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Q1. You manage a development team for a group of stakeholders that are physically remote from your development center. Stakeholders have blocked out dates and times on their schedules for your team.
The stakeholders are concerned that several of the project requirements will not meet their needs due to changing market conditions.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met: s
Your team is doing effective and efficient work.
The work is meeting the needs of the business.
The project’s timeline is not at risk.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)
A. Institute a policy of sign-offs for each requirement and design document.
B. Develop a series of iterative proofs of concept that reflect a partial delivery of requirements and get feedback from the product owner.
C. Instruct the team to create a comprehensive set of design documents for each layer of the system. Schedule a review with the stakeholders to get their feedback.
D. Add a primary stakeholder to your team as the product owner.
Answer: BD
Q2. Your development team uses Scrum as its process framework.
You need to identify key metrics for measuring the effectiveness of any process changes.
Which three key metrics should you measure? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose three.)
A. Number of story points delivered during the sprint
B. Number of tasks added to the sprint after the sprint starts
C. Number of bugs reported by testers
D. Number of classes in the code-base
E. Number of items added to the Product Backlog
F. Number of manual test cases created
Answer: ABC
Q3. You are part of a scrum team that is trying to identify user stories to complete in the next sprint.
You and the team need to select user stories for the next sprint.
What should you do?
A. Have the product owner decide which user stories to complete within the sprint.
B. Have the scrum master decide which user stories to complete within the sprint.
C. Have the team decide which user stories to complete within the sprint.
D. Order the user stories by their story points. Select the top stories based on the team’s velocity.
Answer: C
Explanation: The Sprint is a fixed-length event (30 days or less) in which the Development Team forecasts items from the Product Backlog and develops the items in the Sprint Backlog according to the acceptance criteria and their Definition of “Done.”
Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.169
Q4. Your development team uses the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 process template. You are the scrum master.
The product owner has created product backlog items and assigned them to a release.
You need to work with the development team to estimate when the release will be completed.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)
A. Review the sprint backlog.
B. Review the product backlog with the Forecast option set to on to determine if the release can be completed based on the team’s velocity.
C. Have the team create tasks for each item in the product backlog and assign hour estimates to the task.
D. Review the sprint burndown chart.
E. Set each team member’s per day capacity.
F. Establish a sprint duration and a sprint velocity. Create enough sprints to complete the release.
G. Estimate effort for each item in the product backlog.
Answer: BFG
Explanation: By using the forecasting tool in Web Access, you can plan the number of Sprints it will take to complete a set of work. The forecasting tool is available only in the Product Backlog, not any of the Sprint Backlogs. Prior to being able to use the forecasting tool, your Product Backlog must have PBI and Bug work items already created with the effort specified. You can turn on forecasting by clicking the Off hyperlink next to Forecast on the right side of the backlog page. The first time you do this, Web Access prompts you for the Velocity. Using your Development Team’s Velocity, Web Access will add a Forecast column and horizontal lines to the Product Backlog. In the Forecast column, it will display the Sprint that it predicts the PBI or Bug work item will be developed in.
Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.165
Q5. Your company’s help desk support team comprises a single individual using an Excel spreadsheet to track tickets.
You want to improve the flow of information between the help desk and your development team.
You need to ensure that the lead developer receives updates only when new software defects are reported by the help desk.
What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)
A. . Create a custom list on SharePoint to capture ticket information.
. Have the lead developer subscribe to an alert for each ticket that is created with a type of “software defect”.
B. . Use the System Center 2012 Ticket Manager to capture tickets from the help desk.
. Enable the ticket integration adapter to push tickets captured in System Center to TFS as bug work items.
. Have the lead developer subscribe to alerts for his or her assigned work items.
C. . Create a team project on your Team Foundation Server with a custom process template to track tickets.
. For software defects, have the help desk assign the tickets to the lead developer.
. Have the lead developer review his or her assigned tickets.
D. . Publish the Excel spreadsheet to a SharePoint document library.
. Configure an alert to notify the development lead when the spreadsheet is modified.
Answer: AC
Q6. DRAG DROP
You have a list of tasks entered into Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012. Each task has an estimated effort and assigned to a team member.
You have limited resources available. Due to external requirements, the start date and end date of the current iteration are fixed. Several of the tasks have dependencies on one another.
You need to identify a critical path.
What should you do? (To answer, move the three appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
Answer:
Q7. You manage several developers who are working on multiple applications.
A business analyst requests an audit trail of work item changes for all prospective releases.
You need to implement a strategy to provide the audit trail.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)
A. Enable a check-in policy that requires a successful build prior to check-in.
B. Enable a check-in policy that requires a work item be associated with the check-in.
C. Enable static code analysis during the automated build.
D. Require developers to update the comments field of their tasks with details of any code changes for their tasks.
E. Request that developers enter the work item ID in the check-in comments for any code changes they make.
F. Enable the automated build option to associate work items with the build.
Answer: BF
Q8. Your company is considering adopting the family of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 features.
You need to identify which out-of-the-box features you could use to create an end-to-end application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.
Which three features should you use? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)
A. Time tracking and budget analysis
B. Manual testing
C. Unit testing and code coverage
D. Requirements management
E. Deployment to production
Answer: BCE
Explanation: There is no Time tracking and budget analysis in TFS or VS, this is likely MS Project Feature. Requirements management is a TFS Feature. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364062%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
I do see Manual testing, Unit testing and code coverage, and Deployment at VS2012 Feature comparisons page http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/compare
Q9. Your development team uses Scrum as its process framework and utilizes the Microsoft Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development 6.0 process template.
A new team member who is new to Scrum assumes the role of product owner.
You need to help the new product owner prioritize the product backlog.
Which basis should you suggest the new product owner use for prioritizing the product backlog?
A. personal preference
B. estimated cost and effort for each requirement
C. risk and business value of each requirement
D. technical complexity of each requirement
Answer: C
Explanation: In other words, it’s more important to deliver business value in the form of working software than to follow a plan.
Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.162
Q10. You design a system architecture that specifies various inter-layer communications.
You need to ensure the validity of developers’ code against your architecture.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)
A. Create a layer diagram and specify the valid namespaces for each layer.
B. Create a gated check-in that runs a build that validates the rules defined in the layer diagram.
C. Use the architecture explorer to create a DGML model of the architecture.
D. Create a gated check-in that uses Code Analysis.
E. Create a gated check-in that runs a build that validates the rules defined in the DGML model.
Answer: AB
Explanation: You can perform layer validation every time that you run a local build. If your team uses Team Foundation Build, you can perform layer validation with gated check-ins, which you can specify by creating a custom MSBuild task, and use build reports to collect validation errors.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd409395.aspx