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Basic Agile Methodologies MCQ

1. What is the term for a team member who is "T-shaped"?

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Correct Answer: Cross-functional

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2. How can you impove interaction between team members?

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Correct Answer: Move people's workstations around in the team room to create new social possibilities.

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3. People with fixed mindset _ .

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Correct Answer: Have better focus and longer attention spans

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4. Which statement is not true about pair programming?

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Correct Answer: In pair programming, two developers share one computer and take turns at the keyboard.

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5. What do you call the practice of writing a test before the code is written?

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Correct Answer: Test-driven development

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6. According to the Agile Manifesto, how often should developers and business people work together?

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Correct Answer: Daily

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7. When a user story is further decomposed, what are the elements called?

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Correct Answer: Who, What, Why

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8. What is most important for a successful Product Owner to understand?

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Correct Answer: The business context for the product.

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9. What is the definition of velocity?

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Correct Answer: The number of story points delivered during a sprint

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10. What is the expected output of a Planning Poker meeting?

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Correct Answer: The stories were discussed and each had a story point estimate assigned.

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11. What is a user story?

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Correct Answer: The Agile term for a requirement

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12. Which choice is a pillar of Lean?

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Correct Answer: Respect for people and culture

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13. The team is complaining that they send request for clarification to the Product Owner, but these requests go unanswered. What action should you take?

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Correct Answer: Schedule a problem-solving session with the Product Owner and the other team members.

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14. Which action is something the Team Facilitator should not do?

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Correct Answer: Estimate story points.

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15. What is the definition of capacity?

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Correct Answer: It is the maximum number of stories that will be allowed in a sprint.

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16. Which is NOT a principle of the Scaled Agile Framework?

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Correct Answer: Centralize decision-making

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17. What does the Definition of Ready mean?

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Correct Answer: The story is ready to be brought into a sprint.

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18. Which technique does not help prioritize the backlog?

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Correct Answer: Kaizen

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19. As an Agile coach, what should be your attitude toward your team members individual goals and motivations?

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Correct Answer: Leverage them—use personal goals encourage team members raise their performance levels.

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20. Which choice best describes an Agile Release Train (ART)?

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Correct Answer: Continuous delivery

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21. What is the name of the ceremony in which you inspect the work completed during the sprint?

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Correct Answer: Sprint Review

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22. What is the forming-storming-norming, performing model of team development known as?

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Correct Answer: The Tuckman model

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23. A team member comes to you with a complaint about another team member. What should you do?

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Correct Answer: Invite both people a meeting and try mediate the conflict.

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24. What is the name of the technique that divides a story into smaller pieces?

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Correct Answer: Disaggregation

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25. Which choice best describes the Team Facilitator?

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Correct Answer: An Agile coach

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26. Which element is most important when describing your product?

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Correct Answer: Its benefits

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27. What does the Definition of Done mean?

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Correct Answer: The team has agreed on the criteria for story completion.

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28. What happens in Sprint 0?

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Correct Answer: The team prepares to work on the product backlog.

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29. To whom should the Product Owner report?

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Correct Answer: The Product Manager

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30. The Product Owner is focused on testing a new system concept in the marketplace as quickly and inexpensively as possible. What is this first-generation product called?

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Correct Answer: Minimum viable product

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31. Product development organizations sometimes use descriptions of archetypal users and their values so that developers can design the system to meet their needs and wants. What are these descriptions called?

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Correct Answer: Personas

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32. According to the Agile Manifesto, your highest priority is to _.

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Correct Answer: Satisfy the customer

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33. What is an information radiator?

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Correct Answer: The task board

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34. Which choice is not a benefit generally associated with product demonstrations?

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Correct Answer: Learn about feature estimates.

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35. Why should a team do refactoring?

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Correct Answer: It improves the design, which can lead improved development efficiency and maintainability.

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36. What is the Product Owner's role regarding the product backlog?

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Correct Answer: The PO must identify the dependencies that impact the backlog.

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37. What is a Scrum of Scrums?

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Correct Answer: It is technique for two or more teams working together coordinate their efforts.

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38. Which is the best definition of story points?

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Correct Answer: They are a relative measure of the effort needed to complete a story.

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39. What is the name of the information radiator that has multiple columns used to visualize the flow of work?

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Correct Answer: Kanban Board

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40. What is the main benefit of a working agreement?

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Correct Answer: It defines the culture that the team aspires to achieve.

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41. What does the Agile Manifesto indicate?

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Correct Answer: Responding to change is more valuable than following a plan.

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42. Which statement describes Shu Ha Ri?

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Correct Answer: It is a model for skill development and mastery

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43. On what are personas typically based?

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Correct Answer: Real people, archetypal users, or composites of multiple users

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44. What Agile practice best supports this principle: "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly"?

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Correct Answer: Sprint Retrospective

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45. You have noticed a pattern that the most interesting stories on the Sprint Backlog get started right away, and the least interesting stories languish or don't get done. What should you do?

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Correct Answer: Ask the Tech Lead to assign every story to a developer so they all get done efficiently and with accountability.

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46. Which choice is _not_ considered during Sprint Planning?

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Correct Answer: Stories that meet the Definition of Done

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47. Which task is not the Product Owners responsibility?

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Correct Answer: Giving feedback to developers about the user stories

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48. Which ceremony should the Product Owner not attend?

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Correct Answer: Code reviews

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49. Which statement about estimating is not true?

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Correct Answer: Absolute estimating is more reliable than relative estimating.

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50. Which statement about technical debt is true?

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Correct Answer: Adding technical debt should be avoided at all costs.

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51. A team needs to do research, design, prototyping. What is this type of story called?

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Correct Answer: Exploratory spike

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52. Which action is something the Team Facillitator should NOT do?

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Correct Answer: Estimate story points.

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53. When the team needs to make a decision, what is the best course of action?

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Correct Answer: Try to achieve concensus.

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54. Which statement about burndown and burnup charts is not true?

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Correct Answer: Burndown charts are more useful than burnup charts.

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55. Which statement is true about Agile?

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Correct Answer: Agile requires a high degree of discipline.

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56. Which statement is true about the actor in a user story?

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Correct Answer: The actor can be the system itself.

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57. Which strategy is preferred for development teams?

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Correct Answer: Maximize outcome while minimizing output.

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58. What is the activity of clarifying and expanding user stories called?

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Correct Answer: Backlog refinement

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59. Which statement concerning small, frequent releases of software is true?

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Correct Answer: It typically requires a high degree of automation.

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60. Who is responsible for a Scrum team's performance?

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Correct Answer: The team

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61. The team's manager wants to attend the Sprint Retrospective. What should you do?

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Correct Answer: Propose a different forum for the manager to meet with the team.

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62. The Product Owner complains to you that the team is not working hard enough and they need to increase their velocity by at least 50%. Which action should you not take?

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Correct Answer: Share the feedback from the PO and challenge the team to increase their velocity.

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63. A manager informs you that a developer from another team is between assignments, and she wants to place the developer on your team for a few sprints. What should you do?

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Correct Answer: Explain to the manager that this will be disruptive to the team and ask that another assignment be found.

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64. In the Cynefin framework, where are "best practices" most appropriate?

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Correct Answer: In the Obvious regime

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65. In Large-Scale Scrum, what is the recommended ratio of Scrum Masters to teams?

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Correct Answer: One Scrum Master can support one to three teams.

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66. The team complains that "things have been falling through the cracks lately." What should you do?

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Correct Answer: Conduct a workshop to identify all of the things that need to be done and see who can help with each.

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67. What is a difference between a team's task board and a Kanban?

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Correct Answer: A Kanban has an explicit rule to limit WIP.

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68. The VP of Engineering wants to start giving out a "Team Member of the Sprint" award to recognize a top performer in each group. What advice should you give this VP?

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Correct Answer: This is unhelpful because it can destroy the team unity essential to achieving high performance.

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69. A project has some major risks that the team wants to mitigate. What is the best way to monitor how well this effort is going?

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Correct Answer: Risk burndown graph

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70. Which statement is not true about the product backlog?

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Correct Answer: It is a list of work items that are behind schedule.

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71. What should happen if the Product Owner does not accept a story by the end of the iteration?

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Correct Answer: The story should be shown to stakeholders for their feedback.

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72. Which choice is not a Scrum value?

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Correct Answer: Integrity

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73. Who decides what the team will work on?

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Correct Answer: A self-organizing team

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74. Which outcome is not expected of a Sprint Review?

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Correct Answer: The team reflects on how to improve its performance.

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75. In the Scaled Agile Framework, what is the role of Enablers?

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Correct Answer: They help extend the Architectural Runway.

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76. You have classified the features in your backlog according to risk and value. Which features should the development team work on first?

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Correct Answer: High-value and high-risk

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77. Why should you apply Weighted Shortest Job First?

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Correct Answer: To determine the economic sequencing of the backlog

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78. The Scaled Agile Framework advocates that, if you measure only one thing, what should you measure?

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Correct Answer: Cost of delay

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79. What is the Product Owner's role in deciding the priority of work in the sprint backlog?

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Correct Answer: None—the developers should prioritize the work in the sprint backlog.

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80. Which statement describes the flow of work in the Scaled Agile Framework?

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Correct Answer: It is neither "push" nor "pull."

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81. A team member has been showing signs of great personal distress: crying at work, snapping at colleagues, having heated phone conversations. As Team Facilitator, what should you do?

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Correct Answer: Notify the team member's manager of your observations and ask the manager for help.

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82. Which factor should not be considered during Sprint Planning?

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Correct Answer: The number of stories in the product backlog

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83. What is the Scrum Master's role during the daily stand-up?

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Correct Answer: Stand outside the circle of developers and listen for impediments.

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84. Teams may encounter the need for "technical" user stories. Who decides the priority of these?

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Correct Answer: The Product Owner with help from the Tech Lead

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