CAPM Agile Frameworks and Methodologies Practice Test 3 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A distributed Scrum team is having difficulty with communication across time zones. The Daily Scrum is scheduled at 9 AM in the US, which is midnight in India. What is the best approach to resolve this?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Rotate the time of the Daily Scrum so that no one is always inconvenienced.. Rotating the Daily Scrum time shares the inconvenience of time zone differences equitably across the distributed team, preserving the event's purpose of daily synchronization and inspection. The Scrum Guide requires the Daily Scrum to be held at the same time and place each day, but for distributed teams, rotating the time is an acceptable adaptation that maintains the event's time-boxed, collaborative nature without breaking the inspect-and-adapt cycle.

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Record the Daily Scrum for the India team to watch later.

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Replace the Daily Scrum with asynchronous updates.

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Hold two separate Daily Scrums for each location.

Question 2

During Sprint Planning, the Product Owner proposes a user story that is too large to fit in one Sprint. What should the team do?

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Collaboratively break down the story into smaller, sprint-sized stories.. In Scrum, user stories that are too large (often called 'epics') must be decomposed into smaller, sprint-sized stories during Sprint Planning. The Product Owner and Development Team collaboratively break down the story to ensure each piece can be completed within a single Sprint, maintaining the Sprint Goal and timebox. This aligns with the Agile principle of sustainable pace and the Scrum Guide's emphasis on the Development Team's self-organization to determine how to deliver the Product Backlog items.

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Reject the story and ask for a smaller one.

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Accept the story and work overtime to complete it.

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Accept the story and commit to completing it in the Sprint.

Question 3

A team is new to Agile and wants to implement a framework that emphasizes iterative development, time-boxed iterations, and a prioritized backlog. Which framework should they adopt?

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Scrum. Scrum is the correct framework because it explicitly prescribes time-boxed iterations (sprints), a prioritized backlog (Product Backlog), and iterative development through defined events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. This aligns directly with the team's requirements for a structured Agile framework that enforces these core practices.

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Kanban

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Lean

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Extreme Programming (XP)

Question 4

Which THREE of the following are core values of the Agile Manifesto?

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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.. The Agile Manifesto explicitly values 'Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.' This means that while processes and tools are important, the people doing the work and how they communicate take precedence. The Manifesto emphasizes that collaboration and human factors drive project success more than rigid adherence to prescribed procedures.

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Following a plan over responding to change.

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Contract negotiation over customer collaboration.

Question 5

During Sprint Planning, the team realizes the password reset story involves a third-party email service that has not been integrated yet. The team has no experience with that service. What is the best action?

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Create a time-boxed spike to research the integration.. The team has no experience with the third-party email service, and integrating it involves unknown technical risks. A time-boxed spike (Option B) is the best action because it allows the team to research the integration within a defined timebox, reducing uncertainty before committing to the story in a Sprint. This aligns with the Scrum principle of managing risk through validated learning, not through guesswork or scope changes.

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Accept the story and figure it out during the Sprint.

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Add more developers to the team for this Sprint.

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Remove the story from the Product Backlog.

Question 6

The team notices that work is piling up in the Testing column. The WIP limit for Testing is 3, but currently there are 5 items. What should the team do first?

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Focus the team on completing testing items until the WIP limit is met.. When a WIP limit is exceeded, the team should swarm on the bottleneck to complete the items in that column, thereby reducing work-in-progress and restoring flow. In Kanban, exceeding a WIP limit signals a constraint that must be resolved by finishing existing work, not by adding more. This aligns with the core principle of limiting WIP to improve throughput and cycle time.

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Move items from Backlog to To Do to increase throughput.

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Ignore the WIP limit and continue as is.

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Move some testing items back to In Progress.

Question 7

A startup is adopting Scrum for the first time. During the Sprint Review, stakeholders request many changes to the product increment. What is the best way for the Scrum Master to handle this?

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Ask the Product Owner to add the changes to the Product Backlog for prioritization in future Sprints.. In Scrum, the Sprint Review is a time for stakeholders to inspect the increment and provide feedback, but changes cannot be made to the current Sprint as the Sprint Goal and scope are fixed. The Product Owner is responsible for managing the Product Backlog, so the best action is to capture these change requests and have the Product Owner add them to the Product Backlog for future prioritization. This ensures the Development Team remains focused on the current Sprint Goal and that changes are evaluated against business value and priority in upcoming Sprints.

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Let the Development Team decide which changes to implement immediately.

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Add the changes to the current Sprint Backlog immediately.

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Ignore the feedback since the Sprint is complete.

Question 8

In a Kanban system, the team notices that work items are spending too much time in the 'In Progress' column. Which practice should the team adopt to improve flow?

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Set a strict WIP limit for the 'In Progress' column.. Setting a strict Work In Progress (WIP) limit for the 'In Progress' column directly addresses the bottleneck by capping the number of items the team can work on simultaneously. This forces the team to finish existing work before pulling new items, reducing multitasking and cycle time. In Kanban, WIP limits are the primary mechanism to expose flow inefficiencies and improve throughput.

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Use longer development cycles.

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Increase the number of items allowed in the 'In Progress' column.

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Remove the 'In Progress' column to simplify the board.

Question 9

An XP team is practicing pair programming. A new developer feels uncomfortable because the partner frequently corrects their code. What is the best way to foster a positive pairing experience?

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Encourage the pair to set expectations and rotate roles (driver/navigator) regularly.. Setting expectations and rotating roles (driver/navigator) is a core XP practice that fosters collaboration, psychological safety, and skill transfer. In pair programming, the driver writes code while the navigator reviews and suggests improvements; rotating roles ensures both developers contribute equally and learn from each other, reducing the new developer's discomfort by making corrections a shared, constructive process rather than a one-sided critique.

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Ask the senior developer to only observe and not comment.

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Have the new developer work alone until they gain more confidence.

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Discontinue pair programming for that pair.

Question 10

Which TWO are Scrum artifacts? (Choose two.)

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Product Backlog. The Product Backlog is a Scrum artifact because it is an ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in the product, serving as the single source of requirements for any changes to be made. The Sprint Backlog is also a Scrum artifact, as it comprises the Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint plus a plan for delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal. Both are explicitly defined in the Scrum Guide as the three artifacts (along with the Increment).

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Kanban Board

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User Story

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Gantt Chart

Question 11

Which THREE are principles of the Agile Manifesto? (Choose three.)

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Deliver working software frequently, with a preference to the shorter timescale.. The Agile Manifesto explicitly states 'Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.' This principle emphasizes iterative delivery and rapid feedback cycles, which are core to Agile frameworks like Scrum and XP.

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Use pair programming for all production code.

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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Question 12

A software development team is transitioning from a plan-driven approach to Scrum. The Product Owner is enthusiastic but struggles to break down the product backlog into small, independent items. The team frequently encounters dependencies between user stories, causing delays in sprints. What is the best course of action for the Scrum Master to address this issue?

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Coach the Product Owner on how to split user stories to minimize dependencies.. The Scrum Master's primary responsibility is to coach the Product Owner and the team on Scrum practices. In this scenario, the root cause is the Product Owner's inability to decompose user stories into small, independent items, which creates dependencies. By coaching the Product Owner on effective story splitting techniques (e.g., using vertical slicing, splitting by workflow steps, or by acceptance criteria), the Scrum Master directly addresses the source of the problem, enabling the team to deliver value incrementally without cross-story delays.

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Have the team self-organize to handle dependencies by assigning a dependency owner.

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Increase the sprint duration to allow more time to resolve dependencies.

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Ask developers to manage dependencies during the sprint by coordinating with other teams.

Question 13

Drag and drop the steps for managing project quality in the correct order.

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Plan Quality Management, then Perform Quality Assurance, then Perform Quality Control. Quality management starts with planning, then assurance, control, metrics definition, and corrective actions.

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Perform Quality Assurance, then Plan Quality Management, then Perform Quality Control

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Perform Quality Control, then Plan Quality Management, then Perform Quality Assurance

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Plan Quality Management, then Perform Quality Control, then Perform Quality Assurance

Question 14

A project team is adopting Kanban. They currently have a cycle time of 10 days and a throughput of 5 items per week. The team wants to improve predictability. Which action would most directly help?

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Make the work items smaller.. Making work items smaller directly reduces variability in cycle time and throughput, which improves predictability in Kanban. Smaller items are easier to estimate, flow more consistently through the system, and reduce the risk of large items blocking the workflow, leading to more reliable delivery forecasts.

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Add more team members.

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Decrease the WIP limits.

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Increase the WIP limits.

Question 15

An organization is scaling Scrum across multiple teams. They have dependencies between teams that cause delays. What is the most appropriate framework to address this?

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Use the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with program increment planning.. SAFe is a widely adopted scaling framework that explicitly addresses cross-team dependencies through its Program Increment (PI) planning cadence. During PI planning, teams synchronize their backlogs, identify dependencies, and commit to a shared set of objectives for the upcoming increment. This structured coordination mechanism directly mitigates the delays caused by inter-team dependencies, making SAFe with PI planning the most appropriate choice.

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Keep teams independent by decoupling all dependencies.

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Have all teams work in the same Sprint but with no synchronization.

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Use a separate integration team to handle dependencies.