Answering: “A “cone of uncertainty” can be used to do what?”

A “cone of uncertainty” can be used to do what?
(choose the best answer)
A. Rapidly identify and prioritize all uncertainties.
B. Represent the relative level of difficulty for predicting the velocity of individual team members.
C. Help a Product Owner, working in a complex environment, forecast the scope of work likely to be done during a certain number of Sprints.
D. Determine whether to cut quality, similar to the “Iron Triangle” of project management.

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Answering: “Which activities will a Product Owner likely engage in during a Sprint?”

Which activities will a Product Owner likely engage in during a Sprint?
(choose the best three answers)
A. Gather information and opinions from stakeholders.
B. Prioritize the Developers’ tasks.
C. Run the Daily Scrum.
D. Update the Sprint burndown chart.
E. Answer questions from the Developers about items in the current Sprint.
F. Rearrange Product Backlog items.

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Answering: “If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what does a trend line through a release burndown chart indicate?”

If burndown charts are used to visualize progress, what does a trend line through a release burndown chart indicate?
(choose the best answer)
A. When all work will be completed so the Scrum Team can be released for other work.
B. When the project will be over if the Product Owner removes work that is equal in effort to any new work that is added.
C. When the work remaining will likely be completed if nothing changes on the Product Backlog or Scrum Team.
D. The evolution of the cost spent on the project.

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Answering: “You work for a large financial institution. Your products have many interdependencies: you have mobile, web, and ATM product interfaces to financial products like savings, checking, credit card, investments. When any of these financial products change, the changes ripple throughout the mobile, web, and ATM clients, and maintaining consistency is challenging. What should you do to reduce this problem?”

You work for a large financial institution. Your products have many interdependencies: you have mobile, web, and ATM product interfaces to financial products like savings, checking, credit card, investments. When any of these financial products change, the changes ripple throughout the mobile, web, and ATM clients, and maintaining consistency is challenging. What should you do to reduce this problem?
(choose the best answer)
A. Form products that are as independent as possible and let each product determine their own release plans, but ensure coordination.
B. Create a centralized, coordinated cross-product Development Plan to ensure consistency.
C. Appoint an overall Product Owner to oversee all the products.
D. Ensure that the PMO manages the inter-product dependencies.
E. All of the above.

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Answering: “The Developers have struggled to get all of their forecasted work done during the last three Sprints. As a Product Owner what steps could you take to help the Developers improve their ability to deliver a done Increment?”

The Developers have struggled to get all of their forecasted work done during the last three Sprints. As a Product Owner what steps could you take to help the Developers improve their ability to deliver a done Increment?
(choose the best two answers)
A. Ensure that all Developers are top performers.
B. Ask the Scrum Master to help the Developers learn techniques for improving their ability to forecast work.
C. Add more people to the team so they can get more done.
D. The Product Owner can spend more time with the Developers.\

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