Sunday, April 19, 2020

Professional Scrum Master Certification | 50 Most Frequent Questions and...





What is Scrum?

What is the Sprint Backlog?

Who participates in the Sprint Planning?

What are the Scrum Artifacts?

Who is allowed to participate in the Daily Scrum?

Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?

How does the Scrum Master serve the Organization?

Who is responsible for crafting the Sprint Goal at the Sprint Planning?

What happens during the Sprint?

The Scrum Master does the following regarding the Daily Scrum:

What are Product Backlog features?

Who has the authority to cancel the Sprint?

Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?

How does the Scrum Master help the Product Owner?

Could the Product Owner and the Scrum Master be a part of the Development Team?

The Scrum Team consists of

What is the result of the Sprint Review?

Who is responsible for creation of the Definition of “Done”?

Who is responsible for creation of the Definition of “Done”?

Who is allowed to make changes \Who is responsible for managing the Product Backlog?

What happens when a Sprint is cancelled?

What is the input to the Sprint Planning?

What is the Increment?

Who is responsible for the Product Backlog?

In which meetings the Key Stakeholders are allowed to participate?

What are the three pillars that uphold Scrum?

What are the three most applicable characteristics of the Product Owner?

What is the order of items in the Product Backlog?

The Daily Scrum time-box depends on the size of the Development team.

Who is responsible for coping with incomplete artifact transparency?

How much time does the Sprint Planning take?

Who participates in the Sprint Review?

Who is allowed to change the Sprint Backlog during the Sprint?

What are the three main questions each member of the Development Team should answer at the Daily Scrum?

How does the Scrum Master serve the Development Team?

What are the characteristics of a Development Team?

A time-box for each Scrum event.

What are the three main qualities the team model in Scrum is designed to optimize?

Which statement best describes the Sprint Backlog?

Adding more resources to a Scrum project increases productivity and the delivery of value proportionally.

The purpose of ALL Sprints is to produce a Done Increment of working product.

Average items in the Product Backlog are usually…

Which statement best describes the Sprint Backlog?

Who’s in the Scru Team? (Choose multiple answers)

Which statement best describes the Sprint Backlog?

Which of the following are common Product Owner activities during the Sprint? (Choose 2 answers)

Which output of the Sprint Planning provides the overall direction for the Sprint?

Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?

The maximum length of the Sprint Review (its time-box) is:

Who estimates the work of the newly identified items?

Monday, April 13, 2020

Professional Scrum Master question answers


Professional Scrum Master question and answers ( PSM1)

Question:
What is the input to the Sprint Planning?
Answer :
The input to the Sprint Planning is the Product Backlog, the latest product Increment, projected capacity of the Development Team during the Sprint, and past performance of the Development Team.


Question:
Scrum is founded on
Answer :
Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known.


Question:
Who is allowed to change the Sprint Backlog during the Sprint?
Answer :
Only the Development Team can change its Sprint Backlog during a Sprint. The Sprint Backlog is a highly visible, real-time picture of the work that the Development Team plans to accomplish during the Sprint, and it belongs solely to the Development Team.


Question:
What are the characteristics of a Development Team?
Answer :
Development Teams have the following characteristics:
They are self-organizing. No one (not even the Scrum Master) tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality;
Development Teams are cross-functional, with all of the skills as a team necessary to create a product Increment;
Scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members other than Developer, regardless of the work being performed by the person; there are no exceptions to this rule;
Scrum recognizes no sub-teams in the Development Team, regardless of particular domains that need to be addressed like testing or business analysis; there are no exceptions to this rule; and,
Individual Development Team members may have specialized skills and areas of focus, but accountability belongs to the Development Team as a whole.


Question:
A time-box for each Scrum event.
Answer :
Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.
Sprint Review is a four-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
Sprint Retrospective is a three-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.


Question:
Who has the authority to cancel the Sprint?
Answer :
Only the Product Owner has the authority to cancel the Sprint, although he or she may do so under influence from the stakeholders, the Development Team, or the Scrum Master.


Question:
What part of the capacity of the Development Team does Product Backlog refinement usually consume?
The Scrum Team consists of
Answer :
The Scrum Team consists of a Product Owner, the Development Team, and a Scrum Master


Question:
Please, select a time-box for each Scrum event.
Answer :
Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.
Sprint Review is a four-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
Sprint Retrospective is a three-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.


Question:
Who participates in the Sprint Planning?
Answer :
The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.


Question:
Who is allowed to participate in the Daily Scrum?
Answer :
The Scrum Master enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum. Other people could attend the meeting, but cannot participate


Question:
What is the Sprint Backlog?
Answer :
The Sprint Backlog is the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal.


Question:
Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?
Answer :
The Development Team is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog. The Product Owner may influence the Development Team by helping it understand and select trade-offs, but the people who will perform the work make the final estimate.


Question:
What happens during the Sprint?
It is normal to have a “hardening” Sprint to remove all technical debt and prepare the Product for upcoming release.
Answer :
It is not normal. Development Teams deliver an Increment of product functionality every Sprint. This Increment is usable, so a Product Owner may choose to immediately release it. So, there is nothing to prepare. Each increment contains only “Done” functionality that could be released immediately


Question:
How does the Scrum Master serve the Organization?
Answer :
The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including:
Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;
Planning Scrum implementations within the organization;
Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development;
Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team; and,
Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.


Question:
Is it allowed to skip the Daily Scrum if there is nothing interesting to tell about?
Answer :
Each event in Scrum is a formal opportunity to inspect and adapt something. These events are specifically designed to enable critical transparency and inspection. Failure to include any of these events results in reduced transparency and is a lost opportunity to inspect and adapt.


Question:
Who is responsible for crafting the Sprint Goal at the Sprint Planning?
Answer :
After the Development Team forecasts the Product Backlog items it will deliver in the Sprint, the Scrum Team crafts a Sprint Goal.


Question:
Could the Sprint Planning be finished if only work planned for the first days of the Sprint is decomposed to units of one day or less?
Answer :
The Scrum Guide requires only the work planned for the first days of the Sprint is decomposed by the end of the Sprint Planning, often to units of one day or less. However, the Development Team should be able to explain to the Product Owner and Scrum Master how it intends to work as a self-organizing team to accomplish the Sprint Goal and create the anticipated Increment.


Question:
What does Burn-down Chart show?
Answer :
Burn-down chart shows the evolution of remaining effort against time.


Question:
Scrum does not allow additional meetings that are not defined in Scrum.
Answer :
Scrum allows additional meetings if they facilitate achieving the Sprint Goal.


Question:
During each Sprint Retrospective the Scrum Team reviews the Definition of Done and changes it if necessary.
Answer :
During each Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team plans ways to increase product quality by adapting the definition of “Done” as appropriate.


Question:
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
Answer :
The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.


Question:
What are the formal Scrum events for inspection and adaptation?
Answer :
Scrum prescribes four formal events for inspection and adaptation:
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective


Question:
What happens during the Sprint?
Answer :
During the Sprint:
No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal;
Quality goals do not decrease; and,
Scope may be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team as more is learned


Question:
The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to:
Answer :
The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to:
Inspect how the last Sprint went with regards to people, relationships, process, and tools;
Identify and order the major items that went well and potential improvements; and,
Create a plan for implementing improvements to the way the Scrum Team does its work.


Question:
Only the Product Owner and the Development Team participate in the Sprint Planning. There is nothing to do for the Scrum Master.
Answer :
The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.


Question:
What belongs solely to the Development Team?
Answer :
Only the Development Team can change its Sprint Backlog during a Sprint. The Sprint Backlog is a highly visible, real-time picture of the work that the Development Team plans to accomplish during the Sprint, and it belongs solely to the Development Team.


Question:
Definition of “Done” is created during the first Sprint and remains unchanged until the Product release.
Answer :
False. During each Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team plans ways to increase product quality by adapting the definition of “Done” as appropriate.


Question:
It is a good practice to have at least two Product Owners on big projects.
Answer :
The Product Owner is one person, not a committee, but the Product Owner may represent the desires of a committee in the Product Backlog.


Question:
How frequently should scrum users inspect Scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal?
Answer :
Scrum users must frequently inspect Scrum artifacts and progress toward a Sprint Goal to detect undesirable variances. Their inspection should not be so frequent that inspection gets in the way of the work. Inspections are most beneficial when diligently performed by skilled inspectors at the point of work.


Question:
Other people than the Scrum Team can attend the Sprint Planning in order to provide technical or domain advice.
Answer :
The Development Team may also invite other people to attend in order to provide technical or domain advice.


Question:
What comprises Scrum?
Answer :
The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and usage.


Question:
The Scrum Master does the following regarding the Daily Scrum:
Answer :
The Scrum Master
Ensures that the Development Team has the meeting, but the Development Team is responsible for conducting the Daily Scrum.
Teaches the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15-minute time-box.
Enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum


Question:
Who participates in the Sprint Planning?
Answer :
The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.


Question:
Who is allowed to participate in the Daily Scrum?
Answer :
The Scrum Master enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum. Other people could attend the meeting, but cannot participate


Question:
What are Product Backlog features?
Answer :
A Product Backlog is never complete. The earliest development of it only lays out the initially known and best-understood requirements. The Product Backlog evolves as the product and the environment in which it will be used evolves. The Product Backlog is dynamic; it constantly changes to identify what the product needs to be appropriate, competitive, and useful. As long as a product exists, its Product Backlog also exists


Question:
Who has the authority to cancel the Sprint?
Answer :
Only the Product Owner has the authority to cancel the Sprint, although he or she may do so under influence from the stakeholders, the Development Team, or the Scrum Master.


Question:
Who is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog?
Answer :
The Development Team is responsible for all estimates in the Product Backlog. The Product Owner may influence the Development Team by helping it understand and select trade-offs, but the people who will perform the work make the final estimate


Question:
What is Scrum?
Answer :
A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while delivering valuable products.


Question:
How does the Scrum Master help the Product Owner?
Answer :
The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including:
Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management;
Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;
Understanding product planning in an empirical environment;
Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value;
Understanding and practicing agility; and,
Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.


Question:
How does Definition of “Done” help to the Scrum Team?
Answer :
DoD is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment
Guides the Development Team in knowing how many Product Backlog items it can select during a Sprint Planning
DoD ensures artifact transparency


Question:
Could the Product Owner and the Scrum Master be a part of the Development Team?
Answer :
Yes. Scrum does not prohibit the Product Owner or the Scrum Master do development work. However, it is not the best practice because it could create a conflict of interest.


Question:
The Scrum Team consists of
Answer :
The Scrum Team consists of a Product Owner, the Development Team, and a Scrum Master.


Question:
What is the result of the Sprint Review?
Answer :
The result of the Sprint Review is a revised Product Backlog that defines the probable Product Backlog items for the next Sprint. The Product Backlog may also be adjusted overall to meet new opportunities.


Question:
What are the Scrum Artifacts?
Answer :
The Scrum artifacts are Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment.


Question:
What provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment?
Answer :
The Sprint Goal is an objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of Product Backlog. It provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment.


Question:
Who is responsible for creation of the Definition of “Done”?
Answer :
If the definition of “done” for an increment is part of the conventions, standards or guidelines of the development organization, all Scrum Teams must follow it as a minimum. If “done” for an increment is not a convention of the development organization, the Development Team of the Scrum Team must define a definition of “done” appropriate for the product. If there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the system or product release, the development teams on all of the Scrum Teams must mutually define the definition of “Done.”


Question:
Who is responsible for the monitoring of the remaining work towards the Project Goal?
Answer :
The Product Owner tracks total work remaining at least every Sprint Review. The Product Owner compares this amount with work remaining at previous Sprint Reviews to assess progress toward completing projected work by the desired time for the goal. This information is made transparent to all stakeholders.


Question:
If an item in the Sprint Backlog cannot be finished by the end of the Sprint (it turned out there is a lot more work to do than was estimated), the Sprint is cancelled.
Answer :
The Sprint is cancelled only in the case if the Sprint Goal became obsolete. If some work could not be done, the Sprint Backlog should be re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team.


Question:
Who is allowed to make changes in the Product Backlog?
Answer :
The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for the Product Backlog. However, he or she can delegate some work related to product backlog management to the Development Team.


Question:
All Development Teams working on the same Product should use the same Product Backlog.
Answer :
Multiple Scrum Teams often work together on the same product. One Product Backlog is used to describe the upcoming work on the product.


Question:
What should be taken into account for the Definition of “Done”?
Answer :
If the definition of “done” for an increment is part of the conventions, standards or guidelines of the development organization, all Scrum Teams must follow it as a minimum. If “done” for an increment is not a convention of the development organization, the Development Team of the Scrum Team must define a definition of “done” appropriate for the product. If there are multiple Scrum Teams working on the system or product release, the development teams on all of the Scrum Teams must mutually define the definition of “Done.”


Question:
The Scrum Master is focused primarily on the Scrum Team and usually does not care about those outside the Scrum Team.
Answer :
The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.


Question:
What happens when a Sprint is cancelled?
Answer :
When a Sprint is cancelled, any completed and “Done” Product Backlog items are reviewed. If part of the work is potentially releasable, the Product Owner typically accepts it. All incomplete Product Backlog Items are re-estimated and put back on the Product Backlog.


Question:
All the Scrum Teams working on the same product should have the same Sprint length.
Answer :
False. Scrum does not require having aligned Sprints for multiple teams.


Question:
The Sprint Backlog is created at the Sprint Planning. It is prohibited to add new work into the Sprint Backlog later by the Development Team.
Answer :
The Development Team modifies the Sprint Backlog throughout the Sprint, and the Sprint Backlog emerges during the Sprint. This emergence occurs as the Development Team works through the plan and learns more about the work needed to achieve the Sprint Goal. As new work is required, the Development Team adds it to the Sprint Backlog.


Question:
Who is responsible for tracking the total work remaining in the Sprint Backlog to project the likelihood of achieving the Sprint Goal?
Answer :
At any point in time in a Sprint, the total work remaining in the Sprint Backlog can be summed. The Development Team tracks this total work remaining at least for every Daily Scrum to project the likelihood of achieving the Sprint Goal. By tracking the remaining work throughout the Sprint, the Development Team can manage its progress.


Question:
What does Product Backlog management include?
Answer :
Product Backlog management includes:
Clearly expressing Product Backlog items;
Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;
Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs;
Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next; and,
Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.


Question:
Who is responsible for managing the Product Backlog?
Answer :
The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog.


Question:
What is the Sprint Backlog?
Answer :
The Sprint Backlog is the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal.


Question:
What are the two essential features a Scrum Team should possess?
Answer :
Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team. Cross-functional teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team.


Question:
What is the input to the Sprint Planning?
Answer :
The input to the Sprint Planning is the Product Backlog, the latest product Increment, projected capacity of the Development Team during the Sprint, and past performance of the Development Team.


Question:
What is the Increment?
Answer :
The Increment is the sum of all the Product Backlog items completed during the Sprint and the value of the increments of all previous Sprints.


Question:
In which meetings the Key Stakeholders are allowed to participate?
Answer :
The Key Stakeholders are allowed to participate only in the Sprint Review meeting. However, any member of the Scrum Team can interact with them any time.


Question:
Who is responsible for the Product Backlog?
Answer :
The Product Owner is responsible for the Product Backlog, including its content, availability, and ordering.


Question:
Imagine you are a Scrum Master. There are 10 professionals (developers and QAs) and the Product Owner. How to distribute people between development teams? Choose all applicable variants:
3 teams of 4, 3 and 3 people (each team is cross-functional)
2 teams of 6 and 4 people (the professionals after a short meeting decided this is the best variant)
2 teams of 6 and 4 people (because it is good to have all the QAs in a separate team)
1 team of 10 people (because there is no reason to divide)
Answer : : A & B
Optimal Development Team size is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint. Fewer than three Development Team members decrease interaction and results in smaller productivity gains. Having more than nine members requires too much coordination. The Product Owner and Scrum Master roles are not included in this count unless they are also executing the work of the Sprint Backlog.


Question:
What are the three pillars that uphold Scrum?
Answer :
Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known. Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.


Question:
What does Cone of Uncertainty show?
Answer :
The Cone of Uncertainty describes the evolution of the amount of uncertainty during a project.


Question:
What are the three most applicable characteristics of the Product Owner?
Answer :
Product Value Maximizer
Lead Facilitator of Key Stakeholder Involvement
Product Marketplace Expert


Question:
Please, check all opportunities to inspect and adapt.
Answer :
Other than the Sprint itself, which is a container for all other events, each event in Scrum is a formal opportunity to inspect and adapt something. These events are specifically designed to enable critical transparency and inspection.


Question:
What is the order of items in the Product Backlog?
Answer :
The Product Owner is responsible for placing the most valuable and clear items at the top of the Product Backlog.


Question:
The Daily Scrum time-box depends on the size of the Development team.
Answer :
The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team of any size.


Question:
Who is responsible for coping with incomplete artifact transparency?
Answer :
The Scrum Master’s job is to work with the Scrum Team and the organization to increase the transparency of the artifacts. This work usually involves learning, convincing, and change.


Question:
If an inspector determines that one or more aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits when an adjustment must be made?
Answer :
If an inspector determines that one or more aspects of a process deviate outside acceptable limits, and that the resulting product will be unacceptable, the process or the material being processed must be adjusted. An adjustment must be made as soon as possible to minimize further deviation.


Question:
How much time does the Sprint Planning take?
Answer :
Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint.


Question:
Who participates in the Sprint Review?
Answer :
During the Sprint Review, the Scrum Team and stakeholders collaborate about what was done in the Sprint. Based on that and any changes to the Product Backlog during the Sprint, attendees collaborate on the next things that could be done to optimize value.


Question:
Who is allowed to change the Sprint Backlog during the Sprint?
Answer :
Only the Development Team can change its Sprint Backlog during a Sprint. The Sprint Backlog is a highly visible, real-time picture of the work that the Development Team plans to accomplish during the Sprint, and it belongs solely to the Development Team.


Question:
Scrum recommends using only those Scrum components and rules which suit most for a particular project.
Answer :
Each component within the Scrum framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and usage.


Question:
What are the three main questions each member of the Development Team should answer at the Daily Scrum?
Answer :
During the Daily Scrum, the Development Team members explain:
What did I do yesterday that helped the Development Team meet the Sprint Goal?
What will I do today to help the Development Team meet the Sprint Goal?
Do I see any impediment that prevents me or the Development Team from meeting the Sprint Goal?


Question:
Select the two meetings in which people outside the Scrum Team are allowed to participate.
Answer :
The Development Team may invite other people to attend the Sprint Planning in order to provide technical or domain advice.
The Product Owner is responsible for inviting the Key Stakeholders to the Sprint Review meeting


Question:
How does the Scrum Master serve the Development Team?
Answer :
The Scrum Master serves the Development Team in several ways, including:
Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality;
Helping the Development Team to create high-value products;
Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress;
Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed; and,
Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.


Question:
Scrum does not describe agile processes and techniques.
Answer :
Scrum is not a process or a technique for building products; rather, it is a framework within which you can employ various processes and techniques.


Question:
Sort Scrum events in the right order.
Answer :
A sprint begins with Sprint Planning, then there are several Daily Scrum meetings following by Sprint Review and then Sprint Retrospective.


Question:
What are the questions the Sprint Planning answers?
Answer :
Sprint Planning answers the following:
What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?
How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?


Question:
What could be a source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product?
Answer :
The Product Backlog is an ordered list of everything that might be needed in the product and is the single source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product.


Question:
What are the characteristics of a Development Team?
Answer :
Development Teams have the following characteristics:
They are self-organizing. No one (not even the Scrum Master) tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality;
Development Teams are cross-functional, with all of the skills as a team necessary to create a product Increment;
Scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members other than Developer, regardless of the work being performed by the person; there are no exceptions to this rule;
Scrum recognizes no sub-teams in the Development Team, regardless of particular domains that need to be addressed like testing or business analysis; there are no exceptions to this rule; and,
Individual Development Team members may have specialized skills and areas of focus, but accountability belongs to the Development Team as a whole.


Question:
A time-box for each Scrum event.
Answer :
Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.
Sprint Review is a four-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
Sprint Retrospective is a three-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.


Question:
It is a good practice to have from time to time a special technical Sprint that consists only of tasks removing the technical debt without implementing any new functionality.
Answer :
It is prohibited. The purpose of each Sprint is to deliver Increments of potentially releasable functionality that adhere to the Scrum Team’s current definition of “Done.”


Question:
What part of the capacity of the Development Team does Product Backlog refinement usually consume?
Answer :
Product Backlog refinement usually consumes no more than 10% of the capacity of the Development Team


Question:
The Development Team should be able to explain to the Product Owner and Scrum Master how it intends to work as a self-organizing team to accomplish the Sprint Goal and create the anticipated Increment.
Answer :
By the end of the Sprint Planning, the Development Team should be able to explain to the Product Owner and Scrum Master how it intends to work as a self-organizing team to accomplish the Sprint Goal and create the anticipated Increment.


Question:
What are the three main qualities the team model in Scrum is designed to optimize?
Answer :
The team model in Scrum is designed to optimize flexibility, creativity, and productivity.


Question:
Who creates the increment?
Answer :
Only members of the Development Team create the Increment.

This is completely up to the self-organized Development Team to decide on the way they work and on the technical aspects of the project.

Question:
Which two (2) things does the Development Team do during the first Sprint?
Answer :
The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less during which a "Done", useable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created. This applies to every Sprint


Question:
Who is required to attend the Daily Scrum?

Answer :
Only the people doing the work described on the Sprint Backlog need to inspect and adapt at the Daily Scrum. If the Scrum Master or Product Owner is also on the Development Team, they will need to be at the Daily Scrum. Otherwise, the Scrum Master simply has to make sure the Development Team knows how to conduct a Daily Scrum and does so.


Question:
The purpose of a Sprint is to produce a done increment of working product.(True\False)
Answer :
The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less during which a "Done", usable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created.


Question:
The length of a Sprint should be:

All of these choices are appropriate considerations in determining the length of a Sprint.
Short enough to keep the business risk acceptable to the Product Owner.
Short enough to be able to synchronize the development work with other business events.
No more than one month.


Question:
An organization has decided to adopt Scrum, but management wants to change the terminology to fit with terminology already used. What will likely happen if this is done?
Answer :
Without a new vocabulary as a reminder of the change, very little change may actually happen.
The organization may not understand what has changed with Scrum and the benefits of Scrum may be lost.
Management may feel less anxious.


Question:
Development Team membership should change:
Answer :
As needed, while taking into account a short term reduction in productivity.
Teams typically go through some steps before achieving a state of increased performance. Changing membership typically reduces cohesion, affecting performance and productivity in the short term.


Question:
What does it mean to say that an event has a time-box?
Answer :
Time-boxed events are events that have a maximum duration.


Question:
Why is the Daily Scrum held at the same time and same place?
Answer :
The Daily Scrum is held at the same time and place each day to reduce complexity.


Question:
It is mandatory that the product increment be released to production at the end of each Sprint.
Answer :
The product increment should be usable and releasable at the end of every Sprint, but it does not have to be released.


Question:
When many Development Teams are working on a single product, what best describes the definition of "done?"
Answer :
Scrum requires an Increment to be releasable. This is an Increment of product. Many teams working on a single product are expected to deliver such an Increment


Question:
During a Sprint, a Development Team determines that it will not be able to finish the complete forecast. Who should be present to review and adjust the Sprint work selected?
Answer :
During the Sprint, scope may be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team as more is learned.


Question:
Who has the final say on the order of the Product Backlog?

Answer :
The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog


Question:
When does the next Sprint begin?
Answer :
A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.


Question:
When is a Sprint over?
Answer :
The duration of a Sprint is fixed and cannot be shortened or lengthened.


Question:
Who is responsible for managing the progress of work during a Sprint?
Answer :
The Development Team uses the Daily Scrum to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and to inspect how progress is trending toward completing the work in the Sprint Backlog.


Question:
Which statement best describes the Sprint Review?
Answer :
It is when the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the outcome of a Sprint and figure out what to do next.
Every event in Scrum, besides the Sprint which is a container for the other events, is an opportunity to Inspect AND Adapt.


Question:
During the Daily Scrum, the Scrum Master's role is to:
Answer :
The Scrum Master ensures that the Development Team has the meeting, but the Development Team is responsible for conducting the Daily Scrum. The Scrum Master teaches the Development Team to keep the Daily Scrum within the 15-minute time-box. The Scrum Master enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum.


Question:
How much work must a Development Team do to a Product Backlog item it selects for a Sprint?
Answer :
The purpose of each Sprint is to deliver Increments of potentially releasable functionality that adhere to the Scrum Team's current definition of "Done".


Question:
When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog.
Answer :
False.Products have one Product Backlog, regardless of how many teams are used. Any other setup makes it difficult for the Development Team to determine what it should work on.


Question:
What are the two primary ways a Scrum Master keeps a Development Team working at its highest level of productivity?
Answer :
A Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Development Team. Facilitation and removing impediments serves a team in achieving the best productivity possible.


Question:
What is the role of Management in Scrum?
Answer :
Support the Product Owner with insights and information into high value product and system capabilities. Support the Scrum Master to cause organizational change that fosters empiricism, self-organization, bottom-up intelligence, and intelligent release of software.
Management has no active role in the actual product development through Scrum. However, management external to the Scrum team is incredibly important in setting the vision and strategy to guide the overall direction of the organization.


Question:
Scrum does not have a role called "project manager."
Answer :
True.A Scrum Team has a Scrum Master, a Product Owner and a Development Team. As a whole they have all controls needed.


Question:
What is the main reason for the Scrum Master to be at the Daily Scrum?
Answer :
The Scrum Master enforces the rule that only Development Team members participate in the Daily Scrum.


Question:
The time-box for the Sprint Planning meeting is?
Answer :
Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.


Question:
Which statement best describes a Product Owner's responsibility?
Answer :
The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team.


Question:
The maximum length of the Sprint Review (its time-box) is:
Answer :
Sprint Review is a four-hour time-boxed meeting for one-month Sprints. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.


Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Google 3D Animals for kids | list of AR animals | 3D animals in Android ...




3D Animals in Google Search

Google unveiled the fantastic new 3D Animals augmented reality filters for Search.

The new features on your smartphone to place 3D rendered creatures within your camera viewfinder in real-life scale.

With millions of children around the globe not currently able to go to school due to quarantine and lockdown procedures due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, this might be a great way to give them an interesting home-schooling lesson without having to leave the house — or invite any furry friends in to make a real mess.

Require :

 * An Android smartphone running Android 7.0 or higher / iPhone running iOS 11 or later

 * Google Chrome for Android/iOS

The full list of 3D Animals within Google Search as follows:


  • Tiger
  • Lion
  • Dog
  • Snake
  • Octopus
  • Shark
  • Alligator
  • Angler Fish
  • Brown Bear
  • Cat
  • Cheetah
  • Duck
  • Eagle
  • Penguin
  • Giant Panda
  • Goat
  • Horse
  • Macaw
  • Pug
  • Rottweiler
  • Great White Shark
  • Shetland Pony
  • Turtle
  • Wolf
  • Panda


Now, it's became a small Zoo.

If you’re wanting to keep yourself or your kids occupied, it’s as easy as opening Google Chrome on your smartphone and searching for any of the AR animals above. You don’t even have to view them in AR, you can see each animal in 3D within your Google Search page too

Let us know your favorite 3D animal down in the comments section below.


Saturday, March 28, 2020

NPTEL Python for Data Science Week 4 Assignment 4 answers |2020|99.9% ac...





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2020- NPTEL Python for Data Science Assignment 2 solutions| 100% correct...



Find the solutions\answers in this video for the below questions : 1)Which of the following sequence data type is defined by enclosing the elements in parentheses ‘()’? 2)Which of the following statement is not valid about Numpy ‘Arrays’? 3)The command to access the last element from the array “a” is__ import array as arr a = arr.array('d', [2.5, 3.5, 4.5]) 4)Create an array ‘x’ with values 0 to 9 and find what is the command to extract the elements in the following sequence - array ([5,3,1])? 5)What will be the output after executing the following codes? x=(0,8,9,15,17,18) y=slice(1,-2) 6)The method used to increase the length of the list by number of elements in its argument. 7)The function that returns the indices of the sorted elements. 8)Create two tuples tuple=(2,4,6,3,7) tuple1=(1,2,3) Find out which of the following code does not work on a tuple 9)The command to find the number of elements in the following array “N” is import numpy as np N=np.array([24, None , 29, 'str', np.nan, 23,20,(),[], ...]) 10)Which of the following is not a valid syntax for creating a Set ‘M’ in Python? M = set([11,12],[13,14],[14,15]) 11)What will be the output after executing the following codes? S={12,13,14,15} S.intersection_update({17,13,14,16}) print(S) 12)Which of the following command returns the set of all elements from both sets, a and b? 13)What will be the output of ndarray.ndim attribute? 14)For dictionary d = {“plum ":0.66, "pears ":1.25,"oranges ":0.50, “apple”:0.75 }, which of the following statement correctly updates the price of oranges to 0.90? 15)Which of the following command(s) is/are used to join arrays? 16)What will be the output of the dictionary ‘c’? 17)The output of the code given below is n = [x*x for x in range(4)] print(n) 18)The output of the code given below is list = [2, 4, 6, 8] a = (x**3 for x in list) print(next(a)) 19)Which of the following is not possible in sequence datatypes? 20)Which of the following commands will give you a new numpy array with Boolean values? ======================================================= Subscribe jaganInfo channel to get more related videos. Thanks for your support to make more videos. ========================================================

NPTEL Python for Data Science Assignment 3 answers | 2020 Week 3 |99.9% ...



1)Pandas features a number of functions for reading data as a DataFrame object. Which of the following commands are valid? 2)Which of the following is a valid indexing option with DataFrames? 3)Which of the following function allows the use of ‘Lambda expression’ while querying the data? 4)While reading comma-separated values (csv) file into DataFrame., which of the following will be used to set the first column as the index column? 5)Read the given dataset “Tips.csv” as a dataframe “Data”. Which of the following command(s) is/are correct to extract the columns in the following sequence - Time, TotalBill, Tips? 6)Read the given excel sheet ‘Tips1.xlsx’ as a dataframe ‘Data1’. Identify which of the following command (s) is/are correct to merge the two data frames ‘Data’ and ‘Data1’ by columns? 7)Copy the 'Data2' dataframe as 'Data3' (Data3 = Data2.copy()) and identify the command to find the total tips received across Day’s from the dataframe ‘Data3’? 8)Copy the 'Data2' dataframe as 'Data3' (Data3 = Data2.copy()) and find which of the following command (s) gives the count of the Time (‘Dinner' or 'Lunch') across gender? 9)Which of the following plot is a visual representation of the statistical five-number summary of a data? 10)Which of the following statement is not true about histograms? 11)If you have column with categorical variables, which will be the appropriate method to fill in the NaN’s present in the column? 12)Which of the following is not the right command to fill NaN values? 13)For the given dataframe “Data3” plot a histogram for the variable ‘TotalBill’ to check which range has the highest frequency 14)For the given dataframe “Data3” draw a bar chart for the variable “Day”. Identify the category with the maximum count 15)Find the mean of the ‘TotalBill’, ‘Tips’ and ‘Size’ across Days from the dataframe ‘Data3’? 16)On which day sum of the total bill was maximum? 17)What will be the output of ‘a’ and ‘b’? 18) n Pandas library, Dataframe class provides a member function to find duplicate rows based on all columns. Identify the right option. 19)What does the following command do? df.dropna(axis=0, how='all') ? 20)Correlation between two variables X&Y is 0.85. Now, after adding the value 2 to all the values of X, the correlation co-efficient will be --------------------- Practice Assignment 3 --------------------- 1) Which of the following can be inferred from scatter plot of ‘mpg’ (Miles per gallon) vs ‘wt’ (Weight of car) from the dataset mtcars.csv? Answer : a) As weight of the car increases, the mpg decreases 2) Plot a boxplot for “price” vs “cut” from the dataset “diamond.csv”. Which of the categories under “cut” have the highest median price? Answer : d) Fair 3) In the churn.csv dataframe, what are the total no. of missing values for the variable TotalCharges? Answer : c) 15 4) The command used for line plot from the package Matplotlib? Answer : a) plot() 5) The probability of two different events occurring at the same time is known as Answer : c) Joint probability

Sainik School 2020 Entrance Exam English Class 6 Question and Answers



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Sainik School Entrance Exam General Knowledge Class 6 Question and Answers

This video contains solutions to All India sainik school entrance exam 2020 class 6 for General knowledge questions. You can get Sainik School Entrance Exam 2020 English Grammar questions from the below link: https://youtu.be/JTX-lcfpg40 The following G.K questions answered in this video. Please watch , like and subscribe. 1) Which is biggest desert in the world? 2)Manas national park is located in the state of? 3)which of these grows from the roots ? 4)Sahyadris is also known as? 5)The gas filled in a weather balloons is 6)Growing children need more of 7)Which gas is dissolved under pressure in soft drinks? 8)who is the lowest ranked Air force officer among these 9) which of the following is a national festival 10)Dr.Amartya Sen won Nobel Prize in which field 11) The imaginnary line drawn half way between Nort Pole and South Pole 12) The largest Island in the world is 13) The coldest place in world, lying in the south frigid zone is 14) who invented telephone in 1876 15)'Ghoomar' is a popular folk dance of which of the folowing state 16)Black soil is also known as 17) PV sindhu is associated with which sports 18) The space programmer of Govt of india is looked after by 19) Bhakranangal project is built on the river 20) who is known as a Iron Man of India 21) The longest river in south india is 22) which planet is known as moorning star as well as evening star 23) which article of constitution provides indian citizen Right to Equality 24) Narora nuclear power plant is located in the state of 25) which of the following diseases spreads through contaminated food and water

Monday, March 23, 2020

Data Visualization using python libraries | matplotlib I Seaborn | plotl...





Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.
Types of Data Visualizations :
Explanatory:
Exploratory:

Python Visualisation Libraries
• Matplotlib
o
https://matplotlib.org/
• Pandas built-in plotting
• ggpy
o
https://github.com/yhat/ggpy
• Altair
o
https://altair-viz.github.io/
• Seaborn
o
https://seaborn.pydata.org/
• Plotly
o
https://plot.ly/python/
• Bokeh
o
https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/
• HoloViews
o
http://holoviews.org/
• VisPy
o
http://vispy.org/
• Lightning
o
http://lightning-viz.org/

Visualization methods :
Distribution
It is commonly used at the initial stage of data exploration i.e. when we get started with understanding the variable. Variables are of two types: Continuous and Categorical. For continuous variable, we look at the center, spread, outlier. For categorical variable we look at frequency table.
Histogram : It is used for showing the distribution of continuous variables.
Box-Plot : It is used to display full range of variation from min to max and useful to identify outlier values.
Comparison
It is used to compare values across different categories.
Common charts to represent these information are Bar and Line chart.
Bar Chart : It is used to compare values across different categories
Line Chart : It is used to compare values over quantitative variable
Composition
It is used to show distribution of a variable across categories of another variable
Pie Chart : It can be created by passing the values representing each of the slices of the pie.
Relationship
It is widely used to understand the correlation between two or more continuous variables
Scatter Plot : It clearly shows the relationship between two variables

Demo 1 : Basic Plot
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,4],[5,7,4])
plt.show()

Demo 2 : Basic Plot Legend Title Labels
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x,y = [1,2,4],[5,7,4]
x2,y2 = [1,2,5],[8,11,5]
plt.plot(x,y, label = "Firstline")
plt.plot(x2,y2, label = "Secondline")
plt.xlabel('X-axis label')
plt.ylabel('Y-axis label')
plt.title('Graph Title')
plt.legend()
plt.show()

Demo 3 : Bar Chart
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [2,4,6,8,10]
y = [6,7,8,2,4]
x2 = [1,3,5,7,9]
y2 = [7,8,2,4,2]
plt.bar(x, y, label="FirstBar", color='lightblue')
plt.bar(x2, y2, label="SecondBar", color='c')
plt.xlabel('Bar Number')
plt.ylabel('Bar Height')
plt.title('Graph: Two Bars')
plt.legend()
plt.show()

Demo 4 : Hist Chart
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
population_ages = [22,55,62,45,21,22,34,42,42,4,99,102,110,120,122,130,111,151,115,112,80,75,65,54,44,42,48]
bins = [0,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,120]
plt.hist(population_ages, bins , histtype='bar', rwidth=0.8)
plt.xlabel('X-axis')
plt.ylabel('Y-axis')
plt.title('Graph: Hist Chart')
plt.legend()
plt.show()

Demo 5 : Scatter Plot
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
y = [5,2,4,2,1,4,5,2]
plt.scatter(x,y,label='skitcat', color='r',s=250)
# google matplotlib marker option
plt.scatter(x,y,label='skitcat', color='r',s=200, marker = '*')
plt.xlabel('X-axis')
plt.ylabel('Y-axis')
plt.title('Graph: Scatter Plot')
plt.show()

Demo 6 : Stack Plot
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
days = [1,2,3,4,5]
sleeping = [7,8,6,11,7]
eating = [2,3,4,3,2]
working = [7,8,7,2,2]
playing = [8,5,7,8,13]
plt.plot([],[],color = 'm',label = 'sleeping')
plt.plot([],[],color = 'c',label = 'eating')
plt.plot([],[],color = 'r',label = 'working')
plt.plot([],[],color = 'y',label = 'playing') # linewidth
plt.stackplot(days,sleeping,eating,working,playing ,colors =['m','c','r','y'])
plt.xlabel('X-axis')
plt.ylabel('Y-axis')
plt.legend()
plt.title('Graph: Stack Plot')
plt.show()

Demo 7 : Pie Charts
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
days = [1,2,3,4,5]
sleeping = [7,8,6,11,7]
eating = [2,3,4,3,2]
working = [7,8,7,2,2]
playing = [8,5,7,8,13]
slices = [7,2,2,13]
activities = ['sleeping','eating','working','playing']
cols = ['m','c','r','g']
plt.pie(slices, labels = activities, colors=cols)
# startangle , shadow= , explode , autopct
plt.title('Graph: Pie Chart')
plt.show()

Demo 8 : Load Data from Files
import numpy as np
x, y = np.loadtxt('DemoData.txt', delimiter=',', unpack=True)
plt.plot(x,y, label='Loaded from file!')
plt.xlabel('X-Axis')
plt.ylabel('Y-Axis')
plt.title('Graph : Load Data from File')
plt.legend()
plt.show()

Demo 9 : Live Graphs
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation
from matplotlib import style
style.use('fivethirtyeight')
fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
def animate(i):
graph_data = open('DemoData.txt','r').read()
lines = graph_data.split('\n')
xaxis = []
yaxis = []
for line in lines:
if len(line) greaterthan 1:
x, y =line.split(',')
xaxis.append(x)
yaxis.append(y)
ax1.clear()
ax1.plot(xaxis,yaxis)
ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate, interval=1000)
plt.show()

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Non proctored Solutions Python for Data Science Question and Answers

Non proctored Solutions Python for Data Science Question and Answers Download required datasets here : Session 1 Dataset : lending_data.csv https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHOTQiEVNwqahnYFpp6M5Wgimd3ZYRN1/view Session 2 Dataset : microlending_data.csv https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d_l4XwXED_fqs_1zPeHL_1HC08HJi1n9/view **** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ...LIKE ****** Non Proctored exam Preparation #jaganinfo #unproctored #nonproctored #nptel #pythonfordatascience #datascience Subscribe if you gain some information from this useful video. Python for Data Science - Non Proctored exam Question and Answers - Revision for Exam This video is explained and executed to get the solutions . All The Best for EXAM ... Note: This video is not responsible for any error or mistakes for your assignments. I have watched the NPTEL course related videos and read the content from different knowledge sources.