Mindset Domain

1. An agile team is asked to commit to a detailed 18-month plan in a highly uncertain market. What should the agile practitioner recommend?
   a) Commit to the full plan without change
   b) Use adaptive planning with regular checkpoints and reprioritization
   c) Avoid planning completely
   d) Freeze all requirements before starting
   Answer: b) Use adaptive planning with regular checkpoints and reprioritization
2. What does empirical process control rely on?
   a) Prediction, hierarchy and fixed scope
   b) Transparency, inspection and adaptation
   c) Detailed annual planning only
   d) Contract negotiation over collaboration
   Answer: b) Transparency, inspection and adaptation
3. A team says it is agile because it holds daily meetings, but it never changes its process based on evidence. What is missing?
   a) More documentation
   b) Empirical learning and adaptation
   c) More management approvals
   d) Longer iterations
   Answer: b) Empirical learning and adaptation
4. Which action best reflects customer collaboration?
   a) Asking customers for feedback only after final release
   b) Involving customers regularly to validate needs and outcomes
   c) Avoiding customer input to protect scope
   d) Sending only internal progress reports
   Answer: b) Involving customers regularly to validate needs and outcomes
5. A team wants to delay a difficult architectural decision until more is known. Which agile concept supports this?
   a) Last responsible moment
   b) Gold plating
   c) Fixed-scope execution
   d) Passive acceptance
   Answer: a) Last responsible moment
6. What is the main purpose of an agile principle such as “responding to change over following a plan”?
   a) To eliminate planning
   b) To encourage disciplined adaptation when new information emerges
   c) To prevent stakeholder input
   d) To avoid product ownership
   Answer: b) To encourage disciplined adaptation when new information emerges
7. A team is unsure whether a new workflow improves user productivity. What is the best agile response?
   a) Build the full solution before measuring
   b) Run a small experiment and gather evidence
   c) Ask the project manager to decide alone
   d) Remove the feature from all future planning
   Answer: b) Run a small experiment and gather evidence
8. Which mindset best supports continuous improvement?
   a) Treating current practices as permanent
   b) Regularly inspecting outcomes and adjusting team practices
   c) Avoiding team feedback
   d) Changing process randomly every day
   Answer: b) Regularly inspecting outcomes and adjusting team practices
9. What is a common sign that a team is following agile mechanically rather than thoughtfully?
   a) It uses feedback to improve delivery
   b) It performs ceremonies but does not improve outcomes
   c) It collaborates with stakeholders
   d) It makes work visible
   Answer: b) It performs ceremonies but does not improve outcomes
10. Which behavior best demonstrates respect for people in agile?
    a) Treating team members as interchangeable resources
    b) Listening to different viewpoints and enabling meaningful contribution
    c) Assigning blame publicly
    d) Avoiding difficult conversations
    Answer: b) Listening to different viewpoints and enabling meaningful contribution
11. A team wants to improve flow but keeps starting new work before finishing existing work. What mindset should be reinforced?
    a) Maximize utilization at all times
    b) Finish work and reduce multitasking
    c) Increase handoffs
    d) Start all high-priority items immediately
    Answer: b) Finish work and reduce multitasking
12. What is the best reason to make work visible?
    a) To allow management to micromanage every task
    b) To expose bottlenecks, risks and progress for better decisions
    c) To replace team conversations
    d) To hide delays from stakeholders
    Answer: b) To expose bottlenecks, risks and progress for better decisions
13. A team wants to increase predictability. Which agile habit helps most?
    a) Hiding unfinished work
    b) Keeping batch sizes small and reviewing flow data
    c) Accepting unlimited work requests
    d) Extending every iteration
    Answer: b) Keeping batch sizes small and reviewing flow data
14. What is an agile way to manage uncertainty?
    a) Pretend uncertainty does not exist
    b) Use short feedback cycles, experiments and progressive refinement
    c) Create a fixed plan and never revisit it
    d) Delay all delivery until every detail is known
    Answer: b) Use short feedback cycles, experiments and progressive refinement
15. A team is punished whenever an experiment fails. What is the likely impact?
    a) More innovation and transparency
    b) Less learning and more risk hiding
    c) Better collaboration
    d) Faster feedback
    Answer: b) Less learning and more risk hiding
16. What does “fail fast” mean in agile practice?
    a) Deliver low-quality work quickly
    b) Discover invalid assumptions early while the cost of learning is low
    c) Stop all projects after the first issue
    d) Avoid risk management
    Answer: b) Discover invalid assumptions early while the cost of learning is low
17. A team has strong technical delivery but weak business understanding. What should be improved?
    a) Connection between work items and customer value
    b) Number of internal reports only
    c) Individual utilization only
    d) Meeting length only
    Answer: a) Connection between work items and customer value
18. What is the purpose of value-stream thinking?
    a) To optimize one department only
    b) To understand how value flows from idea to customer
    c) To increase approval gates
    d) To avoid measuring delays
    Answer: b) To understand how value flows from idea to customer
19. A team wants to reduce waste. Which item is most likely waste in Lean-agile work?
    a) Customer feedback
    b) Partially completed work that is not delivering value
    c) Acceptance criteria
    d) Retrospective improvement actions
    Answer: b) Partially completed work that is not delivering value
20. Which statement best reflects agile governance?
    a) Governance is unnecessary in agile
    b) Governance should enable value, transparency and responsible decision-making
    c) Governance should stop all change
    d) Governance should replace team accountability
    Answer: b) Governance should enable value, transparency and responsible decision-making
21. A team is working on a regulated product. How should agility be applied?
    a) Ignore compliance requirements
    b) Adapt agile practices while meeting necessary governance and compliance controls
    c) Avoid customer feedback
    d) Use only informal decisions
    Answer: b) Adapt agile practices while meeting necessary governance and compliance controls
22. What is the best response when agile values appear to conflict with organizational procedures?
    a) Ignore all organizational procedures
    b) Tailor practices while preserving value delivery, transparency and compliance
    c) Stop agile adoption
    d) Ask the team to work without oversight
    Answer: b) Tailor practices while preserving value delivery, transparency and compliance
23. A team is repeatedly building features nobody uses. What mindset shift is needed?
    a) From output completion to outcome validation
    b) From collaboration to individual work
    c) From feedback to assumption
    d) From adaptability to fixed scope
    Answer: a) From output completion to outcome validation
24. What is the purpose of frequent stakeholder review in agile?
    a) To control the team through approvals
    b) To validate value, surface risks and adjust direction early
    c) To replace quality testing
    d) To avoid product ownership
    Answer: b) To validate value, surface risks and adjust direction early
25. What does “being agile” primarily mean?
    a) Using specific ceremonies exactly as written
    b) Adapting ways of working to deliver value in uncertain conditions
    c) Avoiding planning and measurement
    d) Completing more tasks regardless of value
    Answer: b) Adapting ways of working to deliver value in uncertain conditions
26. A team refuses to update its backlog despite new market information. What principle is being weakened?
    a) Adaptability
    b) Final inspection
    c) Fixed-price contracting
    d) Resource leveling
    Answer: a) Adaptability
27. Which agile mindset supports ethical product development?
    a) Delivering quickly regardless of user impact
    b) Considering customer, social, privacy and fairness impacts while delivering value
    c) Avoiding stakeholder concerns
    d) Hiding product limitations
    Answer: b) Considering customer, social, privacy and fairness impacts while delivering value
28. A team is optimizing individual productivity but delivery is still slow. What should be examined?
    a) End-to-end flow of value across the system
    b) Individual typing speed only
    c) Number of status slides
    d) Office seating order
    Answer: a) End-to-end flow of value across the system

Leadership Domain

29. A manager asks the agile leader to assign tasks to each developer every morning. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Support team self-management while ensuring clarity of goals and priorities
    b) Assign all tasks personally
    c) Remove team planning
    d) Ask stakeholders to stop providing input
    Answer: a) Support team self-management while ensuring clarity of goals and priorities
30. What is the best leadership response to recurring blockers?
    a) Accept blockers as normal
    b) Identify root causes and remove systemic impediments
    c) Ask the team to work around them forever
    d) Stop tracking impediments
    Answer: b) Identify root causes and remove systemic impediments
31. A team member quietly disagrees with the release plan but does not speak up. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Ignore silence as agreement
    b) Create a safe space for dissent and evidence-based discussion
    c) Finalize the plan immediately
    d) Ask only senior leaders for input
    Answer: b) Create a safe space for dissent and evidence-based discussion
32. A team’s retrospective repeatedly identifies the same problem. What is the best leadership action?
    a) Stop discussing it
    b) Help the team convert the issue into a specific improvement experiment
    c) Blame the team for not improving
    d) Move the issue to the final report
    Answer: b) Help the team convert the issue into a specific improvement experiment
33. What is coaching in an agile context?
    a) Giving every answer immediately
    b) Helping individuals and teams discover better ways of working
    c) Replacing the product owner
    d) Controlling all technical decisions
    Answer: b) Helping individuals and teams discover better ways of working
34. A senior stakeholder is pressuring the team to skip the retrospective. What should the agile practitioner explain?
    a) Retrospectives are only optional celebrations
    b) Retrospectives are key to continuous improvement and delivery effectiveness
    c) Retrospectives replace sprint reviews
    d) Retrospectives are only for managers
    Answer: b) Retrospectives are key to continuous improvement and delivery effectiveness
35. A team is consistently overcommitting. What should the agile leader facilitate?
    a) Better capacity discussion and realistic planning
    b) More pressure to accept work
    c) Removal of all estimates
    d) Longer status reports
    Answer: a) Better capacity discussion and realistic planning
36. What is the best way to handle a stakeholder who frequently interrupts the team with urgent requests?
    a) Allow every request immediately
    b) Route requests through prioritization and make trade-offs visible
    c) Block all stakeholder communication
    d) Ask developers to decide privately
    Answer: b) Route requests through prioritization and make trade-offs visible
37. An agile leader notices that the team is dependent on one expert. What should be encouraged?
    a) Knowledge sharing, pairing and skill development
    b) More specialization and less collaboration
    c) Assigning all critical work to that expert
    d) Avoiding documentation completely
    Answer: a) Knowledge sharing, pairing and skill development
38. A product owner and technical lead disagree on priority because one focuses on revenue and the other on technical risk. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Facilitate a discussion using value, risk and dependency data
    b) Choose the revenue item automatically
    c) Choose the technical item automatically
    d) Escalate without discussion
    Answer: a) Facilitate a discussion using value, risk and dependency data
39. Which behavior undermines servant leadership?
    a) Removing blockers
    b) Enabling team ownership
    c) Taking credit for team success while blaming the team for failure
    d) Supporting learning
    Answer: c) Taking credit for team success while blaming the team for failure
40. A leader wants to improve collaboration between product, engineering and operations. What should be encouraged?
    a) Shared goals and cross-functional planning
    b) Separate department backlogs with no integration
    c) More handoffs
    d) Delayed operations involvement
    Answer: a) Shared goals and cross-functional planning
41. A distributed team struggles because some members are excluded from key decisions due to time zones. What should the agile leader improve?
    a) Inclusive decision-making practices and asynchronous communication
    b) Decision-making only at headquarters
    c) Fewer written records
    d) More informal hallway conversations
    Answer: a) Inclusive decision-making practices and asynchronous communication
42. What should an agile leader do when executives ask for certainty that cannot honestly be provided?
    a) Provide false confidence
    b) Communicate uncertainty using ranges, assumptions and forecast confidence
    c) Refuse to discuss delivery dates
    d) Hide risk data
    Answer: b) Communicate uncertainty using ranges, assumptions and forecast confidence
43. A team is being measured only by velocity and begins inflating estimates. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Use velocity as a performance ranking tool
    b) Reframe metrics around forecasting, learning and value delivery
    c) Punish the team for lower velocity
    d) Stop all measurement
    Answer: b) Reframe metrics around forecasting, learning and value delivery
44. What is the purpose of facilitation in agile leadership?
    a) To force agreement quickly
    b) To help groups reach shared understanding and effective decisions
    c) To replace team accountability
    d) To avoid conflict
    Answer: b) To help groups reach shared understanding and effective decisions
45. A team is experiencing conflict between speed and quality. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Always choose speed
    b) Help the team assess long-term value, risk and sustainability
    c) Remove quality standards
    d) Hide quality issues
    Answer: b) Help the team assess long-term value, risk and sustainability
46. Which action best supports diversity of thought in an agile team?
    a) Letting the loudest voice decide
    b) Actively inviting different perspectives before decisions are made
    c) Avoiding disagreement
    d) Asking only senior people to speak
    Answer: b) Actively inviting different perspectives before decisions are made
47. A team wants to improve ownership of outcomes. What should leadership avoid?
    a) Clear goals
    b) Transparent metrics
    c) Micromanaging every task
    d) Regular feedback
    Answer: c) Micromanaging every task
48. A new agile team is confused about roles and decision rights. What should the agile leader establish?
    a) Working agreements and role clarity
    b) More informal assumptions
    c) Executive decision-making for every issue
    d) No documented agreements
    Answer: a) Working agreements and role clarity
49. What is the best leadership response when a stakeholder rejects an increment during review?
    a) Blame the team
    b) Understand the feedback, compare it to acceptance expectations and adapt backlog decisions
    c) Cancel the project
    d) Ignore the stakeholder
    Answer: b) Understand the feedback, compare it to acceptance expectations and adapt backlog decisions
50. A team says it is too busy delivering to improve its process. What should the agile practitioner explain?
    a) Improvement is separate from delivery and can wait indefinitely
    b) Process improvement protects future delivery capability
    c) Delivery speed always improves automatically
    d) Retrospectives should be eliminated
    Answer: b) Process improvement protects future delivery capability
51. What leadership behavior helps sustain agile adoption?
    a) Rewarding only individual output
    b) Aligning incentives with collaboration, value and learning
    c) Measuring only hours worked
    d) Avoiding customer feedback
    Answer: b) Aligning incentives with collaboration, value and learning
52. A stakeholder asks the team to hide known product limitations until after launch. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Agree to protect the release date
    b) Promote transparency and responsible communication of risks
    c) Remove the limitation from the backlog
    d) Ask testers to stay silent
    Answer: b) Promote transparency and responsible communication of risks
53. What is the best leadership approach when scaling agile across multiple teams?
    a) Standardize everything without regard to context
    b) Align around shared goals, dependencies, integration and feedback loops
    c) Let teams work independently with no coordination
    d) Remove product ownership
    Answer: b) Align around shared goals, dependencies, integration and feedback loops

Product Domain

54. What is the purpose of product discovery?
    a) To explore user problems and validate solution ideas before large-scale delivery
    b) To avoid user research
    c) To finalize all work items permanently
    d) To replace delivery planning
    Answer: a) To explore user problems and validate solution ideas before large-scale delivery
55. A product team defines a feature but cannot explain the problem it solves. What should be done first?
    a) Start development immediately
    b) Clarify the customer problem and expected outcome
    c) Add more developers
    d) Convert the feature into a contract
    Answer: b) Clarify the customer problem and expected outcome
56. Which technique helps connect product features to business goals and user behavior changes?
    a) Impact mapping
    b) Resource leveling
    c) Procurement audit
    d) Cost baseline review
    Answer: a) Impact mapping
57. A team wants to understand what customers are trying to accomplish, not just what they request. Which approach is useful?
    a) Jobs-to-be-done thinking
    b) Fixed task assignment
    c) Earned value reporting only
    d) Contract closure
    Answer: a) Jobs-to-be-done thinking
58. What is the main purpose of hypothesis-driven development?
    a) To treat product ideas as assumptions that must be tested
    b) To avoid measurement
    c) To guarantee every feature succeeds
    d) To remove stakeholder involvement
    Answer: a) To treat product ideas as assumptions that must be tested
59. A product owner has several valuable features but limited capacity. Which prioritization method considers cost of delay and job size?
    a) WSJF
    b) Daily standup
    c) Burndown chart
    d) Definition of Done
    Answer: a) WSJF
60. What does MoSCoW prioritization classify?
    a) Must have, Should have, Could have and Won’t have items
    b) Risk owners and responses
    c) Team development stages
    d) Procurement contract types
    Answer: a) Must have, Should have, Could have and Won’t have items
61. What is a key purpose of the Kano model?
    a) To understand how features may affect customer satisfaction
    b) To calculate team velocity
    c) To manage vendor invoices
    d) To replace sprint planning
    Answer: a) To understand how features may affect customer satisfaction
62. A product owner receives many feature requests from different departments. What should guide backlog ordering?
    a) Political pressure only
    b) Value, risk, learning, dependencies and strategic alignment
    c) Oldest request first only
    d) Easiest item first only
    Answer: b) Value, risk, learning, dependencies and strategic alignment
63. What is a nonfunctional requirement?
    a) A quality attribute such as performance, security or usability
    b) A user story with no value
    c) A task that cannot be tested
    d) A stakeholder preference that is ignored
    Answer: a) A quality attribute such as performance, security or usability
64. A team repeatedly defers security work because it is not visible to users. What should the product owner do?
    a) Treat important security needs as backlog items with clear value and risk impact
    b) Ignore security until release
    c) Remove security from product planning
    d) Ask only developers to decide in secret
    Answer: a) Treat important security needs as backlog items with clear value and risk impact
65. What is the purpose of a release goal?
    a) To clarify the outcome expected from a release
    b) To assign daily tasks
    c) To replace acceptance criteria
    d) To avoid customer feedback
    Answer: a) To clarify the outcome expected from a release
66. A team wants to know whether a new onboarding flow increases conversion. Which approach is most useful?
    a) A/B testing or controlled experiment
    b) Longer internal status meetings
    c) Removing measurement
    d) Waiting until the annual review
    Answer: a) A/B testing or controlled experiment
67. What does backlog health indicate?
    a) Whether backlog items are appropriately refined, prioritized and aligned to value
    b) Whether the project has enough meeting rooms
    c) Whether the team works overtime
    d) Whether contracts are closed
    Answer: a) Whether backlog items are appropriately refined, prioritized and aligned to value
68. A backlog contains many large, vague items. What should the product owner and team do?
    a) Refine and split items into smaller, clearer slices
    b) Start all items immediately
    c) Remove stakeholder feedback
    d) Freeze the backlog permanently
    Answer: a) Refine and split items into smaller, clearer slices
69. What is vertical slicing in agile product delivery?
    a) Delivering a thin, usable piece of functionality across layers
    b) Delivering only database work first
    c) Separating work by technical department
    d) Completing documentation before all code
    Answer: a) Delivering a thin, usable piece of functionality across layers
70. What is an epic commonly used for?
    a) A large body of work that can be broken into smaller backlog items
    b) A daily meeting
    c) A defect report only
    d) A contract penalty
    Answer: a) A large body of work that can be broken into smaller backlog items
71. A product team is building a capability requested by executives but not validated by users. What should be added?
    a) Discovery evidence and measurable success criteria
    b) More assumptions
    c) Longer development cycles only
    d) Less stakeholder review
    Answer: a) Discovery evidence and measurable success criteria
72. What is the best sign that a product increment delivered value?
    a) Users achieve a desired outcome more effectively
    b) The team completed many internal tasks
    c) The product backlog became longer
    d) The sprint had more meetings
    Answer: a) Users achieve a desired outcome more effectively

Delivery Domain

73. What is throughput in a Kanban system?
    a) The number of work items completed in a given period
    b) The number of people assigned to a team
    c) The total project budget
    d) The number of stakeholder meetings
    Answer: a) The number of work items completed in a given period
74. What does flow efficiency compare?
    a) Active work time to total elapsed time
    b) Budget spent to budget planned
    c) Number of meetings to number of emails
    d) Number of stakeholders to team size
    Answer: a) Active work time to total elapsed time
75. A team has long waiting times between development and testing. What should be improved?
    a) Flow and handoff management
    b) Project branding
    c) Sponsor title
    d) Meeting invitations only
    Answer: a) Flow and handoff management
76. What is the purpose of a Definition of Ready?
    a) To clarify when a backlog item is sufficiently prepared to start work
    b) To replace the Definition of Done
    c) To eliminate estimation
    d) To approve vendor invoices
    Answer: a) To clarify when a backlog item is sufficiently prepared to start work
77. A team starts many unclear stories and later discovers missing information. What may help?
    a) Better readiness criteria and refinement
    b) Removing product owner involvement
    c) Increasing work in progress
    d) Avoiding stakeholder questions
    Answer: a) Better readiness criteria and refinement
78. What is pair programming intended to support?
    a) Shared knowledge, quality and real-time review
    b) Less collaboration
    c) More hidden work
    d) Delayed integration
    Answer: a) Shared knowledge, quality and real-time review
79. What is mob programming?
    a) Multiple team members working together on the same problem at the same time
    b) Assigning all work to one person
    c) Avoiding code review
    d) Escalating every defect
    Answer: a) Multiple team members working together on the same problem at the same time
80. What is refactoring?
    a) Improving internal design without changing external behavior
    b) Adding uncontrolled scope
    c) Removing all tests
    d) Changing the product vision
    Answer: a) Improving internal design without changing external behavior
81. A team avoids refactoring for many iterations. What is the likely risk?
    a) Increasing technical debt and slower future delivery
    b) Guaranteed faster delivery forever
    c) Lower maintenance cost
    d) Elimination of defects
    Answer: a) Increasing technical debt and slower future delivery
82. What is the purpose of automated regression testing?
    a) To quickly detect whether existing functionality was broken by changes
    b) To eliminate all manual thinking
    c) To replace product ownership
    d) To approve contracts
    Answer: a) To quickly detect whether existing functionality was broken by changes
83. A team wants to release more frequently with lower risk. Which practice can help?
    a) Smaller increments and automated deployment controls
    b) Larger batches and less testing
    c) Delayed integration
    d) Manual handoffs only
    Answer: a) Smaller increments and automated deployment controls
84. What is a feature toggle used for?
    a) To enable or disable functionality without redeploying code
    b) To replace backlog ordering
    c) To calculate velocity
    d) To approve scope changes
    Answer: a) To enable or disable functionality without redeploying code
85. What is trunk-based development intended to reduce?
    a) Long-lived branches and painful integration
    b) Stakeholder collaboration
    c) Customer feedback
    d) Team ownership
    Answer: a) Long-lived branches and painful integration
86. A team integrates code only at the end of each release. What risk increases?
    a) Late discovery of integration problems
    b) Faster feedback
    c) Lower defect risk
    d) Better flow
    Answer: a) Late discovery of integration problems
87. What is the purpose of a service-level expectation in Kanban?
    a) To help forecast how long items usually take to complete
    b) To replace all team meetings
    c) To guarantee no variation
    d) To remove prioritization
    Answer: a) To help forecast how long items usually take to complete
88. What is Monte Carlo simulation often used for in agile forecasting?
    a) Forecasting delivery probability based on historical flow data
    b) Assigning individual tasks
    c) Replacing all estimates
    d) Creating vendor contracts
    Answer: a) Forecasting delivery probability based on historical flow data
89. A team wants to forecast delivery without converting all work to hours. What data can help?
    a) Historical throughput and cycle time
    b) Team birthdays
    c) Office layout
    d) Number of status emails
    Answer: a) Historical throughput and cycle time
90. What is the best use of story points?
    a) Relative estimation of effort, complexity and uncertainty
    b) Measuring individual productivity
    c) Calculating exact hours
    d) Ranking employees
    Answer: a) Relative estimation of effort, complexity and uncertainty
91. A team consistently carries over work because stories are too large. What should be done?
    a) Split stories into smaller value-based slices
    b) Extend every sprint automatically
    c) Stop refinement
    d) Ignore carryover trends
    Answer: a) Split stories into smaller value-based slices
92. What is the purpose of exploratory testing?
    a) To learn about product behavior through simultaneous test design and execution
    b) To avoid structured testing completely
    c) To replace customer feedback
    d) To remove acceptance criteria
    Answer: a) To learn about product behavior through simultaneous test design and execution
93. A team wants to reduce escaped defects. Which action is most appropriate?
    a) Improve built-in quality practices throughout delivery
    b) Wait for final inspection only
    c) Remove the Definition of Done
    d) Reduce test coverage
    Answer: a) Improve built-in quality practices throughout delivery
94. What is an agile contract approach that supports changing priorities?
    a) Flexible scope with fixed time and cost guardrails
    b) Fixed scope with no change mechanism
    c) No agreement at all
    d) Payment based only on hours without outcomes
    Answer: a) Flexible scope with fixed time and cost guardrails
95. A team releases a product increment and then monitors user behavior and system performance. What practice does this support?
    a) Feedback-driven delivery
    b) Scope freezing
    c) Final-only validation
    d) Contract closure only
    Answer: a) Feedback-driven delivery
96. A production incident occurs after release. What should the agile team do after restoring service?
    a) Conduct a blameless review and improve the system
    b) Hide the incident
    c) Blame one developer
    d) Stop all future releases
    Answer: a) Conduct a blameless review and improve the system
97. What is the purpose of DevOps in agile delivery?
    a) To improve collaboration between development and operations for faster, reliable delivery
    b) To separate developers from operations
    c) To avoid automation
    d) To eliminate product feedback
    Answer: a) To improve collaboration between development and operations for faster, reliable delivery
98. A team is frequently interrupted by unplanned urgent work. What should be considered?
    a) Explicit policies for handling expedited work and protecting flow
    b) Unlimited work in progress
    c) Ignoring urgent work
    d) Removing the backlog
    Answer: a) Explicit policies for handling expedited work and protecting flow
99. A team’s cumulative flow diagram shows one stage widening over time. What does this indicate?
    a) A bottleneck or accumulation of work in that stage
    b) Perfect flow
    c) No need for action
    d) Completed work only
    Answer: a) A bottleneck or accumulation of work in that stage
100. An agile team is using AI to generate test cases. What should the team do before relying on them?
     a) Validate coverage, accuracy, data privacy and human review requirements
     b) Delete existing test strategy
     c) Accept all AI-generated tests automatically
     d) Stop manual exploratory testing completely
     Answer: a) Validate coverage, accuracy, data privacy and human review requirements