Unit 15: Agile Project Execution and Control using Jira - Practice Quiz

1 What is a key characteristic of Agile project management?

2 What does a Jira board primarily display?

3 What is an issue in Jira?

4 Which Agile framework organizes work into fixed-length sprints?

5 Which approach commonly supports a continuous flow of work without fixed sprints?

6 What should a team consider when choosing between a Scrum and Kanban project?

7 What does an epic represent in Jira?

8 What does a user story usually describe?

9 Which Jira issue type is commonly used for a specific piece of work that must be completed?

10 What is a product backlog?

11 What is the main purpose of sprint planning?

12 How are high-priority backlog items usually positioned?

13 What should happen to a Jira issue when work begins on it?

14 What does the assignee field identify in a Jira issue?

15 Which status normally indicates that work on an issue has been completed?

16 What is a bug in software project management?

17 Which Jira field helps indicate how urgently an issue should be handled?

18 What does a burndown chart show during a sprint?

19 What does a velocity chart help a Scrum team understand?

20 What information is commonly provided by a sprint report?

21 A product owner needs to review, prioritize, and refine work intended for future sprints. Which Jira view is most appropriate?

22 A team frequently starts new issues while many existing issues remain unfinished. Which Agile practice would best address this problem?

23 A development team releases a tested increment every two weeks and wants to plan work in fixed iterations. Which Jira project approach is most suitable?

24 A maintenance team receives requests continuously and deploys each completed request without waiting for an iteration to end. Which project type best fits this workflow?

25 A team is developing an online payment capability that includes card payments, refunds, transaction history, and payment notifications. How should the overall capability be represented in Jira?

26 Which issue description is the best example of a user story?

27 A user story requires separate database, API, and interface activities that will be completed by different team members. How should these activities usually be represented?

28 A team's average velocity is 24 story points. For the next sprint, the team expects to have only of its normal capacity. Approximately how many story points should it initially plan?

29 Two high-priority backlog stories depend on an unfinished authentication story. What is the most appropriate action during backlog refinement?

30 A story was not completed when the sprint ended. What should the team do before placing it in another sprint?

31 During a sprint, a developer cannot continue a story until an external API credential is supplied. What Jira action best communicates the situation?

32 A developer has finished coding an issue, but testing has not started. If the workflow contains To Do, In Progress, Testing, and Done, which transition best reflects its state?

33 A stakeholder requests a substantial new feature halfway through a sprint. What is the most appropriate Scrum response?

34 Users report that checkout fails only when a discount code and express delivery are selected together. What information is most important to add to the Jira bug?

35 A defect causes occasional data loss but affects only a small number of users. How should the team assess it?

36 An approved change modifies the acceptance criteria of a story that is already in progress. Which Jira practice provides the clearest audit trail?

37 A sprint burndown chart remains flat for four days even though developers report working on several issues. What is the most likely explanation?

38 A 10-day sprint begins with 80 story points. Assuming an ideal linear burndown, how much work should remain at the end of day 5?

39 A team's completed work over its last three sprints was 20, 24, and 16 story points. What velocity is a reasonable starting point for planning the next sprint?

40 The team wants to identify issues added after a sprint started and compare committed work with completed work. Which Jira report is most useful?

41 A Jira project contains 600 issues, but a newly created Scrum board displays only 140. No issues were deleted or archived. Which explanation is most consistent with Jira's architecture?

42 A support team receives unpredictable requests, releases each completed item immediately, and wants explicit work-in-progress limits. Which project configuration best fits this operating model?

43 Two teams work from the same Jira project. One team needs a Scrum board for product work, while the other needs a Kanban board for maintenance issues. Both teams must reference the original issues without duplication. What is the best design?

44 A product capability spans several independently valuable user outcomes. Each outcome requires multiple technical implementation steps that are not valuable by themselves. Which hierarchy is most appropriate?

45 A story named "Build customer management" is too large for one sprint. Which split best preserves vertical, independently testable value?

46 A product owner drags an issue above another issue in the backlog, but the displayed order does not change after refresh. The board filter ends with ORDER BY Priority DESC. What is the most appropriate correction?

47 A team's last three completed sprint velocities were , , and points. For the next sprint, team availability is uniformly reduced to of normal, and no other material change is expected. What is the most defensible initial planning forecast?

48 Midway through a sprint, management asks the team to change the board's estimation statistic from story points to original time estimates. Which response best protects report interpretability?

49 An urgent regulatory story is discovered after a sprint starts. The product owner decides it must be handled immediately. Which Jira action provides the most transparent control?

50 A defect is moved from Done to Reopened, but its Resolution remains Fixed. Queries using resolution = Unresolved do not return it. What is the correct workflow-level fix?

51 During an active sprint, an administrator modifies the board filter and one sprint issue disappears. The issue itself was neither deleted nor removed from the sprint. What should the team verify first?

52 Two testers independently report the same production defect with different evidence attached. Which handling strategy best preserves traceability while preventing duplicate work?

53 A defect reveals that an approved acceptance criterion is incorrect and the requested correction changes product behavior. Which action provides the strongest change-control trail?

54 A critical production defect must interrupt the active sprint. Which approach balances rapid response with governance and accurate Jira reporting?

55 A sprint begins with story points. The team completes points, after which estimated points are added to the sprint. No other issues or estimates change. What should the burndown evidence show at that moment?

56 A sprint starts with points. During the sprint, one unfinished -point issue is removed and an -point issue is added. At closure, every issue remaining in the sprint is done except one -point issue. Estimates never change. What commitment and completion values should the velocity chart show?

57 At sprint closure, an issue has status Resolved and Resolution Fixed, but that status is mapped to the board's middle column rather than its rightmost column. How will the Scrum sprint report normally classify it?

58 Developers report steady progress for four days, but a story-point burndown remains flat. Several stories are nearly finished, yet none has entered the board's completed column. What is the strongest interpretation?

59 When completing Sprint 7, three unfinished issues are moved into an unstarted Sprint 8. Which reporting outcome is expected if their estimates remain unchanged?

60 A board shows 14 issues with statusCategory != Done, while a dashboard filter using resolution = Unresolved shows 11. Inspection finds that the three missing issues were reopened but still have Resolution Fixed. What is the best correction?