This is in continuation of the earlier series of questions for Management Yogi's Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) certification exam.
I'll definitely suggest that you take both the question parts together, when you attempt the questions. This way you will have continuation in your learning and get a better understanding on what kind of questions may come in your CIPSA exam.
Also, as mentioned in the previous series, to answer these questions, you need to have:
Solid understanding of Scaled Agile Management practices scaling both team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban.
Excellent grasp of the CIPSA framework, because the CIPSA certification course follows this framework.
Sound understanding on MS Project Scaled Agile features.
Good understanding of traditional (waterfall), team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban management.
Critical thinking, logical reasoning, and ability to think out of the box.
Question – 9: A new Principal Scrum Master has joined your CIPSA team. She is a good performer and learning quickly on the job, but new to the CIPSA framework. A number of activities are conducted by her and you’re guiding her as a CIPSA certified professional. But which one of the following you’d advise her not to do?
A Improve the effectiveness of the Scaled Scrum such as higher quality, lesser number of bugs and lower cost.
B Take the customer feedback, assess them, and when needed, adjust the Product Backlog.
C Ensure cross-team collaboration and communication.
D Facilitate the removal of impediments, mitigation of risks and resolution of issues, with focus on cross-team dependencies.
Question – 10: As the Chief Product Owner (CPO) first presented the Product Backlog and Product Goal, the CIPSA Scrum Team has decided on the product backlog items to be taken-up for the upcoming Sprint. Then the individual Scrum teams took the backlog items and broke them down into individual tasks. Next the team proceeded with the execution of those tasks. Which important step did the CIPSA Scrum team miss?
A The team did not check if the Product Goal is achievable.
B The team has not refined the cross-team backlog refinement.
C The team did not build the CIPSA Sprint Goal
D The team missed to validate the Product Goal
Question – 11: For a networking project, a CIPSA Scrum team is going with the first meta-event. They have taken the high-ordered requirements and decided which of these requirements can be fulfilled in the upcoming iteration. The initial set of the dependencies are also noted. As the team closes this event, what are the likely outputs?
A Product backlog with a product goal
B An integrated increment that can be demonstrated
C Individual Team Sprint Goals with Team Sprint Backlogs
D CIPSA Sprint goal with a CIPSA Sprint Backlog
Question – 12: For an ongoing Scaled Scrum project, the CIPSA team has completed a number of backlog items taken from the Product Backlog. As another Sprint approaches, one of the Team Product Owners disagrees with having another CIPSA Sprint Goal and says not to have more such goals. How many CIPSA Sprint Goals can be there?
A Three
B Not more than five
C As many CIPSA Sprint Backlogs
D As many backlog items taken
Question – 13: Your Scaled Scrum project is in Sprint 5, you have prepared the Product Backlog, CIPSA Sprint 5 Backlog and Team Sprint 5 Backlog for all the Scrum teams. Now you want to visualize these goals in the cards of the Scrum Board. Current Cards are showing these fields.
Which field can be added into the cards to see these goals?
A Product Goal field
B Goal field
C Notes field
D Sprint field
Question – 14: Who is accountable for the items which will give the highest return on investment (ROI) when the Product Backlog is cross-team refined?
A CIPSA Team
B Principal Flow Master
C Chief Product Owner
D Individual Team Product Owner
Question – 15: For a Scaled Scrum project, the Task Burndown Chart for the entire CIPSA team is shown below. Based on it, what can be correctly said about the progress?
A The CIPSA team is well ahead of schedule and likely to complete all the work items
B Few individual Scrum teams within the CIPSA team are not performing
C The CIPSA team is behind schedule and may miss some of the tasks at the end of the Sprint
D Sufficient planning has not taken place for the CIPSA team
The Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) certification is a unique and powerful certification. With this certification, you'll learn scaling multiple Scrum or Kanban teams. It's hands-on and practical.
It uses the latest release of MS Project software (MS Project Online Desktop Client) and is prepared with the inputs, feedback and suggestions from Scaled Agile practitioners.
As noted earlier, the course is prepared with feedback from many Scaled Agile practitioners, around the world. Many have informed that the CIPSA certification course is comprehensive and very diffierent from other Scaled Agile certifications. To answer these questions, you need to have:
Solid understanding of Scaled Agile Management practices scaling both team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban.
Excellent grasp of the CIPSA framework. The CIPSA certification course follows this framework. Practical, hands-on applicability is almost always overlooked in certification courses. In that sense, the CIPSA certification is radically different.
Sound understanding on MS Project Scaled Agile features. Other software tools can also be used as the fundamentals remain the same. As you proceed with the course, you'll have mastery over such Scaled Agile features.
Good understanding of traditional (waterfall), team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban management.
Critical thinking, logical reasoning, ability to think out of the box and also answering questions with speed and accuracy.
This first series has 8 questions and answers. The next part has another set of 7 questions with answers. I hope you enjoy doing these questions and it helps in your preparation for the CIPSA certification exam.
Question – 1: You’ve been planning for the Sprints for the individual Scrum teams and the CIPSA Team as a whole. The Sprint length has been kept at two weeks for all. However, one of the teams wants only its Sprint length to three weeks. What should you do?
A Change the specific Scrum team’s Sprint length to 3 weeks.
B Modify all Scrum teams Sprint length to 3 weeks.
C Inform that in the CIPSA Framework, the Sprints are synchronized.
D Inform that it’s not possible with MS Project Agile software.
Question – 2: In your CIPSA Scrum Team, there are five individual Scrum teams – Scrum Team A, B, C, D and E. You, the Principal Scrum Master, is now checking the progress with the individual Scrum Master of Team A with the help of Team A Sprint Planning Board, which is shown below. The Team Scrum Master being new is unable to know what the No Sprint column is empty.
What should be your explanation? (click on the image to expand)
A There are not sufficient items in the Product Backlog.
B Some of the items are not properly refined.
C All items for all Sprints, i.e., Sprint 1, Sprint 2 and Sprint 3 for Team A, are associated.
D The board view is incorrect and No Sprint column should not be there.
Question – 3: For a Scaled Kanban project, you have scaled the Kanban teams who will work their respective work items. Next, you applied the Team Group Task filter and chose the condition of ‘All Teams’. This is shown below. What work items will be shown in the view when it’s applied? Choose the MOST correct answer.
A All Teams’ work items, i.e., work items from Team A, Team B and Team C.
B Only the work items associated with All Teams, but not from some teams.
C The work items associated with the ‘All Teams’ field.
D Some of the work items from the CIPSA team.
Question – 4: In individual Team Sprint Planning events for the CIPSA team, the Scrum Teams took the backlog items and broke them down to individual tasks and added the team-level events. The resources were identified, who will be working on the tasks. What should happen next?
A Conduct the Team Daily Scrums
B Go for Team Daily Scrums, followed with CIPSA Daily Scrum
C Go for CIPSA Daily Scrum, followed with Team Daily Scrums
D Proceed to the CIPSA Sprint Review
Question – 5: For the CIPSA team, the Scrum Board is shown below. What should you do to visualize only the items applicable to the entire CIPSA Team? (click on the image to expand)
A Use the Sprint Planning filter to get the items
B Apply the CIPSA Planning filter
C Search the CIPSA related items with the filter icon in the board
D Switch to the Sprint Planning Sheet view
Question – 6: Your Scaled Scrum team is building a large-language model (LLM), which is deployed to check anomalies in patient data in big hospitals. While doing so, the CIPSA Scrum Team is giving integrated increments in every Sprint. The CIPSA Integrated Increment is:
A Sum of all integrated work completed by all the individual Scrum teams
B Combination of work delivered by the key Scrum Teams
C Used directly in the CIPSA Sprint Review meta-event
D Built by developers and designed by the Chief Product Owner
Question – 7: There are multiple key artifacts in the CIPSA framework. Which one of the following helps a CIPSA team to move closer to the Product Goal?
A Product Backlog
B CIPSA Backlog
C CIPSA Backlog and Team Backlog
D CIPSA Integrated Increment
Question – 8: A three-team (Team A, Team B and Team C) Scaled Kanban project has the below Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). This shows the Actual Tasks for each Kanban team. What can be correctly said about work in progress (WIP) with respect to the individual Kanban teams from this integrated CIPSA team report?
A This chart cannot show the work in progress for any team
B There are 5 items in progress as of 16th of October
C In the beginning there are 45 work items in progress
There are a number of questions raised by Scaled Agile practitioners on the new Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) Online Course, from ManagementYogi. Here, I’ve tried to address as many top and important questions as I can.
Question – 1: What are the applicability and validity of this course?
Answer: This course has a duration of 3 or 6 months, from the date of purchase. The price of the course is $119 USD (or Rs 9,549) for 3 months access and $219 USD (or Rs 17,549) for 6 months access.
This is one of the lowest priced Scaled Agile certification courses in the world. You can make your search. And the course comes with high quality.
This course also comes with a full money-back guarantee, without any tricky terms and conditions (T&C). These T&Cs are mostly useless to you.
Question – 2: What is full money-back guarantee for the CIPSA certification course?
Answer: The premise is simple for the full money-back guarantee.
You have six (or three) months and two attempts, both free of cost, to clear the CIPSA exam. Give the exam and clear the exam. Be a CIPSA. You WIN.
If you can’t, I’ll refund your full money. You still WIN because you’ve the entire content free of cost for 6 (or 3) months! This is another WIN for you.
It's also not mandatory to give the exam. But it's a good idea to give it.
In effect, the guarantee is for the entire course duration. You've literally nothing to lose with the CIPSA course, but only to gain.
Question – 3: What is the total duration of the CIPSA course?
Answer: The course is over 11 hours of video duration. The course is primarily in video format. It also has a number of .MPP files and quizzes. It has been divided into 11 (+1) individual lessons. In total, there are 153 videos and 82 exercise files.
Considering all the files and one full length Q&A set, the duration will be over 20 hours. You can complete in 6 or 3 months with your own revisions and practices.
Question – 4: What is the certification offered by the CIPSA course?
Answer: This course comes with an end-exam with a set of 40 questions, which covers both theory and practical areas of Scaled Agile Management. To clear the CIPSA exam, you need at least an 80% score. Questions’ standard will be high and high-quality. Most of the questions will be real-world scenario driven.
The exam will be online and your score will be shown to you immediately. The detailed answers (both correct and incorrect) will be also be available to you.
With completion of the course and clearing of the end course exam, you will receive the unique and powerful credential: Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA).
Question – 5: What are the pre-requisites for this certification course?
Answer: There are two prerequisites for this certification course:
Basic understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Basics of Project Management
Basic understanding of MS Project with its Agile features
There are no pre-requisites with respect to Scaling in Agile. You need not have any experience with Scaled Agile. This course covers the CIPSA framework in detail. It also covers the needed team-level Scrum and Kanban, and then goes for full-fledged scaling.
This course is about Scaled Scrum and Scaled Kanban management. You will learn in-depth what they are about.
There is also no pre-requisite to learn scaling features of MS Project Agile. You’ll learn with the course.
Question – 6: CIPSA certification uses MS Project Agile software tool. Can any other software tool be used?
Answer: Yes. The fundamental concepts remain the same with respect to the CIPSA framework, which is a very simple framework. Any software which supports Scaling features such as Scrum or Kanban Team Scaling, Scrum Board Scaling, Cross-team Backlog Management, Single or Multi-Sprint or Multi-Release Management, Integrated Burndown/Burnup Charts, Multi-Team Tracking etc. can be used.
The above video outlines a number of course benefits.
Question – 8: How is it different from other Scaled Agile certifications?
Answer: There are two key areas:
Hands-on and practical (70%) with theory (30%)
Scales both team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban
Other Scaled Agile certifications do not have these two. Not even a single one of them. They are theory and more theory. And most of them use just one team-level framework, e.g., Scrum, which is unlike CIPSA which uses both Scrum and Kanban.
Question – 9: The CIPSA certification is not very well-known like other Scaled Agile certifications. Why should I go for it?
Answer: Here is a question to you:
Will you prefer a doctor who has a degree in theory but lacks practical experience, or a doctor who is involved in real-time practices and has practical experience?
You know the answer!
All Scaled Agile certifications (yes, all of them!) are theoretical in nature. You’ll find theory, theory and more theory. The CIPSA certification course, on the other hand, is in-depth, both in theory and practical. You’ll know various aspects of Scaled Scrum or Scaled Kanban management in a practical, hands-on manner.
For your career prospects and new opportunities imagine telling your prospective employers that you know scaling in a hands-on manner. Not only that, you can demonstrate those aspects to them, too!
In addition, you’re productive in your organization using scaling from the very beginning.
Question – 10: Are there any continuing certification requirements like earning more professional units, or making payments every few years?
Answer: No. There is no renewal fee for this course. There are also no perpetual payment schemes. Also, as noted the CIPSA end course exams (both attempts) are free of cost.
You will get the credential one-time and it’ll continue to remain valid.
Question – 11: Are there any PDUs or SEUs offered by this course?
Answer: Yes. You can claim up-to 16 PDUs (in different PDU categories) or SEUs with the completion of this course and earning the Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) credential. You can claim an equivalent number of SEUs as well. These can help you to maintain your other credentials such as PfMP, PMP, RMP, ACP, Scrum Master or Product Owner certifications.
Question - 12: Is there any detailed course index for this course? Not just a few lines, but the entire course index.
Answer: Yes. You can see the entire course index. To see the complete course content and index, you can refer the below link:
Note: You can not only check the complete index, you can also check 20 videos before purchasing the course.
Question - 13: Why I should opt for this online course, instead of classroom Scaled Agile training?
Answer: As a matter of fact, there is no such practical course worldwide, which combines both theory and practical. Hence, no one can provide this training to you.
The other aspect is online learning. Online learning is having the following positive aspects:
Convenient - you can learn at your own time at your own pace. You can watch the content as many times as you want.
Longer duration – 3 or 6 months of duration (not just 2 or 4 days of training)
Low cost - much lower than classroom training
In fact, most don’t know how to perform Scaling in Agile with a real-world hands-on tool. So again, they can’t provide such training, learning, and certification.
Question - 14: Why should I go with Management Yogi, compared to others?
Answer: Indeed, there are many providers who provide Scaled Agile certifications and training. Each of them also claims to preparing:
Agilist in Scaling, Master in Scaled Agile, Master in Scaled Scrum and so on.
But the reality is no one becomes an “Agilist” or a “Master” in anything in just 2- or 4-days of training.
As you would know, it takes time to learn and get mastery. More importantly, you should have the ability to apply your theoretical understanding with a hands-on, practical tool. Few providers, if at all, can claim to provide that. Many, in fact, don’t know how to do scaling in the real-world.
This course is of long-duration, has needed theory, in-depth and hands-on practical with respect to Scaling. It’s followed by an end-course exam, which thoroughly evaluates your understanding. Hence, with the CIPSA certification, you have a much deeper learning.
Question - 15: Will there be any support if any questions arise during the learning of CIPSA certification course?
Answer: Yes, definitely. Please send an email to managementyogi@gmail.com and your questions will be answered within 3 working days or 72 hours.
You also have a chance to meet me face-to-face on many occasions. In fact, for ManagementYogi’s CHAMP certification, I meet most of the CHAMP aspirants face-to-face and it’s based on their needs. I take and address all their questions.
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If you have any other questions or clarifications, please send a mail to managementyogi@gmail.com. If this course has those features, I’ll inform you with all the details. If it does not, then also, you will be clearly informed. There won’t be any round-about answers or marketing gimmicks.
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