Mindset Domain

1. What is the main purpose of experimenting early in an agile project?
   a) To avoid stakeholder feedback
   b) To validate assumptions and reduce uncertainty before major investment
   c) To finalize the entire scope upfront
   d) To eliminate the need for planning
   Answer: b) To validate assumptions and reduce uncertainty before major investment
2. A team is unsure whether customers will value a proposed feature. What should the agile practitioner recommend?
   a) Build the full feature before asking for feedback
   b) Create a small increment or prototype to test the assumption
   c) Add the feature to the final release only
   d) Ask the sponsor to decide without customer input
   Answer: b) Create a small increment or prototype to test the assumption
3. Which behavior best reflects an agile mindset?
   a) Following the original plan even when evidence changes
   b) Welcoming change when it improves value
   c) Avoiding customer collaboration
   d) Measuring success only by documentation completed
   Answer: b) Welcoming change when it improves value
4. A team is working in a highly uncertain product environment. Which approach is most appropriate?
   a) Long-term fixed planning with no feedback loops
   b) Short cycles of delivery, learning and adaptation
   c) Complete requirements freeze before development
   d) Avoiding stakeholder review until launch
   Answer: b) Short cycles of delivery, learning and adaptation
5. What is the purpose of psychological safety in agile teams?
   a) To remove accountability
   b) To allow team members to speak openly, challenge ideas and learn from mistakes
   c) To prevent all disagreement
   d) To make the project manager the only decision-maker
   Answer: b) To allow team members to speak openly, challenge ideas and learn from mistakes
6. A retrospective identifies that team members are afraid to raise impediments. What should the agile practitioner do first?
   a) Ignore the issue because delivery is continuing
   b) Encourage open dialogue and create a no-blame environment
   c) Cancel future retrospectives
   d) Ask only senior members to speak
   Answer: b) Encourage open dialogue and create a no-blame environment
7. What is the main value of transparency in agile delivery?
   a) It allows issues, progress and risks to be visible for timely action
   b) It reduces the need for collaboration
   c) It replaces customer feedback
   d) It guarantees that no defects will occur
   Answer: a) It allows issues, progress and risks to be visible for timely action
8. Which tool best supports transparency for a team’s workflow?
   a) Hidden task list
   b) Kanban board or information radiator
   c) Private email thread
   d) Annual status report
   Answer: b) Kanban board or information radiator
9. A team keeps discovering requirement misunderstandings late in delivery. What should be improved?
   a) Feedback loops with stakeholders
   b) Final documentation only
   c) Contract payment terms
   d) Individual performance ratings
   Answer: a) Feedback loops with stakeholders
10. What does “shortening the feedback loop” mean in agile?
    a) Waiting until the final release to ask for feedback
    b) Getting useful feedback sooner so the team can adapt quickly
    c) Avoiding stakeholder review
    d) Removing product demonstrations
    Answer: b) Getting useful feedback sooner so the team can adapt quickly
11. A team is using agile practices but does not adapt after reviews and retrospectives. What is the main problem?
    a) The team is missing the inspect-and-adapt mindset
    b) The team is using too many sticky notes
    c) The sprint length is always wrong
    d) The product owner is unnecessary
    Answer: a) The team is missing the inspect-and-adapt mindset
12. Which statement best describes agile suitability?
    a) Agile should be used exactly the same way on every project
    b) The delivery approach should match complexity, uncertainty, team and product context
    c) Predictive delivery is never useful
    d) Agile removes the need for governance
    Answer: b) The delivery approach should match complexity, uncertainty, team and product context
13. A project has unclear requirements, high customer involvement and a need for frequent releases. Which delivery approach is most suitable?
    a) Adaptive
    b) Fully predictive
    c) No formal approach
    d) Sequential-only delivery
    Answer: a) Adaptive
14. A project has strict regulatory milestones but evolving software features. Which approach is most appropriate?
    a) Hybrid
    b) No planning
    c) Purely informal delivery
    d) Final delivery only
    Answer: a) Hybrid
15. What does a growth mindset help an agile team do?
    a) Avoid feedback
    b) Learn from failure and improve through experimentation
    c) Reject changing requirements
    d) Depend only on management direction
    Answer: b) Learn from failure and improve through experimentation
16. A stakeholder requests a change after seeing a working increment. What should the agile team do?
    a) Refuse all changes after work begins
    b) Evaluate the change against value, priority and capacity
    c) Add it immediately without review
    d) Stop the iteration permanently
    Answer: b) Evaluate the change against value, priority and capacity
17. What is the purpose of working agreements?
    a) To define how the team collaborates, communicates and makes decisions
    b) To replace the product backlog
    c) To approve the project budget
    d) To eliminate all conflict
    Answer: a) To define how the team collaborates, communicates and makes decisions
18. A distributed agile team has frequent misunderstandings. What should the agile practitioner recommend?
    a) Reduce communication to avoid confusion
    b) Establish communication norms, collaboration tools and meeting cadence
    c) Let each location work independently without synchronization
    d) Remove retrospectives
    Answer: b) Establish communication norms, collaboration tools and meeting cadence
19. Which behavior best demonstrates commitment to team decisions?
    a) Publicly undermining the decision after the meeting
    b) Supporting the agreed path even when one initially disagreed
    c) Refusing to participate in planning
    d) Escalating every disagreement immediately
    Answer: b) Supporting the agreed path even when one initially disagreed
20. A team works in silos and frequently discovers integration problems late. What should be improved?
    a) Cross-functional collaboration
    b) Individual task secrecy
    c) Longer approval chains
    d) Less transparency
    Answer: a) Cross-functional collaboration
21. What is the main purpose of design thinking in agile product development?
    a) To reduce user involvement
    b) To understand user needs and generate human-centered solutions
    c) To eliminate experimentation
    d) To finalize contracts only
    Answer: b) To understand user needs and generate human-centered solutions
22. What does Lean thinking primarily emphasize?
    a) Maximizing work in progress
    b) Reducing waste and improving flow of value
    c) Increasing handoffs
    d) Creating more documentation
    Answer: b) Reducing waste and improving flow of value
23. A team is producing many partially completed items. Which Lean concept is being violated?
    a) Limiting work in progress
    b) Increasing batch size
    c) Delaying feedback
    d) Maximizing utilization only
    Answer: a) Limiting work in progress
24. What is the best indicator that an agile mindset is taking hold in a team?
    a) The team follows ceremonies mechanically
    b) The team regularly learns, adapts and improves value delivery
    c) The team avoids customer feedback
    d) The team refuses all governance
    Answer: b) The team regularly learns, adapts and improves value delivery
25. A team believes agile means “no planning.” What should the agile practitioner explain?
    a) Agile uses adaptive planning and continuous refinement
    b) Agile projects should never estimate
    c) Agile eliminates accountability
    d) Agile planning happens only after delivery
    Answer: a) Agile uses adaptive planning and continuous refinement
26. Which statement best describes complexity in agile work?
    a) It can be managed by fixed plans alone
    b) It requires sensemaking, experimentation and adaptation
    c) It should always be ignored
    d) It applies only to software projects
    Answer: b) It requires sensemaking, experimentation and adaptation
27. Why should stakeholders be included from the beginning?
    a) To increase meeting volume
    b) To improve alignment, feedback and value validation
    c) To avoid product ownership
    d) To remove team autonomy
    Answer: b) To improve alignment, feedback and value validation
28. What is the primary agile response to changing priorities?
    a) Continue the old plan without review
    b) Reprioritize work based on current value and constraints
    c) Cancel all remaining work
    d) Increase documentation only
    Answer: b) Reprioritize work based on current value and constraints

Leadership Domain

29. What is servant leadership in agile?
    a) Directing every task personally
    b) Supporting the team by removing impediments and enabling ownership
    c) Avoiding team interaction
    d) Making all product decisions alone
    Answer: b) Supporting the team by removing impediments and enabling ownership
30. A team is blocked by an organizational approval delay. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Blame the team for slow delivery
    b) Help remove or escalate the impediment
    c) Ignore the blocker until the next release
    d) Extend the sprint without discussion
    Answer: b) Help remove or escalate the impediment
31. Which action best supports team empowerment?
    a) Assigning every task to individuals
    b) Giving the team clear goals and authority to decide how to deliver
    c) Preventing team members from speaking to customers
    d) Requiring sponsor approval for all daily decisions
    Answer: b) Giving the team clear goals and authority to decide how to deliver
32. A team member repeatedly dominates discussions. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Allow it because the person is experienced
    b) Facilitate balanced participation and respectful dialogue
    c) Cancel team meetings
    d) Ask quieter members to stop attending
    Answer: b) Facilitate balanced participation and respectful dialogue
33. What is the best way to handle conflict in an agile team?
    a) Suppress it to maintain speed
    b) Facilitate constructive discussion focused on shared goals
    c) Escalate every conflict to HR
    d) Ignore it until release
    Answer: b) Facilitate constructive discussion focused on shared goals
34. A team is missing commitments due to unclear dependencies with another team. What leadership action is best?
    a) Blame the other team
    b) Establish inter-team coordination and dependency visibility
    c) Stop all cross-team communication
    d) Add more items to the backlog
    Answer: b) Establish inter-team coordination and dependency visibility
35. What is the purpose of a Scrum of Scrums or similar coordination practice?
    a) To replace all team-level standups
    b) To coordinate dependencies and integration across multiple teams
    c) To approve vendor invoices
    d) To remove the product owner role
    Answer: b) To coordinate dependencies and integration across multiple teams
36. A senior manager demands a fixed scope, fixed date and fixed cost while requirements are changing. What should the agile practitioner do?
    a) Agree without discussing trade-offs
    b) Explain trade-offs and negotiate based on value, risk and constraints
    c) Cancel agile practices
    d) Hide the uncertainty from the manager
    Answer: b) Explain trade-offs and negotiate based on value, risk and constraints
37. What does effective agile leadership measure beyond output?
    a) Value delivered, learning, flow, quality and team health
    b) Number of meetings only
    c) Number of emails sent
    d) Number of hours worked only
    Answer: a) Value delivered, learning, flow, quality and team health
38. A team is completing many backlog items, but customer satisfaction is falling. What should the agile leader examine?
    a) Whether the work is delivering meaningful customer value
    b) Whether the team can increase velocity only
    c) Whether reports are longer
    d) Whether meetings can be reduced
    Answer: a) Whether the work is delivering meaningful customer value
39. Which leadership behavior supports agile transformation?
    a) Rewarding only individual heroics
    b) Encouraging collaboration, learning and customer focus
    c) Punishing every failed experiment
    d) Requiring all decisions to come from executives
    Answer: b) Encouraging collaboration, learning and customer focus
40. A team’s retrospective produces improvement actions, but no one follows up. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Stop holding retrospectives
    b) Ensure improvement actions are owned, visible and reviewed
    c) Ask the sponsor to write the actions
    d) Move all actions to the final report
    Answer: b) Ensure improvement actions are owned, visible and reviewed
41. What is the best way to lead a self-organizing team?
    a) Control every task assignment
    b) Set direction, clarify boundaries and support decision-making
    c) Avoid all involvement
    d) Replace team decisions with management orders
    Answer: b) Set direction, clarify boundaries and support decision-making
42. A team lacks agile experience. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Expect instant maturity
    b) Coach the team and tailor practices to its current capability
    c) Eliminate feedback loops
    d) Avoid retrospectives
    Answer: b) Coach the team and tailor practices to its current capability
43. What is the role of emotional intelligence in agile leadership?
    a) It helps leaders understand emotions, build trust and manage conflict
    b) It replaces product prioritization
    c) It removes the need for delivery metrics
    d) It applies only to HR teams
    Answer: a) It helps leaders understand emotions, build trust and manage conflict
44. A team is experiencing burnout. What should the agile leader do?
    a) Increase work in progress
    b) Review capacity, sustainable pace and workload constraints
    c) Ignore it until delivery fails
    d) Remove quality practices
    Answer: b) Review capacity, sustainable pace and workload constraints
45. What does sustainable pace mean?
    a) Working overtime every sprint
    b) Delivering at a rate the team can maintain without burnout
    c) Maximizing utilization at all times
    d) Eliminating breaks to increase output
    Answer: b) Delivering at a rate the team can maintain without burnout
46. A stakeholder wants to bypass the product owner and assign tasks directly to developers. What should the agile practitioner do?
    a) Allow it to increase speed
    b) Reinforce the agreed product ownership and prioritization process
    c) Remove the product backlog
    d) Cancel stakeholder engagement
    Answer: b) Reinforce the agreed product ownership and prioritization process
47. Which leadership action helps build trust with stakeholders?
    a) Sharing only positive news
    b) Providing transparent updates on progress, risks and trade-offs
    c) Delaying communication until release
    d) Avoiding difficult conversations
    Answer: b) Providing transparent updates on progress, risks and trade-offs
48. A team is hesitant to challenge a poor technical decision made by a senior architect. What should the agile leader encourage?
    a) Dialogue based on evidence, risks and value
    b) Silent compliance
    c) Public blame
    d) Avoiding all technical discussions
    Answer: a) Dialogue based on evidence, risks and value
49. What is the agile leader’s role in organizational change?
    a) Support adoption, remove barriers and align people around value
    b) Focus only on task tracking
    c) Avoid executive communication
    d) Prevent teams from adapting
    Answer: a) Support adoption, remove barriers and align people around value
50. A stakeholder is resistant to agile because they fear loss of control. What should the agile practitioner do?
    a) Exclude the stakeholder from reviews
    b) Explain how transparency, frequent feedback and prioritization improve control
    c) Stop using agile language
    d) Deliver without stakeholder involvement
    Answer: b) Explain how transparency, frequent feedback and prioritization improve control
51. What is the best leadership response when an experiment fails?
    a) Punish the team
    b) Capture learning and adjust the next experiment
    c) Hide the failure
    d) Stop all experimentation
    Answer: b) Capture learning and adjust the next experiment
52. Which leadership behavior best supports cross-functional teams?
    a) Encouraging handoffs and specialization silos
    b) Enabling collaboration across skills to deliver complete increments
    c) Preventing team members from learning outside their role
    d) Assigning work only by department
    Answer: b) Enabling collaboration across skills to deliver complete increments
53. What should an agile leader do when team goals conflict with organizational goals?
    a) Ignore the mismatch
    b) Facilitate alignment around value and strategic priorities
    c) Let the team decide in isolation
    d) Ask stakeholders to stop giving feedback
    Answer: b) Facilitate alignment around value and strategic priorities

Product Domain

54. What is the main purpose of product vision?
    a) To describe the detailed task list
    b) To align stakeholders and teams around the product’s purpose and value
    c) To replace iteration planning
    d) To define individual performance goals
    Answer: b) To align stakeholders and teams around the product’s purpose and value
55. What is a product roadmap used for?
    a) To show a high-level path of product goals, outcomes and releases
    b) To track daily attendance
    c) To replace the backlog
    d) To approve team vacation
    Answer: a) To show a high-level path of product goals, outcomes and releases
56. Who is typically accountable for ordering the product backlog in Scrum?
    a) Product owner
    b) Scrum Master
    c) Development team only
    d) Functional manager
    Answer: a) Product owner
57. A backlog item has high customer value and high risk. How should it generally be prioritized?
    a) Defer it to the end
    b) Consider addressing it early to reduce uncertainty and validate value
    c) Remove it from the backlog
    d) Assign it without refinement
    Answer: b) Consider addressing it early to reduce uncertainty and validate value
58. What is the purpose of backlog refinement?
    a) To clarify, split, estimate and reorder backlog items as needed
    b) To finalize all requirements permanently
    c) To eliminate stakeholder input
    d) To replace sprint planning
    Answer: a) To clarify, split, estimate and reorder backlog items as needed
59. A user story should usually describe value from whose perspective?
    a) End user or stakeholder receiving value
    b) Database administrator only
    c) Project manager only
    d) Procurement department only
    Answer: a) End user or stakeholder receiving value
60. What is the purpose of acceptance criteria?
    a) To define conditions that must be met for a backlog item to be accepted
    b) To replace testing
    c) To approve the team budget
    d) To remove customer feedback
    Answer: a) To define conditions that must be met for a backlog item to be accepted
61. A team completes a feature, but stakeholders disagree whether it is acceptable. What was likely missing or unclear?
    a) Acceptance criteria
    b) Team logo
    c) Meeting agenda
    d) Resource calendar
    Answer: a) Acceptance criteria
62. What is a minimum viable product used for?
    a) To deliver the largest possible release
    b) To test market or customer assumptions with the smallest useful product increment
    c) To eliminate future changes
    d) To avoid feedback
    Answer: b) To test market or customer assumptions with the smallest useful product increment
63. What is the main purpose of personas?
    a) To represent user types and their needs
    b) To assign team salaries
    c) To replace product testing
    d) To calculate sprint velocity
    Answer: a) To represent user types and their needs
64. What does a story map help the team understand?
    a) User journey, feature flow and release slicing
    b) Vendor payment history
    c) Individual utilization
    d) Contract penalties
    Answer: a) User journey, feature flow and release slicing
65. A product owner wants to maximize value but has limited team capacity. What should guide prioritization?
    a) Business value, risk, dependencies and learning needs
    b) Alphabetical order of features
    c) The oldest request only
    d) The easiest work only
    Answer: a) Business value, risk, dependencies and learning needs
66. Which metric best indicates whether a product is delivering customer value?
    a) Adoption or usage of delivered features
    b) Number of internal meetings
    c) Number of documents created
    d) Team seating arrangement
    Answer: a) Adoption or usage of delivered features
67. A team delivers exactly what was requested, but users do not adopt the product. What should the agile practitioner review?
    a) Whether the solution addressed real user needs and value hypotheses
    b) Whether the team had enough ceremonies
    c) Whether reports were colorful
    d) Whether the backlog was long enough
    Answer: a) Whether the solution addressed real user needs and value hypotheses
68. What is progressive elaboration in agile product work?
    a) Refining details as more information becomes available
    b) Avoiding all planning
    c) Freezing scope forever
    d) Removing customer involvement
    Answer: a) Refining details as more information becomes available
69. Why should backlog items be sliced into smaller increments?
    a) To increase handoffs
    b) To enable faster delivery, feedback and value validation
    c) To avoid testing
    d) To eliminate prioritization
    Answer: b) To enable faster delivery, feedback and value validation
70. What is a spike commonly used for?
    a) To research or explore uncertainty before committing to a solution
    b) To skip testing
    c) To approve contracts
    d) To increase work in progress
    Answer: a) To research or explore uncertainty before committing to a solution
71. A feature has strong executive support but weak customer evidence. What should the agile team do?
    a) Build everything immediately
    b) Validate the assumption with users or market feedback
    c) Ignore customers
    d) Remove the product owner
    Answer: b) Validate the assumption with users or market feedback
72. What is the purpose of a product goal?
    a) To provide a near-term objective that guides backlog decisions
    b) To define each developer’s task
    c) To replace the roadmap permanently
    d) To eliminate sprint reviews
    Answer: a) To provide a near-term objective that guides backlog decisions

Delivery Domain

73. What is the main purpose of iteration planning?
    a) To select and plan work for the upcoming iteration based on priority and capacity
    b) To close the project
    c) To approve annual budgets
    d) To replace retrospectives
    Answer: a) To select and plan work for the upcoming iteration based on priority and capacity
74. What is the main purpose of a daily standup or daily scrum?
    a) To inspect progress, coordinate work and identify impediments
    b) To provide a long management report
    c) To approve scope changes
    d) To assign blame for delays
    Answer: a) To inspect progress, coordinate work and identify impediments
75. What does a sprint review primarily focus on?
    a) Demonstrating completed work and gathering feedback
    b) Privately evaluating individual performance
    c) Updating vendor contracts
    d) Replacing testing
    Answer: a) Demonstrating completed work and gathering feedback
76. What is the main purpose of a retrospective?
    a) To improve the team’s process, collaboration and effectiveness
    b) To approve the product backlog
    c) To create the contract
    d) To assign work to stakeholders
    Answer: a) To improve the team’s process, collaboration and effectiveness
77. What does “Definition of Done” help ensure?
    a) Shared understanding of what complete work means
    b) Removal of acceptance criteria
    c) Elimination of customer feedback
    d) Avoidance of quality checks
    Answer: a) Shared understanding of what complete work means
78. A team’s work is frequently reopened after being marked complete. What should be reviewed?
    a) Definition of Done and quality practices
    b) Sponsor title
    c) Office seating plan
    d) Vendor pricing
    Answer: a) Definition of Done and quality practices
79. What is velocity?
    a) The amount of work a team completes in an iteration
    b) The total project budget
    c) The number of stakeholders
    d) The number of meetings held
    Answer: a) The amount of work a team completes in an iteration
80. What does cycle time measure?
    a) Time from starting work on an item until it is completed
    b) Total project duration from charter to closure only
    c) Number of people on the team
    d) Number of defects in the backlog
    Answer: a) Time from starting work on an item until it is completed
81. What does lead time measure?
    a) Time from request or commitment to delivery
    b) Time spent in meetings only
    c) Developer coding time only
    d) Time spent by the sponsor reviewing reports
    Answer: a) Time from request or commitment to delivery
82. What is the purpose of WIP limits in Kanban?
    a) To improve flow by limiting how much work is active at once
    b) To increase multitasking
    c) To prevent delivery
    d) To remove stakeholder feedback
    Answer: a) To improve flow by limiting how much work is active at once
83. A Kanban board shows too many items stuck in testing. What should the team examine?
    a) Bottlenecks, WIP limits and flow constraints
    b) Only the project charter
    c) Only team member job titles
    d) Contract type only
    Answer: a) Bottlenecks, WIP limits and flow constraints
84. What does a cumulative flow diagram help show?
    a) Flow, bottlenecks and work in progress across stages
    b) Stakeholder salaries
    c) Procurement approvals only
    d) Individual personality types
    Answer: a) Flow, bottlenecks and work in progress across stages
85. A team’s velocity is unstable across iterations. What should be investigated?
    a) Scope volatility, estimation consistency, capacity and impediments
    b) Only the project name
    c) Only the number of emails
    d) Only office location
    Answer: a) Scope volatility, estimation consistency, capacity and impediments
86. What is the primary purpose of release planning?
    a) To forecast when valuable increments may be delivered
    b) To eliminate iteration planning
    c) To assign blame for defects
    d) To replace the product roadmap
    Answer: a) To forecast when valuable increments may be delivered
87. What is the best use of agile metrics?
    a) To support learning, forecasting and improvement
    b) To punish individuals
    c) To hide delivery problems
    d) To replace conversations
    Answer: a) To support learning, forecasting and improvement
88. A team has high velocity but increasing defect rates. What should the agile practitioner do?
    a) Celebrate velocity only
    b) Balance delivery speed with quality and technical health
    c) Stop testing
    d) Increase sprint scope
    Answer: b) Balance delivery speed with quality and technical health
89. What is technical debt?
    a) Future cost created by suboptimal technical decisions or shortcuts
    b) The cost of team salaries
    c) The project budget reserve
    d) The value of completed work
    Answer: a) Future cost created by suboptimal technical decisions or shortcuts
90. How should an agile team manage technical debt?
    a) Make it visible, prioritize it and address it as part of delivery planning
    b) Hide it from stakeholders
    c) Ignore it until final release
    d) Remove it from the backlog
    Answer: a) Make it visible, prioritize it and address it as part of delivery planning
91. What is continuous integration intended to improve?
    a) Frequent integration and early detection of integration issues
    b) Contract negotiation
    c) Stakeholder classification
    d) Final approval only
    Answer: a) Frequent integration and early detection of integration issues
92. What is continuous delivery intended to support?
    a) Keeping software in a releasable state through automation and quality practices
    b) Delaying all releases until year-end
    c) Eliminating product ownership
    d) Avoiding customer feedback
    Answer: a) Keeping software in a releasable state through automation and quality practices
93. A team wants to improve quality earlier in the delivery cycle. Which practice helps most?
    a) Automated testing and continuous integration
    b) Final inspection only
    c) Less feedback
    d) More handoffs
    Answer: a) Automated testing and continuous integration
94. What is the purpose of test-driven development?
    a) Writing tests before code to guide design and validate behavior
    b) Eliminating all testing
    c) Testing only after deployment
    d) Replacing acceptance criteria
    Answer: a) Writing tests before code to guide design and validate behavior
95. A team is planning a fixed-length sprint. What should determine how much work is selected?
    a) Team capacity, priority and understanding of the work
    b) Sponsor pressure only
    c) The number of available sticky notes
    d) The longest possible task list
    Answer: a) Team capacity, priority and understanding of the work
96. What should the team do when an urgent production defect interrupts planned iteration work?
    a) Hide the defect until the sprint ends
    b) Assess priority, impact and capacity, then adapt transparently
    c) Ignore customer impact
    d) Cancel all future planning
    Answer: b) Assess priority, impact and capacity, then adapt transparently
97. What is the purpose of impediment management?
    a) To identify and remove blockers that prevent team progress
    b) To create more approvals
    c) To reduce transparency
    d) To avoid stakeholder involvement
    Answer: a) To identify and remove blockers that prevent team progress
98. A team repeatedly carries unfinished work into the next sprint. What should be examined?
    a) Estimation, slicing, capacity and Definition of Done
    b) Only stakeholder job titles
    c) Only budget reserve
    d) Only procurement documents
    Answer: a) Estimation, slicing, capacity and Definition of Done
99. What is the main value of delivering increments frequently?
    a) Earlier feedback, reduced risk and faster value realization
    b) More documentation only
    c) Fewer stakeholder conversations
    d) Guaranteed cost reduction
    Answer: a) Earlier feedback, reduced risk and faster value realization
100. An agile practitioner is using AI to generate backlog items from customer interviews. What should be done before adding them to the backlog?
     a) Accept all AI-generated items automatically
     b) Validate them with product goals, customer evidence, privacy rules and human review
     c) Delete the original interview notes
     d) Let the tool prioritize the roadmap without oversight
     Answer: b) Validate them with product goals, customer evidence, privacy rules and human review