum artifacts

a. MVP, requirements, Users Stories, Features

b. Release, Features, User Stories, Tasks

c. Features, Vision, Tasks, User Stories

d. Exclusions, MVP, Vision, Features

16.

Which one of the following is part of defining a User Story?:

a. Definition of done

b. Requirements

c. Task breakdown

d. All of the above

17.

How should a Hybrid team plan and execute projects?

a. Identify roles and responsibilities

b. Select whatever processes are appropriate to the work at hand

c. Let it happen naturally

d. a and b

18.

Who should determine the estimates for User Stories and Tasks?

a. Program Manager

b. Team Members

c. Product Owner

d. All of the above

19.

Which of the following is a technique for estimating the size of User Stories?

a. Story pointing

b. Shirt sizes

c. Planning poker

d. All of the above

20.

What is the best way to classify the value of a Story point?

a. Equal to a set amount of time

b. Exact amount of effort

c. Relative sizing to previous work completed

d. None of the above

21.

At the end of a Sprint, your team finished 3 User Stories worth 11 story points and 2 other User Stories were partially completed. What should happen to the 2 unfinished User Stories?

a. Work on the stories until they are done

b. Add the unfinished stories to the next sprint

c. Put the User Stories back into the backlog

d. Consider the stories done because the Sprint is over

22.

Which of the following statements are true with respect to Team Velocity?

a. Likely to never be a constant value

b. May wildly change for new teams

c. Tracked by the Scrum Master

d. All of the above

23.

During the Daily Scrum Stand-up, 2 team members begin problem-solving As a Scrum Master, what would be the best course of action?:

a. Let the team members solve the problem

b. Ask for that team members to take the issue up outside of the Stand-up

c. Wait for the team to address this behavior

d. Ask the team members to leave the stand up

24.

You are the Scrum Master of a team. During planning, the Product Owner and Team members are arguing over why the Story Point estimates are so high. What would be the ideal course of action:

a. Take the Product Owner’s side

b. Take the Technical Team Members’ side

c. Do nothing

d. Take control of the situation and promote collaboration

25.

At what point during the Scrum Cycle are do Customers get to interact with the Team?

a. Sprint Review

b. Sprint Retrospective

c. Sprint Planning

d. Backlog grooming

26.

During Sprint Planning, the team has run into a question that no one has the answer for, however an SME is likely to know the answer. What is a good course of action?

a. Accept it as a risk and continue

b. Pause the planning meeting briefly to gather more information

c. Increase the estimate on the User Story

d. None of the above

27.

What is the best way to reconcile the different methods of product development used by SW and HW teams?

a. Allow each to use the methods it chooses and reinforce that one cannot violate the lanes of the other

b. Ensure that the Sponsor knows what techniques each will use

c. Let the PM decide the methods

d. Perform Agile thinking at the onset and plan for touch points

28.

Who is responsible for accepting work completed by the Team?

a. Scrum Master

b. Stakeholders

c. Product Owner

d. Customer

29.

Who should be included in Sprint Retrospectives?

a. Product Owner, Stakeholders, and Team Members

b. Anyone who wants to attend

c. Scrum Master, Team Members, and Stakeholders

d. Product Owner, Scrum Masters, and Technical Team Members

30.

As a Scrum Master you should refrain from decision making.

a. True

b. False

31.

What is the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective?

a. To point fingers at fellow team members for mistakes made

b. To become a high performing team by learning from things that did not go well

c. To capture variance and root cause and share this information with the organization

d. Demonstrate completed work

32.

Which of the following are pre-requisites for Planning?

a. Well defined requirements/user stories

b. A prioritized backlog

c. Team is aware of potential work to be presented

d. All of the above

33.

As a technical team member, which of the following is NOT an acceptable reason to reject work from the Product Owner:

a. Work doesn’t seem interesting

b. User Story is not well defined

c. Technology to do the work doesn’t exist

d. Lack of team knowledge

34.

A Team member approaches the Scrum Master and asks for help on a technical problem. You should

a. Provide technical solutions

b. Ask a series of probing questions

c. Refer them to the functional manager

d. Tell them it’s not your job to address such issues

35.

Why can Hybrid development be more beneficial than Waterfall development?

a. It allows for Agile thinking and a systems mindset

b. A better plan can be created

c. You can adapt to change faster

d. Because you don’t have to worry about testing

36.

Ideally, who should determine the length of a Sprint for a team?

a. Product Owner

b. Scrum Master

c. Stakeholders

d. Technical team members

37.

As a team member during, you don’t consider the requirements for a User Story to be well defined. What should you do?

a. Write them yourself after the Grooming session

b. Wait for the Product Owner to update them

c. Ask for more clarification to the User Story

d. Do nothing

38.

User Stories are typically estimated in Story Points. Tasks created for User Stories are typically estimated in _______________.

a. Ideal days

b. Story Points

c. Hours

d. None of the above

39.

What are the Scrum Master’s most important activities?

a. Facilitation, questioning, organizing, maintaining energy

b. Leading, collaboration, addressing performance shortfalls of the team, writing performance reviews

c. Fibonacci, Estimating, Supervising, removing impediments

d. Removing sediments, tracking, molding the team, taking credit for success

40.

Where do User Stories in the Sprint Backlog come from?

a. Previous sprint

b. Product backlog

c. Upper Management

d. Subject Material Experts

41.

What is something that should be done before the end of every Sprint Planning meeting?

a. Discuss Operational issues

b. Groom the backlog

c. Set Goals

d. Discuss process changes

42.

You are part of a Scrum team that is consistently not accomplishing the goals the team has set for the Sprint. How can this be addressed?

a. Discuss the problem in the Sprint Retrospective

b. Talk with Product Owner about your team

c. Ask the Product Owner to take control

d. None of the above

43.

Hybrid methods are best used

a. In Planning projects

b. In Executing projects

c. In Retrospectives

d. In Reviews

44.

Which of the following represents the Fibonacci sequence?

a. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10…..

b. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9……

c. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13…..

d. 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 13….

45.

User Stories are ___________________ to a customer:

a. Units of value

b. Contractual commitments

c. Demonstrable features

d. Financial commitments

46.

Who is responsible for gathering requirements for User Stories?

a. Scrum Master

b. Team members

c. Product Owner

d. All of the above

47.

Which of the following best describes Scrum of Scrums?

a. A role in which someone oversees multiple scrum teams

b. A gathering of Scrum teams that have a similar vision

c. A comparison of multiple team’s velocities

d. A meeting where Stakeholders ask questions of Scrum Masters

48.

Which best describes the nature of a Hybrid Team

a. Program Manager is the leader

b. Scrum Master is the most valuable

c. Should consider themselves a team of equals

d. Hierarchy conforms with the corporate structure

49.

What are some of the challenges you face when scaling Scrum to a large organization?

a. Multiple teams on the same product

b. Communication and visibility

c. Possible loss of team empowerment

d. All of the above

50.

Who is in charge of tracking average team velocity?

a. Product Owner

b. Stakeholders

c. Scrum Master

d. None of the above