Microsoft 70-498 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Microsoft 70-498 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 41:

  Your company is developing a web application by using the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 process template. The development team committed to deliver a set of Product Backlog Item (PBI) work items for the upcoming sprint.

  You implement the initial tests for the PBIs in scope for the upcoming sprint. You plan to add more tests during the sprint.

  You need to ensure that your test plan automatically includes any new tests.

  What should you do?

  A. Create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that lists all the acceptance tests for the PBIs. Use a Pivot table to report the test cases per PBI.
  B. Create test case work items for the acceptance tests. Link these test cases to the PBI work items. Add a query based test suite that selects all test cases linked with the PBIs in scope.
  C. Create test case work items for the acceptance tests. Link these test cases to the associated PBI work items. Add the PBIs to the test plan.
  D. Create test case work items for the acceptance tests. Create a suite in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and add all test cases to this suite.
  C. Create test case work items for the acceptance tests. Link these test cases to the associated PBI work items. Add the PBIs to the test plan.

• Question 42:

  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.
  C. Have the team decide which user stories to complete within the sprint.

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  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

• Question 43:

  You are developing a new application. The application will require rapid changes after it is in production.

  You need to implement practices that promote high quality and ensure the code is maintainable. Which three practices should you implement? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)

  A. Refactor code based on code metrics from the maintainability index.
  B. Keep the code tightly coupled.
  C. Create as few classes as possible.
  D. Create unit tests and monitor code coverage.
  E. Create as few assemblies as possible.
  F. Refactor code based on code clone analysis.
  A. Refactor code based on code metrics from the maintainability index.
  D. Create unit tests and monitor code coverage.
  F. Refactor code based on code clone analysis.

• Question 44:

  Your network environment includes a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 server. Your development team is using the Microsoft Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development 6.0 process template. You have a number of user stories logged in TFS 2012.

  Several user stories have external dependencies on an application programming interface (API) that is being developed by a third party. The interfaces for the API have already been agreed upon. You need to recommend how these external

  dependencies should be handled in your current sprint.

  What should you do?

  A. Add a resource to represent the third party and assign all the user stories that have dependencies on the API to this new resource.
  B. Add an agreed upon amount of effort to every user story that has dependencies on the API.
  C. Move all user stories that have dependencies on the API to the next sprint.
  D. Create mockups of the API using the agreed upon interfaces. Add user stories for integration testing to the backlog.
  D. Create mockups of the API using the agreed upon interfaces. Add user stories for integration testing to the backlog.

• Question 45:

  Your development team reports that the operations team is not providing sufficient information for the development team to efficiently diagnose problems in production.

  You need to identify standard data that the operations team should provide when they submit requests to the development team.

  Which two standard artifacts should you include? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

  A. Test impact analysis.
  B. Event log information.
  C. IntelliTrace configuration file.
  D. Performance monitor configuration file.
  E. Name of the application, server(s), and issue description.
  B. Event log information.
  E. Name of the application, server(s), and issue description.

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  Test Impact Analysis (TIA) helps in analysis of impact of development on existing tests. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff576128%28v=vs.100%29.aspx#intro Event log information - EventLog lets you access or customize Windows 2000 event logs, which record information about important software or hardware events. Using EventLog, you can read from existing logs, write entries to logs, create or delete event sources, delete logs, and respond to log entries. You can also create new logs when creating an event source. IntelliTrace configuration file - I couldn't find such thing. Name of the application, server(s), and issue description seems the information a bug couldn't exist for a developer. Networking performance counters can be accessed and managed using the PerformanceCounter and related classes in the System.Diagnostics namespace. Networking performance counters can also be viewed with the Windows Performance Monitor console.

• Question 46:

  You are assigned to manage a new development team that uses Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 for application lifecycle management (ALM).

  The development team works in a highly regulated environment.

  You are required to:

  Document and manage risks,

  Document and manage change requests, and

  Maintain a formal project issue log.

  You need to select a development process for your team.

  Which process template should you use?

  A. Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Process Improvement 6.0
  B. Microsoft Kanban 1.0
  C. Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development 6.0
  D. Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0
  A. Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Process Improvement 6.0

• Question 47:

  You manage a development team by using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012. The development team is made up of developers with specific skills.

  The project you are developing has the following characteristics:

  Several external dependencies exist.f

  Requirements are well defined and will not change.

  If an external dependency on the critical path does not meet a committed to deadline, the project will be impacted.

  The impact should be identified and measured.

  You need to select the appropriate tool(s) for managing the project.

  What should you do?

  A. Use Microsoft Project to manage dependencies and integrate with TFS where needed.
  B. Use TFS with the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 project template.
  C. Use TFS with the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Process Improvement 6.0 project template and the Affects link type for managing dependencies.
  D. Use TFS with the MSF for Agile Software Development 6.0 process template and the web access task board.
  A. Use Microsoft Project to manage dependencies and integrate with TFS where needed.

• Question 48:

  Your development team uses the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 process template.

  The team has identified items from the product backlog for the next sprint.

  You need to ensure that the team has adequate capacity to complete the next sprint.

  Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

  Choose three.)

  A. Review the sprint Burndown chart.
  B. Have the team assign hour estimates to each sprint task.
  C. Review the sprint backlog.
  D. Assign story points to each item in the product backlog.
  E. Review the product backlog with forecast set to On to determine if the sprint can be completed based on the team's velocity.
  F. Set each team member's per day capacity.
  C. Review the sprint backlog.
  E. Review the product backlog with forecast set to On to determine if the sprint can be completed based on the team's velocity.
  F. Set each team member's per day capacity.

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  Sprint Burndown charts can show the team how much work remains in the Sprint. These charts will often include an ideal trend line. This line represents the ideal rate at which the Development Team is able to complete all of the remaining effort, at a constant rate, by the end of the Sprint.

  Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.283 Prior to the Sprint, there shouldn't be any Task work items in the Sprint Backlog. Ideally, the Development Team creates its tasks during the Sprint Planning meeting and not before. Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.175

  The Sprint Backlog contains those items selected by the Development Team plus a plan for delivering them. The Sprint Backlog shows the work remaining in the Sprint at all times. Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 p.4

  Story points should be already assigned to PBIs during identification for the sprint.

• Question 49:

  You are developing release plans for a new software development project.

  You need to document a flexibility matrix.

  Which three elements should you use? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)

  A. schedule
  B. risk mitigation
  C. scope
  D. cost or resources
  E. decision-making authority
  F. solution architecture
  A. schedule
  C. scope
  D. cost or resources

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  http://pm-lotus.com/Wordpress/2009/09/15/the-flexibility-matrix/

• Question 50:

  You develop a web application that will be automatically deployed to a staging web server on which Internet Information Services (115) 7 is installed.

  You are defining a new build definition based on the DefaultTemplate.xaml build process template. This build definition will run every night and will publish the web application to a specific location.

  You provide the following MSBuild arguments in your build definition:

  

  You need to ensure that all prerequisites are installed and configured at the web server to support the build definition. What should you do?

  A. Install a self-signed server certificate for the site on which the web application is deployed.
  B. Install Team Foundation Power Tools.
  C. Install and configure Microsoft Web Deploy and Web Management Services.
  D. Create an FTP site for the address staging.mycompany.com.
  C. Install and configure Microsoft Web Deploy and Web Management Services.