CAPM Agile Frameworks and Methodologies Practice Test 5 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A Scrum team has a stable velocity of 30 story points per sprint. The Product Owner requests that the team deliver 50 story points in the next sprint to meet a market deadline. What is the best course of action for the Scrum Master?

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

Accepted Answer

Coach the Product Owner on the team's capacity and discuss options such as scope reduction or deadline extension.. A Scrum Master serves the team and organization by coaching rather than commanding. When a Product Owner requests more than the team's demonstrated velocity, the correct response is to make the capacity constraint transparent and collaborate on trade-offs — reducing scope, extending the deadline, or reprioritizing the backlog. This preserves sustainable pace and empirical planning rather than forcing an unsustainable commitment.

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Instruct the Development Team to work overtime to meet the request.

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Remove the Sprint Retrospective to free up time for development.

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Add two extra days to the Sprint to allow more work.

Question 2

A geographically distributed agile team using Scrum is experiencing frequent integration issues and delays caused by incompatible code changes. Which Extreme Programming (XP) practice would best address this problem?

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Continuous integration. Continuous integration (CI) is an XP practice where team members integrate their code changes into a shared repository multiple times a day, with each integration verified by an automated build and test suite. For a geographically distributed Scrum team, CI directly addresses integration issues by catching incompatible changes early, reducing the time and effort required to resolve conflicts. It ensures that code from different developers is continuously merged and validated, preventing the accumulation of divergent changes that cause delays.

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Pair programming

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Test-driven development (TDD)

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Refactoring

Question 3

A Scrum Master observes that the Development Team consistently overcommits during Sprint Planning and often fails to deliver all committed items by the Sprint Review. What should the Scrum Master do?

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Coach the team on using historical velocity data and encourage them to commit to a realistic amount of work.. The Scrum Master should coach the team on using historical velocity data to make realistic commitments, fostering self-management and continuous improvement. Option A is wrong because the Scrum Master should not take over Sprint Planning; that undermines the team's autonomy. Option B is wrong because lowering the Sprint Goal artificially does not address the root cause of overcommitment. Option C is wrong because mandating a fixed percentage of velocity violates self-organization and does not teach the team to estimate effectively.

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Take over the Sprint Planning and assign work based on the Product Owner's priorities.

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Change the Sprint Goal to be less ambitious each Sprint to ensure delivery.

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Mandate that the team can only commit to a maximum of 80% of their velocity.

Question 4

Which TWO activities are considered part of Product Backlog refinement? (Select TWO)

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Prioritizing items in the Product Backlog. Product Backlog refinement is the ongoing activity of reviewing and updating backlog items to make them ready for upcoming Sprints, so option C (Prioritizing items in the Product Backlog) is correct because ordering items by value, risk, and dependencies is a core part of refinement performed collaboratively by the Product Owner and Developers. Option E (Adding detailed acceptance criteria to user stories) is also correct because breaking down, clarifying, and elaborating items with acceptance criteria is exactly the decomposition and detailing work that refinement entails. Option A is not part of refinement because the Daily Scrum is a 15-minute timeboxed event for the Developers to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog, not the Product Backlog. Option B is not part of refinement because the Sprint Retrospective is a Scrum event focused on inspecting and improving the team's process and interactions, not on grooming backlog items. Option D is not part of refinement because demonstrating the increment at the Sprint Review is an inspection-and-adaptation event about the product increment and stakeholder feedback, not backlog item elaboration.

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Running the Daily Scrum

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Conducting the Sprint Retrospective

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Demonstrating the increment at the Sprint Review

Question 5

Which TWO statements about the Sprint Backlog are true? (Select TWO)

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It is created during Sprint Planning.. Option B is correct because the Sprint Backlog is created during the Sprint Planning event, where the Scrum Team selects Product Backlog items and defines a plan for delivering them within the Sprint. Option C is correct because the Sprint Backlog typically includes the decomposed tasks or work items derived from the selected user stories, giving the Developers a actionable plan. Option A is incorrect because the Sprint Backlog is not merely a subset of the Product Backlog; it is a separate artifact consisting of the Sprint Goal, selected Product Backlog items, and the plan for delivering them. Option D is incorrect because the Sprint Backlog is owned by the Developers, not the Product Owner. Option E is incorrect because the Sprint Backlog can be updated throughout the Sprint as the Developers learn more, while the Sprint Goal remains fixed.

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It is a subset of the Product Backlog.

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It is owned by the Product Owner.

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It cannot be changed during the Sprint.

Question 6

Which THREE roles are defined in the Scrum Guide? (Select THREE)

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Scrum Master. The Scrum Guide defines exactly three roles (accountabilities): the Scrum Master (B), who ensures Scrum is understood and enacted and serves the team and organization; the Product Owner (C), who maximizes product value and manages the Product Backlog; and the Development Team (D), the self-organizing, cross-functional group that delivers the potentially releasable Increment each Sprint. Options A and E are not Scrum roles: 'Customer' is a generic stakeholder term not defined in the Scrum Guide, and 'Project Manager' is a traditional project-management role that Scrum deliberately omits, distributing its responsibilities among the three defined accountabilities.

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Customer

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Project Manager

Question 7

A team using Scrum consistently fails to complete all planned work in a sprint. What should the Scrum Master do first?

Accepted Answer

Help the team break down user stories into smaller pieces.. Breaking user stories into smaller pieces enables the team to estimate more accurately and complete work within the sprint. Option A is wrong because simply adding more team members does not address the root cause of incomplete work and can introduce communication overhead. Option C is wrong because the Product Owner is a vital participant in daily stand-ups to provide clarification and prioritize work; removing them hinders collaboration. Option D is wrong because increasing sprint length reduces feedback frequency and does not solve the underlying issue of work sizing or estimation.

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Add more team members.

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Remove the Product Owner from daily stand-ups.

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Increase the sprint length.

Question 8

Refer to the exhibit. The team's velocity is 30 points per sprint, and they have already committed to stories totaling 22 points. What is the team's remaining capacity for this sprint?

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8 points. The team's velocity is 30 points per sprint, meaning they can typically complete 30 points of work. They have already committed to 22 points, so the remaining capacity is 30 - 22 = 8 points. This assumes the velocity is a reliable measure of capacity.

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22 points

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30 points

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52 points

Question 9

Refer to the exhibit. The team wants to pull a new item into In Progress. What should they do first?

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Move an item from In Progress to Done.. In a Kanban system, WIP limits are constraints that must be respected — the team cannot simply pull a new item into In Progress when the column is already at its limit. The correct first action is to finish existing work by moving an item from In Progress to Done, which frees a slot and allows the new item to be pulled. This preserves flow, exposes bottlenecks, and honors the pull-based discipline central to Kanban.

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Ignore the WIP limit and pull the item.

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Increase the WIP limit for In Progress.

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Add the item to To Do.

Question 10

Which TWO practices are characteristic of Extreme Programming (XP)? (Choose two)

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Test-driven development. Test-driven development (A) is a core XP practice in which developers write an automated unit test before writing the code to satisfy it, then refactor, driving design and providing a safety net for continuous change. Pair programming (C) is also a defining XP practice: two developers work together at one workstation, with one typing (driver) and the other reviewing (navigator), improving quality and knowledge sharing. Daily stand-ups (B), sprint retrospectives (D), and the product owner role (E) are characteristic of Scrum, not XP, so they do not belong here.

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Daily stand-ups

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Sprint retrospectives

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Product owner

Question 11

A team is transitioning to Kanban. Which TWO principles should they adopt? (Choose two)

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Define process policies. Option B, define process policies, is correct because Kanban requires making work policies explicit (e.g., definition of done, entry/exit criteria, WIP limits per column) so that everyone understands how work flows and decisions are made. Option C, limit work in progress, is correct because constraining WIP is the core Kanban practice that exposes bottlenecks, reduces multitasking, and improves flow and cycle time. Options A (sprint reviews) and D (fixed-length iterations) belong to Scrum's timeboxed framework, not Kanban, which is continuous-flow and does not mandate iterations or sprint ceremonies. Option E (velocity tracking) is a Scrum metric based on story points completed per sprint; Kanban instead uses flow metrics such as cycle time, lead time, and throughput.

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Sprint reviews

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Fixed-length iterations

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Velocity tracking

Question 12

Which THREE are events in the Scrum framework? (Choose three)

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Sprint Retrospective. In the Scrum framework, the defined events (ceremonies) are Sprint Planning (D), the Daily Scrum/Stand-up (C), the Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective (B); these are the formal opportunities for inspection and adaptation within each Sprint. Sprint Planning (D) is correct because it is the event where the team defines the Sprint Goal and the work to be done in the upcoming Sprint. The Daily Stand-up (C) is correct because it is the 15-minute daily event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and plan the next 24 hours. The Sprint Retrospective (B) is correct because it is the event held at the end of the Sprint to inspect the last Sprint and identify improvements. Grooming (A) is not a Scrum event—it is a refinement activity, and the term was officially replaced by 'Product Backlog refinement,' which is an ongoing activity rather than a formal event. Release Planning (E) is not a Scrum framework event; it is a separate planning activity that may occur outside the Scrum events and is not prescribed by the Scrum Guide.

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Grooming

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Release Planning

Question 13

What is the primary role of the Product Owner in Scrum?

Accepted Answer

Maximize the value of the product. In Scrum, the Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value the Scrum Team delivers from the product. This is the defining responsibility stated in the Scrum Guide, and it drives backlog ordering, stakeholder engagement, and product vision. The role is not a people-management or technical-execution role, which is why 'maximize the value of the product' is the correct answer.

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Manage the team

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Remove impediments

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Write code

Question 14

A team is working on a project with high uncertainty. Which agile framework is most suitable?

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Scrum. Scrum is an agile framework specifically designed to manage complex projects with high uncertainty through iterative sprints, empirical process control, and frequent inspection and adaptation. It provides structured roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team), events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective), and artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment) that enable teams to respond to changing requirements. Kanban is also agile but focuses on continuous flow and limiting work in progress, making it better for operational or support work with more predictable demand. Waterfall and V-Model are plan-driven, sequential methodologies that assume requirements are stable and known upfront, which is unsuitable for high uncertainty.

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Waterfall

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V-Model

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Kanban

Question 15

In Kanban, what is the primary purpose of limiting Work in Progress (WIP)?

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To reduce multitasking and improve focus.. Limiting WIP in Kanban directly constrains how many items can be in progress simultaneously, which reduces context switching and multitasking so team members can focus on fewer tasks at a time. This focus improves flow efficiency and helps surface bottlenecks, which is the foundational purpose of the WIP limit.

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To ensure each task is done correctly the first time.

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To increase throughput.

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To make the team work faster.