AAC Agile Planning & Estimation

Question 1

In Agile, story points are best described as a measure of:

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Relative effort, complexity, and uncertainty of a user story

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Calendar time required to complete a story

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The number of tasks within a user story

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The business value delivered by a user story

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of Planning Poker in Agile estimation?

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To leverage collective team knowledge and reduce anchoring bias during estimation

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To assign tasks to individual team members fairly

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To enable managers to set delivery deadlines

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To document the official estimate for contractual purposes

Question 3

A Scrum team's velocity is calculated as:

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The average number of story points completed per sprint over recent sprints

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The number of sprints completed in a quarter

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The total story points planned at the beginning of the sprint

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The maximum story points the team has ever completed in a single sprint

Question 4

During Sprint Planning, the team commits to work based on:

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The team's capacity and historical velocity

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The product owner's full wish list for the release

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Management's project deadline requirements

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The number of developers available in the organization

Question 5

Which of the following best describes a 'Definition of Ready' (DoR) in Agile planning?

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Agreed conditions a user story must meet before it can be pulled into a sprint

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Criteria that define when a sprint is ready to be closed

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The team's readiness checklist before a product launch

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The acceptance criteria written by the product owner for each story

Question 6

Release planning in an Agile project primarily aims to:

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Provide a high-level forecast of which features may be ready by a target date based on velocity

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Assign exact delivery dates to every feature in the product backlog

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Replace sprint planning once the project scope is finalized

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Lock scope and budget for the entire product lifecycle

Question 7

When a team uses the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13…) for story point estimation, the main advantage is:

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The increasing gaps between numbers reflect growing uncertainty in larger estimates

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It ensures estimates are always accurate to within one day

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It allows managers to convert story points directly into hours

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It forces the team to always split stories into smaller pieces