Microsoft 70-498 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Microsoft 70-498 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  Your team uses a single team project for all development. You use the Microsoft Visual Scrum 2.0 process template to manage the software development process.

  You have an external client help desk application that issues ticket numbers associated with each client support call.

  You need to be able to query TFS and report on help desk ticket numbers from within bug work items.

  What should you do?

  A. Use the process template editor to modify the process template definition of the bug work item to include a new field.
  B. Update the work item ID to match the help desk ticket ID.
  C. Use the process template editor to modify the definition of the bug work item in use on the team project to include a new field.
  D. Instruct the team to record the TFS bug work item IDs associated with any given help desk ticket in the help desk system.
  C. Use the process template editor to modify the definition of the bug work item in use on the team project to include a new field.

• Question 12:

  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. 1. Create a custom list on SharePoint to capture ticket information. 2. Have the lead developer subscribe to an alert for each ticket that is created with a type of "software defect".
  B. 1. Use the System Center 2012 Ticket Manager to capture tickets from the help desk. 2. Enable the ticket integration adapter to push tickets captured in System Center to TFS as bug work items. 3. Have the lead developer subscribe to alerts for his or her assigned work items.
  C. 1. Create a team project on your Team Foundation Server with a custom process template to track tickets. 2. For software defects, have the help desk assign the tickets to the lead developer. 3. Have the lead developer review his or her assigned tickets.
  D. 1. Publish the Excel spreadsheet to a SharePoint document library. 2. Configure an alert to notify the development lead when the spreadsheet is modified.
  A. 1. Create a custom list on SharePoint to capture ticket information. 2. Have the lead developer subscribe to an alert for each ticket that is created with a type of "software defect".
  C. 1. Create a team project on your Team Foundation Server with a custom process template to track tickets. 2. For software defects, have the help desk assign the tickets to the lead developer. 3. Have the lead developer review his or her assigned tickets.

• Question 13:

  You are the lead software solution designer for Contoso, Ltd. You build and test software by using Microsoft Visual Studio Premium.

  The company is undertaking a new software project that you will design and manage. Senior management wants stakeholders to be able to provide continuous feedback on frequent builds.

  Your team uses two-week iterations and wants to view a backlog of all functionality and bugs together.

  You need to implement a process template for the project. You want to achieve this goal by using minimal effort.

  Which process template should you use?

  A. a Scrum template
  B. a CMMI template
  C. your own custom template
  D. an Agile template
  A. a Scrum template

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  Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj920147.aspx

• Question 14:

  You are a project manager responsible for all phases of a new application development project.

  Your project is a customer-facing website that is strategic to the rollout of a new product.

  You need to ensure that the project is delivered on time and on budget with a minimal number of defects.

  What should you do first?

  A. Create test plans and author test cases.
  B. Conduct exploratory test sessions.
  C. Illustrate requirements with Microsoft PowerPoint storyboarding and link storyboards to work items.
  D. Engage stakeholders to provide feedback about pre-release software.
  C. Illustrate requirements with Microsoft PowerPoint storyboarding and link storyboards to work items.

• Question 15:

  You are planning to develop a new application.

  You need to ensure that the code is easy to test and obtain high code coverage.

  What should you do?

  A. Create as many static methods as possible.
  B. Create a fake for each class that you are testing.
  C. Ensure that concrete classes depend only on other concrete classes.
  D. Ensure that each class has only one responsibility.
  D. Ensure that each class has only one responsibility.

• Question 16:

  Your development team uses Scrum as its process framework and utilizes the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development 6.0 process template.

  Your product owner requests making an internal system public. The request is top priority for the next sprint.

  You need to determine if the team can commit to the request for the next sprint.

  What should you do?

  A. Create user story work items for the request. Provide story point estimates for each user story.
  B. Create user story work items for the request. Record hour estimates in each user story.
  C. Create user story work items for the request. Create child task work items for each unit of work. Record hour estimates in each task.
  D. Create product backlog item work items for the request. Create linked task work items for each unit of work. Provide hour estimates for each task.
  C. Create user story work items for the request. Create child task work items for each unit of work. Record hour estimates in each task.

• Question 17:

  You are a lead developer for your company. You are responsible for a managed application with an existing codebase.

  Customers report that the software is unstable. Management wants you to lead an effort to add unit testing to the application.

  You need to identify the part of the application that will benefit most from adding unit tests. The goal is to achieve better software quality for the most users.

  Which section of code should you target? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.

  A. code that has remained unchanged for years
  B. code that is complicated but rarely executed
  C. code that was recently added to the project
  D. code to which many bug reports have been traced
  D. code to which many bug reports have been traced

• Question 18:

  You are using the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 process template. You recently finished a sprint.

  You need to conduct a retrospective meeting prior to planning the next sprint.

  What should you do?

  A. Select items from the product backlog for the next sprint.
  B. Decompose the product backlog items into a set of tasks.
  C. Determine which items have been finished on the previous day.
  D. Analyze the previous sprint to identify what the team is going to do differently during the next sprint.
  D. Analyze the previous sprint to identify what the team is going to do differently during the next sprint.

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  This meeting provides an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect themselves and identify what went well and what needs improving. If improvements are identified, the team should create an actionable plan for the next Sprint. Nothing is

  out of scope during this meeting--people, relationships, process, and tools can all be discussed. The Scrum Team may also decide to adjust its Definition of "Done" to increase product

  quality. After the meeting, the next Sprint begins.

  Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.6

• Question 19:

  Your development team uses the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development 6.0 process template.

  You need to determine the process to obtain the most accurate estimates for each user story in your product backlog.

  What should you do?

  A. Have the development team estimate and use the longest estimates.
  B. Ask the product owner to provide the estimates.
  C. Ask the scrum master to provide estimates.
  D. Have the development team estimate until team members reach consensus.
  D. Have the development team estimate until team members reach consensus.

• Question 20:

  A development team in your company has been unsuccessful delivering software by its deadline.

  You join the team as its new scrum master.

  The previous scrum master did not understand the importance of the length of a sprint.

  You need to define how long the sprints should be.

  Which two factors should you consider to determine sprint length? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

  A. The iteration length should be long enough to ensure than no more than 20 percent of the total effort is spent performing deployment and administrative tasks.
  B. The iteration length should be consistent.
  C. The iteration length should be flexible.
  D. The sprint length should be long enough to create a usable and potentially releasable product.
  E. The iteration length should be longer than one month.
  B. The iteration length should be consistent.
  D. The sprint length should be long enough to create a usable and potentially releasable product.

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  Sprint length

  I asked Ken Schwaber once how long a Sprint should be. His answer was, "As short as possible and no shorter." Sprints of longer than four weeks (one month) have a smell-- the smell of water falling. When a Sprint's length is longer than a month, the definition of what is being built may change or complexity and risk may increase. By limiting the maximum length of a Sprint, at most one month of development effort would be wasted, rather than several months in a classic waterfall project. Conversely, Sprints with a length of less than one week are possible, but should be executed only by a high-performance Scrum Team. Even with very short Sprints, the overhead of the inner events must be factored in, leaving even less time for actual software development. Teams working in "micro sprints" like these need to be on their A-game every day. Ideally, the length of the Sprint does not change. If it must, it can only change in between Sprints, as a result of a decision made collaboratively during the prior Sprint's retrospective meeting. Any change to the length of a Sprint will cause disruption to the Development Team's cadence. This will correct over time, as will its Velocity. Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.15